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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sometimes the juxtaposition of DW email headlines seems (perhaps unintentionally) wry
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KingShawn ("Shawn King") wrote:
There are some things that just have to be photographed. This kind of chalk-based street art definitely qualifies. It’s beautiful, whimsical, and sadly, ephemeral.
#Photography https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/110600708325234507
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Totally defeated by @United. Can't get to the spider meetings at all.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/26/well-thats-over/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
So @darktable folks fixed the Liquify bug and merged the fix in mere *days*! I'm impressed! And since I'm too impatient to wait for 4.4.1 (and I don't actually know the schedule), I'm going to try to compile it from source.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
it seems like this week has brought shutdown notices to a bunch of popular twitter bots that weren't included before but: mine are still just posting?
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“the sincerity of a speech of thanks is often inversely proportional to its length.”
— Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
https://a.co/dExbBaw
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
AI doomerism -- the fear of an uncontrolled artificial general intelligence that poses an existential risk to humanity (!) -- has exerted a recent grip on discourse, e.g.:
https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1673021241551384578
Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends, @ahl and I are going to offer an AI doomerist rebuttal based on our experiences in a domain that we know a thing or two about: building a computing system. Join us, 5p Pacific today:
https://discord.gg/twfq4ED7?event=1122921622333034616
Recorded as always!
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thank you, CPL Christian
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
One does not simply walk into Cornell. Or fly, for that matter.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/26/the-struggle-continues/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Is it just me, or has #Mastodon web UI stopped updating itself? Now I have to refresh the browser tab explicitly to see new posts.
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gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:
#OTD in 1903, Marie Curie defended her doctoral thesis in the physical sciences, entitled "Recherches sur les substances radioactives", before the Faculty of Science at the University of Paris; she was awarded a "very honourable" distinction.
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. via @Wikipedia
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- Recherches sur les substances radioactives, 1903 which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43233
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie, ca. 1898. Portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie (November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934), sometime prior to 1907. Curie and her husband Pierre shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. Working together, she and her husband isolated Polonium. Pierre died in 1907, but Marie continued her work, namely with Radium, and received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Her death is mainly attributed to excess exposure to radiation. via @wikipedia
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
more about hype & using the right tools for the job at hand
h/t @timbray
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good piece
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overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:
In 1948, the University of Manchester photographed its groundbreaking Mark I computer for a photocomposite stitched together from 20 separate shots. A newly restored image from the best surviving original materials of each shot reveals a wealth of detail that’s been lost over the years. https://rylandscollections.com/2023/06/21/a-new-view-of-the-manchester-computer/
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jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:") wrote:
I have this cat laying with me. He doesn’t care about my problems at work. He doesn’t care about Meta and the fediverse. He doesn’t care that Fedia.io’s database is a :dumpster_fire:
He, for some reason, just wants to lay right here. Purring softly. Twitching now and then as he dreams. Apparently feeling safe.
He’s 17. I give him insulin injections twice a day and he has a shaved spot on his back with a glucose meter glued to his skin. Yet he still trusts me.
When I adopted him 17 years ago, he was a wreck. He peed on my couches, pooped on my bed. But he grew out of that.
He and I play games, even still today. i will act scared to see him and back away, and he will start chasing me.
He knows how to ask me for what he wants. I feel like I understand him sometimes.
I’m really am super lucky he put on a show when I was looking for a rescue to adopt all those years ago. He’s been an awesome cat.
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stevesilberman@newsie.social ("Steve Silberman") wrote:
Wait till Marge Greene hears that the Jewish Space Laser people have teamed up with the Pride groomers to create a ray in San Francisco that instantly turns you trans. Will no one think of the children? [photo via Donna GianGiordano-Merlino]
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Hello everyone
This my first post on Mastodon. I'm really excited to join.
I am a French professional photographer and digital artist, and I hope you will like my work.About me : https://delphimages.pixels.com/
Photos here :
https://delphimages.pixels.com/featured/andean-flamingos-in-atacama-salar-chile-delphimages-photo-creations.html
https://delphimages.pixels.com/featured/classic-car-in-havana-cuba-delphimages-photo-creations.html
https://delphimages.pixels.com/featured/sunset-on-li-river-guilin-china-delphimages-photo-creations.html
https://delphimages.pixels.com/featured/aurora-borealis-northern-lights-over-snowy-pine-trees-delphimages-photo-creations.html#introduction #art #artist #photography #landscape #digitalArt #AI #fineart
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warandpeas ("War and Peas") wrote:
The peasants it is 🪓
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Ulrich_the_Elder ("Ulrich_the_Elder 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 😷") wrote:
The most common form of propaganda is making you think that voting doesn't matter. If it did not matter, voter suppression and gerrymandering would not exist. Vote in every election you can as if your life depended on it.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
hey did you know that Toni Basil used to date one of the guys from DEVO
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Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
Established on May 5, 1905, by Robert S. Abbott with 25¢, Chicago Defender was the foremost Black newspaper of its day. Boldly proclaiming itself "The World's Greatest Weekly," it had a profound impact nationwide. 2/3 of its readers lived beyond Chicago. Abbott ingeniously expanded by enlisting Pullman porters, who established a distribution across America, especially the hostile South—a catalyst for the Great Migration.
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#BlackMastodon #histodons #History > @blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social
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marcas@mastodon.ie ("Marcas Ó Doibhilin") wrote:
HOW TO SPOT A RIP CURRENT:
IT'S WHERE THE WATER LOOKS EASIEST AND SAFEST, with no waves breaking or rolling in.
NEVER ENTER THE SEA HERE.
If you get caught in a rip, DON'T FIGHT IT. You can't swim back to shore against it; you will become exhausted and drown.
Instead, SWIM ACROSS IT, parallel to shore. You'll soon be out of the current and can then easily swim back.
Boost, please, and make sure your friends and family know this when they hit the beach.
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- Photo of a beach, taken from a balcony above. There are (mild) waves breaking all along the shore, excerpt for a corridor right on the middle, maybe 20 metres wide, with no breaking waves, no seafoam etc. The person who made the photograph has drawn a big circle around round this corridor to emphasize it. It *looks* like this should be safe. It's not! This is a rip current. It will pull you very forcefully out to sea. It's dangerous to fight against it. Just go with the flow (literally), let it carry you out a bit, then swim across it, parallel to the shore, and you will soon be out of it. (remote)
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zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:
Sunset on Tropical Storm #Cindy in the western Atlantic Ocean #weather #WX
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
dancing in the kitchen to The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron doing dishes
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
still too damned true today
No Knock by Gil Scott-Heron
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Delta Man (Where I'm Comin' From) by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh, memories of times past
Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon & War on LOUD
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Lady Day and John Coltrane by Gil Scott-Heron
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhh...
Your Daddy Loves You by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
do I know any US citizens who have crossed into and out of Canada (over a land border) with an EDL instead of a passport? anything weird I should be aware of if planning to do that?