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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree with @laloalcaraz
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Dec 18, 1952
Georgia Gov. Herman E. Talmadge declares "he would sooner end public education in Georgia than allow Black children to attend school with white children."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Imagine if, in the future, a Xian apologist invents an argument for a god's existence that isn't stupid.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/18/a-novel-xian-argument/
Mastodon Feedgleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:
Another gift to Trump, this time from House Democrats.
Mastodon FeedSethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:
Antifascists: don’t obey in advance
Media: sorry I’m late I was just at the Obeying in Advance conference in Craven-on-Hudson, what did I miss
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sbourne ("Sarah E Bourne") wrote:
We can tell who's colorblind when we play Ticket to Ride: Rails and Sails. Somebody inevitably comments that the red vehicle cards and routes are hard to tell apart from the pinkish purple ones. But they aren't colorblind. The folks with red-green colorblindness have no problem: "They couldn't be more different!"
🤯
Side note: the game does not use color alone: they also have different symbols on them. They can be hard to make out, though - a bit more contrast would be nice.
#accessibility #a11y
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fight@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:
As we continue to see sustained death + disablement due to COVID, the public health + disability justice implications of criminalizing mask-wearing are disastrous. Mask bans also violate our fundamental civil liberties.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/11/12/mask-bans-protest-surveillance
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Here's a GIF. I just wanted to show it to you.
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”: Study
Despite the risks, firms and Trump are eager to get people back into offices.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/companies-issuing-rto-mandates-lose-their-best-talent-study/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
Gonna be some super weird porn landing next month
https://apnews.com/article/public-domain-2025-popeye-tintin-e71ca89b7a430e68e66a7c6ce45a98eb
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fisheye. today’s doodle.
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PhilippBayer@genomic.social ("Philipp Bayer") wrote:
officer/rvg are GREAT packages to export ggplot2 (R plots) to editable Powerpoint slides.
Saves me heaps time when I make plots for others: everybody wants to change a bunch of details. Now they do that themselves in Powerpoint with my 'base' plot.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
all in all, a reasonable chunk of work. tomorrow: the authkey validation form and a handler for 2FA requests from it, then make the SystemManager daemon emails read moar decent
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
major seekrit project accomplishments today:
bigass buttons and color-blind-friendly visual state cues on all forms
each & every possible way you can fail to request a new account gets you a meaningful error message, & a success gets you into pending & an email w one-time-only 2FA authorization key & instructions on what to do to move it from pending to active
a reaper wakes up every m minutes, searches pending for requests older than x minutes, kills them all, & goes back to sleep
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
finishing up user account self-management system for my seekrit project, slowly but surely (beware ✈️ jokes)...
the system for user to create, update, and inactivate accounts themselves is getting closer to ready for testing.
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TomWellborn@universeodon.com ("TomWellborn3") wrote:
Humanity is fucking awful.
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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
—U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal #law, the #military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Horatio Parker dies Cedarhurst NY, 1919
"American composer, organist and teacher... best remembered as the undergraduate teacher of Charles Ives while the composer attended Yale University."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Konrad Zuse dies Hünfeld Germany, 1995
"... German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"When an LLM generates a poetic metaphor or offers a surprising insight, it does so by analyzing and recombining patterns within human language. It reflects us back to ourselves in ways that feel novel yet familiar."
h/t Mark Pesce @mpesce
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is so cool...
"confirms a 2014 theoretical prediction that a minimum level of uncertainty must always result when a measurement is made on a quantum object – regardless of whether the object is observed as a wave, as a particle, or anywhere in between"
h/t Art Smart @ArtSmart
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ArtSmart@mas.to ("Art Smart") wrote:
Reading this article gave me a flashback to my childhood, when my dad taught me about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. He must have learned it while getting his degree in chemistry from Gettysburg college during the early 1950s. Even way back then, the undergraduate chemistry curriculum included quantum mech. Cool!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Officers are responding to the 8500 block of Loch Raven Boulevard in Towson. The conditions of the victims are unknown.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is at the scene assisting police."
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/shooting-prompts-large-police-presence-in-towson/
h/t Steve Herman @w7voa
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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
@evacide Also: ban data-brokers.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
“I can’t leave Substack, the alternatives charge monthly fees!”
For a mid-sized paid newsletter, you will pay:
Ghost Pro: $149–$269/month
Beehiiv: $131–$218/month
Buttondown: $239/month
Mailchimp: $285/month
Substack: $700/month
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
There’s nothing I can really do about this asshole who stole my website and writing.
So I’m gonna ✨let it go✨
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Really cool analysis of the architecture in the movie Dune: (Youtube)The Hidden Secrets of DUNE’s Darkest
Planet. https://youtube.com/watch?v=P3lkZ-7pRAM&si=yAKMR9bWLyVCJcci
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
This is just… really upsetting. Both as a player of games and as a developer. NVidia secretly sneaks "AI" bullshit onto your computer, which slows everything down, AND changes the appearance [color contrast] of games away from what the developer attended, all for the benefit of investors rather than users. Then I guess you wind up having to upgrade your video card, because it's no longer fast enough with the AI parasite installed.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
@molly0xfff I remember proposals, from many years ago, to reduce spam by charging a fee for each email sent. This has effectively been implemented in such a subtle and gradual way that I think it happened without many people realizing it.
People at the time were upset about the fees being upfront, so now instead, we have something opaque and indirect like the banking system. Sure, individuals can technically still run their own SMTP… but, y’know, good luck with that.
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JasonW@social.ridetrans.it ("Jason Weill") wrote:
@publictorsten Sending email is very cheap and open source. Convincing a consensus of corporations and sysadmins that you’re not, by their standards, a spammer, is very expensive and difficult