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

It's hard to take seriously someone who thinks DEI programs will destroy science while they ignore the effects and goals of Republican educational policies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/23/the-insufferable-pettiness-of-anna-krylov/

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• Anna Krylov (remote)

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The surgeon general just went on TV to tell Morning Joe social media is dangerous to youth.
Fifty-one years ago, the surgeon general contended television was dangerous to youth. In both cases, they talk correlation, not causation.
And forty years ago, the surgeon general was contending the video games were dangerous to youth.
See also Kirsten Drotner in Paedaggoica Historica on histrorical amnesia:
#MoralPanic #MediaPanic

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/22/archives/surgeon-general-wants-tv-to-curb-violence-for-children.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/10/us/around-the-nation-surgeon-general-sees-danger-in-video-games.html

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• But this belief is facilitated by, indeed founded on, an intrinsic historical amnesia. Every new panic develops as if it was the first time such issues were debated in public, and yet the debates are strikingly similar. This amnesia is closely related to another common characteristic of the panics: their historical incorpora- tion. The intense preoccupation with the latest media fad, immediately relegates older media to the shadows of acceptance. Thus, the trends towards cultural democratisation are chiefly seen with media that we have grown accustomed to, media that have proved their innocence, so to speak. So, today comics can be hailed in safety: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck were appropriated by pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol in the 1960s, the ICA in London and other renowned museums went on to promote cultural cross-overs as gallery pieces, and even the comic figure Tin-Tin now has his own museum. But the new media, such as home videos in the 1980s and in the 1990s action-games on cd-rom, still conjure up anxieties that are very similar to those expressed over periodicals a hundred years ago.

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thereisnodog@mas.to wrote:

what have I told you about making me wait? - Pixel 💜

#cat #Tabby #DeafCat #FormerlyFeral #MarbleTabby #AdoptDontShop #CatsOfMastodon #FeedMe

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• tabby cat looking at camera (remote)

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

Would you be comfortable joining an instance that required you to provide your mobile phone number to send a code you enter during registration, knowing your # wouldn't be stored and only used to verify you are not a spammer? #askFedi #fediverse

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aliettedb@wandering.shop ("Aliette de Bodard") wrote:

Oh hey look, The Red Scholar's Wake is a Bestseller in Lesbian Romance
(just below @tithenai and @maxgladstone's excellent THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR)
It's still on promo for 0.99, grab it while you can!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Scholars-Wake-Aliette-Bodard-ebook/dp/B09QYMWBWK

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• A Kindle ranking showing "Heal Their Hearts" by Claire Highton-Stevenson and "The Red Scholar's Wake" by Aliette de Bodard at 5 and 6 (remote)

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. I recently tracked down and interviewed a Russian hacker responsible for a series of particularly aggressive crypto spam campaigns this month that prompted several large #Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code.

A big thank you to @renchap for help with this research.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/interview-with-a-crypto-scam-investment-spammer/

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• An advertisement by Quotpw on a Russian hacker forum, where he pitches his abilities in writing python and C++ scripts made to order. (remote)

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floatybirb ("Floaty Birb") wrote:

Gonna periodically repost this meme until someone does it.

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• A tea kettle with five spouts pouring tea into five mugs at once. The kettle is labelled "DEFUND THE POLICE". The mugs are labelled "education", "universal healthcare", "youth services", "housing" and "other community investments".

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here is a @briankrebs article about the spam/DDoS attacks we've experienced!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/05/interview-with-a-crypto-scam-investment-spammer/

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

Mi devas iam konfesi al mi mem ke mi lastatempe evitas mian biciklon pro la montetoj en mia urbo kaj eble mi aĉetu elektronikan biciklon

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montag@hackers.town wrote:

Oh wow, Stalker and Solaris are just on Youtube for free, officially uploaded by Mosfilm, the original production company. They've got a bunch of other Soviet films up there too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3hBLv-HLEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4rE

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Slides for my #GOTOChicago talk, "Technologists around the campfire: Social audio as a vector for engineering wisdom"; video to come! https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/technologists-around-the-campfire-social-audio-as-a-vector-for-engineering-wisdom

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web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

