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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

Without their natural Bar habitat, the geniuses scatter in the surrounding forests

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• Cat: So much of my time is WASTED in mundane tasks and errands / Cat: So I invented buying everything online and having it delivered to my home! And paying people to do my grocery shopping! And my laundry - and drive me around - and I don't have to talk to anyone! / Girl: The incidental labors of everyday life hold us together Cat: So much of my time is WASTED by other people! / Cat: So I invented social media - where I could broadcast to an audience - instead of engaging with people individually - and now I don't have to talk to anyone! / Girl: Our incidental encounters make us a society Cat: I don't have to leave home to watch a movie - I don't have to leave home to get takeout - I don't have to choose what music to listen to - I just say, "Siri! Play music" / Cat: I've eliminated the friction Girl: The friction is the meaning Cat: I got rid of the inefficiencies Girl: The inefficiency is HUMANITY / Cat: and now I can turn my FULL ATTENTION to my GREATEST WORK / Cat: a computer that will talk to me. Phone: FEED ME SEYMOUR (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Happy New Year! Join @ahl and me next week as we engage in our annual tradition of 1-, 3-, and 6-year tech predictions -- and revisit our predictions from past years. (Especially our 3-year predictions from 2022!) Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1324197967397126175

Our predictions from 2024: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2024

Our predictions from 2023: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2023

Our predictions from 2022: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2022-2022-01-03

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

veedems ("Veedems") wrote:

If the reports of the Las Vegas Cybertruck driver are accurate, that makes a second sizable violent act by someone with a military background.

Maybe we should figure out all of the ways we’re failing veterans and actually try to fix the problem?

#lasvegas #neworleans

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

55.5M debug build
15.5M release build
okay...

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

Today in History: Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR, 1920

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

the fog just does not want to lift today… I am not too sure how much I will accomplish

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• large blonde dog, sleeping with her eyes open (remote)

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

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110731

like banning any other form of communications, this censorship attempt goes against the core values upon which our nation was founded.

when Government tries to control what and how People are allowed to communicate, that is an attempt at establishing dictatorship & thought control. this is wrong, period.

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

alecm@alecmuffett.com wrote:

“So, in response, many NSA employees were like, ‘No, fuck off, I’ll play Pokémon Go all over base'” | …and yet Australia expects to successfully ban teenagers from social media?

This glorious quote is in the attached; if the NSA cannot enforce fearmongering-based operational security discipline over actual employees, what hope do Governments have of coercing (rather than educating) teenagers?

U.S. Intelligence Feared Pokémon Go Was a Chinese Plot

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/29/pokemongo-cia-nsa-intelligence-spying/

#australia #censorship #regulation

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

ARCticConference ("ARCtic Conference") wrote:

💥 Workshop announcement: Scale Your Swift App Development 💻

In this workshop @pedro and @marekfort will help you to discover how to overcome common challenges in Swift app development with Tuist. You’ll learn to build modular projects using Tuist's Swift DSL and leverage features like binary caching, selective testing, and previews.

By the end, you'll gain practical strategies to scale development efficiently, creating a productive environment for building great apps faster.

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

Endless links unfold,
Curiosity takes flight,
Lost in a bright maze.

[ h/t https://arghstudios.com:50433 ]

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

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

Canadian teen who became critically ill with #HPAI #H5N1 first sought medical treatment on Nov. 4. After intensive care with multiple anitvirals, intubation, and ECMO, it was Dec 18 by the time she could come off supplemental oxygen.

Meanwhile, H5N1 continues to spread worldwide in wild birds and into poultry and has resulted in significant mortality of mammalian wildlife, and a variant that seems milder in exposed humans has adapted to dairy cows. No government on Earth is prepared for what happens if the highly virulent strain of H5N1 adapts to transmission in humans. Unless it loses virulence, IMO it will be our modern version *not* of the 1918 flu, but rather of the Black Plague. https://globalnews.ca/news/10938653/b-c-teen-avian-flu-patient-recovers-oxygen/

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

stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

If you want to add some new years celebration to your sites, `` received some nice improvements over the holidays thanks to the power of open source contributions! 💯

https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/a-web-component-to-make-your-text-sparkle/

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• DevTools demo showing the custom element in action. (remote)

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

This is a banger:

https://www.circle-lang.org/draft-profiles.html

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

TIL that “biphasic #sleep” was the norm pre-industrial-revo, and may even be an primatic evo-biological adaptation.ppl woke up for “the watch” and did misc. things before a 2nd sleep.

