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

Cops will kill you and bury you in an unmarked grave and not tell anyone about it. That's our lesson for the day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/19/cops-kill/

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• Field where cops buried their victims (remote)

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

arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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• 738631a8ced09f07.jpg

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

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

House Republicans want to establish a "fiscal commission," which could lead to devastating cuts to social safety nets

At the same time, they want to extend the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.

It's socialism for the rich, cold hard capitalism for everyone else.

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

kegill ("Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦") wrote:

“We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years, the first conclusive, unambiguous observational evidence that this ocean current has undergone significant change in the recent past.”

This is bad.

#ClimateChange

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-definitively-gulf-stream-weakening.html

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• The Gulf Stream affects regional weather, climate, and coastal conditions, including European surface air temperature and precipitation, coastal sea level along the Southeastern U.S., and North Atlantic hurricane activity.

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

mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Hey kids, the Republicans are coming after your retirement again. When they talk about voting being "harm reduction" this is a good example. Vote like your Social Security depends on it, because it does.

Center for American Progress: The House Republican Study Committee Budget Proposes Harsh Changes to Social Security >>> https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-house-republican-study-committee-budget-proposes-harsh-changes-to-social-security/

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

jeff@honeytree.social ("Jeff Brown") wrote:

From my favorite watering hole in Castine, ME

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• fdc8a6eec28271ba.png (remote)

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

martincrownover@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Marty") wrote:

Here's an animation of a small green sport utility truck traversing the turning, ever-changing Rubik's cube street scene.

This is probably the final full animation I'm doing with this scene. I've enjoyed this series a lot!

Thanks once more to @stublag for the awesome concept drawing that kicked this thing off.

#blender #blender3d #b3d #render #cycles #animation #loop #perfectloop #rubiks #rubikscube #traffic #art #mastoart #fediart

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• A small green utility truck drives over the surface of a Rubik's cube street scene. The cube spins to follow the truck, and segments of the cube shift ahead to make sure the truck has a road to drive on. The scene transitions from day to night and back again as the video loop plays. (remote)

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

stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

For the web components folks: Firefox made it. 🎉

Declarative shadow DOM is shipping in 123 (released Feb 20). 💪

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/123.0a1/releasenotes/#note-789984

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• "Can I use" table showing support for Firefox at 123. All other browsers show support already. (remote)
• Firefox now supports declarative ShadowDOM, providing developers greater flexibility and improved ergonomics when working with ShadowDOMs directly within HTML. (remote)

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

anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

Here's something I haven't seen in nearly a generation: a news cycle about a new technology that is primarily focused around an open standard — and the definitive insights into that news were broken on the personal blogs of people who were in the room. https://www.anildash.com/2024/01/19/personal-blogs-tech-news/

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

lolgop@journa.host wrote:

"And in much the same way that the collapse of Reconstruction and the political victory of so-called Redeemers heralded the ideological victory of the Klan’s defenders, sympathizers and apologists, it is Trump’s ultimate fate that will shape and determine our lasting memory of what happened on Jan. 6."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/opinion/jan-6-trump-memory.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O00.5PqG.ZjugjOuR_0Ub&smid=url-share

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

If the choices are 1) rot, 2) burn, or 3) profit some morbid ghoul working for Harvard, I choose anything but 3.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/19/dont-donate-your-body-to-harvard/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbl2t4hATc

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babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

My magnum opus, my masterwork... I dedicate this one to you, my community.

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• Clay model of the mastodon elephant mascot sitting down and holding a cocktail umbrella (remote)
• Clay model of the mastodon elephant mascot sitting down and holding a cocktail umbrella (remote)
• Clay model of the mastodon elephant mascot sitting down and holding a cocktail umbrella. The photo is taken from behind and he had rotund, pert buttocks (remote)
• Clay model of the mastodon elephant mascot sitting down and holding a cocktail umbrella. The photo is taken from behind and he had rotund, pert buttocks (remote)

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sgrif@hachyderm.io ("Sage Griffin 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The Rust Foundation listed a job with responsibilities that have a lot of overlap with my old job, except it's now explicitly a marketing position instead of someone holding them accountable.

