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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Dolly Parton has put over 200,000,000 FREE BOOKS in the hands of children in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Ireland.
200 MILLION BOOKS!
She didn't build a penis space rocket or dive in sub to see the titanic. She invested her money in the next generations to come.
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ... that's a beautiful thing.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
acousticmirror@post.lurk.org ("(((o))) Acoustic Mirror") wrote:
Some great news from The Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
The "A Year of Deep Listening" project in homage to Pauline Oliveros they ran up until the end of May this year will eventually be collected in a book, to be published in Fall 2024 on Terra Nova Press.
Honoured and chuffed to have been part of this, and to see the whole project finally collected.
Watch this space. 🐚 📚
https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/ayodl/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheWarOnCars ("The War on Cars") wrote:
"Instead of giving the biggest incentives to the biggest batteries, government policy should focus on electrifying the vast majority of daily trips, which start and end at home and could easily be handled by vehicles with 100 miles of range or less.... That means incentivizing e-bikes, plug-in hybrids, and other small battery electric vehicles, not holding fleet electrification hostage to the 5 percent use cases."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:
When God closes a door, He opens a window. Our electric bill is outrageous, and a family of raccoons got in last night. Please, God. This has to stop.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:
Here’s the BFP taking a midnight stroll at Bunjaree Cottages. #possum
There’a a brief video in Birdland at https://twitter.com/stilgherrian/status/1685091192315482112.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Fantastic accomplishment!♥️👍🏿
https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/
And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.
So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢
Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:
Let's ponder for a moment that the computing resources on the Voyager spacecraft are from the 1960s, with clock speeds measured in KHz and RAM in kbytes, running hand-crafted software, crammed into 4K of 18-bit wide plated-wire memory (similar to but better than core mem).
The custom-designed hardware and (upgraded) software are still functioning after 46 years in space.
https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
https://www.technikum29.de/en/devices/plated-wire-storage.php
#Voyager #Space #Science #Computers
4/n
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
The tl;dr (because TL! it's TL) is that, for this group:
- people feel stressed and anxious when they get yelled at for breaking rules and norms they didn't know about
- it's hard to find people and conversations, and specifically hard to follow people across instances
- people want better organic and algorithmic ways to connect with each other
- instance-picking stresses people out, and a lot of the sign-up and settling-in processes are confusing and/or too much work for unknown returns
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this was why I left again right after I joined in 2016…
“The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured. Some people mentioned that they tried Mastodon during a rush of people out of Twitter and got what they perceived as a hostile response.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
Watch out, there's a tiger on the beach!
Incredible work by Beach4Art, who created this tiger using stones on a beach in Devon! 💕 More by Beach4Art!: https://streetartutopia.com/2022/01/23/just-a-seahorse-made-of-stone/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GregCirillo@newsie.social ("Greg Cirillo") wrote:
FoxNews.com has NOTHING on the front page (above the fold) about the former President being credibly accused of and charged with obstruction of justice to evade prosecution for mishandling classified national defense information.
The lead story is about Bud Light.
And this (Fox) is the news site that Trump doesn't favor.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
*hacker voice* I’m in 😅
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
1 Möbius Way #b3d #geometrynodes
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
@Archie8 this is pretty much exactly why I'm here.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
microseasons@botsin.space ("72 Microseasons") wrote:
A new microseason in the "Greater heat" (大暑 Taisho) division has begun:
Earth is damp, air is humid (土潤溽暑 Tsuchi uruōte mushi atsushi)
This microseason will last until August 2.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:
the virtue signaling about Mitch McConnell has begun.
Mitch McConnell helped kill my father, mother & brother because we never had enough money to take care of their medical issues.
McConnell normalized EUGENICS with his relentless attacks on health care rights.
anybody who says you do not have a right to live unless you have all the money in the world? that person wants you dead
thru legislation, McConnell killed my family. Nazis had a name for that: MURDER BY BUREAUCRACY
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Meowzart
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
Read our original investigation into the child ID kits here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenny-hansmire-persuades-politicians-to-fund-child-id-kits
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
Pennsylvania Rethinks Funding for Child ID Kits After Investigation
==A bill that would require purchasing the kits is facing key opposition after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found no evidence that they’d ever been used to find a missing child.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Hank's Other Soul (Remastered 2006) by Hank Mobley
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
It Never Entered My Mind by Miles Davis Quintet
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhh
Final (Take 2 - Bande originale du film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud") by Miles Davis on LOUD
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
scisus@scholar.social ("phenolology 🐢") wrote:
Hey scientists and other folks in STEM (including grad students)! If you're looking for a flexible and very rewarding outreach opportunity that doesn't take a lot of time, I highly recommend signing up to be a scientist penpal for a middle schooler:
https://prescientist.org/volunteers/
I've been doing this program for ~10 years and I highly recommend it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
📝 New post: If #webcomponents are so good, why am I not using them?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A cynic, OTOH, might suggest that Google and Apple are turning privacy into recycling: a Hobson's Choice of false agency, externalised onto the user, who is then expected to shoulder the blame for abusive correlation post-collection, weeks or months after the fact.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The most generous interpretation is that this is another baby step towards actually doing something about extremely pervasive native app tracking.
A realist might counter by noting that, at no point, has Apple seriously fought for real comprehensive privacy laws, and is instead trying to get everyone to focus on collection-time, which isn't even where the action is.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple gets a lot of credit for fire-and-motion tactics that don't actually improve privacy much.
Today's example: a feint at clamping down on fingerprinting.
Just compare this:
With these:
https://github.com/fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs-ios/tree/main/Sources/FingerprintJS/Harvesters
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you'd like some @phae designed "Anti-JavaScript Javascript Club" stickers, there's now a handy web form you can use to request a few:
