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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

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

Why would anyone laugh at the idea that a child would get a toy that looks like them?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/27/how-can-anyone-find-this-to-be-a-bad-idea/

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• Down Syndrome Barbie (remote)

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

Wait…isn't the best thing about science the ability to geek out over spiders?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/27/these-are-all-valid-perspectives-on-science/

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

So…a rapist was president of the USA, and he's going to run for the position again. That says it all about justice in this country.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/27/the-rapist-who-would-be-president/

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• E. Jean Carroll (remote)

anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

Looking at buying a sit-stand desk for home but the options and the cost are overwhelming :S

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

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sarahbecan@masto.ai ("Sarah Becan") wrote:

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DanShappir@webperf.social ("Dan Shappir") wrote:

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New Tom Cardy!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G87p148EOjo

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-gangsta-rap-funk-folk comedy duo!

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Finished reading "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson https://a.co/9zMcRQu

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trwnh ("infinite love ⴳ") wrote:

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• "this generation was the first to be raised online" meme, except instead of a bunch of dumb shit it's edited so that every single service says "[service] taught me im a product". except for deviantart which says "deviantart taught me furry porn"

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Althea (2013 Remaster) by Grateful Dead on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/GkxyhRIakzb

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhh... In Between Love by Tom Waits

https://pandora.app.link/SJAICut9jzb

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

guess what I still hate flatpak so much it's unreal

3.2 gb via flathub vs 186 mb as a normal package

And the name flatpak is such a misleading metaphor for what's happening here. Flatpacked furniture is unassembled and laid flat so as to take up less space in a warehouse. This is like if each piece of furniture demanded that you reserve a unique permanent space in your living room for the delivery truck to park

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• Screen from Linux Mint Software Manager. Contains the following text: Name: io.github.wereturtle.ghostwriter Version: 2.2.0 Size: 962 to download, 3.2 of disk space required Branch: stable Remote: Flathub
• partial screencap of linux mint software manager. Contains the following text: Name: ghostwriter Version 2.1.1-1 Size: 57 MB to download, 186 MB of disk space required

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trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :verified_gay:") wrote:

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ftrain@tilde.zone ("Paul Ford") wrote:

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

yeah i'm doing weight training... if by weight training you mean building a neural net

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

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

The costs of the complexity are being paid somewhere, sometime, and possibly even diffusely. External costs.

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LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

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• Rep. Zoey Zephyr, on the Montana house floor, raising her mic (which was shut off) above her head. (remote)

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

I have a feeling that cheap complexity isn't.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

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• A demonstration room set up with 70s personal computer replicas. (remote)
• A demonstration room set up with 70s personal computer replicas. (remote)

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

Who has a spare Blue Sky invite? Interested to see if/how it's different

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

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

First we had SALAMI[1], and now we have PIGs (Probabilistic Image Generators)[2]. Seems like good terms to adopt.

[1] https://blog.quintarelli.it/2019/11/lets-forget-the-term-ai-lets-call-them-systematic-approaches-to-learning-algorithms-and-machine-inferences-salami/
[2] https://mastodon.social/@glyph/110266087814266763

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

TFW you probably should've just gone with tkinter.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"When the Black people refused to leave, the white mob attacked them with sticks, clubs, pipes, and whips while local law enforcement did nothing to intervene. When white airmen from a nearby Air Force base tried to protect injured protesters, they too were attacked." https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/apr/26

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

It's Rust (except for all the parts that aren't Rust)! It's Python (except for all the parts that aren't Python)! It's Node (except for all the parts that aren't Node)! It's ...