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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This man hates gays SO MUCH…he fled to Russia.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/20/how-much-do-you-hate-the-gays/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm teaching about symbiosis in ecodevo this week, so of course I had to introduce them to Lynn Margulis, which was a complex messy topic on its own that I could have discussed for a full hour.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/20/its-symbiosis-week/
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StevePLMarquis@regenerate.social ("𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕧𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕤") wrote:
This drawing is by Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old primary school student in Slovenia. She was chosen from 600,000 children around the world to create a piece of art to show what peace looks like.
She is the winner of the international Plakat Miru competition.
"My drawing represents the land that binds us and unites us.""Humans are woven together. If someone gives up, others fall. We are all connected to our planet and to each other, but unfortunately we are little aware of it. We are woven together. Other people weave alongside me my own story; and I weave theirs," said the young designer.
https://youtu.be/4acZrVzYGbY?si=oTERfiLGkyHRRb3y
This drawing is by Anja Rozen, a 13-year-old primary school student in Slovenia.
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've mused before on the idea of different modes of social media use. There's the broadcast mode, one person trying to reach as large an audience as possible. Then there's the small group discussion model. Mixing the two or confusing one for the other is a cause of problems.
It occurs to me, layered on top of those are at least two minor modes. There's improv (yes and) and there's debate club (fight me). This seems to be a similar source of problems and confusion. 🤔
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amigalove ("Amiga Love ❤") wrote:
Holy ...🤯
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
We have 2 #jobs available on my IAM team at Elastic. Both are fully #remote, on a #distributed team, aiming for people in the #APJ region.
* "Full-stack" but UI-focused https://grnh.se/653f48251us
* Backend focused: https://grnh.se/b3afdb451us
Mastodon FeedWorth taking 3 minutes to watch this comedy gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-pv2oYgsao&t=191s
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
People with custom made blogs unite!
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Ranjit@friend.camp ("ranjit") wrote:
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZNGDj-b3DE
(via metafilter)
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serge@babka.social ("Serge from Babka") wrote:
This instance handles, on average, 6.5 reports of antisemitism a day.
Why is that significant? It's significant because Babka already suspends individual accounts, and Limits entire instances.
Despite this, we deal with ~6.5 new antisemitic accounts *per day*.
And yet, if we look at the graphs from Fediverse Observer, the number of active users on the Fediverse has gone down!
So what exactly does that mean, if the number of antisemitic accounts continues to grow and the number of active users continues to shrink?
It means that the number of antisemites on the Fediverse is quite large, and what we're seeing isn't new antisemites as much as it is antisemitism being so normalized that people feel comfortable spouting hate, and that despite blocking or silencing thousands of accounts, hate continues to be emboldened.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Listening to John Mayall Jazz and Blues Fusion from Jul 5, 1973
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crowgirl@hachyderm.io ("Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷") wrote:
"If nine experts in privacy can't understand what Microsoft does with your data, what chance does the average person have? That's why we're asking Microsoft to say if they're going to use our personal data to train its AI."
Please sign and share. #infosec
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
[AI.com](https://ai.com) now forwards to a Youtube video by tech journalist Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). The video is about Open AI's new text-to-video service Sora.
The domain might be owned by Elon Musk? But its hard to say? Reports on ownership are unclear, and rely on the fact that AI.com once forwarded to X.ai.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I hope one day we can recontextualize social media away from the "Marketplace of Ideas" paradigm.
Not every digital space needs to be a market. Not every person on the web needs to be a point of extraction for a corporate balance sheet.
