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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Y'all are going to hate me, but— Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Animated. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Directed by Taika Waititi. Franchise.

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CosmicRami@aus.social wrote:

Still in awe of yesterday's huge science drop about that 9-day monochromatic seismic wave revealing a climate-induced glacial collapse that sent the equivalent of 10 Giza Pyramid's worth of rock and ice into a Greenland Fjord, creating a 200m high Tsunami.

That's about the red line in this diagram of the Eiffel Tower and Sydney's Centrepoint Tower.

And that's not even the coolest part. The 9-day seismic signal was the result of a 7m wave sloshing back and forth in the narrow fjord, with a period of 90 seconds, as the water slapped against the valley walls.

Read the paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adm9247

OR watch this video explainer, which is very very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60T9TKuuujs

📸 size explorer

#Tsuanmi #ClimateChange #Seismology

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• graphic showing the Eiffel Tower and Sydney's Centrepoint tower side by side, with the city of Paris as the backdrop. About 2/3 of the way up both buildings is a horizontal red line, which indicates the height of the Tsunami wave. (remote)

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LRRRonEarth@beige.party ("LRRR :bc:") wrote:

I AM SO MAD I HAD TO LEARN WHO LAURA LOOMER IS.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

bigheadtales@mstdn.party ("Big Head Tales") wrote:

Let's call this what it is, Trump and the Republicans are calling out their Brownshirt terrorist cells to attack and disrupt America.

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/14/third-day-of-bomb-inspired-by-lies-sends-springfield-hospitals-into/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

DON'T AMPLIFY RACIST DISINFO!

I just saw a post sharinng a video setting racist false anti-immigrant ranting from the debate to the theme from Peanuts. Stuff like this just gives oxygen to the racist disinfo. Please don't do this!

(And no, I'm not going to link to it. That's the point. If you hvaen't seen it, it's easy to find on X!)

#disinformation #racism #uspol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

We no longer have a political party willing to condemn this racist rhetoric lest we alienate the Cheney voting block.

Best we can do is laugh and satirize it, while never actually embracing the Haitian community.

Dems moved right, and so did they. Progressives are officially outside the Overton window. This has consequences.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

‘It just exploded’: Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

"Graphic video of a woman who allegedly killed and tried to eat a cat was also found not to have originated in Springfield but in Canton, Ohio, and does not have any connection to the Haitian community." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099

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benbrown@hackers.town wrote:

Man I really used to know how to design a rad website! They don’t make em like this anymore.

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• A screenshot of Consumating, a social network from the 00s that had a weekly question and photo contest with points and prizes and people getting laid. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A friend shared this beautiful co-op typeface foundry with me as his first open web find. I'm obsessed with it. You did well, kid.

#openweb #indieweb #typography

http://www.losttype.com/

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velobetty@toot.bike ("Elisabeth Anderson :bt:") wrote:

People.

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• ITV News: At least 12 migrants dead after boat capsizes in Channel, French officials say. "Migrants" is crossed out by me and the word "people" is added. (remote)

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RustyBertrand@kolektiva.social ("Rusty Bertrand") wrote:

I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. Allis well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead inthe eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship* She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable®. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words” Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire willfall. And | wil help it along"

#writer #LeGuin

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• I've seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context. The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. Allis well. Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead inthe eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship* She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable®. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words” “Your empire willfall. And i wil help it along" (remote)

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mayank@front-end.social ("Mayank") wrote:

300KB is a silly amount of CSS

it might not seem much in terms of file size over the network, but it decompresses into megabytes, of which only a very small fraction will actually get used.

you can build very very complex web applications with under 50KB CSS (compressed).

just write plain CSS if you don't want a build step 🤦

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• Similarly, you used to be able to just download Tailwind as a giant CSS fle, but Tailwind 3 doesn't seem to be available as a big CSS file at all anymore, you need to run Javascript to build it. So I'm going to keep using Tailwind 2 for now. (I know, I know, you're not supposed to use the big CSS file, but it's only 300KB gzipped and I really don't want a build step) (remote)

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tbeseda@indieweb.social wrote:

“Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city”

absolutelynot

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Whatever moral high ground we thought we had is being lost to party sycophants. We don't get to tell people how to feel, especially when the party we're demanding everyone vote for is starting to look a lot like the party we despise.

