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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
“How to Triumph Like a Girl”
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joshsternberg.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Josh Sternberg") wrote:
"Ironically, this might partly be why the public doesn’t trust us: We admit our mistakes, rather than doubling down and pretending to omniscience — as the Trumps and Musks of the world do."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
CNN reporting “non-credible” bomb threats to voting places in the US State of Georgia. these people need to be in prison for a long time.
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“The End Of Independent Publishing And Giant Freakin Robot | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT”
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/independent-ends.html
You basically can't count on any of the traffic coming from Google or Facebook and most media companies, even one that are frugally run, have a hard time surviving on what's left
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Susan B Anthony was a bad person. She didn't fight for "women's right to vote " She fought for "*White* women's right to vote." It would be one thing if she just didn't focus on Black folks' right to vote, but she actively worked against it. As hard as she fought for White women to get to vote, she actively campaigned against the Black vote and constructed a coalition of racists to keep Black feminists out, and hold Black voters back.
She was a white supremacist. White supremacists are bad
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
Just a quick reminder that if you happen to see abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions today, there's a newsroom for that. https://www.propublica.org/article/election-day-2024-propublica-reporters
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Naureckas@mastodon.world ("Jim Naureckas") wrote:
Tucker Carlson has always been great at selling himself, becoming whatever flavor of right winger he thought was most marketable. The fact that he thinks demonology is what's selling these days is truly troubling.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“What To Do If You’re Stuck In A Line At Your Polling Place On Election Day
The big neon sign is: If you are in line when polls close, you must be allowed to vote, so don’t get out of line no matter what anybody around you tells you.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I like being able to give it a time & place in history and still get a reasonable story idea out. so far, my “seekrit sauce” (aka “system prompt”) seems to be reasonably good at producing (child-) Safe, Effective (at helping adult caretakers of children), and Trustworthy (no sex, violence, etc, & respecting your privacy) story & play ideas as outputs.
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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not Taylor Swift"") wrote:
Sing us a song you're the pianoman
A hybrid of ivory and meat
You're an unholy instru-humonculus
Born with 88 teeth and 3 feet
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sam@social.coop ("Sam Whited") wrote:
Workers at Boeing have got a contract and called an end to the strike!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Stabbing the beast with my little ballot.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/05/i-did-the-thing/
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wim_v12e@octodon.social ("Wim 🅾") wrote:
My new positive climate fiction story is called "Running AMOC".
It's about the impending collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, AMOC for short, which keeps Northern Europe warm in winter and North-East America cool in summer.
This does not sound positive at all, but if we take action now, we could mitigate the worst effects. In my story, I imagined what it would take.
It tells about an international research project that managed to move public opinion and politicians into action. The protagonist is a female scientist of Indonesian descent. Most of the story is set in Scotland, in particular in Helensburgh.
I hope you will enjoy reading it.
#writing #fictionwriting #fiction #story #climateFiction #climateChange
#RunningAMOC
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:
Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support. We do this *no matter* how votes go today, no matter what disruptions or attacks come, so find peace in knowing what does not change, what they can never stop. Once you’ve voted, sign off, and don’t look or scroll if it causes you stress. Tomorrow we get to work.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Someone on here (not going to @ them as they know who they are) mentioned Sting's "The Soul Cages", which prompted me to check it out from my local library as I realized I actually don't have a copy and may not have listened to it since I was in college.
Anyway, I was listening to it, and this line from "All This Time" definitely hits harder now than it did then, and it's getting stuck in my head.
"What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having."
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dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:
Cornell’s Breakthrough Could Mean the End of Exploding Batteries https://scitechdaily.com/cornells-breakthrough-could-mean-the-end-of-exploding-batteries/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:
Accurate
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
in my humble opinion, voting is neither right nor privilege. voting is a *duty* of citizenship, and those who choose to not vote are rejecting full citizenship. frankly, those who place obstacles in the way of citizens voting have betrayed our republic.
remember: we are citizens, not subjects.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So folks are right; the framework *isn't* the problem. It's what choosing *those* tools says about an organisation, and what the indicated lack of performance management maturity portends:
https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Which leads to the next point: the justification for client-side JS is invariably "interactivity".
But I can count on one hand the number of teams that have done bake-offs to *measure* if one library or approach will improve interactivity for representative users. Even teams that have tons of data about their userbase *do not do this* today! It's a lost art.
And unless an org is practicing the lost art of bake-offs, *it is not sophisticated enough to bet on JS*.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Nothing could be further from the truth. The data I embedded at the bottom of last week's blog post was just the smallest taste of this failure-on-a-loop merry-go-round I've been an up-close witness to for most of the past decade:
https://infrequently.org/2024/10/platforms-are-competitions/#fn-failure-on-repeat-2
If Next and Vercel can't (or, to be precise, won't) put the genie back in the bottle, there is no hope for teams with fewer engineers to deploy on the problems NPM culture creates.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is because the toolchains and architectural assumptions of NPM-based frontend culture are *fucked*. Totally and utterly divorced from what delivers acceptable results for most people, most of the time -- both as users, and as businesses.
This deep truth sits underneath everything else: *the way* these frameworks and ecosystems present to the developer assumes they have no self-control and do not know better. All while justifying their wares on the basis that everyone, instead, has mastery.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"The framework isn't the problem!" is something I've been hearing the apologists for lemon vendors spout for going on a decade now, and I think we need to decapitate this zombie idea once and for all.
First, *I know* that 45KB of JS isn't going to break the bank. Duh. That's not the point. The point is that the apologists *don't even have budgets*. Which means that *every* increment above zero is *a priori* too much!
Folks that can't say "when" aren't sophisticated enough to be using JS.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@muan And, as a reminder, you can buy the shirt as a fundraiser for our friends at @owa here:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This, by @muan , should be on every wall in every tech office:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Curious about this.
If Trump died tomorrow, does the imminent threat of American fascism die with him?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I, for one, appreciate the bright-eyed optimism of these folks scheduling meetings tomorrow afternoon and from 8am on weds.
Mastodon Feedlcasdev ("Luca Casonato 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Find me also on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/lcas.dev
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Apologies for the short notice, but no Oxide and Friends tonight. And @ahl is presenting at Rustlab next week in Florence -- but we'll be back on November 18th! https://rustlab.it/speakers/adam-leventhal
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A brief work interlude: we're hiring a lead Web Platform PM! A chance to work closely with Edge's platform (and Chromium) team in a strategic role, working closely with me and other PM leads: