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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It has been a peculiarly purplish semester for me. But it's over.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/16/its-a-wrap-2/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've got a new song for my Christmas playlist. I stumbled across "Electronic Santa Claus" on my drive to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf5QR6cOTAE
It's by "Blazer Force", which is apparently an alias for a Bret McKenzie, who I am not familiar with.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Stoked for today's Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be joined by @pfrazee.com to talk about the wild ride that @bsky.app has been on -- and get into the technical underpinnings in the AT Protocol. Join us, 5p Pacific!
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
We discuss the many ways in which people, ranging from journalists to civil society to all sorts of disciplines outside of computer vision, have uncovered various harms that arise from it, and proposed many mitigation strategies. We cover everything from research from those within computer vision to the labor movement.
Believe it or not, I signed up to do this either when I was still at Google or right after I was fired. Started working on it with Remi who was in our team at the time.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I'm taking some time off for the holidays. I am very, very tired. Maybe coding during the weekends because you're too busy running the company during the work week is not a very sustainable strategy? I've been stuck indoors since September...
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Damn, do you think the reason why Siri hasn't progressed in a decade is because of Google paying Apple? Like, is there an unspoken agreement there?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Pet peeves around word pronunciation always feels vaguely classist because it’s never about how rich people pronounce things.
Oh you hate how people say “Axe” instead of ask? Well I hate how you say “vase” like you’re a 18th century British art dealer. Grow up.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Would you trust this man with your nation's science policy?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/16/scientists-as-scoundrels/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
No duh.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/16/surprise-the-earth-is-a-globe/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I was not entertained by GLADIIATOR.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/16/gladiiator/
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
God, I needed a new Phantogram album (AM). Their first single It Wasn’t Meant to Be is so good. https://music.apple.com/us/album/it-wasnt-meant-to-be/1763684613?i=1763684723
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I miss the old web. Bring back pop-up ads. Forward me an email with an ancient curse. I want my computer to scream in horror whenever it connects to the internet.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm closing in on a point, you guys. Maybe I'll publish tonight 🎉🎉🎉
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Axomamma@mastodon.online wrote:
@Cherizilla Is @pzmyers watching?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Every Meta product
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
2025 Public Domain Day Remix Contest: The Internet Archive is Looking For Creative Short Films Made By You! | Internet Archive Blogs:
"We invite filmmakers and artists of all skill levels to celebrate Public Domain Day on January 24, 2024, by creating and uploading 2–3 minute short films to the Internet Archive!" https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I don’t like writing so much as I like having written. You get what I mean? It’s like hiking in the heat for the relief of walking into an air conditioned room.
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cwilcox808@c.im ("Curtis Wilcox") wrote:
@Meyerweb
`paint-order` also works on HTML text if `-webkit-text-stroke` is used to add a stroke.Both properties work in all major browsers (despite one being prefixed); Chrome was the last to add support for `paint-order` on HTML text, in release 123 earlier this year.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/paint-order
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codfather@fosstodon.org ("codfather #FBPE") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators - by Ana Andjelic:
"Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness."
A bright spot for web— Interest in human curation is on the rise, and the art hasn’t been monetized to death. More curators, less corporate algorithms. Let’s go! https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/move-over-influencers-here-come-curators
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
at least there is that
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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:
Two Russian oil tankers sink in Black Sea - reports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dq6q0m862o
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CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:
#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to publish a pamphlet campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill.
Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children as they were seen as the father's property.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that is one helluva ROI: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/113657073831097077
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Our democracy has been sold. The #BrokenPost waits 25 paragraphs to note without irony this "could ethically compromise the incoming administration." First draft of complicity.
Elon Musk put $277 million into the election. Now he’s $200 billion richer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/15/elon-musk-trump-election-wealth/
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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
wow, "gemini-1.5-flash-latest" is indeed *fast*
h/t @simon
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Goodbye, Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/15/benjamin-dixon-murders-the-young-turks/
Mastodon Feedheidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
Biden’s DoJ has already taken the position that the ERA has been properly ratified. So unless Biden is on the other side of that question, he has a statutory obligation to ensure that the National Archives, an executive agency, publishes the ERA. 9/
Mastodon Feedheidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
Right up to the present moment, Joe Biden, sitting President and Democrat, could take a major step to affirming U.S. women’s legal and political equality. He could order the director of the National Archives to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, which has been ratified by the requisite number of states. Publication is how the federal government makes it clear that an Amendment to the constitution has been made. 8/