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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The moderation policy changes at Meta are deeply troubling and should be a concern to anyone with a conscience. While the fediverse is a decentralized platform where different service providers have different moderation policies, at mastodon.social, hate speech is prohibited, and we will take action on any Threads account found violating our policies. I would strongly urge anyone with a Threads account to reconsider their alignment with the new direction at Meta and move to Mastodon instead.

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eleventy@fosstodon.org ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0") wrote:

🖼️ Eleventy Image v6.0.0 has just shipped and it’s a big one!

1️⃣ Better p3 color support
2️⃣ Native `fetch()`
3️⃣ `transform` hooks for advanced `sharp` usage
4️⃣ sizes="auto"

…and many more features and bug fixes!

Full release notes: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-img/releases/tag/v6.0.0
New, simplified docs: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/image/

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

Chinga tu, @CARROT

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

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• Film still from The Addams Family (1991) showing Wednesday and Pugsely at a lemonade stand. Wednesday: “What a lemon, huh?” Pugsley: “Wednesday, it’s weak.” (remote)

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n1xnx@tilde.zone ("Steve Hersey") wrote:

@GottaLaff
Now that I've read the DOJ brief, it's even more obvious that this is the maximum possible win. (I should have read the brief first thing. The rest of you galoots should read it, too. Link: https://www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/dojopposition.pdf)

The DOJ plans to release Volume One of the SC report, on the election interference case. That's massive.

But it is not releasing Volume 2, which relates to presently pending litigation against Nauta et al. Well, duhhh. *Of course* they don't want to prejudice pending litigation. This is simply proper procedure.

You there in the back, with the grumpy expression and hand raised? No, I'm not thrilled either that Trump evades prosecution for that stuff. A few million fools voted that situation into existence, though, so we're stuck with it. Thank you for attending my Ted talk.

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triptych@social.lol ("Andrew Wooldridge 👨‍💻") wrote:

Count on at least once a week for the next 4 years hearing something that makes you say "oh man, I didn't think it would go this low"

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

Grey Winter Mood

Gray skies loom above,
Whispers of the cold wind call,
Heart seeks warmth, a smile.

https://arghstudios.com:50433

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MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

New year, new role @Mastodon!

Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users.

Ideally:

1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #HTML
2. Proficient in modern #CSS
3. Experienced with #Javascript, #Typescript and complex React/Redux applications

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply:
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6a0953c4-812b-4697-b5b3-ea0a2ae402c0

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #frontend

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camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille lives at Praxis Now") wrote:

In the rhetoric of armed conflicts, the following claims keep showing up:
📢 “Our country was attacked; we had no choice but to retaliate.”
📢“We are defending civilization against barbarism.” 📢 “The loss of civilian lives is tragic, but our military does not intentionally target civilians.” 📢 “Civilians aren’t innocent; after all, they had voted for their government"

Frustrated? Confused? Join the Critical Thinking for Violent Times course here - https://www.humanitiesnd.org/event-details/critical-thinking-for-violent-times-with-ahmed-afzaal

Starts Feb 5th!

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

So sleek, so plump, so shiny.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/08/stunningly-beautiful/

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dracos ("Matthew") wrote:

Lovely start to the new year, but whatever, just the way the world’s going. Not like I could run it for ever, so fine, let’s sadly end it now: https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

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fraying@xoxo.zone ("Derek Powazek 🐐") wrote:

Now that's a good headline.

"Zuckerberg Announces New Measures to Increase Hate Speech on Facebook"

https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-meta-announcement-hate-speech

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

TIL that Geekbench now excludes a whole swath of Samsung and Huawei devices from their leaderboards for cheating:

https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks/#:~:text=139-,Excluded%20Devices,-The%20devices%20listed

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

All of Ken Ham's arguments against giving Bill Nye the Medal of Freedom reinforce why he deserved it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/08/ken-ham-is-greatly-annoyed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TclAK1IZfDg

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

This week on the excellent Trashfuture podcast, the regulars - joined by 404 Media's Jason Koebler - have a hilarious - wheezing with laughter! - riff on this year's CES, where companies are demoing home appliances with LLMs built in:

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hgi6c-179b908

Why would you need a chatbot in your dishwasher? As it turns out, there's a credulous, Poe's-law-grade *Forbes* article that lays out the (incredibly stupid) case for this (incredibly stupid) idea:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2024/03/29/generative-ai-is-coming-to-your-home-appliances/

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

After hearing the man-child's ramblings, I had to look up the 25th Amendment. It offers no comfort.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/08/the-25th-amendment-wont-save-us-now/

