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

stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

I updated my Mastodon Tools browser plugin to include expanded quote post previews, based on the work I've done here: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112643848931362289

Go give it a try! Available for Firefox and Chrome: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/mastodon-tools-browser-extension/

#mastodon #BrowserExtension #BrowserPlugin #firefox #chrome #quotes #QuoteBoosts #QuotePosts

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• A side-by-side comparison of a quoted Mastodon post. On the left, the text is cut off. On the right, it is fully visible. (remote)

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

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

ahhhh, what a delightful prospect @CARROT - thank you so very much

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"

No, listen, you just don't understand.

If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".

If you do it, you get banned though.

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

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

It’s disorienting and ominous, from this perspective to hear so many people “condemning the ten commandments” (of course that isn’t what’s happening— this is about religious liberty) but that isn’t how it’s being played. If you don’t want to hang the commandments in every classroom you must be against the values they represent. It’s all very 1990s— thing is those little towns have changed.

The churches have been replaced with prosperity gospel franchise operations. Mega churches.

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

gregggonsalves@med-mastodon.com ("Gregg Gonsalves") wrote:

John Moore, virologist/immunologist from Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences in NYC and I take the #NYTimes to task for two opinion pieces on #COVID earlier this month. Both pieces are examples of "science opinion", where non-experts weigh in on topics beyond their ken. #epidemiology #infectiousdisease https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nyt-covid-opinion-coverage/

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

stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

QUICK PLUG: Before I wander off, a reminder that this season’s crowdfunder is under way for more special-guest podcasts episodes. We’re currently 21% of the way to Target One, and as you’ll see I’m already locking in some interesting guests. Please consider. https://the9pmedict.com/winter2024

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

blueeyesgreene@mstdn.social ("Ennui Doofen") wrote:

What I lack in focus, I make up for in a breathtaking array of colorful gel pens

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

g7izu@universeodon.com ("Andy Smith") wrote:

Radio Propagation

Short-skip Es (1002km) in and out from EuropaEU Huesca, Aragon, Spain on 89.2 MHz, To the left is Europa FM in Seville on 88.8 MHz. It's going to be an interesting day for sporadic-E!

Short skip indicates a strong sporadic-E cloud.

#radiopropagation
#amateurradio

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

dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/what-if-there-just-is-no-solution-how-we-are-all-in-denial-about-the-climate-crisis

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

“As the effects of the crisis worsen… inequality will rise, food prices will increase and police and border budgets will balloon. It will probably be people of colour, migrants, homeless people who will suffer the most… when people see the hurricanes and the fires… politicians will turn up the barbarism and there will be something – or someone – else to blame.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/what-if-there-just-is-no-solution-how-we-are-all-in-denial-about-the-climate-crisis

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

auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world ("Auschwitz Memorial") wrote:

21 June 1877 | Ludwik Puget was born in Cracow. An eminent Polish sculptor, painter, and art theoretician. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, founder of „Rzeźba” Association.

In Auschwitz from 25 April 1942.
No. 33164
Shot on 27 May 1942.

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• A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left. (remote)

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

NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:

How is North Korea supporting Russia in Ukraine?

@dw explores the new defense pact between the two countries: https://flip.it/aH8PiY

#NorthKorea #Russia #Ukraine #Putin #KimJongUn #Korea #RussiaUkraineWar #News

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

every pound of military explosives made by DPRK factories for Russia is that much less fertilizer made for the next civilian planting season in the DPRK… keeping the Russian Army resupplied means setting up future DPRK civilian starvation. these tradeoffs are well known, & we have seen the result of these choices before.

https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/112654205893383965

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

stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

I see that “The Emu War” opens in Australian cinemas from today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7fe0xFBpeM

Here’s a review at the Graun. https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/21/the-emu-war-review-wall-to-wall-silliness-that-will-make-you-laugh-out-loud-sometimes

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

louis@emacs.ch ("Louis") wrote:

First, Mozilla started to collect your search data in Firefox, promised to "not sharing anything with 3rd parties". Ok.

Mozilla, moments later, just aquired the advertising firm "Anonym"[1], which is now technically not a 3rd party anymore.

#Mozilla is now becoming an advertising company, using your search data (no matter which search engine you use) to feed their pockets.

Face it: Firefox, built mostly by volunteers, is now owned by an advertising company. Sure has nothing to do with their yearly CEOs salary raises?

