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

twice now, when I've called the governor's office to leave a comment urging her to move forward on congestion pricing, the aide who answers the phone "mistakenly" "misunderstands" and offers to transfer me right over to unemployment services

regrettably, i have to concede it's a great bit

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

I'm getting word from activists at City Hall this morning reporting an excessive deployment of police by SPD and the city council.

During this morning's city safety council meeting council members held public comment about SOAP/SODA legislation which aims to jail and fine sex workers and homeless people $5k for existing in major parts of town.

CM Cathy Moore's loitering laws have caused significant community resistance so council members cut short public comment.

#Seattle #SPD #CathyMoore

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philipwalton@toot.cafe ("Philip Walton") wrote:

📢 New post: The State of ES5 on the Web.

For years, we defaulted to transpiling to ES5 in order to support IE. But is that still necessary?

I took a look at the data to find out, and I'll just say that the results were *actually* quite surprising! 🙀

https://philipwalton.com/articles/the-state-of-es5-on-the-web/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

“Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.”

Don’t buy Ford cars.

https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

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overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

The first image of what would become known as a tardigrade was published in 1773 by a German pastor, Johann August Ephraim Goeze, who called them kleiner Wasserbär, “little water bears”. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade/

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• Image of a tardigrade labeled Fig. 7 with letters marking specific parts. (remote)

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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:

God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read

https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/

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Eggfreckles@mastodon.mit.edu ("Tom Brand") wrote:

What if Sun Microsystems released a Zune digital media player?

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• An illustration of a purple and pink portable media player displaying a retro computer interface featuring a calculator, file manager, and audio controls, all set against a purple background. The device is designed with a circular navigation button and two adjacent control buttons. (remote)

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TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:

Very excited!

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

#Swordtember #art

Day 7 - Moon
Day 8 - Sun
Day 9 - Ocean

#FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ttrpg

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• a digital painting of a fantasy sword, with the hilt in the bottom lefthand corner and the tip in the upper right. this sword is unusually shaped, with two bulbous sections along the blade. its color is blueish, resembling ice, but its surface is very cracked and dirty, and a bright crater-like deformation appears in the lower bulb. (remote)
• a digital painting of a fantasy sword, with the hilt in the bottom lefthand corner and the tip in the upper right. the hilt of the sword appears to resemble dark clouds, surrounding a bright white disk of the sun. they are outlined in white and orange. the blade appears to be made of rays of the sun pushing through the clouds, that are yellow close to the disk, and fade out to blue at the tip. (remote)
• a digital painting of a fantasy sword, with the hilt in the bottom lefthand corner and the tip in the upper right. the sword appears to be entirely made of a blue crab, with the hilt made up of its body and most of its legs, and the blade itself being a giant oversized claw protruding slightly from the lift side. the crab is painted in blues and greens, with accents of red-orange at the tips of the serrated large claw. (remote)

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emmanuelleskaly@mementomori.social ("Emmanuelle Skaly") wrote:

Does anyone know anybody at #Meta ???
They just suddenly closed my account saying it's related to a random Instagram cat fishing account that I never heard of and has got nothing to with me. My main customer base is on Facebook for my small handmade jewelry business. Can you please reblog to help me reach anyone at Meta?

#technicalsupport #help #helpneeded #support #facebook #instagram

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rands wrote:

Thanks for canceling that meeting five minutes before. No, I never prepare for these things. It’s ok.

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

I love using @simon 's "llm" cmdline tool as place to ask for ad hoc "how can I...?" suggestions.

https://github.com/simonw/llm

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

I'm on board with Mallaby's critique that persuasion is important, and that maybe Krugman paints followers with the same brush as leaders, closing off those pathways.

But R "leaders" are not leading, and the capitulations and cravenness was in full view by early 2020. It's hard to imagine a more fated errand than this piece. But you know, presumably it got the author some knowing nods at think-tank cocktail parties for a couple of weeks.

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johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Check out the FBI's files on the mathematician Paul Erdős! You may know him as the author of 1500 math papers, endlessly traveling and collaborating. But to the FBI he seemed suspicious, because he came from behind the Iron Curtain, got caught poking around a secret radio tower in 1941, worked with a mathematician from China, and refused to take a loyalty oath.

In 1954 he was barred from re-entering US after going to Amsterdam to address the International Congress of Mathematics. But 5 years later he was granted a visa after Hubert Humphrey intervened on his behalf.

The FBI eventually decided he was ”purely a mathematician with typical atmospheric mind as related to factual things.... a genius type who lives within his own mental scope".

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/jul/21/nothing-indicate-nothing-indicate-subject-had-any-/

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

Anyway, not everyone was high on premium-grade, DC-strength medicinal centrism. The Guardian was at least on the right side of history:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/03/arguing-with-zombies-review-paul-krugman-trump-republicans

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Quinnypig@awscommunity.social ("Corey Quinn") wrote:

Washington is one of only two states in the US to legalize mutual combat, so I’m really hoping that whoever owns the Managed NAT Gateway at AWS accepts my challenge.

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

Presumably this was written *just* before Jan 6th, and I cannot stress enough how wrong the entire thrust of this piece was. In the years since, Republicans have proven themselves everything Krugman showed them to be and nothing like Mallaby hoped.

Literally every still-serving R they held out hope for voted against the IRA:

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm

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• A 'graf that has proven disastrously wrong: 'Go back to the example of climate change—a topic chosen, remember, because it fits relatively easily into Krugman’s Manichaean worldview. Contrary to Krugman’s assumption, not all Republicans have the same outlook. President Trump has mocked climate science, but Republican senators such as Lamar Alexander and Lisa Murkowski are at least willing to acknowledge global warming and to call for extra research into renewable energy sources. Senator Lindsey Graham, usually an abject Trump defender, recently urged the president “to look at the science, admit that climate change is real, and come up with solutions.” In April, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, another Trumpy Republican, tweeted, “I didn’t come to Congress to argue with a thermometer, and I think that more of my colleagues need to realize that the science of global warming is irrefutable.”' (remote)

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

Was looking for a decent reference to Krugman's "zombie ideas" and had missed (forgotten?) that he'd done an anthology book of those columns. Which in turn brought up this review. Talk about aging like fine milk:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/review-paul-krugman-arguing-with-zombies/603052/?gift=VjLv3Dd1h8jJ03YjTtjfraq5EVp5EdzfPGBVColLX0g&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

*PHEW*

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

Maybe it's not the school nurse. Maybe it's the lunch lady who is in charge of school sex change operations? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/lies-lies-and-more-lies/

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

It's not typing with two fingers; I'm typing in binary.

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requiem@hackers.town ("requiem 🏴") wrote:

I like this idea a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

A commitment to Quality, humility and responsibility backed-up by unity among others who share the same commitment is incredibly powerful.

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Keeping your Dotfiles in Sync and your Secrets in Gopass https://blog.m5e.de/post/keeping-your-dotfiles-in-sync-and-your-secrets-in-gopass/

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Dotfiles synchron und Geheimnisse in Gopass halten https://blog.wronnay.net/dotfiles-synchron-und-geheimnisse-in-gopass-halten/

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

I share my home with many ill-tempered roommates.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/examples-of-life-in-my-neighborhood/

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

I'm going to be leading people on a mini-field trip to the campus lawns this Thursday. There is some life here.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/if-youre-in-the-neighborhood/

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

my javascript analytics tells me that 100% of my visitors have javascript

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vincedmonroy@threads.net ("Vince D. Monroy") wrote:

Gov. Gavin Newsom: What Kamala Harris has done in the last eight weeks is unprecedented in U.S. history. We’re not just winning on margin of error. We’ve expanded the map in the United states. You saw new polls this morning — states that were not even in the conversation, now Donald Trump has to either defend or invest millions of dollars. The momentum is with us. She’s the change candidate.

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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Here's the trailer for the film Donald Trump doesn’t want us to see. This looks AMAZING.

Maybe the subtitle should be “The Education of a Narcissistic Psychopath.”

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

I was curious how the *popular vote* numbers in the States mapped to a hypothetical “Electoral College vote”.

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

You can get almost anything you want in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name Above Every Name (even Pastor Quiboloy!).

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/10/you-can-almost-get-away-with-anything-in-the-name-of-jesus/

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• The FBI’s Most Wanted poster for Pastor Apollo Quiboloy refers to his aliases — including “The Appointed Son of God” and “Sir” — and lists the U.S. charges against him, including conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and sex trafficking of children; and bulk cash smuggling. (remote)