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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I wish someone had explained to me the purpose of my Flesh Crayolas years ago.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/we-were-using-our-crayons-wrong/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I was feelin' okay early this morning so I thought I got off light this time, but the Covid and Flu combo vaccine I got yesterday afternoon is catching up with me now. 🤒 But at lest I know this will be short duration discomfort.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
greenhouses are wunnerful
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhh
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Website League looks interesting. And it made me realize, the best way to fight back against Meta's definition of the social web is to simply make things that stand opposed to it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
"Threads posts with a 15 minute delay are now mixed with fediverse posts without a delay and presented as happening during the same time. This was already noticeable during yesterday’s U.S. VP debate, an event where people use microblogging for the real-time reaction. But part of the real-time reactions was actually 15 minutes delayed, while another part was not, which creates even more confusing experience."
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:
"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."
The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhh, to be in a real city again (Toronto)
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Oh no! I robbed Jason Allen!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/03/in-which-i-commit-a-crime/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Joe Gow was railroaded.
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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:
Going on now: the Craig Maloney Memorial Auction, benefiting Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. Win a #ryoms sponsor gift purchased for a sadly deceased friend, and help those less fortunate. Runs through Tuesday evening, for reasons.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Collinsworth's Razor: the person demanding to be debated is almost always the one in the wrong.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a repeating life pattern for Trump:
“Donald Trump’s campaign spent more than it raised for the second month in a row as the Republican nominee struggles to keep pace with Democrat Kamala Harris’ robust fundraising operation” - Bloomberg Report
https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/02/trump-spent-more-than-he-raised-again/
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climatebrad ("Brad Johnson") wrote:
Don't you hate it when climate activists block highways
#Helene #climate
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- The Laurel Fork Road bridge sits destroyed from flood waters raging in the Upper Laurel Fork creek in Vilas, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
- Workers survey a large section of Highway 105 that washed away because of flood waters, on the outskirts of Boone, N.C., on Sept. 27.Jonathan Drake—Reuters
- NCDOT
- Rescue workers from the Pamlico County rescue team are shown working in the aftermath of Helene the area of Chimney Rock, N.C., Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Pamlico County Special Operations
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jalcine@todon.eu ("jack(y) or treat!") wrote:
In tandem, tech freelancers need to organize. With more than 300,000 tech workers let go, folks need to stop playing around.
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ForeTeeThree@gaminginthe.cloud ("Frixie") wrote:
Wow.
"...an app is just a webpage skinned with the right kind of I.P. to make it a felony to put an ad blocker in it."
Yeah.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:
this is a great song about trees:
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Swing voters aren't real. They can't hurt you.
Undecided voters aren't real. Just scrunch your eyes closed real tight, and when you open them, the undecided voters will be gone.
I'm undecided on if I'm going to eat this here slice of cake after my workout*. 🍰
(*I am not undecided. That cake is as good as gone.)
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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:
We made a thing
https://thestopbits.bandcamp.com/track/rip-out-the-battery-sid-edition
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
2. It (2017). What hte fuck was that? Where was Clara Bow?
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
Every time this comes up no one in the media says anything about the 40% of the housing market being swallowed whole by private equity/corporate interests.
How can anyone talk about solutions when the diagnosis hasn't even started yet?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The closest I'll ever come to the feeling of cruising down the road in a getaway car after having just successfully pulled off a major heist is disabling my linter's "no explicit any" TypeScript rule.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I'm delighted to report that the stuffed Mastodon toys have arrived at the German warehouse at @ravioli. The ones going to the US warehouse are still in customs. I imagine we'll open the store once both have arrived, unless US customs takes unreasonably long...
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.
They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS
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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:
New results out of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Astronomers found a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the second closest star system to the Earth. The planet Barnard b orbits its star every 3.15 days and has a mass about 0.37 times that of Earth.
There are also hints of planets with 2.34, 4.12, and 6.74 day-orbits, although more observations are needed to confirm the existence of those planets.
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- The image is an artist’s representation of the nearest stars to the Sun. In the lower part of the image is the Sun, surrounded by four semicircles that increase in size. Each semicircle indicates a certain distance from the Sun. The closest one coincides with a series of tiny white spots that represent the objects of the Oort cloud, located one light-year away. The second semicircle indicates two light-years away. The third semicircle indicates four light years away, and coincides approximately with two adjacent large spots that represent stars. These spots are yellow and red, the former being twice the size of the red one. These are labelled Alpha Centauri A&B and Proxima Centauri, respectively. The fourth semicircle indicates six light-years away and coincides with an orange spot the size of the Sun. This represents Barnard’s star. Around the same semicircle there are two smaller red stars, unlabelled, with a third one positioned a bit further away. (remote)
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dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt ("Dmitry Borodaenko") wrote:
@willoremus An entire article about #Threads without mentioning #Fedipact or quoting someone prominent, e.g. @jdp23, on it? That unresolved "and some wariness [that we are not going to talk about]" sticks out like a sore thumb.
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alice_i_cecile@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Alice I. Cecile") wrote:
A really delightful video taking a deep dive into the #rendering technology and #techart choices of #tinyglade! I learned a lot!
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Since JD Vance seems so opposed to fact checking, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone he definitely fucks couches.
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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
@willoremus thanks for the gift link! The article makes some good points -- and I really like your phrasing of Meta's "gesturing" at interoperability.
On the other hand, when you talk about Meta's strategy, it's worth highlighting how much benefit they're getting just from from gesturing. As @laurenshof of @fediversereport points out, they've mastered the art of using tiny incremental improvements in fediverse-related functionality to get positive press. Including this article!
So at least in the short term, while I agree with @Gargron that so far Threads is only dipping their toe in, what's their real incentive to do more? After all, Mastodon has less than a million users -- not that many more than before the Apartheid Clyde acquired Twitter two years ago. And while many white male fediverse influencers are very gung-ho about Meta, there are also a lot of people who don't want them here. So they're very wise to tread carefully. And while I'm rarely one to praise Meta on many fronts, I think their decision to make federation opt-in for Threads users was a great one. It's pretty funny, but also sad, that some of their supporters here have criticized that decision.
Still, Meta's clearly keeping their options open to do more than just gesturing. In Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse I talked about how they could try to use the Fediverse to help shape regulation and as a platform for decentralized surveillance capitalism ... time will tell.
In any case @Sarahp reported that Meta's one of the funders for the new @swf, so that's more evidence that they see it as useful to keep gesturing -- and I saw one of SWF's founders say that they'd make sure some of that money goes to Mastodon, so Meta still sees Mastodon as useful as well. It'll be interesting to see how things work out!