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

okay, this is seriously cool:

curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ | strip-tags .story-wrapper | llm -s 'summarize the news'

h/t @simon

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"News broke on Saturday that Paul Pressler, a major leader of the Southern Baptist Convention and a key Republican activist, died on June 7 at age 94. In 1967, Pressler, a Texas judge, and Paige Patterson, a seminary student, met in New Orleans to plan a takeover of the Southern Baptists, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.,"

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#SouthernBaptists #Republicans #PaigePressler
/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-18-2024

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Today, Robert Morris, the pastor of Texas megachurch Gateway Church, resigned after news broke on Friday that a woman has accused him of sexually abusing her for several years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12."

#SouthernBaptists #Republicans #PaigePressler
/7

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nblr@chaos.social ("~n") wrote:

Move slow and fix things!
Most of all… Take your time. ✌️

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

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”  — HENRY ADAMS

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

damn, the ‘llm’ command line tool by @simon kicks butt

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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

he’s done asking politely

#Caturday

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• cat carries a sign, puts it down on the floor and taps it with its paw. sign says "feed me you dumb bitch" (remote)

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ameliacervera ("Amelia 🍉") wrote:

"Think of the most vulnerable person you know, and vote in their best interests".

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• Pic of a man holding a poster that says "Think of the most vulnerable person you know, and vote in their best interests".

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faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:

We need to talk about Hungary.

Make Europe Great Again: Hungary channels Trump in EU presidency slogan – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/make-europe-great-again-hungary-channels-donald-trump-eu-presidency-slogan-viktor-orban/

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing-Sing prison, 1953

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: FreeBSD project born, 1993

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craignewmark ("Craig Newmark") wrote:

November election will be ‘more secure than any previous,’ US cyber official says https://therecord.media/november-elections-more-secure-than-ever?utm_medium=email

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Pi

seq -f '4/%g' 1 2 99999 | paste -sd-+ | bc -l

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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is really useful stuff from Simon Willison

https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotatedtalks/

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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Juneteenth is a federal holiday.

"But in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; Republicans have passed laws to prevent teachers from teaching kids why."
M D'Arrigo

#Juneteenth #GOPRacism

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

"Even after the Thirteenth Amendment became national law, many Southern states including Kentucky and Delaware resisted ratifying the provision for decades. Mississippi, the last state to do so, refused to pass ratification legislation until 1995 and didn’t formally file the passage until 2013."

got that? 2013.

no, no, no... Reconstruction is by no means "done"

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jun/19

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

I bet someone's been waiting for this...

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotfoundation/112643471955577996

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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphanty Pants") wrote:

Just realized that when it comes to 'quote posts' the entire post is already there, it's just hiding the text.

Apply this to your Mastodon server's override CSS and marvel at seeing the entire post.

.status-card__description {    white-space: normal;}

This is literally a word-wrap issue. And for whatever reason, Mastodon has defaulted to 'nowrap' instead of 'normal' for white-space.

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

Check your flowers carefully before giving them to your partner.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/19/tiny-pink-terror/

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

ERROR 418 I am a teapot

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@martinhowitt

I had more than one friend, who I convinced to try mastodon. Trying to give them a good experience I'd check on them & respond to their posts.
They'd say: "I never saw your replies"

Turned out in each case they clicked a link & found they were "logged out" (on a different server) so sign up for that server, then another and another... on every server they had an empty account and felt alone.

We need quote-boost to stop this. An in-fedi link should stay on your home server.

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

"You should get better friends, because this is unhinged and at least one of them should have told you not to post it."

—The reply I want to leave on every LinkedIn post I see

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

I am so sorry, sometimes I hate myself

Inspired by @kevin

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• A photo of a desk with a Macintosh Quadra setup and a 256 greyscale portrait display showing the cover of the book Two Hundred & Fifty Six Shades of Grey by E L James. Also the Newton on the desk is displaying the cover of the abridged version, Sixteen Shades of Grey. (remote)

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Do subdomains matter in threat intelligence and blue-teaming? Well, if you're Rolex, it's the difference between not having a reason to investigate a domain like team-okta[.]com spinning up on Cloudflare on 2024-05-21 and, well...

a subdomain of rolex.team-okta[.]com spinning up on 2024-05-26.

Seems pretty sus. Make sure you've got visibility on stuff like this.

Because this isn't special; this is just another Tuesday on the internet.

#cybersecurity #infosec #threatintel

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

I feel like surely people on this network would appreciate knowing that the BBC sound effect library, from which you may freely download, has 716 distinct recordings of clocks specifically https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

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dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:

MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/the-case-for-and-against-macos-15-sequoia-being-the-final-release-for-intel-macs

The future for Intel Macs is not bright.

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tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Why the Right Has a Problem with Juneteenth
 
This, from last year, certainly holds up: Today’s Republican Party is dominated by reactionaries who stand in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.
 
With an added voiceover option:
 
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with

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foo@fosstodon.org ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

Listen, I'm only asking for a minuscule 10,000 cores. DO YOU NOT WANT MY MONEY?

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• Hello! I am following up to notify you that we've received your service quota increase request. I see that you have requested the following: [US East (Northern Virginia)]: EC2 Instances / All Standard (A, C, D, H, I, M, R, T, Z) instances, New Limit = 10000 This specific service quota increase request requires further internal review before approval and I have initiated that review. I understand this increase is important to you and I will do my best to get you a prompt answer. I will notify you as soon as I have an update. Thank you for your patience while this request is reviewed. (remote)

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MarcuZona@tkz.one ("Marcuz ☑️☑️") wrote:

#pixelart
#metroidprime4
#MetroidPrime
#metroid

By #BryanHeemSkerk

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