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

danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I don’t do this lightly. I’ve really been hanging on hoping Twitter would get better. I think dropping Facebook caused a major drop in revenue and dropping Twitter is going to cause a major drop as well. I’m leaving behind nearly 50K followers. I really hope I still have a job honestly.

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

danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Star Trek TNG is my feel-good refuge.

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

Checks out: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony Stark") wrote:

Facts: In 2020, Trump lost the Electoral College, the popular vote by over 7 million, every vote recount in Republican and Democratic states, and some 60 legal challenges before both Republican and Democratic judges. No fraud.

This is the American “right”, though. They want to “take America back.”

From the voters.

Texas Legislature steps into Harris County elections | The Texas Tribune-
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/23/texas-legislature-harris-county-elections/

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:

Physicist and chemist Esther Conwell was born #OTD in 1922. Her work with Weisskopf on the scattering of electrons by impurities in semiconductors was essential to understanding transistors, and to the development of integrated circuits.

Images: AIP, Ryan K. Morris Photography

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• A low-resolution black and white portrait of physicist Esther Conwell. She is seen from the shoulders up, with her head slightly turned to her left to face the camera. She is wearing a white collared blouse, a pair of glasses with cat eye frames, and a pearl necklace. Her hair is short and she has a very slight smile.
• A color photo of President Barack Obama presented Esther Conwell with the National Medal of Science in 2009. They are both wearing dark suits. Obama's back is to the camera. He is shaking Conwell's right hand with both his hands, and smiling at her. She is wearing glasses, smiling, and looking at the President. The medal, with a red, white, and blue ribbon, has already been placed around her neck. The ceremony took place in the White House; part of a gilt picture frame and the characteristic interior moulding of the WH is visible in the background.

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

DeanObeidallah@masto.ai wrote:

Using the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling is perfect given MAGA is today’s Confederacy. My new article on how Section 4 of 14th Amend was enacted to protect the US economy from the traitorous Confederates. Today that threat is from MAGA: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/using-the-14th-amendment-to-raise

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

setting up for weekly voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +74°F, 43%, ↓8mph, 1020hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 19:31:53-0400 | Dawn: 05:04:39 | Sunrise: 05:39:03
Zenith: 13:07:14 | Sunset: 20:36:05 | Dusk: 21:10:36
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Blues great Elmore James dies, 1963

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Shavuos (Festival of Weeks; sabbatical)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: National Labor Day in Jamaica

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Commonwealth Day in Jamaica and Belize

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Federal Republic of Germany founded, 1949

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Two Yetis sighted, Mt. Everest, 1953

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Israeli raid into Argentina to capture Adolf Eichmann, 1960

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Munechika Sumikawa sumikawa@FreeBSD.org born in Osaka, Osaka, Japan, 1972

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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

"Choose doing good things over doing nothing." Good advice to Democrats everywhere.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/23/all-it-takes-is-a-one-vote-majority-to-do-great-things/

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• @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h First, in addition to having a one-vote margin, this was not a radical left- wing legislature! There are plenty of moderate Dems here. But the moderates, unlike Dems elsewhere, still wanted to get stuff done and saw progressives as partners in making that happen. @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h Rather than looking at the November numbers result and imposing some kind of self-limiting narrative about the scope of their mandate, MN Dems looked at their priorities and said “How much of the list can we get done?” Turns out the answer was “Almost everything.” @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h It probably also helped that this was a younger legislature, with many first-time committee chairs and newer members who were eager to start governing after years of relative deadlock in a divided statehouse. @8 Will Stancil @whstancil - 4h But the key here is that the DFL clearly figured, no matter how small their majorities were, it was better, politically and morally, to choose doing good things over doing nothing. And it did, again and again. (remote)

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

My team shipped a thing! Cloud run now supports sidecars. 🎉 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-now-supports-multi-container-deployments/ #serverless

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

#SanFrancisco: Come watch Interstellar on IMAX with me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/interstellar-imax-experience-at-amc-metreon-sf

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

Bill Donohue does not love Hunky Jesus.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/23/bill-donohue-is-mad-again/

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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

What goes good with Vanilla JS? Strawberry of course. A 3kb microframework, 0 deps, buildless, data store, and leverages web components.

https://18alan.space/strawberry/

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

textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:

I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).

So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.

https://archive.org/details/1999_Game_Developers_Conference_Audio

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

apparently nintendo just released a 3ds firmware update that makes it harder to jailbreak your device, so I guess I'll be jailbreaking the ones I hadn't bothered to do yet

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but a rolling cat gathers a ton of moss.

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

I'm cheering for the whales. ORCA, ORCA, ORCA!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/23/theyre-learning/

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Reblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):

BenRossTransit ("Benjamin Ross") wrote:

This visitor to Vienna gets it:
"The key difference is that Vienna prioritizes subsidizing construction, while the United States prioritizes subsidizing people, with things like housing vouchers. One model focuses on supply, the other on demand."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/magazine/vienna-social-housing.html

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

what an amazing life he lived

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