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retr0id@retr0.id ("David Buchanan") wrote:

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• the trolley problem meme, but the track forks 3 ways, and then there's a second set of junctions that could switch from one of any of the 3 tracks to one of the other 2. at the end of the tracks are 3 barriers marked with question marks, and behind them are a goat, a car, and another goat (remote)

bendingoutward wrote:

I can't be the only one that thinks "will it be trucks or the reanimated dead" every time this headline pops up.

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• Giant Comet Will Fly by the Earth and Will Be Visible in the Night Sky

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Video for my latest love letter to HashiCorp is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5bC20NTQ0

bendingoutward wrote:

One thing I honestly hate about myself is my tendency toward the feeling of schadenfreude.

Having said that, lolokta.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Can I get 10.5 million dollars to develop unnecessary doodad for a useless thing? I promise when it fails, I'll return some of the money back.

https://mastodon.social/@web3isgreat@indieweb.social/111269242099718770

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

And then there's a 30 minute talk about my work on the `AsyncContext` TC39 proposal, which lets you have state which is local to an asynchronous flow of control, and about how it should be integrated with web APIs and with Chrome's task attribution effort.

Video: https://youtu.be/60-8DGUx1VY

Slides: https://abotella.pages.igalia.com/async-context-integration/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

The first is a 3-minute lightning talk giving some updates on the work I've been doing on `line-clamp`, with prototype implementations in Chromium, and in the discussions about it in the CSS Working Group.

Video: https://youtu.be/ycWhFbKSDEI?t=2310

Slides: https://abotella.pages.igalia.com/line-clamp-2023/

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

This week at BlinkOn I gave two talks about the two different projects I'm working on at Igalia, and the videos for both of them are already up on the BlinkOn Youtube channel.

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

"New York judge threatens to jail Trump for ‘blatantly’ violating gag order."

Why TF our entire legal and political system is so afraid of actually, finally doing it? Any other person would've been locked up a long time ago. He's already done more than enough. It's just embarrassing now.

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

🍿🍿🍿

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/20/us/house-speaker-vote-jim-jordan?unlocked_article_code=1.4Ew.bcgp.j-4GIwm9TkPm&smid=url-share

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's #dota2 #ti12 time.

https://twitch.tv/dota2ti

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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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• KKK asshole and burning crosses (remote)

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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• 78e74749e593dd4f.jpg (remote)

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.

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

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/