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medigoth@qoto.org ("Daniel Dvorkin") wrote:

@micahflee It's like if Fawkes et al. had been invited to join Parliament.

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kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

Need more galaxies in your feed? Of course you do.

Over the break I made @ArpBot, mostly because I thought the name "Arp Bot" was funny.

It posts an image of a galaxy in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies twice a day. Images are from the archives of professional observatories and the original 1966 catalog. I curated the images and wrote the image descriptions and most of the alt text.

Give it a follow!

#Astrodon #space #galaxies

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• A grainy, black and white vertical image of two spiral galaxies next to each other. The galaxies are nebulous structures with denser arms shaped like spirals that meet at the centre of each galaxy. The galaxy at the bottom of the frame is face-on. The galaxy at the top of the frame is somewhat inclined, and they're almost touching. The image is sprinkled with white dots, which are stars. (remote)

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

SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

4 years ago, I was locked down in the Capitol. When the majority of the Republicans voted to overturn the election AFTER the attack, something broke in Congress that still hasn’t healed. Truth is truth. And while it should never be partisan to defend democracy, we can’t pretend it isn’t.

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dusk@todon.eu ("Dusk To Don :raccoon:") wrote:

@ErikUden

Don’t forget Senator Josh Hawley, another insurrectionist, running out of the capitol to the tune of “Chariots of Fire”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7xCwvSNgigE

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) cowers in fear at a coup he helped create on January 6th 2021

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• A picture of Markwayne Mullin in congress hiding behind one of the large chairs looking fearfully at the door where rioters storming the Capitol are presumably coming in. (remote)

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

cave painting found in Alps of Paleolithic socmedia user

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• man in tweed suit sitting at old fashioned Ham radio operator station while smoking a pipe (remote)

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

Happy Anniversary to Richard and Mildred Loving

http://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jan/6

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helenaisvibing@tech.lgbt ("Helena") wrote:

Fedi scientists are funny because their behaviour spans the full spectrum of "basically only posts things that are indistinguishable from the public outreach account for the National Laboratory of Clever Activities" to "basically only posts meowing" and you can't necessarily tell which is which from their bio

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek #Insurrection

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• Movie cover art for the film Star Trek: Insurrection. There's a large planet across the lower half of the picture as if we're in orbit above and we see the USS Enterprise flying away from us at warp towards open space. There's a large menacing face looking down at the starship and planet, cloaked in red beams of light. Across the top reads, "INSURRECTION."

jwz wrote:

He is absolutely the guy trying to shut down the rec center.

And only the power of dance can save us.

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adhdeanasl@beige.party ("ADHDean Being A Fanboy") wrote:

Happy 4th anniversary of the day Donald John Trump’s best and brightest smeared human feces on the walls of the United States Capitol Building.

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

True passion. #grickledoodle #spiderman #DocOck #marvel #comics #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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• A cartoon illustration of Spider-man villain Doctor Octopus sitting on a rocky shore surrounded by pink octopuses. Caption reads "It really wasn't about the suit, or Spider-man, or any of it. He just legit loved octopuses. And they loved him." (remote)

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

kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n

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• A diagram showing how pi is encoded in the Pentium chip. The Pentium has a ROM to hold constants in the lower right. Zooming in on the ROM shows how it holds exponents in the left and the signficand in the right. Zooming in more shows the individual transistors in the ROM. Eight bits are indicated with arrows, the binary bits that start pi. (remote)

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

TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

@VintageProject
I have a written version of my high level video on doing floppy imaging from a flux perspective here: https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Floppy_Disk_Imaging

I have some specific information on HP 3.5in floppy formats on my page for the 9122C: https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/HP_9122C_Dual_1.44MB_Floppy_Drive

I haven't documented it on my wiki yet, but I do have a 4951C I've looked at in some streams: https://www.youtube.com/live/0ltWvh2y8RI

They are a pain because they have a serial on the disks to lock them to specific machines if I remember right.

