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

I started up NES Tetris just for the sake of hearing 8-bit Korobeiniki

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

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.  — Henry Adams

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay (she/her) 🇪🇺") wrote:

There are Pop-Tarts but no Mom-Tarts because of the pastryarchy

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Miriamm ("Miriam 🇮🇪") wrote:

Palestinians have been occupied, murdered and denied their rights for decades. To call the events of today “unprovoked” is outrageous.

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• 4 pictures of the map of Israel/Palestine it shows the occupation of Israel into Palestinian land starting in 1947 to 2005

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

7. Witches of Eastwick (1987). I saw some of the grosser parts of this as a kid, a few years too early to be really into it. It probably would have been an old favorite of mine, just like Death Becomes Her, if it were a bit newer or I older.

Veronica Cartwright is kinda the MVP in this? In a movie where she wasn't playing against a quartet of household names her performance would probably be the main thing people remembered about it.

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• Movie poster for Witches of Eastwick. On a background of purplish storm clouds and lightning, Jack Nicholson raises his hands in a showy gesture. Seated in front of him are Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

From yesterday's exhibits in US v. Sam Bankman-Fried:

The prosecution shows that the "insurance fund" that FTX bragged about was fake, and just calculated by multiplying daily trading volume by a random number around 7500

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

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• Github diff showing addition of code: def _get_change()-> Decimal: daily_volume = current_session().query(func.sum(Trade.size * Trade.price)).filter( Trade.created_at > datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)).scalar() or Decimal() return f2d(numpy.random.normal(7500, 3000))* daily_volume / Decimal('1e9') @always_run_in_transaction(ro=False) def update_public_insurance_fund(): change = _get_change() sess = current_session() + public_insurance_fund = Public InsuranceFund.get(sess) sess.add(Public InsuranceFundChange(public_insurance_fund-public_insurance_fund, size-change)) public_insurance_fund.size += change sess.commit() (remote)
• FTX @FTX_Official The 5.25 million FTT we put in our insurance fund in 2019 now makes the fund worth over 100 million USD https://ftx.com/status Screenshot: Backstop Fund Size: 5,478,274.51613972 USD, 5,250,000.000000000 FTT Last updated: 14/02/2021, 08:05:00 (remote)

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ginny@spinny.city ("🏳️‍⚧️ Ginny Maive") wrote:

:boosts_ok_gay: my 8 year old wants you to vote and boost this. it’s really important to her. I am not joking and she sincerely expects at least, uh, 384 votes. and this is kinda her first ever fedi post, so do it for her!!!

what Barbie are you? :boosts_ok_gay:

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

I just realized I didn't receive a billing statement email from Patreon this month. I guess they were too distracted by that new logo. 🤔

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b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town ("it's B! Cavello 🐝") wrote:

Truly the darkest pattern.
#OneTrust is such a shady organization. I went to check the cookie settings on a site I was visiting, and it LOOKED like the toggles were set to off, but in reality, they were still active. Totally gross and misleading behavior!

#TagZone #Privacy #DarkPatterns #DataBrokers #DigitalRights

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• Setting for functional cookies labeled by me as "on, apparently" showing a toggle style digital interface with what looks like circular slider pushed to the left end of a bar (typically the off position). This is juxtaposed with another view of the same interface labeled by me as "actually off" which shows that the slider can actually go even further left and is grey when truly off. (remote)

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alilly@solarpunk.moe ("Athena L.M.") wrote:

computers are really fast and it's a shame on the software industry that they don't act like it

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

hmmm.

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• Photograph of a billboard for Vercel stating the line "The "Wow, this site is fast!" Cloud" (remote)

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fatsam@mstdn.social ("Daniel Keys Moran") wrote:

You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish."

- Bruce Sterling

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didier@malenfant.net ("Didier Malenfant") wrote:

Introducing a real discussion forum for #FPGA development.

https://forum.fpgadev.net

There are of course Discord servers out there, but in the end knowledge gets lost in hard to search single-threads and cause newcomers to ask the same questions again and again.

Forums were created for this. Information is on the open web, searchable and organized in separate topics and categories.

This is the way.

Join us. Boost this. Help spread the word.

#FPGADev #AnaloguePocket #MisterFPGA

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

My most optimistic take on this is that Songtradr feels Bandcamp has a unique position and wants to use the sale as an opportunity to play hardball with employees and artists.

