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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
ftr Nu Shooz has an all time classic as well but it's called I Can't Wait https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1tBVtYOBc
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ChronRevisited@oldbytes.space ("Chronicles Revisited") wrote:
I've spent the past decade or so ghostwriting blogs and content pages for law firms. It's steady if largely uninteresting work. But I am looking to transition out of it over the next year or so.
There are many reasons. One is that the decaying political situation in a number of U.S. states has made writing about the law in general a joyless slog. But I've also reached the limit of what I can do in this field.
So if anyone knows where a guy who can write thousands of words of reasonably intelligent-sounding text for day can find some work outside of the legal profession, feel free to let me know. 😀
Mastodon FeedReminder that Dracula Daily starts today! https://draculadaily.substack.com/about
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matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:
Chrome is replacing the “lock” icon with… something. I don’t know what it is. Might be two people sharing a sleeping bag. https://blog.chromium.org/2023/05/an-update-on-lock-icon.html
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
So there's a classic freestyle banger called "Point of No Return" and there's a freestyle Nu Shooz track called "Point of No Return," but these are not the same thing.
But I was listening closely to the lesser Point of No Return when it came on shuffle and I realized that it kinda sounds like a Tom Tom Club album track? Tom Tom Club has been sampled on a ton of hiphop tracks but I somehow hadn't made the connection with freestyle until now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavaJNXoMe8
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
smart move:
'Fisker added that the initial customer for Ample-powered EVs will be fleet operators who are looking to “transition to electric mobility without economic or operational compromises.”'
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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange") wrote:
studies of god's angriest warriors
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- an abstract digital study of a ruby-throated hummingbird in flight and inspecting a red flower (remote)
- abstract study of a bee hummingbird sitting perched on a twig (remote)
- abstract digital study of an allen's hummingbird sitting in a tree, with iridescent feathers shining in the sunlight (remote)
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puresick@imd.social ("Daniel") wrote:
Orqa, a company producing drone headsets, had a wild security incident where apparently a contractor planted a timed ransomware years ago into their products firmware which recently hit its set "deadline" and bricked all devices at once:
https://orqafpv.com/blog-details/bricking-incident-public-announcement
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
nice use of maps and graphs to illuminate election results:
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fishnette@mastodon.online wrote:
RT @KevinJBeaty
I did a hardcore dive into Denver's election results and make a clickable for you to click upon. Check it out: https://denverite.com/2023/05/03/denver-election-turnout-race-party-affiliation-neighborhood/
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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
I covered Gordon Lightfoot 12 years ago for the music blog Herohill, who organized a tribute album to the legendary songwriter. Sadly, the compilation doesn't seem to be online anywhere.
I recorded "Changes", one of my favourite songs from Lightfoot's first album. At the time I didn't know it was actually written by Phil Ochs.
To me Gordon's version will always be the essential one. #music #GordonLightfoot
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
Florida man charged with setting off explosive device on Jan. 6 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/florida-man-charged-setting-explosive-device-jan-6-rcna82564
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jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:
OK, you Model UN and 3-D political chess types. You’ve been preparing for something like this for a long time, so here is your moment. The Democrats just deployed a parliamentary stealth weapon on the debt ceiling that could be a game changer. Here’s why. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-democrats-unveil-a-secret-weapon?sd=pf
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Maintaining a cache of local media so that on the day the lights go out we can use the remaining fuel in the neighbor's generator to have one last moment to agonize over what to watch.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
I'm sure my mastodon reach is nearly non-existent, buuut.
I'm strapping on my job helmet. Looking for someone with infrastructure/sre chops? I’ve done a lot of different things including networking, systems automation (terraform, shell, others), refining development environments with Nix. Autoscaling CI builders (didn't even use containers!), automating manual processes to free up QA time, those are the kinds of things I dig. #getfedihired
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logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:
While the more in depth information that I've been posting here isn't part of this video, you can see more of the motion.
If you want to see this in person and are in New York City: TODAY (May 6) 3-9pm ET at The Arm letterpress shop in Brooklyn.
It is an exhibition of work from our paper engineering class and an exploration of new interactive forms. The projects are from an amazingly brilliant group of people.
Also: snacks & drinks
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Someone explain to me how white men are supposed to fight.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/03/thats-not-how-white-men-fight/
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- "A couple of weeks ago, | was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly | found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. | really wanted them to hurt the kid. | could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I'm becoming something | don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as | despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if | knew him, | shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. | should be bothered by it. | should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If | don’t care about those things, if | reduce people to their politics, how am | better than he is? " --Tucker Carlson (remote)
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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
It's amazing, but true: when one picks up a project one hasn't worked on for a while, one finds a lot of things to fix or improve.
This gives us Lars's first law of software quality: don't work on or use the software.
Mastodon FeedThis wine chemistry print is cool. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1472819851/wine-chemistry?ref=share_v4_lx
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
And I also wonder whether you'd ever want a profit seeking corporation in control of the protocols or languages you use?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Protocols as languages. Bridges as translators. Protocols and languages both support and embed culture and act as barriers to entry to outsiders. Despite this, many people are able to practice multiple languages or use multiple protocols and participate in more than one culture.
At the end of the day, it seems obvious you could have too many protocols, but not as obvious you could have too few. But I do wonder whether we'd really want just one language or one protocol?
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absolutspacegrl ("Holly 🚀⚜️") wrote:
Today I learned the word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville, replacing the term ‘man of science’.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thank you, Steven Crowder, for opening my eyes to a surprisingly evil aspect of the conservative agenda.
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tbroyer@piaille.fr ("Thomas Broyer") wrote:
What if I told you that most promoted actions about climate-friendly software are misguided?
Backing data for that claim and my opinion on the low-hanging fruits:
https://blog.ltgt.net/climate-friendly-software/
Key takeaways:
* Pick servers in carbon-neutral or low-carbon datacenters first
* Optimize for the perceived performance and battery life
* Don't be the one that will make your users change their device
* Sometimes, ideas aren't even worth their impacts
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coffe@fosstodon.org ("coffe ⚓") wrote:
Be cool. Stay out of school and Listen to music like its 1987
Legendary Amiga music
Made in the past by legends
Brought into the present by legendsThis playlist features the exact same tunes *and* in the same order that the forthcoming album Encore 500
https://hippoplayer.se/WB.html?playlist=https://asciiarena.se/playlist/Encore_500.prg
:amiga:☕❤️
#amiga #retrocomputing #commodore #commodore500 #amiga500 #hippoplayer #uprough
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m2m@indieweb.social ("Simone Silvestroni (M2M)") wrote:
A dystopian #VideoGame centred around the theme of end-stage #capitalism. Of course conservatives go against the authors, saying they're "attacking capitalism".
The author's response:
"It's like saying my grandma has a terminal disease – it doesn't mean I hate my grandma. It just happens to be the end stage of capitalism, it's an ill creature at the moment. Does it make me a lefty to point that out? Is a doctor trying to heal somebody 'woke' now?"
Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
I gained some useful information by using #umami
E.g. that most visitors to my personal #website come from #Facebook and that most visitors to my business @chapati come from my applications (like alphalerts.com)
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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
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Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
A bit short and most of the contents can be found in other books but I could still learn that I should set more deadlines and prioritise my daily task list.
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Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
not to toot my own horn but my favorite thing about this post is how the punchline doesn't hit until halfway thru the last word