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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

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• The EMH Doctor is pictured in uniform but also with a wrinkly light shirt over the uniform. He's standing directly in front of the camera as if he is speaking straight to the audience, looking back at us. He's squinting and looking grumpish. Closed caption reads, "Look at all this useless information floating around"

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

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

No sign of spring here, yet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/20/not-my-spring-yet/

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• Postcard of a colorful spring (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

just like "here's some white-noise output from a bullshit machine," but wrapped as if it's educational? i do not get it

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I'm seeing people share posts like "I asked ChatGPT a nuanced factual question, here's its answer with no more commentary" which seems like the absolute nadir of its utility???

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Welcome Back, Persephone!

https://neskaya.com/sacred-year/spring-equinox-ostara/

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Fairwell Radio Caroline

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Vernal Equinox

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Rosh Chodesh Nissan (Beginning of the month of Nissan)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Vernal Equinox in Japan

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Youth Day in Oklahoma

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Independence Day in Tunisia

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Radio Caroline, the original British pirate radio station, sinks, 1980

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Henrik Brix Andersen brix@FreeBSD.org born in Aarhus, Denmark, 1978

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Cameron Grant cg@FreeBSD.org died in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom, 2005

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: MANTANI Nobutaka nobutaka@FreeBSD.org born in Hiroshima, Japan, 1978

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☀️ Clear, +29°F, 66%, ↗14mph, 1020hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 09:19:28-0400 | Dawn: 06:45:23 | Sunrise: 07:14:16
Zenith: 13:18:07 | Sunset: 19:22:17 | Dusk: 19:51:14
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yeah!

Take Our Nation Back!

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

life can be so hard sometimes… Oscar the housepanther is on guard

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Welp, I have too many NFC stickers and can't stop tagging things with them.

Pretty handy for home automation tho 😆

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

Feeding children is a Democratic value, I guess.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/20/so-this-is-what-happens-when-you-put-the-democrats-in-charge/

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• Walz signs a bill to provide free school lunches (remote)

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

NFTs are still a thing? PINKER is still a thing? This is ridiculous.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/20/pinker-is-embarrassing/

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• Steven Pinker is selling stupid NFTs (remote)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

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anthony@journa.host ("Anthony DeRosa") wrote:

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bigzaphod ("Sean Heber") wrote:

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

Posted this yesterday, but keep coming back to it; such a clear distillation of why bad performance isn't a factor that is isolated in a single section of the population (even if it's often more concentrated there):

https://scribe.rip/@jason.godesky/when-javascript-fails-52eef47e90db

See also:

https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/#level-4%3A-variance-control-%26-regression-prevention