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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Also, important safety tip: you can get closer to this tower without clearly trespassing or jumping fences than any other 50KW broadcast antenna I've ever seen. I measured a field strength of over 80V/m a bit outside the antenna fence, which is an incredibly strong signal (though still within the OSHA limits at the frequency involved).

Resist any temptation to jump the fence and climb the (energized) tower. You'll be electrocuted as soon as you touch it.

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

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR is a 50KW "Class A" (formerly "clear channel") mediumwave (AM) rado station broadcasting on 680 KHz, serving the San Francisco Bay area (and, at night, most of the west coast of the US). Opened in 1922, It was originally known as KPO, (later KNBC, and still later KNBR), and soon became the flagship station for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)'s new western radio network. It is currently owned by Cumulus Media and now broadcasts a sports format.

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

lovelylovely@masto.ai ("CandyK") wrote:

This

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

stefan@gardenstate.social ("Stefan") wrote:

good for the current admins of bluesky.

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• serenablue2024 6 hours ago Nick Fuentes has been suspended from BlueSky. (remote)

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inquiline@assemblag.es wrote:

@julieofthespirits TFW you need to preside over a made-up department in a superpower government bc you're a bad poster

jwz wrote:

Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now's the Time to Put Aside Our Differences.

McSweeney's: Why can't we just agree to disagree? Demonizing Trump voters like me only leads to toxicity, and it's bad for your health to be so...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdH

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jwz wrote:

"I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar.

It's Bluesky. The Nazi Bar is Bluesky.

https://jwz.org/b/ykdF

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Reblogged by mbrubeck@mefi.social:

animefeminist@mstdn.social ("AniFem") wrote:

Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon’s “Electric Soldier Porygon”

Everyone knows the urban legends about the seizure-inducing banned episode of Pokemon. But the facts of what happened are stranger and more complicated than many know

https://www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-innocent-an-epileptic-perspective-on-pokemons-electric-soldier-porygon/

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Drunk snoozing in corner of the staff canteen at a Nuremburg Rally shakes himself, sits up, slurs "whaa—izzthisa nasty—Nazi—bar?" then looks around in shock and stumbles blindly towards the exit. Behind him Dr Goebbels works the crowd into a frenzy as Hitler steps onto the podium.
https://mastodon.well.com/@ianb/113475532003491283

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

my current seekrit project is at https://arghstudios.com:50433/storyForm.html in “it may make your machine halt and catch fire beta” mode, w no password challenge yet

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

startswithabang@astrodon.social ("StartsWithABang") wrote:

A new origin story for supernovae after 94 years

Where do type Ia supernovae come from?

If you said "a white dwarf crossing over the Chandrasekhar mass limit," you're decades out of date.

Time to get on board with double detonation!
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/origin-supernova-94-years/

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

I *think* my little seekrit project is stable enough for some informal testing. there will probably be no security challenge on it before next week, so if you are an adult caretaker of children who needs story ideas from time to time please try it out and let us know what you think. go to:

[https://arghstudios.com:50433/][3]

and select “Stories”.

this is early-beta software, so I’ll not guarantee against your computer halting & catching fire, but I think the amusement is worth the risk.

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

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• "Left this trying to be supportive" Crudely altered screenshot of DM. It reads: Message 1: My Neoliberalism fell apart Message 2: oh no. Are you solution oriented about it or in the feelings stage

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

Dtl ("Dr David Mills") wrote:

A super upgraded Jupiter Ace clone type thing.
https://www.hackster.io/news/alejandro-valero-s-mercury-ace-is-the-tricked-out-jupiter-ace-that-never-was-ee6b7aae2e95

#retrocomputing #z80

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

The ‘Black Insurrectionist’ account is run by a white man:

"Trump is a threat to democracy and the media does far too much to normalize his dangerous ideology. They regularly launder his image, fail to hold him to the same standards as other politicians, and don’t report on him critically enough. But liberal internet users’ have become increasingly comfortable adopting MAGA tactics and talking points in their efforts to ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/11/13/the-black-insurrectionist.html

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

redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab") wrote:

I feel attacked by this highly relatable content

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• Meme using a painting I think it's called "Christina's World" of a woman crawling through grass toward a house in the distance. She's labeled "socialists" the house is labeled "socialism" and the space between them is labeled "the mortifying ordeal of talking to strangers" (remote)

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

using D's std.uuid.randomUUID function to generate a unique identifier for each request/response cycle, then the IP, and finally the time in/out into tab-separated fields in a logfile. this lets me easily use either a spreadsheet or the wonderful eBay tsv utilities package ( https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils ) for analysis during this development & testing cycle. as I move towards production code, I will remove all the logging I can.

IMHO user privacy should be paramount in projects like this.

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

passenger@kolektiva.social ("Passenger") wrote:

@pandora_parrot @Taweret

As several Jewish comrades have pointed out, the concept of antisemitism is being seized (often by non-Jews) and redefined to mean simply "White people being afraid of the existence of Brown people." It's not only racist as fuck, but is ironically also antisemitic.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I have a #legal question: can I release an application for macOS that contains a pixel-perfect recreation of macOS's UI elements? Implemented from scratch by me using Web tech, and not using Apple-provided interfaces.

It seems I could be violating copyright by copying the UI design. OTOH maybe exemptions for interoperability apply?

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

Soon enough, my heart will rot away and I'll be able to open my eyes again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/13/waiting-for-my-eyes-to-adapt-to-the-darkness/

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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x " X is a toxic media platform and … its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse".

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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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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

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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