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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I would watch this if they had called it "New Phone Who Dis?"

Attachments:

• Netflix blurb for the rom-com "Love Again": "Still grieving her fiance's death, an artist texts her deepest thoughts to his phone and forms a bond with the man who receives them by chance." (remote)

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

Explains a lot:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/02/millions-of-missing-voters-cost-labour-seats-due-to-electoral-boundaries-bias

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mpe@ravenation.club ("Martin Paul Eve") wrote:

As everyone rushes to invest in AI, moving away from crypto, my new favourite term has emerged: grift shift.

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

I really, really despise this list. I hope whoever made it never gets their stupid fingers into school curricula.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/02/dont-put-non-educators-in-charge-of-education/

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• Subjects that should be mandatory in schools: Taxes, coding, cooking, insurance, basic home repaire[sic], etc. (remote)

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

The Economist has not yet mastered the arts of preventing the page in the background from scrolling while the modal dialog is open.

And by arts I mean one line of CSS:

overscroll-behavior-y: contain;

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• d6bd2adbb49247c8.mp4

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

Like the scabby tweaker from Echo and the bird in The Smoke Room whose only role is to pick a fight with Nik, who then punches the life (and literal shit) out of him.

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

I was worried that the echo discord would be toxic but it's mostly chill. The most upsetting thing I've seen so far is the side-characters that some members get horny for.

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

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Two women are dead and a teenage girl is in critical condition after a Friday night shooting in Northwest #DC. https://wtop.com/dc/2023/09/2-women-dead-teen-injured-after-shooting-in-northwest-dc/ #GunViolence

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

It was inevitable but I finally joined the echo project discord in order to do spoiler discussion. TSR's spoiler channel is unsurprisingly active.

I was surprised to see some late night activity in the Arches channels, because what is there to really contribute at this point except for voice recordings of your own sobbing

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

hoo boy, rip jimmy buffett. this one's a big one for me

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🦣") wrote:

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

Attachments:

• A post by Elon Musk on Twitter saying: If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know. (remote)

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

If there hasn't been a music artist named Sterile Mreep there should be

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

Meyerweb ("Eric Meyer") wrote:

Exactly 20 years and 20 minutes ago, this happened.

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• A clip of the classic “Badgers Badgers” meme.

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

I wish Selena Gomez's stage name was Short Steve, just so she'd neatly close the loop with Steve Martin and Martin Short.

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erosdiscordia@inkdrop.space ("Mystery Babylon :aheartdrawn:") wrote:

Suppose it's time for me to stop being nervous, and just go ahead and tell you lovely Mastodon people:

I have been sharing my science fiction story, "Radiant Inverse", on Royal Road (a serial fiction website) for the past couple of weeks.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72693/radiant-inverse-a-science-fantasy-adventure

There are already 13 chapters up. :rainbowdance:

I would love it if you'd check it out. No need for an account -- but accounts can comment and leave reviews!

:boostRequest:

> #writer #writingcommunity #scifi #SFF #serialfiction

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Who called him “Humbert Humbert” instead of “Umberto Echo”?

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

ahhhhhh

https://music.apple.com/us/album/k%C3%B6ln-january-24-1975-pt-i-live/1440840566?i=1440840567

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

Here's a sneak preview of the September/October issue of Texas Observer magazine, featuring stories by Eva Ruth Moravec, Kit @oconnell, Reynaldo Leaños Jr. and @gabrielarana.

The new issue will be arriving in mailboxes, inboxes, and at select newsstands soon.

#TexasNeedsAnObserver! Help us keep reporting by becoming a member today, and you'll get future issues too: https://texasobserver.org/join/

#news #journalism #nonprofit #USpol #politics #AirBNB #DragQueens #Military #Racism

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• The September/October 2023 issue of the Texas Observer features an illustration of a female-presenting person fearfully peeking over a windowsill at the "party house" across the street, a short-term rental with a raging crowd dancing, fighting, drinking, and dealing with the cops. The top story is "All the Scary Houses: Neighborhoods fight the giant companies pushing the short-term rental tidal wave". Other top stories include "Queens Defiant," "The Last Texan to Die in Afghanistan," and "Toppling Statues." (remote)

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dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz ("Dan Piponi") wrote:

@pervognsen Yes, for the longest time I used to hear endless complaints from the animators about how the mocap was almost useless. I don't know how it is nowadays.

This is why, whenever I talk about the use of optical flow on the Matrix movies, I point out that a lot of hard work was needed by artists to fix up the problems with it.

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

“certain open-source systems come close to regulating blood sugar completely autonomously. Although commercial systems are advancing, none is as near to solving this important problem; they currently use hybrid algorithms that manage insulin dosing most of the time, but they require a lot of manual input. For instance, users must program in meals to ensure that the devices deliver large corrective insulin doses.

By contrast, many open-source systems do not require meal announcements and come close to being a fully closed loop”

https://kolektiva.social/@neptune22222/110991709689327229

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

neptune22222@kolektiva.social ("Bo Morgan") wrote:

Open source artificial pancreas software has gotten FDA approval! And open source hardware solutions are coming!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9

#opensource #fda #diabetes #t1d #foss #fosh

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

I've been crunch-a-tized.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/01/the-crunch-begins/

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• Cap'n Crunch cereal box (remote)

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

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

Top of #HN right now:

Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

"We had four lawyers, three privacy experts, and two campaigners look at Microsoft's new Service Agreement, which will go into effect on 30 September, and none of our experts could tell if Microsoft plans on using your personal data – including audio, video, chat, and attachments from 130 products, including Office, Skype, Teams, and Xbox – to train its AI models..."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/microsoft-ai/

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

All Hail Emperor Norton!

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

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

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

Today in History: Pyun YongHyeon yongari@FreeBSD.org born in Kimcheon, Korea, 1968

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

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nancylwayne ("Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅") wrote:

#DogsOfMastodon

Dogs are the best. This is such a beautiful, sweet story in The Washington Post: "Dog kept escaping shelter to sleep in nursing home. Staff adopted him."
Gift article here: https://wapo.st/47Uf5ua

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

I took this photo of my kid playing with his blocks the other day, and when I realized it reminded me of something, well...I had to make this.

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• A precariously stacked tower of wooden blocks nearly four feet high. The tower itself is labeled "all modern digital infrastructure." The entire structure is clearly held up by one thin pillar on the bottom of the left side, which, if removed, would cause the entire tower to collapse. This pillar is labeled "a project some random person from Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003." (remote)