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

Saving this one for posterity because I know I'm going to want to find it again

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• A tumblr post by user thickmeat that reads, "gay porn blogs will reblog the world’s most normal picture of the world’s most normal man and caption it some shit like. His farmer’s tan had consumed his life… ever since he got hit by the Farmer’s Tan Ray" Followed by a comment in the tags: "and it makes me laugh every time"

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

‘From evidence the Israeli military found at the rave site, and what witnesses said, the Hamas attackers surrounded the gathering on three sides. One group of gunmen opened fire on the crowd, methodically driving the panicked partygoers toward the road, where more gunmen were waiting to mow them down.

“I can still hear them screaming,” Mr. Ziv said.’’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/world/middleeast/general-ziv-hamas-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I’ve been screwed by #DHL’s “next day delivery” which means “we’ll wait three days before picking up the package, and then try to deliver it delayed by one more day”.

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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

“Six months later, we can see that the effects of leaving Twitter have been negligible. A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter”

https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/

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Thorsted@digipres.club wrote:

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shoq ("Count Shoqula") wrote:

In the last 20 years, I’ve read only one mostly fair and balanced unpacking of the fundamentals behind the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It was this one, by Max Fisher. It’s 8 years old, but still mostly current.

I urge everyone, especially you GenZs who are new to this ongoing tragedy to read it. It’s important to know what’s real, what’s myth, and what’s complete bullshit. Dare I say it? “On both sides.”

“The 11 biggest myths about Israel-Palestine”
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/14/18093732/israel-palestine-misconceptions

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

Apple engineered a situation in which true browser competition was not allowed on iOS, making Safari's terrible platform the best anyone could get.

Having defanged browser competition, they leveraged Safari to extract monopolistic rents. That it *also* protected the App Store from real competition was a nice-to-have:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23913287/us-v-google-apple-search-deal

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The International 12 group stages have started #dota2 #ti12

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

The stated motivation for these restrictions is protecting children, which in a shocking coincidence is also behind the widespread banning of books in many of these states. The idea that these laws will start and stop with pornography doesn't seem likely.

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coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:

I love this video so much: A navigation camera aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured footage of its capsule hurtling toward Earth, carrying a trove of asteroid rocks. Those samples are now being analyzed in Texas.
You can see a thin crescent Earth at left!
#NASA #science #exploration
https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/tag/sample-return/#:~:text=NASA's%20OSIRIS%2DREx%20Spacecraft%20Views,returned%20to%20Earth%20on%20Sept

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• This black-and-white sequence of OSIRIS-REx’s sample return capsule descent toward Earth comes from TAGCAMS’s NavCam 1 and was taken in the moments after the capsule’s release from the spacecraft on Sept. 24, 2023. The Sun is visible at the top of the frame, and a thin “crescent Earth” can be seen at the left edge of the image. OSIRIS-REx’s NavCams are used for optical navigation of the spacecraft. NavCam images tracked star-fields and landmarks on Bennu to determine the spacecraft’s position during mission operations. This sequence of images has been processed to remove most of the scattered sunlight, bring out more detail of the capsule and release debris cloud, and prevent the Earth crescent from saturating. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin

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

Porn is obviously a bit of a salacious content category, but the fact that multiple US states are passing laws to filter and modify the web from there is a dangerous path we're going down. Grateful for @404mediaco reporting here https://www.404media.co/popular-porn-site-warns-texas-users-health-and-human-services/

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

Our western black widow has grown phenomenally in the past month.

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• Black widow (remote)

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wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Remember my estimate that AI could require 8.7TWh per year just for Google and Bing?

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/climate-cost-of-ai-revolution/

Well, according to estimates cited in the peer-reviewed paper "The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence" by Alex de Vries, it could be even worse, with estimates as high as 22.8 TWh/y and even 29.2 TWh/y for Google alone.

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3

#FrugalComputing #AI #ClimateEmergency

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craignewmark ("Craig Newmark") wrote:

Good memory safety programming makes for safer software for us all.

@consumerreports and @internetsociety have a guide on talking to your manager about memory safety to start eliminating an entire class of vulnerabilities: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/how-to-talk-to-your-manager-about-memory-safety/

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Earworm of the day:
Anthrax - A.I.R. :dogcited:

https://song.link/s/5Ekl5FAyUZNf2SaJjHG7qY

#music #NowPlaying #ThrashMetal #Anthrax

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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (spooky)") wrote:

On July 22nd 2023, Analog Revolution gathered a horde of freaks, punks, anarchists, communists, witches, wizards, and emotionally stunted weirdos, and our little impromptu band of misfits descended on the usually respectable Gilmer Arts Playhouse in Ellijay, Georgia.
It's one of the best shows we've ever hosted, and among the best looking shows we've ever released. It's something that I am incredibly proud, honored, and privileged to be a part of. So come revel with us in the joy of loud, aggressive, and occasionally sloppy rock and/or roll.

