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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
#KillersoftheFlowerMoon FINALLY on Apple TV 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
Remember when AOL would post these out everywhere, all the time?
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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
Whoa. Tipping point’s feeling real tippy.
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund is shutting down - The Verge
"The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app’s viral content. Along the way, influencers and other content creators have noted the low payouts — sometimes just a few dollars for millions of views.."
In Feb, #TikTok sold this as a way to earn more. In ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/11/tiktoks-billion-creator.html
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Slogging through the data to get an estimate of "the P75 device" from a performance perspective, and for desktop it's a late '17/early '18 computer that cost $600-700 new.
A decent proxy for that kind of money was the chip that also ended up in the Surface Pro 6; the Core i5-8250U. How fast/slow is it?
Half as fast as an iPhone 15.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/3639070?baseline=4347053
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Never heard of negging as a blogging strategy, but Tailwind seems to be giving it a go.
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- The Tailwind 3.4 release blog post. Highlighted sections include "these are thing you've been angry about for years...features you probably haven't heard of and can't even use," "we'll probably regret giving you this one," and "that grid feature you struggle to understand." (remote)
- More highlights from the blog post: "Ever heard of forced color mode? Your site probably looks pretty bad in it. Well now you can't blame us at least." (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
BritishKoalaTea@mastodon.art ("Alison Hawke") wrote:
Trying to get "foolish mortals" accepted as a good gender-neutral group form of address.
"Hello foolish mortals, thank you for coming to my meeting."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
Google formally supporting Right To Repair is great. Even better is they are attacking parts pairing where companies like Apple & John Deere use software DRM to force customers to only use their stores first repairs.
More Apple shenanigans being exposed to regulators which harm consumers while enriching their bottom line.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't know, I don't feel safe at all.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/11/i-wasnt-warned-today/
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- SAFE-U EMERGENCY January 11, 2024 at 7:21 AM U of M Twin Cities: **THREAT TO TWIN CITIES CAMPUS** Public Safety has received a specific threat to shoot persons on the TC campus from Joseph Mark Rongstad DOB 3/13/1982. Physical description is 6 feet tall, 195 Ibs, brown hair, hazel eyes. No clothing or vehicle description is available. UMPD will have extra officers on campus with partner agencies. The BCA and the suspect's home sheriff agency are investigating the incident. Updates and safety tips at z.umn.edu/alerts (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
johnallsopp@indieweb.social ("John Allsopp") wrote:
@slightlyoff @polotek I think this piece by @Daojoan (a post from whom literally allowed this in my reader) captures as aspect of this week.
https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/what-are-the-conservatives-going-to-do-talk-to-each-other
Her argument which I think is powerful is a big motivator for conservatives on social media is to 'own the libs' or something to that effect. It's why Gab and other RW Socials don't take off. So leave them to their echo chamber of shit, and then keep them out of decent places.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
By @polotek, via Amal (who isn't on here yet), this line resonates deeply:
"Our goal should be to actively shrink Twitter's engagement and relevance until it is not so big a threat."
https://marcorogers.com/blog/its-time-to-divest-from-twitter
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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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Who did it better?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hilarious, found a link rel to google plus in some old code
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and of course there was this demo from about 10 years ago:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon Feedxor@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)
Mastodon Feedxor@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
Mastodon Feedxor@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+
Mastodon Feedxor@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
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
