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

If I had a nickel for every time I've said this,

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• Screenshot of Spirit Hunter NG. Scene is a boat dock at night. Seiji Amanome is visible in the center. At bottom, a dialogue box with a portrait of the main character sneering: "Your dad is, uh... playful."

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

I mention this only because it was very easy to do and super rewarding. i'm recommending the action at the cost of maybe looking a little braggy, apologies

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

asked a customer service rep who was super helpful today if I could sing her praises to her manager and I think it almost made her cry

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

This memo from #FaniWillis, opposing #MarkMeadows motion to remove his criminal prosecution to federal court, is a terrific piece of legal argument. It completely takes down the claim that Meadows was acting under the color of federal law or exercising official authority, mostly by hoisting Meadows on his own petard. 1/ https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23925493/georgia-v-meadows-fulton-removal-response.pdf #LawFedi #FultonCounty #HatchAct

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TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer Lives!") wrote:

All about the Ken Paxton #impeachment:

Will #history repeat itself with Angela Paxton? https://www.texasobserver.org/impeachment-texas-ken-paxton-history/

Justin Miller digs into the 4,000 pages of evidence against the Attorney General ... https://www.texasobserver.org/impeachment-ken-paxton-documents-evidence/

Nancy Goldstein asks, has accountability finally come to #Texas? https://www.texasobserver.org/impeachment-ken-paxton-documents-evidence/

#news #politics #USpol #TXlege #KenPaxton #corruption #Republicans

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catsalad@hackers.town ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.B.)") wrote:

UDP packet walks A bar. into

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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

Attempt at networking post!

Hi! I would love to meet and talk to more people in #dataScience #statistics #stats #pydata #dataViz etc etc

I have a Phd in #appliedMath and I work in #productAnalytics

I attend my local American Statistical Assoc meetings sometimes, but they are rare.

I also helped start an R User Group once, (but haven't used R in more than 10 years), and ran a Big Data reading group in #pdx

Please boost 😀

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jbeda@hachyderm.io ("Joe Beda") wrote:

I'm going to print up some stickers to honor Nóva

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• "Fuck the Internet. I'm going to go climb mountains. - Nóva" along with an outline of Mt Rainier. (remote)

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combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

I was reminded yesterday of Les Cowley's "Atmospheric Optics" site, which I used to use as a reference when I was choosing photos for National Geographic News (their science news website).

https://atoptics.co.uk/

Visual examples and explanations of atmospheric optical phenomena, like sundogs, glories, etc. Presented in glorious web1 style. extremely rad website.

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

🎉 We just released version 0.4 of the Spade HDL 🎉 . On the language front the biggest change is the addition of initial values for registers.

But the biggest additions this time are in tooling. Swim now runs tests in parallel and allows you to open the waveform from a test case with just a click. We also have new integration with https://wal-lang.org

And while not included in the release, I've been working on a new waveform viewer.

Blog post with more details https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-4-0

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Oh snap. I loves me the Fani.

Just in: DA #FaniWillis responding to Ken #Chesebro's speedy trial demand. Calling for the trial for all 19 Fulton defendants to begin on Oct. 23, 2023

Will be up to Judge McAfee to weigh in now. There's also the question of what happens to the pending fed removal motions....

#Georgia #TrumpIndictment #legal

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• ~ Che Alexan INTHIE SUPERIOR COURT OF FULTON COUNTY STATE OF GEORGIA STATE OF GHORGIA | | CASENO. v | | 235C188947 DONALD JOHN TRUMP, | RUDOLPH WILITAM LOUIS GIULIANI, | JOLN CHARLES LASTMAN, MARK RANDALL MEADOWS, i KENNETH JOHN CHESEBRO, | JLIFREY BOSSIRT CLARK. | JENNA LYNNELLIS, | RAY STALLINGS SMITH 111, | ROBERT DAVID CIIERLEY, | MICHAEL A. ROMAN, | DAVID JAMES SHAFER, | SHAWN MICAH TRISHER STILL, STEPHEN CLITFGARD LEL, LARRISON WILLIAM PRESCOTT FLOYD, | TREVIAN €. KUTTL | SIDNEY KATHERINT, POWELL, | CATILEEN ALSTON LATHAM, | SCOTT GRAHAM HALL, | MISTY IAMPTON akia PMILY MISTY [TAYES| Defendants. | - STATE'S MOTION TO SPECIALLY SET TRIAL COMES NOW, the State of Geargia, through Fulton County District Attomey Fani T. ‘Willis, and respectfully requests that this Court specially set the trial in this case o commence for all 19 defendants on October 23, 2023. On August 14, 2023, the Fulton County Grand Jury returned & true bill of indictment against Defendant Kenneth John Chesebro, among others, for various non-capital felonics. The term of court in which this Indictment was returned was the Tuly-August, 2023 term of the Superior Court of Fulton County, Allanta Judicial Cireuit, See O.C.GLA. § 15-6-3(3). Defendant Kenneth John Chesebro filed on August 23, 2023 a “DEMAND FOR SPEEDY TRIAL.”

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Wait a second... it's been 10 years since GTA V has been released?!

Does that make it a retro game? 😂

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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:

The new Mastodon search coming in 4.2 seems like it really is opt-in: there's a new "include public posts in search results" setting, and your posts only get added to search index if you enable it. When it was first announced, it didn't seem like it would work that way, but as is often the case, after some discussion the right thing happened.

