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_ed@sopuli.xyz wrote:

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

https://sopuli.xyz/post/9897240

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phooky@octodon.social wrote:

Incredible. I was half expecting the guy to just shove the selectric off the desk at the end of the set.
https://youtu.be/YsN_PRrXcwU?si=BgMWHpwZg1-bxJ-q

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New set of dice in preparation for some #ttrpg later 🙂

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• Blue sandstone dice in a wooden container.

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

Embryolo!

...Is this anything?

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

Mozilla and Automattic really duking it out for who can lose decades of community goodwill the fastest

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

I vividly remember four years ago, when the tech company I worked at had its entire CI/CD pipeline break for like a whole day, until someone finally realized one of the tests hadn't accounted for leap years, and expected a year to be exactly 365 days.

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mconley@mozilla.social ("Mike Conley (:mconley) ⚙️") wrote:

Chekhov's Vibraslap

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hey everyone we're Let Them Eat Cake and all we need to get started is a billionaire you'd like to see under a guillotine

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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

A star will be born in the coming months! Not quite, but a star in the T Coronae Borealis binary system (T CrB) will explode as a nova between Feb and Sept and become visible to the naked eye.

How do astronomers know? It is because this is a “recurrent nova”, one that grows and erupts every ~80 years. It is known to have erupted in 1217, 1787, 1866 and 1946.

After explosion, it will be visible to the unaided eye for several days and about a week with binoculars.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2024/02/27/view-nova-explosion-new-star-in-northern-crown/
1/n

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• Artist's portrayal of a classical nova explosion. Shows one star attracting material from an orbiting neighbor and exploding. K. Ulaczyk/Warsaw University Observatory (remote)

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thorpej@mastodon.sdf.org ("Jason Thorpe") wrote:

Hey there #FPGA hackers! If you want to do open source FPGA development on #NetBSD, now you can! I've just made pkgsrc packages for YosysHQ's icestorm, nextpnr-ice40, and yosys.

OK, go make cool stuff now!

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

More analysis on what just went down in the EU re: PWAs and what's next from an @owa contributor, @rgadellaa.

Spoiler: it's extremely unlikely Apple's gonna get away with any of this nonsense:

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/the-eu-is-not-okay-with-pwa-webkit/

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acdha@thepit.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

@fromjason it’s such a simple rule for explaining oddities in America: “would doing this right have required white people to share?”

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

If you guessed "because they were racist a-holes," here's your kewpie doll.

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

The University of Minnesota wants to CANCEL administrators from the 1930s & 1940s. Bet you can't guess why.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/02/those-dei-wokesters-are-canceling-again/

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• 3b51a3dfdc051dae.jpg (remote)

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dajb@social.coop ("Doug Belshaw") wrote:

Imagine someone living in the UK over the last 14 years of Conservative mismanagement, then reading this article, and *still* voting Tory?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/02/conservatives-economic-record-budget-deficit-gdp-tax-tory-budget

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simongerman600@mastodon.au ("Simon Kuestenmacher") wrote:

This map shows the share of the European population that has (as of 2021) never (!) used the internet. Another great piece by @milos_agathon.

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• 4082b85eed52f02c.jpeg (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A not-so-fun tidbit of NYC sanitation: it has a racist history where well into the 70s, trash was not collected in Black and brown neighborhoods.

It took a Puerto Rican street gang called the Young Lords to change that. They would throw trash from their neighborhood into white neighborhoods up the street until NYC finally caved.

Services born of systemic racism never work well, because what if non-white people benefit?

From: @acdha
https://thepit.social/@acdha/112027201601232449

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animelphabet@sunny.garden ("Ellie") wrote:

Probably the best piece I've ever made.

#ceramics #pottery #MastoArt #actuallyautistic #giraffe

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• View of giraffe head entering mug with its tongue sticking out. The tongue is blue but has a splodge of brown glaze on it as though it's just licked the inside of the mug (remote)
• Side view of giraffe mug. To the left is the tail, 4 legs underneath and the giraffes neck form the handle with its head sticking in to the body of the mug. The mug is brown ish (remote)
• Top view of giraffe mug. To the front is the tail and the giraffes head sticking in to the body of the mug. (remote)
• Shadow of giraffes head inside the mug, mug is brown ish with blue and green flecks (remote)

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h_thoreson@mastodon.world ("hannah") wrote:

Get it get it https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2024/Q1/purdue-offers-free-foundational-course-in-semiconductor-fabrication.html #semiconductors #fab #chips

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Still thinking about Dune. I also never realized just how much Star Wars took from it. 😤

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stiefkind ("Wolfgang Stief") wrote:

Does anybody know a book on the history of microchip making? Something from the transistor or at least from the Intel 4004 up to modern VLSI Chips? #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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

Of all the conservative political attacks, "buying votes" is the funniest to me.

Yes, Democrats introduced a popular policy. You guys know you can do that too, right? You don't have to keep doing shit people hate. You can literally just do something the public wants. It's not cheating.

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vivtek@indieweb.social ("Michael Roberts") wrote:

@pluralistic Unless you steal from your employees as God intended. That remains OK with Orange County.

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gedeonm ("Ged Maheux") wrote:

Immediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the window… 😢

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• Video showing various teapots being pour tested, some splashing a lot, others with the smoother stream and a longer distance

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

FTC reminding people that price fixing with a computer is still price fixing:

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing

Some VC backed techbros somewhere: "But my price fixing as a service business!"

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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:

Genuinely huge news from the American Psychological Association, which just voted 153-9 to pass a new policy agenda supporting transgender healthcare, actively dismantling the misinformation and lies ABOUT trans people and their healthcare needs, and calling for a complete repeal of all anti-trans bills, nationwide. It isn't federal law, but it is huge and will have a beneficial impact in a number of places in the US.

Well done on the APA, here, doing what they can to protect trans people.
https://www.apa.org/about/policy/transgender-nonbinary-inclusive-care

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paulrickards wrote:

If you have a chance while in Washington, DC, make sure to visit the Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibit featuring the work of Susan Kare at Design your Own Icon, a hands-on exhibit where you flip black and white tiles to create your own icon on the screen. 😀

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #Smithsonian #MARCHintosh

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• A replica of an original Mac showing a smiley face on the screen. In front is a large tablet surface with a grid of 12x12 tiles that flip between black and white and have the same smiley. Yes, I know it’s not 32x32 pixels.

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nanographs@chaos.social ("Adam McCombs") wrote:

Introducing the first open source SEM digital image capture solution, the Open Beam Interface!

GitHub: https://github.com/nanographs/Open-Beam-Interface

Bring your analog SEM into the digital world, all over one USB type-C connection.

Taking orders now for our first batch of 6 boards, DM for details.

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• Picture of the Open Beam Interface PCB (remote)
• FIB image of a diatom with a chunk cut away (remote)
• FIB image if a MEMS microphone (remote)
• FIB image of an ICE40 with a large trench cut in it (remote)

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

When you expect a story about bats and instead get bloodsucking capitalist vermin, you are bound to be disappointed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/02/i-thought-it-would-be-a-happy-story-about-bats/

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• Anyone have any info on the bat situation at Rockledge Regional Medical Center? | heard they had to move ICU as they were infested on 6th floor and one escaped to 5th floor ! Why hasn't this made the news? Someone said aprox 5000 bats! Glad my family isn'tin that facility right now. (remote)

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

I might as well admit it: I'm creepy. I don't know how I managed to have a relatively normal family. Spiders & bats, oh boy!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/02/am-i-creepy-kooky-altogether-ooky/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGtSDqoM5As

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• mouse-eared bat (remote)