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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

pierogiburo@tech.lgbt ("Evvy :neofox_floof:") wrote:

this image came to me in a dream

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• poorly edited "we should improve society somewhat" meme, but overlayed with cow from the cow tools comic strip saying "we should improve tools somewhat" (remote)

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

sesivany@floss.social ("Jiří Eischmann :fedora:") wrote:

A #pun for good night.

#dadpun #puns #punsofmastodon

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• A rennesaince picture of a man in red clothes and a boy sitting on his lap and looking up at him. To boy says: "Dad, can you explain to me what a solar eclipse is?" The man answers: "No sun" There is an attribution: @artmemecentral (remote)

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

Sample Size of 1, but this is also the first mainline Disgaea game since discovering the series that I haven't rushed to buy on release

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

I think Disgaea 7 probably did pretty badly. I just noticed that it has less than 700 reviews on Steam.

Disgaea 6 has even fewer, but it's at a bit of a disadvantage since it spent a year as a switch exclusive before coming to other platforms

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

oh great

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/06/1243279606/bernie-sanders-burlington-office-fire-arson

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

antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:

Episode 367: High Weirding (Part 1) https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/high-weirding-1

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

this is disturbing:

from Wednesday: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation | Donald Trump | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans

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

junebug@toot.garden ("Junebug 🌿") wrote:

After getting stuck on the Farewell chapter of #Celeste I tried the Strawberry Jam mod instead.
It's so much fun and there are many strawberries!

#Art #PixelArt

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• Pixel art of Celeste's main character Madeline sitting in place of the missing third of a strawberry cake. She is very small and cute and holding a strawberry that's nearly as big as herself. (remote)

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

apod@mastodon.bot ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

APOD from 2024-03-11

A Full Plankton #Moon

A night scene shows the Moon's reddish descent near the equator and waves aglow with blue bioluminescent plankton on Soneva Fushi Island, Maldives. The Moon appears red due to atmospheric scattering, while plankton emit light to deter predators.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240311.html#space #astronomy #earth

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• A Full Plankton Moon (remote)

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

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

The toot length version goes like this

🌸 Open source is a public, common resource. Anyone can contribute, and everyone benefits
🌸 That makes it a "commons", or perhaps many commons
🌸 Commons need long term organized care to sustain them. That's called governance
🌸 The governance of the open source commons has been neglected for a long time, and that burden falls on maintainers
🌸 What if we didn't do that?

https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-software-commons/

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

ja2ke@idlethumbs.social ("Jake Rodkin") wrote:

This video from Corridor Crew is pretty amazing. They re-create the nearly perfect compositing from the penguin dance sequence in Mary Poppins, which was achieved using high intensity sodium vapor lights and a very custom beam splitter, instead of a blue or green screen. It truly feels like a lost art rediscovered. When the matted footage just perfectly drops in I gasped haha https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk

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

Our infinite thread continues infinitely!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/07/infinite-thread-xxxi/

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• space pirate ship (remote)

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

I’m with them: stay ambitious, screw calendar age

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• image of NYTimes article on still-ambitious seniors (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The more I read about #ATProtocol, the more I'm fascinated by it. Not so much smitten exactly, but just interested in learning more about its approach.

The way I'm interpreting it, this is how I would expect Zuck's #Metaverse to approach decentralization— limited role of, and radical standardization for servers across the federation. The protocol does all the heavy lifting.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Question for my web nerds— #BlueSky uses a global index "fire hose" and pull method for its #ATProtocol federation. It appears any server can create its own global index but of course, technically and effectively possible are two different things.

Does this approach disqualify BlueSky as "decentralized" social media or "federated"?

I'm trying to define the two terms but I'm finding it surprisingly difficult as I'd have to ignore lots of contradictions.

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

jamesvandyne@indieweb.social ("James Van Dyne") wrote:

My team is growing and we’re looking for a couple of front enders (mid or senior) to join the team at Kraken Tech. You’ll get to work with a friendly team on problems that matter in an organization that’s at the forefront of the energy transition. Come join us! #frontend #energy #OctopusEnergy
https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/54b420c6-0c38-4b25-839b-ff35607cdb1a

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

touaregtweet ("Touaregtweet") wrote:

"One of his most effective tools is what we might call the Trump Two-Step, in which the former president says something outrageous, backs away from it in the face of criticism, and then fully embraces it. The goal here is to create a veneer of deniability. It doesn’t even need to be plausible; it just needs to muddy the waters a bit."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/trump-two-step-bloodbath-2024-election/677966/ #Trump #TwoStep

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

Truth

https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112229811134547112

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

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

If you want to ride, you got to ride it like you find it. ~ Leadbelly

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

trevorflowers@widerweb.org ("Trevor Flowers") wrote:

I wish more people who are worried about FOSS supply side attacks would realize that universal basic income and free healthcare would result in an almost infinite stream of excellent software from people who care more about quality than profit.

