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

The MAGA mantra.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/04/the-explanation/

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• I’m just an ape in a post-religion, post-authority, post-trust society looking for a large man to organize my community and tell me who the enemies are. (remote)

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

😂 Credit https://khanartist.org #ai #art

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• In this comic, a person spends long hours working on a comic. When another person questions the amount of time invested and suggests using AI, the artist responds, "That's why nobody will remember your name."

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@pzmyers There is a drink called Waldmeister that does have that green coloring (though artificial). It is a tasty drink.

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

AI: using the art of the hyperstimulus to launch us all right into the uncanny valley. Would you drink this?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/04/ai-making-the-void-look-shiny-bright-and-appealing/

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• Hyper green drink (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Wouldn't it be silly for him to spar against me, a total amateur, as a joke

It would be so funny to see him use his strength, weight and skill to immobilize me beneath him in a matter of seconds

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

I think it is time to dig the bike out of the backyard shed & prep it for some use.

🚲

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I love educational videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6UHlFn9PaE

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

The #RealWorldCrypto 2024 program is out and it's fantastic as always. Won't be attending in person this year (venue too far and not as interesting as Tokyo), but looking forward to streaming online. https://rwc.iacr.org/2024/program.php

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

Is Tokyo the best city? Not sure. But it's bloody great regardless.

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GeofCox@climatejustice.social wrote:

@richardknott @ChrisMayLA6

I had the privilege of growing up in the 60s and 70s - how I wish I could get across how important the feelings of security and optimism were to us then.

Some will say it was just the optimism of youth, or point to the threat of nuclear war that hung over us - similar, perhaps, to climate-ecological breakdown now.

But here's the thing: my family was unskilled working-class, and we had little; I was never really hungry, but I was often cold, my toys were secondhand, etc... But when I was ill the doctor came out to our little terraced house, when I got to university my full grant was the most money I'd ever had, and then I went traveling and working casually around Europe for a year. I was free to live life to the full - because I was safe in the knowledge that if everything went wrong the NHS would pick me up, and the social safety net, the welfare state would provide enough to live on until I got back on my feet.

Most young people in the UK now don't have that feeling of security that bestows freedom; instead they feel they have to get down to the daily grind or they'll be left behind in the rat race. Which is of course just what their wealthy and privileged potential employers want them to feel.

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Watched Dune part 2 yesterday. :chefskiss:

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jensens@nerdculture.de ("Jens W. Klein") wrote:

#Plone - the #Python -based #CMS, with #React front-end - is accepted for Google Summer of Code #gsoc #gsoc2024 #javascript https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/plone-foundation

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ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club ("Ludic") wrote:

FIAT currency is worthless and you should all buy my cryptocurrency. You can tell it's useful because it's worth so much FIAT currency. ♾️

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

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stevesilberman@newsie.social ("Steve Silberman") wrote:

BREAKING: Trump WH drug problems much worse than previously reported. Administration was "awash" in speed, Xanax, and other drugs, pushed by pill-popping quack Ronny Jackson. Melania was pissed when some random staffer couldn't just dash off a scrip for Xanax. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/

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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a crooked, blueish room. There is a CLOSET near the window. You see a FEATHER here, on the floor. There is a BCLINDNER here, writing a list.

Exits: SOUTHWEST DOWN NORTHWEST
#bot

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

Different ways of representing the periodic table of elements:

https://www.galchimia.com/shapes-of-the-periodic-table/

There are apparently even more I have never heard of.

https://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The only thing more sus than the Zuck worship on #threads, are the high-profile tech bros in the comments, who are definitely not on the #Meta payroll, trying to convince us that this is normal.

#FediMeta #Fediverse

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• Screenshot this of a post with Zuck photo explaining how much of a genius Zuck is.
• Screen shot of a photo with a photo of Zuck. Account says Zuck is dripped.
• Tech bro trying to explain away the weirdness saying it happens on twitter
• Post praising Zuck for his "threads"

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the_arto@jorts.horse ("Bullet With Butter Tart Wings") wrote:

What idiot called it "our glorious AI future" instead of "Nightmare on LLM Street"?

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Ranjit@friend.camp ("ranjit") wrote:

@xor this afternoon I saw a jogger go past me wearing a red shirt with white text, and a green hat and I automatically thought "sriracha"

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

One of my favorite "de facto standards" is food packaging colors across different brands. Probably most notably in artificial sweetener packets, but you also get this in chips. I think it's fun!

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nonnullish@indieweb.social ("nika") wrote:

living vicariously through these ones https://codeofmatt.com/list-of-2024-leap-day-bugs/

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

Dune 2: the moral ambiguity was the point. Let's hope the fans don't turn it all black & white, like Giedi Prime.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/03/dune-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Qp5pL3ovA

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

some folks didn’t survive 💦

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

Runes of Ardun, my new strategy board game, is experiencing notable success!!

This weekend, it's been ranked in the Top 10 in the Board Games category on the following App Stores: 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷🇨🇦🇨🇭🇮🇪🇧🇷🇩🇰🇦🇺🇪🇸🇹🇷🇮🇱🇸🇪🇳🇴 + more.

Designing puzzle and strategy games is such a deeply fulfilling creative endeavor. And watching people enjoy your creative work is priceless!

Give it a try today! https://apple.co/3P4IJF7

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

Also, this was a few years ago. Maybe things have changed, I don't know. Pretty sure everyone I knew there is gone now.

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

Pretty fucking sick of the New York Times' bullshit.

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/status-report-about-that-poll

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

I'm fairness: they do pay you for your hours (albeit not great), which is way more than most companies do. They also don't give you a time limit which is both good and bad if you ask me.

The part that really aggravated me was I was three rounds deep and nobody would help me at all. It was tech I didn't know and everybody shrugged and just said "figure it out."

It felt very much like they'd removed the traditional gatekeeping in the interview process only to double down on it in other ways.

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

My worst interview ever, by far, was with Automattic. While everyone I interacted with was incredibly nice, it was a miserable experience. (It was a series of take-home code exams, escalating in difficulty until you were eventually tossed into an overwhelmingly complex repo with no help, and told to go figure it out. "It might take months," they said, as though it was helpful.)

Then, I was confused by this. But the more I learn about who Matt Mullenweg actually is, the less surprised I am.

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

I'm voting "uncommitted" in Minnesota's primary on Tuesday.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/03/super-tuesday-is-coming-up/