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dangoodin@infosec.exchange ("Dan Goodin") wrote:

I didn’t join Mastodon until after we launched 404 Media. I joined, frankly, because lots of people told me that we should. Mastodon had been decried by many (me, previously), as a social media platform that is too complicated or weird to sign up for. I had also convinced myself that people on Mastodon would be mad at me if I made jokes, which has (mostly) not been the case.

I’ve now been using it for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be. If you have been remotely interested in Mastodon but had reservations about joining because you thought it would be difficult, confusing, or otherwise annoying, it is not.

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111267767499186874

Another hit by Oobah Butler
(https://www.oobahbutler.com)

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

* some nerds

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

it's genuinely charming that nerds like absurdist comedy so much they learn prominent examples by rote and then recite them like priests doing mass

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

jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

I wrote about my first two months on Mastodon. I was a Mastodon hater because I thought it would be weird, complicated, or dead. It's been none of those things.

I'm ashamed I didn't join earlier and I'm ashamed I haven't been telling people to join it, because it's a version of the internet and social media I've long advocated for with my reporting: decentralized, portable, user controlled, not corporate:

https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/

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

This is a really bad choice of a Halloween costume.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/20/the-halloween-incident-of-1993/

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

Despite that I jumped on the bundle of the rest of the Higurashi games when it finally went on sale again yesterday. I'm really curious about the "answer" arcs that are supposed to start with Higurashi 5: Meakashi.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Oh no, my Dropbox invite link from 2011 doesn't work anymore.

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

thank you, Trooper Bauer

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

For all the reductionists who think sex is a simple one-dimensional binary question, read what the neuroendocrinologists say.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/20/the-neuroendocrinologists-strike-back/

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• Many things involved in deconstructing sex (remote)

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Günstig bis kostenlos an Möbel kommen https://christoph.miksche.org/guenstig-bis-kostenlos-an-moebel-kommen/

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

Ken Ham thinks scientists have made pigeons racist because they don't listen to enough Beethoven. I don't make this stuff up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/20/ken-ham-sees-racist-pigeons/

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• Darwin's pigeons (remote)

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

I've been replaying the first 3 higurashi games in preparation for doing the rest of them and even though I enjoyed the first 3, I'm not tearing into 4 quite like I thought I would.

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

I'm sort of in the mood to rewatch some mid-century romantic dramas. Morocco, Terminal Station, Roman Holiday.

Actually I should also get to the ones from Sirk I haven't seen yet

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

I'm not exaggerating with those titles. And the people who hit like on these things are also part of the problem. It takes a village to ruin a website

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• Screencap of letterboxd showing 3 different lists: "All Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd - From 1894... (Year By Year - A Neverending Work in Progress)," which contains 31,684 films; "Criterion Collection Extras & Bonuses," which contains 1,251 films; "The Exhaustive List of Movies Featuring Trains & Locomotives," with 1,156 films.

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

letterboxd's feature that shows you the most popular lists that contain a given movie is basically useless because the first 20 are all titled like "Every movie ever," "Every horror movie ever," "Weird movies", etc.

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

19. Totally Killer (2023). Back to the Future as a slasher horror comedy. Kiernan Shipka is such a great fit for this Buffy the Vampire Slayer archetype.

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• Movie poster for Totally Killer. The background is neon yellow. An image of the killer wearing a mask that looks a bit like Beavis takes up most of the frame. He's holding a knife with the flat of the blade toward the camera, tip pointed down. Kiernan Shipka is superimposed over the blade, and the edge seems to merge with her jacket. Behind her, an image of "Quantum Drop," a Gravitron-like carnival ride.

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Jon Stewart ending his Apple TV show because Apple got uncomfortable about him talking about China tells you everything you need to know about Apple.

A company that says “Privacy is a human right” when it means tilting the mobile ads landscape in their favor but then is AWOL when it comes to actual human rights.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewart-the-problem-ends.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Now would be a good time for all European politicians and journalists to setup accounts on Mastodon.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-considers-removing-x-platform-europe-over-eu-law-insider-2023-10-18/

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dasharez0ne@mas.to wrote:

I WANT TOO GO BACK - HTTPS://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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• A SKELTON FLOATEN IN THERE OWN INTERNAL SPACE THINKEN ABOUT HOW DA COMPUTER USED TO BE A SECRET PLACE WHERE YOU ONLEY HAD FUN , NO STRESS NO JOBS NO COPS NO BOSSES NO HATERS JUST CLICKEN AROUND ON WEB SITES AND DOWNLOADEN SOME WAREZ AND PORNO'S, TRY TO GET THE GUY FROM QWOP TO MOVE ,WATCH SOME FLASH ANIMATION'S GO TOO STUMBLE APON,SCREAMEN MODEM TRYEN TO REACH THRU DA UNIVERSE TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE ,NOW EVERY TIME YOUR SHIT BUZZES ITS BAD NEWS OR SOME ONE CRAWLEN UP YOUR ASS ,PUT ME INSIDE OFF AN OLD COMPUTER ITS WHERE I BELONG ,BERRY MY ASS IN A COMODORE 64 OR IBM, PLAY THE BAD ASS SONG FROM DOOM AT MY FUNGERAL, AND DA TEXT SAYS "I WANT TOO GO BACK TOO WHEN COMPUTER'S WHERE FUN" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"We used to leak kilobytes, then megs, then even gigs. Now, we leak EC2 instances. Someday, we'll leak entire datacenters."

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

ditto

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ksawatsky@ottawa.place ("Kyle Sawatsky") wrote:

Won't someone please think of the AirBnb landlords? Everyone knows housing investments are supposed to be risk free!

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/i-just-hope-my-investment-doesnt-come-crashing-down-on-me-airbnb-owner-responds-to-proposed-crackdown

Housing Minister goes hard, it's great. "There’s a lot of ways for investors to make money, and what we’re saying is that our valuable housing stock is not the place you should be doing it. You should probably be thinking about a new profit scheme in the very near future."

#housing #AirBnb

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Day three of #BlinkOn 18 (the last day) is now under way, and we have two talks on today’s schedule — one from @andreu and one from @bkardell and @stubbornella.

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• Igalia @ BlinkOn 18 Integration of task attribution and AsyncContext → Andreu Botella History of the Web → Brian Kardell w/ Nicole Sullivan (remote)

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dee@treehouse.systems ("dee 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

a South Korean cafe called Cafe Florida has made the perfect desert and the video is mesmerising 😹

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bmay@mastodon.sdf.org ("Brendan May") wrote:

I daily see how Brexit happened.

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

Oh god. I have a committee meeting over zoom in an hour. You know, a sniper could set up on top of the town water tower and have a clear shot into my office, & could end it all.

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

Retirement plans all sorted now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/19/thats-what-i-could-do-in-my-retirement/

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

17 more to go: "Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start... Powell will also be required to testify at future trials"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/sidney-powell-fulton-county-georgia-2020-election-subversion/index.html

h/t @Teri_Kanefield

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geeksam@ruby.social ("Sam Livingston-Gray") wrote:

Weighted Companion Cube e-bike cargo box: functionally complete! (The bike, in case you're curious, is a Scorpion X by Juiced Bikes, and if you want an electric moped, I can heartily recommend it.)

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