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alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:

Voting on the @bevy game jam #4 has wrapped up! Check out https://itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-4/results for the results, and to try the games out for yourself!

Congratulations to  AndrewB330 and Gnomus042 for their winning entry: "**That's a LOT of beeeeees"! **Please contact Cart for your sweet sweet reward of forbidden Bevy swag. We're still looking for a better supplier.

Sixfold (my wonderful partner and cofounder of Leafwing Studios) and I spent some time playing the top entries: stick around to hear more!

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

probably-final version of slideset for preso on JS8 / JS8Call I'm giving tomorrow night posted at https://www.well.com/~jeffs/RARA/ in various formats. they are not my talk, they are what I will talk from... what I will riff off of.

feel free to tune in by getting a meeting link from here: https://rochesterham.org/club_meetings.htm

#AmateurRadio 📡

There Will Be Demo

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• "Disaster Girl" image/meme (remote)

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

pomological@botsin.space ("fruit toots") wrote:

prosperity strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1902

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Reblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):

bengo wrote:

"Throughout this process, Meta has repeatedly sought to delay proceedings and use its influence to attempt to strongarm the regulator from making public further damning evidence that Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, knew about British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica much earlier—January 2017—than when he told Congress he first became aware in March 2018. "

https://facebook-receipts.the-citizens.com/2023/10/02/rfob-gains-access-to-latest-zuckerberg-sec-transcripts-in-cambridge-analytica-case/

Reblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):

bengo wrote:

"First, I feel you. I get it. Everything around us that falls in the pro-Meta sentiment feels impossibly coordinated. Talking points and amplification from the “everything is awesome” camp are targeted and highly visible. Conversely, resistance feels scattered and unorganized. It feels like we’re not making progress. It feels like we’re just talking and not taking action.

But we are making progress. And we can continue doing so if we all keep talking."

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

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

done with this week's usual local voice net on 50.250MHz

4 of us this time around, which is about right for chatting

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

sanbornmaps@palewi.re ("Random Sanborn Maps") wrote:

Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn00747_004/

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

It's insane how many games I've played since then that decided to borrow THIS particular mechanic. It feels way too demanding of your time for a genre of games that sell themselves as cozy or relaxing.

The most recent offender I've found is Potion Permit. The only thing that makes this slightly more tolerable than Stardew is that alchemists have much less rigidly scheduled lives than farmers, so it's fine to just cut the day short.

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

So HN is a reading comprehension test where folks who fail are forced to post comments.

Do I have that right?

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

⏳ Application deadline is Jan 11 for Santa Fe Imstitute’s Undergraduate Complexity Research program!

Ready for a new mindset and ways of thinking? Feed your intellectual curiosity & challenge your limits.

$7k stipend + room, board, & travel.

Apply now: apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/ucr2024/

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

tutormentor1 wrote:

@hrheingold

I've been using #ConceptMaps, built using cMapTools, since 2005.

Since my maps are layers of information, w links to external websites & other cMaps, & many people might not dig through all the layers, I created this page to show my collection. https://tutormentorexchange.net/conceptmaps

In these I embed geographic maps of #Chicago, where I've focused my efforts. Thus, I encourage others in different cities, to create their own maps, based on their on research and borrowing from work I've done.

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• This concept map is part of a collection created since 2005 by Dan Bassill, via the Tutor/Mentor Connection (1993-present) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC (2011-present). Follow the lines connecting the top middle blue box, to nodes on the maps, to read the message. In this case, going to the left it reads "my goal is to help kids in high poverty areas move from birth to work with help if volunteers they meet via organized tutor/mentor programs" To the right it says "supports the involvement of workplace volunteers in comprehensive, volunteer-based programs, located in poverty neighborhoods, where youth who NEED help, are able to connect with long-term tutor/mentor programs, learning resources, a network of adults and one-on-one tutors and mentors."

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

the Housepanther 🐈‍⬛ is marching back and forth in front of the treat-jar chanting “Food Now!”… if he starts waving a sign, I’m running for the hills.

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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

lilPWA@tech.lgbt ("Lil PWA") wrote:

Did you know PWAs can implement shortcuts? They can, and it works on desktop and mobile!!

https://web.dev/articles/app-shortcuts

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

Tagging one of the most powerful people at #Meta to make them aware of a conversation about the company's unethical practices sure feels like an intimidation tactic. If it is, then hey, it's working! I'm sufficiently intimidated. If it's not, then the inventor of the hashtag should probably know better?

We learned about Meta's intentional amplification of contentious content because of a whistleblower.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/3/22707860/facebook-whistleblower-leaked-documents-files-regulation

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• Screen shot of comments on Threads: jasondotgov: All the transphobic, race-baity, and overall contentious posts on all our feeds seems more like a feature than a bug. I'd really be suspicious if Meta was known to manipulate our moods and behaviors with algorithmic amplification. chris: Could be. I wouldn't put it past them either, but I'm still more inclined to believe that blackbox algorithms work on mysterious ways to put content in front of us that causes is to engage, rather than Meta choosing rage-inducing content just to spike short term engagement. IIRC @mosseri has said that such an approach would not lead to sustained growth, and that showing content that fits people's interest would keep them around longer (though a dearth of content may ultimately inhibit that).

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

I'm never escaping the "touch grass" allegations 😭 ❤️

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• Screenshot of email I received: While writing this out, I think I figured out why I couldn't engage with your piece: it is completely unrelateable to me. It is written for other techeratti -- those so plugged into the internet and the digital world, that they lose all connection to others unlike them. I am no longer one of those sorts. I'm busy living out in the real world, dealing with real people, and real problems (see: the war in Ukraine). People are being bombed, lives destroyed: and here I find a think peace about what can essentially be boiled down to a power struggle between people vying for things that don't exist nor matter. There is a
• Screen shot of a post script included in all my posts. It identifies the audience I'm writing to: Assumed audience: fediverse † Article's assumed audience (AAA) Sometimes, lidentify who l'm writing for as a way to provide context. It's like saying, "I'm using a lot of technical terms because I wrote this post for frontend developers," or "Sorry if I'm getting too symmetrical, this one's for my Wes Anderson fans." But, all are welcomed, always. If you're not in this article's intended audience, but you find this article interesting, wonderful! Please stick around, read the post, and feel free to ask me questions.

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

New year, same question: why is the tech press whiffing the app store story of the decade?

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since #CasualtiesOfCool was released. I've listened to that album about 110 times since then. If I remember correctly, this was the first song anyone heard, as a preview on their PledgeMusic campaign. PledgeMusic doesn't even exist anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE9au9zL3_Q

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

The I in LLM stands for intelligence

On how people now use AI to submit security reports on #curl.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

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

So much of my life as a web developer is spent making things work in Safari that already work like they should in every other browser.

(Today's example: blending color with transparency, which doesn't even work right with the new `color-mix` function.)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

@slightlyoff

You can use this Wikipedia dataset to plot adoption rate of new browser releases:

https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/OJoVqXm

Prior analysis: https://timotijhof.net/posts/2023/browser-adoption/

#browserstats

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

In response to me asking what he's been up to, my 5 year old nephew replied, "getting haircuts and crying."

That was four Christmases ago, and I still think about it to this day.

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

this is such an important story that does not get enough attention because the "porn" headline is so salacious. individual US states legislating access to parts of the web is a big deal and only likely to get worse https://www.404media.co/north-carolina-montana-pornhub-blocked-vpn/

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

New post: The Web is Fantastic https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/

This is a post I've been trying to write for a while and it's a bit all over the place but if I don't post it now it will live in purgatory forever

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:

Who cares about Steamboat Willie entering public domain?? More importantly, the original The Man who Laughs by Paul Leni is also PD now, a beautiful movie that hasn't lost one beat of its original emotions in almost a hundred years. (also yes, Joker origin story blah blah)
One from YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOafkOi4q4

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• Conrad Veldt covering his mouth with hands while a woman rests on him in The Man who Laughs.

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

Apparently my website went down this morning. I'm on the phone with the CEO of the internet and I gave them the ok to add the most powerful servers they have. #djkhaled #wtb

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• DJ Khaled red jacket talking on phone, with luxury car and classical architecture in background. Instagram user interface elements visible. Caption reads: I'm on the phone wit the CEO of ITunes he's telling me khaled #iwannabewithu only been on iTunes for thour and u selling like crazy my staff is telling me the servers is about shut down I gave them the ok to add the most powerful servers to handle this #wannabewith congrats looks like more plaks for U khaled #sufferingfromsuccess #wtb

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0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

Are there any OpenGraph tags (or anything similar) to indicate posts in a series or maybe just a single followup post? So, for instance, a news outlet can post an news story and then a few months later, they can write a followup post and update the original with links to the followup. That way social media sites that are using OpenGraph for previews could indicate that there’s been an update to the post.

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

gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:

As a U.S. Army veteran I don’t understand how any of my fellow veterans — who were willing to fight and die for their country and swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic” — are now willing to throw all of it away by supporting an insurrectionist who has made it clear he intends to dismantle everything that makes this country great if he becomes President again.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

Son, grandson, muppet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/02/three-generations/

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

Is it me, or is Elsa kind of toxic?

I mean, in both movies, she spends all her time not listening to anyone around her, shutting people out until she needs them, and creating disasters by reacting to things the wrong way, all just to swoop in and play the hero by cleaning up her own mess in the end.

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

Does this look like science to you? Then get help.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/02/every-time-i-regret-examining-the-creationist-literature/

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