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Miikka wrote:

Probably everyone has seen this, but this remains my favorite illustration from Wikipedia

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• Wikipedia screencapture. The article starts: 'The law of holes, or the first law of holes, is an adage which states: "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging".' There's a picture of an excavator that has sunk into mud. The caption says "An excavator that is in a hole and, per the Law of Holes, has stopped digging."

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laurahelmuth.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Laura Helmuth") wrote:

More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

Journal that published faulty ...

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

oh, well thank you

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

PornHub Is Blocking Access in Florida from January 1 2025:

"Aylo, the company that owns PornHub, says it is revoking the entire state’s access over concerns about privacy and user safety. The company says that age verification laws often result in the collection of sensitive personal information, posing a security risk to its users."

Good god. The Instagram comments are about to get so horny in The Sunshine ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/20/pornhub-is-blocking.html

jwz wrote:

Elon Musk Boosting German Fascists, What Could Possibly Go Wrong.

His politics are so mysterious! Stop us if you've heard this one before: a bigoted industrialist who owns a giant car company has endorsed a far-right German political party full of...
https://jwz.org/b/yke4

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Viss wrote:

@pluralistic congrats on the great press, dude!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/cory-doctorow-radicalized-novella-healthcare-ceo-killing

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we are still a pizzeria without pizza
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/12/20.html

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

Re: Chris Hayes expresses his distaste for a Christmas song without mentioning Trump (and that’s bad for some reason).

This is happening with greater frequency. We’ve entered a bizarre new era of social media discourse where even the most mundane critical observation is met with incredulous anger if that critique is not somehow centered around Donald J. Trump. https://bsky.app/profile/chrislhayes.bsky.social/post/3ldr7n3wnws2q

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• Chris Hayes [@chrishayes.bsky.social](http://chrishayes.bsky.social) • 1h&10;It's the time of the year when "Do They Know it's Christmas?" randomly pops up on the spotify holiday playlist and I'm shocked *once again* at how utterly tone deaf and condescending it is. I know I'm not breaking any new ground but MY GOD.&10;&10;Comment:&10;Chris, Chris, Chris. This song was about motivating folks to donate money to a good cause, the famine in Ethiopia. We have seen worse pleas for money, much more condescending. Let's start with the Trump golden sneakers, the Trump watches, and the Trump cologne, shall we?

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

when @slightlyoff called it a 'lost decade' i thought it was a bit pessimistic but in hindsight of that decade i now realize he was being generous

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brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

just saw a react dev call the html form element a 'gamechanger' on bsky

i guess so

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

The website guy responded. It went well. Lol.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/20/the-website-guy.html

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• ??; Was something not clear?; I didn’t see the story; I’m calling you out for stealing my website
• I’m calling you out for stealing my website. I don’t steal your website. I wanna buy it from you. You need to put it for sale. Me You literally did steal it. It’s up on your site now. It’s a nice template. It’s not a template. It’s a custom design that I made. I was testing it. Are you selling it ? Lol. Lots of templates are cloneable now
• You can’t take something and then later ask if you can buy it. That’s not how commerce works. Better to make your content sellable. Okay. I’ll delete it Yeah, but here’s the thing that’s not a template. It’s my personal website that I coded. That’s why l’m asking you if you’re selling it. You could’ve asked me and I probably would’ve helped you. for free dude. Don’t take it too personal. Oh that’s nice of you. I would love to you. Are you available.
• Are you available. That’s a good way of getting your attention. Are you available for hire.I’m not begging. Change the looking feel of the site until it’s unrecognizable Venmo me $100 and we’re square. So it’s all about money? I’m not sure how much I can change the look. It’s okay l’ll just delete it. I don’t need it anymore. Thanks. Edited. dope. Have a good.

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

All I'm saying is, if you're still on Facebook you probably will enjoy the cheerful content over on Nintendo's Africa page 😉

https://www.facebook.com/@nintendodistributorsa/

#Nintendo #Luigi #marioandluigibrothership #MarioAndLuigi

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• Practice makes perfect, Luigi! (remote)
• A little Luigi logic goes a long way! (remote)

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PHIL_FISH ("PHIL FISH") wrote:

now that it has come to light that Luigi Mangione 100%ed FEZ i would like to officially take credit and say that my videogame made him do it

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

I grew up on Curry Ford Road in downtown Orlando. Free market capitalism didn’t help my mother when Wachovia Bank rearranged her debit charges to maximize overdraft fees the week before Christmas.

