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mrloislane@mstdn.ca ("Justin Chandler (he/him)") wrote:

“We’re consistently increasing the number of people, in fact, in 2023 we had just shy of 5,000 unique individuals use our food bank, which is not far off 10 per cent of the population in our community.”
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara-region/year-end-niagara-food-bank-figures-foretell-bleak-future/article_9c0df2fd-3d7f-557f-b1a7-bb07f3c68766.html #Niagara #News #FoodBanks #Poverty

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

I really should pick this up again, but in Rust I think https://www.ncoti.org/~jeffs/test/jfc/source/activitystreams/vocabulary/coretypes.d.html

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

Who did it better?

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/111699074927711250

https://x.com/FredKSchott/status/1744842592905552227?s=20

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

hilarious, found a link rel to google plus in some old code

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

from standing-together.org

"The Israeli police, under clear orders from the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, notified us that they decided to cancel our approval for our march for peace this evening in Tel Aviv! We are not giving up. We will submit an appeal to the High Court and spread this message across the country in preparation for an even bigger rally next week."

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abbynormative@mstdn.social ("Heather") wrote:

Dear rando in my mentions: Yes, we all know there are other diseases besides covid. “Like cancer,” you said. I actually had cancer. When I had breast cancer there was zero danger of me giving it to my spouse or my elderly parents. There is not a raging worldwide pandemic of cancer that could be prevented if only people would wear appropriate masks and use adequate air filtration.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

State Department determines a sale should be approved to Kosovo of Javelin missiles for $75 million. https://www.dsca.mil/press-media/major-arms-sales/kosovo-javelin-missiles

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markmetz@sfba.social ("Ⓜ️Mr.MarkⓂ️") wrote:

This reminds me of the public perception on the economy. More evidence of what the right wing propaganda news machine can do.

Homicide numbers poised to hit a record decline nationwide. But most Americans think murder is on the rise - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-numbers-poised-hit-record-decline-nationwide-americans/story?id=105556400

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Independent@press.coop ("The Independent :press:") wrote:

Ohio woman who miscarried in her toilet cleared of charges

Ms Watts, 34, miscarried after visiting the emergency room twice without being able to get treatment #press

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/abortion-miscarriage-charges-ohio-grand-jury-b2477278.html?utm_source=press.coop

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

and of course there was the Random Victim Picker, my classroom friend (I hated taking roll, and I hated calling on the same folks class after class, so this was my solution)

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/rvpDemo.html

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deebloo@indieweb.social ("Danny Blue") wrote:

in 99% of situations, default exports are the wrong choice. One of the ONLY situations where they seem to work is config files.

#JavaScript #WebDev

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

and of course there was this demo from about 10 years ago:

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/webWorkers/

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

poking around in old demo files, finding thing /I had forgotten about like this: https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/dice/diceTest.html

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

I get a lot of personal newsletters and I am deeply grateful for the few that don't use tracking links

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rebeccasear@fediscience.org ("Rebecca Sear") wrote:

Just read a paper published in 1961 titled "Scientific" racism again?, which describes how arguments about intelligence are misused to claim evidence for racial hierarchies. It ends with a quote from 1926.

