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

Smootasaurus@mstdn.social ("Tommy Boy :verified:") wrote:

In the past ~7 days I've interviewed over 20 high school students interested in science and engineering careers. Two nuggets:
- Always pumped about the diversity (I see more females than I expected)
- A concerning number think AI is about to solve all of our medical problems

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

"Proton provides privacy by default and not anonymity by default because anonymity requires certain user actions to ensure proper [operational security] such as not adding your Apple account as an optional recovery method, which it appears was done by the alleged terror suspect.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encrypted-services-apple-proton-and-wire-helped-spanish-police-identify-activist/

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

‘Romanian prosecutors allege the Tate brothers and their associates exploited seven victims using “acts of violence and psychological coercion” to force them into “pornographic acts” on camera — a form of human trafficking.’

https://www.icij.org/inside-icij/2024/05/adult-webcam-platform-paid-2-6m-into-controversial-influencer-tristan-tates-bank-account-leaked-documents-show/?utm_source=ICIJ&utm_campaign=df6114e289-20240403_WeeklyEmail_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_992ecfdbb2-df6114e289-82144821&mc_cid=df6114e289&mc_eid=a85566d223

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

People are never honest on LinkedIn, because if you were honest on LinkedIn, the very first thing you'd talk about is how much LinkedIn sucks.

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

yassie_j@labyrinth.zone ("Yasbeam Radiant Toaster :baba_baba_yaseen: :agenderFlag: :transgenderFlag: ") wrote:

Here are some common acronyms used by tech companies in 2024, and what they mean.

AI = Always Inaccurate

AGI = A Guy in India

LLM = Large Lying Model

GPT = Great at Producing Trash

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

It's rare to get a good commencement speaker. They're either embarrassingly bad or horribly boring.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/we-couldnt-get-anyone-interesting/

Attachments:

• Chris Pan, embarrassing commencement speaker (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Thoughts?

I don't like embedding social media posts in my website. And in the case of Twitter, I can't embed.

So, I made a generic "post" element for when I want to reference a tweet or thread.

What do y'all think?

#blogging

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• Screenshot of a generic "tweet" with placeholder text, handle, link to post and to archived post.

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

It's May. It is entirely appropriate that the mayflies are swarming.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/a-spider-banquet/

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• Mayflies clinging to buildings in Morris, MN. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

nicksherman@typo.social ("Nick Sherman") wrote:

Pro tip for anyone exporting SVG web images where the fonts are converted to outlines:
If the typefaces in your original design files are offered as both .otf and .ttf fonts, use the .otf fonts.

All the major design apps use significantly more data points when outlining TTF curves, resulting in much larger file sizes (with or without compression).

In my tests on a large set of type specimen graphics, exporting identical designs with TTF fonts resulted in SVGs that were almost double the size.

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• A comparison of the same uppercase ‘G’ outlined from a TTF-flavored OpenType font (.ttf, on the left) and a CFF-flavored OpenType font (.otf, on the right). The outline from the TTF font uses 37 points, where the outline from the CFF font uses just 15. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply

Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/renewable-energy-passes-30-of-worlds-electricity-supply

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

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

good morning fediverse. :cofepats:

there have been a ton of great bands built from a group of friendly session players over the years.

this one, Tokyo Groove Jyoshi, is absolutely incredible. Juna Serita on bass is astounding.

here's their cover of Tower of Power's "What Is Hip?"

and, well, this is.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tA8PKx09ao8&listen=false

:blobpats:

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

I had a tiny bit of joy the other day when I had the opportunity to introduce the kiddo to "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)"

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

Just trying to raise the kid right.

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

I actually don't have to hand it to 'em, and also what is the "it" in "gotta hand it to 'em"? Is it context dependent? Like if you're angry, it's a bag of flaming crap, and if you're happy, it's like a trophy?

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

Gotta hand it to a company that can manage to make aspects of a product that are probably just cost reductions and turn them into desirable bullet point features.

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

That's a first. A politician admits that worms are eating his brain.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/politicians-making-icky-confessions/

Attachments:

• neurocysticercosis (remote)

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

Did you know that some loons think Grendel, from Beowulf, was a T. rex? Yeah. Really.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/grendel-was-a-t-rex/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BBYAMZ3hqo

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

"It is worth recalling that the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010 without a single Republican vote."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/magazine/401k-retirement-crisis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

Opinion: "In the arms race for eyeballs, showing skin has been colonized by a desire for clicks, the only real currency in an attention economy. Nudity has finally been denuded of sex.

