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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:
Clara Bow
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Mastodon Feedjef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:
Earliest sunsets in SF: last night and tonight, at 4:49:44 pm. Tomorrow's will be two seconds later.
"But Jef," you ask, "it's not the solstice yet. How does that work?" I'm glad you asked! The solstice is the shortest day, but the earliest sunset and the latest sunrise are offset from it in opposite directions because the Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical. Sunrises are still getting later by about a minute per day. They will continue getting later at a slowing pace until January 4th/5th.
Mastodon Feedneurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
The noosphere is pulling no punches today. This is the more tame content.
I’m here for it.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
TikTok (CW): Spotify Wrapped AI podcast casually drops a racial slur https://www.tiktok.com/@motherspooky/video/7444614162484923690
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Saw a post saying we should decentralize Ticketmaster as a way to break up the monopoly. Which, okay, some neat things could come from that. But decentralized services won't fix capitalism.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A fairly comprehensive robots.txt disallow list of known AI crawlers that you can use for your website (and hopefully one day for your Bluesky posts). https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/robots.txt
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kurtseifried@infosec.exchange ("kurtseifried (he/him)") wrote:
@jsonstein also a reminder that the Canadian government appears to be doing a gradual ban of TikTok, starting by booting their offices and operations out: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-ban-canada-operations-what-it-means-1.7377435
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Video: How the Professional Managerial Class Stand in the Way of Progress https://youtu.be/xGqHdD68A3Q?si=9caLsLUkfcRgu_s_
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
“UHC has the highest instance of denials out of all major providers, refusing an estimated one-third of claims submitted … UnitedHealthcare also has the largest market share of health insurance policies, with roughly $215 billion in revenue.”
You kill one man, it’s murder. You result in the deaths of a million people, it’s just business.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:
Still some days to propose the logo and artwork for #DebConf25, that will be held in Brest, France, next year!
https://lists.debian.org/debconf-announce/2024/11/msg00000.html
We have some wonderful proposals already:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25/Artwork/LogoProposals, but don't hesitate to add yours too! It may be the one that makes https://debconf25.debconf.org/ shine!🍥
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“During Mr. Trump’s first term, the tax collector conducted invasive audits of James Comey and Andrew McCabe, formerly top officials at the F.B.I. and perceived enemies of Mr. Trump, though an inspector general later concluded the audits were a random coincidence.”
riiiiiiiiiight. wanna buy a nice bridge?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:
New Cool Collective - Everything is OK
Upbeat, dancey big band jazz with an infectiously positive attitude. Something we could all use a bit more of, I think.
https://newcoolcollective.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-ok
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Comcast said… it would spin off its cable networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, in a bid to unshackle its movie studio and theme parks from the waning fortunes of traditional television… Cable television, once a juggernaut that propelled the share prices of traditional media companies, has become a financial albatross. Though they remain enormously profitable, cable TV channels are in long-term decline as viewers replace subscriptions with streaming services…” NYT (re: reaching potential voters)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
given the importance of TikTok to ‘influencers’, and in turn the importance of ‘influencers’ to the Trump electoral success, there are some interesting countervailing forces contending here:
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Bobblegagger@mastodon.world ("Hermey G") wrote:
@GottaLaff
Lol he's perfect. Per Wikipedia:"In 1992, Perdue took a position as senior vice president of Asia operations for Sara Lee Corporation. During his tenure, Perdue was involved in sourcing suppliers in China and Hong Kong while the company closed dozens of plants in the U.S., four of them in Georgia."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Function calling enables developers to connect language models to external data and systems. You can define a set of functions as tools that the model has access to, and it can use them when appropriate based on the conversation history. You can then execute those functions on the application side, and provide results back to the model."
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling
remember: LLMs provide new agency, not a new tool.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Josiah Moody has explained to me that I've been gay for over 30 years.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Festival of Nicolas, aspect of Odin, leader of the hunt
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Rolling Stones play Altamont Speedway near San Francisco and it is a disaster, 1969
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First sound recording made by Thomas Edison, 1877
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: London becomes the world's first city with motorized taxi-cabs, 1897
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Green is beautiful, how dare you suggest that the Wicked Witch is scary and ugly.
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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:
deck the halls with bats that are jolly
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
seaotta@toot.cafe ("Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch") wrote:
This has been rolling around my brain for a few months so I am happy to finally share my latest blog post ✨
You can pay for that: How web browser features get built
https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2024/12/how-browser-features-are-built/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️⚧️") wrote:
It's gonna be real annoying to be a programmer once we've invented time travel, what with the future selves showing up all the time demanding answers.
Mainly about what the code does, how it works, why did you do it this way, why is this breaking this way, help me debug it, and so on.
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smilingdemon@mastodon.art ("Alastair Temple") wrote:
Because I other things in life have kept me stupidly busy recently and there has been no new art for a while. Here are the pieces that made up my Jumpgates series, completed between 2019 and 2021.
A mix of 2d and 3d techniques were used in creating these.
#ThrowbackThursday #DigitalArt #MastoArt #ArtOnMastodon #ArtByAlastairTemple #Scifi #ScienceFictionArt #spaceship
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- Science fiction illustration showing a "jumpgate" in orbit around an orange gas giant. The jumpgate acts as a portal through which a terrestrial planet can be seen. The jumpgate is face onto the viewer. (remote)
- Science fiction illustration showing a "jumpgate" in orbit around an orange and green gas giant. The jumpgate is at an oblique angle to the viewer and empty space can be seen beyond it. (remote)
- Science fiction illustration showing a set of "jumpgate" in orbit above the moon. Different views are visible through all of the gates, a sleek spaceship is emerging from the central gate. The piece is in black and white. (remote)
- Science fiction illustration showing a ruined ring structure emerging from behind a foreground asteroid. Also visible is a deep space probe in the design of late 20th century probes (uses a 3d model provided by NASA). (remote)
Mastodon FeedOscillofun is a #music track with waveforms that double as its music video when plotted on an X/Y oscilloscope (great #demoscene vibes):
Mastodon Feedhere's mister Hope himself, explaining that we couldn't have single payer healthcare because there are people employed by the machine that drinks blood and grinds the bones of millions in agony, forcing us to pay more than any other country in the world for some of the worst outcomes of any developed nation - what about those jobs, he protests, that make the world so clearly worse? this was 2006, and last month we saw where the road of despair he helped pave finally leads.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Having fixed by now about half of various plumbing fixtures in my house, the biggest lesson I learned is: don't give up.
When wet, slimy parts are strewn across the floor and that stupid nut just refuses to budge, or that leak keeps resurfacing again and again… it's easy to despair and feel like you'll never put it back together. Which could mean not having water in the entire house for who knows how long?
This is when need to keep breathing and do methodically what you can. It'll work out.
Mastodon FeedMeyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:
Remember: if you see somebody shoot a health insurance CEO, no you didn’t.