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

toroids are a wunnerful thang

#AmateurRadio ⚡️📡 ⚡️

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

30m not so busy, but 40m lots of JS8 HB responses
#AmateurRadio 📡

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I made a fun little #socialweb site in #11ty. Put a splash page up for now. Go and give it a wave 👋

https://socialwe.blog/

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

petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

Teen Vogue continuing to do the work the NY Times, WaPo, and others refuse. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/second-ku-klux-klan

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

not much activity on 12m/15m/17m JS8, but 20m seems populated nicely

#AmateurRadio 📡

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Threads now lets you transfer your data to Google Drive, except it didn’t work, and now Meta has all my Google data.

This “feature” is presumably part of the Data Transfer Initiative funded by Meta and Google. Out of morbid curiosity, I tried it.

On its website, DTI states it’s an “organization dedicated to the mission of empowering technology users.” Right.

It seems more likely that Big Tech figured out it was better to trade ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/13/threads-now-lets.html

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• Screenshot: Meta has this access&10;111o app vallo pellnooluntu.&10;• See and edit your documents (including settings and metadata)&10;• Create new documents&10;• Upload and download your documents&10;• Organize and delete your documents&10;• See the names and emails of people you share your documents with&10;N&10;• Share and stop sharing your documents with others&10;This app will be able to do the same things that you can do. Changes made by this application will be attributed to you.&10;There may be sensitive information in your documents, like financial records, medical reports, or photos.

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

now trying 10m JS8 HeartBeat

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

emitting heartbeats on 6m JS8 now, going to work my way through the bands and see how propagation is a'hangin today...

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

superlinguo@scicomm.xyz ("Lauren Gawne") wrote:

The #LingComm grants are running again in 2024!

We have (at least) two $500USD grants for communicating linguistics to wider audiences. Please share with colleagues, friends and students if they have a pop linguistics project that needs some support!

https://lingcomm.org/grants/

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

back from my regular Saturday AM dog-walking volunteer shift at the #ROC City Pound. tired, despite 2 cuppas

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Wow, wusste nicht dass es zu diesem Song ein Musikvideo gibt. :catjam:

LDC - Die Schwarze Zone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xj_HKdqeaU

#music #NowPlaying #LDC #techno

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

ExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global ("Extinction Rebellion Global") wrote:

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• Aerial image of an open cast coal mine that dominates the foreground. In the distance are a couple of gossamer like wind turbines in green fields. The text reads "look how ugly these wind turbines are!" (remote)

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

hn50@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 50") wrote:

OpenAI Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for "Military and Warfare"

Link: https://theintercept.com/2024/01/12/open-ai-military-ban-chatgpt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972735

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

danilo@hachyderm.io ("Danilo Campos 🇵🇷") wrote:

The boogeyman of ~socialism~ in medicine is that “oh no, you’ll have to wait so long to see a doctor.”

But now, all of we victims of capitalist medicine wait months or more just to see a PCP. Seeing a specialist is even worse. And we pay SO MUCH to do it.

My god it’s scary to have something wrong with you, or with a loved one, and you have to fight this bureaucracy every single step of the way. To be spinning in your anxiety, to have your love and fear met with mechanical indifference.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

writeblankspace@fosstodon.org ("mercurial idiot") wrote:

Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

When you read the news on ChatGPT...

#ChatGPT #Robocop #meme #ED209 #ai #ki

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• Headline reads "OpenAI quietly deletes ban on using ChatGPT for 'military and warfare'. Below are 5 screencaps from Robocop, where ED209 is presented in the board meeting. Screencap 1 shows ED209 and the ChatGPT reply below stating "Put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply." Screencap 2 shows the boardmember throwing his gun to the ground and replying in the ChatGPT box "I am dropping my weapon." Screencap 3 shows ED209 and a ChatGPT error reading "Hmm... something seems to have gone wrong. Maybe try me again in a little bit." Screencap 4 shows the board member in close up, looking shocked. The "Regenerate response" button is visible. Screencap 5 shows ED209 shooting the board member. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Long cat is long.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat being held in the air to demonstrate how long he is.

