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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Today, the Republican supervisors of Cochise County, Arizona voted to transfer election oversight from the county elections department to County Recorder David Stevens (R), despite warnings from state officials about the legality of the move. “I think we are acting in an inappropriate and ill advised manner today,” Supervisor Ann English (D) concluded before casting the sole vote against the motion to adopt the agreement.’

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/cochise-county-arizona-transfers-election-oversight-to-partisan-county-recorder/

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Kurt@catcatnya.com ("Kurt 🕴️") wrote:

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AshleyGullen@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ashley Gullen") wrote:

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twitchbunny@pettingzoo.co ("Twitchers the Bunny") wrote:

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• "It's not about bathrooms... as it was never about water fountains." -George Takei (remote)

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

It's snowing, but not sticking. This feels ideal to me. 😆

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LangerJan@chaos.social wrote:

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• Comment by OneCSeven on youtube: what strikes me the most is the absolute inability for Musk to experience satisfaction, to be satiated. He’s a hungry ghost. He was up in the middle of the night haunted by the absolute deprivation of only 9 million impressions on his worthless superbowl tweet. He’s so taken in by the Skinner box of twitter that he bought it and is making the box-maintainers specifically give him higher numbers. But the whole point is that no matter what number the machine gives him he will feel dissatisfied with it because that feeling is precisely what makes the machine work. This is the endgame of whale-baiting, right? You make software that’s hostile to brains in the hopes a few rich people get poisoned by it and become willing to exchange money for higher numbers. In twitter’s case, they got eaten by the whale. They get slack notifications at 2am if the whale isn’t getting enough numbers. In a way, the app created its owner. That’s a little fucked up to me, more so than the standard AI domination tropes, that a system without agency ends up in control. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

changes happen

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Elucidating ("⛈️ Information ⛈️") wrote:

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STDeltaShift@universeodon.com ("Captain Edward Jellico") wrote:

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

There is a parents' group in Sartell, MN that is gleefully poring over library books to find the dirty bits. They found some! Good for them. Then they read them out loud for everyone to hear!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/28/puritans-promote-porn/

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vegetablegremlin@jorts.horse ("Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻") wrote:

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

One day old, and already killing and eating prey larger than itself. Good work, little spiderling! Grow big and strong!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/79339019?pr=true

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JasperSiepkes ("Jasper Siepkes") wrote:

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We've had over 1.3K candidates apply to the 3 open positions at Mastodon so far, which is very exciting, but getting through them as such a small team is taking its time. Getting somewhere though!

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Ukrainians are fighting for their lives on the front lines of the free world. Today, and every day, they deserve America’s unyielding support.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/27/opinion/janet-yellen-ukraine-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=V-IbL6FxfmUgURsXMPe7pO53Ljg5YSeCDDzQs1W7ZkwLVlNYHseBjxC52zzrwUlkebeErDXogfupBFfns0GVgVEUWyJqW7UEFPv0lxZRSmUBSwLl8Zn_BN0EVUKFqrE3WGmyVhSdp49kYHM41O9zbVeIml3_jaccvNP6CN7ZyI6Jl9EagrkkyU7HlVr7b1qkGt7GFVMco9okDg1VXtv43FKPjig1XNJA3jPNH4M6EplQmu0MkLXNu10ouN918QzH12OhAyFUO-RnarwtgdoCqd5gnr8SDOe1tgvn0NXWLDyJFx4k9-1LJDWFNPcbhh6rYXsTHfEAFNnWvaPyF8tZqIwHHw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

It's always a good time to support artists whose work you like, but this is a heads up that there is a #BandcampFriday coming up on March 3rd, which helps stretch your support a little bit more when Bandcamp wavies its fees.

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

I will once again need to pick some items from my queue...

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Did you know that sharks are the landsharks of the sea?

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

The kiddo and I enjoy dancing to Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling", and that's good enough for me to include it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru0K8uYEZWw

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

Answers in Genesis is marketing their fundamentalist, anti-gay, anti-trans hate park to the LGBTQ community. Somehow. They're impressive sales people, I'll give them that.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/28/aig-delenda-est/

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Unpopular opinion?

PS4 & Xbox One and their de-facto always-online requirement heralded the end of good video games.

All we get now are broken releases which require multiple patches to fix them and crappy micro-transactions.

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