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

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• Geoff Garin @geoffgarin.bsky.social If you spend your whole campaign disavowing something, you can't claim afterwards the voters gave you a mandate to do it.
• @Arr The last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on us over and over

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seabikeblog@social.ridetrans.it ("Seattle Bike Blog") wrote:

The New York Times is giving a murder their “both-sides” treatment. What the hell is the matter with you?!? Someone kills a person with their car, and your reaction is to be like, “Some people think murder is bad, but others don’t like bike lanes, so 🤷‍♂️.”

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• Death of Cyclist in Paris Lays Bare Divide in Mayor’s War Against Cars Paul Varry was run over on a city street in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage, as bikers and drivers choose sides. (remote)
• It sent a shock through Paris, a city striving to transform itself into one of the great cycling metropolises in the world: a bicycle rider, crushed under the wheels of an SUV in a bike lane just a few yards from La Madeleine, the landmark neoclassical church, in what prosecutors suspect was a deliberate act of road rage. A murder investigation has been opened, and last week, Mayor Anne Hidalgo led the Paris City Council in a minute of silence for the cyclist, Paul Varry, a 27-year-old who was also a cycling advocate. Ms. Hidalgo, a member of the Socialist Party, delivered an emotional speech in which she signaled she would continue to roll out her famously aggressive policies that aim to drastically reduce the role of the automobile in Parisian life. “I am truly angry,” she said. “The future does not belong to cars.” (remote)
• An outpouring of emotion over Mr. Varry’s Oct. 15 death has put a spotlight on the dangers facing cyclists in a city that has seen an explosion in bikes and cycling lanes in recent years. But it has also underscored the frustrations that motorists increasingly feel in a place that has chosen to limit the movement, speed and parking options of cars. In recent weeks, as cycling organizations, spurred by the death of Mr. Varry, have demanded more protections from aggressive drivers, others have complained about Parisian bikers themselves, some of whom have earned a reputation as dangerous risk-takers. (remote)

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

I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.

Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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

Alright you animals, you asked for it. Don't say I didn't warn you:

https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/

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• current vote totals. "NOW" is winning in a landslide, so here goes nothing... (remote)

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muan ("Mu-An") wrote:

> DOM events are like a lightening strike: … And that entire traversal is synchronous. 🤔 ⚡

👩🏻‍🍳💋

From: @myobie
https://indieweb.social/@myobie/113509315478195653

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

Ok, I've got 6K words burning a hole in my blog on "If Not React, Then What?" (Plus another 3K+ words in footnotes). When should I publish?

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handmade_ghost@sunny.garden ("handmade ghost") wrote:

I spotted this wizard on the outskirts of my neighborhood while out walking the dog this afternoon. It looked almost as though the water had frozen around em. It's been a hauntingly foggy, icy day out there--beautiful and nearly silent with cold.

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• Vertical photo of a striking, large, blue-grey heron with shaggy strands of thin feathers cascading from eir breast and cloak of wings as e hulks in left-facing profile in cold, grey water that is iced over just beyond where e stands. The strange, elegant, wizard like bird--a great blue heron--is looking out into the middle distance over the thick shortsword of eir bill, eir white face, marked with dark blue eybrowlike capping over eir small eye, calm and intense. E is almost perfectly reflected in the icy water below, the water and reflection marred only by the stipling of ice flecks and tiny bits of windblown detritus from the nearby pines. (remote)

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

What does this button do?:

"Of course it being my car, I want to know what all buttons do, so I read the entire manual"

I can’t think of anything personally less relatable than the urge to read a car manual. But god bless people who do. https://blog.koenvh.nl/what-does-this-button-do-cm42u2oi7000a09l42f54g2pr

jwz wrote:

You guys, I found these amazing Black Friday deals on movies: https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=top100:48h_207

jwz wrote:

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

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

I am looking for a front-end *designer* with a solid portfolio. I need someone skilled in UI and creating custom illustrations.

This is for a website project. I will provide a scope and accept bids for anyone reaching out who meets the above qualifications. Questions welcomed.

jwz wrote:

Not just Merely Dead Boys but Really Most Sincerely Dead Boys.