Some might see all this as progress or a sign of body positivity. But a notable aspect of the new sartorial nothingness is that no one seems to be enjoying it very much."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/opinion/met-gala-celebrities-nude.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

Creationism has stopped being funny, because it is so patently bogus already.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/its-gone-past-funny-to-depressing/

Attachments:

• "Linguistic evolution is a lie! God made the languages as they are today and they are unchanging!" (remote)

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

Saw a video titled "Why are open source alternatives so bad?"

When they're good, they're not described as alternatives. They're just the thing.

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

rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Judge Cannon has postponed Trump's classified documents trial and didn't set a new start date.

The Supreme Court is slow walking Trump's classified documents case, which has delayed his Jan 6 trial.

The federal judiciary is effectively acting like a MAGA campaign arm.

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

paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers") wrote:

2/ I'm sure others can add or even help me with anything I got wrong, or how I can improve this, but here is what I did today out of urgency to scale my Mastodon Sidekiq processes and jobs after getting backlogged twice this week.

#MastoAdmin
cc @trendless @shanie

https://gist.github.com/p37307/fcd57ba2bea46c2b3e6095ed21e800d1

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

Yoshi@toot.community ("Yoshimatsu ✅🇺🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

Attachments:

• Political ad for Ruben Gallego for US Senator to replace $$$inema. Caricature of gallego in camo holding m-16 to symbolize usmc combat veteran. In other hand holds Arizona state outline. American flag on right shoulder. Caption "I got your back" in English and Spanish (te apoyo.) CC License BY, NC, ND (remote)

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

Yoshi@toot.community ("Yoshimatsu ✅🇺🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

Do you know any of these guys? This was on the balcony of the old French control tower at #Danang, #Vietnam, ca 1969. I'm the good looking guy holding the camera. The #VA is adamant I get tested for #AgentOrange exposure. I don't need no steenkin' tests, I know I was exposed. I'd like to know if any of the guys in the pic have had cancer or other AO related effects. I keep telling the #VA, at my age, I'm gonna die sooner than later but now, I'm curious. Thanks.

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• Thirteen US GIs plus one Vietnamese Air Force sergeant standing on balcony. Most dressed in Vietnam era fatigues, some holding cans of beer with Danang Air Base in background. Circa 1969. (remote)

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

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

A federal jury in Florida has convicted a former US Army soldier for the murder of a pregnant, 19-year-old fellow soldier on an Army base in Germany more than 22 years ago. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-convicted-cold-case-murder-military-base-germany

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

there are few things more shattering to basic trust than being betrayed by a fellow soldier. it took over two decades to convict this person, and I hope they are put away for at least that long.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/112402346802284901

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

Teri_Kanefield ("Teri Kanefield") wrote:

@Edelruth @JonChevreau

I just joined a group of lawyers doing voter protection work for the election.

Getting angry while watching TV doesn't do anything to help.

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

talk about amusing stealth mktg…

https://gizmodo.com/powerful-new-gpt2-chatbot-mysteriously-returns-1851460717

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/imagoodgpt2chat-mystery-xYxag03iS3Kw5GPjnAxTNw

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

spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

This is #WitnessIntimidation and it needs to be stopped.

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• Transcript from 5-7-2024 THE COURT: I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually and that's contemptuous. It has the potential to intimidate the witness and the jury can see that. MR. BLANCHE: I will talk to him. THE COURT: So, I am speaking to you here at the bench because I don't want to embarrass him. MR. BLANCHE: I will talk to him. THE COURT: You need to speak to him. I won't tolerate that. MR. BLANCHE: I will talk to him. THE COURT: One time I noticed when Ms. Daniels was testifying about rolling up the magazine, and presumably smacking your client, and after that point he shook his head and he looked down. (remote)
• Trump exploding in court sketch style by @thegreatgig8 The Great Gig in the Sky using AI prompts. (remote)

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

jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

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• When I say, "Does that make sense?", it's not because I don't think you're smart. It's because I think that I am incoherent. (remote)