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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

I know that mentioning Bluesky at all will open the floor for everyone to explain me billionaires like I am a tiny capitalist baby, which, egh, ok.

However! I am kind of a slow-and-steady person and I find it useful to talk about one thing at a time. And I think these moderation layers (server + users) are an experiment worth watching closely for people interested in building better networks, *even if Bluesky doesn't get them right*.

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

“Workers at video game outlet IGN announced they’re unionizing Tuesday, with a supermajority of support from editorial and creative workers. With around 80 members in the unit, the union would be one of the largest unionized games journalism outlets in existence.”

HELL YES https://aftermath.site/ign-creators-guild-union-games-journalism

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

One reason journalists flock to centralized platforms -- despite massive evidence that this is a strategic mistake -- is that the journalism craft is accustomed to needing a daddy.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 – The Public Domain Review https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/?utm_source=newsletter:

> The most accurate depictions are in the theaters of warfare and industrial agriculture — testament to the driving economic forces of technological development across the twentieth century: gatling guns affixed to automobiles, blimp-like battleships, fields cut with combine harvesters.

Good read. At the bottom of the article is a link to some #publicdomain #art.

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• Vintage illustrations depicting imaginative visions of the year 2000, including scenes of a classroom, correspondence via cine-phone-telegraph, war automobiles, radium heating, and other futuristic concepts.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here’s a silly goblin creature for #WhiskersWednesday. #CatsOfMastodon

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• A white cat with orange patches and a pink nose looking silly while being pet on top of a blahaj. Her name is Peaches.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Signed up for #MetaFilter. What's the vibe there? Culture?

Since blogging, I've discovered so many small digital communities. I love them all.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Full subway breaks out singing Dancing on my own by Robyn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFSfqfAMlA&si=L3ImWbZIERH49vEB

Even if I were pre-coffee and grumpy that day, this would've made me smile.

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

evermorian@petrous.vislae.town ("Evermorian") wrote:

I found the theme music for my (fictional) #RetroComputing podcast.

https://soundcloud.com/ostoastbach/dialing-up

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

'Local election results. Justin de Benedictis-Kessner et al. have compiled a dataset of 77,000+ (distinct) candidates across 57,000+ US elections for mayor, city council, school board, county executive, county legislature, sheriff, and prosecutor. It is, they write, “the most comprehensive publicly-available source of information on local elections across the entire country.” It includes “most medium and large cities and counties” and spans 1989 to 2021..."

https://osf.io/mv5e6/

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

Today Apple approved my latest strategy board game, Runes of Ardun, for release on the App Store!

Please check it out, I've worked hard on it and would love to hear what you think! https://symbolic.software/blog/2024-02-07-ardun/

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

I have opinions about the assorted social media apps we can choose among.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/07/do-you-want-to-be-the-demon-with-the-pitchfork-or-the-guys-being-pitchforked/

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• Lost souls plodding along with their cell phones (remote)

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

JenMsft ("Jen Gentleman") wrote:

Is this... (gestures at photo)... a linked list?

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• Three shelves, one above the other, each with a cat on it. The cat on the top shelf is reaching down to put his paw on the second shelf cat, while the second shelf cat is reaching down to put his paw on the third shelf cat. The third shelf cat wonders what he's done to deserve this

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Re: Elon Musk Had Twins With His Top Neuralink Executive, But They Never Dated — She Explains 'He Wants Smart People To Have Kids, So He Encouraged Me To' And He's The Person She 'Admires Most In The World' https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-had-twins-top-225513548.html:

I'm starting to suspect that at least some of these women are victims of a cult, and that the word "Smart" is synonymous with the word "white".

But that's crazy, it's not like Elon's family was the ruling class in an apartheid state- oh.

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🇺🇳") wrote:

@fromjason https://www.powells.com/

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Richr ("Richard Rutter") wrote:

After all these years, I've only just realised that the illustration for @beep's seminal Responsive Design article is itself responsive. 🤦

https://alistapart.com/article/responsive-web-design/

#typography #webdev #webdesign

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• Cliche responsive design video showing a screenshot of A List Apart webpage at different widths, and how the image is swapped out 4 times.

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

Quick shot of a speedy spider running through my office…

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/07/good-morning-spider-2/

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• Asiatic wall jumper (remote)

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angrox@chaos.social ("Martin") wrote:

Posted by a colleague - and it hits the spot:

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• This is fine - meme with the dog wearing an Apple Vision Pro (remote)

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

FAQ's about Windows Subsystem for Linux | Microsoft Learn

“What is Bash?” #HeadDrsk

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Bought this blend on @Noshir’s recommendation 🙂

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• Russian breakfast tea from Mariage in a black metal tin.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Last thing you see before you die.
https://botsin.space/@zapping/111889685366949291

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gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" from @pluralistic
"Companies really do get away with both literal and figurative murder. Governments really do ignore horrible crimes by the rich and powerful, and fumble what rare, few enforcement efforts they assay."
Oh so true!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/06/spoil-the-bunch/

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kcarruthers wrote:

Folks should really pay attention to this Trump project 2025 stuff. They are literally planning to get rid of government & experts & replace them with loyalists.

They’re planning to sack 50k public servants as soon as they win.

It will break the US as we have known it.

This is literally the same thing that Hitler did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

If a space alien came and asked me to summarize our world economy I'd show them this

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• Silver pill box with "ADDERALL 30" engraved on the lid, displayed for sale on a social network shop. $225

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We all have our flaws. I know I'm not perfect.

But I cannot relate in the slightest, the need to rush to the comments to show the world your distain for regular people anytime corporate exploitation is brought up.

LIKE WHAT.

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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

So you're telling me these Bluesky invite codes I've been holding on to as an investment are worthless now. Well great. Just fucking great. What the fuck.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Zuck: we call our interoperable ecosystem the #Metaverse now

#Fediverse: oh hey twinsies

Zuck: we launched a text based app connected to #ActivityPub

#Mastodon: yay we do that

Zuck: we believe in openness now

Openness.org: neato! This is completely out of character but we're convinced

Zuck: we copy platforms so that eventually, they die under the pressure of our competition because this has been our entire business model for a decade

Guy who invented the at sign: fascinating

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

They'll take away my developer card for admitting this, but: even though I do use switch statements whenever I have more than about three possible cases, I do it solely because I feel like I'm supposed to, and I still don't see any way in which a switch statement is better than a chain of if/elses.

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knowler@sunny.garden ("Nathan Knowler") wrote:

@fromjason “Guy who invented the at sign” 🤣

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

held the usual #JS8Call learning net @ROCDIGI on 20m #AmateurRadio #JS8

played with automated checkins & network mapping, then message relay. had some fun, learned some stuff.

7 of us this wk, come join us & experiment next tues night at 9pm eastern time

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

howz yer aurora, Dora?

#SpaceWeather #Aurora #AmateurRadio

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