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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

"Imagine if you and your partner discovered that the same lawyer was representing *both* of you in the divorce, while also serving as the judge, *and* trying to match with both of you on Tinder. Now imagine that when the divorce terms were finalized, lawyer got your family home."

@pluralistic on the loony and ruinous conflicts of interest that come from Google's monopoly position online

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/

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

The 3D View panel in Edge Devtools just saved my bacon in an *wild* bug hunt.

High CPU load iff:

• logged in
• wide monitor
• clear cache

...masked by hard to spot `!important` in "utility" CSS class.

Phew.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Please, use the `for` attribute on labels so input value can be changed by clicking on label as well: https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/XejRbo/

#html #a11y #accessibility

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• Video recording: shows how clicking the label to select a checkbox/ radio button option doesn't work unless that label has a for attribute set to that input's id.

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

hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Not a safety paper, but just to get an idea of what things are like: More than zero committee participants voted against 8-bit bytes: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/2131

Reblogged by jwz:

GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

THE FIRST "REALITY TV" PITCH

TV EXEC: OK it's cheap garbage that saves us money on talent and writing, but what do we do for "drama"?

PRODUCER: We'll cast assholes.

EXEC: And this WON'T destroy America?

PRODUCER: lol probably not

Reblogged by jwz:

tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Since I saw a report about 1984 (because of a new audio version done for motherfucking Audible!) with the same talking points, here's the usual correction:

1984 is not a book about total surveillance. It's a book about how to ensure the middle class will never stand with the lower classes against power. It's about how to destroy solidarity. In 1984 only the middle class is surveilled, the lower classes (proles) and the upper class (inner party) are not. It's a book about power and class politics that is more relevant than ever - but not "because our phones surveil us".

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

MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

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jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's our birthday
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/11/22.html

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

mheadd ("Mark Headd") wrote:

This important guidance from OIRA will help federal agencies take steps to learn and understand how people make use of government websites and online forms. It's a watershed moment, and a lot of people in the world of #CivicTech are really excited about this. I am too. 1/3

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2024/11/21/ensuring-effective-and-timely-usability-research/

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

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Breaking, CMA Provisional Report Just Released:

"Apple’s rules appear to be holding back a category of apps known as ‘progressive web apps’ (PWAs) that are lower cost and easier for developers to build since they can run on any operating system"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673f2d334ebce30ac7baf035/Summary_of_provisional_decision.pdf

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

taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

These anti trans bills are huge threats to civil liberties and we should do everything in our power to fight them https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nancy-maces-federal-trans-bathroom

jwz wrote:

"A defense secretary with a tenuous grip on reality, who can’t differentiate foreign enemies from domestic political opponents, and who seems to exist in a state of permanent hysteria is a problem that the US has never had to survive. The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/pete-hegseth-books-trump/680744/

jwz wrote:

Traffic Sign Liberation.

Boulder: "We don't right now have any information about who put them up," department spokesperson Dionne Waugh said Thursday. "We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdW

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jwz wrote:

Every time I see someone Well Actually that Dorsey isn't involved in Bluesky any more I just hear: "Pfffff Hitler fired Goebbels *months* ago."

Yes this is a subtwit.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

A remarkable moment: I started a new chat with ChatGPT after clearing my history. Its memory allowed it to remember which brand of instant camera I had bought, and then when I shared a photo, it immediately recognized my dog by name. Technology has become oddly intimate.

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

edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

Along with everyone else (bah AI) we've been experimenting with Whisper for transcribing media that lack transcripts. The thinking being that any transcript is probably better for accessibility? (we'll see)

We noticed that when you tell Whisper to generate word timestamps the JSON file it generates also includes confidence levels for each word [0-1].

I thought it might be useful/fun to be able to view the JSON transcript with confidence levels colored, so here is https://edsu.github.io/whisper-transcript/

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

spritely@social.coop ("The Spritely Institute") wrote:

Hello! We're the Spritely Institute and we're building Spritely, next-generation decentralized network tech! https://spritely.institute

We're building off experience from standardizing ActivityPub (two of our co-founders worked on it!) and researching techniques to build the future of secure collaboration!

(We just moved here from @spritelyinst, hello!)

