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

500meters

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

hope this goes well #LunarLanding

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

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

watching moon landing

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

"The best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/23/an-excellent-commencement-speech/

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

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

‘“On July 5, 2023, Trump Employee 4 informed Chief Judge Boasberg that he no longer wished to be represented by Mr. Woodward and that, going forward, he wished to be represented by the First Assistant Federal Defender,” the filing said, referring to Mr. Taveras. “Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, De Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/us/politics/witness-trump-documents-lawyer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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laecess@red.niboe.info ("LAECESS") wrote:

Starting our account in the Fediverse. We are a group of young scientists from Latin America aiming to promote networking, integrated science and soft skills.

Our main motivation is to understand and explain interactions within atmos-, bios-, cryos- and hydrosphere and how this knowledge can help us to solve the huge socio-environmental challenges we are facing.

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

Who's going to Fyre Festival II? I think I'll wait for the documentary summarizing the debacle.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/23/despair-for-humanity/

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• Fyre Festival cheese sandwich (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

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• A sunlit building with a round corner next to an alley with string lights

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

I love games with limited voice acting that just have like random little soundbytes play whenever a character appears for the first time in the scene.

Text: MC, you're finally here! The Warumono Gang just knocked over one of our convenience stores. We can't let this challenge go unanswered.
Voice acting: Hello 😃

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computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #423 from The Computer Chronicles - Amiga and Atari 1985-kX5N8lWpqLM

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• Approximate Frame #423 from The Computer Chronicles - Amiga and Atari 1985-kX5N8lWpqLM (remote)

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

You can pick your appearance, but this only extends to whether you have sunglasses and/or a soul patch. The giallo gloves and dog collar are mandatory

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• Willowy young adult protagonist with a bowl haircut, synthetic fiber black hoodie, dog collar, a couple of thin silver chains, black giallo killer gloves, and a rusty red v-neck t-shirt with some vague patterns on it. To his left, 4 duplicate portraits, each displaying a different shades/soul patch combination.

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

Now starting Spirit Hunter: NG. The title screen is unsubtly influenced by Persona 5's design

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• Title screen for Spirit Hunter NG. "New Game" and "Options" are displayed in skewed rectangles, slightly jostled letter placement, and black/white color scheme reminiscent of Persona 5's UI. The rest of the screen is drawn as though it were a mirror with a bullet hole in it. The cracks that spread out from the bullet hole divide the space into 5 regions, each of which shows a different character that I'm not yet familiar with. One of them is a kid whose right eye (our left) is glowing red.

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Deus@charcha.cc wrote:

A levitating dead #leaf. It almost touched the ground and was about to fall from the thread of a #spider web it was clinging on to. Was a fun click. Also reminded me of O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf.”

#Nature #Plants #Photography #Fotografia #Fotographie #マストドン写真部 #PhotoMontag #PhotoMonday #Fujifilm #NoEdit

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• A dead leaf hanging from the thread of a spider web. You cannot see the spider web and it's almost about to touch the ground. (remote)

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brion@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brion Vibber") wrote:

tired: floating point math

wired: missed the point math

inspired: make-out point math

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

Dev: Users hate chronological feeds.

Me: [raises hand timidly] I... like 'em.

Dev: 😠 *REAL* users hate chronological feeds.

Me: 😞

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

I boosted a CW'd toot about this earlier, but posting again for people in the back. Billy Bragg's "Rich Men Earning North of a Million":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY

There's a little more background on the inspiration for this song.

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

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

You gotta respect Matt Mullenweg. Just over there, doing his thing. WordPress is eating the internet; he's just chill about it. Not trying to put anybody out of business. Not posting a bunch of thought leader shit. Not trying to sell checkmarks or some shit. Just like, vibing with his people, off at his own table in the lunchroom, having a better time than anyone, even though nobody thinks they're the cool kids. The total band geek of the internet.

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emptywheel wrote:

DOJ Invites Aileen Cannon to Avoid Another Reversible Error

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/22/doj-invites-aileen-cannon-to-avoid-another-reversible-error/

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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.

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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