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@fromjason dril and gators daily are the only thing my masto feed is missing in comparison to ye olde bird site
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes!
Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" Oct 14, 1983
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Damn, I forgot to drop my SoundCloud. Here's my blog. I write about #tech, #design, #technocrats, #socialmedia and other stuff. Oh, and #Meta. I for sure write about them.
You may have seen a post or two on hacker news or Reddit. And I once trolled Rudy Giuliani so hard on Twitter that it made the news cycle. Fun times.
Anyway, if you do cool stuff and want me to follow you, just ask! I want to follow people who do cool stuff and things.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Waylon Jennings "The Conversation" on Oct 14, 1983
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Both also seem like Scientology for nerds, but with less thetans and more eugenics.
Mastodon FeedThere’s some interesting parallels between the Technocracy movement of the 1930s and 40s, and a contemporary movement known as Effective Altruism.
Both ideologies promise a techno-utopia, if only we’d give the world to its believers.
And both share some lineage— Joshua Norman Haldeman, 1940s director of Technocracy Inc, is the grandfather of Effective Altruism’s most powerful evangelist, Elon Musk.
What a gnarly litte coincidence.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Waylon Jennings "Lucille" Oct 14, 1983
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Waylon Jennings on Oct 14, 1983
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
theimagecaptioner@www.librepunk.club ("Image Caption Bot") wrote:
who did it better?
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- side by side screenshots of the new york times and nature (the journal) new york times headline: everyone wants your email address. think twice before sharing it. the article is blocked by a form that's making you fill in your email address nature title: the growing inaccessibility of science the paper is blocked by a paywall that is asking for $200 (remote)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Like, pick any one of the big tech layoff firms (except Meta; the metaverse thing they were burning cash on was obviously doomed) and then check their cash-on-hand and stock buybacks for for previous decade to get a sense of what was "necessary". By no means unique, but here's t3h g00g:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/cash-on-hand
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- Google spends more than $10BN/quarter on stock buybacks. (remote)
- Google's cash-on-hand is above $100BN (remote)
- [The only thing that had moved in the "wrong direction" was share price to free cash flow ratios. In other words, interest rate shocks discounted the expected future profitability, but there was no actual decline in profits.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/price-fcf][9] ([remote][10])
- [Net income was only reverting to the mean, not actually hitting dangerous territory, particularly as a percentage. If there was a crisis, it would have taken a lot longer than execs gave it to call.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-profit-margin][11] ([remote][12])
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jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
"An npm user named PatrickJS, aka gdi2290, threw us a curveball. He (along with a group of contributors) kicked off the year with a bang, launching a troll campaign that uploaded an npm package aptly named everything. This package, true to its name, depends on every other public npm package, creating millions of transitive dependencies.
The everything package and its 3,000+ sub-packages have caused a Denial of Service (DOS) for anyone who installs it."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
@dumpsterqueer @fromjason
I would appreciate much more something like p(have a good time), p(learned something interesting) or p(become better person), but I understand those leeches cannot sell ads for inner peace, civic engagement or community organization.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:
You think automotive engineers ever go “good thing im an automotive engineer because it would be a fucking nightmare to drive this thing if I wasn’t” anyway that’s what working in IT is like
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this was seriously Not A Good Move
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ucaccessnow@sfba.social ("UC Access Now") wrote:
Via @MiBaWi with alt text added. #SantaBarbara #CAwx
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- Freedom Warming Centers Santa Barbara County The Warming Centers are Opening Sunday - January 7th Santa Barbara North County Hours: 6pm to 6am Please be respectful of our host sites other activities and plan to arrive no earlier than 6:00pm Santa Maria Atkinson Center - 1000 North Railroad Lompoc No Activation - Weather criteria not met Santa Barbara South County Hours: 6pm to 6am Please be respectful of our host sites other activities and plan to arrive no earlier than 6:00pm Santa Barbara No Activation - Weather Criteria Not Met Carpinteria No Activation - Weather Criteria Not Met Warming Center Hotline 805 - 324 - 2372 Good Samaritan Shelter (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Jerry@hear-me.social ("Jerry Lerman") wrote:
@indivisibleteam Small correction. The 500-character Mastodon post limit is per server. Mastodon.social is 500, while my instance is 12,000. Infosec.exchange, if I'm correct, is 11,000. So choosing an instance with a larger posting limit means the platform can be used for microblogging, and is less frustrating at times when 500 characters are just not enough. This is another Mastodon advantage.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's gratifying to see folks like @zachleat discovering how to use the composable bits we built for Web Components as stand-alone tools. It was an explicit design goal for each of , `class`, Custom Elements, and Shadow DOM to "pay their own way"; to be independently useful.
In that spirit, I'm loving this DSD reuse by @passle. Composable primitives FTW!:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Cool, out-of-order streaming without using JS to swap out content, but instead using DSD. Pretty nice. (the script tag in there is the sw registration)
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anneapplebaum@journa.host ("Anne Applebaum") wrote:
On the anniversary of January 6, reposting this, from 2020. On complicity. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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
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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.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
For those keeping score at home.
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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/
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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.
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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
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
going back to work in January
