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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

It’s not lost on me that the #USWNT is playing against Japan on the Day of Remembrance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Remembrance_(Japanese_Americans)

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FolksVelo@mas.to wrote:

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Ominous, or cute?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/19/the-horde-awakens/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPKOJNqhEg

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BrentToderian@mastodon.online ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

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Barredo ("Alex Barredo 📉") wrote:

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textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"When we started to see intentional conduct, specific steps that appear to be designed to disrupt the joint session of Congress, that’s where it starts to sound criminal. The whole key for the special counsel is intent. The more evidence that we saw of the president’s intent, and others working with him, to take steps — without basis in fact or law — to prevent the transfer of power from happening, it started to feel more and more like possible criminal conduct."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/us/politics/timothy-heaphy-jan-6-committee.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

we seem to have learned almost nothing from the disorganization of 9/11 and earlier incidents

“The dispatcher warned that encrypting the channel would potentially prevent communication between officers from different agencies.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/us/michigan-state-shooting-audio-911.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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nasser@merveilles.town ("Ramsey Nasser") wrote:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

With all the recent announcements of bullshit as a service from well known tech companies, I finally made time to read "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots".

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

It is worth a read even if it is just to know that these companies absolutely had forewarning about the dangers of what they were about to do.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Which best describes your relationship with the phrase "bell-the-cat"?

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estherschindler@hachyderm.io ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Sock audit

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

First step: make science a misdemeanor. Second step: burn 'em at the stake.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/19/why-not-just-skip-ahead-and-try-them-for-witchcraft/

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The lies will continue for as long as we listen to them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/19/theyre-lying-to-us-news-at-11/

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

PeerTube might be an interesting way to make this available

#DataScience

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

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chairgirlhands@chaosfem.tw ("violet hands") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

another lesson this definitely points to is that we need to rediscover the old-fashioned joys of actually doing alpha (engineering insiders), beta (reasonably tech savvy insiders), AND gamma (just ordinary not particularly knowledgeable potential outside users) testing.

we’ve lost our way in product testing, we’ve forgotten our definitions.

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gparenti@mstdn.social ("Gail Parenti") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

one lesson this seems to point towards is to be careful about your training inputs, to filter out paranoid phantasies and such… just dumping huge inputs without care apparently results in weird outputs.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is friggin’ hilarious https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736#episodeGuid=e1338f6a-33ca-4584-9468-c9a7421293f0

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“He’s Energized Nigeria’s Young Voters. Will They Turn Out for Him?

The race is wide open in the presidential election in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and a struggling economic powerhouse. Youth looking to evict the old guard are cheering on Peter Obi, a surprise third-party candidate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/world/africa/nigeria-election-youth-obi.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

COVID & it’s effects were particularly deadly in America’s prisons:

“Altogether, at least 6,182 people died in American prisons in 2020, compared with 4,240 the previous year, even as the country’s prison population declined to about 1.3 million from more than 1.4 million.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/us/covid-prison-deaths.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

NASA astronomy picture of the day: “the Pleiades is shown here in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars”

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

LATimes:

“Los Angeles bishop shot dead in Hacienda Heights
A Los Angeles County bishop known as a "peacemaker" was found dead of a gunshot wound in Hacienda Heights on Saturday…

David O'Connell, who served as a priest and bishop in L.A. County for nearly half a century, was found dead in the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue in Hacienda Heights around 1 p.m., according to sheriff's officials and a statement from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Few other details were immediately released”

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prometheus@dice.camp ("Avery Prometheus Rosen") wrote:

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teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

This is interesting - AI created country-as-a-supervillain. Estonia’s has hints of our medieval times but the art work on the costume is not very specific. I have to say some of them look really good. As someone said in the comments - waiting for this to come out as a game. https://youtu.be/T_2c-WEYHkU

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Without help, without Apple, without Mozilla, we saw that a better world would be made by doing science rather than guessing. And so we built Origin Trials, and we managed the Blink Launch Process to be risk and evidence-based. We put developer feedback at the center.

And we held that standard against an almighty wall of whataboutism and gaslighting, even when it hurt our own people.

I have regrets, and yes, anger. Apple must not be let off the hook. True browser choice or GTFO.