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

back from my usual Saturday AM volunteer gig, walking #dogs 🐕 at the #ROC City Pound. the snow and cold makes this an 'interesting' task...

had to duck into a side room with one of them, to warm up while their cage was being cleaned. that dawg was ready to be out of the cold ;^}

first, they needed to examine every inch of that room, tail tucked between legs. then, they head-bumped me... so I sat down and gently stroked it's side. by the end of our time, I was sitting cross-legged on the floor with this BIG dawg sprawled across my lap, giving it a good scratch.

couldn't help but larf at this fierce-looking sweetheart trying (and failing) to fit on my lap.

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

flargh ("Peter Cohen") wrote:

Me in freezing temperatures, trying to find the one tire that the TPMS sensor said was low

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• The Shining: Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), frozen to death

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

well now, you seem to need to read some of the actual writings of the actual Founders; the source documents as it were...

'“Christians don’t mean to impose what we believe on anyone. But this nation was founded as a Christian nation,” said Laurel Brooks, a march attendee from North Carolina.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/19/march-for-life-anti-abortion-washington-dc

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solownh@mstdn.party ("sOlOw-NH") wrote:

Nikky Hillary Pelosi is the world's most dangerous woman!

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

MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:

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• Amused Willy Wonka looking like he's about to drop a sick burn. OH, SO YOU'RE AFRAID OF WHITE PEOPLE BECOMING THE MINORITY? WHY? ARE MINORITIES TREATED DIFFERENTLY OR SOMETHING? (remote)

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

'...the underlying finances of land offerings associated with the “Highland Rim Project” (HRP) in Kentucky suggest that buyers will pay a steep premium for living in a remote ideological enclave, while the scheme’s promoters are set to collect tidy profits after making few apparent improvements to the land.

The development was announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, and in a special edition of the New Founding by Joshua Abbotoy, who is managing director of venture fund New Founding and principal of real estate developer Kentucky Ridge Runner LLC according to company records.

Abbotoy offered few details on how the community would be run beyond saying: “Most of the leadership is going to be led by Protestant christians.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/20/kentucky-far-right-community-real-estate-development

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xahteiwi ("Florian Haas") wrote:

Buddy you're a boy make a big noise
Playing in my feed gonna be a big troll someday
You fall flat on your face, you big disgrace
We'll defederate your ass all over place, singing

WE WILL WE WILL BLOCK YOU

h/t @dannotdaniel

#FediMercury #BrianMaystodon

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lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:

"the school gave everyone on campus – including staff – a Light Phone ... a “dumb” phone with limited functionality"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools

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

Passing the MoCA does not make you a smart person or a good person. Quit pretending it does.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/20/no-matter-what-he-still-fails-any-test-for-common-decency/

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• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (remote)

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

Sometimes, the victims of quackery are just as guilty as the quack themself.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/20/real-immunity-homeoprophylaxis-program/

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• homeopathic pills (remote)

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

@frameworkcomputer I am honor-bound to amend this toot to say that yeah, the hardware difference is still pretty high. I understated how much better MacBook hardware *still* is in that original tweet.

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

kentbrew@xoxo.zone ("Kent Brewster") wrote:

Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds.

“This is a form of implicit collusion,” she said. “Firms do not even need to talk to one another to know that a cost shock is a great time to raise prices. But when costs fall, price-setting firms do not have any incentive to decrease prices.”

If no firms launch a price war, Weber added, then companies “hold the line” on prices and widen margins. She pointed to food processors as an example.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

When you improve your Rust skills you feel like you've learned something, new ways to think about how PL theory can help engineering, you're more confident about your code, more appreciative of programming as a craft

When you learn more C++ you just feel like killing yourself

Fighting with the borrow checker is just a phase; after a while you learn that borrow logic is intuitive, and if you structure your code functionally, the borrow checker becomes your friend

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faho@octodon.social ("Tenacious B") wrote:

Pokemon Madeline & Badeline

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The Book of Genesis, as written by GenZ 🤣🤣🤣

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• 3855a7e471742953.jpeg

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bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

So [this little library](https://github.com/bkardell/shadow-boxing) to let you style shadow dom from the outside page has 6 different "modes" it can work in... I'd love for people to try it out and give us feedback about whether/which they preferred (including if the answer is 'none of them') and use cases, etc...

I thought perhaps a good way to prompt that is to illustrate the uses so here's a whole series of examples with each mode..

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

I don't know precisely what I'm seeing or hearing here, but it's doing a good job lifting my winter blues. Enjoy the musical stylings of Goat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMuGxuJuv0

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

no, just no

https://arvr.social/@mpesce/111785093179455732

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stib@aus.social wrote:

The oldest computer where I work used mercury delay lines as data storage. These worked by sending acoustic waves down a tube of mercury, the delay in the wave propagating to the sensor at the other end being the storage. This guy is doing the same thing, but by sending ping packets our over the internet, as part of his project of creating working, but wonderfully infeasible storage devices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio

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

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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.

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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/

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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)

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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)

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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/

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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