"Scientific" racism has literally 👋been 👋debunked 👋for 👋a 👋century 👋

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• INTRODUCTION "MIGHT MAKES RIGHT" has been, through the ages, suf- ficient justification for territorial conquest, economic exploitation, and the enslavement of some human groups by others. In time, however, "might makes right" ceased to be acceptable, and it was necessary for dominant groups to develop other arguments which would permit them, with a semblance of morality and even of justice, to continue their socio-economic con- trol of great regions of the world. If the people domi- nated could be shown to be physically and mentally in- ferior to the ruling group, their control by a "superior race" could be regarded as fitting and logical; hence the rise of "scientific" racism, devoted to collecting data from anthropology, biology, and psychology to support theories of "superior" and "inferior" races. (remote)
• To conclude, we quote some phrases of Hooton's which seem to apply with full force to Garrett and his associates of The Mankind Quarterly. The illustrious Harvard anthropologist wrote (1926: 81): Certain writers on racial subjects, usually not professional anthropologists, associate cultural and psychological charac- teristics with physical types on wholly insufficient evidence. These race propagandists commonly attribute to the physical subdivision of mankind to which they imagine that they themselves belong all or most of the superior qualities of mankind, physical, mental and moral. They talk of the psy- chological characteristics of this or that race as if they were objective tangible properties, scientifically demonstrated. Starting from an a priori assumption that physical types have psychological correlates, they attempt to refer every manifes- tation of the psychological qualities assumed to be the exclu- sive property of this or that race to the physical type in question. Great men of whatever period are claimed to be members of the favored race on the basis of their achievements and sometimes with a total disregard of physical criteria. In no case has any serious effort been made by such ethnomaniacs to isolate a pure racial type and to study either its mental qualities or its material culture. The fact that most if not all peoples are racially mixed is consistently ignored. While some of the conclusions of such writers may be correct, none (remote)

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

one reason that I take covid seriously is I like cool repertory cinema and am thus in contact with octogenarians regularly

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

this is distinct from (but overlaps with) the phenomenon of going to some cool cultural event that's full but everyone there is 70+

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

one of the most humiliating things about living in nyc is finding some event that feels super nerdy and idiosyncratic to your own taste and then learning it's been sold out for a month

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

These bozos need to be shut down and their planes grounded until respectable engineers are put in charge.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/11/mbas-ruin-everything/

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

remember:

ABEND is called that because it is what system operators do to the machine late on Friday when they want to call it a day, and hence is from the German Abend == ‘Evening’.

and that's the truth - Lily Tomlin

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LWN@fosstodon.org ("LWN.net") wrote:

OpenSSH announces DSA-removal timeline https://lwn.net/Articles/958048/ #LWN

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

hmmm, speaking of Forgetting I am No Longer There:

this URI is always good for some historical background on technoBabble:

https://igm.rit.edu/~jxs/jargon/html/

and this particular branch on that tree is both a good source of "Definitive" (as of the 90s, I'd say from the versioning) definitions of terms and a totally effective Waster of Hours (aka, RabbitHole):

https://igm.rit.edu/~jxs/jargon/html/go01.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just talked to my dad about all the weird stuff going on and he said, "back in the day if you got too uppity they would've just called you a slur" lmaoooo

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

ppl who administer web servers which complain and FAIL! if a URI without a trailing slash points to a directory should be [redacted]

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NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social ("Nicole Rust") wrote:

Done writing the book.

(Deep inhale).

~90K words. A few years of work. A transformative journey that did not end at all as I thought when I started. I'm grateful to have done it - what a privilege. A much bigger conceptual project than anything I've done up to this point.

I got to think intensely for a better part of a few years (in parallel to running a lab and teaching as a professor). Somehow there was not time for that before. I'm not exactly sure where I found it; I just did.

There will be many revisions going forward. And it won't hit the shelves anytime soon. But I'm going to pause and celebrate this moment, where every one of the bits are finally in place. I learned so much along the way. Even today, on the last day, I was fascinated, and I'm grateful. (That said, I'm also a bit tired).

What's the book about? A slice of the spirit behind it is captured here: https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/is-the-brain-uncontrollable-like-the-weather/

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

+100 https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/111728313508998311

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mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:

" If you don’t know exactly what the software does—or if it might do something different the next time you compile it—you can’t build a business around it. You certainly can’t maintain it, extend it, or add new features if it changes whenever you touch it, nor can you debug it."

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/can-language-models-replace-compilers/

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newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

Daily Mail reader discovers hospital is ‘full of immigrants’ because they work there https://newsthump.com/2024/01/11/daily-mail-reader-discovers-hospital-is-full-of-immigrants-because-they-work-there-3/

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

I friggin' love macFUSE... having my user-spaces on remote boxes appear as "volumes" mounted on my local directory system (through the magik of sshfs) is a delightful effort-saver in editing who-cares-where-it-lives code.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

This is your occasional reminder that mastodon isn't decentralized. It's federated. It has multiple centers.