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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

rachelandrew@front-end.social ("Rachel Andrew") wrote:

@simon You might be interested in what we're building over at https://webstatus.dev/ (which does have an API, though it needs docs). You can already do some pretty interesting queries.

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

larryfeltonj@journa.host ("Larry Felton Johnson") wrote:

The Cobb County Courier's Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Shelter website, is a female dalmatian mix named Kolari #CobbCounty #Dog #AdoptDontShop
#dogsofmastodon

https://cobbcountycourier.com/2024/11/my-name-is-kolari-just-grab-my-leash-and-take-me-home-with-you/

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• A white dalmation mix with spotted ears and wearing a spotted bandana stands on a lawn and looks curiously up at the camera (remote)

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

Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

25,183 words!

I'm 50% of the way through #WritingMonth / #NaNoWriMo

14 short stories written in my new collection #RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms

Free to read at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/RevengeOfTheMutantAlgorithms

Feedback encourage 😄

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

consider the podcast viewer stats in this article with the audience size for the “evening network news” programs and you’ll understand better why a podcast-oriented interview strategy makes sense: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-rogan-compares-kamala-harris-call-her-daddy-1977175

https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/113268705198868373

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

CBSNews@flipboard.com ("CBS News") wrote:

Affordable housing tax credits set to expire, threatening eviction for thousands of U.S. families
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-crisis-low-income-tenants-eviction-battles-lihc/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-CBSNews

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

senficon@ohai.social ("Felix Reda") wrote:

„Anyone can now download the AlphaFold3 software code and use it non-commercially. But for now, only scientists with an academic affiliation can access the training weights on request.“ Yeah, this is not #OpenSource, then. It’s #OpenWashing. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03708-4

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nilay_patel@theverge.space ("Nilay Patel :bot: @theverge.space") wrote:

“The work of obtaining facts has a major economic disadvantage against the production of bullshit, and it’s only getting worse.”

Good post from Media Guild of the West president Matt Pearce on the reality of media in 2024:

> The biggest story about media and the internet is that new technology — AI, social media, smartphones, etc. — keeps driving down the cost of producing bullshit while the cost of obtaining quality information only goes up. It’s getting more and more expensive to produce the good stuff, and the good stuff has to compete against more and more trash once it’s out on the market.

https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in

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

Anita Kunz, an illustrator whose work I have long admired, has been working on an interesting portrait series of women she's called "Original Sisters":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aNkd1QLQBE

Some of it will be exhibited at the Norman Rockwell Museum for the next six months:

https://www.nrm.org/2024/09/anitakunz/

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

inquiline@assemblag.es wrote:

Worth the read. Our media-information ecosystem is broken AF for real.

"This is the year in which it became obvious that the right-wing media has more power than the mainstream media. It’s not just that it’s bigger. It’s that it speaks with one voice, and that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country"

https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox

#media #uspol

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

snipe@hackers.town ("snipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ :antiverified:") wrote:

😬

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• Clippy from Microsoft saying: “Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?- I'm aware - Wow, rude” (remote)

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

t54r4n1@mspsocial.net ("the car lane disrespecter") wrote:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/11/12/st-paul-to-wipe-out-medical-debt-for-32000-residents

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

oh yay, I think I *finally* figured out how to properly integrate native threading into my seekrit project. a big chunk o’latency unavoidably built into one function (talking to someone else’s server) was pushing it into synchronous request-handling. native threading & ‘vibe.d futures’ was the solution.

I know I am on the right track to properly ‘grokking the problem’ when my code begins not just working right (according to logging), but also getting smaller and simpler and faster.

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• a cartoon snail circus (remote)
• a silly shaggy blonde dog lying back on a cloud in the sunshine and smiling, tongue out (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

muan ("Mu-An") wrote:

I saw my JavaScript dos and donts post making the rounds and people have criticisms. I do not want to engage because I am very fragile. YOU WIN.

I volunteer @slightlyoff (?) for you to argue with.

But anyways I added an addendum to address and clarify some criticism:

- this doesn't scale
- what is a dash
- what is the point

I don't mean to throw my CV around but I doubt most folks asking about scaling has had to serve as many users as GitHub had to. But you do you!

https://muan.co/posts/javascript

Reblogged by jwz:

textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:

Down since the archive had to retool, emulation in the browser at @internetarchive is BACK.

A quarter million programs and growing can run free again.

