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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'll see myself out.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Demand for waterbeds seems to have... dried up.

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

aristofontes ("Gregory Hays") wrote:

Steve Scalise is fortunate that as a member of congress he enjoys the excellent health insurance he's spent his whole career helping to deny to other Americans.

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

eeyam@med-mastodon.com ("Mayee, MD") wrote:

“Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with #COVID19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it, a study1 shows.
The study, reveals that the greater a person’s exposure to #SARSCoV2, the more vulnerable they are to infection, regardless of their vaccination status. This relationship has long been suspected, but the study is one of the first to document it.”
@novid
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1

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

I remembered this scene but it's still funny. One of the union guys has been injured in a very suspicious accident and then that night, as the others are considering what to do, another miner who can no longer work because they lost nearly all fingers on one hand is like, "Weeeeell, we live in the desert. So arson is the obvious go-to here."

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• TSR screencap. Scene is a darkened tent at night. From left to right, Jack, Nik, Yao and Chang, all looking serious. Dialogue box says, "Chang: We could burn his assets there to diminish his wealth."

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Miriamm ("Miriam 🇮🇪") wrote:

The worst thing about this Musk vs Zuck thing is it's making people root for Zuck. STOP IT, FIND ENOUGH SPACE IN YOUR HEART TO VISCERALLY HATE BOTH OF THEM

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

I’d missed that the US Department of the Treasury waded into the “unions are good, actually” discourse this week, swinging about a passel of graphs as they did so https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1706

(The full report is available as a 508kb PDF: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Labor-Unions-And-The-Middle-Class.pdf)

#unions #1u

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

Newsletters are cool, but now I need a tabbed email reader so I can open newsletters and only read the first 20% without feeling guilty.

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

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• A send-up of the old anti-piracy campaign, this image has stenciled text reading BAD ART MAKES YOU FEEL WEIRD over a tape-and-crossbones and the text AND IT'S FUN smaller below it (remote)

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

details, details…
;^}

https://tech.lgbt/@robotfactory/110976909404026051

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

"secretly fascinated" <- that's me lying. I've never managed to keep a fascination secret lol

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

It's the same rush I get from using commuter rail for fun daytrips. Kinda drafting on much larger forces and everyone wins 😎

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

I am secretly fascinated by situations where people can use Industrial Infrastructure to personal ends, and I kinda loved researching and writing this how-to on cloud-init for work https://tailscale.com/kb/1293/cloud-init/

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:

Is Big Oil Turning on Big Auto? An anti-EV ad by ExxonMobil might signal an end to the partnership between oil cos. & American carmakers. "This ad illustrates the regressive shift from excessive greenwash back to blatant climate denial." https://newrepublic.com/article/174392/big-oil-turning-big-auto

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io ("Darryl Ramm") wrote:

@ahl @bcantrill @kelseyhightower

Great discussion.

Personally I'm still working through the laugh/cry emotional see-saw thanks to Hashicorp.

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

Don't mind me. I'm just over here preemptively blocking threads.net using Mastodon's import feature that is found in the settings.

(There might be another way to do it, but it was the only affordance I could find for entering a domain to block.)

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• A text editor window editing a file named threads_blocked_domains.csv with a single line containing: "threads.net" (remote)
• A picture of the import section of Mastodon's settings UI. I've selected "Domain block list", Merge, and my previously created threads_blocked_domain.csv file. The only thing left to do is hit the "UPLOAD" button. (remote)

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

hishamzerriffi@fediscience.org ("Hisham Zerriffi") wrote:

New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

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GeoffWozniak@hackers.town ("Geoff Wozniak") wrote:

I've been following the work of @emilymbender and @alex for almost a year now and this article is a great distillation of their efforts.

If you only read one article about how the AI hype and "AI Doomerism" is really a distraction from the real harms it does right now, make it this one.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-focus-on-ais-real-harms-not-imaginary-existential-risks/

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

:00 meetings in an :05 org. Calyndrical terrorism, I tell you.

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

I have been surprised, in a good way, at how much criticism I've seen from unexpected quarters. This was reposted in the stories of a random IG beefcake that I don't recall having commented on current events before

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• Screencap of a tweet from user @imshanereaction: "When Moloko sang Bring It Back they were talking about Section 28"

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

fuck I also forgot about when Nik tells you what he saw chasing them in the mines: a classmate who died long ago from eating a poisonous glowing fungus

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• TSR Screencap. Scene: Sam's room at The Hip, at night. Nik in center, looking pained. Dialogue box: "Nik: The newspaper said some of it was growing on his body when he was found in a red tent forty yards from the school grounds."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

If you want to opt in to this new search system, check out the new privacy and reach tab on your edit profile page. More details to follow in the future 4.2 blog post 🙂

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

You can now search for a bunch more stuff on mastodon.social! If you're on web, the popout on the search bar will tell you. Designing this stuff to work properly was pretty fun!

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

Nik's route was the first one I played so there are some throwaway moments that I'm seeing with new eyes on my second go through.

I completely forgot that you run into Jim and Murdoch. Murdoch alludes to the stuff in his route about how the town's weirdness interacts with drugs and Jim talks about his geology career.

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• TSR screencap. The town outside at night. Murdoch left and Jim right. Text box says, "Jim: I don't talk about you at all, but I think about you plenty."

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

uspolitics@mastodon.sdf.org ("U.S. Politics in Real Time") wrote:

Abbott's Texas National Guard set up a secret spy operation and treated the border like it was the war in Iraq: whistleblowers

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-national-guard-whatsapp-spying-border-iraq-watchdog-2023-8

#TexasNationalGuard #SecretSpyOperation #BorderWar #Whistleblowers #Abbott #IraqWar #Politics #News

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

this is such a very bad move:

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/08/29/texas-guardsmen-spied-on-migrants-via-whatsapp-mishandled-secret-docs/

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

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

I refuse to tolerate a system that lets the 500 richest people add $852 billion to their wealth in the past six months alone, but doesn’t raise the $7.25 federal minimum wage for over a decade.

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

Noupside@saturation.social ("Renee DiResta") wrote:

Excellent. More of this. Smear campaigns have real costs, and hacks who willingly destroy people for political objectives deserve accountability. I hope the award is massive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/us/politics/giuliani-defamation-georgia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

"Last month, Giuliani conceded that he made public comments falsely claiming the election workers committed ballot fraud during the 2020 election, but he contended that the statements were protected by the First Amendment."

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

'“Donning a cloak of victimization may play well on a public stage to certain audiences, but in a court of law this performance has served only to subvert the normal process of discovery in a straight-forward defamation case, with the concomitant necessity of repeated court intervention,” [US District Judge] Howell wrote.'

https://apnews.com/article/giuliani-georgia-election-workers-defamation-lawsuit-9b561a195fb74d991abc89d1b6587d66