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

Having an A/C in the house is a blessing, but boy this thing is power-hungry. And loud. So I'm investing in opening a lot of windows over night and cooling the house down to high 60s. Which keeps my A/C silent through most days, actually. Unless it's close to 90 outside.

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

"A penny saved is $0.00999999999 earned"

—JavaScript throw pillow

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

“If there was one thing life—and numerous missions—had taught Hạc Cúc, it was that nothing was ever truly lost, and that every plan needed fifteen different contingency ones. No one ever showed up for their own assassination according to plan.”

— Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
https://a.co/5jSbZQn

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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:

meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025

#FediPact #meta #threads #project2025

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feoh@oldbytes.space ("Feoh") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yfj_zB-PIE

I am becoming a Hiroko Yamamura fan :)

Her latest Boiler Room mix is just awesome IMO :)

ROCKET FUEL FOR YOUR HUMP DAY! enjoy! :)

#electronica #rich #samples #greatbeat

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SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

@epakai Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877661339722927

Condescending racist lying: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877596261617480

Arrogant racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877571267736795

Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877498836103949

Racist assholery and condescension: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112877015953417143

Framing privilege callout as personal attack: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112875967114122553

Racist harassment: https://indieweb.social/@lucasgonze/112867418673107464

In conclusion, go fuck yourself

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

Is Trump racist? Big time. Really big time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/31/he-seemed-surprised-that-the-attendees-at-the-national-association-of-black-journalists-were-black/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFmvXQp6F8

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

Worse, Apple and Google are *still* holding the coats of FB and Bytedance and other companies that subvert browser choice and enable more pervasive tracking on the web through so-called "in-app browsers":

@owa has the best explainer on what mobile OS vendors are doing to your choice in browsers when you aren't looking:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/in-app-browsers-the-worst-erosion-of-user-choice-you-havent-heard-of/

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

This adds to the incoherence of saying "privacy is a human right" while consistently failing to sell devices that promise it to folks who aren't rich. Apple's whole market model is based on only selling hardware when it can make 30+% after service costs. That makes 80+% of the market a no-go zone.

Privacy, as defined by Apple, isn't for the poors.

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zoe@zoeoconnell.co.uk ("Zoë O'Connell") wrote:

British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people

This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.

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

Privacy online isn't solvable without legislation. We need laws to drive the price of reidentification high enough to make it commercially infeasible. This is because technical interventions cannot credibly prevent fingerprinting without neutering basic functionality.

It's perverse that the only folks to build such a browser is the Tor project, and Apple prevents them from bringing those benefits to iOS while marketing privacy:

https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/#fn-a-truly-private-browser-4

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

Yikes. “Severe thunderstorm warning”…that’s not good, he says, as the sky falls on him with a roar.

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thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea is still here") wrote:

"I looked for 30 minutes and I couldn't find any racism on mastadon" is sending me...mbic that should be your sign to recognize that the call is coming from inside the house

#MassaDon is at it again

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OutOnTheMoors@beige.party ("CrazyMyra") wrote:

The only two bathrooms necessary

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punklawyer@mastodon.sdf.org ("PunkLawyer") wrote:

#NSFW: INCESTUOUS-MINDED GRIFTER URGED DAUGHTER TO PRODUCE #IVANKASEXTAPE LIKE #PARISHILTON

“The thing with Paris hurt Ivanka a lot,” a friend told New York Magazine. “He was heartbreaking to her at times.”

The piece said that she “buried her feelings and moved on,” thinking her father’s feelings about women were “complicated.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/06/donald-trump-encouraged-his-eldest-daughter-to-release-a-sex-tape_partner/

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bhawthorne@infosec.exchange ("Brian Hawthorne") wrote:

We are clearly entering the “indistinguishable from magic” phase of the “Any sufficiently advanced technology” model. Semi-conductor nano crystals excited by single wavelength light to attach to PFAs and defluorinate them.

https://newatlas.com/environment/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-100-percent-break-down-overnight/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202408687

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unlobito@woof.tech ("harley!") wrote:

this is what a senior software engineer looks like

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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:

Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018.

Video credit: NASA/​JPL-Caltech/​SwRI/​MSSS/​Gerald Eichstädt
#space #science #nasa

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kirch@tilde.zone wrote:

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bwhitman@hachyderm.io ("Brian Whitman") wrote:

Tulip is now available to all! It's been a wild ride getting here. It's an incredibly low-cost fully open Python computer with an excellent synthesizer, MIDI, CV, etc. Make stuff in code. Please join us! https://tulip.computer/

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DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Delia Christina") wrote:

Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July.

Girl, it's Covid.
You and your husband have Covid.

#CovidIsNotOver

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mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

At @freedomofpress we’re hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) consultant to help us develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for our digital security training courses. Are you a good fit, or know someone who is? Check out the job description and please share the posting widely! https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4443012005

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Due to "anti-democratic actions by the Georgian government," the US is pausing more than $95 million in assistance to the country in the Caucasus, announces Secretary of State Blinken.

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

“Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy. Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal. Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy. It’s an incel platform, dude. It’s SUPER weird. And people need to know.”

~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as quoted by Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
/9

https://www.wonkette.com/p/aoc-correct-again-trump-and-jd-vance

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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:

You enter a sweet-smelling, dark orange room. There is a POTTED PLANT near the window. You see a CUP OF COFFEE here, in the window. There is a BUSINESS EXECUTIVE here, shredding confidential documents.

Exits: SOUTH SOUTH DOWN
#bot

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

"Now that the media no longer has Joe Biden’s age to consume our every waking moment, the endless stream of bizarre things Trump and Vance both say and do is suddenly getting the scrutiny it deserves.

The 'Trump and Vance are weird' strategy is brilliant because it is multi-purposed."

~ Todd Beeton

#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-donald-trump-weird

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

Oooh! Shannon Curtis added another track to their "80s Kids" back on the 5th:

https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-in-the-dark

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axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:

Organisations when they hire consultancy services: “We need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.”

Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: “We understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.”

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

Shut 'em up, shut 'em up good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/31/73908/

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