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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
To watch these two debate who's the bigger conservative is surreal. #debate
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DrOinFLA@lounge.town ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:
@tofugolem
As a kid during and after the Vietnam War Era, rumors were flying that the refugees in our neighborhood were stealing and eating pet dogs.
Same shit, different day.
Even as a seven or eight year-old, I had strong suspicions about these racist rumors, and actually had school friends from these families.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
indeed yes
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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White") wrote:
Here we go again…
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Every new React project you start is a shrine to browsers you don't support, don't test on, and barely remember.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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yrabbit@mastodon.sdf.org ("YRabbit") wrote:
#Apicula has learned how to use the ARM processor built into the #Tangnano4k!
I thought that to demo a whole processor of a simple LED would be kinda uncool, so this bitbang SPI to E-inc display!!!
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
If populist political parties campaigning against immigration genuinely wanted to limit immigration, they would make climate change one of their top priorities - as climate change is 100% going to drive migration.
A portion of our planet is going to become uninhabitable in the lifetime of our children, which will drive people to migrate.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
I have some simple suggestions for how the American Political Science Association can solve its Claremont Institute problem. #APSA2024
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
like ideally none of this worked this way and I appreciate the public backlash to his boss's ineptitude is probably a bummer for him. still, of course! complaining to the governor is my civic right and duty! and yet. this is such a funny way of telling me to get a job
Mastodon Feedxor@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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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.
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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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phil@wears.tigerpajamas.com ("Phil Giammattei") wrote:
God this is fucking incredible. Please take my word for it and read
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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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TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Tom Forsyth") wrote:
Very excited!
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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:
Day 7 - Moon
Day 8 - Sun
Day 9 - Ocean
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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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Thanks for canceling that meeting five minutes before. No, I never prepare for these things. It’s ok.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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".
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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:
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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.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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)
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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:
*PHEW*
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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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Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's not typing with two fingers; I'm typing in binary.