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• Tweet by GrumpyCat. Contains only a document, which reads: "May 22, 2023 FORMAL STATEMENT ABOUT $GRUMPYCAT (coin) To All Cryptocurrency traders holding or considering buying $GRUMPYCAT: Grumpy Cat Limited (GCL) is the legal owner of all Grumpy Cat related intellectual properties. All such offerings being endorsed by @ProTheDoge (SlumDoge Millionaire) and their cohorts are unauthorized, continue to infringe GCL's intellectual property rights, and are yet further desperate, sad attempt to scam unwitting traders. Do not be fooled by these scammers or their lies. No legal issues have been resolved. GCL will never approve such scam coins. Any representations by these persons attempting to promote these coins remain scams and lies. Don't be victimized. thieves. Don't enrich scammers and intellectual property Sincerely, /Kia Kamran/ Kia Kamran ATTORNEY AT LAW" (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"“It makes a mockery of the jury verdict and our justice system if he can just keep on repeating the same defamatory statements over and over again,”" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/nyregion/carroll-trump-cnn-defamation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

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

I'm interested in whatever answers people have for this, but my favorite kind of answer would be an online community where participation counts as a sort of "green flag" for somebody you might meet at a conference or similar

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

Asking (for real) on behalf of a friend: for people in infosec or tech more broadly, what are the public or semi-public online gathering spaces you're paying attention to these days? Any particular Discord servers, or social networks, or message boards, or Slacks, or things like that?

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

for those following along at home: my Twitter bots continue to post happily with credentials that were supposed to be shut off a month ago. I'm not necessarily complaining just a little bemused

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

Lordy:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/22/apparently-elon-doesnt-think-he-needs-to-pay-rent-because-sf-is-a-shithole-so-why-should-we-pay-for-twitter/

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

Ken Ham is lying again. Ho hum.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/22/theres-a-flaw-in-his-argument/

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• Our job isn't to save someone—our job is to speak truth into a culture of lies and point people toward Jesus Christ. As believers, we cannot in good conscience use transgendered pronouns — no matter our intentions — because, in doing so, ; we are lying. Ken Ham (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Should I be posting on Mastodon more?

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

They even played "Plasticity"! :blobaww: :dogcited:

#FrontLineAssembly #industrial #ebm #industrialMetal

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• Front Line Assembly concert at Logo in Hamburg. The refrain of the track "Plasticity", showing the singer perform, panning over to the drums and modular synths. (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

It's not technically goth, but have some clips from the Front Line Assembly concert I visited last Thursday, to celebrate today. 🖤 :batsquish:

(Be warned! The audio might not be the best.. Might be best to turn it down a bit before clicking..)

#FrontLineAssembly #WorldGothDay #industrial #ebm #IndustrialMetal

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• Opening of the Front Line Assembly concert at Logo in Hamburg. Front row, showing the modular synths and drums. (remote)

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

Every time we get a glimpse of the inner workings of religion, it's vile and repulsive.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/22/could-be-grimbut-ill-probably-watch-it/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw1rAMzPf70

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dmarti@federate.social ("Don Marti") wrote:

@DJDarren @notjustbikes

calling these things "tanks" is not fair to the tank. An M1 tank driver has better forward visibility than the driver of many full-size pickup trucks

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• Diagram showing forward visibility of M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank compared to top-selling full-size pickups. The tank driver can see an average 5 year old child at 1.30m The Dodge Ram driver can see the same child at 2.30m (remote)

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

Anyone got a shovel? I feel like adding to my collection.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/22/headhunters/

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• Skull from the Morton collection (remote)

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

Florida has gone gangrenous, we may have to amputate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/22/you-really-dont-want-to-live-there/

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• Map of anti-trans legislation risk (remote)

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glaforge@uwyn.net ("Guillaume Laforge") wrote:

You might already know @baeldung for the tons of great @java tutorials, but do you know there are also tons of great articles on #ComputerScience?

Algorithms, data structures, #AI, graph theory, and more.

https://www.baeldung.com/cs/

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• 39c460d411a6c1a7.png (remote)

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xevix@mastodon.cloud wrote:

Congrats to the DuckDB team, you’ve made something awesome that’s used all over the world in all kinds of places. https://duckdb.org/2023/05/12/github-10k-stars.html

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monsieuricon@social.kernel.org ("K. Ryabitsev") wrote:

Are you someone who has a simple fix for something in the Linux kernel, but haven't bothered submitting a patch because you find the email workflow daunting? Can be a bugfix, spelling correction, anything at all.

If so, I want to talk to you! I have tools that simplify this process quite a bit, but I need more feedback from people who aren't long-term Linux maintainers.

Please reach out, either via here or by emailing mricon@kernel.org.

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brienneofsnark@ohai.social ("Brienne Of Snark 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

So… anybody going to mention that Rudy Guiliani’s convictions as a prosecutor should be audited?

No? Just checking.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my nightmare is a 3rd Oarty candidate sucking up enough votes here and there that The Fat Orange One gets elected with less than a majority