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

Every Aaron Peskin is a policy failure:

https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/04/san-francisco-sue-california-housing/

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@MichaelPorter @dendari @dangrsmind

When a student arrives in my class with messed up ideas about numbers it's hard to know if they had a bad teacher, a teacher with no resources, or if they just didn't listen. (If I had a dime for every time a student claimed "but Mr. X said " and I know Mr. X and he DID NOT say that. LOL.)

I make no assumptions.

I want to teach my students how to squeeze learning out of even the worst teachers they will face.

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SocraticEthics@mastodon.online ("Ukraine War Bulletins and News") wrote:

⛔️🇮🇷Iran is primary military target for Ukraine as Russia plans to buy ballistic missiles from Iran (more) https://kyivindependent.com/wsj-russia-plans-to-buy-ballistic-missiles-from-iran/ #Ukraine #Press #News #russia #Iran #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottPoland #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Publish a news radar

https://open.substack.com/pub/robingood/p/be-the-news-publish-a-newsradar-trust

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

spotlightonpod@social.lol ("Spotlight On") wrote:

"Hip-hop got its start in a Bronx apartment building 50 years ago. The concept of home has been at the center of the genre ever since."

Home Is Where the Heart of Hip-Hop Is: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/07/realestate/hip-hop-music-lyrics-homes.html?mwgrp=c-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.KE0.Bbg6.hfo4YOxwxwEZ&smid=url-share

#HipHop #MusicHistory #RapMusic #HipHopHistory

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• In October, the city of Vallejo, Calif., named a portion of Magazine Street after E-40 who posed with a sign in front of his childhood home. In his 2015 album “Poverty And Prosperity,” the song titled “Magazine Street” illustrated the difficulty of life there. Repping the Bay Area has remained central to his music even today, as seen in his high-energy, dance-filled 2023 music video “The Bay.” (remote)

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

so now ISIS is claiming the bombing bombing attack that killed 84 people in Kerman, Iran, on Wednesday? interesting, the way so many folks ass-umed it was the Israelis.

as my DI used to scream in my face (spittle and all)

"When you ass-ume you just put a ass before you and me" (his lesson: assumptions about the situation can get [the wrong] people killed)

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

But.. but… Trump said he eradicated #ISIS. 🙄

“Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for two explosions that killed nearly 100 people and wounded scores at a ceremony in #Iran to commemorate commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone in 2020”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-attacks-that-killed-nearly-100-people-iran-2024-01-04/

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edwiebe@mstdn.ca ("Ed Wiebe") wrote:

"The high number of species found in our study therefore highlights the value of small, weedy, minimally disturbed patches of habitat within an urban matrix."

#Saanich #VictoriaBC

https://mstdn.ca/@edwiebe/111698635878605648

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

'The Constitution prohibits a president from accepting money, payments or gifts “of any kind whatever” from foreign governments and monarchs unless he obtains “the consent of the Congress” to do so. The report notes that Mr. Trump never went to Congress to seek consent.' https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/us/politics/trump-hotels-foreign-business-report.html?mwgrp=c-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.LE0.-OAG.rBBLm1iOEq4v&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share

"Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

'Emolument is a salary, fee, or profit received as a compensation for services, either from employment or from holding office.

In the context of Constitutional Law an emolument is “any perquisite, advantage, profit arising from the possession of an office”' https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/emolument

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

If you've read "Poor Superman" by Fritz Leiber you might recognize the person they've got writing a science (!!!) column for the WaPo -- hyper-optimism, fantasy technology, no grounding in reality.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/04/willy-ley-would-be-proud-of-this-kind-of-hyper-optimistic-space-nonsense/

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• space concert! (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("vanta: cyberpunk.lol admin :HackerCat: :heart_cyber:​") wrote:

(please boost!!!)

i need help finding a job that doesn't suck, online or in seattle

i'm vanta -- longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, and all-around creative person

i'm looking for something that isn't as super demanding, or public-facing, or low-paying as fast food. that is literally my only criteria lol

part-time probably, but i wouldn't say no to full if the situation was right

resume available upon request

tysm 🖤

#GetFediHired #FediHired

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

For any engineer of any level who's currently going through job interviews and needs to hear this:

Don't even think of evaluating your self-worth by a result of an hour-long coding interview. It's a broken idea, they have little to do with engineering, and people conducting them mostly don't care.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Finally if you, like me, occasionally encounter some individual in tech giving a treatise on how a history of minor group differences on highly selected cognitive tasks represent some "natural" division of ability that he takes to be predictive of all work possible in a domain (a certain memo from a large tech company comes to mind), you can thwack the citations in this work down on them & say it's really too bad those same tasks in other contexts show evidence for deficit in privilege.

