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

alternately: is it time to look into using a non-Mastodon approach to posting this bot stuff to the fediverse? much to think about. Advice welcome

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

Okanogen ("okanogen for Harris") wrote:

@fromjason
#Bezos rewrote Taylor Swift's song "It's you, hi, you're the problem, it's you.".

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

I *think* I fixed an intermittent problem with Secure Sockets certificates. (apologies for it not being faster -yet- and for the irritating mis-renders of apostrophes from time to time)

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

stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Even programs on Dutch tv are now explaining how dangerous #Trump is for the democracy

The current state is so sad this is needed

At least we know what a madman he is

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

VirginiaHolloway@urbanists.social ("Virginia Holloway") wrote:

@futurebird On my corner of Nextdoor there was a recent surge in accounts of "people" with Chinese surnames all offering short random quotations from famous thinkers. They were all in different neighborhoods, but the basic pattern was identical.

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

I could use a few folks banging on https://arghstudios.com:50433/storyForm.html which will be open over the next few days

idea is to provide a storytelling coach & tutor to adult caretakers of children. the renderer currently has issues with apostrophes, and it is development-code-slow (a story may take 12-15 seconds), but it would be great to have some folks make requests of it for a bit and see if it handles traffic decently.

feedback to support@arghstudios.com please, & thank you in advance for beta-test help.

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

I think I will probably move @pomological and @choochoobot and @oldroadside over to my own instance soon, then. @whit_whal and @helpingfriendlybot already live on instances related to their content, which is fun

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

thank you thank you thank you to @colin for running botsin.space all this time. A real community service right until the end 🫡 https://botsin.space/@muffinista/113392588900840218

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

muffinista@botsin.space ("colin mitchell") wrote:

Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone

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

This is a really good read. https://www.theverge.com/24282022/kamala-harris-endorsement-presidential-election-2024

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

sajan@mastodon.art ("Sjn") wrote:

My comic about a Grey, a Gnome and a Shakespeare escaping from prison is available for another couple of days in the shortbox comics fair:

https://www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p/alas-by-sajan-rai

#shortbox #sbcf #sbcf24 #comic #comics

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• a comic cover for 'Alas', by me. A giant round skull in front of prison with a bleeding eye takes centre stage, to its side are a shakespeare in dramaatic posture, and a more hostile looking alien and gnome. The top of the cover is marked by crennelations (remote)

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ipg@wetdry.world ("Emma (IPG)") wrote:

tim berners lee be like yeah my ip is 1

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

ianrosewrites@scicomm.xyz ("Ian Rose") wrote:

If you tell the story of the burnt ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver this week (an important story that warrants attention), also tell how good fire-suppressant design saved all but three ballots in the Portland box, and the efforts of the election workers who contacted those three voters and arranged for replacement ballots.

Things are scary and bad, and often literally on fire. But there are good people and good systems too. Making us forget that is always a win for the worst ones.

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

thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot ("This Is My Glasgow") wrote:

I know I've posted this dragon before, but it's so cute, I couldn't resist posting it again. It can be found on the 1902 Art Nouveau style Miller and Lang Print Works at 50 Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area Glasgow, and by far it's my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in the city.

#glasgow #ironwork #dragon #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields

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• A cast iron dragon at the junction where two drain pipes meet on an Art Nouveau style building. (remote)

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

My brain is still partially sliding around the interface. It just can't seem to scan it quickly. But also some of those recent UI changes are a little on the nose?

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• Screen capture of an empty post entry box on Mastodon. The placeholder text now says, "Shitpost goes here...", and the submit button says "Shitpost Time!". What's not captured is the flushing sound it makes every time I click it. Anyway, this is a joke. I used the browser tools to modify the html. This is a shitpost. HaHA! Totally gotcha. (remote)

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

"No, you see, the problem is the liberal elites who read our paper. If only we had the support of real Americans!"

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• Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)

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

He creates the dichotomy of anti and pro billionaire, then makes his pro-billionaire argument.

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• You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasn’t happened.

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

Next—and this is what really tipped me off to his goal for this op-ed—look at the language he uses.

"Victim mentality?" Who are we? Grindset influencers on Threads?

And the whole "reality is an undefeated champ" is giving "facts over feelings."

He knew what he was doing.

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• Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.

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

He then decided to give perhaps the most devisive analogy possible— election fraud.

Do we think his liberal readership resonates with voter machine conspiracies? Or, was he speaking to someone else?

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• Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.

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

First, the entire premise of his argument is largely a right-wing talking point— the liberal media(tm) is biased and untrustworthy.

Liberals aren't concerned with whether or not WaPo has a liberal slant. They fear billionaires have co-opted journalism to escape scrutiny, allegations, the law.

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• Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose.

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

This might sound out there, but I think Jeff Bezos' recent op-ed wasn't an attempt to quell the revolt by his largely liberal-leaning readership.

It was an appeal to a new demographic— the far right.

There are nods to conservatives peppered all across his open letter.

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

Why can't we have this guy on the ticket?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/29/id-rather-be-voting-for-bernie/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5MThSniiY

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Again: wordpress.org is no longer a trustworthy place to host your code:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1geca45/paid_memberships_dev_says_matt_threatened_to_take/

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

The people who believe there's a war on Christmas have obviously never worked in marketing.

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

lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes") wrote:

Rad. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/10/giant-mythological-puppets-stage-a-show-in-toulouse/680425/

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

ken@schwanksta.com ("Ken Schwencke") wrote:

An incredible new interactive piece from @ProPublica -- What really gets taken when a city sweeps a homeless encampment? A tent, seizure medication, an ex boyfriend's shirt, photos, baby shoes, a tiara, a husband's ashes. Devastating and illuminating

https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/

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

Somebody mentions an idea for a transpiler between languages, something that could be readily accomplished with decades old, but cool and correct, deterministic algorithms. But then somebody chimes in with, "I bet we could make that work by hooking it up to an LLM and asking it to translate." smdh... SMDH!

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

That sense of dread we're all feeling does not have a supernatural source.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/10/29/halloween-used-to-be-a-fun-holiday/

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• The real nightmare isn't ghosts and skeletons, it's the specter of MAGA (remote)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsiYrT137ig

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

Or, at the very least, I hate their Android app.

I'm constantly seeing old versions of pages (if any version at all); constantly waiting for something to load; constantly trying to get text to do what I want; constantly having to do something twice because I got tricked into accidentally asking the AI something by a dark UI pattern.

There isn't even a "search text" function for individual pages FFS. You added AI before you added the ability to search through a page!?