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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will reflect on Paul Graham's Founder Mode essay -- and on the reactions that it has engendered. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1284933375186174124

The original essay: https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html

My thoughts on it: https://oxide.computer/blog/reflections-on-founder-mode

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tefferbear@mastodon.art ("soil gremlin") wrote:

whaaaale. took five hours to take this bad boy from jeans -> whale.

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• A large stuffed whale made out of denim. She’s a humpback with a curvaceous belly and embroidered dark eyes. She has dark denim for her back and the lighter “wrong” side for her belly. She’s about 2 feet long, nose to tail. (remote)

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

I don't agree with slavery but violence is never the answer — some moderate potato if we had social media during the Haitian Uprising.

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

Me: [last night] I'm always a little on edge when the rainy season returns. I worry about leaks and things.

Wife: You shouldn't worry so much. Everything is fine.

[ten minutes later]

Wife: You know just as I was saying you worry too much, there's a little leak coming from the top of our bedroom closet's door frame.

Me: [in my head only] There's no such thing as a little leak!

Me: [rushes to the attic to see what's going on]

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marius@social.nerdzoom.media ("Marius Quabeck :verified:") wrote:

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• The image is a meme with two parts. The top part shows a survey question asking, "How likely are you to recommend Windows 10 to a friend or colleague?" with a 1 to 5 scale, where 1 is "Not at all likely" and 5 is "Extremely likely." The user selected "1" (Not at all likely). Below that, there is a text box saying, "Please explain why you gave this score." The user's response reads, "I need you to understand that people don't have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to one another." The bottom part of the meme shows two panels of a puppet character with an awkward side-eye expression, labeled "Linux users." The character seems to be implying that Linux users often recommend their operating system to others, contrary to what the survey response suggests. (remote)

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larsga@snabelen.no ("Lars Marius Garshol (en)") wrote:

Can you read Latvian, or you can share this with someone who can? If so, perhaps you can help me.

I have 68 archive documents from the Latvian National History Museum, describing traditional farmhouse brewing, dated 1925-1943. But I can’t read them and need the text translated.

The dots on the map show where the documents are from. If you can help, please contact me (e.g via email to larsga@garshol.priv.no). I will send you a document. They’re mostly short (1-2 pages), the longest is 7 pages.

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• Map of Latvia with lots of purple dots in western and eastern Latvia, but none around Riga. (remote)

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

The weirdest thing I have bookmarked is the Pepsi logo and brand guide. I can't tell if it's genius or insane. But I love it and I go back to it often.

#openweb

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf

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

What is the weirdest thing from the #openweb that you have bookmarked? ⬇️

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venitamathias@masto.ai ("Venita") wrote:

#immigration
The US is a racist country period. All of the immigrants, they not like us, talk is the lifeblood of the white supremacist system in the United States; the immigrants targeted have always and will always be POC because that is what fuels white supremacy.

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

A perfect demonstration that fascists do not say what is true; they say what would need to be true in order to justify what they intend to do anyway.

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• Tweet from Scott MacFarlane, reporting JD Vance's response to a CNN question about spreading racist falsehoods: "If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." (remote)

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

We've had some nice cool and stormy weather yesterday and today but it's been causing power drops too. This morning's outage took me by surprise because it's just moderate rain without wind or thunder

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

Fascinating. It turns out those "blue zones" where people supposedly regularly live to 100+ years old are probably not real, and the findings are mostly based on faulty and/or fraudulent data.

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Boy, I haven't been posting much art on here lately, have I?

These are from a few months ago. I did the Castle Grayskull piece to try-out some new paints, and then I figured hey, since I've got a nice little BG painting, let's do a character cel to put over it! So Mer-Man there is a traditionally inked and painted cel.

Fun! I should do more of these some time.

#illustration #heman #mastersoftheuniverse #traditionalart

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• An acrylic painting of Castle Grayskull, the skull-faced fortress from He-Man And The Masters of The Universe. The entrance to the castle -- a tunnel that leads into the skull's mouth -- is open towards the viewer. (remote)
• On the left, a pencil drawing of Mer-Man, one of the villains in Masters of The Universe. He's a very muscly fish dude. On the right, we see the back (painted) side of a sheet of Dura-Lar (a transparent plastic sheet) which has Mer-Man's body colours painted onto it. (remote)
• Here we see the front side of the Dura-Lar, which has an ink line drawing of Mer-Man (the same composition as in the second image), and the colour blobs from the previous image show through to colour the artwork. The Dura-Lar "cel" is laying atop the Castle Grayskull painting from the first image. (remote)

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

The kiddo's school uses a third party service to communicate to families, and the service in question has been pretty relentless about trying to upsell me to some sort of "plus" account. So I opted out of those emails, but requested to keep the normal announcement emails having to do with my kiddo and the school. However, ever since I opted out of marketing emails, it appears I've missed all announcement emails. Hmmm... 🤔

I mean, sure it's probably just a bug, but... not really.

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cb@bleepbop.space wrote:

Septembeat 15! I used everything - including the kitchen sink - on this one. #tidalcycles to #reaper, time stretching, spectral fx, manual editing. If you like busy glitchy music you might like this:
https://bkstrm.net/septembeat-15/
#mastoMusic #tidalcycles #glitch

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• colorful glitchy wavy lines (remote)
• a screenshot of the Reaper DAW with lots of automation lanes, and the classic 1999 Buffer Override plugin (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fuji Superia X-tra 400 is very pretty one stop overexposed. Much better than at box speed, to my eye. Too bad it's discontinued, I have just a few rolls left 😔 At least it's a more than zero.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We've been continuosly rolling out updates to mastodon.social over the past 11 months, which is good for getting stuff out there, but it's easy to lose track of individual improvements that way, so it'll be nice to put everything together for once.

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Ladsgroup@wikis.world ("Amir Sarabadani") wrote:

We at Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that keeps Wikipedia running) are hiring Senior SRE for databases and Senior DBA. It's a fun work in large scale and for a good cause where you get to work with a lot of smart people.

#GetFediHired
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6243310?gh_src=84bf644b1us
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/6208098?gh_src=377f0e471us

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Blog post for Mastodon 4.3 is prepared. There's going to be another beta and then a release candidate next week but then we're good to go. I'm looking forward to concluding that work stream.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a few weeks back at #ArcTanGent.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon #SilentSunday

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• The stuffed Mastodon toy sitting in a camping chair in a green field.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Who's ready for the final day of #dota2ti? I think all my predictions turned out wrong.

#dota2 #ti13 #ti2024

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emi@void.lgbt ("Emi:emi_blahaj: ") wrote:

Biblically accurate iPhone

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• Biblically accurate iPhone (remote)

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

People turning on Chappell Roan because she said fuck the government is some straight up cop shit.

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.

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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