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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

shepgo ("✦ 𝚜 𝚑 𝚎 𝚙 𝚐 𝚘 ✦") wrote:

Facebook already appears to hold the social networking rights to ‘X’

Elon Musk, who bought #Twitter for $44 billion last year, announced that the platform will now be called "X," but Mark #Zuckerberg's #Meta has already registered an "X" logo in connection to "online social networking services" and "social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development."

#elon #musk #x #xcom

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-holds-rights-to-x-twitter-rebrand-elon-musk-2023-7

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Brock is now jobless and still facing criminal charges, all stemming from a traffic stop the deputy said was based on an air freshener he’d spotted hanging from Brock’s rearview mirror.

The Sheriff’s Department has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks for two other use-of-force incidents caught on camera”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy

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

brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

Love asking a React stallwart why they think its still a necessary abstraction in 2023.

All the answers I get are either logical fallacies or a strange appeal to popularity as though the web, and by extension web standards, are far larger and more encompassing than a proprietary dialect that compiles to it.

#web #webstandards #js #react

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everywhereist ("Geraldine") wrote:

"Maybe it’s time to put the bird to rest. It was wonderful to us for a while, and it was also horrific, and it’s gone now, and we’re messed up about it, because that’s what grief is."

My thoughts on the end of Twitter as we knew it:

https://www.everywhereist.com/2023/07/its-the-end-of-the-bird-as-we-know-it-thoughts-on-the-end-of-twitter/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Such a relief when you're back to work after a two-week vacation, and there are no paradigm shifts, platform changes, new radical approaches, etc. And you don't have to rethink your ongoing tasks from scratch.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

reading "7.2. Defining Modules to Control Scope and Privacy". need to re-read a few times

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

Spotted our first Argiope of the season, and it was right there in my yard.

Waiting for it to reemerge so I can get a decent photo.

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

step 1: perform Greensleeves on a lute

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• youtube video thumbnail of a video titled "How to break the rules of techno." The preview still is the words "BREAK THE RULES" surrounding an illustration of a mouth colored like it's under a blacklight. Channel is Underdog Electronic Music School.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Linkletter ("Ian Linkletter") wrote:

Countless educators stand against academic surveillance tech and Turnitin's new AI detection tool is an escalation. Turnitin is pivoting from a technology that encourages teachers to investigate sources to one that tells them to blindly believe their "state-of-the-art" black box.

Don't buy it. And come contract renewal, do not forget what they did. #Turnitoff

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:

Nearly a third of Republicans now view Trump as 'unfavorable': Pew
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.businessinsider.com/third-of-republicans-now-view-trump-as-unfavorable-pew-2023-7

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

#MusicHistory / #Music picks of the day:

➡️ @historyofpunkrock - Info, photos, clips and flyers from the #PunkRock era of the 1970s and 1980s

➡️ @auditorymusings - Music blog recommending classic albums

➡️ @canyonsfan - Musicologist writing about #classical music

➡️ @dylyricus - Devoted to #BobDylan, his music, his tours & his lyrics (incl. lesser known alternative lyrics)

➡️ @AccordionBruce - #Accordion historian, musician and author

➡️ @Vinyl - Artwork from classic #records

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ml@ecoevo.social ("Megan Lynch (she/her)") wrote:

Can you read what's on that slide? Would you say it's more important for the camera operator to show us the speaker's face & body or to show us the slide?

Note there are no captions I could find. Anyone who's Deaf, hard-of-hearing, has audio processing disorders, or for whom English is not their first language will have trouble without that accessibility in place.

We need to rethink turning over online conference production to third party vendors, IMO.

#Botany2023 #a11y #DisabledAndSTEM

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• Screenshot of my view of the online portal for Botany 2023 conference going on right now in Boise, ID. On the left is a menu with choices home, program, posters, exhibit hall, participants, discussion board and more. Up top is the title of the one thing I can access right now as an online attendee "Whole genome duplications and impact on angiosperm character evolution". Inset is the camera view of a speaker with long hair standing at a podium. Much smaller in the upper left-hand of the inset screen are the slides the speaker is talking about. On my 17" laptop screen, the inset slide is about 1 inch by 2 inches large - not large enough to read any text on it or see much of the diagram. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hmmmm... the "backyard" example in Section "7.2. Defining Modules to Control Scope and Privacy" is, ummmmm, just a little on the "dense" side. time for a break and maybe another cuppa

#LearningRust

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

"dilfs of the computer chronicles" would be a fun gimmick account but it's more effort than I wanna expend

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #749 from The Computer Chronicles - Optical Storage Devices 1985-5TcsOgy9weg

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• Approximate Frame #749 from The Computer Chronicles - Optical Storage Devices 1985-5TcsOgy9weg (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

then why not just *say* that? [grumble grumble]

#LearningRust

'Most of the time when Rustaceans say “crate”, they mean library crate, and they use “crate” interchangeably with the general programming concept of a “library".'

