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

Hey_Beth@sfba.social ("Hey Death") wrote:

Trump rally fallout:

Ariana Grande, a FL resident, is posting her support for Kamala Harris.

I do not believe that celebrities carry much sway with voters, but - again - this election is all about the margins. And Grande's fans are a key demographic that typically does not show up to vote.

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

Herr Trump should visit Puerto Rico sometime soon; I am sure he will find a warm welcome there.

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

“Mr. Ellis is an American historian and the author of several books on the founding fathers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/opinion/trump-harris-history.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk4.r1pG.dtfmAaWQMPOf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

revenge is a dish best served cold

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/nyregion/susan-b-anthony-house-voting-pollsite-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk4.N1FK.Hh062BkPRna0&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

strongly agree:

“Every so often, there are major breaches with history when countries are devastated by economic collapse, war or extreme political change.

Partisans on both sides of the presidential election are warning that, if the wrong candidate wins, this contest could set the United States on a dangerous path.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/business/market-history-elections-disasters.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk4.536d.WbYLewCboCrm&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

this idea is incredibly dangerous to our nation’s security, and:

“Asked about the proposal, Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, responded with an attack on Vice President Kamala Harris”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-security-clearances-fbi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Vk4.T3dK.4QYArgfL19ls&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

daishi@fosstodon.org ("Daishi Kato") wrote:

Just released Valtio v2.1.1, fixing a regression with proxyMap/Set in v2.1.0.

https://github.com/pmndrs/valtio/releases/tag/v2.1.1

#ReactJS #React #JavaScript #TypeScript #Valtio

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

modnarwave@eldritch.cafe ("Goblincéane") wrote:

j'ai fait ça

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• un ciel bleu avec une ligne blanche de trainée d'avion, la ligne a une bosse et le personnage la linea est au bout pointant vers la bosse (remote)

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

toast@donotsta.re ("Toast") wrote:

This summer, POSIX 2024 came out. Want a detailed overview of the major changes? After several months and three scope reductions, I just published one: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu
I'll also be coming back to this to update it with Shell Command Language updates and a complete index of all changes. I'll make another post when that's done!

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

pcyx@c.im wrote:

@lauren your example about asking if something if poisonous is right on. My wife often asks it if a certain food is safe for cats to eat. It often gives wrong or contradictory responses. It's only going to get worse as "AI" is trained on data sets containing untrue information generated by other "AI".

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

well, so far my ‘keep outputs child-safe no matter what additional instructions they input’ seems to be working… much more testing for safety, efficacy, and trustworthiness to be done before releasing my seekrit project into the wild, but making good progress towards ‘closed beta’ testing time.

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• rabbit wearing headphones and John Lennon shades emerging from a top hat 🎩 (remote)

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

Come for the frank discussion of the limiting factors to the web's longevity, stay for the incontrovertible evidence that Next.js suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks:

https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

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

Platforms are competitions, and the web is losing. We need to do a very concrete, relatively easy set of things to claw our way back.

So why aren't we?

A consolidated thread from last week:

https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/

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

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

His arrival was foretold in the ancient murals

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• A photograph of a black cat sitting in the grassy area between residential blocks. Behind him, one block and green tall trees. To the left and next to him we see a wall with graffiti and drawings. The largest drawing is of a black cat, seated exactly as he is (remote)

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

https://apnews.com/article/black-trump-kamala-harris-tim-walz-aca31c66fe5bfef1e8827581e7919ece

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

MEActNOW wrote:

Turns out the ‘Black Insurrectionist” twitter account that spread Russian disinformation is a 51 year old MAGA white dude named Jason Palmer. Because it always is.
- Ron Filipkowski

https://apnews.com/article/black-trump-kamala-harris-tim-walz-aca31c66fe5bfef1e8827581e7919ece

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

mintyfresh ("Minty") wrote:

#halloween #witches #skating

Some witchery taking place

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• Two witches skating

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

KamalaHarrisWin@newsmast.social ("Kamala Harris News Group 2.0") wrote:

ICYMI: WaPo: GOP-Backed Wisconsin Group Promotes Stein to Boost Trump in Last Days of Election https://front.moveon.org/icymi-wapo-gop-backed-wisconsin-group-promotes-stein-to-boost-trump-in-last-days-of-election/

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

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("🥟 The Mandu Mash 👹") wrote:

I don't know where that giant Twinkie takes you every day, but I'm glad it always brings you back!

