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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
truth
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@simon so, of course, I have a little "news.sh" script in my path that looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "getting news...\n"
curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ | strip-tags .story-wrapper | ttok -t 4000 | llm --system 'summary bullet points'
echo "\ndone..."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, @simon 's little tools work together wonderfully:
curl -s https://www.nytimes.com/ \
| strip-tags .story-wrapper \
| ttok -t 4000 \
| llm --system 'summary bullet points'
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅") wrote:
Halide rejected from the App Store because it doesn’t explain why the camera takes photos https://9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/halide-rejected-from-the-app-store-because-it-doesnt-explain-why-the-camera-takes-photos/ "Halide may have been featured during the iPhone 16 keynote, but it seems that wasn’t enough to protect it from an over-zealous App Store reviewer" lol gatekeepers
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Webventures: An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers
"iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers [..] frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native."
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/webventures-an-abridged-history-of-safari-showstoppers
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Recently I've taken to letting a local community radio station fill my ear holes on my early morning runs (KBOO). It's been a nice change from the nerds talking podcasts I tend to listen to. Anyway, I'm allowing the natural intelligence algorithms create a playlist for my listening pleasure. This morning "We're Unstoppable" from Jaune Toujours caught my attention.
"Make some noise!"
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I came home this morning after dropping the kiddo off at the school and didn't see my friend above in its web. There was also a bit of a hole. I was worried, so I took the tip of my car key and gently wiggled it on the center of the web. The spider came out to greet me then. Still safe and sound. It was apparently off taking care of its breakfast this morning.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
But this year there's a few around, which is heartening. I tried to snap pictures of this one while I was doing the trash last night. It's not quite in focus because I had to trick the camera by focusing closely on my hand and then move the camera to the spider until it looked in focus on the view screen. It's hard to get scale, but it's about as big as my thumb, which is a normal human thumb for a person that is 6' (183 cm) or so.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It seemed like every year around spooky season we'd have a heap of spiders in the bushes around here. Nice healthy ones. But in recent years it seems like I don't see as many. Just more of the usual portents. :(
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party ("Benjamin Bouvier 🥐") wrote:
Just published a new release 0.7.0 of `cargo-machete`, the cargo extension that finds unused dependencies real fast using This One Weird Trick!
Upgrade now with `cargo install -f cargo-machete` if you installed it with cargo.
Details and changelog here: https://github.com/bnjbvr/cargo-machete/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#070-released-on-2024-09-25
What's the one weird trick about: https://bouvier.cc/cargo-machete/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
miblo@mas.to ("Matt Mascarenhas") wrote:
@smallcircles @fromjason This resonates with my latest conceptualisations of teaching styles:
"up there leading learners along the straight-and-narrow of a tightrope"
vs
"down there keeping a trampoline in beautiful condition, on which learners may come to bounce and somersault as stylishly (or not) as they like"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0-alpha.20") wrote:
just want to go on record to say that 11ty is also not WordPress
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
smallcircles@social.coop ("smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)") wrote:
The social web doesn't have 'leaders' either, esp. not self-proclaimed ones. Saying it does is tone-deaf, counter-cultural. Fediverse doesn't need to be led. It needs to be fostered, cared for, nurtured.. all fedizens, together.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:
For anyone using any of Meta's platforms, this 'Goodbye Meta AI' post/story has been making the rounds, with now half a million people re-sharing it, and unsurprisingly enough it is, of course, just one of those hoaxes that take off.
You can't safeguard your privacy or secure that you won't pay $4.99 to use Facebook (as an older version of the same copypasta claimed) by copying and pasting some text on your wall or sharing it in your story. When you share such things without confirming their validity from credible sources, you basically help misinformation to spread.
https://time.com/7024218/fact-check-goodbye-meta-ai-privacy-hoax-instagram-viral-copypasta/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The #SocialWeb is not a single protocol or cloud service provider. It's us. It's people.
We do not get to lead self-determined digital lives with #Meta pulling all of the levers under our platforms.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
In a scenario where complicated US regulation forces small, independent platforms (like Mastodon instances) to migrate to Meta infrastructure, we lose the #indieweb.
The US government has historically monopolized critical infrastructure. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gave us Comcast.
We are seeing it again with KOSA and Meta pivoting to cloud services.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Platforms have become commodities.
Shipping online tools with shiny UIs is no longer a viable business model for trillion dollar tech companies.
So it makes sense why #Meta would pivot to infrastructure and partner with an open source protocol along the way.
Under the hood, the new #SocialWeb will need algorithms, moderation tools, and other cloud services. These needs are not being left up to chance.
US Regulation will soon force the small platforms onto compliance-ready clouds.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
With Automattic weaponizing their WordPress trademark against WP Engine, it’s a good day to challenge Oracle’s JavaScript trademark.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Spiders are better than pumpkins anyhow.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/25/thats-no-jack-o-lantern-thats-a-spider-butt/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Found a nice spice blend for making spiced milk before night time. 6 parts turmeric, 4 parts ground ginger, 3 parts cinnamon (by mass). Add half a tea spoon per cup of hot milk. I find oat milk works better than regular, but use whatever you like.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ZaneSelvans@social.coop ("Zane Selvans") wrote:
Some unplanned medical tourism including an emergency appendectomy:
"Our insurance doesn’t cover us when we’re overseas, so we ended up paying out of pocket for all of it. That thought scared me at first, but all told, our bill was, conservatively, about 1/30th what we would have paid out of pocket in the US. In fact it was considerably lower than what we would have paid in copays in the US even *with* insurance."
It doesn't have to be like this.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
There's truth in the Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish theory. But #Meta has its own strategy. It's called Copy, Acquire, K*ll.
I wrote about that strategy as it relates to #threads and #mastodon. I also have some insight for what Zuck might be up to. It's not what you think.
#PostsFromJason #FediSeriesFJ
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
theericajoy@threads.net ("Erica Joy Astrella") wrote:
i am really struggling with marcellus williams' murder.
i sometimes don't understand humanity and this is one of those moments. the state murdered an innocent man for what? and nobody who could stop it, did stop it. how can people be so...if not evil, devoid of any sense of compassion? decency? doing the right thing? how do you knowingly let an innocent man die?
what the fuck is wrong with people?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Marcellus Williams
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
The state killed Marcellus Williams tonight. There's not really anything pretty to say about this other than the moral corruption of the US bureaucracy is on full display.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:
1001 Albums Generator— enter a name for your unique page, and this website will refresh each day with a new album for you to listen to based on the book 1001 Albums to Listen to Before You Die. There's even a field to enter a note about the album you listened to that day.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
He seems nice
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
webbed briefs merch by @heydon ♥︎
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
smallpatatas@gotosocial.patatas.ca ("small patatas") wrote:
I guess he changed his mind about #Meta and #Threads and is grateful for their support (unclear if this entails financial support or not) of the new non-profit?
🧐