Roko's basilisk will have to wait a little longer for that new Stiv Bators record it requested: Hout says he'd tried to block the AI plan since August, but Chrome and Cleopatra are firm on...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdk

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

kicka$$!

finally got all CRUD (well, really INACTIVATE) operations for user account self-management subsystem class I write up & running & tested…

next up: get 2FA flow going.

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• little kid doing happy dance (remote)

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karttu@oldbytes.space wrote:

@slightlyoff Nice, but I still prefer http://wttr.in

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philipp@social.anoxinon.de ("Philipp") wrote:

@slightlyoff nice! Here is a similar service from Germany http://morgenwirdes.de/

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emk@kirche.social ("ᴇʀʜᴀʀᴅ ᴍᴀʀɪᴀ ᴋʟᴇɪɴ") wrote:

"Die digitalen Räume, in denen wir unsere Zeit verbringen, sind selten #Gemeinschaften. Sie sind #Märkte. Gemeinschaften kultivieren. Märkte extrahieren. Kultivierende treffen Entscheidungen auf der Grundlage dessen, was für die Gemeinschaft am besten ist. Extraktoren sorgen dafür, dass die Zahlen in die Höhe schnellen. Gemeinschaften können natürlich Märkte haben. Aber wenn Märkte die Gemeinschaft leiten, haben wir am Ende das #Internet, das wir heute haben."
@fromjason
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/

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

countering right-wing tactics like FoxNews with MSNBC didn’t work either. the counter to misinformation & disinformation is *not* more information. (see earlier posts on ‘Nexus’ by Harari)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/us/politics/democratic-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk4.SrK7.R5PIi35r4BHa&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

thumbs are a terrible advantage

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2024/11/29

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

A whole lot of people selling the idea that they would "define the future" and "change the world" conveniently omitted that change is a vector; it has both magnitude and direction.

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

Finally received the results for my driving exam today. I passed! Getting a driver’s license in France was shockingly strict. The standards are ultra high. It took four months, including 35 hours of lessons! Both the written and practical tests had almost zero tolerance even for minor errors.

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dancast@wandering.shop ("DanCast") wrote:

Sad that the 5 lbs sugar free Haribo gummy bear bags are no longer available on Amazon. The reviews were priceless.

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

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/113546553529521263

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• Ida B Wells in 1892 on why she bought a pistol (remote)

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Louder, for the people in the back:

I don't fight because I'm sure I'm going to win. I do it because I know that a world in which I don't fight will be worse.

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fsf@hostux.social ("Free Software Foundation") wrote:

"'This equipment is supposed to save your life,' David Burchell, who has type 1 diabetes, told the BBC. 'And basically it broke, just showing a white screen, and I had a panic.'" Read the full article on the importance of software freedom in medical devices: https://u.fsf.org/448

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jerry@infosec.exchange ("Merry Jerry, powered by AI🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️") wrote:

In 2028, I am running for president on the platform of taxing home garden grown produce! People should not be able to exploit that loophole in the system.

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jerry@infosec.exchange ("Merry Jerry, powered by AI🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️") wrote:

I had to break the news to my millennial kids that they’re going to have to choose between housing and their avocado toast, given today’s tariff announcement

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

I love when ppl write in plain language

https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/113563797900348238

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

sometimes the timing of me seeing things in the Multiverse just amazes me. I am beginning to work out a 2FA flow of my own for my seekrit project, to validate user account CREATE email & to authenticate account UPDATE & DISABLE/DELETE operations.

https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/workers-github-oauth

Simon puts out some real gold nuggets in the email newsletter 👍🏼

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

JFC

https://bsky.app/profile/rmac.bsky.social/post/3lc2cywmafs2m

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

- The fact that a worm ate half of RFK Jr’s brain means he won’t have as many thoughts distracting him from his job.
- If you ask me, Kristi Noem’s dog was asking for it.
- Thank God Trump is kicking out all those undocumented workers! If I want fruit and vegetables I’ll just pick them myself.

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(courtesy ‘The Borowitz Report’)