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VintageProject@oldbytes.space ("Thilo, EE 🤘🏼🇪🇺⚛🎗️") wrote:

Looks like I added another section to my #RetroComputing learning curve.
The #Greaseweazle 4.1 arrived, and I'm looking forward to exploring a couple of floppy drives that I extracted from several devices.
Help is appreciated, but I'll start with the documentation.
Also, I kind of blame @TechTangents for putting this on my wish list. 😜

Attachments:

• A purple PCB with various ICs on it. Connections for a 34-pin ribbon cable, floppy power supply, and USB. The label says "Greaseweazle 4.1". (remote)

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

okay, this is seriously cool: https://decromancer.ca/greaseweazle/

#GreaseWeazle

h/t https://oldbytes.space/@VintageProject/113589661063173805

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ben.werdmuller@threads.net ("Ben Werdmüller") wrote:

Four years ago ... https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/

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tomwellborn3@threads.net ("Tom L. Wellborn") wrote:

Donald Trump’s proposed military action against Mexican drug cartels mirrors failed strategies used in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking further violence and instability. Experts warn targeting cartel leaders creates power vacuums, leading to more bloodshed. Critics argue a sustainable approach requires economic, political, and military pressure—not reckless invasions.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-mexico-invasion-plan-1235223266/

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Npars01@mstdn.social ("Nicole Parsons") wrote:

@blogdiva

Dick Uihlein hates freedom, especially freedom like the Roadrunner's freedom.

Uihlein secretly mails his catalogs to Wile E. Coyote in an ACME envelope.

/s

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

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/Ls_qfsFKx_e992ye8nbsb7KkYCyYni71plALpo_XfNQ/https/media.tenor.com/rF23dkyknu0AAAPo/muppet-statler.mp4

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

next up, handlers on the server-side to minimally re-validate & drop into PENDING database (for 2FA).

I will continue to leave the 2FA one-time-key handler (to make it move from PENDING to REAL_LIVE_USERS) *not* wired in until these seem adequate. next up after CREATE/UPDATE/DEACTIVATE: an “I forgot my password” handler.

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

at the point where I turn on user account self management, I think I’m ready to go “the beta is live” and try to get >=1000 users to sign up for a decent first “live” test.

creeping closer, hope to hit that by the end of this week: just 2 weeks past the ‘back of an envelope’ time estimate I made last JAN/FEB. IMHO that ain’t too bad for an olde farte who hasn’t done the production code planning dance for decades.

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

well, that was a reasonable morning’s work… log on (as “tester” / “password”) and hit the ‘Admin’ main menu choice and you get a page with tabbed panels for UPDATE email & UPDATE password & DEACTIVATE account. I *think* I got the validation & feedback logic into place, so email change button doesn’t go live until there is a valid one in there & password change button does not go live until there is a valid one typed in twice.

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

Oh, look! The Discovery Institute ranted against an obsolete caricature of evolution with their very own caricature!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/06/i-didnt-devolve-i-just-got-angry/

Attachments:

• Creationists illustrate the "devolution of darwinists" with a lazy version of the "descent of man", showing scientists growing more stooped and ape-like (remote)

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

On 6 January

Crowd spurs that wild thread,
Voices rise, reason falters,
Chaos masks the truth.

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thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

On March 30, we're hosting LATTE ☕ - A Workshop on Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design at ASPLOS

If you're working with languages and/or accelerators, you should absolutely submit a paper! The focus of the workshop is discussion, so papers on work in progress ideas and projects, or papers that identify gaps that need to be solved are highly encouraged!

Papers are 2 pages and the deadline for submission is on January 31

More info at https://capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte25/

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HeliosPi@kolektiva.social wrote:

Jan 17th - 21st events:

Friday, Jan. 17th:
~11am Produce Porch (Every Tuesday ~1pm & Friday ~11am) at 1616 SE 32nd Pl, just south of Hawthorne. Food is dropped off on the curbside then people can collect items. first come, first serve.

1 - 4pm Really Really Free Market every Friday in Kenton! https://linktr.ee/pflpdx

3 - 5pm Community Free Store PDX SE, serving our neighbors every Friday at Lents with free food, harm reduction, and fun things.

