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ami_angelwings@urusai.social ("Ami Angelwings") wrote:

we should have never taught corporations how to use the internet should have just lied to them and said "the internet is down" whenever they wanted to learn

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

Dexter: Original Sin

They won’t be happy until every last fan hates the show, will they? Let it go, I beg you.

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• Promo poster of Dexter Original Sin: split image of Dexter (Michael C Hall) and young Dexter (Patrick Gibson).

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sonder@xoxo.zone ("susan") wrote:

added a dog button: https://bysusanlin.com/#contact

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• Screenshot of a website in light and dark modes, focused on the Contact section with has a dog emoji counter button. (remote)

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

Nicky F is facing the consequences of his actions, while Laura L is having a jealous snit. How fun.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/26/i-am-quite-enjoying-the-chaos-on-the-right/

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• Nick Fuentes repulsive comment about "Your body, my choice. Forever." (remote)

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

December 26th. Everyone left…

#darktable

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• A seated statue of Santa on a bench, with one of his arms on the back of it to denote a photo spot beside him. The statue is shot from the back, and there are some storefronts in the background. There's nobody around, it rained recently. The tone of the picture is subdued and lonely.

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mikemccaffrey@pdx.social ("Mike McCaffrey :pdx_badge:") wrote:

Lovely how federal agencies (while still under the direction of the feckless Democrats) are spending their time punishing states for giving residents too much food.

So sorry that #Oregon didn't properly check that people were completely destitute before giving them a snack.

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2024/12/26/oregon-incurs-15-million-dollar-federal-penalty-for-snap-error-rates/76925309007/

#SNAP #FoodAssistance

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• Oregon’s error rate of 16.7% for the budget year that ended September 30, 2023, was above the national error rate of 11.68% for the second year in a row. The state sample had a 15.27% overpayment rate and a 1.49% underpayment rate. (remote)

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mikarv@someone.elses.computer ("Michael Veale") wrote:

Hewlett Packard report that they are spotting AI-generated malware in the wild, not through complex analysis or watermarking, but because… it is weirdly well-commented. https://threatresearch.ext.hp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/HP_Wolf_Security_Threat_Insights_Report_September_2024.pdf

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• Interestingly, when we analyzed the VBScript and the JavaScript, we were surprised to find that the code was not obfuscated. In fact, the attacker had left comments throughout the code, describing what each line does even for simple functions. Genuine code comments in malware are rare because attackers want to their make malware as difficult to understand as possible. Based on the scripts’ structure, consistent comments for each function and the choice of function names and variables, we think it’s highly likely that the attacker used GenAI to develop these scripts (T1588.007). The activity shows how GenAI is accelerating attacks and lowering the bar for cybercriminals to infect endpoints. (remote)
• Code with French language commentary for even simple functions, such as a sleep(5000) function annotated with ‘Pause pour permettre l'arrêt du processus’ (remote)

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Tesla pushed a firmware update to Cybertrucks on the Monday right before Christmas and bricked a pile of them

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/update-2024-45-25-5-bricked-my-truck.33125/

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

"No person shall... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/113720365899419695

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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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• f7c53d8e6fc45866.png (remote)
• 0b58bc072603518d.png (remote)

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

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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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• donazione wikipedia (remote)
• Non donate a Wikipedia di Elon musk (remote)

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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)

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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

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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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• daf8be34d1499bcf.jpg

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.

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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.

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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)

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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 ♥)