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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The Material You redesign of our Android app came out quite early in the year but it's another highlight. I maintain that it must be one of the most beautiful apps on Android. The design is so clean. And the whole app is just 5MB. It makes me wish I had an Android phone. @samhenrigold and @grishka really hit it out of the park.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think one of my professional highlights of this year was the moment @mike and I came up with the fediverse:creator tag over lunch in San Francisco, and the subsequent implementation with my team. I love seeing that feature in action, besides being useful for discovery it just looks so nice.

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

this seems pretty silly

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/microsoft-s-100b-agi-definitio-e6FaEhReQs.9exHMGZpuog

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

oops

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/meta-quest-update-fiasco-erGib6PVSTCXSS7UiaqVPw

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

oh yah

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

sadness, yet a life well-lived

https://www.ajc.com/news/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-100-dies/3ODQTR5NHVDTDF2SXOU34MKNZM/

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Freemind@mastodon.online wrote:

Who knows, maybe 2025 will be more than just the year of #Linux on the desktop...

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jwz wrote:

NROL has the best mission patches.
https://jwz.org/b/ykfM

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razhael@infosec.exchange wrote:

*Someone* seems keen to delete Wikipedia's article on Appin, the cyber mercenary firm we wrote about last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Appin_(company)_(2nd_nomination)

jwz wrote:

THE RETURN OF SURVEILLMAS!

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

When a notorious regressive like Richard Dawkins resigns to protest your organization's actions, you know you've done the right thing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/29/i-reaffirm-my-support-for-the-freedom-from-religion-foundation/

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bstacey@icosahedron.website ("Blake C. Stacey") wrote:

@pzmyers Oooh, "Coyne op" is good.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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• A long haired bare, chested, muscle man wearing only a black vest, jeans and an ammunition/tactical gear belt of some sort around his waist, oh, and the bandanna too, fires from an apparent gun in his hand and shouts, “Yeehaw! SATAN LOVES YOU PIGGIES!“ (remote)

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

NYT has been taking Ls for a hundred years. https://www.reddit.com/r/agedlikemilk/s/ZIrVrjblBe

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• HITLER TAMED BY PRISON.&10;Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria-&10;Copyright. 1924, by The New Tork Times Company.&10;By Wireles to Tun Nuw YORK TIMES.&10;BERLIN. Dec.&10;20.— Adolph Hitler.&10;once the demi-god of the reactionary ex-tremists, was released on parole from Imprisonment at Fortress Landsberg, Bayaria, today and immediately left in an auto for Munich. He looked a much sadder and wiser man today than last Spring when he, with Ludendorff and other radical extremists, appeared before & Munich court charged with conspiracy to overthrow the Government.&10;His behavior during imprisonment convinced the authorities that. like his political organization, known as the Valkischer, was no longer to be feared.&10;It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the cou of his birth.

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

Defend the FFRF! The bigots are attacking them now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/29/i-reaffirm-my-support-for-the-freedom-from-religion-foundation/

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

burning protest | Flickr by Alex Schaefer:

Prints for purchase https://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-schaefer-art/albums/72157628029142819

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• Wells Fargo building on fire
• Citibank building on fire
• Chase building on fire
• Painting of a riot with the word chaos bottom right in the style of the chase logo

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

wifi is temporary
ethernet is forever

via @transcaffeine

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's nearly 2025, so time for the annual visit to this page:

https://www.michaelhorowitz.com/VPNs.on.iOS.are.scam.php

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tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

@bkardell @Meyerweb @igalia I wish all browser vendors would recognize that developers want to build real applications on the Web, as the Web platform has the greatest potential reach of all platforms. But for this, developers need powerful APIs and browser choice. Put these powerful features behind whatever scary prompting UI or additional opt-in browser settings the user needs to activate manually, but please, please implement them.

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bikemonterey@sfba.social ("Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏") wrote:

"Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold.

"Homes are attached to #bicycles; include heat, electricity and safety features.

…

“The units are also designed with Ontario's #ebike regulations in mind so that they can legally travel on the city's bike lanes if they have to be moved.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tiny-mobile-homes-1.7419805?cmp=rss

#TinyTinyHomes #RyanDonais #TemporaryHousing #homelessness #shelter #homeless

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

The Will Smith Spaghetti Index has become a measure of progress in AI generated video.

Here’s the latest posted to r/chatgpt:

Still looks like shit. ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/29/the-will-smith-spaghetti-index.html

jwz wrote:

BREAKING: The media have found a new way to not say "racist" -- "bias-motivated".

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

[My Letter box log of Se7en (Spoilers)] (https://boxd.it/8d7Rcz):

Maybe this is an obvious detail, but I hadn’t noticed before. For the entire film, detectives Summerset and Mills sludge through damp darkness searching for the truth. It’s not until the third and final act that we ever see the sun. And in that last minute, the truth is revealed in a dark and damp box.

I also noticed how Fincher used themes of beginnings and ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/my-letter-box-log-of.html

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• Two detectives by the front door with flashlights
• Two detectives walk a man in orange in handcuffs in an open field.

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Drippy_Spudd@cyberpunk.lol ("Jaz Distro") wrote:

when liberal businesses say "🏳️‍🌈all are welcome here🏳️‍🌈" they mean your ~money~ is welcome. homeless folks are still excluded.

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

Heh. Looks like Elon tried purchasing Substack back in 2023 according to a recent report. 😅

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-twitter-substack-x-1987589

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falcennial ("millennial falcon") wrote:

@fromjason sounds like a logical progression of american political, corporate, and media landscape.

I suspect (due to fecklessness and disorganisation) that may be a longer time scale than we'd intuitively expect, but I would definitely agree it's upcoming.

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

I have a prediction for 2025 that I think is inevitable:

Big media conglomerates will start acquiring publishing platforms like Substack. Indie journalists who’ve strayed too far from the trad-media script will be deprioritized in the platforms’ recommendation engines.

People will cry fowl but there won’t be much anyone (in the US) can do about it. I can even see some legislation passed to help these acquisitions in some ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/i-have-a-prediction-for.html

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“To Further Its Mission of Benefitting Everyone, OpenAI Will Become Fully for-Profit”

https://gizmodo.com/to-further-its-mission-of-benefitting-everyone-openai-will-become-fully-for-profit-2000543628

Capitalism is a helluva drug, y’all.

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

MAGA and tech bros fighting for the worst type of person award.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Don't tweet from the bottom of a K-hole, this is your billionaire subtweet of the day