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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) will be closest to earth later today, at a distance of ~0.47 AU (71 million km).

It will become visible low in the western sky after sunset and it will rise higher but become dimmer each day for the rest of October.

Let's get our cameras and telescopes out and let's take some once-in-a-lifetime pics 📷 🔭

See https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/113203532178374641 for our coverage in late Sept. before the comet reached perihelion.

https://theskylive.com/planetarium?objects=sun-moon-c2023a3-mercury-venus-mars-jupiter-saturn-uranus-neptune-pluto&localdata=33.749%7C-84.38798%7CAtlanta%20GA%20(US)%7CAmerica%2FNew_York%7C0&obj=c2023a3&h=23&m=30&date=2024-10-20#ra|15.925383236364091|dec|-6.229499879936528|fov|80
http://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2023A3
1/n

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• 1. Skymap showing location of the comet 2. Graph of comet brightness - past and future (remote)

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

Tesla’s Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled By A Human The Whole Time:

"Robert Scoble, an AI enthusiast in attendance at the event, posted a video to Twitter of Optimus pouring drinks and waving to attendees. A second video, in which Scoble has a conversation with the bot’s operator and directly addresses the question of whether Optimus did anything autonomously at the party. The answer appears to be a resounding ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/12/teslas-beerserving-optimus.html

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

There is no solidarity without empathy.

One party is claiming to alleviate pain, and one party is saying the best they can do is not make it worse than the other guys.

Obviously, the former is lying. But that. Doesn't. Matter. We can expect at least some to buy into it.

When on fire, the person with waiving the hose at you looks more appealing than the person pointing out that they don't have a gas can.

It's been a decade since Trump. Maybe we try something new? #HarrisWalz2024

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

An ounce of good faith can make a world of difference.

Imagine, instead of scolding Black, Latino, and Arab voters for their hesitation in supporting Harris, white liberals all took to social media and said something like:

"My vote is for Harris, but I am not satisfied with the Democrats response to Police Reform/Immigration Human Rights/Palestinian Human Rights. So, I wrote a letter to the White House..."

Such a simple gesture would make the news. It would help us win. #HarrisWalz2024

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BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

What product being enshitified pushed you over the edge?

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

it used to be, hackers would model trains. nowadays they train models

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

Ed Yong has a few good ideas.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/12/i-like-ed-yong-even-more-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddy5uMdzZB8

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• No arguing with strangers online Do not become a pundit Cultivate readers, not fans No savior complex Acknowledge & uplift community Act the part even if you don't feel it Use power well (remote)

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

Here's the site https://urlshortenersaresoyesterdaytrythisamazingsuperlongurlexpander.site/

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

Dang it

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

Found a website that makes URLs longer. Here's my blog
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nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

macOS is now UNIX-certified
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/macos_15_is_unix/

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

polpo@bitbang.social ("Ian Scott :apple_inc: 🐙") wrote:

Every time you take the card out you are greeted by longcat

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• A dark grey computer with the end of a card sticking out. The card is slowly removed, revealing longcat printed in the card's silkscreen (remote)

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

sold me

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/113288904078801421

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josh@vickerson.me ("Josh “Yoshi” Vickerson") wrote:

You want a fast-growing dominant social network owned by a billionaire made to extort you for profit.

I want a thoughtfully-built, community-grown social ecosystem made to connect people.

We are not the same.

#Fediverse #BlueSky #Threads #SocialNetwork #Mastodon

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

Scenes from a 60s childhood.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/1958-1969-the-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT_ySIqldCA

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

Regard LB[1]: Not to be missed if you're into art like things. Cabel Sasser put up an archive of some of Wes Cook's art for all to see. A touching tribute.

https://wescook.art/

[1] https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/113290611555208572

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Was sad to miss the final day of #xoxo2024, so I'm happy to see this video has landed!

https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

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

He's a grandmaster alright

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• Mark Zuckerberg reckons he's a Civilization 'grandmaster' who could beat 'anyone in the world, and we should all brace ourselves for his Twitch career

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

There's a lot more to say, but we can skip to the end: JS-first development is, in the main, classist and elitist.

There are pockets doing it better -- including some that are downright exceptional in their inclusion -- but they are the exception today.

We need to sit with that.

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

...which means that the level at which rudeness is commercially viable is inversely proportional to aspirations for scale.

Making a site with Next at any point in the last decade has been a terrible idea if you weren't actively working to turn certain buyers away.

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

Why, you might ask, is there a reasonable complete subset of the IANA timezone database [1] being downloaded in the critical path of a food ordering website?

Inconsiderate development. Rudeness.

I've likened this to stores hiring anti-greeters; bouncers to tackle poor-looking users and prevent them from entering, rather than welcoming them. Might work selling Prada handbags, but Veblen goods [2] are a small fraction of the economy.

[1]: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

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

Was trawling through a Superfund-worth trace from another high profile Next.js site, and realised that the best way to describe contemporary frontend is **inconsiderate**.

That is, nobody considered the consequences of their choices, including now-pervasive inattention to users on the margins.

Devs don't *mean* to do a terrible job (although that's the result), it's just that nobody is looking where they're going, and when the crash happens, Karen-style blame-shifting takes over.

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

kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

The first four minutes of @cabel's talk were kind of a sweet, cheerful revisiting and update of ideas from his previous talk and a check-in on Panic, which is great—and then the McDonald's mural arrived and everything took a TURN

I don't think I've ever needed to do a "no spoilers!!" warning before about a talk, but if you can go into this cold, do

https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

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KrajciTom@universeodon.com ("TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

More overnight aurora from southern New Mexico.

This is an outburst of red curtains at 1:30AM with a fainter SAR arc higher in the sky.

The camera kept taking pictures until almost 4AM and the aurora kept on churning through the entire photo series.

#Aurora #NewMexico #Photography #Astrophotography #SpaceWeather

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• This is an outburst of red curtains at 1:30AM with a fainter SAR arc higher in the sky. (remote)

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

Meta's public relations team really went hard when they suggested that Adam Mosseri cosplay Milo from Atlantis.

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• Left: Milo Right: Adam Mosseri Similarities: Thin white guys with big circle glasses similar hair a chain.

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

Smol bean Adam Mosseri is just a little guy

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• AI generated image of Adam Mosseri that makes him look like a lovable Pixar character

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

Mario got a hat that could give him the power of enemies.

Samus got Metroid DNA that could give her the power of enemies.

Zelda got a magic rod to summon the power of the enemies.

Sooner or later, every Nintendo character becomes Kirby.

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

For sale, 50 years of memories.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/11/here-we-go-again-6/

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• My mother's house (remote)

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

Swiper, no swiping. Swiper, no swiping. Swiper, no swiping!

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

Meta employee sharing how #Threads algo works reminds me of an old dril tweet

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• Screenshot of Thread post and screenshot of a Twitter post below: Threads: In Large-scale Recommender Systems like Threads and Instagram, Multi-task Multi-label modeling is used predict the likelihood that you will click, reply, or share. Call it p(click), p(reply), and p(repost). At the end of this, you have something called a value model where you can adjust the weights of these probabilities to rank posts. These weights are the knobs you would use to change what people see on their feed. They always come with complex tradeoffs. Twitter: turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right