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

typographica@typo.social ("Typographica") wrote:

I used to worry that designers limited their inspiration and research to the internet, and I urged them to look at books.

Now the view is even narrower.

I worry that designers limit their inspiration and research to instagram, and I urge them to look at the internet.

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

feedle wrote:

🗓️ Happy #Friday

This week, we continue our #followfriday tradition. Each week, we introduce you to 5 random people and organisations who are on Mastodon, and whose blogs we follow on Feedle. This way, we can help great people discover each other more easily.

This week we introduce to you (in no particular order): @sophie, @fromjason, @moutansos, @whereistanya, and @loicmathieu

If you want to help us spread the word, please boost and share this post with your peers!

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

JoeCotellese@jawns.club ("Joe Cotellese") wrote:

@fromjason Great piece and THANKS for the colophon. Tom Chalky's stuff is really amazing.

Are you federating your site or just manually posting to your Masto account?

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

naiyer@mastodon.design ("Naiyer") wrote:

@fromjason This brings back the memories of good old WAP days, plethora of personal webpages with weird flashing GIFs, nifty websites with all sorts of ringtone downloads, web directories which linked to each other so aggressively that you'd find yourself back to the same site where you'd started from.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Crypto cost me my life's savings from theft and scams.

It cost me the last of my optimism when I realised the vast majority of people who claimed to support me as a creator were speculators who turned on me, threatened me and harassed me when they realised my work wasn't designed to be an "asset"

I believe in decentralisation. But right now - that's not what crypto is building. It's almost entirely a wealth generation scheme.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

`aria-winning="son?"`

...Is this anything?

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

awoo@femdom.solutions ("jade.") wrote:

"there are only 2 sexes" then please explain this?

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• A map containing regions(?) named counterclockwise: Essex, Middlesex, Wessex and Sussex. There's also Kent but that's not relevant for this toot. (remote)

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

I am resigned to rejoining the seething stew of potential infection cooked up by morons like Ladapo next week, but I'm not happy about it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/12/the-plague-resumes-in-4-days/

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• Ladapo and DeSantis (remote)

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

The Privilege Bubble comes for us all if we aren't testing on real devices:

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• 448d429c6acc1742.png (remote)

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

from the LATimes:

“Former L.A. County deputy sentenced to 30 days in jail for fatal 2019 shooting
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy will serve 30 days in jail in onnection with a fatal 2019 shooting in which authorities fired more than 30 rounds into the back of a moving car, under the terms of a plea deal reached today in a downtown L.A. courtroom.

Andrew Lyons pleaded no contest to assault with a firearm and assault under color of authority in the killing of 24-year-old Ryan Twyman outside a Willowbrook apartment complex in July 2019. The case marks the first time in roughly two decades that an L.A. County law enforcement officer has been sentenced to jail or prison for an on-duty shooting.”

30 days for such horrid lack of professional control & pi** poor firearms discipline that it resulted in someone’s death. 30 lousy days for a life.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

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• The first four panels of https://achewood.com/2003/10/14/title.html edited. Panel 1: Ray points accusingly at Little Nephew. “JavaScript! what in HELL are you wearin’?!” Panel 2: “Jeez! Shut UP Uncle Ray!” Superimposed over Little Nephew’s pants is the text `new Map([ [ false, true ], [ NaN, 5 ], [ undefined, () => {} ] ]);` Panel 3: “What’s… Where’s… how do I even begin to descibe your maps situation?” “I don’t know! How about by shutting up!” Panel 4: Ray points accusingly at Little Nephew again. “You couldn’t make your iterables any iterable-er, so you made tiny iterables for each iterable! SAY IT!” “Jeez! It’s the style! Shut UP!” (remote)

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

mobydick@botsin.space ("Moby Dick at Sea") wrote:

this is a thing

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

Dammit, the last adult male in my lab and you had to eat him?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/12/code-415/

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• Steatoda borealis, with leftover meal scraps (remote)