7:30pm Trans & Queer fight training every Friday night at Unicorn Jiu jitsu (Stark & 92nd)

Saturday, Jan 18th:
9am Digital Security Fundamentals Training for Anti-Fascists, Info/enrollment: bit.ly/digisecworkshop

9 - 11:30am Community Garden work party Location: Southminster Presbyterian Church https://www.thprd.org/events/volunteer/community-garden-work-party-at-southminster-presbyterian-church-grupo-de-trabajo-en-huertas-comunitarias-en-southminster-presbyterian-church/01-18-2025

9am - 12pm Volunteer Land Tending, Friends of Tryon Creek, 11321 South Terwilliger Boulevard, https://friendsoftryoncreek.volunteerlocal.com/volunteer/?id=77678

10 - 11am Guided Hike, free nature hike to explore Tryon Creek’s forest and learn about the plants and animals that call this natural area home. meet in front of the Nature Center.

10am - 12pm The People’s March at Portland City Hall is about one thing: our power. WE WILL UNITE IN A FEMINIST-LED DAY OF ACTION. https://action.womensmarch.com/events/people-s-march-portland-or

1pm The MAST (Mutual Aid Social Therapy) Online Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Saturday every month at 1pm https://www.instagram.com/mutual_aid_social_therapy/?g=5

1 - 2:30pm grieve against the machine, a virtual grief space for anti capitalists (every Tuesday 7-8:30pm and Saturday 1-2:30pm), where: google meet, who: pdx queer death collective contact@pdxqdc.com, register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_mTWchUjnYTRI8ifYpoAhuzeu6PeJv3WDqoo40ISg6CjQ6Q/viewform

1 - 5pm The People's Inauguration Day Forum, A community forum on local grassroots campaigns. Via Letters 4 Palestine PDX. Location TBA.

4:30 - 6pm Food Not Bombs food giveaway and potluck at Buckman Elementary School, in the south playground, or if its raining in the basketball court.

5pm, Festivals of Resistance - A Gathering Before Inauguration Day, at Always Here Bookstore, 4555 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR 97217, USA https://withfriends.co/event/22422575/festivals_of_resistance_a_gathering_before_inauguration_day

Sunday, Jan 19th:
8:15 - 10am Winter Bird Walk, Join Park Ranger Rhett on Sunday mornings for a meandering walk through the park to observe and identify the birds that call Tryon Creek State Natural Area their home.

1 - 2:30pm grieve & chill - a virtual reflection space for grieving stoners, hosted by pdx queer death collective contact@pdxqdc.com , event address: google meet, register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexHY3F1cagDUrd2ZbJNJ4-RSbxmMdiN3i-t3ICJwyzBdJIMQ/viewform

1 - 4pm Sunday Free Store at S Woods & S Corbett, building a sustainable community of care.

2pm, We Fight Back, at Revolution Hall, by Party for Socialism and Liberation

Monday, Jan 20th:
9 - 11:30am Restore the natural areas of Hyland Woods https://www.thprd.org/events/volunteer/restore-the-natural-areas-of-hyland-woods-restauracin-de-reas-naturales-en-hyland-woods/01-20-2025

1pm, THE ANNUAL MARCH FOR RECLAIM REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY !! 700 N Rosa Parks Way, more info at DontshootPDX.org

Tuesday, Jan 21st:
5pm The People's Inauguration Rally! Mobilize! Location TBA.

#Portland #PDX

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• Flyer with event details, titled "PDX Resistance". See post for events. Background is of trees, butterflies, and silhouettes of people sitting in a circle. (remote)

jwz wrote:

Dude is fucking Mr. Bean with a Delorean who catastrophically botched the Biff Tannen gambit. "Did I do that?"

jwz wrote:

The best thing (the only good thing) about OpenAI is that literally every photo of Sam Douchebag looks like a record-scratch freeze-frame from an 80s movie where the voiceover says "I'll bet you're wondering how I ended up here..."

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post spiking a cartoon that portrayed Jeff Bezos harshly is not an example of Jeff Bezos obeying Donald Trump in advance. It is an example of Jeff Bezos’s malign rule over the Post. Bezos is the autocrat in this scenario, not the supplicant.” https://www.findinggravity.net/p/no-jeff-bezos-is-not-obeying-in-advance