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities

https://privacy.thenexus.today/the-free-fediverses-should-emphasize-networked-communities/

Here's how @lrhodes describes the Networked Communities view:

"instances are valuable for the relations and interactions they facilitate locally AND for their ability to connect you to other parts of the network."

By contrast, @evanprodromou notes that "Big Fedi" advocates typically see instances as typically see the instance as "mostly a dumb pipe." But The Networked Communities view aligns much better with the free fediverses' values – as does the "Social Archipelago" view @noracodes sketches in The Fediverse is Already Dead. Not only that, it's good strategy!

@fediversenews #fediverse #threads #fedipact

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

aaaaaaand of course there was a typo:

*ntp* (Network Time Protocol) not *nntp* (Network News Transfer Protocol)

will correct master & republish tomorrow…

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

JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

How QR codes are made:

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• It's a gif with someone generating a qr code by playing tetris with the black parts (so laying down each black tetris piece one by one, badly)

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TheManilaTimes ("The Manila Times") wrote:

(UPDATE) AT least 17 provinces in Luzon will experience drought by the end of January due to the effects of the El Niño phenomenon, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said on Wednesday.

READ: https://tmt.news/1926559

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

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

Police in New Jersey have spent at least $15 million in federal COVID relief funds buying surveillance cameras from a company that’s been rebranding banned Chinese surveillance tech used to surveil Uyghur people https://www.404media.co/new-jersey-used-covid-relief-funds-to-buy-banned-dahua-chinese-surveillance-cameras/

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

Niklaus Wirth inspired me with the clarity of his writing and thinking. multiple generations of coders learned how to think about programs as data structures plus algorithms from him. multiple generations of language creators learned how to think about the structure of computer languages from him. and I would not have spent the last half-century coding and making things if I had not encountered his works.

the loss of Prof Wirth saddens me.

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

dave@social.masto.land ("Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto") wrote:

Niklaus Wirth, Inventor of Pascal, Dies At 89.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/01/04/0126247/niklaus-wirth-inventor-of-pascal-dies-at-89

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

preso on JS8/JS8Call went well https://www.well.com/~jeffs/RARA/

#AmateurRadio 📡

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

The first and last Time Magazine covers for 1999.

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• Time magazine cover 1999: depicts Jesus with an A frame on his body that reads: The End of the world?? Jesus is walking through chaotic streets of a large city.
• Time Person of the year cover: Jeff Bezos poking his head out what appears to be a pile of letters and books.

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

From Dec/05/2000: News paper headline. 😂

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• Daily Mail, Tuesdays, December 5, 2000 The headline reads: Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it' On the right side of the headline, there is a picture of someone browsing the Internet on a PC.

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

waka waka

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

Ever notice how Tesla's logo looks like an IUD? What a bad association. One is the best way to ensure you never procreate, and the other is an IUD.

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• Fozzy bear wearing a hat and a neckerchief, standing in front of a microphone with a brick wall in the background. He's staring into the crowd waiting for a response.

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

Do you ever wonder if we’re entering a golden age of blogging? And if so, that maybe it’s due in no small part to the rise of generative AI? I do. A lot.

Similar to how MP3s brought back vinyl, AI prose exemplifies what the digital written word was missing— warmth.

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

EveryoneShouldBlog.txt | the library of alexandra:

"someone recently commented that their life was too boring to blog about. i vehemently disagree. you could stay at home, staring at the ceiling for 12 hours a day, and i would still wonder what you think about."

2024 vibes. https://library.xandra.cc/everyone-should-blog/

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

‘Fake’ Amazon workers defend company on Twitter (2021):

"Amazon has previously used this handle for its so-called Amazon Ambassadors - real employees who are paid by the firm to promote and defend it on Twitter."

Wondering why Meta’s PR/comms would coordinate a swarm of employee-led anti-Apple posts on Threads? Me too. Anyone have Bezos' phone number? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266

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shawnhooper@fosstodon.org ("Shawn Hooper (he/him)") wrote:

Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal programming language, author of "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs", and more, passed away on January 1.

Wirth's law, named after him, is an adage which states that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware gets faster.

#programming #computerscience

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

Bloktoberfest— Some anticlimactic thoughts on blocking: I wrote some drivel on the rising trend of social media blocking, with no particular conclusions other than Musk and Zuck tend to react similarly to some things. https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bloktoberfest-some-anticlimactic-thoughts-on-blocking/