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

It's the least of this language's problems, but I'm still kinda mad that zh is not an acceptable digraph, despite the sound existing in words like "vision", "collision", "precision", and "coercion".

Also, "of" should be spelled "uv" like I did on my first writing assignment in 3rd grade after returning from summer break.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

If you think about it, the object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.

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

Follow up to LB[1]: Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul's set on KEXP is a delight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9poMU5bcE14

In particular, this "HAHA" is something else:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzR6Y0rcTCc

[1] https://ravenation.club/@etherdiver/112588909136912553

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etherdiver@ravenation.club ("Ether Diver") wrote:

Jeremy Blake/Red Means Recording is maybe the most vital creator in the synth/electronic music YouTube sphere, and his latest video essay is not just a brilliant defense of politics in electronic music, it's also a great intro to a ton of cool-ass acts you might not have heard of. Go give it a watch!

https://youtu.be/inoQYzzuIgM

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

Anyway, it's as good a time as any to re-read The Open Society & Its Enemies.

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

It's a sallow thing that the 20th century gave us Bertrand Russell, Arendt, Orwell, and Popper only to have their mountain of clarity torn down by the very forces they documented and warned against.

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

Whoops. One of my black widows made an egg sac. My wife is going to freak out & make me kick that hussy out of her house.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've made a #shadertoy!

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MXGGR3

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've noticed that when #rendering using raymarching adding a random start offset creates dithering, and makes rays look contiguous even with very few samples.

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• a shadertoy scene - crepuscular rays with harshly dithered edges, but no discontinuous patches

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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• WORK REALLY HARD AND THIS COULD BE You: WORKED REALLY HARD RIP (remote)

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inkscape@mastodon.art ("Inkscape") wrote:

We can't believe we need to say this, but…

your files are yours.

The #Inkscape project will never peek at your files, and what's yours stays on your computer.

#floss #ArtWithOpenSource #freesoftware

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

My version of Easter. The spiders have risen, hallelujah!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/09/maybe-we-can-call-it-dark-easter/

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• egg sac in a dark place (remote)

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daniel@social.dhelonious.de ("Dr. Daniel Dizdarevic") wrote:

Some fun facts:

(1) Antimatter is currently the most expensive material in the world. Its production at CERN costs over 62 trillion USD per gram! In second place is actinium at a mere 29 billion USD.

[🧵 9/11]

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• an image showing a pyramid with the most expensive materials in the world (by cost per gram), by StatsPanda, source: WatchData YT Channel (remote)

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RedCyberPandaz@zoner.work ("Pandy") wrote:

Stolen and posted to add alt text.

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• An image if a tweet from "Custard Smingleigh @Smingleigh" It reads "I remember when email was useful. Now its all. Confirm your email address for Slorp. Thank you for creating a Slorp account. Slorp is now BONTO! BONTO!'s terms and conditions have changed. BONTO! misses you. BONTO! is shutting down." (remote)

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'd see it do this!

As it bounces around, every so often it hits another water molecule hard enough enough for one to steal a hydrogen nucleus - that is, a proton - from the other!

The water molecule with the missing proton is called a hydroxide ion, OH⁻. The one with an extra proton is called a hydronium ion, H₃O⁺.

This process is called the 'autoionization' of water. Thanks to this, roughly one in ten million molecules in a glass of water are actually OH⁻ or H₃O⁺, not the H₂O you expect.

And this explains why protons can move through water much more easily than larger ions can. Let's watch how it works.

(1/n)

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• Two water molecules bump into each other, and the one at left steals a hydrogen from the one at right, producing a hydronium ion at left and a hydroxide ion at right. Manuel Almagro Rivas - Own work Self-ionization of water as an animation. Made with Avogadro and GIMP. This file is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Autoionizacion-agua.gif and it's licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. (remote)

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doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape:") wrote:

Ignoring externalities is just industrial subsidy without legislation.

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salt@social.coop ("Wm Salt Hale") wrote:

The second CFP just launched. It is for SeaGL which will be in Seattle, WA on November 8-9th. I've lead the conference for several years along with an excellent all-volunteer team. As usual, SeaGL welcomes proposals on all free/libre/open (FLO) topics, not just those related to GNU/Linux. We are especially interested in presentations from first-time speakers, and those that are more suitable for a grassroots community conference. More details to share here: https://seagl.org/cfp

3/3

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• Patch the SeaGL seagull smiling and waving (remote)

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salt@social.coop ("Wm Salt Hale") wrote:

The first CFP officially closes in less than 2 weeks, on June 14th. It is for FOSSY which will be in Portland, OR on August 1-4th. The Snowdrift.coop team has volunteered to run a community track around FOSS Funding and Economics. We are looking for a wide variety of presentations to select from, so please submit individual proposals, panels, and anything else you think might be appropriate! More details here: https://2024.fossy.us/call-for-proposals/

2/3

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• FOSSY 2024 Call for Presentations, beige text on a green background (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

How is he a real cat?

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat with green eyes sitting in a chair kind of leaned back with such a goofy expression on his face you could think he’s one of those taxidermy pieces.

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

an interesting piece

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/08/trump-republican-party-far-right-extremism

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q66@blahaj.social wrote:

cute forest walk near santiago today

also my company @igalia is involved in restoring native stuff that was displaced by invasive eucalyptus growth which is p cool

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• view from near the top (remote)
• igalia forest sign (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There we go, just voted.

#EUelections2024 #Europawahl #UseYourVote

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

Our new fiber connection got installed today! After everything was done I quickly realized it was time to update my desktop's ancient wireless card

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Let there be no doubt that NSO Group is using the courts to harass the security researchers who have done the most to shed light on their years of misdeeds and lies.

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/06/pegasus-nso-group-israeli-spyware-citizen-lab/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've added light to the fluid #simulation

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• Swirly clouds… or milk on a blue background

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arturo182 wrote:

I triple-question myself over every decision meanwhile at a $1 billion valued company:

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• If you want to know how a company makes it all the way to market with such an out-of-touch, poorly performing product, the Times interviewed "23 current and former employees, advisers and investors," and their anecdotes shed a lot of light on how this can happen. The two founders apparently "preferred positivity over criticism, leading them to disregard warnings about the AI Pin’s poor battery life and power consumption. A senior software engineer was dismissed after raising questions about the product, they said, while others left out of frustration." After that software engineer was fired for questioning if the AI pin would be ready for launch, the report describes a staff meeting where the founders "said the employee had violated policy by talking negatively about Humane." It's hard to make a good product if you can't honestly talk about the negatives and positives for fear of retaliation.

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jcrabapple@dmv.community ("Jcrabapple") wrote:

This is what the internet was made for.

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• a4a872626030f9a9.mp4 (remote)

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Serenity now!

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• A Japanese garden

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kimlockhartga@beige.party ("Kim Possible") wrote:

See, the trick is . . . *takes long drag on candy cigarette* . . . ya gotta use antiquated tech. Nobody's hacking your Windows XP. And it sure as shit ain't spying on you.

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kniferoomba@shrike.club ("Jacob Shrike Roomba") wrote:

the Freedom from Software Foundation