In short, draw contrasts, not lines.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing anyone online can say to me that would force me to stay home and not vote Harris.

But I've been dialed in politically for decades. There was once a time when I couldn't keep the parties' names straight.

The day my political views hardened was when I watched Bill O'Reilly spew his hatred towards poor people for the first time. It was an admittedly emotional stance. At least at first.

#democrats #HarrisWalz2024

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Know that when people criticize Democrats for moving further right, there is also an unspoken fear that (white) Democratic voters are going to throw marginalized people under the bus because the base has become so sycophantic.

Words like these do not alleviate those fears.

#democrats #harris

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Imagine instead of telling a brown person that they're a bad "ally” for not supporting a white supremacist war lord like Cheney, this person said something like:

"I'm voting for Harris for obvious reasons, but I did write my senator about the Democrats support of Dick Cheney and how unpopular that is in my circles. I agree it's concerning."

Draw contrasts, not lines.

#democrats #harris

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Draw contrasts, not lines.

To paraphrase Imani, AKA Crutches & Spice, one of the most profound comms strategists on the web— Our words do not exist in a vacuum. When we speak, we represent the values we hold, or in this case, the "side" we support.

On the web, we are all mini-campaigns evangelizing our candidates.

#democrats #harris

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

ctrlaltrees@oldbytes.space ("Rees 🦆") wrote:

As of today, I am officially a published author 😁

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• "The Console Chronicles" book (remote)
• Atari 7800 chapter in "The Console Chronicles" book (remote)
• Author credit for "Rees ctrl-alt-rees Stephenson" (remote)

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

freakazoid@retro.social ("Charles U. Farley") wrote:

It's basically uncontrolled geoengineering, pumping alumina into the upper atmosphere in quantities far greater than we currently get from meteors. It will probably damage the ozone layer, and it may increase Earth's albedo with unknown net effects.

https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere

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

I'm worried about executing step #5, but I think steps 1, 2, 3, and 3 will prevent me from getting that far.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/14/time-to-cook-the-eggs/

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• An AI recipe for cooking eggs (remote)

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

A righteous strike that will cause great pain to everyone in the greater Seattle area. And the root cause? Greedy capitalism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/14/boeing-on-strike/

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• Boeing workers on strike (remote)

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

found a letter from my Mom to me yesterday, from ‘back in the day’ when I was living in a VW van on the streets of Berserkeley & just returning to grad school

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wilfredh ("Wilfred Hughes") wrote:

An ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a text adventure game -- or as I like to call it, a compiler.

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

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

I’m looking for some diagramming software (mostly for flowcharts) and I think I want something web-based so I can easily share a diagram with a link and collaborate with others regardless of operating system, etc.

But I also want something that is foss and I can self-host if I want to so my drawings don’t go away when some company folds.

Also, I want it to be usable on things like phones because unfortunately most of my “free time” isn’t in front of a computer.

Does this exist?

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

Of course, I realize it's not a collective decision. Just more a bunch of the usual short term thinking externalizing costs to the future in the hopes of profit now leading to a bunch of the same decisions.

Anyway, it's still kind of amusing to think of humanity learning about Kessler syndrome, and then basically going, "Let's fucking goooooo..." (Or whatever it is the cool kids say these days.)

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

Reading space news, It's interesting that it seems we have collectively decided to test the idea of Kessler syndrome. 🤔

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

just not today please, @CARROT

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ichbindabomb@nerdculture.de ("Schneewittchen") wrote:

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• An embroidery project of a giant caption "THIS IS FINE" where each letter is made of lots of pixels that are actually the word "FUCK" writ tiny over and over a (remote)

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden ⁂🥥🌴🍑") wrote:

Rafah in 2023 vs. Rafah today.

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• An edited picture showing two images of Rafah side by side. The left image fits seemlessly next to the right image, as they are both taken from the same place and angle, but a year apart. They are satellite images from space. The left image shows streets and a blooming city with houses, the right image shows the rubble that makes up the remnants of what is left today. Satellite images taken from this Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/p/C_yAO0CPMQl/ (remote)