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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The more the Christian right latches on to cruel men, the more difficult it becomes to argue that the cruelty is a bug, not a feature.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/tucker-carlson-christian-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reblogged by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):

anders@mastodon.cyborch.com ("Anders Borch") wrote:

@hazelweakly interesting timing. @NfNitLoop just posted a story about using deno in place of bash (I still think I’ll stick to bash, but it’s an interesting read).

https://blog.nfnitloop.com/client/#/u/42P3FTZoCmN8DRmLSu89y419XfYfHP9Py7a9vNLfD72F/i/4Y5PuPA1cpSfSDBDaayHowAtMFLmfk69jyAu5N6Tefo68YwyfpjehuRHzCanjkaiEbHUqdcZxVdi1M25LubAL2f3/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Final series about to begin. Go team Liquid! #Dota2 #BerlinMajor

Attachments:

• A banner with a drawing of Tidehunter and the text “I could eat 9pandas” with “9pandas” crossed out and “Gaimin” written underneath

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

PLTea wrote:

PLTea (@PLTea)
PLTea is an initiative to bring together the members of the programming languages community for informal virtual discussions. You can talk about that new hobby you picked up, or that new cool programming language you designed, or that amazing paper you wrote.

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

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Some things I'd like to expand:

6. Documenting our experience at Cosocial making a coop, so others can replicate it.

7. Helping the AP/AS2 extension-writing process.

8. Getting the SWICG back to regular meetings.

9. Bringing https://identi.ca/ into the social web by implementing ActivityPub in pump.io.

10. Setting up a Mastodon server for my team at Open Earth Foundation.

11. Documenting the HCI research I did on making Mastodon a good way to connect with friends.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Time for the final day! Go team Liquid! #BerlinMajor #Dota2

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• PyrionFlax and Tsunami on stage of the Velodrom

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

I started replaying it just a few hours after finishing my replays of 999 and VLR, and I can't imagine this holding anyone's attention if they hadn't just done the same. There's heavy continuity between VLR and ZTD and lots of allusions to things that someone hearing this for the first time could never keep track of

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

Uh so I platinumed Zero Time Dilemma when it was released and apparently I remember nothing about it now. I guess that's a result of the fractured presentation of the story, but tbh I even forgot about the darker tone it takes

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Replace #Bash with #Deno

https://blog.nfnitloop.com/u/42P3FTZoCmN8DRmLSu89y419XfYfHP9Py7a9vNLfD72F/i/4Y5PuPA1cpSfSDBDaayHowAtMFLmfk69jyAu5N6Tefo68YwyfpjehuRHzCanjkaiEbHUqdcZxVdi1M25LubAL2f3/

#scripting #JavaScript #TypeScript

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

#FightOn Bronny! https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/37528265/bronny-james-no-19-recruit-2023-commits-usc

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

futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

I made a meme. (Updated with feedback!) #Thrust

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• “You counteract Drag with Thrust, not fascism”. Between “Drag” and “Thrust” there’s an airplane, referring to two of the four forces of flight. There are blue and pink arrows around “Drag” and “Thrust”. “Not Fascism” is in red. This image and the text is Creative Commons CC0. (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“When you cut with life you had to use the house deck, not your own.”

— The Thin Red Line, by James Jones
https://a.co/jhcmn28

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

minoru@functional.cafe ("Minoru") wrote:

Kudos to all #Debian maintainers and developers, current and past. Only with your help could I ever be able to update the kernel, libc, systemd and a bunch of system libraries, all in a span of three minutes and involving no thinking whatsoever. ❤️

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

Shoutout to all the men wearing kilts at the #coronation.

