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

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.

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

digiphile ("Alex Howard") wrote:

Almost 10 hours later, I am mostly satisfied.

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

sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:

Speaking of complex systems; today's systems are so complicated, both in terms of overarching societal, financial, and political systems as well as the ones that fit into our pocket and allow access, that we have entered what is basically a new age of superstition.

It not only yields new rituals that are essentially the old with new ingredients, but also contributes to a sense of being overwhelmed at all times, which in turn leads to a retreat into an idealised past in which things were supposedly simple.

That is only going to get worse, in the next decade or so, in no small part because some are actively trying to make it so.

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

TonyStark@progressivecafe.social ("Tony the Mechanic") wrote:

Inside the MAGA bubble, the economy is awful, no one has a job, and Biden is asleep.

In the land of reality and statistics, the economy is doing well and Americans are better off. One reason why is that Democrats and Joe Biden are better at operating the country and it’s economy and pass good legislation that invests in workers and families as a whole.

December jobs report: Hiring holds steady in December : NPR-
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

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

art_history_animalia@historians.social ("Art History Animalia") wrote:

For #Caturday:
#Cat Jug, c. 1670 - 1710
Lead-glazed earthenware, H 14.2 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge C.234-1928: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73378
#CatsInArt

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• official museum photo #1, front profile view on white background Description: "Pale red earthenware, decorated with slip-trailing in white and dark red, and lead-glazed. Under the cat's chin is a trailed 'T'." (remote)
• official museum photo #2, side profile view on white background Description: "Pale red earthenware, decorated with slip-trailing in white and dark red, and lead-glazed. Under the cat's chin is a trailed 'T'." (remote)

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

dogzilla@metrobus.masto.host wrote:

I honestly don’t think there’s anything more to say.

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Trump tells Iowans to ‘get over’ school shooting at campaign event | Donald Trump | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/06/donald-trump-iowa-school-shooting

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

openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

Buckminster Fuller Tells the World “Everything He Knows” in a 42-Hour Lecture Series (1975)

https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/buckminster-fuller-tells-the-world-everything-he-knows-in-a-42-hour-lecture-series-1975.html

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

The myspace era is gone, I am now in the mychart era

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

no! next thing, you’ll be telling me the Tzar is dead…

“Elon Musk Has Used Illegal Drugs, Worrying Leaders at Tesla and SpaceX” - The Wall Street Journal

https://apple.news/A1IgWJJ20Sc6zI_2UWgW76Q

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Ok nerds listen up. This is my #NewProfilePic

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• Ma smiling at camera with blue jacket in a parking lot.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Okay clearly Vote Sticker Jason wins and will be my new pfp

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

Tiezep ("Zep") wrote:

@fromjason dril and gators daily are the only thing my masto feed is missing in comparison to ye olde bird site

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

yes!

Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" Oct 14, 1983

https://wolfgangs.app.link/MO8YfnJy9Fb

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fromjason ("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.

https://fromjason.xyz/

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

Waylon Jennings "The Conversation" on Oct 14, 1983

https://wolfgangs.app.link/8YcPMxfy9Fb

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Both also seem like Scientology for nerds, but with less thetans and more eugenics.

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

There’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.

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

Waylon Jennings "Lucille" Oct 14, 1983

https://wolfgangs.app.link/RhqIHS4w9Fb

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

Waylon Jennings on Oct 14, 1983

https://wolfgangs.app.link/4RtjBrnw9Fb

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Reblogged 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)

slightlyoff@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

https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOGL/stock_buyback

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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])

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

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."

https://socket.dev/blog/when-everything-becomes-too-much

Reblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):

k47@k47.cz wrote:

@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.

Reblogged 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

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

this was seriously Not A Good Move

https://journa.host/@w7voa/111711195275394668

Reblogged 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)

Reblogged 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.

slightlyoff@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!:

https://mastodon.social/@passle/111709021119627922

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passle wrote:

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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Reblogged 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/