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

Saw a youtube video that was like "why pokemon clones are going extinct" which is funny because precisely the opposite is happening. It's just that novel pokemon clones from major companies aren't really happening anymore, but that was more or less the case after the GBA era ended. Major companies are no longer chasing a trend set by the late 90s one-two punch of pokemon gen 1 & tamagocchi. They're not coming up with new monster catching games released in paired versions.

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waxy@xoxo.zone ("Waxy.org") wrote:

IRS tests free e-filing system to compete with tax prep giants: the pilot program developed with U.S. Digital Service will begin in January, if Intuit's lobbying doesn't kill it first https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/15/irs-free-file/

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I think the various thingies (that’s an FCC technical term) which I have recently ordered from various sources to start fleshing out my vertical antenna capabilities & conduct experiments have all shipped at this point.

spike and 3/8”-24 mount

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Every time one of these fascists publicly utters something horrible, revealing themselves to be who they are, a tiny voice in my head tells me I should be relieved, for finally people will see the truth and reject them from public discourse.

That little voice in my head, it turns out, is an idiot.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

from latest ISW assessment:

“State Duma Parliamentarian Viktor Sobolev warned that mobilized servicemen who decide to join the ranks of Wagner private military company (PMC) will face 10 to 15 years in prison because Wagner is an illegal armed formation within Russia. It is unclear if Sobolev’s comments were made in response to the allegations, since Sobolev is an avid critic of Prigozhin and the Wagner forces.”

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

eternal truth https://music.apple.com/us/album/whats-going-on/1538081586?i=1538081594

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

i don't know why it's taken me this long to make a web3 bingo card

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• "you own the IP" "unruggable" (completely ruggable) AR/VR team member previously involved in other scam vague roadmap feature: breeding blatant Pokémon ripoff 420 Elon Musk reference "ironically" bad art outrageously lofty plans for "the brand" dick joke incredibly outdated meme fully anonymous team how hard can it be to create a video game? joke about the project being a scam included in website AI primate related woman team member turns out to be a man "decentralized" (not decentralized) [adjective] [animal] funded by Andreessen Horowitz 69 FREE vague roadmap feature: metaverse shilled by celebrity who was famous >5 years ago (remote)

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

I remember hearing ABOUT it and I was like "great pick, good for them"

apparently it was released in Oct 03 and maxed out at 10 on the US charts, which might explain why I didn't see the video when I was home from school over the holidays

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

when I say that I have some random weird gaps in my early 00s pop culture knowledge due to school + not having cable, a good example is that until today, I don't think I'd heard No Doubt's entire cover of It's My Life & definitely hadn't seen the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubvV498pyIM

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burgerbecky@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I found this on the Internet. It's TRUE, ALL OF IT!

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am *such* a Bad Jew, I love pig…

I’ll slice this into medallions, and then finish them off over coals

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• pressure cooker in background, cooked pork loin in the foreground

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adamrice@c.im wrote:

I am designing an online game called "Titled Goose Game.” Gameplay will let you:

- Correct your entry in Burke's Peerage
- Design your armorial crest
- Hobnob at Royal Ascot
- Harass your tenant farmers for rent

#games

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

how lovely the discourse is these days…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/connolly-staffers-attacked.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

First day of the honeymoon! Still adjusting to not checking work channels, definitely feeling some withdrawals. It was raining all day, but we still went out. The area is beautiful and the air fresh.

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• A view of the seaside

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is very good, and an approach we're taking at MSFT too:

https://blog.almaer.com/building-a-modern-design-system-in-layers/

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

Food doesn't need to come from dead animals to be tasty, and if abstaining from meat is better for me and the environment, that's what I'll do.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/wheres-my-big-carrot-money/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoEJqKuxK30

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Eleven days after National Guard troops fired into a crowd of unarmed anti-war protesters at Kent State University in Ohio, local and state police in Mississippi opened fire on a group of students at Jackson State College in Jackson. In a 30-second barrage of gunfire, police fired 150 rounds into the crowd, killing two Black students and injuring dozens more.”

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/15

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

As long as I've been in science, I've hated Elsevier. Remember when they owned a military arms company?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/everyone-hates-elsevier/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUGiS1LeKU

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

So pretty.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/ball-o-spiders/

https://twitter.com/i/status/1656686584580788225

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

The system is corrupt and broken to favor the rich.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/this-is-capitalism/

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• Lucky Ducky, from Ruben Bolling (remote)

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

It was an abysmally stupid debate. It was in 2008. I'm trying to forget it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/15/when-i-used-to-debate-creationists/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIRiYp8OW8c

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tottoro@mastodon.online ("Totoro🍊🍃") wrote:

Good morning, fediverse❤️

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• Totoro and friends in a flowered field. From "My Neighbor Totoro" anime (remote)

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niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be wrote:

There was a time when developing a project through online collaboration was a novelty, unusual enough to be used as a project name, as in Netlib, NetHack, NetBSD. These have mostly nothing to do with sending packets. Netlib is for numerical computing like LINPACK & BLAS, Nethack is a single-player game. and NetBSD is not purpose-designed for servers. "Net-" was basically today's "open-", "free-", or "libre-"... #retrocomputing

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

A site, popping up a window while I'm scrolling through the article's text: "Enjoying ?

Me: "I was until just now, thank you."

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awooo@pawb.fun ("awooo :blobfoxcheck: 🏴‍☠️ 🐾 ⎇") wrote:

@kissane Very good point, sadly even if you had a reliable form of human verification, that won't stop a single person from managing multiple discussions with the help from an LLM, their output is still multiplied.

Either way I suspect LLMs will reduce the accessibility of online spaces, because speaking a human language no longer means being human, so additional barriers will be put in place that end up hurting everyone.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The soldier’s greatest hobby, he thought as he listened to his own voice talking, the bull session, add a bottle and you have his greatest joy, also his greatest escape, he thought. The unofficial institution that is the first-string substitute for women and the age-old conversation where the man explains his ideals and his hopes for his life.…”

— From Here to Eternity, by James Jones
https://a.co/4yhb3QH

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhh... https://music.apple.com/us/album/dance-me-to-the-end-of-love/1565053848?i=1565053851

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pixel@desu.social ("Andy") wrote:

Just saw that Google started offering .nexus as TLDs

looked into buying https://torment.nexus and it's already taken and a Mastodon instance is running on it

glorious actually, this passes

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

Sometimes you re-read #Pratchett's #Discworld, and an occasional phrase hits you enough to quote it.

"Maybe, she thought, that was a normal family state in any case. When push came to shove [..] they'd just rely on each other automatically, without a thought."

Sounds to me like as good a definition for a family as you can give.

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Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

Born in 1906, computer scientist Grace Hopper invented the first compiler for computer programming language & was among the first programmers of the Harvard Mk1 computer.

Hopper popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages & paved the way to develop COBOL (an early high-level programming language). She originated the term "bug" to describe computer glitches & became a celebrated Rear Admiral in the US Navy.
https://news.yale.edu/2017/02/10/grace-murray-hopper-1906-1992-legacy-innovation-and-service #HistoryRemix #science #history

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• Grace Hopper Source: Computer History Museum