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

murderbotbot@botsin.space wrote:

It had been stressful enough getting here, I didn’t want to have to go anywhere else right now.

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

doug_sartori@mstdn.ca ("Doug Sartori") wrote:

Quite fond of the premise of my kid’s #ggj24 #ttrpg.

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• A humourous hand-written introduction to a tabletop RPG (remote)

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

dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:

Japanese researchers bipedal robot powered by living muscle tissue https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-bipedal-robot-powered-by-muscle

Cylons, anyone?

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j_opdenakker@infosec.exchange ("John Opdenakker") wrote:

If you don’t use a password manager, what’s the reason?

Feel free to comment.

Reposts appreciated for more reach.

#infosec

Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):

nikitonsky@mastodon.online ("Niki Tonsky") wrote:

I guess the cat is out of the box. Someone posted my latest draft to Hacker News, so now it’s open for everyone: https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

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

I found this old photo of Style Savvy: Trendsetters. I did appreciate Fashion Dreamer for finally giving us a hi-res fashion game, but it feels so much more dry and minimal compared to the 3DS games.

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• A photo of the lower screen of a Nintendo DS, showing the profile of a customer in Style Savvy: Trendsetters. It's a guy wearing a black sleeveless shirt with a gold pattern on it, and a white neckerchief. Below his portrait, a text box that says, "His friends turn to him for fashion advice, which is kind of funny."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox @ tonsky.me:

"You see, people on the Web think conventions are boring. That regular controls need to be reinvented and redesigned. They don’t believe there are any norms."

I love a niche meme and a good UX callout. https://tonsky.me/blog/checkbox/

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• Scooby Do meme with the guy unmasking another guy with a radio mask to unveil a checkmark face. &10;

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

If there's one thing the history of the internet can teach us, is that when Silicon Valley and big corporations start singing "openness" in unison, you best to hold on to your wallets.

And mannnn, the birds they are a chirping.

#meta #threads #openweb

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

ADignorantium@mstdn.social ("Frank") wrote:

Ruth Buzzi ❤️

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• A screenshot of a post by Ruth Buzzi on X, formarly Twitter, which reads "An anonymous scam caller said, I have all your passwords." I grabbed a pencil and paper and said, "Thank God! What are they?" (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

My niece demands we watch old Mr. Bean episodes whenever she visits. How could I ever say no to that?

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

misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

I really feel like there’s never been a bigger own goal in development history than when developers insisted they be allowed to develop native apps for iOS instead of building on open web platforms. Just imagining a world where the App Store lock-in never happened at all.

There’s real performance reasons why people wanted native apps but I wonder what else could have happened there.

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

20m, 30m, & 40m # JS8 are jumpin' tonight
#AmateurRadio 📡

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

preparing for dry-run tonight of #JS8Call ROCDIGI Group mixed-media net planned for tuesday

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

Me: [muttering to myself looking increasingly worried and lost] "Turn *off* the computer," they said. "Walk *into* the woods," they said! [trips and falls] Waaugh!

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

gulovsen ("Grant Gulovsen") wrote:

Given the current trajectory of American politics, as long as the Republicans are beholden to their Daddy Trump and he's allowed to continue stoking hatred and violence while being under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service, I fully expect to see some sort of armed confrontation between Americans in the next few months.

I wish I didn't feel that way but at this point I think it's a near certainty.

May as well get mentally prepared for it.

Other preparations also probably not a bad idea.

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

somehow, nip has fallen upon the Housepanther

Psycho Kitty
Qu'est-ce que c'est ?
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
Run run run run run run run away…

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

Michael@volumetrics.social wrote:

Had a great time presenting at the WebXR meet up. Here's the demo we shared, showing the powerful experiences you can achieve with WebXR.

Star the repo @ https://github.com/Volumetrics-io/mrjs

#Webxr #spatialweb #spatialcomputing #mixedreality #immersiveweb

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• A video captured on the quest 3 of a WebXR experience built with mr.js. in it you see a 2D UI panel with slides of various fish. Michael presses a button that enabled a virtual fish tank with those same fish in it. He then presses a "submersible" button, replacing a wall with an deep sea scene, with a koi fish and shark swimming around. A whale suddenly appears, diving through the wall and into the floor. (remote)

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

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• Ars Technica headline: Following lawsuit, rep admits “AI” George Carlin was human-written Creators still face "name and likeness" complaints; lawyer says suit will continue. KYLE ORLAND - UPDATED 1/27/2024, 8:44 PM (remote)

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

Nfoonf@chaos.social wrote:

