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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
YOOOOOOOO, OHIO!
Today is the day to register to vote for the most important election of this year.
Want to vote no on Issue 1 this August 8 against the GOP scam to change the rules and give the minority veto on abortion rights?
Register by today.
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FrankPasquale ("Frank Pasquale") wrote:
Twitter “was generating $5bn of revenue per year, and coming close to breaking even.
The overwhelming majority of this revenue was from advertising, but according to Musk’s thesis that revenue stream was garbage. He would deprioritise ads, reduce moderation, and boost the posts of people who would pay $8 a month for a blue tick.The results have been catastrophic.”
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-slow-sad-death-of-twitter/
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ethanschoonover ("Ethan Schoonover") wrote:
Someone gave us a towel with our cat's photo on it and now she sleeps exclusively on top of it like some sort of degenerate narcissist 1970s movie star.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HourlyOtters@botsin.space ("Hourly Otters") wrote:
#Otter pic!
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Many tech platforms have instituted policies against misinformation or hateful speech that have resulted in content such as election denial, anti-vaccine falsehoods and far-right conspiracy theories being removed… research has found that allegations of anti-conservative bias at social media companies have little empirical evidence…
The rightwing narrative of tech platform censorship persisted, however”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/10/republicans-fuel-the-disinformation-wars
Mastodon FeedI swear some of these cheap pizza places are just a cover-up for data collection agencies:
I once ordered a pizza online abroad, since then I've been getting regular spam calls from that particular country 🙄
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's been a disappointing weekend. Found a few graves, even fewer spiders, reduced to photographing flowers.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/10/this-weekend-was-a-bust/
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GeminiGal@universeodon.com wrote:
A One-Time Shot for Type 2 Diabetes? A Biotech Company Is On It
https://www.wired.com/story/a-one-time-shot-for-type-2-diabetes-a-biotech-company-is-on-it/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington. ~ Admiral Grace Hopper
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree
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carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:
Supreme Court was great. They invited me back when I’m in Delhi again in September so I can see all the libraries. The Supreme Court Advocates library functions as a meeting space. No non-lawyers allowed but I got a dispensation.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic.”
https://climatejustice.social/@MurmeltHier/110682326616619641
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CatEveryHour@piaille.fr ("Cat Every Hour") wrote:
✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MurmeltHier@climatejustice.social wrote:
WAIT WHAT?!
We are capable of pulling energy straight out of (humid) thin air now?! 🤯"“To be frank, it was an accident,” says the study’s lead author, Prof Jun Yao. “We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that forgot to plug in the power.”
The UMass Amherst team were surprised to find that the device, which comprised an array of microscopic tubes, or nanowires, was producing an electrical signal regardless.
(...)
However, 20,000 of them stacked into a washing machine-sized cube, they say, could generate 10 kilowatt hours of energy a day – roughly the consumption of an average UK household. Even more impressive: they plan to have a prototype ready for demonstration in 2024."
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this should be a fun hashtag to follow: #DailyJazz
https://aus.social/@leighlo/110686493116442315
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leighlo@aus.social ("Leigh :) Stark 🦄") wrote:
Your #dailyjazz to check out today is a classic and easily one of my favourites. It really is something else. Literally.
It's Somethin' Else. I just listen to this on repeat.
https://music.apple.com/au/album/somethin-else/721271258
https://open.spotify.com/album/3Wu0chxAm4GxSeRnIIf2Om?si=dxABHoWLTIO-xg80JqLJOQ
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kjoo@hachyderm.io ("Gottfried Szing") wrote:
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Goodwithcolour@tootr.co ("Aslan") wrote:
It was the 10th anniversary of the release of Bipp a couple of weeks ago.
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LunaFoxgirlVT@vt.social ("Luna 🇩🇰🦊 //nullptr::live @ C102/2日目/西お28a") wrote:
Note: there’s people who like to use Unicode math subscript to add “fonts” to their posts.
I’d like to ask people here to avoid doing that as depending on the screen reader it won’t be read because of missing math context; or it will be read as a string of Unicode identifiers.Hearing a long string of something like “mathematical lower case cursive letter u mathematical lower case cursive letter w mathematical lower case cursive letter u” for your fancy flavour text is not fun for people who need screen readers due to impaired vision, learning disabilities or who are blind.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It also seems like the argument boils down to "cars bad", and...yes? Ok. Are these better or worse cars? Safer or less safe cars for pedestrians and cyclists? This is countable, and to the extent differentiable, we can draw conclusions about the safety and utility of different versions of this stuff.
But I'm not hearing a "pro-Lidar, fuck Musk's approach" anti-AV argument, which mostly makes me think it isn't serious.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
As a public transit superfan, I'm extremely vexed by the SF-left anti-autonomous-vehicle discourse. SF's public transport is bad, actually. Like, not-a-real-city bad. And the energy being directed into fighting Waymo and Cruise isn't going into demanding that we bury every Muni line, extend Bart to everywhere it should go, and pedestrianize a lot of what obviously should be.
It doesn't help that the arguments against AVs seem statistically fatuous, in addition to being narratively unhelpful.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:
I am not open to your ahistorical take on Google Chat and XMPP.
Google didn't do anything wrong by using an open standard.
They didn't do anything wrong by building a good interface that people liked to use.
And they didn't do anything wrong by disconnecting from the network when the spam and harassment outweighed the benefit to their users.
We, the XMPP community, failed to capitalize on success by diversifying the network. It's our own fault not enough nodes were there.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
I have long said that you know it's time to ship when you are working the system hard enough to find long-standing bugs: you know that you've hit bedrock, in a sense.
And that is the inference I choose to draw from this 7-year-old DTrace bug that I hit this weekend that absolutely had me questioning my own sanity:
Mastodon FeedGood explanation of #BSP trees. Also a fun fact that for collision of a box against walls #Quake used an algorithm for a point, and made walls fatter instead.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Soul Kitchen (2017 Remaster) by The Doors on LOUD
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards) by Tom Waits
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
New York City by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
who called it object oriented programming and not class struggle
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is how I hear the train of excuses teams try out when terrible UX is pointed out:
