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

You have to realize that they're not actually interested in learning or reason. The fanatics just want you silenced.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/01/for-all-the-debate-bros/

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• “I’m not interested in proving you wrong. Just in shutting you up.” (remote)

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

We are training AIs to be porn-obsessed horndogs!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/01/so-thats-what-ai-is-good-for/

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• Barbie hip anatomy (remote)

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

Anyone want to have a Zoom meeting with Kooi Chong?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/01/go-away-kooi-chong/

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• Nerd alert (remote)

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

OK, I've decided that I'm going to try migrating more from X to Mastodon!

I plan to post more about cryptography, security & privacy, infosec, puzzle games and running.

If we know each other/you think I should follow you, please reply to this toot and let me know! And of course, feel free to follow me!

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

carrotcypher@fosstodon.org wrote:

@nadim this is a real problem. Not only do we not consider this from a supply chain sustainability standpoint, but we also don’t consider audits as a mandatory part of development like we should in the FOSS community.

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

vegard ("Vegard Nossum") wrote:

lol

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• Screenshot of funny reddit post

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

hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Something that is funny (read: not funny at all) to me as a front-end engineer who is on the front-end side of the spectrum is that anytime I've done or talked about promo papers, the one thing that is always brought up is "make sure you can show your ops work". Yet we have countless L6 engineers who don't know how to write CSS effectively or know anything about creating accessible UIs or using things like grid and new CSS methods to make layouts. That's never a barrier to them getting promoted.

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

elly@front-end.social ("Elly Loel ✨🌱") wrote:

Front-end development’s identity crisis
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/blog/front-end-development-s-identity-crisis/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The Boondocks Unaired TV Pilot (2003) - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A_futAylwvk:

> "Radio DJ: "You just heard R. Kelly's new hit Inappropriate. And now on our Friday double play, here's another one by R. Kelly called Distrurbing.”

The Boondocks pilot sat unreleased for twenty years until it was recently uploaded to the Internet. Unfathomably based show.

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

test post https://arghstudios.com

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

okay, so I am impressed with the integrations meshing together git and VS Code and the rust/cargo ecosystem

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I wonder what the discrepancy is between follower counts #threads #fediverse

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• Screenshot of threads account with 352 followers
• Screenshot of threads account on mastodon with 361 followers

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

This is how #Threads shows likes from Mastodon lmao

#SecretLikes

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• Screenshot of a threads post that says "hello". Under the post reads "1 fediverse user from 1 server" with a heart.

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Whenever people complain about their favorite intellectual property from their childhood becoming “woke” it’s usually because it simply went over their heads as kids.

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• 49decb4e2287d5f8.jpeg (remote)

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

dns & email finally configured in a way that makes the big-fish mail relay services like daGoogles happy to deal with my server, & set corp webserver & mailserver to both use the same cert. I have not set up a mail server from scratch since the 90s, and things are locked down & complexificated just a teenie bit more than then.

but arghstudios.com addresses are good to go now

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

it's so funny to me when an english speaker treats "in the dictionary" as a meaningful category

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

there's such a crazy wild west out there of "lists of common English words." fascinating and frustrating!

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

You know I'm actually surprised how many people, including young ones, do actually watch movies in theaters. Somehow I considered it to be well passé at this day and age.

(Yes, I'm pretty introverted.)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

me being trans and tired and visible on #transdayofvisibility

you can live to get old ok? just so you know. I know that's not terribly big to anybody but us, but I think it’s important to know when it may not feel a given. time passes and the world is sometimes shit but it's also kind and surprising with decades of this wonderfulness behind me and more to come.

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• a photo of a nanoraptor looking fat and tired and grey but with a goddamned room full of awesome machinery to run. life is ok. getting old - surviving to be old - is wonderful and possible. (remote)

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

davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project.
New blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1020/the-end-of-peppercarrot-and-my-next-project

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• A pencil sketch of Pepper and Carrot lost at the crossroads. A remake of a panel of episode 17 "A fresh start". (remote)

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

@bcantrill has posted a nice commentary on my Hubris bug article and @mjk's allocation post.

https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

For many years, I've seen culture engineering as a big part of my job. At Oxide I started it before my first interview, when I asked some probing questions that wound up changing how we share information with candidates -- and also got the mandatory arbitration clause (which, to be fair, had come in a "startup paperwork" kit) removed.

We're doing okay, and we'll keep improving.

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

I do so miss the North Bay cid:18e92553ad4cb9708ce1

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• friend Michelle Irwin and her pooch JoJo at Ft Ross (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Engineering a culture https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

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

bestiaexmachina@metalhead.club ("Sciasm") wrote:

My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!

#FuckTheSystem

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• Close-up of the upper left corner of a Huawei tablet. The screen displays a card game with an ad banner in the top left corner. There's a hand holding a piece of cardboard taped to the corner of the tablet. (remote)
• The same tablet corner close-up, but with the cardboard piece flipped down. It now exactly covers the ad in the corner of the screen. (remote)

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

interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

a very, very good critique of Effective Altruism by #LeifWenar, perhaps the best of the genre. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/ ht @deanwampler

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

Tomorrow being April 1st and all, now seems like a good time to head off for a little while. So tzaf, friends. See you when I get back. I hope you enjoy today however you observe it.

#doodle #yaombaaa #drawing

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• A drawing from my sketchbook done in blue pencil. In the foreground is what is supposed to be a red panda curled up on a tree branch. In the background is a large hairy creature with a toothy mouth and an ambiguous expression with eyes that apparently glow from within. The red panda has a speech bubble that says. "*yawn* TZAF, fedi". And the creature has a speech bubble that says, "TZAF" in a larger and bold script. (Who knows what I was thinking when I drew this.) (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

While #Threads opened its firehose of user content into #Mastodon, #Meta has been lobbying for stricter legislation and significant changes to section 230 that would make it harder for small instances to operate.

The Verge 2020:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/29/21537040/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-section-230-hearing-reform-pact-act-big-tech

Attachments:

• If Facebook starts lobbying for the PACT Act, that’s potentially a big deal. Facebook was a key backer of FOSTA-SESTA, a bill that removed Section 230 protections for content violating anti-prostitution laws. That bill became law in 2018, and Facebook itself was fairly well-equipped to deal with the changes — while smaller sites like Craigslist got hit hard. The PACT Act could have similar effects. Facebook already has a legion of moderators and a policy team that releases detailed transparency reports. A smaller site could have far fewer resources. The PACT Act has a “small business provider” exception, but it’s a fairly narrow one.

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

"Do your own research" is horrible advice, because almost nobody has any idea how to do actual, unbiased research.

Rule of thumb: if it involved a search algorithm (and just about everything on the Internet does), it wasn't research.

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

In these degenerate times, we too often weaken our appreciation of traditional gamey tough vulture necks with chocolate substitutes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/31/i-am-looking-forward-to-the-traditional-easter-dinner/

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• Conan on a cross (remote)

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

I don't care for country music, but I do love me some Beyoncé.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/31/beyonce-enchants-me-again/

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• Beyoncé's Country Carter album (remote)