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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The 1983 Lou Ferrigno Hercules movie is so good

bendingoutward wrote:

I'm headed out to see Bad Religion play in a couple months. Anybody know what classes I need to pass for admission?

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Astro Bot is the best game Nintendo never made.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Not career advice per se, but I can recommend learning juuuuuuust enough about X.509 to be horrified that the world runs on it.

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

craigm@hachyderm.io ("Craig") wrote:

@pzmyers I mean, forget PhD feeder programs, what the guv wants to know is if they can go one for three in the series against the East Central Alabama Baptist Bible College Shrimpshuckers.

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

mcc wrote:

One of the very most bizarre things in our world of paracopyright nonsense is that the Nintendo Switch blocks you from taking screenshots of the store app

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

StarlingW@mstdn.social ("Starling Whistler") wrote:

A Small Journey

A gentle barefoot wander through the grass, the day's #Piano #Diary improvisation.

https://soundcloud.com/starling-whistler/2023-08-14-a-small-journey

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

My work desk in 2023: https://nadim.computer/posts/2023-08-16-desk2023.html

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

Aepasek@scholar.social ("Anne Pasek") wrote:

The Critical Carbon Computing Collective's issue of Branch is now up!

We have a set of 4 keyword docs + an intro outlining our shared thinking on role of💻s in climate politics, widely defined.

Digital enviro governance is complicated! Let's talk about it!

https://branch.climateaction.tech

Attachments:

• Introducing Carbon Computing Computers lie at the heart of climate politics. Computationally-intensive models frame and constitute how governing bodies and public perception alike understands the problem of climate change, while a growing number of digital tools and systems are positioned as the solution to the climate crisis. The urgency of global warming isn’t in dispute but how the computing tech industry is setting the terms and horizons for mega climate change projects should be understood and recalibrated. This inquiry attends to the material realities of computing technologies—including labor, supply chains, and digital infrastructures—and to the widespread faith that digital solutions and technological management are the best and only responses to climate change. Even when carbon reporting mechanisms and software tooling intended to reduce GHG emissions are most effective, it is unclear if 1) carbon cost numbers are accurate across fully supply chains, 2) measuring and reporting emissions leads to substantial reductions in GHG emissions (measurement is not the same as action), and 3) an outsized focus on decarbonization casts aside or, at the very least, deprioritizes other crucial environmental and social factors. (remote)

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

I don't want to read about Ales Hrdlicka ever again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/if-this-is-what-were-like-the-heart-of-america-is-rotten/

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• 1926 newspaper article praising Ales Hrdlicka (remote)

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

charlesroper@indieweb.social ("Charles Roper") wrote:

The Nib made all of their issues free for download:

https://membership.thenib.com/donate-free-pdf-downloads

"The Nib is wrapping up ten years of publishing and closing down at the end of August. But before we go, we are making all 15 issues of our Eisner and Ignatz award-winning magazine available for anyone to download for free. That’s more than 1,600 pages of comics, including our out of print Secrets, Nature, Food, and Color issues."

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

So I'm no Yul Brynner, but the kiddo just told me they like my shaved head. So I got that goin' for me. 😀

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• The completely bald actor Yul Brynner in his role as the King of Siam, looking fabulous and strong with his arms akimbo. (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I just found out that Mite wa Ikenai, a Japanese DS game about exorcising haunted photographs, just got a sequel on the Switch earlier this year. https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000067142.html

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

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• "Live So That if Your Life Was a Book Florida Would Ban It" on a sign at a road (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This cocktail comes with a gummy shark!

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• A cocktail glass with a blue liquid, ice, and a gummy shark

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Pyrex is short for Pyrannosaurus Rex.

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

ned@mstdn.ca ("Ned Yeung") wrote:

Preach it.

"History without discomfort is propaganda."

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• Fellowship Congregational United Church of Christ sign reads: History without discomfort is propaganda. Sign features the LGBQT2S+ flag in top-right corner, church logomark to the left of the lettermark, and their website of www.ucctulsa.org underneath the lettermark. (remote)

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

eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

"I don't believe this is encrypted so I think we’re OK" said a police officer during the recent Marion County Record newspaper raid in Kansas.

Human rights reinforce one another. Privacy is a human right that protects our other rights -- and it requires encryption to be meaningful. Watch out for those who would take it away.

https://freedom.press/training/blog/marion-record-police-raid/

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

realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk ("Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥️ 🔶 (🌻🇺🇦)") wrote:

Long shot...

I have an SD card belonging to a friend, with the last photos she has of her late husband. Unfortunately it seems to have a hairline fracture. Very occasionally I can get as USB reader to recognise the card and the first 4K block, but it's usually dead as a door nail. I'm sure an expensive lab could recover it, but that's well out of reach. Any sane ideas welcome.

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

Popehat ("Ken White") wrote:

ICYMI: Josh and I turned around an episode on the Georgia RICO indictment in less than 24 hours and I think it’s one of our better ones. Very good guest appearance by Andrew Fleischman, who brings his knowledge as a Georgia defense and appellate attorney.

https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/unfortunately-this-episode-is-rico#details

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

augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Scientists and researchers are leaving #Twitter:

“More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past six months and just under 7% have stopped using it altogether. Roughly 46% have joined other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok.”

Many “mentioned #ElonMusk’s management of the platform... (and) had noticed an uptick in the amount of fake accounts, trolls and hate speech on the platform.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

qurlyjoe@mstdn.social ("Human Kind — Be Both 👍🏻🙈🙉🙊🇺🇸📷") wrote:

"Shitposting" is an anagram of "Top Insights"

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

On Mastodon, it's okay to publish a thread. But, if you want to post the full text or a long excerpt of a blog post, or you already published some longform piece, feel free to just toot a link to the post.

This is the open web and posts with links are not penalized as on traditional algorithmic social platforms. Let's re-learn to visit websites.

#mastodon #fediverse

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

wow, they ran against each other on Thursday nights

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• TV schedule from 1977 showing Fish on ABC and CHiPs on NBC (remote)

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

there was a period in the 1970s where these two unrelated police shows were on television

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• Promotional image for the "Fish" TV show. You know, with Abe Vigoda (remote)
• Title card for "CHiPs" (remote)

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

on the one hand, FT8 goes a long way with little power out. on the other hand, if I understand the WSJT-X UI then it is not exactly conversational

#HamRadio 📡

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• world map showing FT8 monitor reports from as far away as Australia, using 30 watts of power (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#ArcTangent tomorrow!

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

A lot of technical writing has long been in the ChatGPT voice and apparently written with SEO in mind, which is unsettling to your humble human reader

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

Florida Republicans lead the way in demonstrating how to wreck an educational system.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/16/how-to-kill-a-university/

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• New College of Florida (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I saw a truck with a bumpersticker that said "My other ride is an ambulance." I'm sure it was just a cute way of saying that the driver is an EMT, but it just made me think of someone who's just constantly getting fucked up by life