Long live the #SmallWeb 🎉
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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
my stupid mastodon app was not working as i was out of town, but the 32-bit cafe is expanding our #smallweb community into another platform as well as discord. keeping our community in a walled garden is not what we wanted to do.
so 4 days ago, we launched https://discourse.32bit.cafe!
took a lot of work and planning, but we got it done thanks to the help of our amazing staff and beta testers! if you've wanted to interact with us or the community and didn't really want to hop on discord, we totally understand and had you in mind for this. hope to see you there, if you're interested in joining a group of hobbyists who want to build up the independent web in a positive and encouraging environment :)
#indieweb #webdev #webcommunity #community #internet #webdesign #web #openweb #cozyweb #personalweb
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vegetablegremlin@jorts.horse ("Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me: Doc I'm suspicious of compliments
Therapist: do you not think you're worthy of compliments? Because you are.
Me: the fuck is that supposed to mean
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Really really enjoyed this 2016 @aparrish talk on "Lossy text compression" which packs a lot of fascinating insights into 12 minutes https://youtube.com/watch?v=meovx9OqWJc
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
If you're an admin or a moderator, have you seen any spam as a report?
That's right, another poll in the series starting here! The first two polls were for everybody, this one's just for admins and moderators who are having to deal with the spam.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
No Oxide and Friends today, but @ahl and I will be back next week with -- as one of our fans on HN put it -- "a ton of rambling at times"
Mastodon Feedrust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
The results of the Annual Rust Survey of 2023 are now available!
Check out the results in the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The year is 2034. You're playing your favorite VR game, Ditch Diggers.
#Meta CEO announces a new android that digs ditches faster and cheaper than humans.
"No one could've predicted this," exclaims the glowing orb that follows you everywhere and logs your movements.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Three high school girls murdered this person. There needs to be justice here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/19/a-death-in-a-high-school-restroom/
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It me
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Apparently, Frontiers journals don't actually review the papers they are sent.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO https://archive.ph/caW1Y:
> The San Francisco-based firm told prospective investors in its IPO that it had signed the deal, worth about $60 million on an annualized basis, earlier this year, the people said. Reddit’s agreement with an unnamed large AI company could be a model for future contracts of a similar nature, ...
Regardless of the order we publish, we do not own our content if it lives on for-profit platforms. #SmallWeb
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somcak@cutie.city ("somcak :cat_sleep: :cat_ooh:") wrote:
I have had skin cancer surgeries in 2 countries: the U.S., with "hope you can afford the deductible" insurance, and Portugal with single-payer/universal/socialized medicine.
In the U.S. (in 2001): Notice growth on ear. Call to see primary care. Get into appointment 2 days later. Get a referral to a dermatologist. Wait 2 weeks for the insurance company to approve referral. Get into dermatologist 1 week later and have a biopsy. The biopsy showed it was squamous cell carcinoma, a type of cancer usually found in folks over 60 (I was 23 or 24). Dermatologist puts in for an approval for surgery which is denied twice over 3 weeks because “the biopsy was wrong.” Get in 2 days later for another biopsy, which, surprise!, shows it really is squamous cell carcinoma. After another week of wrangling with the insurance company, we finally get approval for surgery. Surgery is scheduled for 1 week later. So, from noticing the growth to surgery about 8 weeks.
In Portugal (5 years later): Notice growth on ear. I call primary care and am transferred to the dermatologist. Get same day appointment. Dermatologist looks at it, picks up the phone and calls the plastic surgeon. We walk down the hall to the plastic surgeon. Both doctors consult their schedules, and I’m scheduled for surgery 2 days later. So, from noticing the growth on the ear to surgery about 2 days.
Again, to show you the difference: In the U.S. without universal healthcare, about $1000 out-of-pocket and 8 weeks until surgery. In Portugal with universal healthcare, about $60 out-of-pocket and 2 days until surgery.
When Congress says we can’t afford universal healthcare, they are saying, “We can’t afford to not make the insurance companies money because they fund our campaigns.” It isn’t about the best interest of Americans, it’s about their own best interest.
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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:
Haunt 0.3.0 is out! first release in 2 years! https://dthompson.us/posts/haunt-0-3-0-released.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Dutch evangelicals invade Texas, get spanked. Don't mess with Texas.