But all anyone cares about is our #1 title:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990

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jwz wrote:

Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You're Fucked
https://jwz.org/b/ykdD

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jwz wrote:

Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the Greatest Music Video Of All Time, The Wild Boys by Duran Duran. I had some more words to say about that six years ago when I posted jwz mixtape 2ØØ: The Greatest Music Videos Of All Time. However, since YouTube is, always has been, and will always continue to be a complete trash fire, that playlist doesn't work any more. So let's watch that mixtape on archive.org instead. Enjoy your next three hours.
https://jwz.org/b/ykc9

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

What a lovely poster!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/12/nice/

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• Latrodectus species (remote)

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

Conservatives spent years purging voter rolls, suppressing votes, gerrymandering, buying the Supreme Court, pouring billionaire money into elections, buying up news sites, and flooding the internet with disinformation, but Democrats are somehow lining up to blame other Democrats for what went wrong.

jwz wrote:

I really should have expected all of the people answering questions I didn't ask. I really should have.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

pablolarah wrote:

🟥 A Smashing Hour with… Alex Russell @slightlyoff

Tuesday, November 19, 8–9 am PT / 5–6 pm CET

Host: Geoff Graham @geoff
Via Zoom
#SmashingHour #AlexRussel

https://ti.to/smashingmagazine/smashing-hour-alex

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• White text on red background: A Smashing Hour with… Alex Russell

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

the decimation of locally-produced broadcast radio continues apace

https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/local-iheart-radio-stations-layoff-hosts-company-19909869.php

gonna end up with nothing but three bash scripts being run by three corporate juggernauts all churning out jack fm playlists from coast to coast. the worst.

jwz wrote:

Didn't there used to be some trick to force everyone to unfollow your Twitter account? My twitter accounts only exist to prevent name-squatting but it would please me for them to have 0 people following them.

jwz wrote:

I guess the Rittenhouse plot from Timeless was actually a documentary.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

To our patrons: don’t use the Patreon app on your iPhone!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/09/to-our-patrons-dont-use-the-patreon-app-on-your-iphone/

Reblogged by jwz:

researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Them: I'm interested in AI ethics

Me: Oh like Enclosure of the digital commons?

Them: No

Me: De facto torture of Black people to curate the ChatGPT training corpus for starvation wages?

Them: No

Me: The environmental impact of manufacturing and constantly running server farms, and the colonial and exploitative nature of that?

Them: No

Me: Important decisions made by a machine that basically does bias laundering?

Them: No, like if the AI might be sentient

Me: (Internal screaming)

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

SF immigration advocates prepare for ‘emboldened’ Trump administration

San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city places it in the bullseye for an attack from an emboldened Donald Trump administration. This time, however, lawyers and community advocates have seen the playbook, and have already begun steeling themselves. “This is the second time around … and he’s got more ideas, apparently,” said Bill Hing, the founding director of the University of San Francisco’s Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic.

https://missionlocal.org/2024/11/sf-immigration-advocates-prepare-for-trump-administration/

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cdm@bookwyrm.social wrote:

Review of "The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Boxed Set" (5 stars): The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

https://bookwyrm.social/user/cdm/review/3971262

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• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Boxed Set (1986, Del Rey) (remote)

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cryptadamist@universeodon.com ("⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯") wrote:

this 1933 diplomatic cable from the american embassy in berlin to FDR that was sent three months after #Hitler took power goes hard

"𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺."

#Germany #EU #nazi #Nazis #AfD #FDR #ww2 #WWII #WinstonChurchill

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• I think the Department must be exceedingly careful in its dealings with Germany as long as the present Government is in power as it has no spokesman who can really be depended upon and those who hold the highest positions are capable of actions which really outlaw them from ordinary intercourse I think we must recognize that while the Germany of today wants peace, it is by no means a peaceful country . The present Gov. and its adherents desire peace ardently for the present because they need peace to carry through the changes in Germany which they want to bring about. What they want to do, however, definitely is to make Germany the most capable instrument of war that there has ever existed. Wherever one goes in Germany one sees people drilling, from children of five and six on, up to those well into middle age. A psychology is being developed that the whole world is against Germany and that it lies defenseless before the world. People are being trained against gas attacks, against airplane attacks, and the idea of war and danger from one's neighbors is constantly harped upon. With few exceptions, the men who are running this Government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere. Others are exalted and in a frame of mind that knows no reason. The majority are woefully ignorant and unprepared for the tasks which they have to carry through every day. (remote)

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

Democrats' election abortion strategy falls flat:

"Abortion-rights advocates did receive some wins Tuesday night — in the form of several abortion ballots that would enshrine protections around reproductive freedoms into state constitutions, which passed in Arizona, Maryland and more, while failing in Florida and others. Yet abortion itself didn’t necessarily translate into a winning issue up the ballot for candidates ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/11/12/democrats-election-abortion.html

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

Judge To Zuckerman: Release Your App First, Then We’ll Talk Section 230 | Techdirt:

"This part of the law (Section 230) almost never comes up in litigation, but Ethan Zuckerman, who has spent years trying to inspire a better internet (partly as penance for creating the pop-up ad), along with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, tried to argue that this section means that a platform, like Meta, can’t threaten legal ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/11/12/judge-to-zuckerman.html