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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Me: [holding basil plant from Publix I haven't killed yet] as a single father-
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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
Imagine coming up with a machine that effectively gets to decide how humans are "supposed to" write and speak.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
They really are going balls to the wall on hating trans people.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/my-political-dilemma/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
This is some mighty takedown of a propane shill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg81dHXEGMc
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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
@zachleat Imagine if real engineers were like “yeah this bridge feels sturdy to me, ship it.”
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Just presented my latest paper "A case for feminism in programming language design" which was surely the scariest paper to present ever, as it is such a personal exploration of what it means to research programming languages, but I am very proud of it!
Here is the paper and blog post, a video will be available later!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
when repeated successful coding changes do not seem to have any effect upon the server after recompilation, consider the possibility that YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN TO RESTART THE DAMNED THING, IDJIT
https://tenor.com/view/not-again-frustration-gif-7054327450484496346
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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:
But the point, regardless of how specific I'm able to get, is that people have not changed significantly for as long as we have records.
Our goals and hopes and studies and stories and diversions and play and rituals and all of that, the details change -- the specifics, the names, the methods even -- but the acts remain largely the same.
Thousands of years ago, the people we'd call Ancient Egyptians were studying and restoring the monuments of their ancestors thousands of years removed from them.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, people were writing stories about traveling to the moon and participating in interplanetary colonialism, and also engaging themselves in lampooning the popular culture of their day ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story )
We were making toys and playing board games and just generally being people.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Breakfast is delivered.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/phase-2-complete/
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davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:
#introduction Heya! I'm a post doc fellow at Cornell in NYC studying how those creating ~“AI”~ think about the downstream harms their systems make possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics which shape these thoughts. Ex NASA, Microsoft Research, and Intel. I was born in rural Oregon, grew up in Berlin and Singapore.
Follow me for AI ethics hot takes, academia nonsense, anti-surveillance and student labor activism.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is geography destiny?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/a-map-that-explains-so-much/
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I understand why the Depeche Mode cats don't dig "People Are People" as work output but the song has its placetimes, and frankly there are people who could benefit from hearing it far more often than they have, apparently.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Selling a house in a strike zone. I'm still cheering on the union.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/24/go-go-go-boeing-workers/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Hey JS framework vendors: you know the "showcase" part of your website is for things you're *proud* of, right?
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
Remember: Trump was supposed to debate Harris tonight but chickened out.
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
It's time for a fairer, more competitive app ecosystem. Enforcing the DMA is the quickest way to get there.
Together with many others, we urge MEPs of the ECON and IMCO Committees to hold the gatekeepers accountable for compliance with the DMA
Read More:
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-time-for-a-fairer-more-competitive-app-ecosystem/
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yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("CandyMandu 🍬🥟 Farewell to..") wrote:
furball corner pocket
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davidthewid@hci.social ("David Gray Widder [💔 for 🇵🇸]") wrote:
I had a kidney biopsy on Monday. Results weren't great, so an occasion to ask:
Please consider becoming a living kidney donor. I'm years away from needing one, but without lasting health impact to you, you can change someone's life:
https://www.kidneyregistry.com/for-donors/am-i-qualified-to-donate-a-kidney/
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octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Skellington") wrote:
Now playing: side D of Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon MoFi 1-Step.
Sounds great! It isn’t all-analogue (1/4” 15 ips Analogue master to DSD256 to analogue console to lathe), but this beats my OG pressing (used but in pretty great condition)
Woodstock is so *crystal* clear, you can hear when she has bad mic positioning ;-)
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- Photo of the Now Playing prop with the Mofi box. It’s the new style box of dark brownish black, with the OG cover inset. On the top, ‘Original Master Recording’ is reverse gold-stamped. On the bottom, ‘ultradisk one-step pressing my mobile fidelity sound lab’ in gold foil. To the left is my turntable playing the record, sitting atop an unused amp. (remote)
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danielnichanian@threads.net ("Daniel Nichanian | Taniel") wrote:
This is a twist: There's an open seat on the Michigan supreme court, and the Republican chief justice of the Michigan supreme court is endorsing the Democratic-nominated candidate Kimberly Ann Thomas rather than GOP lawmaker Andrew Fink.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
think I finally got a db for my seekrit project properly installed and locked down for support of service scalability...
I have designed so I can run identical copies of my server behind a load balancing front end, and store all user & session data on a joint-access db machine or tier of synchronized data-store machines. (each copy of the server maintains it's own connection pool)
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pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Speaker Johnson's off-hand declaration that 4.5 million people would be quickly assigned for deportation should serve as a reminder that the process that would lead to those deportations is as arbitrary as the number.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/23/practical-moral-difficulties-deporting-millions-draw-closer/
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pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Was writing about how key members of Trump’s administration have explicitly called him a fascist prompting the Trumpworld defense “yeah, but they’re anti-Trump” when Fox News offered a perfect example.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3A69aGp
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
You're never more than 0 m away from a skeleton. 😱
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Before Google, reference librarians answered questions via telephone. “We learned not merely how to find information but how to think about finding information. Don’t take anything for granted; don’t trust your memory; look for the context…” https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-varieties-of-travel-experience/articles/the-department-of-everything
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zachleat@zachleat.com ("ZachSCARY Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:
every time someone says that a web site “feels fast” you must append “on my device” to the statement and a dollar must be placed in the works-on-my-machine jar
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pts@octodon.social ("Paul Starr") wrote:
Computer programming is what happens when you wish “I want to learn something new every day” on the monkey’s paw
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
AiG has threatened to sue me for a blog post that touches on the one thing truly sacred to them, their money.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/23/im-in-trouble-with-aig-and-its-lawyers/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics:
"The demonstration, performed by a group of privacy advocates that gained access to the tool and leaked videos of it to 404 Media and other journalists, shows in the starkest terms yet how Locate X and other tools based on smartphone location data sold to various U.S. government law enforcement agencies, including state entities, could be used to ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/10/23/inside-the-us.html
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cfbolz ("CF Bolz-Tereick") wrote:
"A DSL for Peephole Transformation Rules of Integer Operations in the PyPy JIT", new blog post on the PyPy blog: https://pypy.org/posts/2024/10/jit-peephole-dsl.html