Depriving ppl of artificial light re-induced this way of sleeping.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

Reblogged by jwz:

troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

Standard Ebooks dropped a bunch of beautifully formatted books newly in the public domain today.

Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest” and “The Dain Curse” defined hard-boiled detectives. But also Agatha Christie, Sinclair Lewis, John Steinbeck, Mahatma Gandhi…

(Standard Ebooks is Project Gutenberg with editing and typesetting. They also have an RSS feed for new releases!)

https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, Is there any benefit or drawback -- disk space, performance or otherwise -- to having a single 200 GB .pack file (with a .keep file) versus having 200 1GB .pack files?
https://jwz.org/b/ykfc

jwz wrote:

Hey, I'm on the tee vee!

I'm really curious about how this prop came about, in the mediocre 2019 Jean Reno movie Cold Blood Legacy where Ukraine stands in for the ass-end of British Columbia. Do I get an IMDB credit for this? In case you were wondering, that is not my phone number.

https://jwz.org/b/ykfa

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

I have spent a week writing a massive article about Windows 2. It has sexy screenshots and is full of incredible trivia. Why not spend the New Year's Eve reading it? ;)

https://www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2/

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

The Oxide and Friends 2024 retrospective is here! @bcantrill and I look back on a year of the podcast and pick our favorite episode s, moments, and—at length—images!

https://youtu.be/mZd1KZuQ0gE?si=4LeCJMELxSZNfmnW

Reblogged by jwz:

jesse@metasocial.com ("Jesse Vincent") wrote:

Happy Birthday to everyone in infosec.

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Reblogged by jwz:

esm@wetdry.world ("Essem :skeeter:") wrote:

it's a new year so you know what that means

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• A wiki page named "Public domain". The page says "When something is in the public domain, it means it is no longer copyrighted and is now copywronged. This means it can be used in things such as mascot horror. Other uses for the public domain have yet to be found." (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Congratulations to Elon Musk for making cars so bad that no-one can tell if a carbomb has just happened or if the car just did that.

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

palin ("No Gods , no Masters! RESIST") wrote:

And nothing will be done because they have destroyed our Democracy and rule of law.

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• Mark Wayne Mc Mullen breaking the law again and nothing will be done because the Restupidlikkkans have destroyed our rule of law.

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

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

Death toll in the New Orleans truck attack rises to 15, according to the local coroner.

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

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/cnn-underscored-p9j2sjatz/-/a-YUbTdsJkS5Cgy4wG0VyaZw%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

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

tompearce49@mastodon.scot ("Tom the ailurophile") wrote:

As visual metaphors go, 2025 is turning out to be on something of a roll already...

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• In front of the main doors of a large building (above which in large letters is the name "Trump") a Tesla Cybertruck is in flames. The scene appears to be deserted, and the truck is strongly illuminated from the right hand side of the picture. There is a great deal of water on the ground as though there has been an attempt to extinguish the flames. (remote)

jwz wrote:

Comrade Workwear's "Most Wanted CEO" playing cards about to become extremely popular after deplatforming: Comrade Workwear has launched a card game in which "each card shines a spotlight on a different titan of greed, complete with a QR code linking to...
https://jwz.org/b/ykfY

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

"Trump suggested the suspect was an immigrant, but officials later said he was born in the U.S."

I do *so* wish that fat old man would shut his pie-hole for once

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

seachanger@alaskan.social ("wet forest moon folklorist") wrote:

the appletv show Sunny gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐ from me. kinda perfectly imperfect, a lampoon of itself, the best in retrofuture aesthetics from set dec to credits, silly enough to watch lightly, thoughtful enough to feel worthwhile. plus rashida jones

unfortunately now that the show has shown me the existence of Sweet Potato Truck as a career, i can't unsee it

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

shandyist@c18.masto.host ("Marta Kvande") wrote:

Now that I've switched to a better home, let me reintroduce myself. I'm an English professor in TX, studying #EighteenthCentury #BritishLiterature, and I'm especially interested in #HistoryOfTheNovel and #BookHistory #HistoryOfTheBook. Also dipping a toe into #DigitalHumanities. Hello world 😉