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

AmandaMarcotte@mastodon.sdf.org ("Amanda Marcotte") wrote:

I was nuts enough to go both to the JD Vance event in South Philly and then to the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz rally later in the day.

It was like leaving a bitter divorced man meet-up and going straight to a Taylor Swift concert.

Enjoy the contrast!

https://www.salon.com/2024/08/07/bringing-back-the-joy-kamala-harris-rally-blows-away-jd-vances-weird-appearance-across-town/

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

The older I get, the more my heroes are just real people. Not necessarily people with impressive accomplishments or accolades; just folks who uncompromisingly refuse to try to be anyone other than who they truly are.

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

A lot of people seem to have a diminished sense of smell.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/no-racists-down-here-in-texas-no-sir/

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• Wake up and smell the nazis (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

smeg@assortedflotsam.com wrote:

“Tim Walz is the dad an entire generation wish they had instead of the one they lost to Fox News”

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

HighlandLawyer wrote:

@intransitivelie @DJDarren @TheBreadmonkey
Don't forget your pizza maths

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• This is why it's called "pizza" (Image of pizza with thickness labelled a and radius labelled z) Volume = π z^2 a Volume = pi (zz) a

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

sbisson ("Simon Bisson") wrote:

How come I decide to wrap up a piece at around 1K words and still end up with 1500? Every week.

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

fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

Read the inspiring story of how Eyüpsultan, Turkey switched to free software, gained independence from proprietary software, and saved money ($$$) in the process! If they did it in their city, your city can do it too! | Read more at: https://u.fsf.org/3m9

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

but of course

https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/nations-cats-endorse-walz?r=4qey6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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

They're already in the center, Jonathan. You're just a biased idiot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/proscribe-professional-political-pundits/

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• "Kamala Harris and Tim Walz need to pivot to the center right now," says centrist goon Jonathan Chait (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A little further up from Rothay Park.

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

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

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• A yellow field under a grey cloudy sky, with green fells in the distance.

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

studiochris@sfba.social ("Chris Price") wrote:

@collinsworth @Chris Free product idea: Scream Deck

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

akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

I'm probably late to this party, but it's great

https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-archipelago-an-island-network-in-practice

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I stay chasing that one

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

mannnnnn https://shakedown.social/@helpingfriendlybot/112917913598400854

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

Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Here you can see how the plant benefits from the hummingbird. As the bird reaches in for the nectar, it brushes against the bloom and the pollen gets stuck to its feathers, later to be scattered elsewhere nearby.

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• Allen’s hummingbird feeding from a red tubular flower. (remote)

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

detachedspork@mastodon.ie ("detached spork") wrote:

Little girl in Algeria decides she wants to play soccer, gets bullied by the boys because she's a girl.
She takes up boxing, to defend herself from bullies, makes it to the fucking Olympics, only for a demented British children's author to publicly shame her for not being enough of a girl

WHY DON'T GIRLS DO MORE SPORTS BIG MYSTERY WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THAT

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

I love this type of LLM "instruction" that you find when prompts get leaked: "Do not hallucinate". Like, *that's* been the problem. We just keep forgetting to tell them not to hallucinate. So silly!

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

Look I don't care which one it is, but it's too confusing that there's a Stream Deck *and* a Steam Deck, so one of them needs to change their name.

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

HTML+CSS are best understood as the world's most effective compression format for scalable UI with formatted text.

If your web page ends up being larger than a PNG of its contents, ya done f'd up, son.

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

OSS *can* be software in the public interest, but it doesn't inculcate that value in every community. I wonder if this is why the JS ecosystem became fundamentally selfish and incurious about impacts on users 🤔🤔🤔

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

A question came into focus for me yesterday: is the success of Open Source for early-in-career folks building portfolios a contributor to frontend's ethical dessication?

OSS is "software for me, incidentally for thee"; does introducing that ethos to young programmers keep us from driving home the lesson that when you get paid to write code, your responsibilities are to users and customers?

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

Now is a great time to text the folks in your life still on Twitter and ask them if they're happy to be supporting this:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/elon-musk-calls-pm-two-tier-keir-over-police-response-to-uk-riots

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

skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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• HAVE A CREATIVE VISION, AND NO EGO. RECOGNIZE THE UNIQUE TALENT OF THOSE AROUND YOU. ATTRACT MISFITS, MANAGE CHAOS. SHOW KINDNESS. BE SINCERE BE A KERMIT. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

Patricia@vivaldi.net ("Patricia Aas") wrote:

But like @thephd alludes to: when you lay off your devs you loose organizational knowledge. It basically starts a clock in my experience, two years down the line most no longer have the knowledge inside the company to maintain the product anymore. The first period runs on inertia and just needing to make small changes, two years out there are always architectural changes needed. Unfortunately the distance in time from layoff to “legacy system” means management never sees them in context.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

teacherbuknoy@masto.ai ("Francis Rubio :verified:") wrote:

Firefox 129 is released, which means I can now use @starting-style and transition-behavior in #CSS to animate from display: none! :catjam:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In another brilliant branding and strategic move, Google that "invested heavily in embedding Google Cast technology into millions of TV devices" is dropping the Cast tech and replacing the "Chromecast with Google TV" with a "Google TV Streamer".

I can't wait for it to be killed next year in favor of "Google AI Nest TV (original)"
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112915985245901016

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

And thanks to a comment from @olm_e, I think I managed to track down the song in the boosted video. It's from "Zero Gravity (Above and Beyond Remix)" by Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPLh1l6tkhg

(Sometimes I can't let these songs go until I find the source. No. It's not a problem. Why do you ask?)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Inside Mr. H's tea room.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

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

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• Square wooden tables, surrounded by wooden chairs, a large window with a view to a green fell in the distance and some grey stone houses closer by. Three lightbulbs covered by bowler hats hanging from the ceiling.

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

I'd rather be spidering.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/06/enough-adulting/

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• 56c9f6e0479afaac.jpg (remote)

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

checkervest@laserdisc.party ("there might be owls") wrote:

Good morning, happy Tuesday! I met a friend first thing

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• My hand holding an incredibly small baby gecko that had snuck into my house. Its body (not including the tail) is just slightly longer than my thumbnail. It’s pale and speckled with large dark eyes and a confused expression on its face (remote)