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shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Good morning. It’s Sunday, the Christian day of rest. Sadly, as in all religions, too many of them use the opportunity to recharge so they’ll have sufficient energy to hate and abuse others. So it goes.

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• "Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings."

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

kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:

The 1944 CIA guide to sabotaging meetings sounds an awful lot like how Congress or large company meetings are run. “Insist on doing everything through ‘channels’. Never permit shortcuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.” https://www.authenticcomms.co.uk/blog/the-1944-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-meetings

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

watching a Coursera video sequence on "Generative AI", as one does whilst taking a break from sweeping & mopping the 1st floor

#GeekFun

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Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

🆕 blog! “Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference”

I've recently set up my own consultancy company and decided to sponsor my local UKGovCamp conference. That entitled me to a logo on the site, a shout-out during the conference, and place to put any promotional stickers. Everyone loves stickers! But I decide…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/lessons-learned-from-bringing-promotional-sweets-to-a-conference/
⸻
#conferences #schwag #UKGCXL #ukgovcamp

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

jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

One doesn't have to be a columnist like @jbouie to call on the context of history as he does. This is an example for all reporters.
I wish he were the editor of The Times....
George Wallace Has an Heir Apparent https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/opinion/donald-trump-george-wallace-dominion.html?smid=tw-share

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

GuidoKuehn ("Guido Kühn") wrote:

Nazis kann man nicht inhaltlich besiegen, weil sie keine konkreten Inhalte, sondern ein irrationales Potpourri aus unbestimmten Ängsten haben: Fremde, Veränderung, Arme, etc. Es geht nie um Inhalte, immer um Ausgrenzung, letztere zur Selbstvergewisserung gerne gewalttätig. Inhaltliche Diskursaufnahmen mit Nazis dienen diesen als Bestätiger und Verstärker ihrer Ängste. Mit der immer gleichen Folge: Nazis legen zu, Demokraten verlieren.

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• Illustration: Ein wütender Mann in einem Anzug nimmt mit dem Körper die Form eines Hakenkreuzes an. Textzeile: Die Haltung, die man einnehmen muss, wenn man Nazis nicht verbieten, sondern inhaltlich stellen will.

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

noturtlesoup17 ("Amanda Moore") wrote:

I went to a Trump rally in MD in 2016. Wasn’t protesting, just taking videos and typing notes on my phone. A group of men approached me, and one threatened to gang rape me bc I was obviously the enemy.

I have never experienced the unbridled hate I felt on J6, but I have still thought about this specific moment a lot over the years. I think more people ought to experience that for themselves. I worry not just about this year, but the next 10 years, the next 15.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/01/trump-rally-iowa-2024-election/677119/

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

I gave @theverge crap a celebrity joke of weeks ago for sleeping on the web[1], but this by @nilay_patel is solid:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/20/24044343/apple-vision-pro-safari-killer-app

[1]: https://infrequently.org/2024/01/the-web-is-the-app-store/

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I'm soooo close to beating Hexcells Infinite. Just had a breakthrough on Lvl 6-5

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

ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

The Afanc - A Welsh water creature that resided in Llyn-yr-Afanc (The Afanc Pool), when angered it would thrash about causing great floods along the banks of the river Conwy.

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• A water monster shaped like a crocodile with curved horns, and fin like ridges along its back. it's floating in a blue pool with lilies and lily pads floating around the creature. Various water plats are flowing underwater and in the background is some foliage and trees (remote)

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

these folks make really good hats:

Bigalli Hats - On line shop (2 for 1 sale on now)

https://bigallihats.com/shop/?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=290680761&utm_content=290680761&utm_source=hs_email

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

“The certification that one is not engaged in a boycott of Israel is no different than requiring a person to espouse certain political beliefs or to engage in certain political associations,” wrote a U.S. District judge, Mark Cohen in 2021, striking down an anti-boycott statute in Georgia. “The Supreme Court has found similar requirements to be unconstitutional on their face.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/opinion/campus-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

interesting story

https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatgpt-hunger-energy-gpu-revolution/

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InfoSecSherpa@infosec.exchange wrote:

InfoSecSherpa's #DataPrivacy and #InformationSecurity News Roundup for Saturday, January 20, 2024 🇻🇮​

Features the Virgin Islands source article by Sian Cobb, "Virgin Islands Lottery Operations Suspended Over #DataBreach"

https://infosecsherpa.medium.com/infosecsherpas-news-roundup-for-saturday-january-20-2024-7a13cb65cbfc

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• Image by Pixabay, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Island. (remote)

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

gutenberg_org ("Project Gutenberg") wrote:

The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

Librarians are amazing.

They were known as the “book women.” They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky’s isolated mountain communities.

BY ANIKA BURGESS. via @atlasobscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa

#books #librarians

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• A group of "book women" on horseback in Hindman, Kentucky, 1940. KENTUCKY LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES

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

futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Speaking as a sysadmin, I am becoming increasingly distressed at how difficult it is now to excise AI shit from the computers that I manage. It is making me doubt that I am in the right career, and seeing those around me embrace this shit just makes me doubt it even more.

Speaking as an artist with original content that I give away on the Internet, and as a friend of artists who rely on selling their work to survive, I am becoming increasingly distressed at the cavalier way that AI companies are scraping fucking everything and taking credit for it.