You could do a lot worse with your life.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/26cT98cxqT7Sokd75kwmXi

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

coming through, make way for

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I think I just wandered away from the millennial internet

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• A tightly cropped screenshot of an app's login page with the options "Log in OR Continue With Roblox" (remote)

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danielfeldroy@fosstodon.org wrote:

Today, October 12th, in my homeland of the USA we're celebrating World Standards Day. Hooray! 🇺🇸 😃

The rest of the planet celebrates World Standards Day on October 14th. 🌏 😆

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Another one for shits and giggles.. :blobcat_tihihi:

#meme #MyZombieApocalypseTeam #weyoun #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine

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• Meme template that reads "My Zombie Apocalypse Team" with 8 fields below, each with an image and a post assigned to it. The posts are team leader, brawler, weapons expert, brains, medic, pilot, mascot and the guy who dies first. This time each post is assigned to a different clone of Weyoun from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. (remote)

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Played around with this old template last night, as it was floating around my internets again. :blobcat_nwn:

#meme #MyZombieApocalypseTeam #StrongFemaleCharacters #Babylon5 #Farscape #Terminator #DeepSpaceNine #TheXFiles #SpaceAboveAndBeyond #LexxTheDarkZone #TheExpanse

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• Meme template that reads "My Zombie Apocalypse Team" with 8 fields below, each with an image and a post assigned to it. Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 as Team Leader. Aeryn Sun from Farscape as Brawler. Sarah Connor from Terminator 2 as Weapons Expert. Jadzia Dax from Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Brains. Agent Dana Scully from The X Files as Medic. Shane Vansen from Space Above And Beyond as Pilot. Lexx from Lexx The Dark Zone as Mascot. Julie Mao from The Expanse as The Guy Who Dies First. (remote)

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

Good humanists should reject the dehumanization of any people for any cause.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/12/apologists-for-state-sponsored-violence-can-fuck-right-off/

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

My happy weekend plans have abruptly turned dismal.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/12/mopin-time/

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• Sad Snoopy (remote)

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

I just noticed that Our Flag Means Death is midway through season 2 right now.

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graydon@types.pl ("Graydon Hoare") wrote:

Re: national coming out day, I think a lot about older queer friends and relatives telling me about events in their lives, and how "then work found out, so I was fired" or "then my family found out, so I was kicked out of my home" is just like .. a 1+1=2 fact of reality in so many life stories.

It's good that that's not everyone's story anymore. But it's still way too many people. Good luck, everyone.

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trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :verified_gay:") wrote:

I've followed Bradley M. Kuhn's work on and off for years now, with huge respect for him. I absolutely hate he is having to go through this.

https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html

Co-Founder of #SoftwareFreedomConservancy, former #FSF Board member. If memory serves, he did GPL enforcement at the FSF before they had general counsel. Authored the original #AGPL.

He is being fucking terrorized and forcibly outed by Eben Moglen, former FSF general counselor, involved in the drafting of GPLv3. Founder of the #FreedomBox project.

I hope the FreedomBox foundation and the FSF choose to add their voices to the joint statements #FSFE and #SFC released.

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231011-01.html

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/oct/11/joint-statement-fsfe/

#lgbtq

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

11. The Hills Have Eyes (1977). Most obvious point of comparison for this is Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Though just like Last House on the Left, the people who begin as victims start responding with their own brutality and the movie even flips perspective in some scenes to frame the backwoods mutants in a way normally reserved for slasher victims.

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• Movie poster for The Hills Have Eyes. Tagline: "A nice American family. They didn't want to kill. But they didn't want to die." Front and center in the poster is Michael Berryman, wearing a necklace made of spark plugs, bones, maybe a set of dentures, and other random objects. In the bottom left corner, an illustration of the family with their RV and wrecked station wagon

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

this kind of independent documentary gets a real boost from attendance during limited distribution, please come see it and share with your friends in NYC

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

Tonight's screening and some this week include Q&A with the (very talented) film maker and the Winner family. Tonight Reality joined by video!

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• A panel at the front of a movie theater. One panelist had a laptop sitting in her lap with Reality Winner appearing over Facetime. (remote)

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

Just had the chance to see REALITY WINNER, an incredibly powerful new documentary covering the very human story of an important whistleblower. Highly recommended, in NYC for the next week https://www.ifccenter.com/films/reality-winner-3/