(I so loathe the financial brain rot that has infected so much of our modern world.)

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

Regarding LB[1]: It's hard to put even a neutral spin on Songtradr's intentions when you hear:

"Those employees were not included in Epic’s sale of Bandcamp. Songtradr purchased the platform’s business and operations but not its staff, according to Sandy Pope, bargaining director for the Office of Professional Employees International Union, which since March has represented 67 out of some 120 Bandcamp workers."

Better download your purchases if you haven't already.

[1] https://mastodon.social/@antonyjohnston/111193987898865329

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antonyjohnston ("Antony Johnston") wrote:

Well, this doesn't look good 😬

"Employees were not included in Epic's sale of Bandcamp. Songtradr purchased the platform's business and operations but not its staff"

https://www.wired.com/story/epic-games-sale-bandcamp-music-platform-limbo/

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yoniden@ravenation.club ("Yoni Den") wrote:

https://mammansani.bandcamp.com/album/la-musique-electronique-du-niger

This is the first album from Nigerian electronic music pioneer Mamman Sani Abdullaye, recorded in 1978, re-relesed in 2013.

It's avant-garde stuff, really vibey, sometimes almost loungey.

I know this sounds crazy to say, but if you like chiptune you should seriously check this out.

there is a Vinyl or Compact Disc, if physicals are you thing.

#BandCamp #BandCampFriday #Niger #ElectronicMusic #Synth #AfricanElectronicMusic #EarlyElectronic #Electronic #Music

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JimsPhotos@ohai.social ("Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos") wrote:

Here is the first of a few pictures of the Great Spotted Woodpecker that landed about 10 meters from where I was sat. What a bird, has made my week. This year I set a goal of photographing all 3 of the UK's woodpecker species. I now have 2 with just the rare lesser spotted to find.

I hope you like this pic, I'm not likely to ever get this sort of shot again.
#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #Woodpecker

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• Male Great spotted woodpecker clinging to a tree. The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. The male has a distinctive red patch on the back of the head (remote)

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

JS8Call is running on the Raspberry Pi & controlling the FT-981A, but through the magik of X-Window the GUI is running on the Mac Mini (or could be on any other Unix/Linux/Mac box or laptop anywhere)... I am going to remove the monitor/keyboard/mouse from the Pi to clean up my physical desktop a bit.

#AmateurRadio

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• 1a6a6544f677dcd0.jpg (remote)

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

It's huge. Bigger than my head.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/07/71348/

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• paper wasp nest (remote)

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

If you don't like driving, take the train. Except we don't have a usable train network in the US.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/07/dont-trust-self-driving-cars/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmGOjHi-7MM

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

I do not need to a lengthy, detailed email with my child's lesson plans every week. He is in pre-k. He is 4. Calm down, Deborah.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TheDearHunter album Migrant has been re-recorded and released yesterday as Migrant Returned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTLogWYNe0

#np #nowplaying

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Some things, you just need to follow your gut to know you should avoid. Alexa/Siri and other such devices was one (why would I let tech companies eavesdrop in my home?…).

23andMe was always another for me (why would I trust a company with my physical blueprint?…)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/private-23andme-user-data-is-up-for-sale-after-online-scraping-spree

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

At this point, Google is doing a better job of marketing Apple products to me than Apple is.

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rottenartist@horrorhub.club wrote:

My fellow Mastodonians, I need your assistance! I'm prepping for a podcast interview that I have to give in-character as Edgar Allan Poe.

I need to provide a list of questions that people would want to ask Poe if they could travel to his time.

Could you give me your questions for Poe so I can get an idea of what topics to focus on? I'll be happy to answer them as best I can.

Boost if you don't mind!

#EdgarAllanPoe #podcast #eyecontact

Attachments:

• A black and white photo of me dressed as Edgar Allan Poe looking pensively from a doorway like in The Raven: Here I opened wide the door. Darkness there, and nothing more. (remote)

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ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

I recently sold my theremin ... I hadn't touched it in years -- Anon

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

To access wifi:

1. Set time machine to 2001

2. Install Internet Explorer

3. There is no step three

#Milan

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• A WIFI AREA sign from Milan advertising Internet Explorer. (remote)

nikvo@esperanto.masto.host wrote:

pli da lingvoj havu renversitajn krisignojn. la konstruinto de la hispana havis tre bonan ideon

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

artificial is to flavoring as artificial is to intelligence