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Reblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
🎄 ❄️ just a few days left for the 32-bit cafe's holiday event!
with a few different ways to participate, i have no doubt any last-minute (fellow) procrastinators can get something submitted by january 10th!
i'm finishing up my holiday page now on xandra.cc to submit - can't wait to see what everyone has done!
Mastodon FeedWhy, WHY do I like this show? I do like the cast— Cedric the Entertainer, Max Greenfield from New Girl, Tichina Arnold from Martin. But it's soooo sitcom-y.
I still find myself enjoying it. Maybe it's from a sense of nostalgia? Idk. Anyway, I'm binging it right now lol
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
secretsquirrel ("Ryan Bateman :blobpats:") wrote:
I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and it was remarkably painless for something so absolutely critical and that I need to work reliably, with zero additional friction, every single day.
I cannot stress enough how low-hassle it is to switch from Chrome to a browser with a business model that doesn't rely on tracking you.
Do it.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors"
Phil Karlton
a genius taken far too young
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattsheffield ("Matthew Sheffield") wrote:
According to Politico, Claudine Gay faced "plagiarism accusations" while Neil Gorsuch merely "borrowed" from other authors.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
For those keeping score at home.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dave_andersen@hachyderm.io ("David Andersen") wrote:
@CraigStuntz @mattblaze they're just flying out the doors
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The best way to get reminded that today is the anniversary of an ugly event is to see more insurrectionists getting arrested.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/06/i-just-noticed-the-date/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Holberg@mstdn.social ("Mats Holberg") wrote:
Shopping list I’m making just autocorrected ‘garam masala’ to something that sounds less edible.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
velobetty@toot.bike ("Elisabeth Anderson :bt:") wrote:
It's incredible how much space is given to a few people in motor vehicles vs so many more people on foot or wheels. It's a vast inequity.
Nowhere is this more stark than #ShibuyaCrossing; the world's busiest pedestrian crossing with as many as 3,000 people crossing at a time. Compared to around 12 cars fromone direction of the junction in one sequence. #Urbanism #CitiesForPeople
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
going back to work in January
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is the first time since I left theBirdSite that I've had a post gain any real reach. I've given up on guessing what will amuse folks... I know I have no clue
;^}
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lizstl13@mastodon.sdf.org ("Elizabeth Davidson") wrote:
@jsonstein
The panther is like a leopard
Except it hasn’t been
peppered
Should you behold a panther
crouch
Prepare to say Ouch
Better yet, if called by a
Panther,
Don’t antherOgden Nash
Wonderfully silly
Mastodon FeedMeta allows Facebook and Instagram ads saying 2020 election was rigged | The Guardian Nov 2023:
"The Tech Oversight Project decried the change in a statement: “We now know that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta will lie to Congress, endanger the American people, and continually threaten the future of our democracy,” said Kyle Morse, deputy executive director. “This announcement is a horrible preview of what we can expect in ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/06/meta-allows-facebook.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
greenaspen@mastodon.scot ("Andrew Thompson") wrote:
Zuckerberg has lifted a ban on ads claiming the 2020 US election was rigged. Here's how we fight back:
Sign the #petition here:
Mastodon FeedFYI: Will Blocking remain legal for all in the USA? Supreme Court to rule on issue. from Bob Wyman April 2023)
"If SCOTUS rules against blocking, might individuals with government roles be
barred from using instances that provide instance-level blocking or either
individuals or other instances?"I don’t know enough to have an opinion. But these SCOTUS cases are an interesting insight into how the US government may legislate ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/06/fyi-will-blocking.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
pseudonym@mastodon.online ("Pseudo Nym") wrote:
My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.
"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.
That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.
Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.
I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
On the upside, the Fed failed to drive up unemployment, so the economy-wide implications of rate hikes have not been disastrous.
But if anything should dissuade us that (most) C-suites have crystal balls that mortals do not, this oughta be it.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Obviously, some firms/projects were not great and needed to be culled. And a refocusing on revenue is super healthy; it's going to heal a lot of what has been broken in tech culture and tools and values.
But the *way* it played out, with CEO/CFO groupthink driving a panic...OMG. So, so, so dumb.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I'm now referring to the 2023 tech layoffs as "The Great Endumbening".
CEOs acquiesced to hedge fund pressure based on interest rate reset logic, taking no account of how poorly-done layoffs would affect competitive product velocity, culture, or their own reputations (which matter intensely in labour relations).
Above all, it forced nasty short-term decisions on teams that had been managing to longer time-scales, forcing everyone to stare at their shoes, not the horizon. So, so dumb.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
ash@acegiak.net ("Ash McAllan") wrote:
@fromjason@mastodon.social if the algorithmic content feed model is showing you the content you're most likely to interact with first, isn't that the same as "your first hit (of dopamine) is free (costs no scrolling) to get you hooked (keep scrolling more and more for less and less reward)" So no wonder we get more miserable and more locked in the longer we scroll such feeds.
Mastodon FeedI considered updating my robot.txt file today. It made me feel a certain kinda way— Iike I was in a Richard Matheson book.
Anyway, I signed up for buymeacoffee as a little experiment. I posted some thoughts on there about robots.txt files.
The post is free and open, and doesn't require login or anything like that. Feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts. #robotstxt #webcrawler #ChatGPT #openai
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fromjason/we-legend-some-thoughts-robots-txt
Mastodon FeedThe People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia:
"California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments."
Remember when we collectively agreed that our worst fear was a Trump who spoke like Obama? Yeah, I think those are just #technocrats.
https://newrepublic.com/article/177733/billionaire-solano-california-tech-secession
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SocraticEthics@mastodon.online ("Ukraine War Bulletins and News") wrote:
⚠️🇰🇵Ukraine verifying reports of North Korean ballistic missile supplies to Russia (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3809881-ukraine-verifying-reports-of-north-korean-ballistic-missile-supplies-to-russia.html #Ukraine #SouthKorea #Japan #USA #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottPoland #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoUSRepublicans2024
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we all owe the Lovings a big thank you for not just letting this insanity ride:
"On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty to both charges. The judge agreed to impose a suspended one-year prison sentence, so long as the couple left the state of Virginia for 25 years. Before entering judgment, Judge Leon Bazile condemned the Lovings' marriage and declared that God's decision to place the races on different continents demonstrated a divine intent to avoid intermarriage.
After their conviction and release, the Lovings relocated to Washington, D.C., but remained unsettled by their criminalization and exile. They later fought the law that had branded their love a crime and, on June 12, 1967, won a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down all bans on interracial marriage throughout the country."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
something is consuming this machine''s clock-ticks like crazy... time to poke around us restart the $%^&*
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:
Local subreddit is full of posts about loud "airplane" noises that have been happening in the evenings. How can anyone live IVO Redstone Arsenal and not recognize a rocket engine hotfire test? The roaring goes on all the time. It's like these folks had no idea where they were moving to. The first time I heard it, it was obvious to me what it was. #rockets #space #alabama
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes! 🐈⬛
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:
Breaking: FBI encourages all currently-unindicted January 6 participants to come to today’s January 6 Reunion, free food and chances to win door prizes.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("Kailee ♾️ 🇺🇦") wrote:
“The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it. At the crest of their popular strength, in July 1932, the National Socialists had attained but 37 per cent of the vote. But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to combine against a common danger which they must have known would overwhelm them unless they united, however temporarily, to stamp it out.”
—William Shirer
