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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhhh
River by Joni Mitchell
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The ordeal started with an automated facial recognition search, according to an investigator’s report from the Detroit Police Department. Ms. Woodruff is the sixth person to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of facial recognition technology used by police to match an unknown offender’s face to a photo in a database. All six people have been Black; Ms. Woodruff is the first woman to report it happening to her.
It is the third case involving the Detroit Police Department, which runs, on average, 125 facial recognition searches a year, almost entirely on Black men, according to weekly reports about the technology’s use provided by the police to Detroit’s Board of Police Commissioners, a civilian oversight group.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“One of the strikes tore three holes in the roadway of the Chonhar Bridge, which links Crimea to the Russian-occupied Kherson region, forcing it to close to traffic, according to the Russian-backed governor of the region, Vladimir Saldo. The same bridge was struck by Ukrainian forces in June, Russian-backed officials said.
Sunday’s attacks also injured a driver and closed traffic on a second bridge to the east of Chonhar, near the small town of Henichesk, Mr. Saldo said. A gas pipeline near the bridge was damaged, cutting off supplies to more than 20,000 people, he added.
The load-bearing structure of the Chonhar Bridge was not damaged, and traffic on the Henichesk Bridge was to be restored by the end of the day, Mr. Saldo said. His claims about the extent of the damage could not be independently verified.”
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coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:
Tomorrow when you rise and prepare for the day, sing! Sing songs of courage and glory. Sing at the top of your lungs and let the world know you are coming, and that it must prepare for you.
Mastodon Feed$times_a_different_power_supply_has_fixed_raspberrypi_issues++
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nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:
"Assistive technology shouldn’t be a mystery box" by @codepo8 https://christianheilmann.com/2023/08/05/assistive-technology-shouldnt-be-a-mystery-box/
This is one of the things I find most frustrating about doing accessibility work on the web. A lot of the "best practices" are ghost stories that developers swap around the campfire about which screnreaders have which bugs. It feels disturbingly like the IE6 era.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Wonder if anybody has opinions about getting started tinkering with synths (again). I played around with some stuff many years ago and am considering starting from zero.
Knowing what you know now, what gear would you start with (particularly going econo)?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mama Theridion #spider and incipient offspring.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Perhaps it is just the MS Office of social media (which may be even more apt since the MS acquisition). A very difficult thing to avoid at this point due to network effects.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
This guy manages to get really cool looking results by hatching and layering colored pencils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXfUzfDptec
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Of all the social networks I've heard people talk about within the radius of my friend-of-a-friend social graph, I don't believe I've ever heard anyone talk positively about LinkedIn. Even passing comments I encounter outside my social graph tend to be negative. Yet it persists. 🤔
(I'm sure there are people who have professed a liking for LinkedIn. For example, I know Reid Hoffman likes it. I am merely contemplating my own experience since it is unlikely to be exceptional.)
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
making a Markov bot that drags CEOs, that's my Executive Diss Function
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Inspired by @sandofsky, I now have a new camera I’m very excited to try out.
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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
Here's the new tool I built: https://til.simonwillison.net/tools/annotated-presentations - plus an animated GIF showing how it can be used
(I used ChatGPT extensively in building it, the prompts I used are included in my write-up of the tool)
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- Animated demo of the tool. I load 90 images, each one of which becomes a slide. Then I click the OCR button and it starts populating the alt textareas with OCR text from the slides. I type some markdown into an annotation box, then scroll to the bottom and click the Execute template button to get back the final HTML. (remote)
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
"Centipede! How do you survive?"
"I run swiftly on many legs! I am grace! Behold my venomous bite!""Fruit fly! How do you survive?"
"I fly through the air! I'm small & hard to catch!""Ant! How do you survive?"
"I am a part of a vast network! My sisters back me up!""Dubia roach! How do you survive?"
"..."
"..."
"Oh hai!"
"Survival?"1/2
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rq@borg.social ("rqsd") wrote:
Stop doing phones
Humans were not meant to be reachable 24/7
Years of calling yet no real-world use found for transmitting voices over distances
Wanted to reach someone anyway for a laugh? We already had that: It was called letters
"Yes, please call me at 3 am. Please spend hours with a strange device attached to your ear"—Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
They have played us for absolute fools
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blitzcitydiy ("Liz [BlitzCityDIY]") wrote:
the apricots are a really fun band out of portland, oregon. they are super close to funding their debut EP: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theapricots/the-apricots-debut-ep
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
It's available in all the usual formats on project gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/389
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I'm kinda in the mood to reread The Great God Pan: "There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision, [...] beyond them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil; but I do know, Clarke, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night from before another’s eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan."
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
anyway that's all for the VNs set in Echo. I might post about later updates if I have a strong reaction but otherwise it's on to something else
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
oh yeah so early in William's route he's like, "Night, whore." and my first thought was "Nik would sooner pluck out his own tongue than say something like that" but I cut Will some slack once he started talking about shame and arousal and realized that he was fucked up in a fun way
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've been getting worse, but in recompense I had a brilliant marketing idea: Synovial Flavor Mtn Dew.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
somehow catnip seems to have fallen onto our housepanther, Oscar
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"Actually, I've just heard from upper management that the enshittifiaction will continue even if morale somehow improves."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"The enshittification will continue until morale improves."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Trying to set a mood for my Sunday morning. Pleasant while it lasts. Hania Rani live at Invalides:
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smallcircles@social.coop ("smallcircles (Humane Tech Now)") wrote:
#Makepad: Designing modern #UI with #Rust and #WebAssembly
Prepare to get nerd-sniped by this impressive presentation by @rikarends at #RustNL conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC4FCS-oMpg
Or directly check out the (old version of their) IDE, here running in the browser..
https://github.com/makepad/makepad
Only feedback after watching the vid: Please, don't let AI handle #a11y .. maybe take inspiration from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson (Google Doc 😬 link at the bottom): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
"WE WANT THEM INFECTED"
So said former Trump science advisor, Paul Alexander, in support of mass infecting the nation’s youth with SARS-CoV-2.
Dr. Jonathan Howard, NYU:
"Right-wing dark money groups & Republican politicians [waged] an information war on public-health measures.... Speaking out today carries risks. Fear of reprisal and harassment has cowed many medical experts"Public health was silenced by far-right money, & 1.1+ million Americans died
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tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:
Sunday reading: Rightwing Dreams of American Reconquista
A counter-revolutionary zeal, desire for vengeance, and lust for radicalism characterizes today’s Right.Thoughts on what unites Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Christopher Rufo, and Nate Hochman:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/rightwing-dreams-of-american-reconquista
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
They posted a few days ago that preorders from up to July 20 are shipping this month, so they probably do not want to accidentally give the impression that they haven't updated since 2019
