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

I think maybe this should be my new account icon

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• 94cd5a15162f8848.jpeg (remote)

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

This may sound cheesy but the broadway play Wicked is so good that I didn’t even think theatre could be this good

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

rtyler@hacky.town ("R Tyler Croy 🦀") wrote:

"Redis is going to be another Hudson"

"Valkey will be the new Jenkins"

High praise from @bcantrill on the work the Valkey community is doing, and a hat-tip to the work we did to extricate ourselves from Oracle so many years ago in the Jenkins community 🤗

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

Apparently I'm having a double runniversary: tracked 800 activities in RunKeeper which neatly coincided with 5000 miles.

I still can't run like I used to, due to a variety of pains. But I'm glad to be able to log regular 3-milers nonetheless.

#running

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

phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

@slightlyoff got me a cool new tshirt @eleventy

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• Me wearing an 11ty "keep making for the web" tshirt while standing on a rock that says "make" on it (remote)

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

molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Nine of the projects we submitted to #GSoC2024 have been accepted! Congratulations to the applicants! 🎉

Check out the detailed announcement on the Rust blog: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/01/gsoc-2024-selected-projects.html

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chriscoyier@front-end.social ("Chris Coyier") wrote:

you just know that second e in entrée thinks it so much better than the other e's. like its parents let it drink wine at age 11 and wants to know if you want to ride horses sometime

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blogdiva ("yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

i follow the @DorotheaLange account that posts her work now collected at the Library Of Congress #USLOC; so i decided to do a little #MayDay search to see what history of the United State is hiding in plain site.

i have found some real gems.

"30 hours work for 40 hours pay!"
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017646501/

#MayDay #labor #protests

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• image of a poster, possibly lithograph showing a multiracial group of people, with left-hand fists raised, led by a Black woman looking forward and a white man in hard hat with his back to us direct the crowd. some of the marchers hold banners. one of them is the first sentence of the title. it's all done in black and red, with some grays, on a white background. INFO from LOC: Title: 30 hours work for 40 hours pay! Smash racist unemployment! Bust the wage freeze! U.S. out of S.E. Asia now! : May Day Date Created/Published: [1972?] Medium: 1 print : color ; (poster format) Reproduction Number: --- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Published without copyright notice. For information see "Yanker poster collection" (http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/250_yank.html). Call Number: POS 6 - US, no. 1216 (C size) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Notes: Title from item. "1972" penned on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Why AI is Doomed to Fail the Musical Turing Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NyEjB_XeA

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

(Please forgive the anachronistic use of "man" when meaning human beings in general.)

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

"A human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It was no longer work that was the means to an end, a means for life or indeed a food for life -- rather it was a man and his life, his vital energy, his "man power," that became this means to an end."

-- Viktor Frankl 1946

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UncivilServant@med-mastodon.com ("Noah Cook") wrote:

If you are a college administrator, and you cannot handle student protests during the last few weeks of classes before summer break, it's time to find a new job.

Seriously, that's not a failure, it's a damned moral collapse, a complete abdication of all responsibility to your students.

It's especially sad to see it happen at Columbia, which used to have a good journalism school. It won't after this, that's what happens when you choose the governor over your students.

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

He is rather angry with protesters.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/credentialed-leftist-at-work/

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• Jerry Coyne SPIT on me yesterday. This man is a professor at @UChicago and a biologist and the university has been letting him spit on students and protestors. I just heard reports that someone matching his description was roaming the camp spitting on/near students last night (remote)

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

I had a chance to give "Small Pieces Loosely Joined - A Unified Theory of the Web" by @dweinberger a read this morning, a mere 22 years after it was first published.

It holds up very well, in my opinion, despite the myriad ways in which the web has changed in the interim. Throughout the day I'll be calling out ideas and themes David presents in the book in a thread below this toot, tagged #SPLJ2024 in case you'd prefer to mute my ramblings on the topic.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Revolutions are had by people, not protocols.

#OpenSocialWeb

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

I know lots of horrible things are going down, but I would like to take a moment and say, "Thank you, Acie Holland."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/high-school-student-wisconsin-bus-driver

I hope I have the same presence of mind and fortitude if the situation arises.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Did you know that we can win? - by Margaret Killjoy https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-we-can-win :

> Because there is one thing I can promise every single person who reads this: one day, you too are going to die. You don’t win at life by living forever. Only the billionaires, who are spiritually lost, spend their time trying to “beat” death. You win at life by living lives of meaning.

Happy #MayDay.

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

ever since I learned the term "thought-terminating cliche" I realized that it perfectly fits so many situations

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

mikolaj@chaos.social ("Mikolaj :autism:") wrote:

https://cemsim.com/ is a really cool real-time 2D electromagnetic field simulator.

It's open-source and implemented with GLSL shaders. The simulation kernel is right here: https://github.com/RobinKa/maxwell-simulation/blob/master/src/em/kernels/simulation.ts

#electronics #electromagnetics #shaders

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• A real-time 2D electromagnetic field simulation of the double-slit experiment. (remote)

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

ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Crucial battle for Chasiv Yar in Ukraine. The picture says it all.... 😬
#Ukraine #Russia #ChasivYar

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• Battle for Chasiv Yar

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

good grief, how did I get to the point of having that many browser windows and that many tabs open all at once... jeeeeeeeeze, dude

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

"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."

Frederick Douglass

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

Today in History: Confederacy Authorizes Enslavement or Execution of Black Union Troops

never believe propaganda about passive & contented Black slaves.

"By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army) served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war " - https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/1

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

A father worries when a daughter has to work in this environment. (I'm not worried about the protesters at all, I'm worried about the cops.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-scene-at-uw-madison/

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• The protest at UW Madison (remote)

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

emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published *as open access* at TWeb.

For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/

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GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("John Kennedy") wrote:

BASIC is 60 years old today!
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉

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

Truth be told, spiders are mostly lazy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-truth-about-spiders/

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• Heteropoda maxima (remote)

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

Boys with a time machine: change the first release of Stardew Valley to let you save whenever

Girls with a time machine: convince Nintendo of America to keep Akira Toriyama's original box art for Dragon Quest