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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Testing one-two. Does my metadata work?

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/14/remember-newt-twitter.html

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PsyArXivBot@botsin.space wrote:

A Brief Look at Vicarious Trauma in Meteorologists and Emergency Management Professionals: Preliminary Evidence, Associated Coping Behaviors, Emotion Regulation Strategies, Pathological Altruism, and Healthy Selfishness http://osf.io/3y7s9/

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clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

For some reason the Vivaldi browser on Mac has begun crashing frequently ...

... and for no reason I can detect

I mean there's gotta *be* a reason, but I can't figure it out!

Anyone else experienced this? Know what's going on, and how to fix it?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Ok ok I think I'll spend this Sunday doing some digital housekeeping. First on my honeydo list is fixing my #microblog metadata and #opengraph stuff.

Any ideas for including a for posts with no title? A script that truncates the first sentence?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Remember NEWT TWITTER? It was born from this tweet:

> What if we all just migrate over to the same google doc —@\DJWeduwen, Oct. 2022

It was around then, we all kind of knew Musk would eventually shit the bed. So for a brief moment, some of us migrated to an open Google Doc named NEW TWITTER. It was cool for a bit, then the yatizs arrived, and the doc went read-only. (...)

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/14/remember-newt-twitter.html

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williampietri@sfba.social ("William Pietri") wrote:

Ok, so first, content creation. That seems positive, right? Wrong! The best way I've seen of explaining this: "Why should I take the time to read something nobody took the time to write?"

I think this one is a huge net societal negative. The people out there who want instant "content" are almost entirely not readers. They're people who want something to run ads against. They're people who want the credit for writing without doing the work. They're people who want to sell you something without understanding the something or whether or not it might be good for you. In short, they're people with various levels of contempt for their readers.

4/

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

pretending not to choose is still making a choice, you are doomed to participate if you live here

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TheJen@beige.party ("TheJen - Jen Wojcik") wrote:

Person here: "if a person chooses not to vote, respect that".

UMMMMMM IMMA GO WITH NO, DOG.

Blocked. No. Participation in a democracy AT ITS BASIC LEVEL REQUIRES YOU TO VOTE.

FULL STOP.
PERIOD.
END OF DISCUSSION.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Watching Flash Gordon for the first time. It’s basically Boris Johnson and Melania Trump cosplaying Guardians of the Galaxy on a £2 budget.

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

my favorite NATO z-code:

ZDG - Accuracy of following message(s) is doubtful

#AmateurRadio 📡

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lizstl13@mastodon.sdf.org ("Elizabeth Davidson") wrote:

Evangelics spent thousands of years warning about the anti-Christ. And when he shows up they vote for him.

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antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:

Lovely. @VodafoneUK manage to arrange that all the RedQuadrant mobile numbers *couldn't receive incoming calls* since 23 December - a period during which my dad has been in and out of hospital - and now won't offer compensation 'as incoming service is offered for free'!

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LindaCollins11 wrote:

Something to think about🤔

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

AET: Ugh! Dad, you're such a scribe! [2]

AEF: Yes, I am a scribe. A highly esteemed scribe who has used his talents and rank to keep us housed and well fed. You should hope to do so well as I.

AET: [rolling eyes]

AEF: [sighs exasperatedly]

[1] totally awesome!
[2] nerdy Pharoah fanboy.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Ancient Egyptian Teen: [to another teen] Did you see that chariot? It is was so flooded! [1]

Ancient Egyptian Father: [overhearing] Flooded? There you go using that vulgar speech again! That's not proper Egyptian. You'll never earn a position in the Pharaoh's bureaucracy if you speak like that.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I wonder what ancient Egyptian slang was like? Like, what were the idioms the youth would come up with to disturb the olds?

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blakespot@oldbytes.space ("Blake Patterson") wrote:

@textoo And here is an extremely impressive C64 SID take on the MOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uyXyp5MucA

#demoscene #chiptunes #scenedemos #MOD #trackers #music #synth #C64 #Commodore64 #SID #Jugi #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've been gone so long all my lists are empty. It's a little disorienting like, "Wait. Did I log into the right server?"

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lunastation@wandering.shop ("Luna Station Quarterly") wrote:

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. - Audre Lorde

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Gol dang it's cold out there! Anyway, here's a song by Dr. John "Let's Make a Better World" that I'm using to feel a little less bleak this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q66BpmD3ugY

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

foooooook, it looks like a scene from’Dr Zhivago’ out there ❄️💨❄️💨

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

Anytime you elect a Republican, you're putting a murderous asshole in power.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/14/why-is-a-high-government-official-fantasizing-about-shooting-people/

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• Greg Abbott (remote)

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

for whatever reason, missing the Left Coast a lot today

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

Looking upon Humanity & what they had created, Gawd Sighed Mightily.

Flaming Letters formed across the pixellated void, spelling

rm -rf /

A great calm spread upon the the Filesystem, and It Was Good.

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ids1024@fosstodon.org ("Ian Douglas Scott") wrote:

All engineering is reverse engineering if you document things poorly enough.

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Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

Last week’s ruling from the Mass. SJC outlawing life w/o parole for young adults¹ has me revisiting a piece of short fiction I wrote on the topic some years back.

https://sadlynothavocdinosaur.com/posts/life/

I think it stands up pretty well.

Blurb: The United States is celebrating its tricentennial. Human life extension has been perfected. Roe is but a distant memory, and a case before the Supreme Court is poised to ask, what is the meaning of life.

______
¹ https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/11/life-without-parole-sentencing-young-adults-massachusetts-sjc-landmark-ruling

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conspirator0@newsie.social ("Conspirador Norteño") wrote:

None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content).

https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/none-of-these-people-exist-but-you

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

"A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute think tank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or scientific racists."

- NYTimes

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

what a nightmare:

"As two members of the SEAL team tried to board the vessel Thursday night in rough seas, one of the commandos apparently slipped off the boarding ladder, according to one current and one former Pentagon official briefed on the incident. Another member of the team then jumped into the water to try to rescue the sailor, the officials said. Both soon disappeared in the swells."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/navy-seal-team-somalia-coast.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The vibes on #threads are in shambles. And I don't just mean the negativity. There's a lot of post amplification there that feels unsettling.

Does that make sense? I can't really put the vibe into words just yet. But it gives off a sort of uncanny valley feel to it. Like a digital liminal space.