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

feel free to give it a whirl at:

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

and select “Stories”.

remember: this is early testing stage software, so no guarantees your computer won’t halt & catch fire… but more likely you’ll just get a smile, not a conflagration. I’ll be adding a login/session authentication system shortly, but for now it is open & user reports are welcome ( support@arghstudios.com ). a hard request may take 5-15 seconds, so give the poor Artificial Stoopid some slack. we know latency suxs.

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

I’ll put together a reasonable “About” page mañana, explaining our focus on Safety, Effectiveness, & Trustworthiness. our design goals: child-safe story ideas, at 5th grade reading comprehension level, with minimal logging as necessary for development & QA.

we do *not* track the contents of your story idea requests, nor the response contents. these are *your* story ideas. this product is for adults to operate, not kids. this is not a replacement for human storytelling, nor a babysitter.

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kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

The Pentium processor had a minor error in the division algorithm. This error cost Intel $475 million to replace the faulty chips. I've tracked down the FDIV error to this circuit on the die:

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• A closeup of the Pentium die showing complex circuitry. This image shows the middle of three metal layers. The image shows complex horizontal and metal lines, reddish golden in color. (remote)

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

Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Tulsi Gabbard for National Intelligence director...

What's next? Me as Secretary of not stress eating?

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Criminal Trump nominates monstrous Gaetz to oversee criminal justice in America.

The Washington Post calls Gaetz an "outspoken" ally of Trump, and the NY Times calls naming him attorney general a "provocative" move.

Now THAT is how you normalize the criminals in charge of the next U.S. government.

Please spend your news dollars on real journalism, not the pathetic drivel these organizations are feeding you.

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Thatonepersonwithaface@todon.eu ("youknowthatonepersonwithaface") wrote:

@julieofthespirits Good lord in the midst of every other fuck up I had forgotten about that, ths election was like two rival theater companies having their own "Producers" scheme going.

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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• Star Trek Picard scene. We're inside a ship of unknown specificity and Chris Rios is talking to Dr. Agnes Jurati. Nothing whacky otherwise. Closed caption reads, "What is the nature of your psychiatric emergency?"

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jk ("josef") wrote:

imagine if it turned out intel's performance problems were because they kept putting management engines inside management engines and having a kind of rocket-equation freakout where 99% of the die area was just for a succession of increasingly secret nested departments inside the NSA to spy on each other

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hannu_ikonen@zeroes.ca ("Hannu Ikonen") wrote:

Yo when the police peace out, and I don't speak authoritatively on police in Wales here, it's generally fucked up beyond repair.

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• This month the Berlin film festival said it was quitting X, without citing an official reason, and last month the North Wales police force said it had stopped using X because it was “no longer consistent with our values” (remote)

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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.

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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.

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

This

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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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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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• Porygon carries the children away from a glowing explosion on its back (remote)

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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".