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

I say "I've never been a gamer" mostly as an observation in hindsight and not as any sort of judgement on people who enjoy video games. I, of course, tried video games multiple times in my life, often as a means to connect socially. I even went so far as to work briefly in the video game industry. But every time I would eventually bounce off and walk away. Some reasons I understood at the time, and some I only understand now, some 45 years after playing my first video game.

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ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

Yeah lots of bad shit going on but it's also gosling season.

#birdphotography

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• Canada goose gosling almost buried in weeds, eating fresh growth (remote)

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

I admit I've never been a gamer, and until this video, I didn't actually know what a Fortnite was, but I somehow got sucked into this video last night when I should've been sleeping. It's an interesting exploration of trying to play Fortnite as a "pacifist" and even attempting to "make friends" in game. The concluding remarks resonated with my own thoughts on games as of late. "Searching for Humanity in Fortnite's Battle Royale":

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

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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Such a key time for search on the web, for the survival of indie and small-medium publishers. I'd like to see OpenAI put the squeeze on Google with citations...although I have no confidence that's what they'll do, because if anything OpenAI has proved itself even more rapacious than Google.

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

Goodbye to those majestic plumes from the coal plant we could see from I-94.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/10/the-future-is-battery-powered/

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• Sherco coal plant in Becker, MN (remote)

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michelle@front-end.social ("Michelle Barker") wrote:

Wrote a thing: https://humanewebmanifesto.com/

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

USS Halsey (DDG 97) today “asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands, consistent with international Law.” https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/3771278/us-navy-destroyer-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation-in-the-south-china-s/

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Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

Is #nursing not a biological science specialty? And I say this as someone with a biology degree, who did not go into research or academia. It's still a STEM field. Let's say, what if nursing is a primarily male field. Would the science-based field be considered STEM then? I bet it would. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/nurses-stem-math-science

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:

#FreePalestine

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• wearthepeace Kids trying to save each other across oceans are the best of us. (remote)

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Chrishallbeck ("Chris Hallbeck") wrote:

Did it hurt when you fell from heaven? You may be entitled to compensation. Call 1-88-FALL-DOWN today to talk to our cloud mishap experts.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Jay's skeet was presumably in response to this interview that dropped today. It's worth the read. Jack never talks this much.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

#BlueSky #Twitter

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Oh.

https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3ks3uplto5c2r

#BlueSky

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• Jay @jay.bsky.team With all due respect to Jack for having the vision to invest in decentralized protocols, we've carried out the work in a way I don't think he fully understands. Bluesky is structurally open in a way Twitter has never been, but the design of atproto allows it to feel familiar and easy to use.

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stroughtonsmith ("Steve Troughton-Smith") wrote:

Why would Apple's brand be at risk? Their products are manufactured in China, chips designed in Israel. They keep breaking laws and bullying their partners, tell us that developers leech off their success. They monopolize the market, nanny their users. They kicked the leading game engine developer off their platforms over a dispute over an (illegal) clause in their contracts. Their prices keep going up in a cost of living crisis. And they tell us it's for our own good.

I see no problems here? 😜

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

Well, the Brother support web pages kept me from going out and buying a new printer/scanner—their fix worked. They lost out on an immediate sale, but that (plus, of course, the fact that they don't play weird, privacy-invasive games with toner cartridges) has helped confirm that this is the ONLY brand I'll buy.

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trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

If you're interested in working with me in public on open specifications for miniature racks like those in 1970s computer labs then check out this newly created Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/trevorflowers/desktop-computer-lab
I just really want many people to be able to make interoperable miniature rackable retrocomputers, OK? 😺
#desktopComputerLab

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kaoudis@infosec.exchange wrote:

This is all the RSAC marketing booth stuff I saw that I’ll share, and only because I was so amused 😄

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• Securityade (remote)
• Cup sudo (remote)
• AI Magic Powder! (remote)

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

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• d8c95b55fb237dc3.png (remote)

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

having just incorporated, Argh Studios Inc. has now received it’s first piece of mail: a scam.

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

OH PETER JACKSON NO.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/oh-peter-jackson-no/

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• GOLLUM SNARLS! (remote)

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Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:

Haha oh my goodness, they’re so cute. I had almost forgotten about these guys but it’s very nice to have them around again. Itty bitty oak titmouse.

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• The cutest little all grey bird who is shaped like a dollop, like if you squeezed a dollop of cream out of a pastry bag with a little point on top. A grey dollop with tiny feet, a metallic looking beak and beady black eyes. Super duper cute. (remote)

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tty@sunbeam.city ("Kira 🌱") wrote:

I've started a page on my website, documenting my experiment this year of growing flax and turning it into linen cloth, using simple tools, and exploring how I can do so without harming environments or animals. 🌱 👗

http://kira.eight45.net/flax.html

A goal is to produce a very clear write-up that explains the process in a way and using tools that it is maximally accessible for others to reproduce, and build their own understanding of how plants come to be clothes.

:boost_ok:

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• A field of blooming flax plants. Photo Credit: isamiga76 on Flickr (remote)

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

Neuralink is suffering from an easily predictable problem, one that isn't so easily solved.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/i-predicted-the-fate-of-neuralink/

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• Elon Musk with a Neuralink implant (remote)

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

And thanks to @randomgeek for showing me how to give appropriate credit to Richard Bober while still encouraging people to listen to or read the story.

https://hackers.town/@randomgeek/112412376386769009

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randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

Artist credit is never a spoiler, so:

The awesome flying centaur cover for Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time was painted by Richard Bober, who did many covers, including the gorgeous 1984 Runequest boxed set and Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun series.

Now go listen to the podcast / read the transcript. It's an awesome saga.

@cstanhope

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/112412286934309146

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just learned the term iPhone Face. HELP

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastKingdom/s/swFgjDe3hO

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

I was listening to this podcast talking about the efforts to find the artist responsible for a well known cover for "A Wrinkle in Time", and it struck me how art (in all its various forms) is one of the things that connects us, the makers and the admirers. It cuts through differences and rises above and outlasts the acts of commerce it sometimes serves. I'd hate to lose those opportunities for human connection to a pile of GPUs. (I don't think we will.)

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2023/09/01/artist-known-wrinkle

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Finishing write up about Jack.

Working title: Jack Dorsey is on one

#Twitter

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• A screenshot of a social media post by a user named Jack with verified badge, featuring a brief text message about not depending on corporations to grant rights and defending them with freedom technology, followed by a remark indicating the reader is on one such technology. There

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Scaling #Twitter (2007) by then Twitter CTO Blaine Cook

https://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Why Twitter Will Endure - NYT (2008):

"“The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” said Steven Johnson, the author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about Twitter for Time last June. “Twitter is looking more and more like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal.”" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html

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

amusing

Instagram video by Brian Harms • May 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6r9seFPvF0/?utm_source=www.mastersof.work&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=voice-to-print-transforms-3d-printing