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/

#mozilla #firefox

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

“Auditors studied ShotSpotter’s accuracy over several months in 2022 and 2023. When it was performing at its best, only 20 percent of ShotSpotter’s alerts actually revealed shootings, they found. Often, it did even worse. Of the 940 alerts officers responded to last June, only 13 percent corresponded to confirmed shootings.

And in 2022, the audit found, the system also failed to detect more than 200 real incidents of gunfire in Manhattan.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/nyregion/nypd-shotspotter-guns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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

‘For many years, researchers have tried to determine whether the amount of time a child spent on social media contributed to poor mental health, and “the results have been really mixed, with probably the consensus being that no, it’s not related,” said Dr. Mitch Prinstein, the chief science officer at the American Psychological Association.

What seems to matter more, he said, is what they are doing when they are online… ‘

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/health/social-media-kids-mental-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1U0.HVO_.FJ4ReJ60pqoX&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:

🔥 New blog post!

I recently posted about driving the CSS WG resolution to add if() to CSS last week.
But this is still a long way away. What can we do meanwhile?

In this mammoth article, I rounded up the state of the art right now wrt inline conditionals.

One thing is for sure: after 4000 words of this, no-one could remain unconvinced that we *desperately* need that if()!

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/css-conditionals-now/

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The artist Edward Hopper lived and had his studio on Washington Square in an NYU-owned apartment, from which, despite his considerable fame, the university persistently tried to evict him.

Once he died, the University preserved the apartment as "The Edward Hopper Studio".

This story encapsulates most of what you need to know about university politics, NYC real estate, and the regard society has for actual working artists.

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

We're all mosaic, a patchwork genetic hodge-podge. And that's OK.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/20/patchwork-people/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQRCjfL_bF8

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

(yes, it took me ~7 years too long to come up with this. Not smart, not fast, but occasionally decent.)

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

I will be referring to "CSS-in-JS" as "CSSexit" from now on.

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112652104551341233

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ban men.

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• Poll. Men: 56/41 for Trump, white men with no degree: 64/34 for Trump, white women with degree: 64/36 for Biden.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Who could have guessed that a plastic recycling method promoted by Exxon requires 9 times more new fossil fuels than the amount of plastic it manages to successfully recycle?
And the US allows creative accounting that ends up calling that 100% recycled plastic, by counting byproducts like diesel as "recycled" "plastic".

https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

danilo@hachyderm.io ("Danilo Campos 🇵🇷") wrote:

AI responses on LinkedIn are actually a damning admission about what's so sick about its culture.

LinkedIn is a venue for performing our capitalist utility. In practice this means:

- Agreeableness
- Enthusiasm for the missions of others
- Conformity to norms
- Compliance with expectation

And LinkedIn has looked at the problem and said "there's no reason a robot can't do this.”

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• LinkedIn autoresponses: Well said! Good point! Useful tips Love this Interesting! (remote)

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

steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net ("Stephen Sekula") wrote:

Hi, my name is Steve Sekula!

I am a physicist, husband, runner, writer, and sometimes drummer.

I am a Professor of Physics at Queen's University and Research Group Manager at SNOLAB, the deepest and cleanest science lab in the world. I hunt for galactic supernovas and for the fundamental nature of dark matter.

I am a published non-fiction author working on a series of books for college students whose love for physics needs rekindling.

#introdiuction #introductions

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

jmechner@mastodon.art ("Jordan Mechner") wrote:

My dad was a child refugee in Nazi-occupied France from age 7-10 before immigrating to the U.S. I'm grateful for the kindness, generosity and courage of all those who helped him and enabled our family's survival.

Today, World Refugee Day, millions of people are striving to reach safe haven. Whatever your religion, ethnicity, nationality, or politics, the experience of being a refugee is universal. Let's greet them with empathy, kindness and generosity. They're not the other. They are us.

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• Franz Mechner (my dad) and his father, Dr. Adolf Mechner, in Paris, October 1938, shortly after they left Austria. (remote)

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

lifewithtrees@mstdn.social wrote:

Sending ☮️ on the #Solstice

#forest #Trees #Space

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

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

Meet the creators of the Whole Earth Catalog and the community they inspired. This video history of the Whole Earth culture covers 50 years of collective innovation in just a half-hour.

https://vimeo.com/294878432

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

jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:​") wrote:

I have a need to speak privately with some people who work in the threat intel biz to get a second opinion on an account here.

Please give me a ping if available