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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

"Many in tech, Wang says, have a fundamental belief in constant improvement through corporate innovation... technology means “you push a button & something in your life is solved.”

But Wang, who practices Buddhism & reads tarot cards, sees things differently, believing that life is all about natural cycles humans can’t control & should accept with humility. For Wang, tech can be rural communities hacking open-source software, or simply something that brings pure joy"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/16/1077490/collective-action-tech-work/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

amy@mk.amanita.zone ("Amy :verified_nonbinary:") wrote:

As computers get faster and faster developers need to find increasingly creative ways of wasting this potential

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Damn. They expelled @evahartog. https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-russia-vladimir-putin-politico-reporter-expelled/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

16 August 1942 | The Germans deported about 2,000 Jews from Sosnowiec to Auschwitz - among them many elderly people who had no employment in the ghetto. They were all murdered in gas chambers on the same day.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election,” argue two Federalist Society prominent legal scholars in a forthcoming law review article. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Going to an exotic pet fair this weekend. Guess what I'm shopping for?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/im-getting-outta-here/

Attachments:

• Exotic Pet Fair logo (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

oberonsghost@aus.social wrote:

Dispatches from the Russo-Norwegian border.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/borders/2023/08/another-illegal-crossing-norway-considers-new-means-europes-last-unbarred-border

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ckkellymartin@mstdn.ca ("Cara Martin") wrote:

"To this day, the cumulative per capita death rates from COVID-19 in countries that embraced the face coverings, such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, are a sixth of Anglo-Saxon countries like the US and UK that baulked at community masking." https://tinyurl.com/3d75pkjf #CovidIsAirborne

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ieure@retro.social ("Tcp/Ip Man") wrote:

@mcc The number of people claiming Moore's Law is dead approximately doubles every year.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Picked up our merch in person yesterday and discussed potential next steps, including something soft and fluffy. We’ll see! #Merchtodon

Attachments:

• Mastodon mug, enamel pins, and stickers next to each other on a bedside table

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

jonny@social.coop wrote:

I like genuinely think it's good for smalltown fedi to be a little less tightly integrated with big instance fedi. heterogeneity is good and also the point. we should have both. and we should get out of each other's way. you can make account on multiple instances. be on a private instance sometimes and a public instance another.

the default stance of the fedi to want to homogenize it and freeze it in place sucks.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Dave Lane 🇳🇿") wrote:

Damn, this has been my jam the last few days. Can't believe I hadn't heard it before: Like Sugar (Chaka Khan) - https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0 Such compelling movement.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I think the law should be applied equally to everyone. For instance, witness tampering ought to get a hard punishment, promptly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/reminds-me-of-someone-else/

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• Sam Bankman-Fried (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:

British politics at the moment:

Conservatives: We’re going to do X!

Labour: We oppose doing X. It harms the most vulnerable in society, damages the economy and the environment, and violates our international treaty obligations.

Conservatives: We have a huge majority, so we’ve done X!

Journalists: Will Labour reverse X if it wins the next election?

Labour: No.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Kinda glad everyone got to see Elon run a social media website before we followed him to Mars.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Regarding LB[1]: Maybe now's a good time to just quit the internet. You know, go out on a high. Remembering only the good times. :thonking:

[1] https://mastodon.social/@krssctt/110897239963205695

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

krssctt ("Kris") wrote:

This might be a little bit, uh, putting too much weight on a one-bit joke, but that DJ Crazy Times Planet of the Bass song got a full music video now so we can stop listening to that TikTok “women are my favourite guy” clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k

#music #DJCrazyTimes #PlanetOfTheBass

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

That last ten percent was a pain in the butt though... Sheesh.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

It may have taken me ten months, but I do indeed have the guts to do this. You know, eventually. CW for hair clippings.

Attachments:

• My hair clippings after I shaved my head. The mostly grey mass of hair has been swept off my garage floor into a mint green dust pan, soon to be discarded as so much trash. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I got to visit the Yogscast offices today and shake hands with people I grew up watching on YouTube. I felt like Troy in the episode of community where he gets to meet LeVar Burton, though my wife assures me I did better. Anyway, thanks for the tour, Daf!

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

As soon as I saw these velvety dark purple anemones at the flower market this morning, I knew I was making a gothic freestyle today.

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• Freestyle ikebana arrangement (remote)
• Purple anemone (remote)
• In situ arrangement (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ahhhhh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-got-a-good-un/1442843579?i=1442843587

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

Your face.

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• 7b03225119637ac4.mp4

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

oxidecomputer@hachyderm.io ("Oxide Computer Company") wrote:

We support the OpenTF efforts to assure an open source Terraform. Like other signatories, our preference is for HashiCorp to revert to MPLv2 for Terraform -- but we support a fork if it is the only path to keeping Terraform open source. Our full statement:

https://github.com/opentffoundation/manifesto/pull/81

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Steatoda borealis is such a fierce intimidating spider.

Attachments:

• Dark pretty spider (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

drewharwell ("Drew Harwell") wrote:

New: Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to news websites and competitors he dislikes. Five-second delays on links to New York Times, Reuters, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky and Substack. Most other sites we tested have zero delay https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/ @jeremybmerrill

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"Why is the Justice Department raising this point to the court’s attention? Is it because the Justice Department is passionately committed to ensuring that Waltine Nauta has zealous representation? No, it’s because the Justice Department doesn’t want a conviction to be reversed on appeal. If the Justice Department sits back and lets Woodward represent Nauta, and Nauta is convicted, Nauta is guaranteed to retain a new lawyer on appeal saying that Woodward was conflicted and Nauta therefore gets a new trial. The Justice Department can’t say that Nauta waived this argument by failing to raise it in the district court because … Nauta’s own lawyer, who would have raised the argument, was conflicted! However, if the district court holds a hearing and makes extra double super sure that Nauta understands the risks of Woodward representing him, that would be a valid waiver that would hold up on appeal."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/judge-cannon-issues-another-troubling-order-in-mar-a-lago-case

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

lawfare ("Lawfare") wrote:

Last week, in response to the government's decision to request a Garcia hearing in the Trump classified docs case, Judge Cannon did something "intensely weird." Adam Unikowsky explains the order and why it raises concerns in the Mar-a-Lago case. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/judge-cannon-issues-another-troubling-order-in-mar-a-lago-case

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Huck@mstdn.party ("Your Huckleberry") wrote:

Looks like a good day to use ground penetrating radar on Ivana's time capsule eh.
DigHerUp

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

johncarneyau wrote:

@futurebird there’s some talk that the real reason behind the raid was that the MCR was investigating the Chief of Police, Gideon Cody, regarding sexual misconduct allegations.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/kansas-cops-raid-small-town-newspaper-in-hopes-of-finding-out-who-leaked-dui-data-to-journalists/