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Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
Sometimes @bcantrill gets trolled by a tweet and brings it to the Oxide Friends. This was a well-crafted troll: is innovation slowing? Are the most interesting problems solved? In a word: no. In many more words, listen in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7XDuOXfM8
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
Just so you know where we are and understand that they're ALL fucking fascists and they're GOING FOR IT.
"In a stunning reversal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) is urging the Senate G.O.P. caucus to vote against the bipartisan border security and foreign defense aid package. It comes after spending weeks helping a bipartisan group of senators craft it, and just hours after he spoke in favor of the legislation."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Devilstower@mstdn.social ("Mark Sumner") wrote:
Mark this moment. It may not seem like it, but this is the moment when the United States—the United States the world has known for better than a century—died. This is the moment when every ally saw we were feckless and every enemy breathed out in relief. The Republicans aren’t helping Trump. They’re setting the world ablaze.
And they don’t even know why.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:
Maybe the real convoy was the friends we punched in the face along the way.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Being pro Palestine doesn't justify staying silent about worldwide fast rising antisemitic hate crimes and how terrified Jews are these days of speaking our languages and wearing our Jewish signs.You having whichever view on what's happening in the middle east can't ever be accurate without living it. But ignoring what's happening in your own streets, campuses, workplaces makes you complicit. Don't be like those who watched the Holocaust. Don't be fooled into the new excuse for #antisemitism
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Not quite 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompei and Herculaneum. In the latter, there was a library, all that was left were charred scrolls, and now we're on our way to reading them. This is amazing.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
donw@mastodon.coffee ("Don Whiteside") wrote:
@scalzi you should see if they’ll make you a tear sheet with their masthead and your pull quote.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
boris@toolsforthought.social ("Boris Mann") wrote:
If any new followers who are participating in the longest thread ever on slightly experimenting with software funding and ownership are interested, I help run a Canadian co-op that is member owned and hosts a Mastodon server, CoSocial https://blog.cosocial.ca
This server I host along with some other apps on a system I call the #CommonsComputer
It’s powered by #Cloudron, for which I pay a subscription in exchange for maintaining and updating both the server & all the apps that I deploy.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Jesus
Florida challenges federal requirement to keep kids on health insurance https://www.axios.com/2024/02/05/children-health-insurance-florida-medicaid
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tristansnell@mstdn.social ("Tristan Snell") wrote:
Who remembers when this happened? 🙄
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:
Today in Nextdoor drama - somebody just now noticed that they sell packaged sex toys at Target and is being totally not chill, and I’m 🍿
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
zot! radio blackout time, solar flare activity
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me trying to spell words like thumb or comb :
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Your SMS Social Index is the number of texts you get from friends divided by the number of texts you get from Senators asking for donations.
I just made this up but now it's real. #imessage #textmessage
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
What share of all chips are high-end data center AI chips? https://blog.heim.xyz/share-of-ai-chips:
> In 2021, the semiconductor industry reportedly produced about 1.15 trillion units (Kharpal, 2022). As calculated above, the production of high-end AI chips in 2022 was likely less than 3 million. This suggests that high-end AI chips only accounted for less than 1:4,000 (0.00026%) of all chips produced.
I'm sorry, HOW MANY UNITS? #tech
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
smallweb@coywolf.social ("Small Web Blog Posts") wrote:
What share of all chips are high-end data center AI chips?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
obtener@mastodon.world ("Georgiann Baldino") wrote:
#Meta oversight board calls company's deepfake rule 'incoherent'
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Finally figured out a good analogy for the Biden impeachment push. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/05/house-gops-impeachment-fyre-festival/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@stilgherrian .10% x 5000 is 5 spam reports. A competitor could easily put you in the danger zone by reporting you from five gmail accounts. So just that right there is incentive enough to opt-in to #Google's services.
I haven't looked deep into the #Postmaster tool, but just using history as a guide, I'm certain it collects data.
#AOL tried to pull something similar and people rightfully revolted. It was an anti-competitive weaponization of security.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
A Tribute to John Coltrane on Aug 10, 2004 at Newport
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Small digital communities are not without its challenges, but nothing scales wholesale abuse like venture capital funding and shareholder value.
And puzzle CAPITAs.
I don't want to train someone's AI. I don't know how that's related but I don't like it. #tech #socialmedia #SmallWeb #indieweb
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Dartmouth basketball team allowed to unionize, US agency says in landmark decision
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/05/2024/dartmouth-basketball-team-allowed-to-unionize-nlrb-rules?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Semafor
https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
And to be clear, I'm not a free market guy at all. But Congress doesn't seem capable of passing laws that don't have an exploitable loophole that puts us deeper in a hellhole.
We couldn't even fully abolish slavery🙃.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
It's wild how The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and what we're seeing in tech today are so similar.
The country received better access to services as a result. But can anyone say with a straight face that mobile, internet, and cable service providers are motivated by competition? Or that we receive good rates for these services?
And how will social and cloud computing services change once regulation passes in the future? Heh.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
After much study & contemplation, I conclude that the greatest romantic pairing in the movies is…
Barbara Crampton & Jeffrey Combs.
Even better than Morticia & Gomez. Gentlemen, study them to see best how to love.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
OK, if you want to take over my job, fine. But I want to be the one taking a nap.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/05/im-trying-to-get-some-work-done/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:
Ooof. "down for everyone or just me" is reporting that fonts.googleapis.com is, in fact, down. No wonder half the sites I'm trying to access are stalling. I thought it was a problem with this public wifi network I'm on...
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
josh@phocks.eu.org ("josh :bocchi_arch:") wrote:
a CEO can never be held accountable therefore a CEO must never make a management decision
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a first post to my new blog is up, beginning a short series on how using #ChatGPT as a coach to learn something has destroyed my skeptical preconceptions.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus was a petty little bitch. Prometheus stole it *back*. In this essay about DRM I will
![2 screenshots: 1) Screenshot of a post by Ford News @FordJohnathan5: #BREAKINGNEWS Take Back Our Border convoy are telling reporters that they are very confused about what they were told was happening and what's actually happening. They expected to see lines of immigrants lined up wanting entry and many trying to cross over outside the normal ports of entry. They say this isn't happening at all. In fact they aren't seeing lines at all, no one crossing the border or no a crisis. Some aren't even sure now why they are there. 6:08 PM • 2/3/24 From Earth 2) Screenshot of a post by Ford News @FordJohnathan5: #BREAKINGNEWS The Border Convoy at the Southern Border is reporting multiple fights and violent altercations among participants. They haven't seen an invasion, crisis, or immigrants rushing through our border so they are turning on themselves. [cut to fit alt text] 9:44 AM • 2/5/24 From Earth](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/111/881/920/678/498/082/original/896df34883666157.jpeg){kind=link}
