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AnarchistArt ("Anarchist Art Ⓐ") wrote:
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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
Still thinking about the time a Gen Z kid tried to sell me a ‘vintage rock’ vinyl and
It was
Blink 182
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If you want to stay home and make cookies, fine -- live your life as you want. If you want to do that as a gimmick to promote racism and hatred, get outta here.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Another juror found himself "agreeing with some Trump administration policies and disagreeing with others." A third juror said she appreciated that "President Trump speaks his mind."
To avoid conviction, Trump's legal team needed only to convince a single juror. All of the jurors voted to convict Trump on all 34 counts.”’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… there is evidence suggesting that one or more of the jurors was politically conservative. According to the court questionnaires, one of the jurors who was selected said they relied on Truth Social, Trump's own social network, and X, which has taken a sharp rightward turn under Elon Musk, for news. Another juror reported regularly watching Fox News and MSNBC. And according to reporting, one juror said that "he believed Mr. Trump had done some good for the country."…’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
worth reading
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realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:
Trump is now a convicted felon.
Various politicians and pundits claim that Trump's convictions were illegitimate, unfair, or inconsequential.
Arguments include:
The charges against Trump were "obscure" and "entirely unprecedented."
The prosecutors didn't reveal their theory of the crime until closing arguments
The judge allowed the jury to convict Trump without reaching a unanimous verdict
I've debunked all of these arguments, and many others, with links to primary sources.
Enjoy!
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
“Paris, black wall with cat” 1954. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5562038
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
Happy Pride Month! 🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️🌈 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2023/12/14/five-ay-o-rainbow-works-to-brighten-your-day/
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
Just trying to enjoy her bucket in peace. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
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StephenRamirez@universeodon.com ("Today's Top Quotes ✅") wrote:
NATO has never attacked a country. Its Article 5, mutual defense clause has been activated once. After 9/11 to protect America. In the last decade, #Russia invaded Georgia, invaded Ukraine twice in largest ground war in Europe since WW2, bombed Syrian civilian targets, successfully worked to pass BREXIT, helped elect an American president, murdered British citizens in Britain, shot down civilian airliner murdering 289, including Americans. So yes, anyone not under Russian influence could see that NATO is the definition of defensive alliance — Stuart Stevens #quotes #quote #NATO #DefensiveAlliance #RussianAggression #Deterrence #CollectiveSecurity #CollectiveDefense
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The wheel turns again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/the-social-media-cycle/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Familiar story: pastor who makes it big is a world-class creep. Megachurches are festering pits of evil.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/isnt-it-always-this-way/
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nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:
Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240617.html #APOD
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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:
@jsonstein Yep. Link, for others tuning in: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/
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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:
@jsonstein It's my belief that the forces of the "conservative" right have really been after civil rights, really shifting into gear when they could no longer shelter their children in religious schools tax-free. Everything after that is a smokescreen. A lot of that "smoke" is stuff people care deeply about like abortion and divorce and IVF (more of an option for rich white folks) and LGBTQ issues (which I believe is really about sex in most people's minds).
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tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:
@jsonstein ...and restored the (white) right to choose, in its various guises, we'll have no energy to fight for the rest of the rights that don't (directly) affect us. Brown v. Board. The Voting Rights Act. Districting. Ranked-choice voting. And all the thousands of little things that help entrench white power in this country, frankly (why do cities need "at large" council members?). Issues with lending, leasing. Etc.
Which is the function of the smokescreen.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
marching towards theocracy. Washington, Jefferson, etc… this country’s Founders would be horrified at codifying religion into law
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
worth a look
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-and-a-lie/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love D3
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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:
The Web Engines Hackfest 2024 talks have been published in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4sEzdAGvRgBVK-g6z4-YGt8uv3Dni6ag 🎞️
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is a semblance of the tech press reporting on what the student experience of computing is like worldwide:
https://youtu.be/RaBdEp1Wec8?si=cmXcgR2hwEpSbJgX
Not pretty.
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20002ist@thepit.social ("Mark Eckenwiler") wrote:
@TwoClownsEating @Vonskinnback @courtcan @strypey
“I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I've had my differences with Fil over the years; sometimes in ways that were visible from space with low-resolution sensors. But this is the kind of work I can get behind, and I wish him nothing but luck in making it a success:
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trisweb@m.trisweb.com ("Tristan Harward") wrote:
I'm scared how misunderstood LLMs and GenAI truly are; they are so far from a genuine intelligence it's not even funny. They are statistical models for language, trained on a lot of words and sentences, representing the statistical likelihood of words following other words, sentences following other sentences, just with a lot of data and samples to pull from. That's it. There's no intelligence, there's no path to intelligence; it's simply statistics chaining words and symbols together.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Flamenco Sketches (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
It's Easy To Remember (Take 6) by John Coltrane
