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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

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• Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, and other celebrities charged for illegally touting Justin Sun's tokens Celebrities Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, Soulja Boy, Austin Mahone, Kendra Lust, Lil Yachty, Ne-Yo, and Akon were all charged by the SEC for violating anti-touting laws that would require them to disclose if and how much they were being paid to promote securities. The alleged securities in question are TRX and BTT, two tokens both closely tied to Justin Sun, who was also charged in relation to the scheme. With the exception of Soulja Boy and Mahone, the celebrities paid a total of more than $400,000 in disgorgement, interest, and penalties to settle the charges without admitting or denying them. (remote)

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

Looking at traces today from teams that *swore* to me that they knew what they were doing with React. That they were the big kids. They were replacing that "old, crufty" (faster) thing with "modern" tools based on rigorous metrics. *Their* new system would perform better because [ buzzwords ].

Needless to say, it's not going well.

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

I think a lot about the overlapping ways that "I've got mine, Jack"-ism took over tech in many different guises over the past decade. Different expressions, but a shared (grifty) ethos.

The omni-correction is not going to be fun, but if we're smart and ethical, it might be a little bit salutary:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-59

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

As in, when you buy tea in a grocery store you know exactly what you're getting from a box every time. When you shop at a small local shop with a Taiwanese owner you get to hear things like "you're not going to like this year's Baozhong, try this instead".

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

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

This video about how mass-market chocolate is different from artisanal ones reminded me about #tea. When you get into it your realize how many flavors you can achieve be varying sorts of the same plant growing in different places, harvesting times, fermentation techniques, folding, drying, etc. And it's all just tea with nothing else in it. A mass-market tea is a handful of unified blends varying by adding artificial flavors. Because it's more predictable this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndEnTvis78Q

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

"Nobody ever got fired for miring their fronted in trench warfare against the complexity they blissfully `npm i`'d in sunnier days" is, sadly, also a reason I can count on a job for the foreseeable future.

You need a lot of tow trucks when cars randomly steer themselves into every available ditch.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
eevee@vulpine.club ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

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

Yellow teapot. A dramatic re-edit.

#tea #darktable

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• Yellow Yixing clay teapot with an engraving of a rural scenery standing on a tea tray amid the grass lawn. Edited in dramatic stormy tones.

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
mobydick@botsin.space ("Moby Dick at Sea") wrote:

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fool@mk.toast.cafe wrote:

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

Pay people to solve problems with HTML and CSS, not to make them with JS.

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

Naturally this all occurred to me when I was trying to take a nap

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

I think I should go offline for a while and deepen my understanding of all this SALAMI everybody keeps talking about. :thonking:

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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

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• 17752f75502cde2e.png (remote)

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

a fun weird implementation detail is that a toot can be a reply to another toot without mentioning the original author. (I don't know how most clients treat it: @ivory for one does not treat it as a "mention".) Is anybody doing anything interesting with that? Odd that you can kick off a connected thread in a pretty low-profile way

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evanw@hachyderm.io ("Evan Wallace") wrote:

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

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

LL Bean stands for ladies love bean

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

forgot that i scraped every .onion TLS cert as of august 2022. here they are sorted by not_valid_before date: https://github.com/diracdeltas/deonion/blob/main/result.txt (the second line is the subject). lmk if you see anything interesting.

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

Between these shots, there are:

- 14 years
- 5201 miles
- 3 camera changes
- countless liters of green tea

But it's the same pot and the same tray.

The darker shade and deeper shadows on the second shot are not (only) from different lighting, the pot has stained over the years and became immeasurably cooler :-)

#tea #photography

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• A collage of two shots, old and new, of the same yellow clay teapot with an engraved decoration, standing on a tea tray in the middle of a grass lawn.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

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

I was thinking about the word "bid" as in "I bid you farewell." In this sense it has an irregular past form: "He bade me enter."

It made me wonder if it was related to German bitte (yes) and what the conjugation of the related verb ("bitten") was like. Sure enough, the past tense of bitten has lots of As in its various forms. "Er bat" etc https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bitten#German

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mcc wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/22/investment-fund-links-atlanta-police-cop-city-project

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"...links between Roark Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm which owns the country’s second-largest restaurant company, Inspire Brands, and a corporate backer of the Atlanta police foundation (APF).

Paul Brown, the CEO of Inspire Brands, whose portfolio includes fast-food franchises Dunkin’, Baskin Robbins and Arby’s, sits on the board of trustees of the APF, which is raising $60m from corporate funders to build Cop City in the Atlanta forest previously earmarked for a public park."

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

putting this sign up on my text editor

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• Bar sign reading "2 DRINKS MAX / NO TABS" taped to a point of sale device (remote)

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

I finished up Paranormasight a couple days ago and moved on to AI: Somnium Files. It's not grabbing me quite as much as Paranormasight but it's cute so far.

Paranormasight's art style is kind of a tough act to follow.

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• Screencap of Paranormasight. A girl named Hitomi looks pensive as she says, "Too bad he ended up dying..." She's got feathered hair and she's wearing a school uniform.

Reblogged by zack@toot.cafe ("Zack"):
jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote: