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Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, we’re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/improving-the-quality-of-conversations-on-mastodon/

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

Oh. So the AI cultists are having a schism over doctrine? Makes sense, as much as any religion can make sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/22/what-is-going-on-with-openai/

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board.

And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now).

The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.

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

Sexy spider fights? I may have to set up pay-per-view.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/22/i-want-to-see-the-mighty-sex-battles/

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• Harvestman with gigantic palps (remote)

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

As demonstrated by Cyndi Lauper, the verb “bop” unusually conjugates the same in all persons and numbers. In this essay, I will prove that “bop” is a modal verb,

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brettcannon@fosstodon.org ("Brett Cannon") wrote:

Are you one of those people who think we should have a single packaging tool that the community rallies behind? Then take the Python developers survey and help drive the change you want! No one is going to rally around anything unless people see actual movement towards a single tool (or you might find out that your fav tool is not the one "winning" the race 😬).

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7554174/python-developers-survey-2023

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Well, `Any` is the enemy
So gimme, gimme revolution!

#Scala #GreenDay

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

Is this dozens of layers of potato, but mostly cream and butter? Like a potato croissant?

Oh yes.

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

The best turkey is Thomas Keller's recipe for "pavè potatoes" from "Ad Hoc at Home".

I will be taking no questions.

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• The reason this looks like beige cream is that it's 1/5th mm layers of potatoes in cream, salt, pepper, and rosemary (remote)

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Garrison@queer.party ("John Garrison") wrote:

how many zombies would rob zombie rob if rob zombie could rob zombies

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april@macaw.social ("April King") wrote:

other engineers today: writing code, closing tickets, etc.

me today: adding…

alias vasili="ping -c 1"

…to her .zshrc.

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queerthoughts@tech.lgbt ("Luna") wrote:

My pronouns are they/she, except if you're on Windows, then they're they\she

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golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:

Nothing to be sniffed at.

#ThanksGiving #holidays

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• Thanksgiving Tip: Never eat food offered by an adorable toddler relative. It might look like a cookie, but it's actually the flu. (remote)

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Apple is attempting to escape the obligations of the Digital Markets Act for iPad.

In our submission to the EU we outline why that would be a terrible outcome for both consumers and the Web.

It is critical that the Web be allowed to compete fairly and equally on every device.

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• It is critical that iPadOS be designated a gatekeeper. Allowing Apple to ignore all of the DMA obligations for such a significant segment of its ecosystem, will allow Apple great power to not only increase lock-in, reduce interoperability and hobble competition on iPad but also to curtail the effectiveness of the DMA with regards to Apple’s obligations on iPhone. - Open Web Advocacy

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB
📡
#AmateurRadio

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WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

This makes me laugh each time I see it.

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• A sign in box requesting your email address to sign into the New York Times under a headline reading “Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It."

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FirefoxPerf@mozilla.social ("Firefox Performance") wrote:

We’ve added markers in Firefox Profiler to indicate LargestContentfulPaint, which is now available in Firefox Nightly. This allows users to see LCP and other metrics directly on the profiles they capture. Here’s an example profile: https://share.firefox.dev/3G2wynn https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/LargestContentfulPaint

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ericphelps ("Eric Phelps") wrote:

Nothing exciting, just pics of the industrial area where I work (USA / California/ Sacramento). Yes, we still have leaves on the trees in late November!

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• A street with two lanes each way along with a center turning lane. The roads are wide not because if they amount of traffic, but to leave room for the big trucks. There are colorful trees lining the road.
• Solar powered car chargers in a government parking lot. I never see cars charging here.
• A giant electrical switching center across the street from my office. The whole thing spreads out maybe 500x1000 feet. It reminds me of the old movie "Forbidden Planet" because it's just so big.

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

"hey Cortana, define 'Streisand Effect'"

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/21/james-dyson-tells-libel-trial-daily-mirror-article-was-distressing-personal-attack

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paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers") wrote:

Fox News host’s '$90 Turkey' claim mocked as prices plunge in 'Thanksgiving miracle'

Jason Chaffetz has always been a bold face idiot and liar.

Kroger has turkeys for 49 cent per pound with a digital coupon and an order of $25.

Even without, turkeys are cheaper this year. Hell, everything seems to be. #USPol

https://www.alternet.org/fox-news-hosts-thanksgiving-miracle/

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• Kroger coupon (remote)

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

Unixbigot@aus.social ("Christopher Biggs") wrote:

“Why the long face?”

“Lost my job. The whole SETI institute got shut down.”

“Oh, I heard something about that, the new administration decided to stop wasting money trying to find aliens, yeah?”

“Oh no, we found them alright, a long detailed message in the fourteen-twenty megahertz band. Looks like it was beamed right at us from the edge of a small open cluster about eight hundred light years away. We call it the HOLY FUCK signal.“

“What?! Why haven’t I heard about this? What did the aliens say to us?”

“Well, that’s the problem. The message was sent AT us, but it wasn’t FOR us. It was for the previous tenants”

“Previous whatnow?”

“Look, the Earth is forty five hundred million years old. There’s plenty of time for alien visitors to have colonised the planet, flourished for a million years or more, then gone extinct and had every trace of their civilization erased by geological activity”

“And this message is for those dead dudes?”

“Exactly. It appears they mortgaged this planet. The HOLY FUCK signal is a foreclosure notice.”

#tootfic

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mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

What is clear is that Altman and Microsoft are in the driver seat of AI. Microsoft has the IP and will soon have the team to combine with its cash and infrastructure, while shedding coordination problems inherent in their partnership with OpenAI...

http://windowscopilot.news/2023/11/21/openais-misalignment-and-microsofts-gain/

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

it’s a real banner day for those of us who take massive amounts of psychic damage after simply reading the word “binance”

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temptoetiam@octodon.social ("Abie") wrote:

Why native prairies don't have Dust Bowl.
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2023/11/roots.html

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• A long banner hung in a museum showing native prairie grass with root system. The grass is ~1.5m tall, but the roots are easily twice that, and protect the prairie soil from erosion. (remote)

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

Another crypto con is sinking. Good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/11/21/crypto-is-disintegrating-before-our-eyes/

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• Changpeng Zhao, crooked. (remote)

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

This is how I imagine Americans make hamburgers and nothing will change my mind

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

graceghughes@zirk.us ("Grace Greggory Hughes") wrote:

When a nesting screech owl finds a Texas blind snake, they swiftly and carefully scoop it up and carry it back to the nest, but not as food for the young owlets—as a “house pet.”

Once installed in the nest, the Texas blind snake eats any insects that venture near, like a cat in charge of pest control.

Baby owlets with a Texas blind snake in the nest fare 50% or higher better than baby owlets without one. 4/

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openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

Palantir – the US spy tech company – has its hands on our medical data via the newly granted £480m NHS Federated Data Platform contract.

The #DataGrabBill will ease the way for unprecedented exploitation of our most sensitive data.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics #surveillance #NHS #palantir

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-privacy-fears-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir-wins-nhs-contract

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

this took me a while to understand, even though I'd been frustrated on both sides of it

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

sometimes anticipating and responding to a polite objection comes across as aggressive because then they have to cite a less polite objection