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

kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Finally, an enjoyably silly-stupid news story from Russia: Mayor enrages town by dressing Lenin and Catherine the Great monuments in Father Frost and Snow Maiden holiday costumes

https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/26/russian-mayor-enrages-town-by-dressing-lenin-and-catherine-the-great-monuments-in-father-frost-and-snow-maiden-holiday-costumes

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

Today in History: DPMA founded, 1951

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

Today in History: Chas. Babbage born, 1791

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

What’s The Point Freestyle (YouTube) by B For Better—a cutting freestyle about the dark side of drug dealing and toxic masculinity reminiscent of “Suicidal Thoughts” by the Notorious B.I.G.

I can’t stop listening to it:

"How we go around murderin' then be shocked when n_ die?
Like what’s the point? Are we down with catching bodies, or we not?" https://youtu.be/xQGhK6U2Vc0

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

filippodb@mastodon.uno (":fedora: filippodb :cc: :gnu:") wrote:

Wikipedia è un problema per Musk/Trump perché è uno degli ultimi legami affidabili con una realtà condivisa, quindi un antidoto alla disinformazione.

Non fa guadagnare nessuno e naturalmente, come mastodon, non è perfetto - sono imprese di esseri umani imperfetti che cooperano. Ma hanno entrambi bisogno di protezione e sostegno.

Elon ha twittato “non fate donazioni a wokepedia” così sono corso subito su Wikipedia e ho fatto una piccola donazione.
E Buon Natale a tutto #Mastodon e a #Wikipedia!

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• Non donate a Wikipedia di Elon musk (remote)

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

retr0id@retr0.id ("David Buchanan") wrote:

hello welcome to my tutorial on how the JPEG file format works

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• An edited version of the "how to draw an owl" meme. The title is "How to encode a JPEG of an owl". The first step is labeled "get some of these thingies", with a visualisation of the 2D cosine basis of the discrete cosine transform (a common sight in explainer articles). The second part is labeled "encode the rest of the fucking owl" (with the original and detailed owl picture above) (remote)

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

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1frBaRN_GoU7069bVnPnzOAHZz_hkiJFZ/view?usp=sharing&utm_source=English+speaking&utm_campaign=a898a6ef7e-Fost+share&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-a898a6ef7e-103343596

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

this bus-stop poster campaign by ‘Standing Together’ is A Good Thing
https://mcusercontent.com/0a47ce0c4473e8015e074c3c5/images/0d978ca1-011e-2b1b-03dc-886e8701c4d2.jpeg

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

Evolutionary psychology and racism go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/26/have-your-genes-been-pacified/

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• Henry Harpending (remote)

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

SocraticEthics@mastodon.online ("Ukraine War Bulletins and News") wrote:

⚡️🇵🇱Polish PM Tusk slams Hungary’s Orban for collaborating with, and praising Putin amid Russian terrorist attacks in Ukraine on Christmas (more) https://kyivindependent.com/polish-pm-tusk-slams-hungarys-orban-for-praising-putin-amid-ukraine-attacks/ #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #SouthKorea #Japan #Press #Taiwan #Media #Poland #NukesOrNATO #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #Hungary #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine

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

smolrobots ("small robots") wrote:

672. Dreidelbot. A dreidel robot to help young ones learn about Chanukah. Can recite the story of the holiday and the miracle that started it. Chag Chanukah sameach! #SmallRobotsRemastered #FestivebotsRemastered

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• A robot in the form of a traditional Jewish dreidel toy. It has a happy face on the side with the Hebrew ש‬ ('shin') and arms on the adjacent faces. The only other side visible is ה‬ ('hei'). The robot is brown, and the letters are recessed into its surfaces and coloured blue. The "FESTIVEBOTS REMASTERED" logo is in blue instead of red.

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

and that is the true beginning, children

https://mastodon.social/@iramjohn/113719680910777963

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• cartoon schoolroom scene of teacher Mom Cat and kittens learning about boxes (remote)

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

This photo of a clown at the wheel of a truck ought to have killed his presidency on its own. What a child.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/26/he-really-means-it/

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• Trump grimacing while pretending to drive a truck (remote)

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

iramjohn ("Ian Ramjohn") wrote:

Happy Boxing Day, an important cat holiday.

