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

LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

Past Socialist Plots:

1776 - Veterans Benefits
1790 - Public Schools
1812 - Veterans Spousal Benefits
1853 - Public Fire Fighters
1905 - Public Parks
1921 - Public Roads
1929 - The Weekend
1933 - Farming Subsidies
1935 - Social Security
1938 - Child Labor Laws
1938 - Minimum Wage
1940 - 40 Hour Work Week
1955 - Handicapped Accessibility
1956 - Federal Highways
1965 - Medicare
1970 - Clean Air Laws
1972 - Disability Benefits

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

Also for what it's worth I don't think he has any concept of inheritance or anything; I think he just knows that money can buy toys, and has decided that if we're not around he gets to take the jar of change on the dresser.

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

lizardllama@shakedown.social ("Mike Says No") wrote:

Mick is 80. Mitch is 81. It’s time we acknowledge the benefits of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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

Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:

One way to tell the true believers: They want Trump to pay for their lawyers. Some of the people who want Trump to pay for their lawyers (like Ellis and Giuliani) are lawyers so they know exactly what it means to have a co-defendant pay your bills: Your interests can't diverge.

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

c_9@mstdn.ca ("Cameron MacLeod") wrote:

Entire private jet accidentally falls out a window near Moscow.

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

now *that* is RAM

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110941015038167754

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

kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Each disk platter was 39 inches in diameter and had 12 heads reading it. A complicated hydraulic system moved the heads. The edge of the platter moved much faster than the center, so the disk was divided into 6 zones, writing at higher frequencies as you go toward the edge.

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• Cover of the brochure for the Bryant Model-2 Series 4000 Disc Files. It says "more of everything you need and want in a random-access mass memory". The disk drive is a massive unit, tinted blue. A woman is leaning against the disk drive, which is about the height of her shoulders. (remote)
• A diagram showing the disk drive's hydraulic system. (remote)

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

look at those gorgeous platters

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/110941014603425569

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

rlmcelreath@nerdculture.de ("Richard McElreath 🦔") wrote:

I told a colleague that logistic regression is AI and they got mad at me, so I made a chart. Find yourself. I am "Tinder is AI".

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• Table with 3 rows and 3 columns. Rows: (1) Algorithm purist (mimic human cognition), (2) Algorithm netural (learns & generalizes), (3) Algorithm rebel (method irrelevant) Cols: (1) Ability purist (exceeds human ability), (2) Ability neutral (makes task easier), (3) Ability rebel (usefullness questionable) Cells: [1,1] "Terminator is AI" [1,2] "C3PO is AI" [1,3] "WALL-E is AI" [2,1] "AlphaGo is AI" [2,2] "XGBOOST is AI" [2,3] "Tinder is AI" [3,1] "A metal detector is AI" [3,2] "Bubble sort is AI" [3,3] "Magic 8 Ball is AI" (remote)

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

hah! yah think?
;^}

https://mastodon.world/@mrbadger42/110941051566246025

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

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

The FBI says it continues to see Barracuda email security gateway devices actively compromised via the flaw that caused Barracuda in June 2023 to offer to replace (not patch) a broad range of its ESG devices. The FBI confirms Mandiant's China attribution, and says just unplug the damn things already.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/News/2023/230823.pdf

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-replacing-not-patching-its-email-security-gateways/

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

froztbyte ("JP") wrote:

@davidgerard russian windows remain an unchallenged apex predator

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

greenleejw@historians.social ("Surprised Eel Historian, PhD") wrote:

In 1397 the city of London arrested several Dutch eel merchants for unpaid debts. But that meant fewer eels!

And that won't do.

So the king intervened. He ordered that the Dutch be set free to sell their eels, and also that the city never again hassle eel merchants in this way.
#history #eels #medieval

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• Meme. Painting of giant sand worm from the novel DUNE. The worm is rearing up out of the sand in the background with it's maw open like a big scoop. There are 4 figures standing in the foreground, in a line heading towards the worm. The closest figure is holding a red triangular flag or pennant on a staff. It is blowing in the wind. You can see sand in the air behind the worm, kicked up as the worm exploded up from the below. The figures seemed paused, and tensed with surprise. It's possible that they are fucked. It's possible to imagine the worm not as a worm, but as a enormous tube with a halfpipe at the front. A skater's paradise. In this case, perhaps the four figures are Paul, Jessica, Chani, and Tony Hawk: skater-pilgrims, nearing the end of their long journey. It's the X-Games / DUNE crossover you didn't know you wanted. Meme text reads: "The eels must flow" (remote)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Womp womp

Via Kyle Cheney:

#BREAKING: Jeff #CLARK will be arrested this week. A federal judge has *denied* his effort to stay the #Fulton County proceedings and stave off his arrest while he tried to send the case to federal court. #Georgia #TrumpIndictment https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/23/georgia-trump-racketeering-case-state-court-00112480

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

damienowens@mastodon.ie ("Damien Owens") wrote:

Prigozhin died doing what he loved, plummeting to the ground from a tremendous height, on fire.

