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

Tiktok and IG are important as protected spaces where male comedians who have a playful spirit but are too beautiful to be truly funny can live out full and happy lives

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

Technological Futures: A Letter to the #Smolnet

gemini://perma.computer/letter

Computing can be more than the ever-growing techno-capitalist juggernaut. It can be about things other than speed, or scale. It can be about human creation, and human interaction. It can be about people finding new and creative uses for old hardware and software. It can be about computing as an art, not as a production line. It can be about sustainability. It can be about cleverness. It can be about small things.

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

This is one of my favorite images on the internet

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• Gowron, a maniacal Klingon, appears to scream in a frame of staticky VHS video. "Everyone was harmed during the making of this video", a caption reads (remote)

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

There's a lot I like about both Mastodon and bluesky. One thing I really like about the other place is the use of domains as usernames, so I blogged about why https://parkerhiggins.net/2023/05/bluesky-atproto-url-usernames/

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

@deech Does anyone actually still care what dhh is trying to convey?

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

- I call him from my cell phone when I want a pickup. he answers and says "Parker? Pick-up?" and I say yes. call literally <10s
- when it's ready he sends an automated SMS that says I can do pick-up or delivery
- I call again and he says "Parker? Delivery? Card on file?" Another <10s call

//cc @jk

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

my local laundry guy has an amazing phone-based order flow that is faster and more convenient than any app, and uses only technology available in 1995

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Greg@social.coop wrote:

Are there any good movies, documentary or dramatization, about the Luddite movement?

Bonus points if appropriate for ~10 year olds.

#BoostsOK #Luddites #MovieRecommendations

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j@janerationx.me ("J 🌟") wrote:

Family portrait. #Caturday

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• Five kittens and one adult cat sitting on a staircase, one to each step. (remote)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@webdev_discussions

Their cautionary note is from *2020* and still people are using an internal design doc to draw unfounded conclusions.

Also: I don’t trust people who say they’ve “never run into an issue” with untyped languages. Oh you’ve written flawless code for 10 years? Can you also turn water into wine? Tell me more. 🙄

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• 240e760d61a30b7e.png

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

For those wondering, ′′how did i do it?":
I boiled 10L of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke, and half cup of lemon juice, then stirred well. Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture. Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes. I took it out, rinsed it, and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away, and went and bought a new one.

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• Left: An old, stained and greasy frying pan. Right: A bright shiny new frying pan. Credit: Macca (remote)

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

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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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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)

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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…!"

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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)

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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