It didn’t help her when she pawned her dead mother’s jewelry so that her kids could get presents that year. And it didn’t help her fifteen years later when the bank settled a class action suit and my mom received a $33 check.

Poor people shouldn’t have to pay for some rich Californian’s ideals.

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

It's been a long morning in the car, listening to old songs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/20/halfway-across-the-state-and-back-again/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21KH_YOk7Y

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

Could it be? Is it so? That maybe this free speech crusade was all a front so that big tech oligarchs and any subsequent successors may continue the wholesale exploitation of Americans, unfettered?

Because if it’s free speech unless I deem something to be a threat, then its not a right, it’s just an expressed desire for absolute authority.

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• Illustration of a snake on a yellow background with an asterisk out its mouth and the caption "you can tread on me sometimes, as a treat"

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

Could it be, is it so? The free speech crusade is a merely a front so that big tech can continue taking advantage of Americans unfettered.

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• Illustration of a snake on a yellow background with an asterisk out its mouth and the caption "you can tread on me sometimes, as a treat"

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

It’s been interesting to see big techno-libertarian voices dodge the looming Tiktok ban by offering a half-hearted, comparatively limp-dicked rebuke that would have been a huge deal under any other circumstance.

The government is censoring one of the largest speech platforms for Americans. This is your armageddon. I figured they’d be marching in the streets.

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• Willy Wonka with his head resting on his hands with the caption no stop, please don't.

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fringemagnet@sunny.garden ("Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕") wrote:

Not much to take from a teaser trailer, but I like how classic Superman this feels. I love the John Williams score, love how there is actual colour and light, and love how it definitely doesn't feel embarrassed to be a comic book film. And despite knowing next to nothing about the plot, I am now very emotionally invested in Krypto the dog.

📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhUht6vAsMY

#Superman #Krypto #Movies #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon #DCU #Comics #ComicBooks

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• A compilation of images from the recent Superman teaser trailer including a shot of the Daily Planet globe, Krypto the super dog, a medium sized white mutt, Superman saving a child, Superman and Lois looking at each other face to face, and Superman and Lois kissing as they fly. (remote)

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

Violence is never the answer, but I truly do not understand.

How is one man killing one executive terrorism, but...

Hundreds of school shootings, metal detectors at school doors, active shooter drills for grade schoolers, and dozens of murdered people on K-12 school grounds in 2024 is not terrorism?

I thought we said all lives matter, but apparently some matter more than others.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/17/us/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting/index.html

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LindaCollins11 wrote:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836 How Trump and Elon Musk caused Congress' nightmare before Christmas

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Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

Fellow Gen Xers, looking for a palate cleanser/mental health break? May I present, a collection of classic arcade games I re-imagined for your browser: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25886503/

☄️ Asteroids
👾 Space Invaders
🏓 Pong
🧱 Breakout
🌗 Lunar Lander

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• Screen recording of game play from Asteroids.

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

@Colarusso nothing tops PONG. a bar, a block and an opponent. that’s all you need.

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RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

starship makes grinding noise at warp 5

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

the future is here now, and it is demanding more child-sized body bags

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/12/20/nx-s1-5223440/louisiana-ban-public-health-promoting-covid-flu-mpox-vaccines-landry-rfk-jr-anti-vaccine

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

sadly, appears to have been true in the 2024 election as well

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nickmofo ("Nick Montfort") wrote:

Excellent review of @jesperjuul ’s new book TOO MUCH FUN, about the Commodore 64

https://www.polygon.com/books/496693/too-much-fun-five-lives-commodore-64-computer-book-review-push-talk

I’m delighted we have this now in the Platform Studies series! The book is a wide-ranging and indeed fun consideration of this important computer, and also a serious study of how people *imagine* computers to be different at different times

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I bought the Louis de Funès collection from France because it advertised having English subtitles, and those movies are very difficult to find online and I was worried someday they might disappear completely; but that was a lie too, only one of the 9 movies has English subtitles.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I have not researched Blu-rays enough before buying my first one. You can't even play one on Windows by default, and VLC and MPC both require following arcane instructions from user forums to make it work. That's the last time I bother. DVDs were the superior format.

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

Michael Jackson is so unhelpful in Smooth Criminal like yeah, I’ll be fine could you maybe call an ambulance I’m losing a lot of blood. https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4?si=J2CejNgflnkXiIpb