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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
tonight's speech by Michelle Obama is much anticipated
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Donald #Trump says he would be open to #RFKJr. playing a role in his administration if the independent candidate drops out and endorses him -CNN
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
surPRISE
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/harris-offers-10000-tax-credit-for
Mastodon Feed#Shader languages are nice, but I'm missing some sort of data-flow abstraction language for managing inputs and outputs of compute shaders.
For multi-step processes there's quite a lot of boilerplate involved in configuring bindings, allocating and selecting buffers.
This makes shaders harder to reuse, since the buffer-juggling pipeline-dispatching code is slightly different for every platform and engine.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
informapirata@poliverso.org ("Informa Pirata") wrote:
🔁🖼 Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons: https://cl...
Liberare il mio smartphone per liberare me stesso
Il libro in PDF di Kenobit, liberamente scaricabile in licenza Creative Commons:
cloud.kenobisboch.it/s/jmCZRro…
Informa Pirata: informazione e notizie
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:
Niche #pdx request: anyone know of an all-ages place with a coin-operated jukebox?
4yo and especially 6yo are obsessed with Joan Jett’s I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, but neither has ever seen a real jukebox. I think it’ll blow their minds.
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:
U.S. intelligence officials say Iran is to blame for hacks targeting Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns.
AP reports: "The hacking and similar activities, federal officials said, are meant to sow discord, exploit divisions within American society and possibly to influence the outcome of elections that Iran perceives to be 'particularly consequential in terms of the impact they could have on its national security interests,' officials said."
#Iran #Hacking #Politics #USPolitics #Disinformation #Trump #Harris #News
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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)
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@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.
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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.
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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.
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lumecolca@kolektiva.social ("Lúmëcolca") wrote:
@cstanhope
"Move slow and fix things.""Repair and relax."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool. Banks are discovering that flirting with Elon because he has "allure" might make poor business sense.
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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
So fucked up that exercise actually makes me feel good. Like wtf. Such bullshit. Unacceptable.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon FeedReblogged 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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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/
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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
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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
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andi@sciences.social ("Andi Fugard") wrote:
I have a conjecture about Mastodon users. Have you heard of xkcd? Boost for a large convenience sample.
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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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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
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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.
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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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Isaac Hayes estate sues Trump to stop using hit song 'Hold On, I'm Coming' at rallies
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hilarious: the FoxNews & MSNBC booths are next to each other at the Democratic National Convention
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whit_whal@oulipo.social ("Valid Moby Dick Parts") wrote:
It was Moby Dick. “‘Moby Dick!’