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

piece is worth worth reading, multiple views on this election. I agree with Podhorzer:

“Americans are fed up. This election wasn’t just a vote of no confidence in Democrats; it was yet another vote of no confidence in our entire political system. We cannot mistake this result for an active embrace of Trump or MAGA fascism.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/opinion/democratic-party-republican-realignment.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

good piece

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/magazine/american-sign-language.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk4.g9cb.3DJGqFOl6ixB&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

strongly agree, missed opportunities

“… the U.S. had the chance to shape a new system with its leadership. I think Trump may be the final nail in the coffin for any American-led effort to bring rising powers into a fairer and more equitable rules-based order. The dangers are profound for a weaker United States in a more Balkanized, multipolar system in which it is merely one of many players grubbing for influence.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/opinion/donald-trump-second-term-israel-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

biting, and I am afraid true as well

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/opinion/joe-biden-legacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk4.PrJy._HnX5vjiplNR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Live, Laugh, Luigi"
Seen in Chicago, Illinois

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I just got a job offer from an AI and crypto company who's building a Chromium browser whose tagline is "The First Browser Built for Web3 & Crypto".

Let me put this plainly:

Fuck off.

jwz wrote:

Hey, remember when the panopticon was going to be good actually?

It is perhaps not sporting to be poking fun at moldering techno-optimism from 1996, from WiReD no less, but I'm going to do it anyway, because I suspect that Brin's article curdled as many brains as Barlow's asinine "declaration" did.

The Internet was a mistake....
https://jwz.org/b/ykf5

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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

Hope the LA Times is being sure to print the fire’s point of view too.

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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

You may not remember this poll I did back in November, but you voted for me to tell the tale of an obscure futurist with good ideas. At last, the article you voted for is outside the paywall! It's my latest for New Scientist, about low-key civil engineering legend John "Bud" Wilbur. In 1952, he predicted that we could avert nuclear war with good infrastructure. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435192-400-the-forgotten-civil-engineer-with-a-vision-we-could-all-learn-from/

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• This is a headline for the story from New Scientist magazine. It reads: "The forgotten civil engineer with a vision we could all learn from. John "Bud" Benson Wilbur isn't often remembered today, but his ideas about what the distant-future world of 1977 would look like are inspirational, says Annalee Newitz." Below the text is a black-and-white photo of Wilbur, when he was a young man. He is a white man with slicked-back pale hair, sitting on a stool and looking at a large computing machine that he invented. Called a simultaneous calculator, it is a wall-mounted apparatus resembling a set of long, low bookshelves filled with tilting metal plates on pulley systems. According to the MIT Museum, "The calculator has 13,000 parts, including more than 600 feet of steel tape and nearly 1,000 ballbearing pulleys." (remote)
• This a text card, with black-on-white text. It reads: You have probably never heard of John “Bud” Benson Wilbur, but he is a low-key civil engineering legend. In the mid-20th century, he was chair of the civil and sanitary engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He built some major bridges in Massachusetts and helped prototype the first wind power systems in Vermont. But I first encountered his work in a silly-but-serious essay from 1952 ... he claimed he and his colleagues had invented a crystal ball for seeing the future. (By Annalee Newitz, in New Scientist magazine) (remote)

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grantbrookesnz@mastodon.nz ("Grant Brookes") wrote:

https://theshovel.com.au/2020/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-dead-at-36-says-social-media-fact-check/

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

"For those of us observing this spectacle in a sort-of state of self-aware, displaced horror reserved for those moments when life and sci-fi dystopia cross shadows, it has never been more clear that Facebook's ideas about organizing society are wholly broken." Me, 2014: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-unethical-untrustworthy-and-now-downright-harmful/

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eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

The Meta developments make it even clearer why so many of us are wary of #bluesky, while welcoming the migration off X in principle.

It's very much born from the same Silicon Valley soup as Facebook and Twitter, with some decentralization cosplay masking that they are absolutely in charge of who can speak and who can't.

Early test cases include Jesse Singal (see https://glaad.org/gap/jesse-singal/ - still not banned on Bluesky), Vagina Museum (forced "adult content" labeling), and probably more.

jwz wrote:

Bald eagle dies of bird flu. Once again, this season's writers are a bit on the nose.
https://jwz.org/b/ykf3

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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

I am so pleased to see Deerlady on KEXP today. I have posted about the music of Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego before. Their album Greatest Hits was one of my favorites of 2024. For those who may not know, their new band name comes from the episode of the same name from the series Reservation Dogs where the song "There There" was first featured. Mali is from Odanak First Nation.

#Indigenous #Music https://write.as/gem/deerlady