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

onward! upward! 7 dot 1 Packages and Crates!

#LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am not so sure that this is syntactic sugar which I wish to consume:

#LearningRust

"Using if let means less typing, less indentation, and less boilerplate code. However, you lose the exhaustive checking that match enforces. Choosing between match and if let depends on what you’re doing in your particular situation and whether gaining conciseness is an appropriate trade-off for losing exhaustive checking.

In other words, you can think of if let as syntax sugar for a match that runs code when the value matches one pattern and then ignores all other values."

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"other" and "_" with "match" rounds things out nicely... seems to cover all the situations (covering the cases of with and without variable binding with different notations seems useful for scanning and debugging code)

#LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

demanding a trailing comma on the last match case is not my favorite convention, but I can "live with it". I get how it makes version-control diffs cleaner. #LearningRust

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

starting a new #LearningRust week with "6.2. The match Control Flow Construct"

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

24 July 1932 | Czech Jewish boy, Pavel Schwarz, was born in Prague.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

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• A portrait photo of a young boy. (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sad seeing this happen to local #journalism

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/santa-barbara-news-press-declares-bankruptcy-ceases-publication-after-more-than-150-years

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

When a general assures you that his "judeo-christian ethics" means he will do only good, brace yourself for atrocities.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/its-all-about-ethics-in-war/

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• Crusaders & the sack of Jerusalem (remote)

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

I despise RateMyProfessor with a surprisingly deep passion.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/no-not-a-professor/

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

When the media invite you to bite on a "TikTok challenge," the appropriate response is to roll your eyes and not…and if you do, gag and puke it up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/suckered/

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the fog has not lifted… this may be a two-cuppa day

☕️☕️

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

That could be Morris, if a massive volcanic eruption replaced the Dakotas with mountains.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/good-news-from-the-heartland/

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Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

elilla@transmom.love ("sommer sonne elilla&") wrote:

Rob Sheridan on insta:

> Before #Barbenheimer, there was “Apocalypse in Pink,” the August 1983 theme of fashion/culture magazine SPECTAGORIA. The issue’s controversial imagery of Barbie-esque models attempting to stay gorgeous and glamorous amidst nuclear annihilation sought to, in the words of editor/photographer Sera Clairmont, “revel in the morbid absurdity of the new American condition,” an “anxiety vibrating underneath all our plastic smiles.”

please notice I was born in 1983 :>

(source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu7p_LQvWfC/ )

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• One of the photos from the magazine. A respirator model is fully covered in metallic pink, light shining on both her breathing apparatus and hazmat suit. She's enveloped in pink clouds of vapour billowing against a dark, navy blue background. (remote)
• In a predecessor to the "This Is Fine" meme, a Barbiecore doll-like model watches as her pink house is engulfed inside and out by pink fires. The photo is a slide set, and it's juxtaposed to another doll kneeling peacefully on pink foam, wearing a light pink one-piece. She's surrounded by stylish, modern 1983 furniture, all of it going up in flames in a hot pink explosion. (remote)
• A total bimbo smiles to you a huge, capital-D-shaped smile, in perfect makeup and glamorously stylised hair, as a nuclear explosion detonates in the background, pinkily. The doll wears retrofuturistic glittery pink: a latex collar, a strapless top with pointy tips, booty shorts, all with a metallic lustre and flowery patterns. (remote)
• It's my skeleton when the cops finally get me and burn me at the stake. It's a plastic pink skeleton melting in pink flames, still grinning more bimbo than ever. Chunks of sqhuishy body parts such as ears and boobs meld with the skeleton in undifferentiated pink. (remote)

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

Is anyone on that rotting hellsite going to switch to calling it "X"?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/24/the-delusions-have-begun/

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• X logo (remote)