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

Starting my morning reading about vacuum decay because fire and ice aren't the only ways for the universe as we know it to end.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vacuum-of-space-to-decay-sooner-than-expected-but-still-not-soon-20240722/

Fire and Ice:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice

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ShaulaEvans@zirk.us ("Shaula Evans") wrote:

I'm trying to track down a specific song to share with a friend, and I am blanking on both the name and the band, so I'm asking Mastodon, here goes:

Does anyone recall the name of the song by the contemporary Mongolian folk/rock band about a guy who loves his tractor?

Update: Thank you to @cassana! It is Shono with Kolkhozoy Traktor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQFn8HvUJW0

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

Do you want to watch two invulnerable, bloodless superheroes stab each other with sharp objects over and over again, for two hours? Then you'll love Deadpool & Wolverine.

I didn't.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/someday-ill-learn-to-ignore-marvel-movies/

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• Deadpool and Wolverine movie poster (remote)

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fafo@fa-fo.de ("FAFO Updates") wrote:

Hello, world!

We are FAFO, a non-profit semiconductor and analytical chemistry research lab in Munich.

We exist to bring together people and tools necessary to advance not the cutting edge of manufacturing, but the cutting edge of making bathtub semiconductors and other Weird Hacks in your local hackerspace.

We've just rented out our first location and brought in a gorgeous 1980s JEOL T330A SEM. Restoring it to working condition is our first project, and this is where we'll keep you posted.

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• A Jeol T330A SEM (two pallet-sized modules: a column and a control module) standing in a mostly empty room. Panels from the column module are missing, and cable harnesses are still tied up with painter's tape. (remote)

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

Skepticon 16 is happening today!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/27/im-missing-skepticon/

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• Skepticon logo (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Windermere in the morning.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #Windermere

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• A large body of water with a red boat in it. Behind, a landscape.

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

This sounds like it will be a fun presentation. "Joe Grand, Creating The World's Thinnest Boombox":

https://calagator.org/events/1250481171

#pdx

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setiinstitute ("SETI Institute") wrote:

#PPOD: NASA's Juno captured this unusual and extraordinary view of Jupiter from the gas giant's southern hemisphere during perijove 32. The white storms are the so-called "strings of pearls". They are about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of Earth each. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / AndreaLuck

#jupiter #space #science #communityscience #scicomm

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• Picture of Jupiter taken from the southern hemisphere by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Five white storms can be seen tracking across the planet, with four in one row farther south and the fifth a band above.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Lily Tarn. Currently occupied by exactly two friendly ducks (not pictured).

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• A small body of water filled with water lilies.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A note on #Plushtodon. The stuffed toy isn't a representation of "the one" Mastodon. It's "a" Mastodon. When you get yours, you can pick their name and pronouns! Mine is a boy 🙂

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eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

Ok folks. I need to know about the open source web-based Git front ends that people are using in 2024. Which ones have you used? Which have you liked?

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

AAAAH! OpenAI software engineers are paid HOW MUCH?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/were-talking-big-money-here-sam/

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• Sam Altman looking stupid (remote)

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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:

Reminded of some terrible old limericks I wrote a while back. I apparently never posted this one, so here it is. If you don't get it, be grateful.

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• There once was a poem called PoETeX That's name sounded somewhat /pə'θɛtɛk/. It was really quite sad, to see pronunciation so bad, And to read such a terrible /'lɪme(ə)rɛk/! (remote)

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enzo@photog.social ("Enzo Giordani") wrote:

A brown falcon taking to the skies in rural Victoria (Australia) yesterday.

#birds #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography

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• A light brown and beige raptor stretches its wings skyward as it lifts off from a wooden fence post. (remote)

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annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

shadow the edge hog

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Zumbador@mefi.social wrote:

Can't remember if I shared this here before - a fantasy short story I wrote when I first realised that I'm autistic and had to decide whether or not I'd try for official diagnosis.

Scorched

“Okay. Here we are, then.” Monica pulled the car to a gentle halt. “Now, you’re sure—”
Appel already had her seat-belt unbuckled. She suppressed her impatience as her mother put a hand on her arm.
“Sweetheart, you’re sure-sure that you don’t want me to come in with you?” Monica said earnestly. “You know I don’t mind…”
*Click click click click click click click.*
The turn indicator was still on, the sound nagging at Appel’s attention. 
“It’s fine, Mom.” It took an effort to keep her voice calm and relaxed. She smiled and glanced at her mother’s eyes, establishing that moment of intimacy she knew Monica expected and valued.  “I need to learn to do these things by myself, don’t I?”

Read the rest of the story here:
https://mashadutoit.com/2022/08/30/scorched/

#ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic #Fantasy #ShortStories

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seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:

I’m ashamed to admit it finally just clicked why Safari PWA support is lacking. Was just scrolling through a Reddit thread and someone was complaining about PWA support in Safari & the money from the App Store.

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davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

TypeScript: ERROR! Major problems! Import doesn't exist!
Me, a hacker: [ deletes a backslash, adds it back in ]
TypeScript: I see no problems.

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

‘“I would have loved to infuriate the country’s dog owners, but Kristi Noem got to them first,” he said. “Still, that leaves millions of bird and fish owners for me to piss off, and I, for one, am raring to go.”’

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/jd-vance-brainstorming-ways-to-alienate?publication_id=2337656&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=4qey6&utm_medium=email

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I spent 8 hours automating a task that will easily save me several minutes over the next 10 years or so. MINUTES, I SAY!

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

Regarding LB[1]: I greatly enjoyed the conclusion in the blog post. Really, that's probably the appropriate conclusion to much of the work our so-called profession gets up to.

[1] https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/112852397642713225

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ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

also, the original blog post about reverse-engineering the system is quite good:

https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Visiting @waxandbeans.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy in front of rows of vinyls with the Wax and Beans sticker on them.

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

The rich think the most important issue facing American democracy is…fucking cryptocurrency?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/out-of-touch-billionaires-showing-their-whole-asses-to-the-world/

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• bitcoin on fire (remote)

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

A reminder I've needed at times:

- It's nobody's job to curate their posts for your feed
- If you're unhappy with your feed, change what you see
- If you can't, maybe you actually just need to take a break

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atsuzaki@types.pl wrote:

you know it'd be cool to run a "beyond the conventional" research presentation workshop. like we just submit in comics, zines, short movies and whatnot and the conference is just us setting up artist alley-esque tables to display whatever we made.

it'd definitely be way more fun than a poster session.

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

Vivian Wilson exposes Elon Musk's parental incompetence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/vivian-wilson-strikes-back/

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• Vivian Wilson (remote)

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

I won't be trusting myself to long drives for a while.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/26/practicing-my-fan-dance-just-in-case/

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• transient ischemic attack (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Where he belongs.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon

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• A stuffed Mastodon toy being held in front of a street sign that reads Federation Street.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Windermere after sunset.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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• Two sailboats on a lake framed by trees on either side and a rock at the bottom.