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

prediction markets like this one reacted strongly to the 10 SEP debate, and sentiment has generally continued on the same upward path for Harris. given that the two of them continue their current campaigns & there are no calamitous events in the interim, I see no indication that these trends will shift again.

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• 0e75f333a06fcd3d.png (remote)

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ainali@social.coop ("Jan Ainali") wrote:

What's a good list of #OpenSource video conferencing software? I am not looking for a particular solution, but a list I can pass on to others, and whose need may vary. If it feels serious and doesn't serve a lot of ads and cookies, that would be a bonus.

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stjepanlukac@mastodon.art ("Stjep") wrote:

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• "The underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." Quote taken from Church of Jeff (@jeffowski) (remote)

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

When anyone can get an assault rifle, trying to commit crimes with an assault rifle doesn't make you famous anymore. Just another loser.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/16/an-attempted-assassination-is-hardly-worth-writing-about-anymore/

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• Ryan Routh, wanna-be assassin. (remote)

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

Mastodon "The Bear"
🤝
Like zero jokes

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

After scalpers bought up all the Chappell Roan concert tickets, she went in and canceled all the purchases and is now selling tickets on her website in small batches.

Love her.

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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ("fedipact.online") wrote:

this is the sort of virulent transphobia that is allowed to exist on Threads. stuff like this actually literally gets people killed. why should we federate with a platform that willingly tolerates such hate speech?

#FediPact #meta #threads

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• threads.net post screencap from gays against groomers “Gender affirming care” only affirms self-hate. Children are perfect exactly as they are.‪#GaysAgainstGroomersOur organization is completely independent and funded entirely by our supporters. Help us keep fighting! 👊‬‪❤️ Donate: gaysagainstgroomers.com/donat…‬ ‪🛒 Merch: shop.gaysagainstgroomers.com‬ ‪📚 Order our book: thegendertrap.com ‬‪Together we will END the war on children.‬ and then there's an image of a tweet that says @againstgrmrs Gender ideology is rooted in self-hate. Pushing it on kids is teaching them to hate who they are, hate how they were born, and hate the most innate characteristics about themselves. Children should only be taught to love themselves and be told they are perfect exactly as they are. 8:58 AM - 9/14/24 - 20K Views (remote)

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sharpstick@sunny.garden wrote:

@fromjason On the contrary, just because Trump is a garbage fire doesn’t mean Kamala’s policies don’t deserve scrutiny and discussion.

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

These flyers calling for mass deportation of Haitians and "Foreigners" were found in Springfield, Ohio.

Aside from being obviously horrific, I find the choice of font particularly interesting.

Up until the early 1940s, Nazi Germany's official font family was Blackletter typefaces, the same used in this flyer. They thought it was the one true "Aryan font."

Design can be used to convey a bunch of things, including racism.

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• Pictured: Flyer with the headline "Foreigners & Haitians Out". The font is reminiscent to that of Nazi blackletter fonts.

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

Ronald Reagan coined the term "welfare queen" and fueled mass incarceration that destroyed millions of Black and brown families. Those effects can still be felt today.

#HarrisWalz2024

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• Post from X.com Kamala's Wins & @harris_wins: BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, 17 former staffers of Ronald Reagan have just endorsed Kamala Harris and went so far as to say Ronald Reagan himself would have supported her. This is huge.

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

Halloween 202…6?

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• Haynes manual for the Delorean Time Machine. (remote)

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

reaping what his Court sowed

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/15/us/harris-trump-election/trump-is-safe-his-campaign-says-after-a-shooting-is-reported-at-his-golf-course?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=ED9E78CE-0310-4F95-86E8-71E7E0E0B5ED

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

‘Conquer with love’: Springfield community shows support for Haitian neighbors

"The Miami Valley community broke bread with the Haitian community in Springfield Friday. Hundreds showed up at a local Haitian-Creole restaurant, but said the impact goes much further than just a meal."

Love to see this. https://dayton247now.com/news/local/conquer-with-love-springfield-community-shows-support-for-haitian-neighbors

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

“This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.”: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-05.html

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.