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

an interesting piece in Forbes today:

"Sell Trump Media Stock (DJT) Now - An Implosion Is Likely"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntobey/2024/04/12/sell-trump-media-stock-djt-nowan-implosion-is-coming/?sh=5eebb50119ef

h/t @shoq

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

The English Patient? well they'd better be, the way customer service works over there!

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

this is delightful

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

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

wcbdata@vis.social ("Bill is doing a thing") wrote:

@futurebird - Did you see that the Annals of Improbable Research has a special issue about #ants this month?

🤯

https://improbable.com/annals-of-improbable-research-march-april-2024-vol-30-number-2/

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

TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/us/politics/tsmc-taiwan-chips-grants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j00.fL0j.T9UeC-Uej3NE&smid=em-share

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

O tempora, o mores!

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

TwoClownsEating@beige.party ("Mat Bradshaw") wrote:

My dog Daphne isn't always the smartest, but sometimes she just lets you know what she's thinking.

(Photo and concept credit to Mrs B)

Attachments:

• Photograph of a Whippet dog on a beach, by the shoreline. In the wet sand a large speech bubble has been drawn with the words "give me sausages". The speech bubble is lined up with the dogs mouth. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Instant earworm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0aEZfoH2g

#NowPlaying #NP

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Next to a very delicious curry place. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #NYC

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• A street full of restaurants in dusk. Skyscapers in the distance. A red neon sign that reads "Bar. ATM inside" is in center.

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

Pile on Dawkins!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/12/if-rebecca-watson-agrees-we-must-be-right/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PWRZPi67Mc

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

luca_defeo@ioc.exchange ("Luca De Feo") wrote:

🚨🚨🚨PhD position announcement🚨🚨🚨

Come to IBM work with @andreavbasso and myself on isogeny-based crypto!

https://www.iacr.org/jobs/#position-3672

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

The older I get, the more big rich Western capital cities remind me of Aku City from Samurai Jack

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Friend posing. Central Park, NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
🕺 @FiverX2

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

Attachments:

• A man with a double pierced ear in a green jacket, black t-shirt, and jeans, wearing a cap and shades and a Rebel Alliance bracelet, sitting on a bench in a park.

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

New Computer Modern? uh yeah i sure hope it is!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Me writing my first draft

#blogging

Attachments:

• Two panel screenshot of Office character Michael Scott looking at the camera. Panel 1: Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. Panel 2: I just hope I find it along the way.

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

Also, it's warm enough for the zebra jumpers (Salticus scenicus) to be playing outside, which means I also get to play outside! 🧪

Attachments:

• zebra jumping spider (remote)

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

MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

We are looking for a new member for our #Mastodon core team to work with @Gargron, @renchap and @Claire on building the Mastodon #backend and web app!

This is a #remote #fulltime position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.

Ideally:

- You are a #Ruby expert
- With prior experience in maintaining #opensource projects
- Prior knowledge of #ActivityPub is a big plus!

For more info and to apply:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/de1e4d8a-5639-4b6a-86d7-97bd9c768b02

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring

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

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

“Excuse me, waiter?”
“Yes sir, is there a problem?”
“I asked for my pasta al dente.”
“Was it prepared incorrectly?”
“I’m afraid it’s a little Chewie.”

Attachments:

• Pasta arranged to form an image of Chewbacca. (remote)

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

Sometimes things are just complicated and different people see different truths in them, and that's ok.

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

mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net ("Mondoweiss 🇵🇸") wrote:

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at-al-shifa-hospital-happened/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

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

The sac spiders are out hunting! 🧪

Attachments:

• Cheiracanthium (remote)
• Yellow sac spider (remote)

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

"What looked like a great background."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/12/i-wasnt-surprised-at-all/

Attachments:

• Jonathan Stone, trumpkin. (remote)

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

Speaking in tongues is just the surface issue.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/12/the-apes-are-acting-funny-again/

Attachments:

• Paul Gosar and Anthony Kern, fuckwits with power (remote)

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

Mastodon is so much better than both X and BlueSky! After using it regularly for a couple of months, I really like it.

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

eeeps@front-end.social ("Eric Portis") wrote:

h/t @Meyerweb

Attachments:

• A TikTok reaction video that has had some text overlayed. A person (labelled "me watching React devs") watches someone else's hand put a series of shaped blocks into shaped holes. The holes and shapes are all basic and recognizable: square, triangle, circle, etc. The holes are labelled after HTML elements: "div", "button", "li", "table", "input" and "a". The hand takes a square block, which is labelled "generic block content"; The person excitedly says "square hole" (which is labelled "div") and is excited when that's where it goes. The hand then picks up a longer square block (labelled "element group"); the person also gets this one correct (also goes in the div hole), and is excited. The hand then picks up "tabular data"; the person wants it to go in the "table" hole, but no, the hand says it goes in the "div" hole as well. Person gets increasingly upset as blocks labelled "list item", "perform an action", "user input", and ultimately, "a hyperlink" all go in the "div" hole, and not the more appropriately shaped holes/elements that they are correctly calling out, each time, at the end – when "a hyperlink" goes into the "div" hole instead of into the "a" hole – almost though tears. (remote)

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

I found this to be a very fascinating, deeply informative read. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to better understand the choice we're all facing in the US in November, or who has friends/family buying into the "Biden's age" media malpractice.

Duty To Warn's John Gartner Breaks Down Donald Trump's Cognitive Decline
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hotel lobby. NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Silbersalz35 #NYC

Attachments:

• Red chairs surrounding red tables illuminated by morning sunlight, with green window plants casting shadows all over.

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

ray@goblin.camp ("hung solow") wrote:

my favorite meme of the day

Attachments:

• a housecat and big wild cats typing at computers. the original joke is the cat is asking the big cats for advice. in this comic they are all keysmashing because they are cats and cant type (remote)

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

davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

I’ve seen this meme too many times but this implementation is probably the best. #react #memes #webdev https://front-end.social/@eeeps/112254504694609906

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

“programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft… The analyst or programmer has to examine documents with an eye at once skeptical and alert, snatching and collating tiny fragments of truth along the way… sources of information all have their own agendas, overtly or covertly pursued. He or she has handlers and superiors, many of whom don’t know what really goes on at the sharp end... It’s a lot like being a spy, or necromancer. You don’t get out much, and when you do it’s usually at night”

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• d47654fb5948a44a.png (remote)