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

Fred Willard: “The True Story of Christmas.”

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=HtipUchddnI

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

Bluesky’s growing pains:

"Last week, the platform faced its most significant controversy yet: user backlash against journalist and media personality Jesse Singal joining the platform. Singal, who has reported on people who reversed their gender transitions among other topics pertaining to trans people, hosts a podcast that critiques perceived left-wing biases in media."

An incredibly generous account of who Jesse ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/blueskys-growing-pains-last-week.html

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

I know this is insignificant in the greater context, but Artisan, the company with the “Stop Hiring Humans” ads doesn’t have RSS set up for their company blog.

It’s just one of those things you come across, and it’s like oh, right, these people don’t actually care about what came before it. They’re just compute middle men, AI drop shippers, hoping to lure enough idiot CFOs with a hard-on for layoffs.
So this was a ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/i-know-this-is-insignificant.html

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• Malcolm: Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here. Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun...''l tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you're selling it!

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

Everything Wrong with Tesla’s $500 ‘Mezcal’ ~ L.A. TACO:

"Tesla just released a 43% ABV mezcal from Oaxaca made from espadín and bicuishe agave, and is selling it for $500. Secondary retailers are already selling it for more than $1,099"

I feel like I don’t need to tell this crowd not to buy Elon’s shitty tequila. But it’s wild that anyone is buying it at all. https://lataco.com/tesla-mezcal-tequila

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

Feature chum is a shady business goal presented to consumers as a useful feature to a company’s product line or feature set.

For example, Facebook's like button for websites.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/feature-chum-you.html

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alienmelon ("Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)") wrote:

i just learned about “riot dogs” (stray dogs that for no knowable reason join in when people protest, and protect protesters from police), reinforcing my view that all dogs are good boys https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_dog
(i am not a dog person so this is an unbiased nonpartisan dog assessment)

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• a screenshot of the “riot dogs” search result showing a bunch of dogs being great.

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

good lord, these ppl sound so much like the Marxists of old who *also* insisted "that current liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction" and "when the inevitable collapse comes you build back the country in a way that’s actually better." the anti-democratic far Left & far Right have never really been all that far apart, IMHO

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

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

ROFL

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113697018417924660

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

"The Internet is being ruined by fake quotes and misinformation." - Benjamin Franklin, 1792

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• merry twigsmas @notpixietit im employed at starbucks and we live in hell. the word Xmas is BANNED, we are only allowed to say happy holidays my coworker asked a child what santa would bring her & a manager overheard they took him out & shot him in the head. they fucking shot him in the head (remote)

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

inclusion matters:

'The U.S. Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 200th federal judge... the most diverse federal judges of any president in history.

“These judges are exceptionally well-qualified. They come from every walk of life, and collectively, they form the most diverse group of judicial appointees ever put forward by a President – 64% are women and 62% are people of color”' https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/senate-confirms-bidens-200th-judge-in-historic-feat-for-court-diversity/

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

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

'Musk, who has been named by Donald Trump to co-lead a commission aimed at reducing the size of the US federal government, wrote on his social media platform X: “Only the AfD can save Germany.”'

(they are the neo-Nazis, child... grow TF up)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-claims-only-afd-can-save-germany

jwz wrote:

The new 3d-rendered MGM lion looks as melty and sad as Jar Jar. Did they find this animation sitting on a dusty shelf from 1999?

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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Very aptly put, David Frum.
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/davidfrum.bsky.social/post/3ldtps2hxps2m
#Politics #Bitcoin

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• Post by David Frum ‪@davidfrum.bsky.social‬ The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort. (remote)

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bluebabbler ("Bluebabbler") wrote:

"What's stopping you from coding like this?" - the Game

https://blog.keul.it/whats-stopping-you-from-coding-like-this/

jwz wrote:

Tonight I used "Have they been Mirandaized?" as shorthand for "Has the person with the SLR been issued a photo pass and been informed of the rights and responsibilities conferred therein?"

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jwz wrote:

@jef All of these third-party efforts to adversarially interoperate with corporate closed platforms are inevitably doomed to fail. In the meantime all you are doing is carrying water for their propaganda that they "will federate some day for sure, we pinky swear".

"Oh, it's in Blewsky or Threads or Twitter? I guess I'll never see it then." Works for me!

jwz wrote:

The Bridgy "service" is basically acting as a volunteer advertising arm of a billionaire-backed commercial social network whose business model requires destroying Mastodon. Also this bot will spam you with DMs exhorting you to support their favorite billionaire social network repeatedly if you accidentally say the wrong words or reply to the wrong thing. Their replies are unmonitored. I strongly recommend preemptively blocking @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

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happydisciple@mendeddrum.org ("Jos Dingjan") wrote:

@NanoRaptor Performance cores, efficiency cores, and demon cores.

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🇵🇸 🌎🌏🌍") wrote:

Our politicians are mostly lazy, greedy and incompetent. They find it easier and more profitable to criminalize a problem than to do something about it.

#Homeless #Poverty #Addiction

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• X post from laila @Lwrathofkhan They criminalize the homeless so that they don't have to house them. They criminalize drug addicts so that they don't have to address substance abuse as a public health problem. They criminalize the poor so that they don't have to address wealth inequality. (remote)

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tixie@guerilla.studio ("Tixie Salander") wrote:

Make full content rss feeds when the author only provides a summary https://paul.kinlan.me/projects/full-rss-feed/

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

Boost if you want less generative AI in your tech in 2025.

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

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• LGBTQ pride flag with the text “If your family doesn’t accept you this holiday season, we are your family now. No questions asked.”

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

Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a Smear Campaign After ‘It Ends With Us’ - The New York Times:

"When Ms. Abel wrote to her Aug. 4 that “I’m having reckless thoughts of wanting to plant pieces this week of how horrible Blake is to work with. Just to get ahead of it,” Ms. Nathan replied that she had spoken off the record to an editor at The Daily Mail."

I don’t spend too much time reading up on Hollywood. But, I vaguely recall ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/blake-lively-justin.html

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

"If only American billionaires could buy the EU, like we bought the US presidency, stealing people's data while destroying planet Earth would be so much more profitable."

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hipsterelectron@circumstances.run ("d@nny "disc@" mc²") wrote:

"don't use technical solutions for social problems" might be better reframed as "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"

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

Feature Chum
You know how when a tech company pushes a feature onto its users and it’s evident that the feature is just a way for the company to collect more user data or for some other nefarious business goal? You can tell that the feature results from some c-suite demand for world domination, and the marketing department sort of backed into whatever user benefit they’re touting.

There isn’t a great word for that.

In tech, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/22/feature-chum-you.html

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

Ho ho ho! All 12 Days of Web articles and emails are scheduled and ready to take flight up until Christmas night!

Do some catch up reading this weekend, and considering re-gifting an article to a friend or two.

#css #html #javascript #webdev #frontend

https://12daysofweb.dev

jwz wrote:

I'm trying to get my music into Rockbox by using rsync instead of iTunes, and the iPod can only transfer about 20 files before it crashes. And when it does that, it somehow makes my USB hub reset as well, which I have never seen before. So that's going great.

Also it takes 3 1/2 minutes between plugging it in to USB and the mount point showing up on the desktop.