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

andybaio@xoxo.zone ("Andy Baio") wrote:

Can any sci-fi fan out there help me identify a story about AI copyright lawyer bots? I thought it was by Cory Doctorow, but he says it wasn’t him! UPDATE: Found! It was @ftrain’s “Nanolaw with Daughter” from 2011. https://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw

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• Screenshot of my Ask Metafilter thread titled “What’s this sci-fi story about AI lawsuit bots?” Text reads, “I remember reading a sci-fi story where copyright lawsuits run amok, in which ordinary people are automatically sued for infringement every day by lawyer bots searching the internet, and then people using their own lawyer bots to settle the legal threats without any human interaction. Does this ring a bell? I was 100% certain this was from a Cory Doctorow story a few years ago, but Cory himself just told me it wasn’t him! The scenario I vaguely remember is the character waking up and checking their messages to see the daily overnight occurrence of dozens/hundreds of minor copyright/legal disputes that were automatically filed and settled by their legal bots, some in their favor and some not, netting out to break even for pennies. This was presented as an ordinary occurrence. It may be a short story or part of a longer novel, I can’t recall. Maybe it was even a blog post, but it must have been at least 10 years ago. Any help would be appreciated.” (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mcc wrote:

Me when I am using the computer

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• Wolverine (from the X-Men): "One of us is going to have to give, computer! And it ain't gonna be me…!"

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

JonathanMBR@mstdn.social wrote:

A group of flamingos is called flamboyance.

Flamboyance of flamingos in Lake #Amboseli.

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• Flamboyance of flamingos in Lake Amboseli (remote)
• Flamboyance of flamingos in Lake Amboseli (remote)
• Flamboyance of flamingos in Lake Amboseli (remote)

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

dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:

My cat is a Small Language Model. His outputs include yelling and purring. He accepts prompts but they don't change the output much. Still, he improves my life and helps me code sometimes

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• My cat Arthur sitting on a windowsill in the sunlight, with houseplants in the foreground. He is an orange tabby (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

BTW, happy Baturday! :batsquish:

Overkill - Bats in the Belfry
https://song.link/s/56CUMcPAOIW29txacCcI64

#music #NowPlaying #overkill #ThrashMetal #metal #bats #baturday

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

It's OK. According to Ken Ham, pretty much everyone is going to hell. Very egalitarian.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/06/haw-haw-haw/

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• The devil says "haw haw haw." (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

seems like a reasonable idea

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• 3c735c9aab33374d.png

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

remember

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• 9fea6ce3abb482c4.png

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

What a strange feeling -- I have no classwork to do until Friday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/06/it-is-all-out-of-my-hands-now/

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• Students taking exams (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

cybeardjm@masto.ai ("DJM (open to jobs)") wrote:

Forget the mouse pad, try the cat pad...

#Caturday

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• Cat sleeping on her back on couch, while used as a "mouse pad" by man with laptop... (remote)

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

From what I've seen network news orgs in the US are giving the coronation the same lockstep but not very deeply felt hype they'd accord the premier of a particularly big Marvel movie.

Meanwhile everyone in the UK I follow sounds like Christopher Eccleston lmao

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• Instagram screencap: Photo of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne, wearing the crown plus lots of other bulky gem-studded items. Beneath the photo, a caption by Christopher Eccleston: "Parasite in chief in her idiot hat."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Time for day two! EG vs OG! Hard to decide who to root for 🙂 #Dota2 #BerlinMajor

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• A large stage with many screens, players

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

If you feel the urge to explain to president #Biden that AI CEOs are the wrong people to talk with about #AI #ethics [1], I want you to understand that the president is not clueless. The real reason for such meetings is always this: "If voters get mad enough for us to have to regulate you, please tell us how we can do that without endangering your profits."

Same as Comcast were experts on net neutrality and Disney were experts on copyright.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-meet-microsoft-google-ceos-ai-dangers-2023-05-04/

#uspol

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

from Reuters:

‘… said in a court filing on Friday that prosecutors "made actual, written offers of immunity to these eight electors in April 2023 but not to the remaining two." That led to the non-immunized clients getting new lawyers.’

the rats are abandoning ship, and the last two off get eaten

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Damn... I didn't think QuarkXpress got so horrible.. o_O Or at least it seems, from what I could gather from my research.. Just the promotional video alone is just... :baduk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3bGWpOaIAg

Yeah, it's from 2020, but so many "features" are like basic things I'd expect from a DTP program. 🙃

#QuarkXpress #DesktopPublishing #GraphicDesign #BetterUseScribus

howaboutudance@toot.cafe ("ja-barr") wrote:

Also... If my feed turns into transit rants...don't be surprised