Turns out it wasn't a budget issue or the position no longer being needed, it was them wanting blind loyalty instead of accountability. And they think we're stupid enough not to notice. The foundation doesn't respect you.

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

fossifoundation ("FOSSi Foundation") wrote:

Guess who's back! We are excited to invite all of you to a new @fossifoundation Latch-Up conference, the premier event for open source silicon in the Americas.
This time we will be in Boston/Cambridge, MA April 19-21 and we hope to see you all there.

https://fossi-foundation.org/latch-up/

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rafa@mastodon.design ("Rafa") wrote:

It’s one accessory Michael.
What could it cost, $200 dollars?

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• d27fd658fa05d1e8.png (remote)
• b32b613a4f98eb6b.png (remote)

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

markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Ah, Q&A.

Landing as such seems to have been successful – it is still sending data back at the moment.

Question is why there's no solar power generation. As the arrays are fixed on the body, it feels as though the lander is perhaps upside down or might be a panel connection failure.

A question from NHK on this now.

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

scoping makes for some interesting possibilities... (wishing the W3C Validator did not complain about X-whatever elements)

https://people.well.com/user/jeffs/demos/alpine/firstDemo.html

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

flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

This is a win

I worked hard to pay off my student loans but I’m happy for those getting relief

Most people don’t even know the administration canceled more than $136 billion in student debt already. It should be a major talking point in the media

But instead they talk about who Trump will pick for a running mate and the no-no he said in court for the 13,457,836th time

🇺🇸

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• Headline Biden forgives another $5 billion in student loans for 74K borrowers Wait for the smoothbrain spoiled babies to stop complaining about their debt as a reason they won’t vote and shift to another strawman

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

Boeing is having a "difficult" time https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-68032755

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

BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC [World] Flames seen coming from Boeing plane mid-flight https://w.st/NtY2n

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

markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Update on JAXA's SLIM & its status on the surface of the Moon due in 10 minutes at 02:10 JST / 18:10 CET / 17:10 UTC.

https://www.youtube.com/live/nvXLt3ET9mE?feature=shared

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Via Kyle Griffin:

The #Biden admin is canceling $5 billion in #debt for 74,000 borrowers.
President Biden said 44,000 approved borrowers were having their debt wiped clean after 10 years of public service — including teachers, nurses and firefighters.

Nearly 30,000 borrowers have worked toward repayment for at least 20 years but "never got the relief they earned through income-driven repayment plans."

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

bgzimmer ("Ben Zimmer") wrote:

"Stochastic parrot," coined by @emilymbender for "large language models that...do not truly understand the meaning of the language they are processing," was recognized as AI-Related Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society. My latest for WSJ. 🦜 https://on.wsj.com/47DKfVf

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

Who has been scribbling on my sidewalk?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/19/curious-squiggles/

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• markings in the snow on my sidewalk (remote)

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

playing around with alpine.js while I avoid work

https://www.well.com/~jeffs/demos/alpine/firstDemo.html

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

“There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.”

- Tony Hoare

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

FrancisWilkinson@journa.host ("Francis Wilkinson") wrote:

I'm looking at who's leaving [the GOP] but I'm also looking at the next generation,” Ornstein said. “And the next generation in many ways makes the Freedom Caucus look moderate. These are people who have come of age during the worst period when they've been fed conspiracy theories, tribalism, extremism.” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-19/liz-cheney-s-improbable-dream-of-a-new-gop

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

cleared the walkway, driveway, and sidewalk of snow. fsck snow.

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

Anticipate lots of lazy, biased journalism in the coming months.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/19/oh-no-its-that-season-again/

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• Ruben Bolling explains modern media perfectly. See, in particular, the NY Times. (remote)

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

You, like me, have probably seen this article in your feed many times now. Well if you, like me, haven't actually read it yet, I'd encourage you to take the time.

Very Ordinary Men | The Point Magazine
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/