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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Really informative post by @gavinanderegg about #Bluesky tech: “Bluesky is slightly more decentralized than, say, Facebook — but not by much. Yes, you can host your own data. Yes, you can scrape all of the content on the network. But you can’t do anything with it unless you’re attached to the Bluesky service. I believe this will change with time, but it will be prohibitively expensive and we’re not there yet.” https://anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/maybe-bluesky-has-won

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dymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:

The RNA technology that was used to develop most of the covid vaccines is driving an absolute revolution in medicine right now. A vaccine for malaria, the disease that has killed more people than anything else in history. Personalized vaccines for cancers — the list goes on and we're just getting started. Much of this development is locked up in commercial pharma companies — there are papers, of course but replicating them in practice, let alone continuing development, is very hard without active access to the team involved. It's also very expensive. A lot of that development money comes from the US government. Now, yes it's a problem that that funding is going to private companies that are ransoming patients for their life savings in exchange for life-saving medicine, but this is as much a regulatory problem as it is a structural one. As long as those teams exist, the possibilities of these tools exist also.

Having an American government that wants to actively dismantle vaccine-related research and eliminate its funding is an existential threat to humanity:

https://mas.to/@Fitnessfoundry/113484127007301813

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Surprise - I did find out from Mastodon who won the Tyson-Paul match this morning 😮 Since I haven’t built up a massive and curated follow list I was pretty pessimistic. However, I want to give Bluesky another chance as well, I hear it’s a less serious place and easier to build up good timeline.

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kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

In a piece for Vogue, Edith Zimmerman writes about trading one addiction for another: A Former Drinker Asks, Am I Addicted to Running? “But I don’t want to stop.” https://kottke.org/24/11/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-running

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the_consequences@zirk.us ("The Consequences of MAGA") wrote:

November 15, 2024—Disbarred former US Attorney and Four Seasons Total Landscaping press conference organizer Rudy Giuliani surrendered several keepsake watches, other jewelry, and a vintage Mercedes-Benz convertible to attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss as part of the damages he owes them for falsely claiming they manipulated vote counts in the 2020 election.

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

trying to come up with some coherent analysis of the success of Herr Trump this second time around. sometimes taking a step back & thinking about how I am thinking about a problem is useful, & reading “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by Yuval Noah Harari may prove to be useful in this:

“What we usually think of as ideological and political conflicts often turn out to be clashes between opposing types of information networks.”

https://a.co/2DbQt61

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

Today in History: Bill Ham first demonstrates his psychedelic "Light Show", 1965

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

Today in History: Albert Hofmann synthesizes LSD in Switzerland, 1938

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

Today in History: Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869

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

I wrote a new essay about Web 3.0 and what may come of it.

It's titled "The Computational Web," and I think the Internet will hate it.

It needs a few more rounds of edits, and then I'll publish it. I can't wait.

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• Portrait of fra Luca Pacioli: two men, one in a black cloak drawing on a blackboard set on the table with a floating orb-like object in front of him. The other man, long curly red hair in a blue and red coat with fur.

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

It's okay and good for multiple online social platforms to exist that meet diverse needs. It's okay to have small niche platforms (e.g. forums) that won't be a global brand name. The concept of competition in social media platforms only makes sense from a corporate "must consume all the revenue and extract all the profit" angle. Step outside of that, and there's nothing to win. But you might find community.

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mckra1g ("Molly Cranberries-Kraig 🦃") wrote:

Gallows humor is gonna get us all through this shitstorm.

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• Split screen meme of Marco Rubio on the left and RFKjr on the right. The words beneath them read “Marco” and “Polio.”

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airspeedswift ("Ben Cohen") wrote:

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• The Geordie La Forge / Drake meme, where Geordi is saying no to the phrase “Vaccine Skeptic”, and instead pointing favorably at “Disease Advocate”

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

evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Teen Vogue continues to lead the revolution and people who devalue media aimed at teenage girls and young women at a time when their bodily autonomy is under attack can fuck off.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-do-before-the-trump-administration-takes-office-in-january

jwz wrote:

Sometimes The Onion makes a joke that is just for me, and in this case, it is that the logo of Global Tetrahedron LLC is a dodecahedron.

ANDROALPHUS: [...] When he appears in human form, he can be forced to give lessons of geometry. He is an astronomer and, besides, he teaches how to skillfully argue over details.

I say to you, whomst among us has not leaned against the bar and drunkenly given lessons of geometry.

https://jwz.org/b/ykdO

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

*Trump slapping the side of the Cabinet* “You would not believe how many sex offenders can fit in this baby.”

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jon@gruene.social ("Jon Worth") wrote:

“Everyone’s leaving, but we’re buying ads because we fear retribution from the owner”

FFS

What a time to be alive

https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/

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

SOLD! Probably.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/15/too-late-i-think/

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luca@social.luca.run ("Luca Hammer") wrote:

I collected posts from people using TweetXer to exterminate their Tweets. It makes me happy that my script helps them with letting go.

#Twitter #Xcorp

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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

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jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com ("jr conlin —〰—") wrote:

Oh, look. the Mozilla Foundation is asking for community feedback about what folk want them to focus on.

Anyone have opinions?

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

jwz wrote:

Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains: Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet.
https://jwz.org/b/ykdM

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

sigh… okay, so that did not work right ;^{

time to stop & take a long break

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

oh yeah: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

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

So you might be wondering: now that I’m over mainstream media, where do I get my news?
Answer: mainly from BBC Sounds, the app from the BBC, which delivers high quality radio reporting from all over the world, for free. It’s not perfect, but... [3/3]

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

3) The Democratic brand is toxic. FALSE. As Democratic “strategists” (euphemism for “unemployed gasbags”) bloviate on cable news about why their party lost, I’m reminded of a famous quote from the great political humorist Will Rogers: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
The mainstream media have been amplifying the lazy critiques of this circular firing squad… [2/3]

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

on “mainstream media” gaslighting the public
(from The Borowitz Report)

...classics of the gaslighting genre.

1. Donald Trump won in a landslide. FALSE. As of this writing, Trump’s popular vote margin over Harris is only two percent...
   2) Kamala Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign. FALSE. No campaign is flawless, but Harris… had to mount hers in a mere hundred days and… in a year when incumbent parties were swept out of power around the world... [1/3]

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rail_@bark.lgbt ("rail :neofox:​:therian:") wrote:

Many of you might already know that due to historical reasons, Japan uses two incompatible power systems with mismatched frequencies

That has its consequence in railways too

Meet Tokyo Central station. As you can see, western and eastern Shinkansen lines terminate here. They're not connected with each other and use different electrification depending on which part of the country the line goes to – 25kV 50Hz or 60Hz

Normal-speed lines use 1.5kV DC electrification

This small infodump was brought to you by @aroma who brought my attention to that detail

#railinfodump

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• Open Railway Map electrification layer. Shows Tokyo Central station with lines using 1.5kV (pass-tbrough normal speed lines) and two terminating Shinkansen lines, one using 25kV 50Hz and the other 25kV 60Hz (remote)
• Open Railway Map infrastructure layer showing details of lines going through/terminating at Tokyo Central station (remote)

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

How cloud computing became a global monopoly - Investors' Chronicle https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/content/7ee67f8b-8f54-56f8-ae2e-ea649ee698ae

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

Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute https://ainowinstitute.org/publication/policy/compute-and-ai#h-what-is-compute-and-why-does-it-matter