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

mafeesh@kolektiva.social ("Mafeesh Moushkella :verified:") wrote:

Elon Musk called Trent Reznor a "crybaby" for deleting his Twitter account. Wil Wheaton then wrote this incisive summary of the man-child that is Elon Musk.
#musc #elon #billionaires

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• Wil Wheaton: I can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk He's the richest man on the planet. You can't go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he's part of in some way. There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he's a douchebag. Some number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor. They'll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist. They are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn't enough. He can have any material thing he wants, and he will *never* be happy or satisfied. He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both, So what does he do? He bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves lie the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That's a tragedy for him, but it's dangerous for us. He doesn't care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he «can not ever have. YYou know the saying "hurt people hurt people"? He's a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people | care about less safe. The consequences of this one man's midlife crisis are global, and that terrifies me. (remote)

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

In modern CSS, if you find yourself applying margin to items based on their position in a list, you're probably still using outdated techniques.

Most likely, you actually don't want margin there; you want a flex box/grid with gap. No need to uniquely style the first/last item.

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

trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Groggy morning thought: A cosplay hotel like the now-defunct Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser but it's a 1971 training facility for new PDP admins based in Maynard, Mass.

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

darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!

Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings

Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/

Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.

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

lumecolca@kolektiva.social ("Lúmëcolca") wrote:

@cstanhope
"Move slow and fix things."

"Repair and relax."

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

Cool. Banks are discovering that flirting with Elon because he has "allure" might make poor business sense.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/i-dont-often-follow-financial-news-but-when-i-do-its-to-giggle-at-asshats/

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• dollar bill on fire (remote)

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

So fucked up that exercise actually makes me feel good. Like wtf. Such bullshit. Unacceptable.

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

I guess Duane Gish has achieved a kind of immortality, as the personification of the dumbest, worst, most dishonest debate strategy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/the-ghost-of-gish/

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

People who think this is how science works should not be trusted with science policy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/20/science-is-not-supposed-to-be-partisan/

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• Cartoon of an astronomer seeing a fly on his lens and assuming it means aliens are invading. Only a creationist would think this way. (remote)

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

HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Perhaps you have heard (or even believe) some or all of the elements of the following story about the past:

"Life in the past was crude and hard. People could not afford mercy or charity. People in primitive societies would leave the sick and weak behind to die, and even the ancient Greeks killed disabled infants through exposure."

I have frequently encountered this set of ideas, in various permutations. It shows up all over the internet in popular historical accounts:
"Infanticide was a disturbingly common act in the ancient world, but in Sparta this practice was organized and managed by the state. All Spartan infants were brought before a council of inspectors and examined for physical defects, and those who weren't up to standards were left to die...If a Spartan baby was judged to be unfit for its future duty as a soldier, it was most likely abandoned on a nearby hillside. Left alone, the child would either die of exposure or be rescued and adopted by strangers."

It is also quite wrong.

https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-it-wasnt-easy-being-spartan

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Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

janrosenow@mastodon.energy ("Jan Rosenow") wrote:

We continue to see misinformation about heat pumps being spread by parts of the media and on social media.

I debunked 18 common & largely misleading heat pump myths for Carbon Brief.

Don’t believe poorly informed commentators - listen to the evidence.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/

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

neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

Between this and the recent ransomware of a nonprofit organization tasked with removing children from abusive homes and supporting them, I'm getting the impression that maybe word has gone out that any and every US target is permissible and encouraged to increase the chaos and further precarize living in America.

https://therecord.media/columbus-ransomware-officials-warn-victims-after-data-leak

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

The Royal Institution has posted Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures. I've been listening to them as I draw in the evening. So If you're into that kind of thing, here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnrZHfNEDZygWxt60aCWSgDcoazRdTY7

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

andi@sciences.social ("Andi Fugard") wrote:

I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.