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

malb@ioc.exchange ("Martin Albrecht") wrote:

Kenny Paterson and I have written a retrospective on “Crypto in the Wild”. This is about some of our work over the last 20 years or so, in which we look “out there” into the wild to see how cryptography is used in deployed systems. Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/532

Stealing Kenny's Twitter thread:

It’s a short piece, intended to be at least a bit provocative. As well as the nuts and bolts of how we do this work, we reflect on our disclosure experiences, dealing with vendors, how we perceive the scientific community thinks about this kind of work, and public comms.

We also talk about the responsibilities of researchers - as we see them: to whom we owe them, and what they are. (Sneak preview: we don’t think our responsibilities are mainly towards vendors.)

And we address the question: Is this science? We think the answer is a hard “yes”, if science is about gaining a deeper understanding of the world around us.

Maybe this part of the article will be a useful reference point for people when writing their next rebuttal about a “Crypto in the Wild” paper. We certainly want to encourage researchers to keep going in this direction.

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

fatsam@mstdn.social ("Daniel Keys Moran") wrote:

I love those videos where a guy cooks a big meal -- bread, steak, veggies, tea -- in the wilderness, with nothing but a knife, tea kettle, and a big flat rock.

... And the $50,000 vehicle that brought him to the wilderness, and ten grand of video editing equipment, and an entire global trade system that brought him his spices and oils and meats and veggies...

People watching that thing thinking, I'll be ok when civilization fails, I know where there's a flat rock.

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

This board game is awesome!! (Turing Machine)

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

nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

this is what you get. lol. progress :P comic Credit: https://twitter.com/delibburiedcmx

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• The comic starts with a person saying goodbye to their old TV and cable, and announcing their switch to VHS. The panels progress through time, showing the person upgrade from VHS to DVD, then to Blu-ray, and finally to streaming services. The last panel shows the person frustrated because the movie they want to watch isn’t available on any streaming service. There is a text at the bottom that says “This movie is not available on any streaming service” and “Back” which is likely a reference button on a remote control. Credit: https://twitter.com/delibburiedcmx

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

shawngoldwater@mstdn.ca ("Shawn in Montreal") wrote:

Meta Cancels Little Green Footballs

https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/53549_WTF_Meta_Cancels_LGF/comments/

#Meta #Threads #censorship #tech

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

ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

"On Thursday I reported that Meta had blocked all links to the Kansas Reflector from approximately 8am to 4pm, citing cybersecurity concerns after the nonprofit published a column critical of Facebook’s climate change ad policy. By late afternoon, all links were once again able to be posted on Facebook, Threads and Instagram–except for the critical column." Here it is. #Media https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

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

jwcph@norrebro.space ("JW prince of CPH") wrote:

Yup, about sums it up...

#AI #tech #business

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• Social media post screenshot: Al company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it's having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I've fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders (remote)

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

kevinrns@mstdn.social ("Kevin Russell") wrote:

Canada's early climate collapse alarm has gone off
30 billion trees burned in one "fire season" and it has not gone out
30 billion trees is more than the entire history of logging in Canada
30 billion trees, an area larger than Ireland, lost, twice

Twice

Not Ireland's forests. Ireland's forests would have burned before the fire season started. ALL OF Ireland, from shore to coast was burned into the roots every inch, twice.

Thats the alarm. Carbon fuel is a murderous serial killer

#climate

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

jameskerr ("James Kerr") wrote:

@collinsworth we’ve got to remember what the product is. The product is the app, not the perfect type safety, or the perfect design file, or the perfect test coverage, or the perfect jira board.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses (BACK SOON)") wrote:

Why are climate scientists like Peter Kalmus so alarmed that they are calling for civil disobedience? (See https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111205122323472108)

This is why.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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• Line graph shows "Global surface air temperature anomalies" -- comparing monthly temperatures in 2023 with the 1991 to 2020 baseline. The red line for 2023 is soaring way above previous records. (remote)