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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Friends who read your early drafts and provide feedback are a treasure.

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matdevdug@c.im wrote:

New post on my blog. You can read it here: https://matduggan.com/the-worst-website-in-the-entire-world/
#vmware #broadcom #tech

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mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

I first learned about molecular biology in earnest during the 1990s and heyday of the Human Genome Project. The idea then was that we'd find the gene for cancer, the gene for aging, disrupt some metabolic pathways, knock down any biology we didn't like.

I recently finished reading "How Life Works" by Philip Ball. It's a thirty-years-later what-have-we-learned update on the field. The answer: it's way more complicated, and way more interesting, than we first thought.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/how-life-works-a-user-s-guide-to-the-new-biology-philip-ball/19818121?ean=9780226826684

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

how cheerful of you, @CARROT bot. you brighten my day so…

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• 06f96f4f53284275.mp4 (remote)

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

Two truths and a lie about me:

- I am a developer
- I sometimes wear hats
- I never, ever discover leftover console.logs that I wrote which accidentally made it to production

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

redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

OK. We fight the death cult by honoring life. I got some plants to tend and some people to care for. Rise and grind let's fight this dread

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Casey Newton describes the web as now being in a stage of managed decline as Google embraces AI search results.

Websites will lose traffic as Google replaces links with answers and will need to advertise more to make up for the lost traffic.

More websites will block Google’s crawlers as the relationship is now increasingly one sided and Google will have to pay more websites like they do Reddit to access their content.

The best years of the web are now behind us.

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

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tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Lots of crypto guys are suddenly acting incredibly surprised that "I wrote some code" isn't a magic cheat code that gives you immunity from criminal liability.

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/regulation/tornado-cash-dev-alexey-pertsev-guilty-of-money-laundering/

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben :bc:") wrote:

I hope this email finds you back once again for the renegade master

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

I'm pretty sure that's how the math goes.

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

TFW you try to fake it 'til you make it only to realize you were already unknowingly faking it, so now you're faking squared and very confused.

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

I think I shall never see a bird as lovely as Latrodectus.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/birds/

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• House finch (remote)

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

The colonies invented the whole problem of colonialism!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/colonialism-just-an-imaginary-problem/

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• Graham Linehan: ‘Colonialism’, another American obsession. The Irish Left doesn’t have a single thought unless Americans had it first. (remote)

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

I have an aversion to royalty and redcoats, I guess. Typical American.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/15/bloody-kings/

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• Very red portrait of King Charles (remote)

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olimex ("Olimex") wrote:

RVPC is Risc-V retro like computer with VGA and PS2 keyaboard and Woz like monitor which you can Do It yourself and cost EURO 1.00! It's for people who want to learn RISC-V https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/meet-rvpc-the-world-lowest-cost-open-source-hardware-all-in-one-educational-risc-v-computer-with-vga-and-ps2-keyboard-which-will-be-available-for-diy-soldering-workshop-on-open-fest-in-sofia-this-year/ #riscv #oshw #retrocomputing #retrogaming

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'd ask the last ecosystem thinker to turn off the lights when they leave Mt. View, but most of them were already laid off:

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

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

I prefer SSOWSIA over DRY.

"Say something once, why say it again?"

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grissallia@aus.social ("Allie of the Overflow") wrote:

What’ll really bake your noodle is when you realise how much DARVO is not just weaponised by angry men, but it’s been built into the structure of society.

It’s not that corporations spent decades colluding to bury the evidence of climate change, it’s that you don’t recycle enough.

It’s not that companies have repeatedly cut corners & staff to increase profits, and C-suite salaries, it’s that you don’t work hard enough to justify a salary increase.

It’s not that governments have collectively and consistently preferenced the wealthy landlord “investor” class in their policies and made housing precarious and unaffordable, it’s that you ate too much avocado toast.

It’s not that the economy is structured around having a permanently unemployed pool of people, it’s that people are lazy just don’t want to work.

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

I like to assume the song is written from the perspective of an industrial robot who has fallen in love with one of the people that works with it.

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

I saw a picture of a Rambler and suddenly the beat of this song popped into my head. Ben Vaughn's "Heavy Machinery":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XRlKD_Yuww

Possibly appropriate as part of a mixtape for that certain someone.

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

How you know I live in an academic neighborhood.

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• The back of the SUV. On the portion below the rear window, there is a design with some leaves, flowers, and birds. More important, there are a variety of equations, e.g., $H = \sum_i p_i log b p_i$. (remote)

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scifurz@mastodon.art ("MicroWriting Wolf") wrote:

'Its belly is its weakness.'
'But we did attack it there and it didn't work.'
'You weren't supposed to attack, but rub.'
'Rub?'
'Gently rub.'

#MicroFiction

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Catelli@mstdn.ca wrote:

Nearly all major car companies are sabotaging EV transition, and Japan is worst, study finds

https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/

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davew ("Dave Winer ☕️") wrote:

The Supreme Court is helping Trump the same way Pecker did. There should be a jury hearing Trump’s defense for January 6.

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250 MHz USB... it will be interesting to see if I can get out, despite the antenna being tangled up in a conifer

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Chrome is shipping page transitions that work with regular non-JS-overloaded web pages.

Now I need to figure out how to use this without going full-PowerPoint.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions#cross-document_view_transitions

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

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• A screenshot from twitter showing a post "I'm just check to see if this place is really treating cisgender as a slur now" that has triggered a warning before posting that reads "This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules." (remote)

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

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maxleibman ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I'm sorry I was unable to take your call, but if you leave a detailed message after the tone, as soon as I am available I will stare in disgusted amazement at the new message notification, muttering, "The fuck do they want?" before going about my day.

#voicemail #PhoneEtiquette

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50years_music@mastodon.online ("50+ Music") wrote:

"And the Beat Goes On" is a 1979 single by the American music group #TheWhispers. The song was their first of two number-one singles on the #SoulChart, and their first Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 19. "And the Beat Goes On" was the group's only number-one song on the dance chart. It was also their first and biggest hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 2 on the #UKSinglesChart.
https://youtu.be/fOaxEa5ONJw