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

Today in History: Warren Zevon dies in Los Angeles, California, 2003

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

Today in History: Keith Moon of The Who dies in London of a drug overdose, 1978

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

Today in History/; Brazil declares independence from Portugal, 1822

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

Today in History: Queen Elizabeth I of England born, 1533

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

Today in History: James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ, 1789

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Terypat ("Pat For Harris -Walz") wrote:

@TonyStark

President Biden will not stop working for the country he dearly loves until his last day in office.

Whereas the GOP will return Monday after six weeks off and the chatter has already begun about shutting down the government on 9/30/24.

Vote accordingly.

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• Happy Caturday! (remote)

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

"Trump rebrands his ramblings as ‘I do the weave’ – but is he just losing it?
Ex-president tries to fend off criticisms of mental acuity that plagued Biden as he waffles about sharks and batteries"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/07/election-trump-speeches?utm_term=66dc328b413ddaf51d95257ee4d5c79b&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

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coreysnipes@fosstodon.org ("𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒚 𝑺𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒆𝒔 ☀️") wrote:

@jsonstein "ope, I voted" is pretty great too. Honestly, I would wear any of those.

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uspolitics ("U.S. Politics in Real Time") wrote:

Every time Trump denies he sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, he runs the risk she’ll sue again

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/every-time-trump-denies-he-sexually-assaulted-e-jean-carroll-he-runs-the-risk-shell-sue-again

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technicat@universeodon.com wrote:

**Trump accepts key endorsement from police union while celebrating sentencing delay on felony charges**

https://apnews.com/article/trump-police-crime-law-enforcement-de5662eb889fb5dd75a893e1871b3400

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

okay, that is a seriously amusing research finding:

"Cannabis use falls among US teenagers but rises among everyone else"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/07/cannabis-use-survey-teenagers?utm_term=66dc328b413ddaf51d95257ee4d5c79b&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUS&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUS_email

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

how lovely @CARROT

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• b48b01b6cc40115f.mp4 (remote)

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SaraSoueidan@front-end.social ("Sara Soueidan") wrote:

Periodic reminder that "wrapping the around the is fine, and is sufficient for conformance on its own, however adding explicit association with` for` and `id` is still necessary in practice."

Details: https://www.tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be-wrapped-or-separate/

—
"Both Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows, and Voice Control for macOS and iOS, don’t recognize implicit association, so the Click email address command wouldn’t work." @siblingpastry

#a11y #HTML

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• Three code snippets: the first one showing an implicit association between an and a with the input nested inside the label. The second one showing an explicit association with the and separated but associated with the for and id attributes. The third snippet shows an nested inside a and associated with it using for and id attributes. (remote)

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

Happy BIrthday, @Isizulujam

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

Oh no. I have to start praying stay alive, Dick Cheney, stay alive…at least until 6 November. This is contrary to everything I've hoped for since 2000.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/07/im-in-league-with-satan/

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• Never thought I'd die voting side-by-side with Liz Cheney What about voting side-by-side with Dick Cheney? Holy Christ, this has gotten weird. (remote)

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

Ignore history and evidence, and you'll kill your kids. Don't do that, please.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/07/finally-a-cause-to-unite-the-right-and-left/

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• white bottle labeled with a skull and crossbones (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I decided my newsletter will in fact be an exploration of the old web!

Im calling it "I Miss The Old Web" and we'll discuss all the treasures, histories, and lores that cyberspace of yesterday had to offer.

I still have a lot of stuff to do to get going. For now, check out the new website and let me know what you think: http://imisstheoldweb.com

#oldWeb #indieWeb #SmallWeb

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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (bookseller era)") wrote:

@djsundog https://archive.org/details/Hamburger_Helper_-_Watch_The_Stove-2016

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

They really dropped the ball when they neglected to name the Beetlejuice sequel Beetledeuce.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I've made it seven days without sugar AMA

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afewbugs@social.coop ("Jules") wrote:

Beautiful, just beautiful. The AIs have started Rickrolling us.

"The way these models work is they try to predict the most likely next sequence of text," Crivello explained. "So it starts like, 'Oh, I’m going to send you a video!' So what’s most likely after that? YouTube.com. And then what’s most likely after that?""

https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-startup-rickrolling

link via @bug_gwen

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Story idea: a poltergeist tries screwing around with an ADHD'er who lives alone. Moving objects around, opening the cabinets, the usual.

