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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

jnv ("Jan") wrote:

@fromjason Thanks for the shout out! In fact, your post “Where have all the websites gone?” was a major inspiration for this talk.

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

2024 Is the Year Creators Took Over | The New Yorker:

"In each case, creators exerted their newly appreciated superpower to reach their audiences directly, without the approval of traditional media gatekeepers. Whether hippopotamus or tradwife, they are self-contained celebrity machines, merging recognizability with online-distribution capacity."

I believe it was Katherine Dee of Default Blog who said that eventually, trad media will ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/13/is-the-year.html

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

"As a perfectly spherical person, I want to be able to accomplish my task with maximum convenience and least amount of thought."

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

Phrases like "average user"... "normal people"... kind of set me on edge. We should just say "imagine a perfectly spherical person".

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

OpenAI introduces “Santa Mode” to ChatGPT for ho-ho-ho voice chats - Ars Technica:

"The conversations with Santa exist as temporary chats that won’t save to chat history or affect the model’s memory. OpenAI designed this limitation specifically for the holiday feature. Keep that in mind, because if you let your kids talk to Santa, the AI simulation won’t remember what kids have told it during previous conversations."

As ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/13/openai-introduces-santa.html

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

American cars are evil, I've decided.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/13/one-habit-i-wish-we-could-break/

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• Canyonero! (remote)

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

DrALJONES wrote:

The bought puppet dictator.

The decision makers are the donors....

Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Michael Milken, Travis Kalanick, Steven Mnuchin, et al.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/03/billionaires-for-trump-presidential-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/why-elon-musks-million-dollar-presidential

#Trump #GOPDonors #Fascism #USPol #Project2025 .

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• trump & thiel

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

jdlbt@techhub.social ("Julien :ve: 🔭:python:") wrote:

@sethmlarson Of course not everyone one can afford it but those who can should support Signal for the benefit of all.

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

blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

Y’ALL! I DID IT! AM DONE!

#fuckCancer

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• yours truly ringing the bell and holding my certificate of cancer treatment completion. my journey started 18 months ago with SEVEN BIOPSIES, a partial mastectomy, chemo, radiation, physical therapy, immunotherapy all with one hospitalization for COVID19 ―that gave me LongCOVID and forced me to walk assisted by my sons and a cane―; two surgeries to put and take out a chemo port that gave me a horrible blood clot that landed me in the hospital, AGAIN, for 10 days and 3 months of blood thinners. it’s been 18 months of sleepless nights, pain, hair loss, and everything awful to come with cancer therapy. yet, it became one of the most positive health care experiences i have ever had due to the unending empathy and heart felt professionalism of the doctors, nurses, tech and hospital staff of Mt. Sinai in Chelsea and the former Beth-Israel at Union Square & 1st Avenue. i have had only horrible experiences with Mt Sinai (ironically, i was born at the OG hospital in East Harlem); but due to their cannibalization of Manhattan hospitals, the glory of hospitals like Beth-Israel and the Chelsea cancer clinic goes to them. it proves it is the workers, not boards or CEOs, who make good health care experiences possible. so thanks to the health care workers who are the real MVPs, may i say for ever and ever, fuck cancer.

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

lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Dear employees,

In recognition of your excellence, here's the pink slip

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

✔️🎯

Via Rupar—

Chris Murphy: "There's no doubt that this administration's policy toward the Middle East is going to be compromised by the fact that they're making money off the very people they're sitting across the table from and supposedly having a conversation about the interests of the US" #Trump

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

nnedi@mas.to ("Nnedi Okorafor") wrote:

Here's an excerpt from my forthcoming novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR here (January 2025).

This chapter flashes its scifi side, but *please* understand this book...stretches. When you start the novel (this excerpt is chapter 3, not 1), you'll see what I'm talking about, 😁.

https://reactormag.com/excerpts-death-of-the-author-by-nnedi-okorafor

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jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, why does my VolumeIcon show up blank in Finder on an exfat thumb drive?

% file .{_,Vol}
._.: AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file
._.VolumeIcon.icns: AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file
.VolumeIcon.icns: Mac OS X icon, 811484 bytes, "ic12" type
._.VolumeIcon.icns: AppleDouble encoded Macintosh file

https://jwz.org/b/ykek

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

Petition · Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally - Canada · Change.org:

"Now is a critical moment in the growth of the Bluesky platform to avoid the clear and obvious mistakes made by other social media platforms in the past."

I signed this petition, which now has 17k signatures, to be a part of something-anything-that attempts to hold social media companies accountable.

That said, Bluesky was built off a ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/12/petition-bluesky-must.html

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

Drake is suing everyone BUT Kendrick:

“I’m a firm believer that, no matter what music you like, you have not met your favorite artist yet. You have to keep listening. You have to keep looking. Because your favorite artist is out there and they’re trying to get to you, but there’s a machine in the way."