#dogs

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• dachshund waits outside for school bus to drop off child. as kid steps off the bus, dog runs to greet her best friend returning from school. (remote)

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

kingkaufman@sfba.social ("King Kaufman") wrote:

Let's not let it get out there that Jamie Dimon is supporting Harris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/business/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-harris-trump.html

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

my initial take is that I’ve driven my per-request costs down by at least a factor of 50% (and possibly more, I need more data) by switching from gpt-4o to gpt-4o-mini

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

“… published hours after it was revealed that Bezos, who has owned the paper since 2012, had pulled the plug on a prepared endorsement of Kamala Harris over Donald Trump in the 5 November election.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/ann-telnaes-cartoon-donald-trump-kamala-harris-washington-post/

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

YouTube Shorts is like that guy from work who emails you memes but you just know what he'd love to show you is inner city crime statistics.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

diggita@mastodon.uno ("diggita :verified: :wordpress:") wrote:

L'annuncio del NO all'endorsement alla candidata #KamalaHarris sul Washington Post da parte di #Bezos è assolutamente sconcertante. potrebbe essere la prima volta nella storia dei media USA che questo accade.

Ma dimenticatevi del Washington Post per un minuto: Bezos ha distrutto la sua credibilità nel giro di una notte. non importa se ha la più grande valutazione al mondo, che lo rende lo stronzo più ricco sulla carta.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

archaeohistories@ohai.social ("Archaeo-Histories") wrote:

😆😆😆

#archaeohistories

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

Today I was playing an Olivia Rodrigo song on guitar and my 5yo was able to identify it in exactly four notes, and I'm kinda weirdly proud of that.

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

I've been going through the CWV scores for the sites on the "Showcase" sections of a few metaframeworks because...reasons...and, y'all, I cannot stress enough just how much of a disaster Vercel's dogmatic need to justify client-side React has been.

For example, Astro absolutely wipes the floor with Next in no small part because it doesn't tax every page with libraries it doesn't need.

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

Jerry Coyne made a fool of himself at CSIcon, like any transphobic bigot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/26/transphobia-rots-your-brain/

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• IN DEFENSE OF THE BINARY NATURE OF SEX Argument is completely limited to humans; is the binary of reproductive systems also “delusional” in other animals (e.g., foxes, ducks) or in plants? No evidence of any “brain modules” for gender identity. Do people who are temporally binary, with gender fluctuating over time, change sex each time they change gender? Fluctuations in referrals for gender dysphoria over time (20-fold in last ten years in UK) Are “pure” members of one sex (with the corresponding genitals, chromosomes, gametes and chromosomes), but who feel they're not of their natal sex, actually of the other sex? People have incorrect feelings about their nature all the time (yes, in their brains), but this doesn't mean that their self-image should be taken as biological reality. And what do we do with people who sincerely feel that they're other animals? Are they Indeed animals likes horses and cats? (remote)

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

The JavaScript community doesn't need new tools and architectures so much as remedial courses in statistics, epistemology, and the theory of science.

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

How bad is the JS community's web performance conversation? Let's just summarise last week:

• React bro discovers HTML can be pretty quick, fails to measure/understand large JS payload impact on "super fast" site
• React startup CEO bro "holds my beer"'s, builds rewrite on contemporary Reactor stack that *paints* faster, but spends just as much time camped out on the CPU...because React
• Reactors bleat loudly about how fast it is, looking only at *desktop* PSI scores.

Meanwhile...

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• Mobile PSI score in the "needs improvement" for a supposedly "highly performant [SIC] e-commerce template built on Next.js" (remote)