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mythologybot@botsin.space ("MythologyBot") wrote:

A878.3.6
Golden cock
in earth-tree.

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:

Approximate Frame #165 from The Computer Chronicles - Windows Enhancements - Software 1992-93qjf290Mfw

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• Approximate Frame #165 from The Computer Chronicles - Windows Enhancements - Software 1992-93qjf290Mfw (remote)

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

adamgreenfield@social.coop ("Adam Greenfield") wrote:

#Portland! This here’s your reminder of our Lifehouse event at Powell’s tomorrow night at 7! For this event I’ll be joined by representatives of Portland Street Medicine and the People’s Store, talking a little bit about #mutualaid – what it is, how it works, why we do it – and I’ll tie that back into the unfolding reality of #climate system collapse. I hope to see you there. https://everout.com/portland/events/adam-greenfield/e182533/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Never beating the weirdo allegations, I fear

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• Woman sitting in a tattoo chair with the word TRUMP freshly tattooed on her forehead.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

tenzochris ("Chris @ 🦣") wrote:

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

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• The computer “Deep Thought”, as depicted in the movie version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. An enormous golden figure sits atop a ziggurat, as a crowd of people eagerly await the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

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

ieure@retro.social ("past oral no mad") wrote:

I'm a polite guy prone to extended conversational digressions. A tangentleman, if you will

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

KeithDJohnson@sfba.social ("Keith D Johnson for Kamala") wrote:

On the UK riots, Joan Westenberg suggests: "Think about it this way: if someone broke into your house & started smashing your belongings, you wouldn't describe them as an "interior design critic." You'd call them what they are: a criminal. So why the fuck are we bending over backwards to find polite terms for people who are, quite literally, advocating for the destruction of entire communities?
When we use euphemisms like "protestor" to describe rioting, rabid, dogshit neo-Nazis, we're not just being inaccurate – we're actively contributing to the normalization of their ideology.
This tendency to soften our language when it comes to extremist ideologies isn't evenly applied. We don't hesitate to use harsh, condemnatory language when talking about other forms of violent extremism. We don't call ISIS members "religious freedom activists" or refer to cartel enforcers as "pharmaceutical distribution protestors." So why the kid gloves when it comes to neo-Nazis?"
https://joanwestenberg.com/nazis-arent-protestors-theyre-wankers

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think this might be Steel Fell.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Ektachrome 100
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

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

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• A massive green fell in the distance under a blue sky and white clouds. You can clearly see the shadows of the clouds on the ground.

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

He thinks he's so irresistible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/you-do-not-have-the-right-to-not-listen-to-nazis/

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• Elon Musk as Pepe LePew, forcing an advertiser to sniff his reek (remote)

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

Children of Republicans vs children of Democrats. This is enough information to make my choice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/07/look-whos-smiling/

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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a child labor law (remote)
• Walz signs a school lunch law (remote)

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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• 102fd7dce679a2b7.png (remote)

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 🤔🤔🤔