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anarchistquotes@todon.eu ("Anarchist Quotes") wrote:
One should always be a little improbable.
-- Oscar Wilde
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“repeated the fusion ignition breakthrough in an experiment in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on July 30 that produced a higher energy yield than in December”
replication, yes!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("Tcp/Ip Man") wrote:
If you're cool and want to work on critical systems architecture remotely, my team has a spot opening up.
Pros: good company, good mission, mostly reasonable systems (and making stuff better is the job), you get to work with me.
Cons: you have to work with me.
Edit: here's the link to apply. https://jobs.lever.co/gravie/5e606fc2-c9e4-4cd4-9634-fb315f59c99e
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wainjoe@mindly.social ("Joseph Wain") wrote:
People don't fake depression, they fake being okay. Remember that and be kind.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LOUDER:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
new Tesla fast-charging system prototype
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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:
"Behind every Proud Boy is a sad mom"
Sticker spotted in Portland, Oregon
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.MarkⓂ️") wrote:
“The Trump indictment is like the Bible: Republicans haven't read it, but still pretend to know what it means.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
My friend’s daughter is missing.😓
She was last seen at Pleasure Pier in Galveston, TX wearing a navy blue scarf and black top.
Anyone with info about her is asked to call the Galveston PD at 409-765-3628 or Galveston Co Crime Stoppers at 409-763-8477.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BoredomFestival@sfba.social ("Steven Johnson") wrote:
Irony meter explodes https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/2023/08/05/tech-firm-zoom-tells-its-staff-to-return-to-office/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
If one more person tells me that #COVID19 is here to stay so we just need to move on, I can't be held responsible for my reaction. Auto accidents are here to stay--we use seatbelts and pay more for cars with airbags. Severe weather is here to stay--we protect ourselves by monitoring conditions and changing plans. STOP IGNORING COVID. We “live with it” by adjusting for the risks (Long COVID, disabilities, and long-term health impairments), not pretending it doesn't exist!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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."