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

jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:

STUDY: exodus of experts from #Twitter/ #Xitter

More than half of responding scientists cut back or left.

Result: crucial conversations fragmenting, communities dissolving.

Notable, a lot of #mastodon account opening.

Would be interesting to see usage patterns.

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

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• More than half of researchers responding to a Nature survey in July* said that they were reducing or entirely stopping their use of Twitter. Many also said that they have opened accounts on other social-media platforms in the past year. Has your Twitter use changed in the past six months? It has significantly | have stopped increased using Twitter 2.8% (257 responses) 6.7% (610) l It has increased slightly It has / significantly 6% (551) decreased 24% (2,193) 9,153 respondentst It has been about It has the same decreased 37.3% (3,413) slightly 23.3% (2,129)
• Have you opened accounts on other social-media platforms in the past year? No If so, which ones? Mastodon 46.9% (1,976) LinkedIn 34.8% (1,467) Instagram 27.6% (1,161) Threads 24.9% (1,048) Facebook 22.4% (942) TikTok (Douyin) 6.6% (276) Bluesky 6% (253) Post.news 4.9% (206) WeChat = 2% (83) Snapchat 1.5% (65) Tencent QQ 0.2% (8) Sina Weibo 0.2% (7) Other 6% (251) SOOI el o it o b

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

mairin@fosstodon.org ("Máirín Duffy") wrote:

I got an email warning from this server - after posting in Irish a number of times over the lifetime of my account here and other folks telling me that it is welcome - that my posts in Irish are *NOT* welcome on Fosstodon.

Irish is a minority language not heard often, it is extremely important to me, and so this decision means this server is not a place for me. Sadly, despite my long career in FOSS.

I might abandon this account and use mastodon.ie. TBD

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

stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

I have 20km watch zone around where I live in the NSW Hazards Near Me app and already I’m getting a bushfire warning every second day or so. Nothing big, and it gets stomped on straight away, but not a good look in August.

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

setting up for weekly local voice BS-net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

#HamRadio

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

marcelias@mas.to ("Marc Elias") wrote:

"From the leader of the insurrection to a billionaire-turned-governor from North Dakota, the GOP’s nine-candidate field features a wide array of figures, all of whom are antagonistic toward voting and democracy to varying degrees."
https://www.democracydocket.com/2024-gop/

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

For years the media has made it seem the greatest privacy scandal in America is targeted ads on social media.

In reality, it’s the fact that it is completely legal for every entity you do business with including your employer, bank, grocery store, cell phone provider, DMV, etc can sell your data. The entire credit reporting industry is built on this.

Then the media created the lie that social media sells your data when in truth it’s everyone else.

https://www.404media.co/the-secret-weapon-hackers-can-use-to-dox-nearly-anyone-in-america-for-15-tlo-usinfosearch-transunion/

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

In the bootyshaking justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the sucka DJs that spin the phat beats from dusty crates, and the fly MCs that spit pure fire over those beats. These are their stories.

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Thanks to @OhMyGoshJosh @orbitz and Cory for talking to @bcantrill, me, and the Oxide friends about OpenTF!

HashiCorp--once a shining light of open source leadership--has adopted the BUSL for many projects. It's a galling affront to the communities they've nurtured.

And stick around as Bryan and I don our tinfoil hats to unveil brilliant and subtle resistance from within HashiCorp!

https://youtu.be/QaU94LY891M

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

anji ("Matthijs De Smedt") wrote:

The "SynthAxe" was an amazingly innovative #guitar -like instrument. And it really channels the 80s doesn't it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqdVQ9VdoAg

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"Trump had lawyers negotiate booking to take place during prime viewing hours to get maximum television ratings."

This country is sick and doesn't want to admit it :-( Everything is wrong from even the possibility of such negotiations down to media trying to paint blatant enticement of violence as an innocuous rating contest.

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

freedomofpress@newsie.social ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:

It's bizarre that, before conducting a raid based on the theory that the Marion County Record illegally accessed Kansas Department of Revenue’s website, cops didn’t bother checking with the department.

Unless, of course, they didn’t want to know the answer.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/initial-online-search-spurring-raid-kansas-paper-legal-102427865

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

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

dope.

> [This] album is 10 songs of aggressive and occasionally melodic thrash covering a wide variety of radically leftist topics such as transgender and queer rights, anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, anti-capitalism, reproductive rights, queer history and solidarity, and more.
> All proceeds (including proceeds from physical merchandise) will go to Trans Lifeline -- (translifeline.org/donate).

https://transgressivethrash.bandcamp.com/album/extreme-transgression

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

davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

mastodon is the social network for people who have a preferred linux distro

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

digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Missed this Romy single a few weeks back, it's so good! Can't wait for this record.

https://romyromyromy.bandcamp.com/track/the-sea #music

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

mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🦣") wrote:

the perfect rug for literally any room can't possibly exis...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1506224408/simpson-in-the-bush-rug-tufted-irregular

Attachments:

• a Homer Simpson disappearing into bushes meme rug but it's a green shag rug he's fading into (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Canon AE-1 Program, Kodak UltraMax 400. Wife.

