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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
leighlo@aus.social ("Leigh :) Stark 🦄") wrote:
@jeffsonstein A great piece. But one of the best recordings of it is on this live album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Avenue_South_(album)
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thinking about my Dad tonight. I have very mixed feelings about his part in smuggling arms into post-war British Mandate Palestine.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm done with "DX", and you should reject it too. The appeals I hear to it today are not an arguments. Not even data (and yes, there are studies that measure API usability, see J. Heer et. al., etc.). But the crowd that crows about "DX" today brings no evidence, only plural anecdote, heavily confounded with social cross-pressure.
New language for "I like X better" is not innovation, it's obfuscation.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Waited For You by The Miles Davis Sextet
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhhhh
Take Five by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I Thought About You (feat. Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb) by Miles Davis
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
What Is There To Say by The Red Garland Quintet
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Blue in Green (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Top 5 hottest days on record, worldwide:
1. Thursday (17.23°C)
2. Friday (17.20°C)
3. Wednesday (17.18°C)
4. Tuesday (17.18°C)
5. Monday (17.01°C)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
esther@strangeobject.space ("Esther") wrote:
Here’s a prediction: there will not be “the next Twitter”. The era of the one place where “everyone” is has ended. (And it has never been “everyone”, just everyone who the people already there thought was relevant).
Under capitalism this model of the one place was always doomed to fail. It just lasted for an unusually long time due to lucky coincidences. Any further capital-driven attempts will fail much faster because more people can recognize the cracks earlier now.
Community-driven social networks will always have fragmentation and more friction, regardless of how many features and affordances are built. There’s always going to be social fault lines along different needs and priorities of different groups. This is inherently human and incompatible with a singular shared space that hosts “everyone”.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
damienjorrand@mastodon.design ("Damien Jorrand") wrote:
people leaving Twitter... ... for Threads
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
he holds a fundamentally pessimistic view of human nature:
“Bigotry, antisemitism, homophobia is a human disease. It cannot be cured. It can be fought, but it cannot be cured, and trying to cure it with new discrimination only makes the situation worse.”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“American athletes go to Russia and end up in prison,” Jack Wiener, a New York lawyer who represents Lokhanov and Bida, said, referring to the basketball star Brittney Griner. “Russian fencers come to the U.S. and wake up with gold medals.”
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The kind of writing I associate with @edzitron; cutting and on point:
https://jogblog.substack.com/p/facebooks-threads-is-so-depressing
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ask us *almost* anything! In about a half hour.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/08/ask-us-anything/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We smuggled a mystery box across state lines. I won't say what it is, no matter what fiendish tortures you devise!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/08/shhhhsecret-mission/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I got a deck of tarot cards for solo rpg/oulipo purposes (not divination, I don't have a future) but the quality of the cards is kinda lacking compared to a regular deck of bicycle playing cards.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
no Joe, just no…
“The vacancies on the commission underline a major missing piece in Biden’s early pledge to restore America’s image on the international stage.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/08/biden-elliott-abrams-iran-contra-venezuela
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, FFS… when politics trumps reality:
‘The state official in charge of Oklahoma’s schools is facing calls for impeachment, after he said teachers should tell students that the Tulsa race massacre was not racially motivated.’
you are entitled to your own beliefs, but you are not entitled to your own historical facts. just because some of it is ugly does not mean history did not happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/08/oklahoma-republican-tulsa-race-massacre
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
is that good
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oops it looks like tumblr's down right now
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Lesser known Apple Watch Workouts: Pulling a Push Door.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hah! Truth
From: @thebrain
https://infosec.exchange/@thebrain/110676377822705136
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
BrendanSinclair ("Brendan Sinclair") wrote:
The 16-bit True Lies game has the best video game mall of all time.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
swallez@mastodon.tetaneutral.net ("Sylvain Wallez") wrote:
Vector search in Elasticsearch: a great explanation of how it works and how its deep integration in Lucene allows powerful hybrid search and efficient snapshotting and replication. #elasticsearch https://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/vector-search-elasticsearch-rationale
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cool, my following/followers ratio is about 1:1
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Hecky darn. I missed the registration deadline for the International Conference on Creationism.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/08/you-missed-your-chance/
Mastodon Feed"Threads is a mobile-only experience at the moment and users can only make posts, write comments and follow people on the platform's mobile app."
You lost me at "mobile-only" 🙃
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a gorgeous morning, with 65°F (18.33 °C) temperature and chirping birds
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It seems we're all unique.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/08/variation-is-wonderful/
