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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Technology is inherently political.

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

My kind of movie!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/20/the-feel-good-movie-of-the-year/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys807OKQrgE

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Thinking about buying a used AlphaSmart Neo2 for my writing.

What do yall think?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305517768262

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

Elucidating ("⛈️ Information ⛈️") wrote:

I'm utterly transfixed by this photo Nick Bostrom agreed to. Why, Nick, did you write that stuff on the whiteboard? Who thought it was a good idea? What kind of signal did you think it would send? Do you think Nick prepared it himself?

It's professionally and carefully lit. It's a real, professional portrait. The photographer did a great job. And yet so much space is devoted to, uh... log functions "sqrt(n) < n" and the phrase "increases slowly."

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• A news story portrait of certified AI conspiracy theorist and Elon Stan Nick Bostrom in front of a whiteboard. Green whiteboard marker repeats various log function statements in crude, often double-traced handwriting. Some examples: - `log log(x)` - `log log(x) ^ (sqrt(log log(x)) - (crossed out) `log sqrt(log(x))` - sqrt(n) < n

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johnniesan@mstdn.social wrote:

@isagalaev It’s on matchroom.live (for the first time in the U.S., I believe). Been watching it all day.

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

Looks like Dazn isn't streaming #Snooker World Championship this year? Where to watch in U.S.? (No cable subscription.)

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

trying to figure out color and typography, sigh. I am so very bad at visual design...

suggestions totally welcome about the 3 simple mockup pages at:

https://arghstudios.com/test/

[ trying to apply something like palette #4 from https://arghstudios.com/test/colors.html ]

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Yana Stepanenko, a 12-year-old girl who lost both here legs in a Russian missile attack, has completed the 5 kilometer distance in the Boston Marathon running event on her prostheses.

The Russians will never win.

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• Yana seen running on a street in Boston, using her two bow shaped prosthetics.
• Yana smiling. The Ukrainian flag is carried by a runner next to her.
• Yana reaches the finish line and hugs a middle aged man, perhaps a family member.

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

"Days before his arrest, [CPO] Pedicini tried sharing photos of his computer screen aboard the Japan-based destroyer USS Higgins with his contact, according to the charging documents.

The charging docket doesn't list the foreign state nor the type of information shared."

https://press.coop/@NPR/112305497159132006

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

it is pleasant when the validator says "no problems"

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

getting really useful results out of https://www.perplexity.ai/

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

jlsksr@mastodon.online ("Julius Kaiser") wrote:

I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week until I don't. So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 13: Tom Fichtner Leipzig / Taiwan https://www.tomfichtner.com/

@tom_fichtner_leipzig is a good friend of mine and he's on Mastodon!

#SmallWeb #indieweb #smolweb #PersonalSites #homepage

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• Screenshot of the website www.tomfichtner.com (remote)

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

ricardoharvin@mstdn.social ("Ricardo Harvin") wrote:

They want to ban #TikTok but not #Facebook (#Meta) or #Google who violate #privacy and enable and assist human rights violations far worse than that #app 😑

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

Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie ("Simon McGarr") wrote:

You can tell the Old Testement is the product of a desert people, because when they tried to imagine the end of the world they went with “rained for forty days and forty nights”, which in Ireland is just called Spring.

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

hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

I am so ready for this absurdly overblown LLM hype cycle to wrap up, so the adults can get back to the real work.

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

this is what I have been saying for A Very Long Time is the basic crime: "If Bragg ends up proving, as the predicate crime, that Trump falsified records to help Cohen commit tax fraud, the case will turn out not to be about election finance violations or election interference."

Trump wanted to write off a bribe on his taxes, to make you & me pay for it instead of him.

https://terikanefield.com/trumps-first-criminal-trial-theories-of-the-case/

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

Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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

PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

free me from this hell

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• A blue horned demon (labeled TECHBROS) is pouring out a foul, noxious-looking liquid from a pitcher (labeled "AI") into a funnel that is placed in the mouth of a naked and quite distressed-looking wide-eyed man (labeled EVERYTHING) (remote)

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

DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat ("DaywalkingRedhead 😷") wrote:

@RustyBertrand

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• Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches. —Werner Herzog (remote)

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

jasonmcfadden@mastodon.world ("Jason McFadden") wrote:

📣 About blogging plaform PIKA by the good folks @goodenoughllc

I'm still so happy having switched from WordPress to Pika Pro. I've published hundreds of posts in almost two months; performance is rock solid. And the utter simplicity that first grabbed me is still fresh and lets me just write.

You can use markdown or not; just use the text formatting toolbar in the online editor. Works on the phone just as well.

Give it a try! 😀

#blogging #fediverse #indieweb

https://pika.page

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

neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Get you a privacy-first service suite that has meme game like @protonprivacy .

(I have no connections other than as a happy customer.)

https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112276106085491014

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

BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io ("Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬") wrote:

Risk of bird #flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says #WHO
Chief scientist voices fears about #H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans. #Cows and #goats joined the list of species affected last month – a surprising development for experts because they were not thought susceptible to this type of #influenza. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/risk-bird-flu-spreading-humans-enormous-concern-who #avianflu

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charlesgaba ("Charles Gaba") wrote:

🚨 If you doubted how important it is to win STATE LEGISLATIVE races, the news out of ARIZONA should make it crystal clear.

Democrats only need to flip 2 seats in each chamber to get a TRIFECTA.

Donate DIRECTLY to these candidates & funds. #Blue24

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/azblue24?refcode=gabamasto

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

workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 20 Apr 1915 Maria Silva Cruz, heroine of the Casas Viejas uprising, was born into a family of day labourers and charcoal burners. She was the sole survivor when Republican civil guards burned the house of the rebels https://t.co/SF6pQz0W50 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9244/maria-silva-cruz-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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DivineKestrel@chaosfem.tw ("Terra the Barbarian Kestrel") wrote:

My daughter asked if we could listen to Taylor Swifts new album The Traumatized Post Office

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nafnlaus@fosstodon.org ("Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

❤️❤️❤️

#Ukraine #Russia #NAFO

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Grand Central Station, NYC.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #MonochromePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #NYC

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• Ticket tills with people in front of them. Above, a display of train departure times.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Are there any anthropologists / historians who can provide social or historical context to the self-immolation trend occurring over the last couple of years?

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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

#caturday setuid(0)

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• Cat yawning beneath a glimmering sunbeam, like an ultimate power up. via: catshouldnt (remote)

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paigerduty@hachyderm.io wrote:

Norman ❤️ #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• Norman a sleek shorthair black cat is mid mlem and transfixed by an object below screen. he is very silly (remote)