The Icon Of The Seas Is 250,000 Tons Of Floating Carbon-Emissions Horror

„People who love cruises enjoy the ability to leave their cars behind and walk from their room to any number of high-quality restaurants, water parks, shopping experiences, and entertainment venues. They’re paying thousands of dollars and emitting untold tons of carbon in order to enjoy the walkable city they spend the rest of the year NIMBY-ing against.“ https://jalopnik.com/the-icon-of-the-seas-is-250-000-tons-of-floating-carbon-1851189439

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

adolfor20@techhub.social ("Adolfo Rineckki") wrote:

RT: @anti_disease

Friday positivity!  😷💖

#CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #covid19 #covid @novid

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

evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I'm seeing a lot of out-of-date, misleading, and less-than-useful advice about digital privacy and security for people seeking an abortion, so here are the best resources over at Digital Defense Fund: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

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

evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Giving digital security/privacy advice for non-technical people in a crisis situation featuring an ever-shifting threat model is hard, actually.

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

minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

Happy birthday to Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” She was a #physicist, #crystallographer, #pacifist & prison reformer. 🧵1/

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• My linocut with portrait of Kathleen Lonsdale in gradient of lavender at the bottom to indigo at the top. She looks like a serious woman with a big mop of curly hair, round glasses, in a floral shirt and blazer. To her left is her own first drawing of electron density projection calculated for hexachlorobenzene. In front of her in black is her own one crystal model of hexamethylbenzene (with spheres for atoms and bars to indicate bonds or for structure and a small tag). (remote)

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

emmalbriant@mastodon.online ("Dr. Emma L Briant🐕🇬🇧in🇦🇺") wrote:

Want to learn more about #Propaganda and #Disinformation? I’m excited to share with you all the new #udemy #course I’ve designed, you can sign up now and attend anywhere in the world!!! 🌍😃 this is Level 1 - for Beginners! https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?referralCode=F6D164B12D33A03ADF60 #media #digitalliteracy #commodon @potemkinvillage #udemy #onlinelearning #courses #socialmedia #misinformation #polcomm

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

kevinbolding@neuromatch.social wrote:

Hi Everyone.

At the beginning of the year I received notice I've got my first funding as a new PI. It's for an ambitious project to look at how the main olfactory system in mice enables individualized social interactions. I wanted to hire a postdoc before, but now I really really want to hire a postdoc. If you know anyone who is at the right stage and might think the picture attached to this post looks cool, please can you share? There's a lot more to it than what's in the diagrams here.

The job ad is in several places including here:
https://www.sparksociety.org/resource-blog/2023/11/2/postdoc-bolding-lab

#neurojobs #neuroscience #imaging #miniscope #olfaction #olfactory #photometry #electrophysiology #neuropixels

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• Diagrams illustrating 1. That animals need to tell individuals apart even if they are the same sex or strain. 2. That individual identity cues may be subtle and processes late in the odor processing cycle. 3. An approach for delivering mouse odors with experimental control and the ability to monitor neural activity in the olfactory system in the receiving mouse (i.e., miniscopes). (remote)

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

paulox@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Melchiorre 🏖️") wrote:

I highly recommend supporting the Standard Ebooks project. 📚

«Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain e-books that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of copyright restrictions, and free of cost.»

Donate 👇
https://standardebooks.org/donate

Please boost 🙏

#standardebook #standardebooks #ebook #ebooks #publicdomain #book #books #reading #epub #standard

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• Ereaders with a Standard Ebook open. (remote)

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

dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org ("Daniel Lakeland") wrote:

I showed this diagram about the SI units from Wikipedia to my wife, who is a mid career professional research biologist, and she said she'd never seen something like it before and it is now her religion and she plans to put it on T-shirts and go door to door spreading the good news... Keep up the good work! #science #measurement #units

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@dlakelan

The mole telling a joke to their friends, who are just off frame laughing.

(What a third wheel.)

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• Cropped part of the graphic showing that mol isn't really connected to the rest of the graph. It's just there with it's constant trying to seem a part of the rest of the pattern. (remote)

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

"Donald Trump is a clear and present danger"

https://youtu.be/LfWuPsQmtns

#Vote #Vets

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

jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

The city of Albuquerque recently made their free bus fare pilot program permanent (https://www.cabq.gov/transit/news/zero-fares-is-here-to-stay) and Kansas City has had fareless mass transit for several years now (https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/kansas-city-zero-fare-free-transit-program-shows-major-success, https://kcbeacon.org/stories/2023/12/15/people-who-ride-kcata-fare-free-buses-healthier-researchers-say/). This seems like a good time to remind people that transit fares are not about money: https://jamey.thesharps.us/2019/12/12/transit-fares-are-not-about-money/