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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
excellent
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a terrible idea, poorly thought out…
‘One bill sponsor has said that widely used educational materials that teach about the history of racism in the U.S. causes depression in kids. Kids speaking out about mental health challenges or trying to help friends with addiction are likely to be treated the same as those promoting addictive or self-harming behaviors, and will be kicked offline. Minors engaging in activism or even discussing the news could be shut down…’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love ‘bg’ and ‘disown’
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moorejh@mastodon.online ("Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.") wrote:
Nice practical use of machine learning: reconstructing 120 years of climate change impacts on Joshua tree flowering https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14478 #machinelearning #joshuatree #botany
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
absorbing knowledge
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
truth!
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's not exactly peak SF politics -- no desperately needed housing projects are getting killed to "consider community input -- but it's real, real bad:
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/05/san-francisco-chinatown-bike-lane-breed-sfmta/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
in my humble opinion, the Supreme Court needs an independent Inspector General with investigatory powers who reports to Congress & the American people.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid
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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
The patron
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The alien came to the library again, shortly before closing time, and quickly found a book."May this entity borrow The Complete History of Knitting?"
They always return the book they borrow after five minutes, but the ritual of checking it seems important to them.
"Of course. Did you bring your card?"
1/4
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"It's juts not realistic to expect people to use a sound from outside their own phonetic system."
Thank you Dr. Lindsey!
(from this pronunciation video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NihLE-wh0xc)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's a UI crime that the "raise hand" button in Google Meet looks just like the waving emoji
(Source: once a week, somebody, sometimes me, raises their hand instead of posting the emoji they want and hijacks the whole meeting)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest. Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Let us read what we want in the library!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/republicans-weird-library-policies/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's always interesting to read about bootstrap projects. In some ways it's a little like speed running an alternate computer history and makes obvious the places where there are discontinuities. Or I guess I could look at it as how to automate rebuilding (computer) civilization. Of course, it takes as a given that rebuilding computer civilization as we know it is worthwhile. 😆
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siliconundergro@ioc.exchange ("Silicon Underground (Dave F)") wrote:
In 1985, #commodore commissioned Andy Warhol to demonstrate its new #amiga computer. Jeff Bruette, the software engineer who assisted Warhol, was one of only two people who thought to keep copies of the original files. Last week, he came forward. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My appreciation of Destin Sandlin has now gone negative.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/i-coulda-told-you-so/
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
In the Langdale valley.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Dementia: Healthier lifestyles could prevent it
The Lancet Commission on dementia said in its 2024 report that 14 lifestyle factors make up 45% of a person's risk — a guide to reduce your risk.
https://www.dw.com/en/dementia-healthier-lifestyles-could-delay-or-prevent-it/a-69836594?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
There's a market for "I ❤️ my infuriating little fuckwit" bumper stickers, is all I'm saying.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
North Korea moves 250 missile launchers to southern border
Pyongyang staged a celebration to mark the deployment of the launchers. North Korea claims stationing more nuclear capable weapons on the border is a necessary deterrent to the US and South Korea.
https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-moves-250-missile-launchers-to-southern-border/a-69855788?short range “dirty” nuclear munitions for “tactical” use?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
(note that the suspect was born & raised in Britain)
“On Saturday, a library and a food bank were set alight in Liverpool as groups damaged and looted businesses, and in Hull, fires were set and storefronts smashed in the city center.”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Pet owners will really be like: "I just love this cute little jerk. 🥰 This awful little turd. ❤️ This adorable little gremlin wakes me up at 3am because it broke my favorite things and then ate the pieces and didn't shit them out when it had the chance. 💕 What an angel. 😇 What a sweet little fucker sowing relentless chaos into every aspect of my life 😍"
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“When Harris’s parents immigrated here in the early 1960s, they entered a pre-existing racial caste system and the classifications that undergirded it. When the couple fell in love, so-called antimiscegenation laws prohibiting Black people from marrying white people still existed in 16 states.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Crap wins.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oops.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/05/thats-a-whopper-of-a-retraction/
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- Editor’s note A significant error was made in a headline on a story in Friday’s print sports section about Algerian boxer Imane Khelif incorrectly describing her as transgender. She is not. Additionally, our initial correction of this error neglected to note that she was born female. We recognize the magnitude of this mistake and have corrected it in the epaper, the electronic version of the printed Globe. This editing lapse is regretful and unacceptable and we apologize to Khelif, to Associated Press writer Greg Beacham, and to you, our readers. The Boston Globe (remote)
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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
📝 I set off to find the best way to make video with transparency work on the web.
Over 10 bug reports later, it turns out it's better to handle the transparency manually with WebGL. Here's how:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
*"the framework isn't the problem, Alex, it's only XXXKB"*
This is something I've been hearing from wealth-bubble apologists for *years* whenever I bring the JavaScript-industrial-complex in for critique. And you know what? They're right. It isn't the framework that's the problem, it's absolutely amoral behaviour of the folks doing the propaganda and the responsibility-free zone they want to expand within frontend culture.
So that can go. If it means they take their frameworks with them, fine.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I beseech thee, oh Manager! Banish this scripted pestilence! Free thine HTML from the shackles of JSX! Liberate the CSS to frolic in the fields of s, as of yore. Smite the CSS-in-JS and exile React from these lands!