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

Hah, Mullvad ad spotted near Times Square!

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• 610ff32b2473d0ba.jpeg (remote)

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

More dots. We need more dots on this map!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/protests-everywhere/

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• Protests at US colleges since April 17 (remote)

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

firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:

24 billion km and still going. I would too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/24/last-year-voyager-1-started-sending-gibberish-code-it-was-broken-in-space

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

firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:

Extinct kangaroo boffins! I love them and you should too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/01/all-the-extinct-kangaroo-boffins-are-losing-their-minds-at-the-latest-kangaroo-news

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

beckett@triangletoot.party ("Old Tom") wrote:

“To be clear: I, a member of the UNC faculty, was nearly caught in a line of pepper spray being fired at UNC students, by UNC police, working under direct orders of UNC administration, as I left class on the last day of the semester.

“These cops were in a blind rage, with zero care for bystanders. They were out of control, pepper spraying the people they were hired to protect.”

https://triangleblogblog.com/2024/04/30/unc-faculty-member-i-dont-think-i-will-ever-get-over-what-i-saw-my-employer-do-to-its-own-students-and-faculty-today/

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

edistro@social.edist.ro wrote:

do not put milk in your eyes

ANYONE SUGGESTING USING MILK FOR PEPPER SPRAY SHOULD BE SLAPPED ON SIGHT. DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES.

it is 2024 and we have been through this again and again and again.

Rinse with water; then saline.

Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.

please for the love of christ:

do not put milk in your eyes

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

BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC [World] Watch: Violent clashes break out at UCLA https://w.st/5BCpR

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

"Mr. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to enforce a norm — that in the United States, public officials do not engage in tit-for-tat political prosecutions — that he has for years threatened to shatter. In promising to sic his Justice Department on Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump has laid the grounds for the very conditions that he was asking the justices to guard against by granting him immunity." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/trump-biden-president-immunity.html

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

International Workers' Day! Rejoice & resist!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/happy-international-workers-day/

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• International Workers' Day (remote)

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

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

Today in History: Leo Salkeld
Sowerby is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1895

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

Today in History: Aram Khachaturian dies in Moscow, 1978

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

Today in History: Antonin Dvorak dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1904

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

Today in History: Kate Smith born, 1907, Greenville, VA

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

Today in History: Adam Weishaupt founded the Illuminati of Bavaria, 1776

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

Today in History: First BASIC program run at Dartmouth, 1964 (and the poor soul was never able to learn to program as a result)

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

Today in History: Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) is born, 1930, Marksville, Louisiana

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

Mastodon gave me some good commentary on my rejection of ChatGPT as a writing aid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/social-media-1-chatgpt-0/

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• AI head spewing random letters (remote)

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

hannah@social.alt-text.org ("Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, I have brain cancer.

I built a working, scalable, proof of concept library of shared alt text with fuzzy matching.

I'd like to connect with the #accessibility dev community. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

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

designthinkingcomic@mastodon.cloud ("Design Thinking! Comic") wrote:

Actions have consequences

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• 5f248136f88a057d.png (remote)

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

I don't feel like Mastodon started like this, either. It used to be a cozy, welcoming niche for all kinds of nerdery.

Last year or so, though, I feel like I can't even find the content I'm here for. It's just drowned out, if it's even there. Almost like there *is* an algorithm, but it only pushes stuff that's gonna wreck your current mental state.

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

I hate to say it, but I miss having an algorithm.

Mastodon content is overwhelmingly non-stop variations on "everything sucks, we're all fucked," to a degree I don't feel like Twitter was even at the height of the pandemic. But at least with Twitter you got a few laughs in with your depression and despair.

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LALegault@newsie.social ("LA Legault ✌🏻MCRT") wrote:

Don’t believe them, #students got hurt tonight at #Columbia

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• t? Hon. Darth Vlader reposted maryam alwan E @maryamalwan Follow Police were quite literally throwing tables and pushing students down the stairs until one passed out. Inviting the NYPD onto campus at @Columbia University has both destroyed more property and endangered more people than the original occupation of the building. 10:26 PM • 2024-04-30 • 98K Views 2.2K Reposts 49 Quotes 5.4K Likes 190 Bookmarks (remote)

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

triker@mstdn.plus ("Sarah with an H") wrote:

Bike Stolen! Please Boost!

https://bikeindex.org/bikes/406557

Someone stole my trike! It had to have been a professional thief with a truck, as they cut the cable in situ, but the lock on the front wheel and frame was taken along with the trike. They couldn't have ridden it away.

If you see this trike for sale on social media, ebay or craigslist please DM me.

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• Blue Sun Tri Classic, 2015 model. Recumbent trike with 1000w bafang mid drive motor. Trailer with Action Packer box. Banjo Bros panniers beneath seat. (remote)

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

temptoetiam@octodon.social ("Abie") wrote:

@pzmyers
Specialty bike stolen in MN. Maybe boost?
https://mstdn.plus/@triker/112360424467380443

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

an oldie, but still a goodie

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• book on desk: “Social Statistics, revised second edition “ by Blalock (remote)

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

kjetiljd@snabelen.no wrote:

@pzmyers Here are a few more or less random papers on the topic - they exist, are they all self-serving? https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ChatGPT-4-and-Human-Researchers-Are-Equal-in-A-Sikander-Baker/66dcd18c0f48a14815edca1d715fa8be8909cca6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10164801/ https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ChatGPT-Utility-in-Healthcare-Education%2C-Research%2C-Sallam/dfdf7ff01aa6f691831e663fd29bc71890be39e2

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mapache@hachyderm.io ("Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻") wrote:

Do you feel like your Resume/CV is personal information that you don't want to share unless it is a technical recruiter? Or do you feel like this is public information and you don't mind sharing?

#AskFedi

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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

Good track.

Great music video.

"Days Go By" from Dirty Vegas

#nowPlaying

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• a music video about a man breakdancing in a business suit and the bystanders telling the backstory of lost love and his dancing in hopes that she would come back (remote)

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breakingtaps@universeodon.com ("Breaking Taps") wrote:

This project has been something of a white whale for me. Think I've been working on it 5-6 months now?

Still a lot of work to be done, but I'm finally confident (enough) in the results to share some details!

I made photosensitive pixels from Copper Oxide 😎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7xH9ZSp_B4