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

31. Witch's Night Out (1978). I remember loving this as a kid but I had completely forgotten about it until a random tumblr post unlocked some memories a few months ago. Very late 70s in a charming way.

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• Poster for Witch's Night Out. A night time scene. At the top, the witch grins and holds a magic wand with a glowing tip. Down in front, the wolfman, Frankenstein and ghost forms of the kids and their babysitter.

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

Who loves salmon?
I do!
Who knows how to take care of salmon fisheries?
Not the Army Corps of Engineers.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/01/killing-salmon-to-lose-money-deserves-a-deeper-analysis/

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• 006f856b95bcf5a5.jpg (remote)

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

Spy Kids 2 having an unexpectedly heavy moment.

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

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

-- Dr. Romero

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

I saw coyote on my run this morning, slipping in and out of the shadows. I hadn't seen 'em in a while. I've been worried, but they're still here. I always feel better when I see coyote. You know... As long as we keep our distance.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Seriously State of #React survey? Sending a link with a tracking URL?
#NoWay

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I’ve found my new favorite ringtone

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• An Earl Grey tea bag by the company called Ringtons on a saucer of a tea cup.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

OMG. This is both insane, and rings horribly true: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear."

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

it's crazy to think about the fact that I bought a new guitar a long time ago and now have a vintage guitar

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csprng@fosstodon.org ("Steve Sprang") wrote:

I finally finished this article! "Going Retro with Langton's Ant"

A comparison of Langton's ant on a Commodore 64, 68000-based Macintosh, and terminal emulator.

https://nybble.org/langtons-ant/

#retrocomputing #c64 #68kMac

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digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Love this iskwē song!

https://iskwe.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-it-all #music

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

The one downside to shooting pics with a real camera and post processing #raw photos is that you will likely only see my obligatory picture of a pumpkin no sooner than tomorrow. There may also be a witch present...

#halloween

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

A very happy Halloween to all those who recognize KitKat as the best candy.

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andybaio@xoxo.zone ("Andy Baio") wrote:

Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

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

I'm spending Halloween all alone. Well, with an evil cat. I hope I survive.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/31/oh-no-im-home-alone/

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• Spooky house (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

For the first time in a country that celebrates Halloween during Halloween and I like it.

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• 3 orange carved pumpkins on grey stone in rainy weather.

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porsupah@lgbt.io ("Shy bunny") wrote:

ICYMI, Duran Duran just released a new Halloween album, Danse Macabre. ^_^

https://music.apple.com/us/album/danse-macabre/1701717246

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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

Happy Halloween 🎃

Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin.

#pumpkin #JackOLantern #halloween #Astrodon #astronomy

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• Two carved pumpkins, lit from within, photographed at night. The larger pumpkin is carved with a detailed, stylized image of the sun including prominances that arc off the limb of the sun. The smaller pumpkin is carved like a planet, resembling a stylized Jupiter. (remote)

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mcnees ("Robert “the Bobby Yaga” McNees") wrote:

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815.

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~.

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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• Black and white photo of Karl Weierstrass in his later years. His white hair is receding, longer in the back, and he is wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt underneath.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The adult children of Donald Trump begin to appear on the stand this week in the New York civil fraud trial. Eric will once more prove how absolutely brilliant he is, and Don Jr. will show the world that he is just a chill, cool guy. Ivanka is set for next week, but she keeps hoping an asteroid hits first.

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

Andrew Ng a professor at Stanford who taught machine learning to people like Sam Altman of Open AI and who also co-founded Google Brain has called bullshit on AI doomerism.

Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competition in the AI market.

Crippling Open Source models is one outcome of this effort that’s succeeding.

https://www.afr.com/technology/google-brain-founder-says-big-tech-is-lying-about-ai-human-extinction-danger-20231027-p5efnz

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croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

Wow, just worked a POTA activation in Florida on 10m from here in California. Definitely some QSB to deal with but I've had a lot worse! #hamradio

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chemjobber@mstdn.social ("Chemjobber") wrote:

The 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 415 tenure-track positions and 38 teaching positions: http://bit.ly/facultychemjobs2024 #facultychemjobs

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GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

⚠️Yet another #recall 🐶

Blue Ridge Beef has voluntarily recalled its Breeders Choice #2 dog food due to potential Salmonella contamination.

The recall was initiated by a sample of the impacted product testing positive for Salmonella.

There have been no confirmed illnesses linked to the ingestion of one of the products in question.

No other Blue Ridge Beef products are impacted by this recall. https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/blue-ridge-beef-issues-voluntary-recall-of-breeders-choice-2-dog-food/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HyperLogLog is super clever.

It can count any number of unique values in constant space (i.e. without storing the values) within a specified margin of error.

And HLLs can be merged to count unique number of values in both sets! So you can quickly count something like "unique number of requests per day", and combine these into "per month", and "per year", without storing a year worth of history.

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phonner@mathstodon.xyz ("Patrick Honner") wrote:

A new edition of "Linear Algebra Done Right" has been published, and the PDF is freely available for download on the Springer website.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41026-0

#math #LinearAlgebra #OER

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

https://youtu.be/NAM_yvCoJ44 (especially the part starting at 2:15)

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• f767623881703cd5.jpeg (remote)

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

She lives the poetry she cannot write. ~ Oscar Wilde

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

Don't be scared! Spiders probably won't eat you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/31/no-anthropophagy-among-spiders-yet-that-we-know-of/

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• Spiders eating vertebrates (remote)