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Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
gwensnyder@mstdn.party ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:
What do you call ten people having dinner with a Nazi? Eleven Nazis.
We do not platform.
We do not engage.
We do not debate.
These assholes want to murder our marginalized comrades. There is no middle ground for agreement.
We do not need their disingenuous "insight."
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I never did finish off Fallout 2. At first I was trying to shotgun it but doing it back to back with Fallout 1 kinda burned me out. I might just return to it every once in a while and do one or two areas
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:
A common argument I come across when talking about ethics in AI is that it's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or for evil. One familiar declaration is this one: "It's really no different from a hammer". I was compelled to make a poster to address these claims. Steal it, share it, print it and use it where you see fit.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
The pinnacle of my love affair with technology has been reached, and will never be surpassed now that I have made this website: https://werecomputersamistake.com/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Building a Submersible PC #diy
Mastodon FeedI don't even remember the last time I went to the cinema and didn't leave utterly disappointed.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:
"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
This looks great!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
👀Via Tamar Hallerman: 🧵1/…
Breaking: George Chidi, the independent journalist who stumbled upon the Dec 2020 meeting of “alternate” GOP electors at the #Georgia Capitol, was subpoenaed to be a witness before two #Fulton County grand juries
Chidi told the AJC that he received two subpoenas requiring his testimony at some point between Aug. 7 and Aug. 31. He's considered "on call," which means prosecutors can call him at anytime with 48 hours notice #FaniWillis #legal #Trump #GrandJury
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rayckeith@techhub.social ("Ray C. Keith") wrote:
“It is difficult for me to think of another president in modern time who has literally driven a national scheme to disenfranchise Black voters and other voters of color en masse, in the way that we see with these post-election lawsuits,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law during the aftermath of the November 2020 elections. Clarke claimed, correctly, there was “racial motivation” in Trump’s focus on cities like Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
"Clarke, I should note, is now head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division." https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/conspiracy-against-rights
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:
Today is my dissertation proposal defense. That means I'll give a public lecture about my research in front of my committee.
As some folks may know, I'm doing another round of grad school, mid-career, focused on scientific decision making in the U.S. Congress https://sheril.substack.com/p/a-dissertation-on-democracy #science #politics
In terms of PhD-ing, this is kind of like the pregame. I passed my comprehensive exams last year & will officially defend my dissertation & finish this Fall. So here goes...
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("Kailee ♾️") wrote:
It’s happening now in plain sight.
Florida Republicans are pushing educational materials for the purpose of #INDOCTRINATING future generations into their republican fascist ideology.
Every accusation was a confession.
“Ron DeSantis repeatedly says he opposes indoctrination in schools. Yet his administration in early July approved materials from a conservative group that says it’s all about indoctrination and ‘changing minds.’”
#ChristoFascism is forced on children.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
I wasn't paying close attention, and so assumed that thing about slavery not being so bad because some slaves learned valuable skills must be an Onion parody. But it isn't. It's an actual current right wing talking point.
It's like saying cancer isn't quite so bad because some people really like hospital food.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Wasted on the Way (2005 Remaster) by Crosby, Stills & Nash
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
mhalila@mastodontti.fi ("Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
"AI is going to take your job!"
Like hell it is. Try:
"A super-rich capitalist has invested billions of dollars into replacing human creative work with a shitty computer program, so he can pocket more of the profits."
When you stop intentionally obscuring who is doing things and who is benefiting from them, the world starts looking very different indeed.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jenniferplusplus@tech.lgbt ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
Please stop defederating from general purpose news services, just because they sometimes do a transphobia.
I'm trans, and I'm telling you its worse for me to cut off my news sources than to read those news sources misgender people or whatever.
Seriously, come the fuck on, we just talked about this. Stop making the fediverse into some arcane and impenetrable little clique powered by unwritten rules and endless purity tests.
This is about #bbc, among others
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
break
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, no direct indexing into UTF-8, fine by me... UTF-8 can break your brain if you ever reeeeeealy dive into it. (not recommended, religious wars &etc are best avoided)
all my experience says the subtitle "Strings Are Not So Simple" is Totally Correct, so I can certainly live with depending upon the std library for screwing around with String data. no problemo.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well now, this is *very* nice:
"The format! macro works like println!, but instead of printing the output to the screen, it returns a String with the contents... the code generated by the format! macro uses references so that this call doesn’t take ownership of any of its parameters."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Presumably all of this is good for crypto!
https://twitter.com/CasPiancey/status/1686063038166867969?s=20
https://protos.com/sources-confirm-binance-helps-users-avoid-kyc-aml/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
let s1 = String::from("Hello, ");
let s2 = String::from("world!");
let s3 = s1 + &s2;
// s1 has been moved
// and can no longer be usedIgor
Must
Not
Forget
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"The push_str method takes a string slice because we don’t necessarily want to take ownership of the parameter."
so, I can pass around and use string slices ("usually seen in its borrowed form &str... references to some UTF-8 encoded string data stored elsewhere") while clearly hanging on to ownership and management of big-S String-thingies ("growable, mutable, owned, UTF-8 encoded") as the data structures they are. good. this makes sense... or more probably, I'm missing something subtle ;^}
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Often, we’ll have some initial data that we want to start the string with. For that, we use the to_string method, which is available on any type that implements the Display trait, as string literals do." comes in CH 8, but we do not learn about "Traits" until CH 10?
soitgoes¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#LearningRust
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
twobraids@mastodon.art ("K Lars Lohn") wrote:
I'm looking for a new home base. Does any have suggestions for mastodon server where a misfit queer biker can post about #art, #roses, #photography, #nature, #lichen, #shortstories, #motorcycles, #programming, #cats and #dailylife?
Plus, I _really_ want the character limit to be higher than 500.
Peruse my profile here on mastodon.art and tell me where you think I'd do well.
Thank you for your assistance in finding a new home.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, so there are both "[t]he String type... growable, mutable, owned, UTF-8 encoded" and "the string slice str... usually seen in its borrowed form &str... references to some UTF-8 encoded string data stored elsewhere". excellent.
we have both an actual string-thingie, mutable but owned, and simply a reference to some string-thingie, which must in turn be borrowed from somewhere else.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:
avoid the mondays
#mondog
Mastodon FeedLately when a celebrity dies I do math against their age to see how many more years I'd have if I were them.
Mastodon FeedFollowing the German @ZDF and @tagesschau, the BBC is giving Mastodon a go through their own server. You can now follow the official @BBCRadio4 and a few other accounts on social.bbc!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
One of our garden residents. #spider
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Diagnosis made: severe ensethopathy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/31/severe-ensethopathy/
