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Reblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):
🐧🐧 they know I love them so they put on a little show for me.
#Amtrak #CoastStarlight #Tågskryt #TransitViews #Trains #birds
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supernovae@universeodon.com ("Byron Miller") wrote:
In four months of having full text search, we have not received any complaints of abuse or concerns from any local users or users across federation.
Now, the discussions of this out in the open have been extreme and highly debated but I feel it's time to share that I have not experienced any of the "beefs" with search and I've learned that I think we have more problems without search.
With search, we have an auto-moderator bot that can look for keywords and surface posts to moderators for review.
With search we can watch for trends and boost posts that otherwise are hard to discover.
With search you can discover people on their profiles because they have facts about them beyond just their username.
With search, we could do cool things like saved searches as lists or saved searches as advanced UI panes.
Y'all write amazing content that begs to be discovered and y'all deserve that discovery remains in your hands as user options to opt/in out and not give it to Google.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dirtyoldtown@mefi.social ("DirtyOldTown") wrote:
Hi #blackfriday ! If you're on a Masto instance you don't love, please reach out. I'm on the instance associated with MetaFilter.com, the 20+ year old online community famous for active, human moderation. We do not tolerate racists, sexists, homophobes, or transphobes. We put a BIPOC advisory board in place to make sure we don't do stupid white people stuff. It's $5 to join MetaFilter.com and you probably have $5, but you don't know us and I want to help, so ping me and I'll cover you. Once you're on there, you can ping @pronoiac and you'll be invited to our instance. It's easy.
It's nice here. You are welcome. Come by. No reason you need to be targeted on other instances when you can relax and go about your business with us.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alpenglow@mstdn.social ("Alpenglow Industries") wrote:
The box is a DIY kit with all the parts - you only have to provide the wood glue. It's stable while being glued, so you don't need clamps or anything. We provide LEDs, resistors, and wires to twist the LED circuit together. Shown in cedar which smells so good! Gotta keep moths out of those LEDs. :)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eamonfitzpatrick@mastodon.ie wrote:
This is a rare photo of a mother vise-grip feeding her baby wrenches. Nature really is amazing😳
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alpenglow@mstdn.social ("Alpenglow Industries") wrote:
Do you have LED problems? We definitely have #ledproblems. And now, we have something NEW in the shop to help - meet Blinky the WS2812 LED! They're here to help in the form of a box that can hold your 13cm reels and lots of misc LEDs! It wouldn't be an Alpenglow kit if it didn't also have a circuit, so we've provided 3 self-blinking single-color LEDs (one each RGB for each die in a WS2812), wires, and a battery so you can make Blinky properly light up. Check it out! https://www.alpenglowindustries.com/store/p53/Blinky_LED_Box_Kit.html#/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
varx@infosec.exchange ("varx/tech") wrote:
Good news! .zip and .mov are now TLDs, not just file extensions! So mentioning archive.zip in chat may now link to a phishing site or something.
Wait no, that's *bad* news...
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BigJesusTrashcan@kolektiva.social ("Big Jesus Trashcan☑️🏴") wrote:
#LeftistHornyPosting What if I'm both?
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Every year, thousands of visitors make a pilgrimage to the popular holiday island off the coast of southern Tunisia. Many are Tunisian Jews returning home after emigrating, but the island is celebrated for welcoming all comers. The festival, as well as the island's own community, is often held up as an example of how the different religious communities on the island coexist peacefully.”
https://www.dw.com/en/synagogue-shooting-in-tunisia-a-miracle-i-survived/a-65590024
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:
The personal information of 237,000 current and former federal government employees has been exposed in a data breach at the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) of the systems for processing TRANServe transit benefits that reimburse government employees for some commuting costs.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/data-237000-us-government-employees-breached-2023-05-12/
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design_law ("Sarah Burstein") wrote:
Don't listen to anyone who says "likes don't matter" on here.
Yes, it's true that there's no algorithm for them to feed.
But letting people you know that you like what they're sharing, that you agree with them, that they're not just shouting into an empty abyss? That matters.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
there’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes ... https://music.apple.com/us/album/sam-stone/1018524551?i=1018524559
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh yes https://music.apple.com/us/album/in-spite-of-ourselves-feat-iris-dement/1102976936?i=1102977868
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@mikeschnier [waves hello] good to “see” ya
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-remember-everything/1516756838?i=1516756840
Mastodon FeedI'm not sure what to think about #LLM AIs. On one hand there's a non-zero chance it's a beginning of the downfall of our civilisation and the Great Filter of the Fermi Paradox, OTOH they're quite handy sometimes.
Mastodon FeedBeen a few stressful days, thanks to uni, work and my ADD brain not being able to plan properly (and lots of migraines..). But I have a small backlog of doodles, so let's start with this angry looking dude. :blobcat_tihihi:
#MastoArt #art #sketchbook #sketch #doodle #pen #ballpointpen #drawing
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm sure it was a struggle for Ken Ham to find someone as ignorant and creepy as he is, but he succeeded by digging up Martyn Iles from the fetid churches of Queensland.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/12/who-will-replace-ken-ham/
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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:
exclusive photo of the entity responsible for approving the .zip TLD
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Mastodon FeedI firmly believe that the names people call cats are actually gangster-style nicknames, and their full names are, like, Carlo "Mittens" Russo, or Jimmy "Tigger" Nichols.
Mastodon Feednikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:
martin wiese klare aŭskultas iom da elliott smith lastatempe, ĉu https://open.spotify.com/track/2856aCxt4d0MEmTssS1yzu?si=7da1300e40bb4709
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It doesn't matter who Musk hand-picks as a new CEO.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/12/new-boss-same-as-the-old-boss-2/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mmasnick ("Mike Masnick ✅") wrote:
Okay folks: this morning we're launching something we think is pretty useful. Lots of people have strong opinions on how content moderation should work, but they've never done it. So we built a content moderation mobile game (browser-based): https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/
Details about it are here: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):
guncelawits ("Smörhuvud (he/him/surprise me)") wrote:
“A 2015 survey by Monocle magazine came to the conclusion that Tokyo is the best city on Earth in which to live, ‘due to its defining paradox of heart-stopping size and concurrent feeling of peace and quiet.’” https://heatmap.news/economy/tokyo-anti-car-pedestrian-paradise via @burritojustice
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Tomorrow, we'll be talking about moderation. Every social media site is moderated somehow…although some moderators (cough, Elon Musk) are worse than others.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/12/another-podish-sortacast-tomorrow/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The day of doom. Everything comes due today.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/12/today-is-the-day-4/
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Other admins should be aware the latest suspension status of a remote account may not be reflected on their side, as it's currently only sent to followers of said account. That's something we're aware of and improving in Mastodon.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Just had another small spam wave. All banned, reports cleared.