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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

So much land in this country is wasted on golf courses...

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

earthshine@hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

A series of decisions were made at Mini which resulted in what is unambiguously the worst indicator design of all time. It is so bad that after seeing it on the street, I just had to post about it here.

Attachments:

• Animated gif of the back of a mini Cooper s countryman crossover vehicle with the brake lights illuminated and the left turn signal blinking. The left turn signal is very clearly an arrow pointing to the right, and the right indicator is an arrow pointing to the left when illuminated. (remote)

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

dredmorbius@toot.cat ("Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​") wrote:

Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.

I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.

Obviously early 20th century.

Ring any bells for anyone?

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #Maths #prodigies #BertrandRussell

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

Boeing is showing us the way -- how to kill American productivity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/29/boeing-has-become-an-object-lesson-in-bad-business/

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• Boeing 737 MAXs parked in Moses Lake (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I love myself a good "Burning Down the House" cover and Paramore's is right up there 🤩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NKuuQ4Hy0

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

john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

A new #painting!

A portrait of Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis, scourge of the Late Triassic.

https://johnconway.art/herrerasaurus_portrait

#art #dinosaurs

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• The head of a dinosaur on a green background. It’s head is scaly, with a variety of colours filling the cracks between them. (remote)

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

Sam Bankman-Jailed

Sam Bankman-Freed-in-25-years

C'mon journalists, the ideas are right there

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

lazza ("Andrea Lazzarotto") wrote:

Sarebbe meglio evitare di mettere online le foto dei #minori. Se ne sono accorti persino alcuni soggetti che in passato hanno usato l'immagine dei #figli per guadagnare popolarità e indirettamente a scopo di #lucro.

https://www.ilpost.it/2024/03/21/social-network-foto-bambini/

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

No one told me that science was show business, or I would have worked on being prettier.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/29/today-is-the-day-of-the-dog-and-pony-show/

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• homely giant spider (remote)

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

cleaning out a shelf, found this from the early 90’s… amusing

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• business card from long ago (remote)

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

oh how cheerful… thank you, @CARROT

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• 509a3afce9eedc5b.mp4 (remote)

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

danslerush@floss.social ("DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ") wrote:

In June, #enshittification to come for #Chrome (and its derivatives) : #Google's #ManifestV3 will take effect.

- #AdBlockers will be limited to 30,000 rules … no more

- They will no longer be able to update themselves daily, but only when new versions of extensions are published (which Google sometimes takes up to 3 weeks to validate)

To sum up, #AdBlocking extensions will always be late on websites, and in any case will not have enough rules to cover all sites.

› https://www.techradar.com/pro/how-chromes-manifest-v3-will-change-the-game-for-ad-blockers

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Finally made a bookmarks page. Will use as my blogroll too (it's not done yet 😅)

#blogger #blog

https://fromjason.xyz/me/Bookmarks/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

At a pub with @mike.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy sitting at a wooden pub table in front of a glass of beer.

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

mhoye wrote:

"The thing about Facebook is that the people who work there just do this shit", the ongoing series.

"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes [...]"

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

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

This is homeopathically weak sauce from @eff:

https://mastodon.social/@eff/112169858320477875

But nobody likes a whiner! So, a "there, fixed it for you" version that EFF/Mozilla/etc. can steal without attribution any time they get asked in future:

"The calls on Apple and Google to live up to their privacy rhetoric and ban in-app browsers that fail to respect user choice in browsers. We're shocked but not surprised that Meta and Bytedance continue these dark patterns, and call on regulators to forbid them."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

They are big mad

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• Social network post by "Gary Goosey" including a profile picture of a man: "You are a joke and a disgrace to Mastodon. I'm blocking you. I'm glad Meta exposed all of you."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It's interesting to see the pro-Meta pro-interpolation discourse degrade in real time as news stories about the social media giant remind us why it's a horrible company.

So far today they have

✅ compared themselves and the concept of federation to the civil rights movement

✅ implied marginalized groups are the _real_ fascists

✅ implied anti-meta users who use the React framework are hypocrites.

Yall need to regroup under NDA again. This is a bad look

#threads #meta #ActivityPub

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

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Can someone please ask the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH to defederate with Threads? I used to know Eugen who ran the instance and could have asked him myself but I don’t know the CEO of Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonGGMBH #mastodonDotSocial #mastodonSocial #CEO #threads #meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodon #fediverse

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

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

But, yes, please, do federate with them mastodon.social. Because senpai noticed you.

#meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodonSocial #mastodon #usefulIdiots

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

_o_o_@mastodon.online ("_Ө_Ө_") wrote:

@aral + https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Comparing pro-Meta tech bros who want #Threads to interpolate with #Mastodon to civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King is WILD.

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• Martin Luther King a revolutionary hero in the age of racial segregation because he told black people "stay safe in the segregated areas that the white man has carved for you, and avoid going to any places where they usually go?" No. Quite the opposite. He gave marginalized people courage by inviting them to sit on the bus next to a white supremacist. He invited them to break the cage and mix into white-only areas. He invited them to be part of the real world, and show others that they were humans just like them. Not to seclude themselves. Was it as easy as a walk at the park? Of course not. In fact, a lot of blood was shed. But would the US have ever got to a better stage than the 1960s if those marginalized minorities were invited by their own peers to hide themselves from the real world? I don't think so.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Not me on the phone with Delaware to request BlueSky's annual report lol

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

I like to see error bars when it's my sperm being counted, you know. Is that just me? 🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/28/hows-your-sperm-count-doin-guys/

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• graph of declining sperm counts over time (remote)

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

SBF is going away for a good long while.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/28/buh-bye-sam/

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• Sam Bankman-Fried (remote)

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

Announcing Igalia's 15th Annual Web Engines Hackfest!

Join us for three days of discussions, brainstorming sessions, and hands-on collaboration!

More information, including how to propose a breakout session or submit a talk:
https://www.igalia.com/2024/03/28/Web-Engines-Hackfest-2024.html

Attachments:

• A photo of the venue from the water and the words "Igalia's 15 annual Web Engines Hackfest: June 3-5, 2024 A Coruna, Spain webengineshackfest.org" (remote)

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

They're gonna call me sir
They'll all stop picking on me
Well, I'm a high school grad
I'm over 5 foot 3
I got a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D.
They'll see

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

RikerGoogling@botsin.space ("Riker Googling") wrote:

who was earl grey

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

So much of logo design is just not making the marking look like genitalia

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

My article for The Guardian just dropped.

"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation