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

Theatre drama: According to a Reels post by castingbythem, some theatres over reported the number of employees by tens or even hundreds and made off with millions of
dollars in some cases. Allegedly, these theatres counted unpaid actors and staff as full-time paid employees.

As someone dialed into the Atlanta theatre scene in 2020, I remember how many actors, comedians, and stage workers struggled to meet their basic ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/theatre-drama-according-to-a.html

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foo@fosstodon.org ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

@mcc

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• Omni-Man looking at the IEEE 754 Single Precision Floating-Point Standard and saying "look what they need to mimic a fraction" with the rest of the meme whited out (remote)

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

With friends like Joe Biden, who needs enemies

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

John Stewart on Crossfire (2005):

"Tucker Carlson: Is John Kerry the best the Democrats can do?

Jon Stewart: I always thought in a democracy—and again, I don’t know, I’ve only ever lived in this country—that there’s a process where they call’em primaries. And they don’t always go with the best, but they go with whoever won."

What a quaint little anecdote about our old Democratic process. Anyway, you can see on ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/john-stewart-on-crossfire-tucker.html

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Alright, for the next few nights @helpingfriendlybot should be posting data about each #Phish song they play from Madison Square Garden!

Normal caveats apply: this thing is spaghetti code and debugging is tricky and I will be at the shows so can't do much if things stop working. The trick is to surrender to the flow

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

How can anyone trust any organization infiltrated by assholes? Applies to the Democratic party as well as atheists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/why-should-i-trust-an-organization-that-honors-the-worst-among-us/

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🚩") wrote:

@fromjason Related:

https://web.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff

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

Futurism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1954:

"FUTURISM, initiated with the publication of Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, was the most aggressive and, if short-lived, certainly the most polemic art movement of our time. Its revolutionary ideas were empiric rather than pedagogic and were filled with iconoclasm in its defiant repudiation of traditional art, supplanting idols of the past with the ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/futurism-sidney-janis-gallery-new.html

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

Found this old book stamp for The New York Public Library (1920s) in the Hathi Trust archives.

This would be a dope tattoo, right? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433078571795

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• Stamp: profile of a lion with "The New York Public Library" under.

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

I'm sufficiently irrelevant to the movement that I'm probably safe.

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

Whoa. American Atheists national convention is being held in Minneapolis in April? May have to show up and hope I don't get beat up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/do-i-want-to-hang-out-with-atheists-any-more/

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

That savior complex makes Musk look even more ridiculous.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/i-like-this-neil-degrass-tyson-fellow/

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• Wow, they really don’t get it. Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness. Also, I’m not going to ask any venture capitalists for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That’s why I’m gathering resources. (remote)

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Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

It's a point of pride for Marines to clarify this terminology to civilians: a person who has ended their service in the Marines may be called a "former" Marine but never an "ex-Marine." Except in cases like this, where the individual commits crimes or otherwise brings shame on the title. Case in point, this is an ex-Marine who has taken a public shit on his claim to call himself a Marine. (The Army tries to do this with "Soldier for Life" but honestly its propaganda just isn't as good.) https://apnews.com/article/tv-reporter-attack-trumps-america-40c4c3622bf85baef9cefbd50d50fcec

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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

The King has issued his final official #Caturday portrait for 2024 👑

You're welcome 🙇‍♂️🙂

#Tigger 😽
#Bengals 🐅
#Photography 📷
#CatsOfMastodon 🐈

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• A close-up profile portrait picture of our gold and brown bengal cat looking to the right against an out-of-focus grey background.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Russian President Putin apologizes for the “tragic” downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane, which occurred in Russian airspace where air defenses were being used against Ukrainian drones. https://iz.ru/1815666/2024-12-28/putin-i-aliev-obsudili-krushenie-samoleta-pod-aktau

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mattyg wrote:

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Plushtodon

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ Julius Caesar

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

this is ugly. the age-old question is: who shall guard the guardians?

“public reports suggest this attack was part of a wider campaign to target Chrome extension developers across a wide range of companies.” At this point it’s unclear who is responsible for this campaign, and other affected companies and their extensions have yet to be confirmed."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/cyberhaven-says-it-was-hacked-to-publish-a-malicious-update-to-its-chrome-extension/

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

what a nightmare, and what wonderful timing

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/bench-shuts-down-leaving-thousands-of-businesses-without-access-to-accounting-and-tax-docs/

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

"the practice of training models on outputs from rival AI systems can be “very bad” for model quality, because it can lead to 'allucinations and misleading answers like the above. “Like taking a photocopy of a photocopy, we lose more and more information and connection to reality,”'

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/113730527131462571

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Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Calishat") wrote:

#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #😂

'Posts on X — and TechCrunch’s own tests — show that DeepSeek V3 identifies itself as ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Asked to elaborate, DeepSeek V3 insists it is a version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model released in 2023.'

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/why-deepseeks-new-ai-model-thinks-its-chatgpt/?guccounter=1

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mia@hcommons.social ("Mia") wrote:

If the whole 'attack Wikipedia' nonsense inspired you to start or restart editing, there's a bunch of tools to help newcomers, like 'suggested edits' https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools

If you need to turn the newbie features on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools/Enable_the_Homepage

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bsletten ("Brian Sletten") wrote:

People born in the 1900s have a quite coherent shared sense of reality because of the shared media experiences we had.

Much of the present world is inexplicable when measured against this shared understating.

I’m seeing more awareness in the public sphere (social media posts, content, memes) that people are getting the consequences of a fragmented information sphere yielding fragmented realities.

This is a big part of why it feels like everything is changing at once.

#hanginthere #memes

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drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic") wrote:

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to #Sun

“Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, #NASA’s #ParkerSolarProbe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved

A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.”

#NASAScience
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/

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• Text Shot: "Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” said Nicky Fox, who leads the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the workings of stars across the universe to aid in our search for habitable worlds beyond our home planet.” (remote)
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

an interesting piece. I do not often agree with him, but this time...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/opinion/trump-musk-ramaswamy-immigration.html

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djspiewak@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Spiewak") wrote:

Just to give an idea of the potential here, the initial tests of http4s-ember (via TechEmpower) on top of io_uring, made possible by the Integrated Runtime, showed performance 3.5x higher than baseline. Not percent. Coefficient.

This is a huge leap forward for performance, and users don't even have to lift a finger. It also unlocks proper I/O and multithreading implementations on Scala Native, which will be the focus of CE 3.7.

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Same energy

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• Elon Musk tweet: “I am constantly insulted on this platform”
• Kanye West tweet: “once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas”

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sb@metroholografix.ca wrote:

Hoooooly it is a drag to find/add people on a fresh #mastodon instance!

If you see this post, kindly boost it up so I can find my peeps again!

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Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp ("廃墟猫/Urbex cat") wrote:

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

The MAGA civil war, or whatever you want to call it, was always going to happen. The rich never intended on actually kicking out all the immigrants. There’s only so much prison labor to go around. They just wanted to keep the poor from realizing whos our real enemy.

But it’s all fun and games until a populous realtor from Manhattan gets elected on mass deportation.

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