After months of this, the poltergeist realizes the ADHD'er has been blaming themselves for all the occurrences

It's only when the poltergeist starts helping the ADHD'er that the real fright begins

(but then that settles down and they become weird friends)

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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

At last, Hoot 0.5.0 has been released! This time around we've got an interpreter, fibers for lightweight concurrency, more Guile compatibility, backtraces, and more! We've even got a simple little Scheme REPL embedded in the blog post for fun. Check it out!

https://spritely.institute/news/guile-hoot-v050-released.html

#scheme #lisp #wasm #spritely

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• The hoot pixel art owl mascot with the text "new release v0.5.0" (remote)

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VeryBadLlama@mas.to ("Janel Comeau") wrote:

once upon a midnight dreary
while I wandered, weak and weary
to a quaint and curious icebox door
when I spotted what I had been craving
the plums that you were probably saving
for your breakfast, I am sure
forgive me please, I do implore
I ate those plums and nothing more

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skypunch ("Marcus :welp:") wrote:

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• Colossal Stone Head on Bluesky: “the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image”

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The Trump family’s latest crypto scheme, “World Liberty Financial”, has the makings of the biggest clusterfuck in Web3 is Going Just Great history.

#CitationNeeded #crypto #cryptocurrency

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• What better time to launch a transparently grifty “high-yield” cryptocurrency business than two months before your presidential election? Donald Trump, and especially his sons, have been teasing an upcoming cryptocurrency project that seems to be rapidly shapeshifting. First, they were all teasing something called “The DeFiant Ones” (a play on decentralized finance, or defi), with hashtags #BeDeFiant and tweets warning people to not “get left behind”. Then Eric Trump said something about the project involving “digital real estate”, though its unclear if he was speaking metaphorically or was actually referring to the metaverse “land” fad that more or less came and went. He did immediately follow up this statement by saying “It’s equitable. It’s collateral anyone can get access to and do so instantly,” leaving me to wonder if anyone in the Trump family has ever set foot near an average person trying to buy a house these days. Now the flim-flam family is all talking about “World Liberty Financial”, with a website promising access to “high-yield crypto investments”, a statement that should immediately set off alarm bells in anyone’s head. (remote)
• The project hasn’t even launched yet, and it’s off to a bumpy start. First, Donald Trump Jr. had to issue a statement to try to stop people from buying up all the fake tokens purporting to be associated with their murky project [I64]. Then, Twitter accounts for Lara and Tiffany Trump were both compromised and used to send tweets announcing a supposed token launch. “This is a scam!!!” tweeted Eric, himself retweeting the tweet from his wife’s account containing the scam token address. Now, CoinDesk has gotten hold of a white paper for this supposed World Liberty Financial, which they note appears to be a clone of Dough Finance, a crypto lending platform that was hacked for around $2 million just a month and a half ago [W3IGG]. The hack was not a sophisticated one, and instead exploited sloppiness on behalf of the development team. The four people who built Dough are all listed as members of the World Liberty Financial team, as are Trump’s sons (including 18-year-old Barron, who they list as a “DeFi visionary”). Zachary Folkman, a Dough Finance creator who is now listed as the head of operations for World Liberty Finance, previously ran a pick-up artist advice platform called “Date Hotter Girls”.25 You should really just read the piece by CoinDesk, they did some great reporting here. (remote)
• The project is making even the Trumpiest people in crypto nervous. Nic Carter, a crypto venture capitalist and outspoken Trump supporter, tweeted: is there something that we, as crypto twitter, can collectively do to stop the launch of world liberty coin? i think it genuinely damages trump's electoral prospects, especially if it gets hacked (it'll be the juiciest DeFi target ever and it's forked from a protocol that itself was hacked). it's also an obvious target for the SEC. at best it's an unnecessary distraction, at worst it's a huge embarrassment and source of (additional) legal trouble. so are we signing a petition or what? Commenting on the hack of the two Trump family Twitter accounts, he added: “can't secure twitter accounts but i'm sure they'll be able to protect an (already hacked) defi protocol from hacks”.26 All I can say is that if he launches this before the election and it gets hacked, it’s a strong contender for biggest clusterfuck in the history of Web3 is Going Just Great. (remote)

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

AI not even good at the accessibility thing it's supposed to be good at

https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/accessibility-specialists-warn-against-ai-for-alt-text/

(Be sure to click through to the original post to see the details of the experiment.)

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

next post in my series: I replaced htmx with a tiny web component and was happier for it: https://dev.to/zkat/i-replaced-htmx-with-a-simple-web-component-4bnh

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

Do you ever wonder what you were thinking when you made a decision you can't even remember making?

Like, at what point in my life did I decide: "yes, LinkedIn is an app I'd like to install on my phone."

Why did I think that was a good choice? Who was I back then? Can I even really say I'm the same person at all?