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

recently I've seen a few people "abbreviate" URLs as if they are names not addresses and this is nails on a chalkboard

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Don't Eat Before Reading This - Anthony Bourdain for The New Yorker (1999) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this:

> I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths with whom I continue to work; the ever-present smells of roasting bones, searing fish, and simmering liquids; the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam.

This was the article that started it all. Bourdaine was a special writer, human.

Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):

charmcli ("charm.sh") wrote:

✌️ Welp, we’ve received our 100,000th star on GitHub. We’d like to thank you, the open source community, for your love, support, contributions, and impeccable taste.

So, how did we do it? Here’s our guide to building super popular open source software.

https://charm.sh/blog/100k/

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• A short video consisting mainly of stars with faces floating in and around pink and purple smoke. At the end some golden text flanked by stylized laurel leaves appears reading "Charm: 100k GitHub Stars" followed by some text reading "Thank you, open source community."

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

Please, please, no more AI. It's bad for living things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/06/ai-is-hell/

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• You know it's fake, it's Trump with black people (remote)

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

If only someone could have predicted that Apple would be gigantic asshats about iOS browsers and point out that they'd need to open up PWA infrastructure; say ~two years ago?

https://infrequently.org/2022/02/minimum-standards/#durability

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

donmoyn@sciences.social ("Don Moynihan") wrote:

New, from me: What the Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" says about the Republican Party's new philosophy for governing.
Checks and balances are out. The authoritarian presidency is in.

https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-mandate-for-leadership-says

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

Good to see Moms For Liberty's disingenuousness get exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/06/moms-for-liberty-gets-high-profile-interview-falls-flat-on-face/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpRJjLy2osY

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

OhOkKay@beige.party ("🇨🇦 OhOkKay") wrote:

This ...
And this is why I leave my garden unraked and uncut over winter ... They need a place to live during the winter!

#gardening #bees #butterflies #gardens #FlowersOfMastodon #bloomscrolling

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• Don't SPRING into garden clean-up too soon ... Wait until temperatures are consistently above 10°C (50°F) Many butterflies, bees & other pollinators are currently wintering in dead leaves & hollowed out stems of last years plants. LET THEM BEE (remote)

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

American politics curtsies ridiculously once again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/06/was-it-actually-a-super-tuesday/

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• Kyrsten Sinema, goodbye. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

jeremycshipp ("Jeremy C. Shipp") wrote:

What with the slow disintegration of Twitter and all, I'm finding it difficult to reach new readers who might enjoy my work.

If you could help me spread the word about my newest book, that would be a big help. Thank you.

https://meerkatpress.shop/products/the-merry-dredgers-by-jeremy-c-shipp

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Shout out to #iOS for stripping the tracking parameter when I share something via iMessage.

And a big fuck you to #TikTok who aggressively tries to build out my social graph at every opportunity.

Just because I share something with someone doesn't mean I want to be TikTok friends with them. What are you doing?

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• Two panel screenshots. The top panel shows a URL with a tracking parameter. The bottom shows the tracking parameter removed with an iMessage pop-up share.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

sorinorii@mastodon.online ("ᛊᛟᚱᛁᚾ ᛟᛚᛟᚱᛁᚾ ᛟᚱᛁᛁ") wrote:

One was given to Monica, in his life. One was given to Erica, by his side. One was given to Sandra, in the sun. One was given to Mary, all night long. But they were all of them deceived. For deep in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Lou Bega forged a master mambo. A Mambo No. 5...

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PressTheButtons@mefi.social ("Matthew Green") wrote:

Princess Peach's Regrettable Cake Comes To Life

https://www.pressthebuttons.com/2024/03/princess-peachs-regrettable-cake-comes-to-life.html

You know that terrible cake that Princess Peach tells Mario not to come to the castle for? My wife made it for real.

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• Super Mario 64 screenshot - Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool. Peach. (remote)
• Dear Mario: Do NOT come to the castle. I've baked an absolute dogshit cake. Just completely fucked it up. Peach. (remote)
• 5fe6bf0406cdfd8b.jpeg (remote)
• My wife's incredible terrible Princess Peach cake. Thank you so much for-a playing my game! (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hit me up on #signal fromjason.01

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

So, looks like we have our first shot at the #SocialWeb browser.

Who acquires it? #Meta? Nah.

My bet is #Mozilla. They were just two decades too early. Now's their time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iconfactory/project-tapestry

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phooky@octodon.social wrote:

The existence of poppycock implies the existence of sesamecock, onioncock, and everythingcock

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

The Republicans rose up to make a mighty complaint about the Minnesota state flag!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/05/im-not-complaining-about-some-history-being-erased/

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• Rally in support of old state flag at Minnesota Capitol. (remote)

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

“Effectively integrating generative AI into higher education requires policy development, cross-functional engagement, ethical principles, risk assessments, collaboration with other institutions, and an exploration of diverse use cases.”#ai #artificialintelligence #education

https://er.educause.edu/articles/2024/2/exploring-the-opportunities-and-challenges-with-generative-ai

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

ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org wrote:

THE ART AND HISTORY OF LETTERING COMICS by Todd Klein
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/the-art-and-history-of-lettering-
comics/ #comics #longread

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

emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

I realize the latest open letter from the "AI Safety" crowd is essentially self-parody, but at the same time, I couldn't resist ...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z_Vz9rYUkajKbT2CF0SpFtfF8QspsHFKh9ozBFANseM/edit?usp=sharing

(For the source reference, repair this URL: https: //openletter.svangel.com/ )

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I just made perfect eggs in a basket. I wish to queen were alive to see this

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• Two slices of bread with a hole in the center, each containing a sunny-side-up egg, on a plate with a fork. One of the eggs has a broken yolk.

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

cev@bsd.network wrote:

Linking this 'cause I heard a short bit of it in a podcast earlier.

Doc Severinsen's cover of The Court Of The Crimson King by King Crimson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkTHskJcX0

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

robstewartUK@mastodon.scot ("Rob Stewart") wrote:

The YouTube recordings and PDF slides of the HAFDAL talks are now on the workshop's web page.

https://haflang.github.io/workshops/hafdal24.html

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• 1b4294c3add4acfb.png (remote)

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

raphaelrobert ("Raphael Robert") wrote:

It’s the end of an era, Signal will now respond to subpoenas and hand over phone numbers when given usernames. I’ve seen first hand how this worked with Wire. Subpoenas come in in high numbers and you can’t fight them all.
The only advantage Signal has over Wire is that usernames are not necessarily visible to contacts. But the problem is still there.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/04/signal-app-username-phone-number-privacy/

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

One of the best things I've learned over the last few years is: you don't owe it to anyone to respond, rebut, or even read what they say. You can ignore it, you can block it, or you can delete it. You don't owe anyone anything just because they typed some stuff in a box and you saw it.

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

annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

@xor How permanent does it have to be? :)

while echo -e "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently\nLocation: http://example.com/\n\n" | nc -l 8080 ; do : ; done

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

what's the quickest little server to serve _only_ 301 redirects to a given page? I had a reason to do that yesterday and was surprised that I couldn't do it in a one-liner

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

@ia looking forward to diving into this

https://ia.net/topics/all-new-shortcuts-ia-writer-7-1

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

Want to be a journalist? Apply to The Sun’s free summer journalism workshop for Colorado high schoolers

https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/04/colorado-sun-rise-and-shine-journalim-workshop/

h/t Sandra Fish

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

Beware the ever-growing giant meat monster consuming Boston!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/05/perpetually-growing-meat/

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• Giant meat grinder (remote)