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• Up close portrait of a beautiful woman with dark hair in a white tank top in a park

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

evanwill@hcommons.social ("Evan Will") wrote:

Good Billy Bragg song, love this response, really interesting

Billy Bragg writes "Rich Men Earning North of a Million" as an antidote to Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" | Boing Boing
https://boingboing.net/2023/08/21/billy-bragg-writes-rich-men-earning-north-of-a-million-as-an-antidote-to-oliver-anthonys-rich-men-north-of-richmond.html

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

Trans women must be scary smart, so we'll just assume they have bigger brains, while not bothering to measure them. Just ask a 5th rate swimmer!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/22/mens-superior-brains-give-them-an-edge-i-guess/

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• Riley Gaines “applauds” the world chess federation for banning trans women from competing in women’s events: “You hear the argument about brain size and brain ability and the difference between male and female. But I think that’s missing the point.” (remote)

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

What do you call a dinosaur who's a bad driver?

Tyrannosaurus wrecks.

Like and subscribe for more jokes even my 4yo doesn't appreciate.

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

AceArsenault@fosstodon.org ("Andrew "Ace" Arsenault") wrote:

Lately I've been practicing on my 6-string Fretless Lute.

I built this instrument many years ago, but I still play it from time to time. : }

#music #workshop #guitar #art #lute

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• 45deaa895f283faa.png (remote)

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

To avoid threading issues, the Great Intergalactic Lock (GIL) is used to ensure only one Python interpreter in the universe can be executing at any given time. This partly explains why Python has the reputation for being slow.

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

jonkeegan ("Jon Keegan") wrote:

New post on my @Beautifulpublicdata newsletter: You may not have have noticed, but the number of different vehicle license plates that states issue has gotten out of control. I counted 8,291different designs available. I dive into the dataset here: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states/

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

Not enough colorful chemicals, and definitely not enough students.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/22/yikes-low-enrollments-are-a-problem/

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• Colored liquids in test tubes…most unrealistic (remote)

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

ernie@writing.exchange ("Ernie Smith") wrote:

A big chunk of Motherboard’s staff just went off and built their own thing.

Reader-supported tech media. Support them here: https://www.404media.co/welcome-to-404-media/

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

The unpleasant entitled Mr Musk.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/22/elon-musk-gets-the-ronan-farrow-treatment/

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• Elon Musk in a cloud of smoke (remote)

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

Anyway I finished off update 28 after replaying the earlier parts to refresh my memory.

Before starting Murdoch's route for the first time, I didn't think I'd really care about it, but this one might be their masterpiece? Nik's route has the coolest mechanics but there's just so much to this one. It feels like it's where all their best narrative ideas are going

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

TheEuropeanNetwork@mstdn.social ("The European Network") wrote:

A new European heatwave dubbed Nero has raised the temperature above 0C at all of Italy’s glaciers, hastening their disappearance, and set a record for high-altitude heat in the Swiss Alps.

A weather balloon launched from Payerne in Switzerland registered the “zero-degree line” — the altitude at which the temperature falls to zero — at 5,298m, beating a previous record of 5,184m set last year.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/alps-temperatures-rise-italy-heat-storm-2023-6rs950brd

#Italy #Switzerland #Alps #Heatwave

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

jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻") wrote:

Highly mutated COVID virus variant BA.2.86 showing up in multiple countries | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-variant-ba-2-86-1.6943005

> A highly mutated variant of the virus behind COVID-19 has popped up in multiple countries, but scientists aren't yet sure whether it will fuel a fall wave of infections or simply fizzle out.

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

for the terminally curious:

----- snip -----
jeffs@Ultron ~ % cat bin/historyLoop.sh
#!/bin/sh

THIS_RESPONSE=`/opt/homebrew/bin/toot post "[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]" | cut -d/ -f5`
/bin/sleep 1
cat /usr/share/calendar/cal* | grep `date +"%m/%d"` | cut -f 2 | sed s/\"/\'/g | while read line ; do
THIS_RESPONSE=`/opt/homebrew/bin/toot post -v unlisted -s -p 'Today in History' -r $THIS_RESPONSE "Today in History: $line" | cut -d/ -f5`
/bin/sleep 1
done
THIS_RESPONSE=`/opt/homebrew/bin/toot post -v unlisted -s -p 'Today in History' -r $THIS_RESPONSE "[END TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]"`
jeffs@Ultron ~ %

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

Weather: ⛅️ Partly cloudy, +57°F, 89%, ↓4mph, 1023hPa
Timezone: America/New_York
Now: 08:17:16-0400 | Dawn: 05:53:04 | Sunrise: 06:23:47
Zenith: 13:13:33 | Sunset: 20:02:12 | Dusk: 20:32:47
Location: Rochester, Monroe County, New York [43.1572,-77.6151]