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JaneRLaForge@mstdn.social ("Jane Rosenberg LaForge") wrote:

First they came for the school #libraries and classrooms. Now they’re coming for the #bookstores #booksellers—in Texas. A new law requires booksellers to rate #books to be sold to schools, including books sold IN THE PAST. Booksellers are suing to stop what they say is an unconstitutional violation of #FirstAmendment. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/25/books/book-banning-texas-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

something tells me I am going to be looking at this cheatsheet a lot in the beginning ;^}

#LearningRust

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• Rust Language Modules Cheat Sheet #LearningRust (remote)

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

matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

In case you haven’t seen it, this spreadsheet of infosec Mastodon addresses is pretty great. Not sure how up to date it is, but it’s definitely adding to my follow list. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t13k5_cNhP9_TgoUmqDZk2ROkWkF6Bg3O5269vKIqWw/edit

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

mattb@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Booth") wrote:

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• Mug with message on it reading "The future is". The remainder of the message is hidden by a sticker reading "Reduced for quick sale $2" (remote)

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

amyengineer@infosec.exchange ("Amy Renee") wrote:

Today and tomorrow, I get to help out at a cyber camp for high school girls, and I'm so excited.

I heart getting the next gen excited about a career in tech, especially those who have been underrepresented. ❤️

#infosec
#neteng
#lifeInIT

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• image/gif Women in STEM gif (remote)

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

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

Today in History: Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

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

a resting point on my morning walk through the cemetery

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

There's something deeply wrong with people who think sex is a simple binary.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/27/this-young-person-gets-it-better-than-some-senior-scientists/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnshnUk-UKU

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

thank you, Seaman Damaschke… 19 years was insufficient 💦

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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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• “It’s public pool season! At least all the urine will make the water warmer.” (remote)

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nei@lgbtqia.space ("Nei Thunder :v_ace: 🇨🇦") wrote:

#Trans #Transgender #Problems

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• Lisa Simpson, standing in front of a white board with the words, “ None of your problems is because someone is trans. None.” (remote)

jsonstein@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).

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

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.)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/robert-f-kennedy-jr-seth-mnookin-panic-virus-deadly-immunity-interview_n_64c137b7e4b0ad7b75fadc32

#journalism #uspol #science

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

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

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-humiliated-on-world-stage-as-african-leaders-snub-his-summit/ar-AA1eqwiS

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

bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*Don't give Neil Gaiman any more free books about edgy celebrities

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

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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• A sweaty bearded white dude in sunglasses in the foreground with the Statue of Liberty above. (remote)

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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)

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

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)."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/saguaro-cacti-collapsing-in-arizona-extreme-heat-scientist-says/ar-AA1emxpM?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d01e060082044dbfdce014b71aa1c44d&ei=10

#ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction

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

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/

rmrenner ("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.

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moshboy wrote:

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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• a minotaur is in the process of possibly strangling and stabbing a human warrior. the gods in the sky are looking down upon the battle. the floor is black and white chequered.

xor@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

isagalaev ("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.

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

Here's a post-mortem: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/well-that-was-fun/38520

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

Yay! https://discuss.pixls.us/ is working again!

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4d3fect@sfba.social wrote:

@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

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

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!

https://youtu.be/JXWz5Ga2GJc