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

trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

It's alive!
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#trs80 #miniatures #retrocomputing #circuitPython

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• A 1:6 scale TRS-80 Model III miniature with a display that reads "Tiny TRS-80 Model III by Trevor Flower. Transmutable.com" (remote)

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

The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits - The Washington Post

‘In all, at least 35 posts from a dozen health professionals were part of the coordinated campaign by American Beverage. The trade group paid an undisclosed amount to 10 registered dietitians, as well as a physician and a fitness influencer, to use their social media accounts to help blunt the WHO’s claims that aspartame, a mainstay of Diet Coke and other sodas, is ineffective for weight loss and “possibly carcinogenic.”’

https://apple.news/AmyBU8L4tSWazIcHUplqltw

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Dragonborn druid. This dragonborn has a curse which causes them to get silver scars whenever they use thier abilities. #dnd

#darktable

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• A clay D&D miniature of a black humanoid with a dragon snout, horns and a tail. It's wearing a tattered green robe and holding a staff, while standing on a mossy rock.

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

plbrault@fosstodon.org ("Pier-Luc Brault") wrote:

I created a game where you are a computer's operating system and you have to manage processes, memory and I/O events. The goal is to survive as long as possible without the user rebooting you because your processes are idling for too long. Probably the nerdiest thing I've ever done!

Anyway, you can play the game here: https://plbrault.github.io/youre-the-os/

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

TheEuropeanNetwork@mstdn.social ("The European Network") wrote:

The 870 km Rail Baltica project, which is due for completion in 2030, will connect the capitals of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia with Warsaw and the rest of Europe, allowing trains to run uninterrupted.

However, the project is symbolic as well as physical.

For the EU, it’s a statement about the Baltic states’ return to Europe and their decoupling from their Soviet past.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/16/the-high-speed-railway-thats-uncoupling-the-baltic-states-from-russia-and-their-soviet-pas

#Europe #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Poland #Baltics #Rail #HighSpeedRail #RailBaltica

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

MotherJones@press.coop ("Mother Jones :press:") wrote:

New Report: One-Third of States Have an Election Denier Overseeing Elections

The 2022 midterm elections were in many ways a referendum on the future of American democracy, and in key states candidates who spread lies about the 2020 election and could have used their power to overturn future elections lost. In the six major battlegrounds where Donald... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/one-third-states-election-denier-governor-attorney-general-secretary/?utm_source=press.coop

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

"Florida Supreme Court justice Charles Canady refused to recuse himself from hearing arguments last Friday in a lawsuit that could trigger a six-week abortion ban in the state — despite the fact that his wife, state Rep. Jennifer Canady (R), is a co-sponsor of the ban."

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/111081576940158877

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

Florida Judge Deciding Abortion Ban Case Married to Rep Who Sponsored Bill

https://truthout.org/articles/florida-judge-deciding-abortion-ban-case-married-to-rep-who-sponsored-bill/

#Florida #AbortionBanCase #FloridaJudge #ConflictOfInterest #ReproductiveRights #JusticeSystem #PoliticalInfluence #JudicialIndependence #EthicsViolation #LegalIntegrity #TransparencyMatters #Accountability #Politics #News

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

my very first editor program was: http://www.cpm.z80.de/randyfiles/DRI/ED.pdf

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

web@mastodon.radio ("kc4web") wrote:

@qrper Thanks for posting "six things". I need some motivation to restart my cw training. As we get nearer to winter, I will dust off my straight key and jump back into courses at LICW Club. #hamradio

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

👀Via Sherrilyn Ifill:

Everyone keeps asking “why is #Alabama being so defiant - even of the #SCOTUS order?”

Now we get a possible answer. And it’s a doozy.

If this is true, it would mean that the SCOTUS is compromised & that the project to overturn civil rights laws is being undertaken deliberately and cynically by multiple associated players & cover groups across the legal system https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/16/dark-money-the-backstory-of-alabamas-redistricting-defiance/

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• As APR reported on July 27, Alabama lawmakers working in conjunction with state Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office and Washington D.C. lawyers had “intelligence” that Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh — who voted with the majority in Milligan just weeks ago to order the new maps under the statutory language — is open to rehearing the case as a constitutional challenge to the validity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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

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

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare

—No universal childcare

—No paid family & medical leave

—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

This isn't about "life." It's about control.

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

evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

There is literally one (1) example of any company taking an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy (Microsoft, with the Web, in the late 90s). They went through years of antitrust lawsuits for it.

There are zero (0) examples of it ever working. No, not RSS; no, not XMPP.

There are literally millions of examples of companies, individuals, governments and non-profits adopting open standards and making the network, and their services, better.

More ActivityPub makes a better Internet for everyone.

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

lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

Nobody ever talks about Old Zealand, so you know whatever happened there must have been really bad.

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

They made a Beetlejuice musical?! o_O

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

(I think I'm Person Man most days.)

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

Some days you're Triangle Man, and other days you're Person Man.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Elon thought the commandment was “Be cray, do Grimes.”

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

I love this story about forming a community to ‘repurpose’ services into their own ‘platform’

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sunday-show/id1552627235?i=1000628152629

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

theLobdegg@dosgame.club wrote:

For those interested in making parser driven adventure games that run on real 8086 based computers with 80's clock speeds and old fashioned sound hardware support, Gorgon 2.0 source code and tools are now public!

Open source, royalty free!

I am currently building a web reference manual to help folx learn the engine's quirks and mechanics.

https://gitlab.com/hadrosoft/gorgon-gdk/

#gorgonengine
@HadroSoft

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

termo ends up being actually educational for me because I end up doing speculative dictionary searches

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

joguei term.ooo #623 *4/6 🔥 1

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

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

#AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #35mm

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• Beautiful woman with long black hair wearing a black dress, leaning against a tree, covered in patches of warm sunlight

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

dpwiz@qoto.org ("l'empathie mécanique") wrote:

@isagalaev https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-bad-on-purpose-to-make-you-click

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

The Bottle/Guan Guanco by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

https://pandora.app.link/e27rNRDz9Cb

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

The Ghetto (Mono) by Donny Hathaway

https://pandora.app.link/bRUNZvIy9Cb

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

The Ghetto (Mono) by Donny Hathaway

https://pandora.app.link/bRUNZvIy9Cb

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

vruba@everything.happens.horse ("Charlie Loyd") wrote:

Okay, fine, @jonty cajoled me into it. Lighter is more traffic; warmer is more positive anomaly for the day.

Now, certain nerds and haters might squint at this and say “It looks like you did this in oklab color space and then tried to half-ass some gamut mapping when you remembered that a lot of the highest z scores are in places with very low traffic counts!” and I would rebut that in scrupulous detail with one simple argument: Good night.

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• An animation similar to the two previous versions but combining raw request count with anomaly, so that transient events are in red. There is a ~2 Hz pulse of blue, showing the weekly cycle of lower use on the weekends. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Mario Zechner") wrote:

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

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

Mission accomplished, all my offspring are done now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/16/welp-guess-im-all-done-now/

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• Skatje's diploma (remote)