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

jwillia2@mastodon.online ("Frantz Fanon") wrote:

FACTS

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

For like two years HBO Max was thee premium streaming service and now its exactly what you'd expect from being acquired by Discovery.

Apple TV kind of swooped in and took the premium spot. They don't have a Succession-level show yet but they get better with each release.

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

jimray wrote:

The way @molly0xfff ethers Chris Dixon down to the subatomic level here is just so satisfying

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

my beloved grandmother passed away, and i tried to process my feelings through a blog post: https://library.xandra.cc/gloria/

hug your loved ones for me today, if you get a chance. and call your grandmother, if she's still around. <3

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

Is Apple *actually* going to try to nuke PWAs and blame the DMA?

Guess we're gonna find out!

https://x.com/mysk_co/status/1754978973417672794?s=20

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

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

This is just to say

I have sent
the plums
in the icebox
through time

and which
have now missed
hundreds
of breakfasts

forgive me
I hope
you like prunes

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

In many languages around the world, the word for a railway platform is “perron,” from the French word for “doorstep” … but not in French, which uses “quai” (quay/wharf), a word of Celtic origin.

And then there’s Japanese, which uses “hōmu,” a shortening of English “platform” but it sounds like English “home” because phonology.

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

Aaron@front-end.social ("Aaron Gustafson") wrote:

I love experiments that showcase the power of the web platform and this is no exception: a pure #WebStandards-powered #ProgressiveWebApp

https://medium.com/@neerventure/purepwa-a-radical-u-turn-in-web-development-a386c0dc092e

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

avi@chitter.xyz ("Avi 🦝") wrote:

the 16 genders

#UIGore courtesy of https://tdeecalculator.org/

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• Toggles for on/off states of male, female, imperial and metric (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Dear Publix,

Please reconsider the phone number rewards thing.

Not every grocery store needs to be a data mining company.

Thank you.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I will say this about parenting teenagers: it is unpredictable -- and occasionally, delightfully so

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

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.