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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

I don't think this part of the Star Wars story was intended to be prescient.

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• The part of the Star Wars mythos where the incompetent elites who failed to stop the system from sliding into fascism simply go into hiding and do nothing, waiting for a bunch of kids to grow up and fix the problem themselves hits pretty hard right now.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Ya girl just got #SABR certified. 🙌 #baseball

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

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

@BugbearPancakes On the importance of backups.

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

christina@social.coop ("christina bowen") wrote:

I’m so grateful for all the people working behind the scenes to help make a more cooperative, healthy world.

Remember that many of the loud voices are busy looking big and shiny. Many more people are quietly helping others.

If you’re doing that, thank you.❤️

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

My employer, Shopify, announced layoffs today and I've been affected. If you're looking for someone with deep experience with developer tooling and developer environments, I'd love to work with you. I've spent the last two years building Shopify's in-house cloud developer environment, and I have extensive experience building developer tools as one of members of the Homebrew package manager's Project Leadership Committee.

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

Just say it. Clarence Thomas takes bribes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/04/its-called-a-bribe/

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• A coven of crooks: Clarence Thomas & friends. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

sathariel@gentoo.live ("Nagual Sathariel") wrote:

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blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Ffinished reading "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity" by Esther Perel https://a.co/glqQ886

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

nathanolsenart@mastodon.art ("Nathan Olsen") wrote:

#maythe4thbewithyou

#sundaecomics #funny #humor #cartoons #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip #comic #comics #starwars #starwarsday

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• A space musician tells his drinking buddies about an incident that happened long ago, in a place far, far away. (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

adrianhon ("Adrian Hon") wrote:

ChatGPT, write me the most Hacker News comment of them all

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813694

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• I'm an investor. To make that work, I'm not a historian, but a current-ian. I avoid news like the plague - all narrative, all emotion, all written by English majors, not subject-matter experts. If a current-ian has to avoid the news, what hope will a historian have in a hundred years in understanding the truth of our time, given only a storm of past-due emotional clickbait? Future historians can learn more from dispassionate recording of facts, not local news. They would be better served by databases that have lists of facts about current times in simple data formats. Stats, voting records, laws, commodity prices, demographics, weather data, boring (but low-key fascinating) things like that.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In ppc64el, Little-Endian is abbreviated "el". Whoever named it, knew what the *correct* endian is.

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Parenting tip: if your kid won’t stop eating with their hands, tell them to “use the foooorrrkkk.” #MayThe4th

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

libreleah@mas.to ("Leah Rowe") wrote:

Fun fact:

Today is local council elections, in the UK.

I nearly forgot, but was reminded that they're on today, so I went and voted. (I voted for my local Conservative Party candidate)

Putting this post out there, for my British readers. The polls are still open, as I write this.

Please go out and vote! It is your constitutional right, and you should always do so, if you can. Even if you think your preferred party will lose, you should still vote, out of principle.

Please go out and vote :)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-8DT5Q8kzI

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Nash076 ("Mad Nash Beyond Thunderdome") wrote:

RT @arstechnica@twitter.com

Judge slams Tesla for claiming Musk quotes captured on video may be deepfakes https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/judge-slams-tesla-for-claiming-musk-quotes-captured-on-video-may-be-deepfakes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_medium=social by @JBrodkin@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1651678984910827524

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

A Star Wars Film Made in a Wes Anderson Aesthetic

https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/a-star-wars-film-made-in-a-wes-anderson-aesthetic.html

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"... the trial provided a unique and disturbing glimpse into the Proud Boys’ culture, as a trove of internal group chats and recordings revealed a toxic stew of machismo, homophobia and misogyny often accompanied by sophomoric humor and rampant alcohol use. The jury heard members of the group engaging in casual antisemitism and, in some cases, promoting outright Nazi sympathy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-sedition.html

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

cross@discuss.systems ("Dan Cross") wrote:

OH (re: Alexander Hamilton): He basically got killed over a tweet.

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

I have long thought that the sort of "eventually almost consistent" model on the fediverse is not such a big deal, but it really does affect the experience of conversations

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

we're so back

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• Github incident dashboard all green again (remote)

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

Probably the easiest way to catch some spiders is to set up a pit trap.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/04/the-pit/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qAcqhnR3c

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

"The Transistor". Transistors seem really cool. I wouldn't mind having one of those "Dick Tracy" radios at around 7:40.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9xUQWo4vN0

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

TIL `` can be valid XML, because you can use DTD to define that ':' is a valid attribute name.

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

BREAKING: everything at github rn https://www.githubstatus.com/

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• Incident status from Github Status saying "Incident with API Requests, Codespaces, Copilot, Git Operations, Issues, Pull Requests, and Webhooks" (remote)

Reblogged by Mastodon:

mozilla@mozilla.social ("Mozilla") wrote:

Last year we announced we would be joining Mastodon to explore an alternative to today's social media. 
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We’re excited to announce we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta, with hopes to open to the public soon.

This is just the beginning. Read more about the launch of our instance, including how to join the public waitlist. https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:

Just going to post this again

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• The cartoon shows a scientist at a lectern talking on six different years: 1990 "So, this climate change thing could be a problem ..." 1995 "Climate change: Definitely a problem" 2001 "Yep, we should really be getting on with sorting this out pretty soon ..." 2007 "Look, sorry to sound like a broken record here ..." 2013 "We really have checked, and we're not making this up" 2019 "is this thing on?" Scientist tapping the microphone (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

All of the spam accounts have been suspended, reports queue cleared, IPs and e-mail domains used in the spam wave banned. We're continuing to monitor the situation and analyzing the pattern.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)

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

Summer. I can almost taste it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/04/one-more-day-i-think/

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• Cartoon spider lounging on the beach (remote)