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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The Smithsonian's old attitude: I want her brains in a bucket. Let's hope she dies soon. God, eugenics was and is a fucked up evil idea.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/14/the-horrible-ghouls-of-20th-century-anthropology/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
master of understatement:
"Most of the time, an error message suggesting the 'static lifetime results from attempting to create a dangling reference or a mismatch of the available lifetimes. In such cases, the solution is fixing those problems, not specifying the 'static lifetime."
translation: if you have to use a shotgun, then you are probably doing something wrong.
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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
I love america.
A place where everyone has the same protection under the law. A place where we:
> Can scheduled arrests >
Are never humiliated by being fingerprinted or having mugshots taken >
Are never held without bail >
Can all go home after multiple indictments to continue obstructing justice and witness tampering and selling the nations secrets after months of withholding evidence🇺🇸 Let freedom ring 🦅
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cnnbrk@c.im ("CNN Breaking News") wrote:
Six former Mississippi officers accused of torturing and abusing two Black men for hours plead guilty to state charges https://cnn.it/44oe62B
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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:
Should be common sense
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Hey, whatcha doing in September? Because I'm going on a book tour then, and if I'm coming to your town, you should totally come see me, and maybe get a book signed and stuff. The link below has places, dates, times and links to ticketing, plus all the other information you need to know. See you there!
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/08/14/announcing-the-starter-villain-book-tour/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, this could become quite useful:
https://cdm.link/2023/08/3ds-midi-moment-pixar-adobe-apple-autodesk-and-nvidia-rally-around-openusd/
and Rus bindings? excellent:
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kenbauer@fosstodon.org ("Ken Bauer Favel") wrote:
Yes, we have an #educoffee starting in about 25 minutes (10am my local time in Mexico Standard Time)
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textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:
How Can You Help the Internet Archive?
https://blog.archive.org/2020/06/14/how-can-you-help-the-internet-archive/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hmmmm, going to have to re-read "10.3. Validating References with Lifetimes" a few more times to grok it. in the first example set, the problem lifetimes is aimed at solving looks to me like an artifact of the language avoiding using an explicit return statement.
either I am missing something and later sections of this chapter will clarify, or this is really just a way to overcome a logical ambiguity problem which the language itself has introduced.
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uspolitics@mastodon.sdf.org ("U.S. Politics in Real Time") wrote:
DeJoy’s 10-Year Plan Could Gut USPS. He Doesn’t Want You to Know the Details.
#DeJoyUSPSPlan #USPSGutting #PostalService #TransparencyIssues #DeJoy10YearPlan #PostalServiceCrisis #Politics #News
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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
‘My colleagues and I are still in shock.’ 32 majors marked for elimination at WVU
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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press") wrote:
POLITICAL CORRUPTION!
Some members of Congress using donor money to repay themselves
Supreme Court ruling in 2022 removed limits on repaying old loans
Nearly $2.3 million in campaign contributions raised by 16 House and Senate members this cycle have gone to the lawmakers themselves to repay loans they made in past campaigns — two of them more than a decade ago.
#News #Politics #USA #Breaking #BreakingNews #AureFreePresshttps://rollcall.com/2023/08/14/some-members-of-congress-using-donor-money-to-repay-themselves/
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chrisgeidner@journa.host ("Chris Geidner") wrote:
HUGE: "DeSantis has rendered 3.3 million Floridians without their elected choice of prosecutor. That means that more than 15% of the people of the state of Florida have had one of their elections nullified unilaterally by the governor."
Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/ron-desantis-is-running-for-president
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
how serendipitous to pass that milestone just as we're preparing for the Year of Linux on the Desktop
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
realized i've recently passed the point where i've been a linux user for the majority of my computer-using life
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I get into needles, I have to admit. If you don't, please ignore my current treatment regimen.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/14/how-my-morning-is-going/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
in his 20s, Trooper John Thomas risked death or eternal slavery by joining Company F, 26th United States Colored Volunteer Infantry and marching South with a musket on his shoulder. no braver people have lived than such as him, who answered his country’s call.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a Regular Army teenager in the Civil War, Trooper MacKay has more than earned some rest.
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oldroadside@botsin.space ("old roadside pictures") wrote:
the donut hole, la puente, california, 1991
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EverMama8_ ("EverMama8_@mastodon.social") wrote:
The current top-bracket tax rate is 37%.
In 1965 it was 70%.
In the 1950s it was 90%.
NOT taxing the rich is what’s new.
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/
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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:
I'm going to try and squeeze in #PubKit development when I can
This is a fundamental service for ActivityPub, and while I understand my focus is @pixelfed, there are few people who have the knowledge and skills to be able to build something like this
Sometimes you gotta sacrifice for the greater good, and @pixelfed is mature enough for me to be able to do that
Also I can't wait to setup this on my activitypub.io domain and finally put it to use!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Very on brand for Florida tho: “Not only does this program set a chilling precedent for coastal management, but it is also likely unconstitutional under Florida law, which prohibits the use of public funds without a public purpose. There is no purpose that serves the public less than granting funds to affluent property owners for activities that will irrevocably harm the state’s beaches.”
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/08/13/seawalls-do-not-work-especially-not-florida-column/
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jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:
@onepict You might also like a blog post I wrote a couple years ago. I concluded that multicast is pretty much the only way we could do better at video conferencing than we do now, but I took some detours through cryptography topics that I think are neat. https://jamey.thesharps.us/2021/04/07/how-not-to-improve-video-conferencing/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The torrent of lies is never going to stop until that man is in jail.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/14/aw-shucks-i-missed-it/
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calebkraft ("Caleb Kraft") wrote:
Important information here.
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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:
Anyone else?
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CodexArcanum@hachyderm.io ("Codex ☯️♈☮") wrote:
A pretty handy tactic for white male allies is to wait a beat and then just repeat back a talking point just made by a BIPOC or non-male colleague, with credit of course.
"Interesting Ted... hey I really liked what Shawna was saying can we pull that slide back up? That point about retention seemed vital."
It is truly incredible (incredibly sad) to see (white, men) people only hear words for the first time when repeated back to them by someone who looks like them.
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carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:
Overt exuberance in the pursuit of the increase and diffusion of knowledge alleged in $400m federal case. Volunteers took great 78s and preserved and transformed them. They did not have a license, certification, or other verification for this act.
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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:
New release of my llm-mlc plugin for https://llm.datasette.io/ - this plugin allows you to run large language models like Llama 2 using the MLC Python library, which means you get GPU acceleration on M1/M2 Macs! https://github.com/simonw/llm-mlc/releases/tag/0.4
llm mlc download-model Llama-2-7b-chat --alias llama2
Installation instructions are clearer, and show how to install required dependencies first. #6
The plugin no longer crashes llm if it cannot find the dist/prebuilt folder. #9
New options for temperature, top\_p and repetition\_penalty: #7
llm -m Llama-2-7b-chat \\
-o temperature 0.5 \\
-o top\_p 0.9 \\
-o repetition\_penalty 0.9 \\
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