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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:
We’re now in the “Guy on Substack saying Bluesky is a rejection of Big Tech” phase of the hype.
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Mastodon Feedfiltergraph is the sendmail.cf of video.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I have spent my day filling out all the paperwork to cash out 180 savings bonds. This seems like something that ought to be trivial but has been turned into an exercise in petty tedium.
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danpacheco@newsie.social wrote:
First time hearing about this. Hackers have been trying to take down the Internet Archive. If that's lost, how will I go back and find my janky hand-coded web pages on Washingtonpost.com from its first year after launch? But seriously, losing the Waybackmachine would mean literally losing history. Maybe it's time for a Gofundme to raise funds for the Internet Archive.
From: @gutenberg_org
https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113492506733243074
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UncleSpellbinder ("Dave") wrote:
"Police responding to reports of a racist flag being flown from a Wānaka property found the home was instead flying the colours of the Klingon Empire from Star Trek." 🖖 🤣
https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/racist-flag-w%C4%81naka-actually-klingon-insignia
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Valuable lessons were learned, but not the ones that the mother thought would be learned.🤷🏿♂️
* She learned that millions of Black people haven't been "making it all up" about police mistreatment
* She learned why US Black folk almost never call the police, for any reason
* Her son learned that his own mom is not safe. Her lack of understanding of US racism makes her dangerous
* She's probably going to learn that this does not meet the definition of police misconduct
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luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
Some media outlets are already sane-washing Bhattacharya. To learn more about how he has spread disinformation that undermines public health, is widely discredit by real experts, and is funded by dark money, read this piece by Walker Bragman who has tracked him throughout the pandemic: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
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trashheap@social.avoidbig.tech ("trashHeap") wrote:
Joan Armatrading has a new album dropping in like a week called "How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean?" and this is the best timed shit I can think of.
Mastodon Feedjef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:
Look at the mess a scooter made of this corner.
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Mastodon Feedjames@social.howellcloud.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:
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- Meme: Kamala Harris, beaming from the podium at her concession speech: "IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY"; Neveah Crain and Josseli Barnica (both recently died in Texas from untreated miscarriage), Hanan Ashrawi (longtime Palestinian activist), Karine Jean-Pierre (White House Press Secretary), Rachel Levine (Surgeon General), all captioned "THE FUCK IT IS"; final panel, Liz Cheney, no caption (remote)
Mastodon Feedjames@social.howellcloud.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:
Honestly baffled
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I would like to propose a "whoosh" button that only appears on reply posts so that people can kindly notify me when I've missed the point of the original post.
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redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
Move slow and breakfast
Mastodon Feeddanhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
Dan, it's Sam Altman again and I'm in trouble.
In the race to build AGI for all, I'm falling behind.
I know you've supported me before, but I need to know if you're with me now.
Will you share at least 10 more gigabytes of personal training data?
With stakes this high, we have to win.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mina@berlin.social ("Mina") wrote:
Just a reminder:
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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:
We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
after a failed laptop surgery, i have set up my writing laptop as my main laptop
except i can't log into twitter, it doesn't recognise my 2FA
i'm free?
EDIT: oh no i managed to log in to x the everything app
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TheDarkHorse@hackers.town ("Spidey") wrote:
Today I was part of the mass layoff at work.
If you're looking for someone that can do the following roles, I'd appreciate it:
- Security Threat Researcher
- Security Engineer
- Threat Detection Engineer
- Incident Response AnalystLocation: US
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yes, centralized is easier to grok at first than decentralized… you don’t have to make choices, pesky decisions… and centralized systems are waaaaay more fragile, both as technical & social information networks.
IMHO: understanding information networks & flow is critical to understanding what is happening to our body politics in this particular historical moment.
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
Rather than require you to figure out which server to join, as Mastodon does, Bluesky initially centralized the user experience on one server so users could see one feed, just like on Twitter.
It's still basically one server, or one relay, anyway, which is where most people get the data from.
Like it's "less confusing" and "you don't have to pick a server" because it's not really decentralized.
And yes, centralized things are easier to use and understand than decentralized things.
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JuliusGoat ("A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆") wrote:
Christians of good intentions need to accept the fact that the signs and symbols of Christianity now represent a genuine menace and a credible threat of violence to all the kinds of people Jesus told followers to serve. The cross once again represents only a tool of authoritarian torture and death.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
AverageDog ("Nils M Holm") wrote:
Here is my latest #book: "Write Your Own Programs" is a fun but no-nonsense introduction to #programming. It discusses programs of increasing size an complexity while inviting the reader to come up with their own solutions. The text starts with simple examples and then slowly picks up the pace until it arrives at a text mode video game and a WordStar-like text editor.
Want to start programming or get past the first steps? This might be the right book for you!
http://t3x.org/wyop/
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- The cover of the book "Write Your Own Programs", showing a stylized computer screen and keyboard and a star with the text "100% AI-Free!"
- A cartoon of a small creature being examined under a looking glass. Below the drawing there is a caption saying "a closer look". This is the title page of a chapter in the book.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, I admit it requires a bit of planning, which maybe not many people will be able to pull off for various reasons.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
When I first joined Mastodon flavored fediverse, I had already been gathering the account handles of people I might want to follow on here. People had been announcing their new handles in various ways. I guess I curated my own "starter pack" and growth hacked myself?
It wasn't a bunch of people, but it was enough. I'm much happier going slow with this sort of thing, but I understand other people have different needs or would find this difficult especially if they only use a mobile device.
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Kaya@photog.social ("Kaja") wrote:
Kontraste.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
And yet the sun rises.
The Mycena family of mushrooms are one of my favourites. They're prolific and common, and mostly vary only in colour, but they're consistently cute, and they have a charming love of mossy surfaces.
#fungiFriday #mushtodon #mushrooms #fungi #photography #nature #naturePhotography #macro #macrophotography #fediArt #fineArt #art #moss #mosstodon
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Mastodon FeedSpending money with a crony oligarch to demonstrate loyalty to the unstable vindictive leader.
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codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:
The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don't use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead "share on $thing" buttons on the web.
https://codepen.io/codepo8/pen/rNXbjgJ
https://w3c.github.io/web-share/
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@nolan This is a choice, specifically, about class and inclusion. For the benefit of the enfranchised and the comfortable, Bluesky is making their service less accessible to folks who are less wealthy. The pushback I get when pointing out how utterly incompetent their web 2.4MB critical path JS bundle (and fonts served without compression) are is invariably a sort of reflexive defense about how they're "trying so hard" and "just a small team" (rinse, repeat).
And it's both true and telling.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So I've got a bsky acct, and y'all, their web app is everything I warn about. It's React (because they have capitulated to the App Store game via Expo and "need" React Native), but it's also web-as-afterthought-flavoured React. Which is going just about as well as you might expect for folks who don't own the latest devices:
Mastodon's React mistakes pale in comparison and, ofc, @nolan's pinafore.social blows them both out of the water. Failure this bad is a choice.