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

"... an inside-out way of talking about context collapse. Context collapse—communication tuned for one socially distinct group but encountered by another, with uncomfortable and mind-bending sometimes life-ruining results—emerges from Erving Goffman’s work in the 1950s, as expanded by Joshua Meyrowitz in his No Sense of Place in the 1980s, and which danah boyd began resuscitating and applying to the internet in the early 2000s."

https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

h/t jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

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

jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

@kissane
"Because yes, the existence of dipshits is indeed unfixable, but building arrays of Dipshit Accelerators that allow a small number of bad actors to build destructive empires defended by Dipshit Armies is a choice. The refusal to genuinely remodel that machinery when its harms first appear is another choice."

https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

Or, as I've said: culture is reciprocal with affordances, and everything is downstream from culture.

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

if true, that would mean one can buy a State Attorney General for $27,500... I had no idea they were that cheap.

to rephrase Simon Cameron: "An honest politician is one who, when bought, will stay bought."

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

"No one in elective office shielded Jeffrey Epstein more than Pam Bondi."

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/115571163.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

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

every bag of gunpowder produced by the DPRK for their Russian allies is a bag of fertilizer their farmers will not have next growing season.

DPRK munitions production for the Russian war against Ukraine this Fall and Winter seems likely to produce further starvation in DPRK next Spring.

Reblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):

tailscale@hachyderm.io ("Tailscale") wrote:

How do we get by with such a small infra team? Our tech lead explains how we use Tailscale while building Tailscale, which keeps her attention off finicky networking problems https://tailscale.com/blog/infra-team-stays-small

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

peachfront@toot.community wrote:

No flash used here but this rare species turned out to be surprisingly cooperative on its gathering grounds so handheld photography worked out just fine... have some flying photos I can develop & post later but this is minimally processed to hurry up & show you my brag

"I'm a Marvelous Spatuletail and you're not"

#bird #birds #birding #hummingbird #hummingbirds #EndangeredSpecies #Rare #Nature #Outdoors #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #NikonZ8

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• A fancy hummingbird with a vividly fluorescent turquoise & green gorget (throat) and a snazzy purple crown sits in profile on a skinny vine to show off the length of its very long tail flowing and fluttering behind it. The two central tail feathers are just long straight ribbons but the two outer flowing tail feathers are much longer and curvier ribbons capped with broad oval pancake-flat feathers that flutter around like a pair of butterfly wings to draw attention away from the main hummingbird. This is the male Marvelous Spatuletail. Photo by Peachfront. Nov. 13, 2024. (remote)

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

jencmars@mastodon.art ("Jen C Mars") wrote:

Fluff

#art #drawing #moth

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• Photo of a sketchbook with a drawing of a cute, fluffy stylized cecropia moth in blue pencil. A blue pencil in a pencil holder is also visilble. (remote)

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

I'm still plugging away, although getting time to draw has been a struggle recently. I'm sharing two that, like many things in life, aren't the best but also not the worst.

The Santa wannabe was not planned. I started with what became the top of the bag, and the rest followed from that.

I included a bonus snail, because snail shells are fun to draw and look at.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• A wannabe Santa figure struggles to drag a large sack of something (hopefully toys) across the ground. He's pulling with the sack over his left shoulder and furrowing his brow and squinting his eyes with the strain. Large, wet flakes of snow are falling, and there's a thin layer of snow on the ground. Just in front of the wannabe Santa, there's a small dog leading the way. (remote)
• 3/4 view of a cartoon snail with a look of shock or horror. The caption above the snail reads, "In his haste, Gary had unknowingly stumbled into a salt field." Don't worry. Gary eventually figures a way out of his predicament. He's like a snail MacGyver. (remote)

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

“Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling rings.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/linda-mcmahon-sexual-abuse-lawsuit-trump-education-secretary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

money doesn’t talk, it screams…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/us/politics/rockbridge-trump-vance-wiles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“In 2013, Ms. Bondi’s office received nearly two dozen complaints about Mr. Trump’s short-lived for-profit university, and her aides said she was considering joining a multistate lawsuit… Four days later, Ms. Bondi’s political action committee received a $25,000 contribution from a nonprofit funded by Mr. Trump. She never joined the lawsuit.

Both Mr. Trump and Ms. Bondi have denied a quid pro quo. But Mr. Trump had to pay a $2,500 fine…”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

"… she tried unsuccessfully to overturn and weaken the Affordable Care Act, opposed expanding legal protections for the L.G.B.T.Q. community and cultivated a national reputation by supporting anti-human-trafficking efforts.

She also drew fire for her fund-raising practices — and for persuading the governor at the time, Rick Scott, to postpone an execution in 2013 because it conflicted with a fund-raiser for her re-election campaign."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/us/politics/pam-bondi-trump-attorney-general.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare