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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

1968 was one of those particularly horrid years

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/04

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

[insert rant about Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle"]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUwjNBjqR-c

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

[insert rant about entropy and economists]

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

Unfortunately, time is not fungible.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Yay! #NWSLtoTheBay https://theathletic.com/4377933/2023/04/04/nwsl-expansion-bay-area/?source=user_shared_article #MastodonFC

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

Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes are just as contemptible as Marjorie Taylor Greene. Why did they hand her a bullhorn?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/04/go-greene-go-unseen/

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• Ratings: “60 Minutes” with Marjorie Taylor Greene Down 33% from Last Week, 2nd Lowest Episode of This Season (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

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

The veneer is gone. Texas wants to be a full-blown Christian theocracy, and they're proud of it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/04/admit-it-texas-you-want-to-be-a-theocracy/

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• Text of Texas bill 1515 (remote)

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doot@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

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• Tweet from systemfreez, april 25 2022. "Can't wait for Elon to change the Twitter logo into a doge or some other equally cringe shit." (remote)

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adamwarski@softwaremill.social ("Adam Warski") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Gmail classifying Google's own mails as spam 😆

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• 2569d4dab31439ed.png

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Holden KarnofskyView Holden Karnofsky’s profile, CEO of Open Philanthropy has thought provoking series on the current what feels like critical moment of human evolution. I need to take more time to read all of it.

https://www.cold-takes.com/most-important-century/

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Midjourney or me?

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• Dark movie theatre with people watching what looks like leaves and sticks on the screen.

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
liztai@hachyderm.io ("Elizabeth Tai :verified:") wrote:

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

For context, the Tor Browser project was one of the few to actually produce a coherent explanation of which entropy sources were not great and why.

Apple's browser continues to muddle through this space, both offering high-re-identification surfaces with a lot of fire-and-motion changes to things like cookies.

But you can tell it's all posturing because they still let FB rip your face off (privacy-wise) with a WebView.

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

For all of Apple's privacy posturing (and, technically, that's all it really is), remember that it's restrictions won't let you get a *more* private browser, e.g.:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/3/23665477/mullvad-browser-tor-vpn-privacy-browser

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coolbutuseless@fosstodon.org wrote:

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• 654ebf27521b8000.mp4 (remote)

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grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert") wrote:

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• eb1562d6e5097d7e.png (remote)

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bryanculbertson ("Bryan Culbertson") wrote:

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mxbck@front-end.social ("Max Böck") wrote:

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

Eugenics keeps sneaking back.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/03/another-good-article-on-sociogenomics/

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• SOCIOGENOMICS IS OPENING A NEW DOOR TO EUGENICS (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElizabethLeeCo@horrorhub.club ("Elizabeth Lee :autism:") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ☁️ Overcast, +64°F, 37%, →19mph, 1009hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 17:18:44-0400 | Dawn: 06:20:07 | Sunrise: 06:49:28
Zenith: 13:13:56 | Sunset: 19:38:44 | Dusk: 20:08:10
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Second Sedar night

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pesach (First Day of Passover; sabbatical)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Tong Liu nemoliu@FreeBSD.org born in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 1981

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Hellmuth Michaelis hm@FreeBSD.org born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 1958

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: IBM 701 introduced, 1953

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Washington Irving born, 1783