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

Deglassco ("D. Elisabeth Glassco") wrote:

The early to mid-20th century saw the Great Migration – a mass movement of Black families from the rural South to the urban centers of the North & West. They were searching for economic opportunities and an escape from Jim Crow laws and racially motivated violence. In many ways, Los Angeles was as an ideal destination because of its growing economy and the potential for upward mobility.

3/

BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #StillWeRise #BlackHistory #California
#LosAngeles

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

tristansnell@mstdn.social ("Tristan Snell") wrote:

NEW: Tennessee activists WIN major victory as judge blocks attempt by TN House Republicans to ban signs from legislative sessions.

Justin Jones and the audience wasted no time in taking advantage of the victory for free speech and democracy — and the fight against gun violence.

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

this is worth resharing with folks… the charts and graphs within provide powerful visual testimony on what the spread of firearms is doing to our children (no paywall, ‘gift’ article)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-children-data-statistics.html?unlocked_article_code=ilAAXF83XpcfOJY1ei9Gi1NwqhvgnRGZtp9GZy7YQeDcYXvnqKGSnFtyzP5nTqDU7CtETPzLhJIGY4U663eNbYAcWB8jJzwQ2Dl2I4WaKMCSeHR0uXJYjZPi06uLXQ_0hFHghwaybG5irNBFCnECG6HuSLwb0x7v7SdZ6nCHt6oY2ti6XWVyyYnNjmgLuFv5vV-RDDakrdctF6KLtOIURTZ97GjcDZFlkn_5LPXlHtagYSgyH7G3GgJky5tVzDjKlcWXZCMTjTFanO-HPxLRdQ7qE4AakxpjS5k3YovFciEk1s8UENcpgwu1nfOl5qx19npEKEATnHWMgEPHjHQTj72Hlg0awi2LGDiY01UIiQvO5Hx1q4ZuJ_we-cizwA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Get to work, you caliper-wielding phrenologists. There's a criminal skull if ever I saw one.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/23/the-only-photo-of-giuliani-ill-ever-need/

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• Giuliani mugshot (remote)

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

“Fani Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, is seeking a March 4 start date for the trial of Trump and his allies. Experts say this could be a stretch.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/us/trump-giuliani-georgia-surrender.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“… another defendant in the sprawling case, the lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, filed a motion seeking a speedy trial. Under that scenario, which Georgia law allows, the trial for all 19 people indicted in the case would have to start no later than Nov. 3.”

well now, that’s interesting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/us/trump-giuliani-georgia-surrender.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

it's an amazing to watch as time goes on and more and more "late-era weezer" becomes "middle-era weezer"

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

My 4yo just told my wife and I that he gets our money when we're gone, and he likes money, so if we want to die, that would be ok.

I really, really need to hear that young kids just say shit like this without really understanding it. Please tell me this.

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

This is incredibly good, balanced, and thorough:

https://youtu.be/Ez9uVSKLYUI

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

zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman") wrote:

@nolan https://arewebcomponentsathingyet.com/ is a great microsite that does the corporate logo social proof thing too (fwiw!)

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

nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan") wrote:

New blog post: "Use web components for what they’re good at" https://nolanlawson.com/2023/08/23/use-web-components-for-what-theyre-good-at/

Some thoughts on what web components are good at, and what they're less good at.

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

Alabama Supreme Court:

women are simply containers; it is only the fetus which matters to the State.

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

wim_v12e@merveilles.town ("WimⓂ️") wrote:

If anyone would be interested in giving an online talk related to #FrugalComputing or #LowCarbonComputing or #SustainableComputing for my research group, some time in October, November or December, please let me know. You don't have to be an academic researcher.

For info, my research group page: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/lowcarbon/

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

xarvh@functional.cafe ("Francesco Orsenigo (he/him)") wrote:

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

#StephenJayGould

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

"I think I’ve done demonstrably more than any psychologist has ever produced to increase the prestige and trust of the practice of psychology around the world." I don't think his peers agree.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/23/kooks-hate-being-called-on-their-kookery/

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• Angry quack (remote)