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

I have now been clean of tobacco for 9 years 🎉

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

Martyn Lies sure hates liars.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/17/iles-is-an-anagram-for-lies/

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• One of the biggest changes | have seen over the course of my not-that- long life is the normalisation of lying. Yes, at the level of worldview and culture . .. “woke” is effectively an “objective truth is evil” belief system. Politics is a festival of lies to the point of being a depressing joke. The media lied so much they’re dying. But also at the level of relationships. People actively deceive each other, deny their behaviour, say whatever is expedient to the moment, or hide their true agenda, simply as a way of life. And when you catch them out, they kick you out of their life. It’s become shockingly normal. Effortless, brazen, easy liars, and deceivers are multiplying. People who have become so calloused in their own self-interest and self-serving that they say whatever it takes. I have sat in rooms where apparently reputable people tell outright lies to get what they want or avoid scrutiny. It’s so shocking that your first assumption is to imagine that you must be mistaken. Are you a Christian? Then you tell the truth. Ruthlessly. Consistently. Without fail. Without fear. Every time. Because truth is good, no matter what. .. even when we feel like it will cost us. The cost will ultimately be for good. The closest you will ever come to a lie is remaining silent in those exceptional situations where wisdom demands it. (remote)

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

Christopher Rufo has discovered a blue barbecue grill in Ohio, therefore all the stories about immigrants eating cats must be true!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/17/the-grill-is-blue-therefore-the-racism-is-true/

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• Blue grill (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

NicMakesStuff@indieweb.social wrote:

I'm (soft) launching my personal site! It took the better part of a year to get this done, I hope you take a look! I definitely have a few more things to work on, but not having it published was really killing any motivation to blog since I'd have to 'post' it twice, so look forward to more blog posts soon. 📝

(Looks the fanciest*~ in a browser that supports View Transitions)

https://www.nicchan.me/

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• Nic Chan's personal site in dark mode, a very purple-heavy site with a pixel art/Windows 95 operating system aesthetic. The content is divided into little windows that you can minimize and maximize. (remote)

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KevinMarks@xoxo.zone ("Kevin Marks") wrote:

Maybe Google shouldn't strip non-ascii characters when training AI

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• a google search for 'atoms in the universe' returns an AI 'answer' of "There are an estimated 1078 to 1082 atoms in the observable universe." (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

haui@mastodon.giftedmc.com wrote:

EU citizen? Have you signed off on taxing the rich yet? Chances are you didnt as only 300k people of the needed million have signed. We have less than a month!

How should we expect to change anything if we cant even agree that 2000 people owning the world is a BAD IDEA???

Please do your citizens duty and sign the petition! https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

You are not one of them and you will never become one of them. Dont let them brainwash you into thinking they need your help.

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

wirepair wrote:

i'm sorry, what??? https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/ticketmaster-pays-10-million-criminal-fine-intrusions-competitor-s-computer-systems-0

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

But if I turn off my phone and go to bed, the phone will be lonely

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

funnymonkey@freeradical.zone wrote:

KOSA will be used to hurt marginalized people, which is exactly what the far right wants.

The dems supporting this bill are misinformed, and should follow Ron Wyden's lead.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/16/heritage-foundation-admits-kosa-will-be-useful-for-removing-pro-abortion-content-if-trump-wins/

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

I think postmortem, when we hear the names #Mastodon and perhaps #ActivityPub, we'll see it as one of the greatest fumbles of the web.

It's not (just) the onboarding fiasco. Mastodon servers had something that #Meta could never replicate— real community.

We didn't need the corporate web to validate us. Our presence here could've been a beacon for what the web could be if you took VC money out of the equation. We could've saved people that way.

I don't know if this place ever gets that back.

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

*camping*

her: if you keep assigning nationalities to the forest animals I'm leaving

me watching a wee darling O'possum scurry by:

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• Photo of Albert Einstein looking concerned from the movie Oppenheimer

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

LambdaCalculus@hackers.town ("The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus") wrote:

A friendly reminder that Sticker Mule should not be given your business for any reason as the CEO has his head so far up MAGA's ass he can count the fillings in their teeth.