Josh Johnson casually dropping poetry in the middle of a comedy set. https://youtu.be/RIWQQaHS3FM?si=R9JFiX-ointNYR2y

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

‘Like a miracle’: N.C. couple free of nearly $100,000 medical debt after 15 years

"They were among the beneficiaries of a decision the hospital system announced in September to release 11,500 liens on people’s homes in North Carolina and five other states, some of which dated back 20 years or more. "

All this went down two months ago but we’re reporting on it now? Social media is about to be flooded with feel-good healthcare ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/12/like-a-miracle.html

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

mysk ("Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪") wrote:

Since iOS 18 launched, the new Passwords app has been using unencrypted HTTP to download icons for password entries—a serious #security risk. We reported this bug to #Apple in September, and it’s finally fixed in #iOS 18.2 (CVE-2024-54492).
The bug also impacts iPadOS and #macOS
Why does this matter? Watch 🎬 :
#cybersecurity #privacy #infosec

https://youtu.be/1vr2e6YeNuc

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

The Web We’ve (Never) Lost:

"I do like web. Not just like a development platform, but as a medium and as a cultural artifact. And in my talk, I want to show you why we should pay more attention to the web in its own right. Particularly this year."

Great write-up with lots of links to cool stuff— blogs, directories, search engines, etc. https://www.bitoff.org/web-we-never-lost/

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

Last February, AI.com forwarded to a Marques Brownlee video about Open AI’s new video generation tool Sora. I vaguely recall some rumblings that the Elon Musk might own the domain, which didn’t make much sense since he has his own AI offering.

AI.com now forwards to ChatGPT.com so it’s probably safe to say that Sam Altman & Co. own the address.

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• screenshot of tweet from Marques that reads So I don’t own Al.com but whoever does has decided to forward it to my newest video about Al, so for that… thank you?

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5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

🎁 Psst... Day 1 is tomorrow (or perhaps later today? Timezones and such)!

https://12daysofweb.dev

Tell your friends!

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

Luigi, insurance tech, China, AI, plus some more sci-fi and music recommendations:

"Casey Newton wrote a (paywalled) response to my essay (and Gary Marcus’s) and it is surprisingly underwhelming! The limited engagement with our criticisms comes in the form of, well, ignoring our criticisms, doubling down on his framing, and pretending I am a Marxist labor organizer rambling about morality (though, to be fair, my essay is ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/12/luigi-insurance-tech.html

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

In 2003, Apple released a 64-bit dual-core 1.8Ghz system: Power Mac G5.

In 2023, Apple released a 64-bit dual-core 1.8Ghz system: Apple Watch Series 9.

The Watch is faster and has more RAM.

The G5 was too hot to put in a laptop. It'd use up S9's battery in under 2 minutes.

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

I am *supposed* to wait an hour or two before cutting

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• cherry pie cooling on a rack, fresh from the oven (remote)

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

Why I Published the Shooter Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein:

"I think a lot of this talk about copycat killers is a smokescreen obscuring the real reason these outlets didn’t publish the manifesto. As a friend at NBC explained, they did not want to antagonize their law enforcement sources who had provided them access to the manifesto on the condition that it not be published."

Now knowing what the manifesto actually said verse how ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/12/why-i-published.html

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solar_seattle@mas.to ("Solar Seattle") wrote:

The sun will rise in #Seattle #Washington tomorrow at 7:49, 50 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 16:17, 4 seconds later than the day before.

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tinkebell@mstdn.social ("TINKEBELL") wrote:

❤️ Louise Bourgeois

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

Man, I miss the Pacific Northwest.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/12/why-i-like-seattle/

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• traffic signs hacked to read "one less CEO" "many more to go" (remote)

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Sophie@glammr.us wrote:

… and I’m off

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• A grumpy looking bald eagle, “me going on a stupid little daily walk for my stupid physical and mental health” (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):

maddiefuzz@hackers.town ("M. The Crystalline Entity") wrote:

Sometimes you gotta make a doom pile to clean a doom pile

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

stim3on@fosstodon.org ("Simeon Schmauß") wrote:

After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top!
The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon!

Full panorama: https://www.360cities.net/image/marsrover-perseverance-navcam-sol-1354

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

#Perseverance #NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks

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• Animated 360° panorama captured by the Perseverance Mars rover. It shows the rover standing on the reddish-brown surface of Mars on a high mountain ridge in between two higher peaks. The view to the east shows the Jezero crater with it's ancient river delta and Mons Jezero in the hazy distance. To the west, in the hazy afternoon sunlight opens up a new vista with rounded hills. (remote)