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ABC News spoke to President Biden for 22 minutes. The network says it offered an interview to Trump and Trump declined.
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malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:
UK media is cooking 😆
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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:
This is the perfect explanation of how I feel about voting right now and seeing people saying they plan not to vote https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNhhJ5f8/
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barney@mas.to ("Barney") wrote:
Also, if those swing voters are willing to end American democracy and destroy their own children's lives, solely because the Democratic candidate speaks and moves more slowly than a psychopathic moron who thinks that windmills cause cancer, then we have a much bigger problem. One that won't be solved by any potential Democratic nominee.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
"Trump is a pathological liar," says Biden in ABC TV interview. "The man is a congenital liar" who lied more than 20 times during their most recent debate. "This is a guy who told us to put bleach in our arms."
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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
only a third get it? frightening
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Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith: ‘… said in response that it will not be clear for some time whether the court made the right call. But he said the Democratic lawyers made a mistake by relying on the courts to stop Trump.
"It has been a fantasy for many years now to think that courts and prosecutors can purge the nation of a law-defiant populist demagogue," he said. "Only politics, not law, can do that."’
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Any gomer can get published in the NY Times as long as they're sufficiently regressive and incompetent.
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
A purrito. #CatsOfMastodon
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
So, I went here and turned on all the nature sounds. It's strangely soothing?
I'm enjoying imagining a scenario where I could hear all those sounds at once. 😆
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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
The NY Times published this piece on July 4th, to convince Americans to NOT vote, written by a guy who DOES vote, a guy who is a right wing Christian nationalist, a guy who reportedly supported the January 6 insurrection, and a guy who cosplays Hitler.
Legacy media is absolutely failing us and hastening the downfall of democracy. Smh what a disgrace.
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matthewvenn@chaos.social ("Matt Venn") wrote:
My first paper has just been published in the IEEE solid state circuits magazine!
Tiny Tapeout: A Shared Silicon Tapeout Platform Accessible To Everyone
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563670
If you're not a member, you can read the pre-print here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattvenn/tt-ieee-paper/main/paper_TT.pdf
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE IT GOES OUT—A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…”
(according to Terry Pratchett)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
So I was wearing my 3M earmuffs for sleeping on the 4th, like one does, and I go to take them off at 2:30 AM only to hear within seconds somebody was still shooting off fireworks. 🙄
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wim_v12e@merveilles.town ("WimⓂ️") wrote:
LLVM for the Apollo Guidance Computer
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guffo@topspicy.social ("I’m Tired And Everything Hurts") wrote:
America: This is our Prime Minister winning his seat in parliament
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nachtfunke@indieweb.social ("Thomas Michael Semmler") wrote:
I love that useffect is so dumb that there is now a creator economy around the idiocy of this design choice where people have setup entire blogs around farming devs googling errors related to it. There are even people selling books & courses just on useeffect https://rozenmd.gumroad.com/l/useEffect-by-example
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I usually prefer my monsters with lots of legs or tentacles, but I must admit that tube-like creatures also appeal.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/05/these-monsters-are-all-dead/
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yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:
how to browse the web in 2024
1. open site
2. close email subscription pop up
3. close push notifications
4. dismiss cookies pop up
5. dismiss the request for your location
6. close the "did you find what your were looking for?" dialog
7. apologize to those around you for the loud swearing
8. try to remember why you opened the site in the first place
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
So…the prophecy was fulfilled, the dragon was slain? Is it actually somewhat hopeful news from the UK?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/05/congratulations-uk-2/
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ada ("Ada Rose Cannon") wrote:
I'm really happy that you all get to see what I have been working on! It's really exciting to me and I hope you find it interesting! #WebXR #wwdc24
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CNN@press.coop ("CNN :press:") wrote:
Key takeaways from the blowout May jobs report
The US economy added a whopping 272,000 jobs in May, far more than expected. The unemployment rate rose to 4% from 3.9%. #press
https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/jobs-report-may-06-07-24/index.html?utm_source=press.coop
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wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:
At 0522 am, EDT on July 5, 2024, N4RTD wrote:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has dropped to 113. The Solar Flux Index has risen to 173. With no CMEs heading for Earth, geomagnetic storms are unlikely for the next three days. Quiet conditions should persist through the holiday weekend and possibly beyond if solar activity remains low. Chance of flares today: 35% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
No, Peter Baker, your varying treatment of Biden and Trumps puts your and your newspaper's prejudices in stark relief.
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cote@social.lol ("Coté") wrote:
’“accountability sink”: a situation in which a human system delegates decision-making to a rule book rather than an identifiable individual. If something goes wrong, no one is held to account.’ https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/accountability-sinks/573
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Added Post Edit support to the @pixelfed app, along with a history viewer with a diff engine that highlights the changes with additional info available when you tap 😎
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If you're coming to OpenData Camp Manchester this weekend, I've created a Signal group for socialising.
DM me if you'd like to be added.
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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:
Wow - evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a 'quark star' is not new, but I didn't know it was a serious possibility.
An ordinary neutron star has a core made mostly of densely packed neutrons. A matchbox-sized chunk of this stuff weighs about 3 billion tonnes. But if you squeeze this stuff hard enough, eventually the neutrons break. Each neutron consists of 3 quarks held together by gluons. So when the neutrons break you get 'quark matter' - a sea of quarks and gluons, no longer confined in neutrons.
We've made something similar here on Earth: at CERN and Brookhaven, physicists smack atomic nuclei at each other so hard that the protons and neutrons break and momentarily form a 'quark-gluon plasma'. But the conditions in a neutron star core are different: cooler, but more pressure - and not just temporary.
This new paper tries to take the measured properties of massive neutron stars and see if they fit a model where the inner core is made of deconfined quark matter. They say it does with about 80% probability! I'd take this with a grain of salt, but it's an exciting possibility. It's not every day we find quintillions of tonnes of a new state of matter.
For me, the coolest part is that deconfined quark matter may have an extra symmetry, called 'conformal symmetry'. This means that if you zoom in on it, it looks almost the same. An atom looks like a blob with some specific size. So does a neutron. But a system with conformal symmetry is just a blur spread out everywhere - and if you zoom in or zoom out, you see something very similar. This is crazy.
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https://physicsworld.com/a/evidence-grows-for-deconfined-quark-matter-in-neutron-star-cores/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
things get crazy wonderful at this scale