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

If your company depends on the web, and it isn't already supporting @owa, now's your chance to make a mark on the question of whether or not the web has a future:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/donate/

At a corporate level, consider: if we don't put in 10K, and the web stops mattering in a couple of years, will we be OK?

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

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• A picture looking up in the sky at a plane leaving four contrails. The contrails, instead of being white, are Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black. Inkjet. (remote)

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mwichary@mastodon.online wrote:

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technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

I checked the index and it didn't mention Edóuard Siddon at all, did they even do any research for this?

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

it's over folks

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• a book titled Mastodon for Dummies at a book store (remote)

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs 🕹️🔭😽") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The 27-nation European Union was built over decades with the core idea of extending peace across the continent. The notion that economic exchanges, trade and interdependence were the best guarantees against war lay deep in the postwar European psyche, even in dealings with an increasingly hostile Moscow.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war.html

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

in the land of an eye for an eye
everyone ends up blind

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/world/middleeast/west-bank-israel-attack.html

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chapati@mastodon.online ("Chapati Systems GmbH") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this should be interesting: “Russia, Iran sending top envoys to UN's human rights council”

https://apnews.com/article/17a857e9c2e35d81f3a79d2696ce8292

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

In heart of Haiti's gang war, one hospital stands its ground

‘…four men came rushing to a hospital carrying a woman giving birth stretched out on top of a door. Because of gang lockdowns, the woman couldn’t find any transportation to the hospital after her water broke.

“These four men… found her delivering on the street ... When I heard she lost the baby, it shook me,” she said. “The situation in my country is so bad, and there is not much we can do about it.”’

https://apnews.com/article/6df0e7b5bd9fd8113ab2e1e1cb3b1e2c

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

well, I thought 1080p made Midnight Suns more stable but I got an actual bluescreen just now 🥲

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oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

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VirginiaMurr ("Virginia Murr") wrote:

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So as far as I understand, an "air frier" is basically a small efficient oven (a convection oven, if you want to be exact). It doesn't do any other kind of magic, right?

#cooking

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Bluedonkey ("John Gordon ⚡️") wrote:

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• Rainbow through palm trees.
• Rainbow over the beach, and beach chairs / umbrellas.
• Rainbow over the beach.
• Rainbow over Waikiki taken from the hotel lanai (balcony).

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

Memory Alpha appears to be in a state of some confusion about the Titan and Titan-A, which I guess isn't that surprising given that we've only known about the latter for a week or so

but it claims that the Titan-A was launched in 2401 (current year at the time of the show) even tho Shaw claims to have completed 36 missions in the ship over a 5-year period

on the other hand, Riker's Titan is claimed to have been pulled from service in 2398, so did they have two Titans active at the same time?

https://breezewiki.pussthecat.org/memory-alpha/wiki/USS_Titan_(NCC-80102-A)

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

Captain Shaw claimed that when he took command of the Titan-A he had to purge the system of Captain Riker's jazz music library

but Riker was the captain of the USS Titan, a Luna-class ship; there's no record of him ever commanding the Titan-A (Neo-Constitution class)

the only explanation is that when Starfleet commissions a ship with the same name as a previous ship, the music library from the previous ship is automatically copied over to the new ship, in order to establish consistent vibes

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• Captain Shaw of the USS Titan-A, dimly lit (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

He eventually learns to control his fire in the first story, but until then it plays out like what if Frankenstein was foreverially on fire, because he's naive and enormously destructive but not generally malicious.

This is also pre-comics code so he murders-murders some gangsters that try to use him for their own ends

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

So remember: the relationships that we have with one another are the only thing that endure. Do not destroy those precious relationships for the sake of pleasing an employer!

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

When it all started going down at Twitter, there were a few employees who were very public about their Musk loyalism. I cringed, because I saw similar Ellison loyalism among some at Sun after Oracle. Those Ellison loyalists didn't last much longer than the rest of us (often just months) -- but they permanently destroyed relationships in the process.

I say this because some prominent Musk loyalists are now out at Twitter -- and likely only destroyed relationships to show for it...

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Instead, the first scene goes like:

"Gentlemen, I've called you here today to announce that my project to create an artificial human has been a resounding success. There's only one catch: he's always completely on fire and I'm not really clear on why that is."

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• Panel from the first Human Torch comic. His inventor says, "Something went wrong with my figurings somewhere. Every time this robot, the Human Torch, contacts oxygen in the air, he bursts into flame! Now watch!" His two witnesses are standing by some vague machinery in the center of the panel & the glass cylinder that contains the human torch is partially visible on the right.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I realize I boost more than I post my own. I don't consider it a problem.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I found the first human torch comic from 1939, where he's an android, and it's so funny. The creators could have very easily said that he was constructed as a weapon of war, or maybe at a stretch for industrial purposes, but that's not what they did.

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ryancordell@hcommons.social ("Ryan Cordell") wrote:

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dwnews_bot ("DW News Bot") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Ideological warfare resumed in the United States with the rise of the New Left in the late 1960s and with the rise of the New Right in the early 1980s. Today, those ideological storms have subsided. This time, though, ideology is over not because right and left have reached rough consensus; far from it. The contest is done because the Republican Party walked off the field. We have arrived at the end of GOP ideology.”

https://journa.host/@TimothyNoah/109931829815423462

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

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• How does a blockchain-based ridesharing system work? A blockchain-based ridesharing system uses distributed ledger technology to facilitate peer-to-peer transactions between riders and drivers without needing a central authority. Here’s how it typically works: Registration: Riders and drivers register on the blockchain-based ridesharing platform by creating a digital identity. The platform may require users to provide personal information, such as their name, phone number and payment information. Ride request: When making a ride request, a passenger must include the pick-up and drop-off locations, the vehicle they need and the fare they are prepared to pay. This information is stored on the blockchain. Driver selection: The algorithm matches the rider with a driver who fits their needs. The ride request may be approved or denied by the driver. Ride confirmation: The smart contract is activated to start the ride if the driver agrees. The rider is informed of the driver’s arrival and (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Late last month, Texas acquired five miles of land to build 30-foot steel fencing through a sprawling 40,000-acre private ranch owned by Stuart Stedman, a Houston-based heir to an oil and ranching fortune who also happens to rank among the governor’s biggest political patrons… contributed $1.1 million to Abbott’s campaigns since 2015, including $600,000 in the most recent election cycle, campaign finance records show.“

https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/109920769810415703