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

jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.

#libraries #education #books #librarians #theocracy

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• AMERICA’S MOST WANTED LIBRARIANS A series of Western-style wanted posters “Broken Spine Barb” checked out Judy Blume and Toni Morrison titles to a 16-year-old “Due Date” Donny placed art history book containing nudity where an 8th grader might glimpse it “Reference Desk Annie” Notorious information dealer and fact smuggler Sergio “The Circulator” Attended gathering of American Library Association militants

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

tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

Which do you want? A cat that constantly yowls and scratches at every closed door and throws up every third day in some random location and also eats plastic bags and throws those up, too; or a rabbit that is silent but shits only generally in the vicinity of his litter box, eats electric cables, and attacks your ankles when you walk into the room and your wrists when you change his water?

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

note that modern treatment of piped municipal water supplies did not begin until the late 1800s. beer brewing requires boiling the water, & this drinking beer was safer for working class folks than water.

https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/112308801205041591

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

austinkocher ("Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎") wrote:

when all devices are charged to 100% at the same time

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• 70a79860062d3f2e.png

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

but of course

https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/112305476349726466

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

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Requires a < /FOOT PATH > sign at the other end of the trail?

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• A wooden sign in the grassy woods in white saying (remote)

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

inwit@mas.to wrote:

Hi, @futurebird! What do you think of the cutest flatmates I ever had? They are around 1.5mm long and help me clean the kitchen every day... could you help in determining their species?

#antsOfMastodon #ants #antstodon #nature

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• A tiny kitchen ant escaping the photographer (remote)
• A tiny kitchen ant (remote)
• A tiny kitchen ant (remote)
• A tiny kitchen ant escaping the photographer (remote)

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

MadameMollette@piaille.fr ("Madame Mollette") wrote:

Sous vos yeux ébahis, une machine plieuse lanceuse d'avions en papier fabriquée en lego.
Le Fediverse ne pouvait pas ignorer son existence

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• 3a9a3b91c91d0e6b.mp4 (remote)

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

SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

Submit your stories to CFAIL: The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology: https://www.cfail.org. (I'm proud to say that I've presented one of my own mistakes there.)
#CFAIL

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

they should make a show about astronauts on some kind of star trek

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

Some universities are betraying the principles of academic freedom.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/21/the-columbia-administration-is-totally-out-of-touch-with-academic-principles/

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• Emergency rally NYC -- Rally at the gates of Columbia, Sunday Ap 21, 12pm. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I was shooting from behind a fence and honestly didn't notice that a bar was still in frame. NYC.

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

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

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• A tiny garden with benches.

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

MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz ("Martin Escardo") wrote:

We have reached a point where more money is spent to "educate" (or "train") machines than to educate kids.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

hikhvar@norden.social ("Christoph Petrausch") wrote:

Don't know if I reach any game developer. But games need a "adult mode" as in "I haven't played the game for weeks because life happened. Please give me a ramp up of the story so far and an option for a short tutorial with all the controls and mechanics".

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

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion

#beer #serbian #cyberpunk

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• An empty brown beer bottle with a label reading CYBER PUNK. Its logo is a split-in-two Terminator-style metal skull with a cluster of hops inside of it. It was photographed in the flat of Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic in Turin, Italy. Parts of the flat are visible in the background. (remote)

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

@Vivaldi Hi, I was surprised to learn this morning that it’s not possible to set Kagi as my search engine on Vivaldi for iOS. Could you please fix this?

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

Here's an esoteric piece of knowledge for you.

If your FUSE file system does `os.stat` on a directory while you're inside its `readdir`, your process will hang.

Now that I debugged it and stopped calling that (it wasn't really needed), my toy FS works again!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

All a US company needs is the userbase and the logo. Everything else can be recreated. #tiktokban

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

rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:

(secret billionaire meeting)

WALGREENS CEO: ok so the vote passes, whenever we fuck up we blame shoplifters and minimum wage increases, right?

LOWES CEO: yep

TARGET CEO: got it

RED LOBSTER CEO (in the corner shoveling shrimp into mouth): mmhmm

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• news headline: Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp Good Morning America • 1d (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

thisismissem@hachyderm.io ("Emelia 👸🏻") wrote:

Whelp: GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-comments-abused-to-push-malware-via-microsoft-repo-urls/

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

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

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 ]

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

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"