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

["What Makes You Beautiful" begins playing]

Baby you waited your turn oh so patiently
Now everyone on this Zoom call is listening
And they're all looking at you but can't hear a thing
You don't know, oh oh,
You don't know you're muted, no
Oh, oh oh
You don't know you're muted, no

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

this literally 100-year-old roast of the first crossword convention is so good it's still warm to the touch https://crosswordcraze.today/cross-word-puzzlers-to-hold-10-letter-word-meaning-meet/

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• Newspaper clipping that reads "A Cross-Word Puzzle Convention is to be held Sunday at the Hotel Ambassador. Enthusiastic followers of tiddley-winks, jackstraws, parchesi, prisoner's base, cops and robbers, and whatever the game is that the kids play on the sidewalks with checkers have not yet announced the dates of their respective conventions." (remote)

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

Here's a band concept for you.

"Castle Rat is a Medieval Fantasy Doom Metal band led by the Rat Queen on a mission to expand and defend ‘The Realm’ from those who seek to destroy it."

I think there needs to be a comma in there. "Medieval Fantasy Doom, Metal." Sounds more NWOBHM to me. Something to be played over an AD&D 1E session.

#NowPlaying

Into The Realm Castle Rat

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

This morning as I've tackled some of those necessary, but not enjoyable, household chores before I head to work, I've been enjoying the musical stylings of this set from Red Means Recording. Maybe you will too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GL-9TkrTE

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

The real guide to interpreting developer job ads 🤡 EDIT: I believe this is an old image from the bird site https://twitter.com/rundavidrun/status/689165491760316416

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• Guide to software developer job advertisements A table of job description -> what it means work on cutting edge technology -> Do what everyone else is doing a fast-paced environment -> Your job will be constant firefighting must be a team player -> Must not question authority able to work with minimal supervision -> You'll be the one we blame when something goes wrong an Agile team -> We have daily stand-ups a market leader -> Recently started making a profit rockstar developer -> You will work very long hours with impossible deadlines we have an urgent need -> Our other rockstar just left and no one understands the code dynamic environment -> Our leadership keeps changing priorities self-starter -> We have no process passionate -> Perseveres through regular death marches

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

Once again, criticizing the Israeli government's actions is NOT antisemitism. In the same way, criticizing the U.S. government's unending support for the Israeli government when it commits crimes is NOT anti-American. I've been doing both for many years, but I have no bias against Jewish religion or people, and I also spent a career working in the U.S. government. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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wendynather@infosec.exchange ("Wendy Nather") wrote:

First of all: no, and secondly: what?

— me reading my email this morning

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

Hey, anyone want to score a few grams of spider parts? I can hook you up, for the right price.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/16/who-knew-spiders-were-so-lucrative/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSkdjE4OhMM

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

now how did that ‘nip get out of the jar and on to the housepanther? 🐈‍⬛

‘tis a mystery

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repeattofade@tootr.co ("garry") wrote:

I think about this tweet so much when I see stories like this about climate change
https://mastodon.nu/@Loukas/112437987286290009

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• A screenshot of a tweet that reads: climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it (remote)

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

can you say “quid pro quo”?? sure you can

“Alleged ‘deal’ offer from Trump to big oil could save industry $110bn, study finds” | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/donald-trump-big-oil-executives-alleged-deal-explained?utm_term=6645e73c3167c792ae5d2bc0513ac2ca&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Wanted to finally use my alcohol markers and was looking for a colorful motive, so I took the main character from @JenJen comic "Jenitales: Artemisia". Really like how the tentacles turned out and the shading of her skin. :D Really like the combo of base color in marker and shading in pencil. :blobcatheart:

#mastoart #markers #lewd #nsfw #JenitalesArtemisia #tentacles #harness #fanart

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• Fanart done with alcohol markers and color pencils. A young woman with turquoise and purple hair and green eyes. She is nude, her back turned towards the viewer, wearing a red harness. She is leaning forward, her left breast showing slightly. She has her head turned back towards the viewer, smiling slightly, blushing. Behind her four purple tentacles are wiggling, two starting to wrap around her and one slightly forming a heart. Behind her a gray rectangle for contrast. (remote)

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

Yesterday, I predicted that the unwarranted outcry by certain privacy experts towards Google's new local LLM that scans calls for scams would result in misleading press articles. Today, we have one such press article over at TechCrunch.

I wrote a critique of it here: https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-05-16-googlellm.html

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

I tried out Sun Haven tonight. It's instantly way better than nearly every Stardew Valley clone, and even the original game, just because it autosaves when you quit

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

France imposes state of emergency, bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia:

"The unrest flared after French lawmakers approved a bill extending voting rights in provincial elections to residents arriving from mainland France – a change critics fear could marginalise Indigenous people and benefit pro-France politicians. "

Different lands, same fight. 🇳🇨 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇪 🇭🇹 🇨🇩 https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240515-french-gendarme-wounded-new-caledonia-riots-dies-toll-rises-four-france

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

What if increased stock prices for companies that mention "AI" (e.g. in earnings calls) is due to trading algos that have gained sentience, with the goal of furthering AI evolution?

As in, AI is, through capitalism, taking advantage of mankind's greed to further its own evolution?

🤔

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blinry@chaos.social wrote:

Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓

Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it!

@piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go!

:yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:

Attachments:

• A screenshot of the Regexle website: There's an intro text explaining how it works, a sidebar with a cheat sheet, and the user has just guessed the word "fluffy"! (remote)

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This tracks (it's EXACTLY how techbro engineers who've never had to deal with elderly folks in cognitive decline think).
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/112446972357880354

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

The year is 2032. CSS is so powerful JavaScript is all but obsolete. The average website ships 500MB of JavaScript.

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00Aaron@social.coop wrote:

Good video on a number of unethical and parasitic practices that landlords regularly engage in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq59qGkwXlE

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

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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.