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

maphew@vmst.io ("matt wilkie") wrote:

Government, development, hiring, contracting, ownership

the truth bells
they ring in my head
me nodding and grinning, a madman.
The words below are not mine
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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Behold! The mexican restaurant theory of website performance:

MPAs/Progressive Enhancement: ordering guacamole & chips, and then a large-but-reasonable amount of each arrive in reasonable time.

SPAs/whatever-Next.js-is: ordering guacamole & chips, only to find out that it's "tableside service", which means they spend ages dragging a trolley full of uncut ingredients to your table, then waiter glares while you're expected to make the guac for your family.

In *theory* better. In practice? Hrm.

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

I had an AP Econ teacher named Mr. Bates (no, really) and he was *incredible*. One of the best lessons he taught was on monopoly pricing power and how it allowed segmentation. His lens? The "mexican restaurant theory of pricing", in which he pointed out to a bunch of bratty midwestern know-nothings how the description and presentation of the same ingredients created competitively unsupportable margins.

Tonight, I had a flash of re-application...(thread)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

You know how that one Jay-Z and Alicia Keys song sounds like she's saying "concrete jungle wet dream tomato"

Well, a couple years ago, when I was drunk laying in bed, I bought wetdreamtomato.com.

I don't know what to do with it.

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

digichelle@hachyderm.io ("Michelle Catherine Marcó") wrote:

This thread by @slightlyoff hits close to home. As someone who receives state benefits in California, I’m all too familiar with BenefitCal’s slowness and jankiness, because I have to deal with it on a regular basis.

Loading a website over broadband in 2024 should not feel like loading a website over a 9600 baud modem in 1995. We need to do better. We need to cut the bloat.

https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/112950935070472492

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

technomancy@hey.hagelb.org ("technomancy (turbonerd aspect)") wrote:

so I knew google was fucking up ublock origin badly with the recent manifestv3 shitshow, but apparently that's not the only reason firefox is better at blocking: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

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

kcarruthers wrote:

Isaac Hayes estate sues Trump to stop using hit song 'Hold On, I'm Coming' at rallies

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/isaac-hayes-estate-sues-trump-after-deadline-passes-to-stop-using-hit-song-hold-on-im-coming-at-rallies/

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

hilarious: the FoxNews & MSNBC booths are next to each other at the Democratic National Convention

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

whit_whal@oulipo.social ("Valid Moby Dick Parts") wrote:

It was Moby Dick. “‘Moby Dick!’

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

The difference between a secure products company and a security products company could not possibly be larger.

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

Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Ye Olde Too Many Tabs Open

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• A medieval drawing of a woman or nun in an ornate dress, surrounded by multiple open books propped up to allow simultaneous access if needed (remote)

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

Here's one I'd never heard before. "Let's Get Digital" from What Fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyhLzsY-Vc

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

rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

LMFAO, you can't even open this so called "web app" on an iPhone. It will just send you to the app. If you uninstall the native app, then open the link, it will send you to the App Store.

Even on Android, you can't install it. Adding to home screen just creates a regular bookmark.

This is not a web app. It's a website.

A website that doesn't run on iOS.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/19/24223811/apple-podcasts-web-app

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

mhoye wrote:

🎵That’s me as a coder
That’s me with the (int)float
Losing my precision🎵

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

xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

our #32bitcafe back to school code jam entries are now displayed and available to browse! check out your available courses here to learn from folks around the cafe!

https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/

this was officially our biggest code jam ever with 30 submissions! 👏

thank you to EVERYONE for participating! you all did an amazing job with this prompt!! i’m so proud of our community!

#smallweb #indieweb #codejam #personalweb #webevent #webdev #cozyweb #internet #html #css #js

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

robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

Nebulae
6x8 in, Oil on panel

"The notion that our atoms were once part of other people and will again become part of other people after we die provides a meaningful connectedness between us and the rest of humanity, future and past."
-Alan Lightman

New tiny painting on http://www.everydayoriginal.com tomorrow 8/20/24

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