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

Bring back that janky web

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smallcircles@social.coop ("smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)") wrote:

Top comment:

> I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be created. [..]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41740965

#AI #generativeAI

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

You know what I don't need your fancy decentralized social media. Give me a clam phone and Windows mobile

I want to slide in your spreadsheet

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• Old Nokia phone with Excel on the screen. In cell A1 is says Where you at? Holla when you get this. From an old Kelly Roland music video

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

4. Dead Ringers (1988). This caught me a little flat-footed because I was expecting something more fantastical. It's daffy but the elements of horror in this are definitely unmagical.

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• Poster for Dead Ringers (1988). An image of a face repeated three times horizontally, but overlapped so that the two eyes present seem to be shared by two adjacent faces.

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marielgm@mastodon.mit.edu ("Mariel García-Montes") wrote:

"In the 10 weeks after the shooting, advertisers paid Meta between $593,000 and $813,000 for political ads that explicitly mentioned the assassination attempt, according to The Markup’s analysis."

Great work by @themarkup: How Meta Brings in Millions Off Political Violence https://themarkup.org/investigations/2024/10/04/how-meta-brings-in-millions-off-political-violence

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annie@social.lol wrote:

Feeling alive is where it’s at: https://anniemueller.com/posts/feeling-alive-is-where-its-at

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay :mastodon:🇪🇺🍁") wrote:

This reusable grocery list is from the 1950s or earlier. This is what they took away from us.

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• A metal handheld list, listing common house hold items and stables. Each with a metallic on/off switch that can be toggled so you remember to purchase it. Left column: Baby Food Bacon Bread Butter Cake Catsup Cereal Cheese Cocoa Cookies Coffee Cream Delicatess Eggs Fish Flour Frozen Food Fruit Jams Juices Right column: Matches Meats Milk Mustard Noodles Oil Onions Pepper Poultry Potatoes Rice Salt Soap Soups Spaghetti Spices Sugar Tea Vegetable Vinegar (remote)

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

A huge victory for Max Schrems, @noybeu , and privacy!

"The European Union’s top court said Friday that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules. "

https://apnews.com/article/facebook-meta-schrems-privacy-80fd4e6c59f48a3b583d6665af3ede86

#privacy #lgbtqia #lgbtq

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lgarron ("Lucas Garron") wrote:

AI recruiters flooding your inbox? Try this one simple trick to stop them from coming back with "I wonder if you saw my last message"!

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• An screenshot of an email with the contents "How do you make sure you build ethical stuff?"

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

This thread can never die.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/04/infinite-thread-xxxiii/

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• Alien space station (remote)

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

Of course, I'd pick up a National Geographic, and there'd be ads about things I couldn't care less about like a fancy watch or a cruise or a car, so I guess the tech wasn't perfect. 🤔

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

In the old days, we also had targeted advertising. For example, I'd pick up a computer magazine, and there would be all these ads about computer stuff. Or I'd look at an art or craft magazine, and there'd be ads related to art materials and craft things. It was like they knew stuff about me. Really eerie...

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maddie@maddie.rocks ("maddie lim :trans_lily:") wrote:

it’s #BandcampFriday! i recently released an album “intersections”, a sparkly music adventure about celebrating intersections that make you who you are and accepting yourself fully, as you are. ✨

get it at https://maddievision.bandcamp.com !! 💖

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brhfl@digipres.club ("bri") wrote:

huh, every other month for the past few years, yamaha has released background-sized images of exploded views of their products. i realize it’s just marketing, but they are beautifully done and worth looking through. https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/experience/wallpaper/

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• an exploded image of a yamaha ym-6100 marimba. hard to describe as i don’t know what all the bits of a marimba are, but there are rows of bars and resonance pipes all lined up very tidily, it’s pleasing to the eye. (remote)

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

an interesting piece about Dr Harris, the VP’s Dad

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/kamala-harris-father.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk4.Cj85.icXJ7bgXWFVA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

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FOSSBackstage@floss.social ("FOSS Backstage") wrote:

Become a speaker at next year's FOSS Backstage (10-11 March 2025) and share your ideas and knowledge.

We are looking for sessions on all topics related to governance, collaboration, legal, business, security and design within FOSS.

Join us for your talk, workshop, panel, or off-stage presentation. Good to know - We do offer the possibility of holding talks remotely for people who can’t travel to Berlin.

Submit your proposal by 13 November 2024!

Learn more: https://25.foss-backstage.de/call-for-participation/

Attachments:

• Remote talk by Giacomo Tenaglia on CERN's Open Source Program Office (remote)
• Dawn Wages on stage for her talk on Success through a thousand emails: Fundraising and outreach (remote)

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

Here we go, @SDF comrades.

Got the background done, although I'm not 100% sold on what's on the screens. Also, thanks to @peron for a couple of those bits of line art.

Next on the to-do: character/terminal art for a few more characters. And yes, I think I need to get Milia in there, even though she's not a bridge operator.

#illustration #macross #unix #vt52

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• An illustration of Misa Hayase from the anime Super Dimension Fortress Macross standing next to a DEC VT52 terminal on the bridge of the SDF-1. (remote)

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

So glad Matt is an integral part of building out the Neo-Corporate Web wka the #OpenSocialWeb

From: @robz
https://toot.robzazueta.com/@robz/113250895318516124

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

Hey did you know that for just five bucks you're forced to watch a video of my mug thanking you for your support?

#IndieWriter

https://buymeacoffee.com/fromjason

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• 62630d3ffa30daba.mp4

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He will be washed soon.

#Blahaj

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• A 100cm Ikea shark with the stuffing temporarily removed.

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

I gave my basil plant a little tuna water as fertilizer and now I'm worried it has a taste for flesh

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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/google-employees-sit-in-to-protest-project-nimbus-ai-tech-contract-with-the-israeli-military/

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• 4dc67643d72be1df.mp4

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davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

🚨EXCLUSIVE: A year before Georgia’s chemical plant fire, regulators warned of a “critical coverage gap” allowing the plant to evade risk management rules, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

The Trump administration blocked tougher rules as industry lobbyists pressed for loopholes.

https://www.levernews.com/the-toxic-loophole-behind-a-chemical-plant-disaster/

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inpc@go.mxtthxw.art wrote:

It’s Bandcamp Friday!

If you don’t know, it means Bandcamp waive their fees today so artists get a higher percentage of money if you buy today.

Check out your favourite indie artist, they might have cooked up something nice!

#BandcampFriday

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madcollector@mastodon.zaclys.com ("Madcollector") wrote:

May you be as epic as this lady

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• A woman on a boat, in chinese garb, plays a string instrument (a pipa?) (remote)

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

brb, gonna launch a new era of personal computing on the back of the web stack through fantasy computers, which will be realized to actual hardware once enough popularity is achieved.

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noybeu ("noyb.eu") wrote:

#FunFact: Meta has decided that our posting on them violating the GDPR would violate their "community standards" and deleted it several times on http://facebook.com..

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

How can you teach about the history of science, 1775-1825, without bringing in poetry?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/04/the-things-we-get-away-with-at-a-liberal-arts-universitypoetry-in-a-science-class-tsk/

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• starry night (remote)

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KarlBode@masto.ai ("Karl Bode") wrote:

if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end

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• 3bbc6c50ebcc3c49.jpeg (remote)

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Jedigirl@mindly.social ("Joanne Fisher") wrote:

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• Post by Lauren McKenzie I'm just brainstorming here, but what if we stopped letting the absolute worst of humanity be in charge of everything for once. (remote)