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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
let every cloud have a lead lining, Oh Snarky One
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nei@lgbtqia.space ("Nei Thunder :v_ace: 🇨🇦") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
at this point, the Great Patriotic War On Carbs & Sugars (GPWOCS for the bureaucrats in the house) has brought my weight down to what it was when I got out of the Army ( 17 NOV 70).
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jayrosen_nyu ("Jay Rosen") wrote:
"Describing [RFK's] views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest. They’re not controversial. They’re false. He’s not spreading controversial views, he’s spreading lies. And so the framing matters enormously, and that’s something that I foresee being a huge, huge issue in the 2024 campaign."
Agreed!
Some key distinctions made by journalist Seth Mnookin in this sharp interview. (He wrote a book about the anti-vaccine movement in 2011.)
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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:
PUTIN HUMILIATION!
Vladimir Putin was snubbed by African leaders at a key summit in St. Petersburg on Thursday, heaping fresh humiliation on the Russian president.
Just 17 heads of state will take part in the second Russia-Africa summit this week – less than half of the 43 who attended the first in 2019
#Russia #Putin
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bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:
*Don't give Neil Gaiman any more free books about edgy celebrities
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kb9ens@mastodon.radio ("Tom - KB9ENS") wrote:
Will it tune? I’m thinking yes… I know that physical bonds and electrical ones are different but I bet if I could get close enough to the copper I could impedance match it. #WillItTune
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memory@blank.org ("Doctor Memory") wrote:
Also, a detail about O’Connor's SNL appearance that I only just now learned.
The woman was hard as nails.
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- O’Connor’s statement on SNL was more personal than most knew. In the book, she details how her mother physically abused her throughout her childhood. “I won the prize in kindergarten for being able to curl up into the smallest ball, but my teacher never knew why I could do it so well,” she writes. There is a reason, in the “Nothing Compares 2 U” video, she being to cry when she hit the line about her mama’s flowers. O’Connor was 18 when her mother died, and on that day she took down the one photograph on her mom’s bedroom wall: the image of the pope. O’Connor carefully saved the photo, waiting for the right moment to destroy it. (remote)
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DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social wrote:
#Saguaro #cacti collapsing in #Arizona #ExtremeHeat, scientist says
By Liliana Salgado, July 25, 2023
PHOENIX (Reuters) - "Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over during the state's record streak of extreme heat, a scientist said on Tuesday.
"Summer monsoon rains the cacti rely on have failed to arrive, testing the desert giants' ability to survive in the wild as well as in cities after temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) for 25 days in Phoenix, said Tania Hernandez.
"'These plants are adapted to this heat, but at some point the heat needs to cool down and the water needs to come,' said Hernandez, a research scientist at Phoenix's 140-acre (57-hectare) Desert Botanical Garden, which has over 2/3 of all cactus species, including saguaros which can grow to over 40 feet (12 meters)."
#ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction
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JaneRLaForge@mstdn.social ("Jane Rosenberg LaForge") wrote:
North Carolina's New Abortion Ban Also Prohibits #FreeSpeech on Information About #Abortion—first law of its kind in the nation, although many states have contemplated such a move. Via PEN America. #FirstAmendment
https://www.wired.com/story/north-carolinas-new-abortion-law-is-also-a-weapon-against-free-speech/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I went back and looked at Echo's update history and it makes a lot of sense that Jenna's route was the last one completed. There are a couple of flashy effects that don't appear elsewhere in the game and it feels like a finale. Lots of revelations, and lots of elements from other routes incorporated or intensified.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
powerplay: the game of the gods, zx spectrum (1988) https://mobygames.com/game/powerplay-the-game-of-the-gods/cover-art/gameCoverId,666286/
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
it'll never stop being funny to me that THE FIRST THING people complaining about congestion pricing say is that it makes them want to drive there less
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
First week out of vacation, and I think I already saved my team quite a lot of future work using my favorite method: looking at a proposal and saying "no, let's not do that" :-)
In more details though, I pointed out that instead of "let's periodically grab data from another team and automatically create a PR into our repo with it" we can tweak our code a little and use that data directly. Saving time not only on implementation but also on chore PR approvals, which would be a real drag.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Here's a post-mortem: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/well-that-was-fun/38520
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Yay! https://discuss.pixls.us/ is working again!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
@isagalaev New hires have been paid less, with fewer benefits, for the last few contracts. A strategy doomed to fail, imho
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dave_aitel ("Dave Aitel") wrote:
This is a really hard read - it's like going back in time, but with corpo spin: https://zetter.substack.com/p/interview-with-the-etsi-standards
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
We hosted our third "books in the box" show where @bcantrill and I received book recommendations from the Oxide friends.
I started on "Doom Guy" this morning, and "Moby Dick" is... downloaded! Bonus: check the show notes for Bryan's wedding reading list!
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Fully lost it at this bit. Chase has just discovered the body of the man that has been haunting him since childhood, and they've all had such a hard day that his friends react as though they just found their dog raiding the kitchen trashcan
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- Echo VN screencap. A desert road at night. Jenna stands in the center of the frame. Textbox: "Jenna steps closer, peering into the little hole I had dug."
- Same setting and visible characters. Leo speaks from offscreen: "Leo: What's going on?"
- Same setting and visible characters. Dialogue box: "Jenna: Chase dug up an old corpse!"
- Same setting and visible characters. Micha speaks from offscreen: "Micha: ...God damnit, Chase!"
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dramypsyd@ohai.social ("Dr. Amy, Psy.D.") wrote:
I finished two articles today so the aliens need to please wait at least three weeks to destroy society so that they have time to go live ok?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
What we don’t know about what happened today with Hunter Biden.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/hunter-biden-and-the-fog-of-war?sd=pf
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M_E_Galley ("Mirjam Galley") wrote:
Hello, lovely people! As an #introduction, I'm a historian (of the Soviet Union) working as an editor and project manager for transcript academic publishing.
I was born&raised in Berlin (east if that matters), spent some time in the UK and live in Bielefeld, Germany now. (yesyes, the one that doesn't exist).
Feel free to get in touch about academic publishing esp. in history or heritage studies!
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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:
Approximate Frame #509 from The Computer Chronicles - Web Radio 1998-YIzYJG9hUf4
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sigh, for some unknown reason that pile of laundry is refusing to fold itself
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tomhumberstone@mastodon.scot ("Tom Humberstone") wrote:
My comic about AI, automation and the misunderstood history of the Luddites is now available to read for free online at The Nib! https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this stuff looks like set sketches from late-1920s B-movies, with dashing aviators in leather helmets gazing piercingly into the middle distance
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree
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Auxonic ("Eric Goodwin") wrote:
Just doing the responsible work of making sure comms people know Twitter is dead and that they should be ripping it out of their websites and comms plans.
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Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:
Ring shouts, work songs, and field hollers have left a profound impact on the development of musical styles like Dixieland, blues, and jazz. Enslaved Africans, drawing from their rich African rhythms, played a pivotal role in creating these musical genres.
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