When I see a person using AI, even ironically or for humour’s sake, what I see is someone who is OK with artists being disrespected and ignored and pushed into poverty, and I will judge that person accordingly.

Don’t do AI. Burn it to the ground.

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

tonight’s special: Housepanther on a bed of fresh sprouts

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• 78ef17aaf6d8f320.jpeg (remote)

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Tak@glitch.taks.garden ("Tak!") wrote:

🎶 grendel's mom has got it goin' on 🎶

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0x1C3B00DA@stereophonic.space wrote:

@bouncepaw I filed an issue about that more than a year ago. Unfortunately, like most things caused by mastodon that don’t directly affect mastodon, it has stalled.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22070

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bouncepaw@merveilles.town ("bouncepaw 🍄") wrote:

All the Mastodon servers in existence tell my Betula that their users get deleted. I have never interacted with these servers nor users, hey! My inbox is full of these.

#FediDev folks, why is it like that?

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Geekman@bitbang.social wrote:

Rant/Top tip: Your local business isn't JUST failing because amazon undercuts you.

It's also because people (like me) who want to spend money at a local business, looked up your hours and location on your website, planned a morning around coming by, drove over to find your storefront papered over with a printed note saying you'd moved to the other side of town – a fact not reflected on your website, or Google Maps. 😑

(🧵/1)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

You know they were kinda on to something with custom, personalized bookplates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Libris_(bookplate)

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• Bookplate of Hendrik Nicolaas Ouwerling. A woman sits on a wooden bench, holding a quill and a book with the word "HISTORIA" on the cover. An owl is perched on a row of books behind her. Below that illustration, in a rectangle: "Ex-Libris H.N. OUWERLING." The whole thing is surrounded by a repeating floral motif border.

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semibogan@infosec.exchange wrote:

LMAO holy crap they didn’t clear coat cybertrucks 🤣

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-youll-have-to-wipe-dead-bugs-and-bird-poop-off-your-cybertruck-asap-to-avoid-corrosion/

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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting better

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

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• [A screenshot of a paper on arxiv, it reads:

 The possibility of making $138,000 from shredded banknote pieces using computer vision
 
 Every country must dispose of old banknotes. At the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center, visitors can buy a paperweight souvenir full of shredded banknotes. Even though the shredded banknotes are small, by using computer vision, it is possible to reconstruct the whole banknote like a jigsaw puzzle. Each paperweight souvenir costs $100 HKD, and it is claimed to contain shredded banknotes equivalent to 138 complete $1000 HKD banknotes. In theory, $138,000 HKD can be recovered by using computer vision. This paper discusses the technique of collecting shredded banknote pieces and applying a computer vision program.][6] ([remote][7])

• A screenshot from the paper, it reads "The shredded banknotes were then collected. Surprisingly, three paperweight cylinders were opened, and two of them had stones in them". Three pictures follow. (remote)
• Screenshot from the paper, it reads: "This cylinder only contained 82.57/138 = 60% of the shredded banknote pieces that the label had claimed. Although this issue is not the focus of this paper, it appears that the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has broken the law." (remote)
• Screenshot from the paper, it reads: "The idea for this paper was discussed with the staff during my visit to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority visitor center. The paperweight souvenir is currently no longer available." (remote)

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

aunteef@mstdn.party ("Aunt Eef") wrote:

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

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• Screenshot of a reddit post. The title reads, "Replace statues of Columbus with statues of Columbo" (the famed TV detective) Below is a photo of a bronze statue in Budapest, showing the detective wearing a puzzled expression, trademark cigar in hand, as he scratches the top of his head. (remote)

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Christian church whose pastor plainly understands the teachings of Jesus is indicted by city that plainly does not. https://www.christianpost.com/news/ohio-pastor-arraigned-after-being-charged-for-housing-homeless.html

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LiminalFlares@tech.lgbt ("Maika 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Despite not being made from real Girl Scouts, the most delicious #GirlScoutCookies are sold by #trans and #nonbinary scouts. Bonus points for being able to order online and have #cookies shipped to your house while supporting trans kids: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2024-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

Thank you, @ErinInTheMorn for assembling this list of trans Girl Scouts from whom to order cookies, to say nothing of all your tireless advocacy work.

#Transgender #Genderqueer #TransRights #TransPride #LGBTQIA

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

kcarruthers wrote:

Eek! Scientists say worse to come as Himalayan snow ceases: Himalayan ecologies and economies are heavily reliant on winter snowfall, but the necessary weather patterns – western disturbances in particular – are decreasing in frequency and intensity

https://www.thethirdpole.net/en/climate/scientists-say-worse-to-come-as-himalayan-snow-ceases/

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• Renowned for its ski resorts, Gulmarg in Jammu & Kashmir is in the middle of an extreme dry spell that has left its slopes and landscapes devoid of snow (Image: Faisal Bashir / Alamy)
• this is fine fire meme

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

whitedove@pixelfed.social ("White Dove") wrote:

In Gaza and Sderot Girls Want to Live

Seen in Jerusalem.
@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu

—
@israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Hamas #IsraelHamasWar #Sticker

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• A sticker on a fence in the street that reads “In Gaza and Sderot girls want to live” in Hebrew. (remote)

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

I need to know: what flavor of powdered soft drink was mixed with Gene Rodenberry's cremains in the Peregrine destruction?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/20/not-the-best-way-to-endear-oneself-to-sf-fans/

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• cremains launched into space, sorta (remote)