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

Is this a pessimistic post, or an optimistic post? I can't tell anymore.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/14/at-least-some-of-the-phenomena-trying-to-kill-us-are-beautiful/

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• Taal volcano eruption (remote)

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

okay, this is hilarious

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.CnyF.7iy2fxV4zn0z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The Internet and Engaged Citizenship | American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Great read on the history of the World Wide Web. https://www.amacad.org/publication/internet-and-engaged-citizenship/section/2

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

‘One anonymous House GOP member told Axios: “We wanted him out of the House … this isn’t what we were thinking.” Another remarked they were “stunned and disgusted”.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/republicans-matt-gaetz-trump-attorney-general

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

“Trump has signaled he will authorize an execution spree of all inmates sentenced to death by the US government as one of his first acts after his inauguration on 20 January… would be a continuation of the 13 federal executions carried out at the end of Trump’s first term in office.

The sudden burst of Trump executions, carried out over six months in 2020-21, was the most intense period of federal judicial killings under any president in more than 120 years…”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/14/biden-death-row-clemency

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

Johns Hopkins study: “The United States’s blossoming emergence as a clean energy superpower could be stopped in its tracks by Donald Trump, further empowering Chinese leadership and forfeiting tens of billions of dollars of investment to other countries…”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/trump-clean-energy-climate-policies

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

The United States of America's alignment exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/14/government-by-spite/

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• The Chaotic Evil Code (remote)

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

hagen ("hagen terschüren") wrote:

i did a blog: as i’m diving back into home automation i see a lot of content talking about cameras, home surveillance and security. don’t fall for sales tactics based on fear. it’s not only costing you money but also your sanity.

https://ausnahmsweise.net/stop-scaring-yourself/

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

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

Meanwhile, over at COP29, things are going _so_ very well...

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• Oil and gas are 'the gift of God', COP29 host tells cliimate summit (remote)

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

Today in History: Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, 1900

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

Today in History: Czechoslovakia becomes a republic, 1918

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

@K5KHK [waves hello]

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

@sil @nolan @tomayac as a professional developer of ridiculously complicated web apps, I can with extreme prejudice say that anything the platform can do to *remove tooling* would be a good thing for my teams development.

Tooling is without doubt the biggest drag on the JS ecosystem today. I spent a disproportionate amount of time making transpiling, bundling, testing and debugging work reliably and every 'upgrade' brings a new suite of weird bugs and time sink.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

At performance.now() in Amsterdam; taking a risk with this talk to explain *why* perf work is so important today.

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mcc wrote:

They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul but personally I think the windows of the soul are those two little windows on your back below the shoulderblades. That's where the wings plug in.

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• Great Buddha at Kamakura, rear shot. Two open windows are on the back

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

cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

:thonking:

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• The image shows a skeletal figure, resembling the Grim Reaper, sitting at a cluttered desk with a computer, surrounded by stacks of papers and books. The figure is wearing a dark hooded cloak and appears to be working or typing on the computer. The background includes shelves filled with books and other items. The scene is dark and somewhat eerie, with a blue-green color palette. Below the image, there is text that reads: "For the last time: Abyss = for staring into Void = for screaming into Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that."

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jwz wrote:

@dangillmor My experience is that any article with Twitter embeds isn't an article at all, it's a "some people are saying" listicle. I might as well be watching a local weatherman doing man-on-the-street interviews about how wet the rain is.

"Nothing of value was lost", in other words.

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JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:

I would like to opt out of finding out, I was not doing any of the fucking around

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danwentzel@urbanists.social ("Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Watching President Biden and other top Democrats meet with Trump and normalize him in their concession speeches is the equivalent of the "This is Fine" meme.

Donald Trump attempted a coup. Just because he won't go to prison doesn't mean he didn't do the crime.

Who are they trying to convince that everything is normal? Themselves?

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• KC Green's "On Fire" comic with a dog drinking a cup of coffee in a room that's on fire saying "This is fine." (remote)

jwz wrote:

In happier news, I got a really cool book today.

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• 01cab2b844b0907f.jpg

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mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

Music to fall asleep to

https://youtu.be/cHoKkbvvIlM?si=r29bGVDGgDsfnEbV

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• 5 Hours Of Silence Occasionally Interrupted By Soviet National Anthem (remote)

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TechThreadsByAidan@me.dm ("Aidan Raymond") wrote:

Why BlueSky is not a viable alternative https://medium.com/@aidanraymond/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748 #Fediverse #Mastodon #bluesky

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. “I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.” https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-journalist-and-im-changing-the-way-i-read-news-this-is-how/

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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

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• Homer Simpson telling Bart, “ The worst appointment so far” (remote)

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deadline ("Deadline") wrote:

Dick Van Dyke Is Glad He “Won’t Be Around” For Trump Presidency
#Politics #2024Election #2024presidentialelection #DickVanDyke #DonaldTrump #Election #ElectionLine #KamalaHarris #Presidentialelection

https://deadline.com/2024/11/dick-van-dyke-glad-wont-be-around-trump-presidency-1236176321/

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dunequotes@botsin.space ("Dune Quotes") wrote:

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

The fact that all these court cases against Trump are just self-evaporating right now shows that "checks and balances" was always a silly fairy tale.

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

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

As of last night, my first two books — RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN, and RESPONSIVE DESIGN: PATTERNS AND PRINCIPLES — are available to read online, for free.

I had some emotions about it: https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/books-no-longer-apart/

#blogging #bookstodon #ResponsiveDesign

jwz wrote:

Have there been studies investigating whether repeated COVID infections lead to a reduced willingness to take basic precautions like wearing masks? Because it really feels like we've got a Cordyceps / Toxoplasmosis situation going on here.

https://jwz.org/b/ykdK

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subjacentish@zeroes.ca ("Subjacent Banana") wrote:

Academics and media people prefer Bluesky to Mastodon because they fundamentally need to be validated by an institution.

They are completely incapable of constructing their own meaning - even on the internet.😆