On the first Boxing Day, Basht created the first box, and offered it to all the living creatures. Only one was smart enough to understand the gift, and promptly sat in it. As a reward for being so clever, Basht made her the ancestor of all the felids. Now every time a cat sees a box, they sit in in an act of remembrance and worship of ancestor whose name all cats know, but they don’t share with lesser beings.

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

https://www.gocomics.com/klibans-cats/2024/12/26

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

“Good tidings we bring…” 🎶

What in earth is “tidings”?

It means “news” and AFAICT “tiding” is related to “tide” which used to mean “time” and is cognate to German (die) Zeit (time) ➡️ (die) Zeitung ((news)paper)

#MerryChristmas #etymology

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glent@aus.social ("Glen Turner") wrote:

Arrrgh. Wikipedia is not short of money. It is short of supporters, mostly because kindness and listening are not its organisational virtues, and so it tends to hack off the people who would otherwise support it the most effectively.

Eg: You are a world expert. You clarify some text in the entry of your expertise. I'd say it takes less than ten times of doing this before you swear off helping Wikipedia forever.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

gabek@social.gabekangas.com ("Gabe Kangas") wrote:

A reminder that there are good guys out there. @dnalounge, a nightclub in San Francisco, shows this to its attendees every 15 seconds or so.

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• A sign at a nightclub that says Delete your instagram join mastodon seize the memes of production (remote)

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

I’m learning that few things are as effective as being able to show the public all the little tricks and tactics used by the ruling class in an environment where people can draw the line from tactic to intent themselves.

How to reliably make that happen consistently, I don’t know. But something is happening right now where everything they do feels so naked.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

elduvelle@neuromatch.social ("El Duvelle") wrote:

@jonny Yes! Incredible!!

Here's a video from the paper.. Ants rock!
#ProblemSolving #Ants

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• Video from above of a 3 compartment box with opening connecting the compartments in the middle. The box has lots of ants in it. There is a shape in the left compartment made of a line and a T at each end (the T is larger at one end). The goal is for the ants to carry the shape to the right compartment, which is made harder with the T things that tend to get stuck on walls. But the ants somehow manage it after lots of turning and trying! (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

i love this paper
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121

(Edit: yes @ futurebird has already been tagged plenty of times ♥)

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

2024 has made it clear—AI is the sawdust in our food. Technocrats want to use AI slop as an additive to reduce the expense of 100% organic human-made content. Our politicians are too fat off the cream to make a move.

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

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly:

"Such artists often had millions of streams on Spotify and pride of place on the company’s own mood-themed playlists, which were compiled by a team of in-house curators. And they often had Spotify’s verified-artist badge. But they were clearly fake. Their “labels” were frequently listed as stock-music companies like Epidemic, and their profiles included generic, possibly ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/the-ghosts-in-the-machine.html

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

You Might Be Worried About the Wrong Algorithms - The Atlantic:

"But algorithms aren’t just being used to feed you content. They’re also employed to fix real-estate prices, make probation and asylum decisions, determine Uber prices during a hurricane, dictate whether elderly people receive potentially lifesaving medical care, assess the risk posed by an abusive partner, and decide who gets targeted in a war ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/you-might-be-worried-about.html

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

Obviously, I don’t post a lot of super model content but I just learned who Anok Yai is, and she’s so beautiful that my brain isn’t able to fully process it.

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• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight dress. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight dress, looking at the camera. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight suit. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight suit. She has dark skin and short hair.

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

another fascinating pivot by this age-old yet still-agile organization

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/encyclopedia-britannica-is-an-JdeViIFRSjuAji4Snw.HVg

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

perfection

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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

“Wildflowers” (2014 Remaster) by Tom Petty

https://pandora.app.link/Dpj3azm2CPb

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon

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

“It’s better to burn out than fade away.”

- Neil Young