Use Sticker Giant or Sticker Guy! or basically anyone that isn't Sticker Mule.

https://hachyderm.io/@unicorndeburgh/113149044901179245

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

AndriiKuznietsov75@social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua ("Andrii Kuznietsov") wrote:

🖥️😆 #it #гумор

Коли попросив дитину намалювати дерево і зрозумів, що з професією вона вже визначилася.

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• 6a0233ef16833115.jpg (remote)

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

ouch

https://www.dw.com/en/manchester-city-vs-premier-league-over-115-charges/a-70220640

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

‘“It’s, like, four sentences,” Trump groused. “Run, Spot, run.”

Um, that’s three words. And isn’t Spot running so he doesn’t end up as charcuterie?’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/opinion/trump-harris-debate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=63DAB124-FFAA-41A7-BEA2-3FD4D3F3DCC2

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

new passport arrived

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

A reminder: unless users are taking, or the server is sending, many related actions *about the same data set* per session, all you need is progressive enhancement and a bit of Ajax.

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• A chart showing data model locality increasing as interaction depth increases. I.e., the more you're manipulating the same data in a session, the more you'll need a client-side data store. The corollary is that most sites don't, and therefore won't benefit from any of the complexity that JS-first development taxes teams with. (remote)

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vantablack@cyberpunk.lol ("vanta "tits out at the bridge rave" black") wrote:

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• did you see a tent in the woods? someone shoplifting? a person sleeping in their car? no! you fucking didn't! people are struggling. don't make it worse and it's someone covering another person's mouth (remote)

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

mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

So NYPD subway cops chasing a man for $2.90 in fare money, shot 4 people, including a bystander and another cop? Cool.🤦🏿‍♂️

An important thing to know about the subway cops stopping the crime of fare evasion, is:

1. White New Yorkers evade fares more than anyone else.

2. Cops get fired if they stop white fare evaders vs Black or brown fare evaders.🤡

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112375817515001544

This is what cops mean when they say that the racism is systemic, that the system was not built by cops but by rich men.

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

"State management" implies that something about the state of the application is managed. To accomplish that, we need data change propagation (which reactive tools like Lit or FAST or Svelte or Solid or Vue or Preact or even React -- because you need IE 9 support, I guess? -- make simpler) as well as some way to coordinate state with the server.

That latter half is where CRDTs and sync systems come in; tools like Replicache, Zero, and YJS.

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

Confusion about the difference between *real* state management and...whatever the React ecosystem is talking about...is underneath a LOT of the pain I see teams work through.

So if your system is confused ("agnostic") about sync, it isn't managing state. So we don't have to keep calling it "state management", because it isn't doing that.

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

Person from the 90s holding a floppy disk: what's the future of tech like?

Time traveler: *rips floppy disk from hand and throws it* now imagine that landed 100 miles away and you paid me twenty bucks a month to go fetch it for you whenever you needed it.

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

IDK who needs to hear this, but you don't have to pretend that React or Redux do "state management". We're all adults, we can use words to mean things. We don't have to pretend that MVC-but-immutable (but not really) is anything but MVC, and we don't have to keep saying that systems that only do data propagation, but not management, somehow manage data.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

alenacpp@hachyderm.io ("Elena Sagalaeva") wrote:

The AI winter was harsh.
I remember sitting in a nearly empty room, listening to a lecture on neural networks — esoteric knowledge I thought I’d never use. Sure, it might come in handy for image recognition, but that’s about all.
How times have changed.

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

are0h@h-i.social ("Secret Right Wing Cult Leader") wrote:

NYPD opening fire in a train station for 3 bucks is insanity.

There is no possible way to justify that kind of aggression.

Those cops just wanted to kill somebody.

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

Sorry for the amp link:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys

#freepalestine

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

Israeli podcasters are laughing about genocide.:

"If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second." https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/israeli-podcasters-laughing-gaza-genocide-two-nice-jewish-boys

#freepalestine

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

Extremely good coverage of entirely disingenuous people:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/14/24244137/jd-vance-all-in-david-sacks-trump

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

I want to be so clear right now. I am Puerto Rican.

My people have been through multiple genocides, colonization by two empires, mass theft of our resources, slavery, and sterilization of 2/3rds of the island up to as recent as the 1970s.

You're out of your fucking mind if you think I will sit back and watch Israel do to Palestine what the US and Spain did to Puerto Rico.

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parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.

But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

#tech #ai #datacenters #microsoft #google #apple #meta #climate