The test I did was with the existing "opt out of search engines" option, which is supposed to keep posts out of Google et al if you suggest it ... but sometimes doesn't. The changes that were made to enable search within Mastodon would allow fixing this bug but it's not clear if or when that'll happen.

@dameoutlaw@mstdn.social @gunchleoc@mastodon.scot @risottobias@tech.lgbt @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

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housepanther@mstdn.goblackcat.com ("Kitty :verified: :neurodi:") wrote:

I like PHP, Python, and Ruby. So I thought I would like WordPress. WordPress is a kludge. I instead discovered https://ghost.org. Ghost is a pure NodeJS backed application and I am not a fan of JavaScript but this blogging/journaling platform is quite elegant and simple.

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

It’s. Not. Over. 😷💉

#COVID hospitalizations jump 22% this week — and CDC predicts further increases - CBS News

https://apple.news/AjxgP6BlFTymuddUZT9aqAw

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jorgesanz@mapstodon.space ("Jorge Sanz") wrote:

A gentle reminder that there's a water hole in #Namibia with a 24/7 #webcam and it is awesome.

At home, we call it #GazelleTV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8

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• A screenshot of the Youtube interface with some gazelle and zebras around the water hole. (remote)

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BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Deep thoughts: one of my favorite quotes attributed to Robin Williams.

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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Tollbooth") wrote:

While I don't want to gloat about mugshots, it's important that the Trump conspirators have one taken.

Treating them like any other criminal is a PR win for the justice system itself, because my biggest complaint has always been about two systems of justice.

Which still exists, clearly, criminals doing only a fraction of this shit wouldn't be facing bail at all, but mandatory imprisonment while awaiting trial.

But every indignity they suffer which is also faced by the rest of the people suddenly exposes the inhumanity of the system to those who formerly never saw themselves in people who were arrested and criminalized.

Now that they do, they are fucking terrified.

I'm 98% certain Trump has been delaying turning himself in because he does NOT want a mugshot taken.

The more the law is capable of prosecuting the powerful, the more the indignities it forces upon us can also be faced by the powerful, the better.

Sure, reform the system.

But we get this one first.

We get the old rules, of the old system, applied to one of the architects of the old system.

A man who increased the penalties for stolen classified documents just in time to be prosecuted for them himself.

You told us to wait for justice, and it was agonizingly fucking slow.

But we have. We have waited.

Now show us that we're not letting them slide, that they face the same degradations and disadvantages of anyone else who is on trial.

Or else admit the system is rigged in favor of the powerful, admit that there are two tiers of justice, and stop trying to tell us to wait for justice.

We waited. We had little other choice. History watches what you do next.

Your move, Justice.

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

TechCrunch out here with a strong contender for Most Misleading Headline, 2023:

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• [TechCrunch's headline regarding Apple's capitulation in the face of an inevitable defeat reads "Apple lends support to California State Right to Repair bill".

 It's tough work to be both shockingly misleading and undermining of your own previous reportage...but this is TC we're talking about. What \*can't\* they do?][3] ([remote][4])

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

Before you give Apple credit for "supporting" right-to-repair[1], check out Louis Rossmann's YT[2], then read up on the years and years of delays that Apple was able to extract[3][4][5][6][7] until folks got so fed up that R2R became inevitable.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/apple-lends-support-to-california-state-right-to-repair-bill/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w
[3]: https://www.404media.co/apple-endorses-california-right-to-repair-bill/
[4]: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/1/18525542/apple-right-to-repair-bill-california-lobbyist-comptia
[5]: https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-right-repair-20181116-story.html
[6]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/evmeya/apple-iphone-right-to-repair-california
[7]: https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-apple-answers-congress/

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

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.33981/page/n307/mode/2up

Found via a reference in Bill Hammack's "The Things we Make".

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

"Railroads may be quicker than canalboats, and a gas-lamp may be brighter than a candle: but it is only in terms of human purpose and in relation to a human and social scheme of values that speed or brightness have any meaning."

-- Lewis Mumford in "Technics and Civilization"

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

Apple has come out in support of California’s Right to Repair bill. This is less of a pivot and more of just accepting reality.

Apple pushing aesthetics such as no seams in their phones over consumer benefits like being able to replace your phone’s batteries has been deemed unacceptable by a number of governments including the EU.

Regulation is coming whether they like it or not, so they might as well get some positive PR for “supporting” the regulations.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/23/apple-lends-support-to-california-state-right-to-repair-bill/

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

rendering web components on the backend today

"SSR" if you will 🧐

#webcomponents #webstandards

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

Chandrayaan-3 budget: India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent

https://www.independent.co.uk/space/chandrayaan-3-budget-moon-landing-interstellar-b2398483.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@fribbledom @gpollara @jc0b That's my go-to dish!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

@Gargron @gpollara @jc0b

Their Katsu Curry, so good 😋

Cool photo!

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

@Gargron

Wagamama vibes.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

#AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography

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• An empty restaurant hall illuminated by warm yellow light, with a sharp window to the kitchen, illuminated by bright white light

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Pandamoanimum@mstdn.social ("Amanda") wrote:

4 years ago today since I added Run DMC ft. Aerosmith to a video of the shadow of a millipede walking.
[sound on]

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