Mastodon Feed: Posts

Reblogged by jwz:

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

2/ The laughter--LAUGHTER--during the questioning about Hegseth's rapes, cheating on his wife/fathering a baby, his "god" swooping in to redeem him... it was beyond appalling. Apparently if you believe in his Very Special version of his Very Forgiving Almighty god, you can commit any sin or crime, and poof! you're good. Wiped as clean as a dismissed Trump prosecution. He's #Trump's soul(less) mate.

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

isagalaev@social.seattle.wa.us ("Ivan Sagalaev") wrote:

Did you know there's a bill in WA Senate SB 5233 to implement single-payer health insurance? Yes, like Medicare for All, but on the state level. I just sent a comment in support of the bill.

If you're in WA, consider doing the same.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary/?BillNumber=5233&Year=2025&Initiative=false&link_id=1&can_id=d108dee14f7c53da16e890a8076290e5&source=email-big-update-the-new-washington-health-trust-introduced&email_referrer=email_2581081&email_subject=big-update-urgent-action-needed-the-new-washington-health-trust-introduced

Also, consider donating! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/whole-washington-1?link_id=6&can_id=d108dee14f7c53da16e890a8076290e5&source=email-big-update-the-new-washington-health-trust-introduced&email_referrer=email_2581081&email_subject=big-update-urgent-action-needed-the-new-washington-health-trust-introduced&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_2581081

Attachments:

• Bill comment saying: As someone who's stuck up with COBRA, paying exorbitant premiums just to be able to pay some more at the doctor's office, I consider this bill one of the most vital legislative initiative for the coming years. Plus, if implemented well, it is poised to be an excellent example of how government can work for people, as opposed to corporation, and not lose the next important elections. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

I’m not normally a fan of biopics but Nosferatu really does capture Neil Gaiman

Reblogged by jwz:

stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

when peace comes at last, children play on the old battlefields and don't think of what came before them

Attachments:

• sytherenne: [screnshot] While this show has some SERIOUS '90s vibes, it's not bad! | absolutely see the appeal. | love that it's about girls finding their inner strength, kicking ass, and defeating evil. Out of all the reboots that have happened, I'm surprised that this hasn't been touched yet. | still don't know why Spike and Angel seem like older men compared to Buffy, but | guess people were into it? But also — was there ever a Team Spike or Team Angel like Team Edward/Jacob LET ME KNOW. I can't believe | had to read this sentence in a buzzfeed thing about BtVS with ‘my own goddamn eyes how is it possible this has slipped from the mind of the collective conscious, people died in this conflict, know your fandom history jeeze etraytin: It's the way of all wars. When peace comes at last, children play on the old battlefields and don't think of what came before them. (remote)

Reblogged by jwz:

curtosis wrote:

@interfluidity I think it’s still underappreciated the degree to which billionaires are rejecting the entirety of the social contract. The problem for them becomes, at some point, that that social contract includes the bits about the people not dragging them from their homes and guillotining them in the public square.

Which is, of course, why controlling the media is existential for them.

Historically, that bet has not paid off in the long run. Ask the Romanovs and Ceaușescus, for example.

Reblogged by jwz:

razhael@infosec.exchange wrote:

I was idly reading this @jwz post on advertising for events (something I know nothing about) and I think I've just had a very unwelcome insight into the past 20 years of online news, paywalls, and the collapse of US journalism.

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/01/13.html

Attachments:

• 4. When a show is doing poorly, we will sometimes dump a bunch of last-minute free tickets on sites lie Do The Bay, in hopes of cutting our losses and getting at least a few bodies in the door who might spend some S When we do this, its a desperate stop-gap measure for that one specific event. It is my strong opinion that customers acquired through coupon-clipping sites like this never tum into regular customers: once you give it away for free, "free"is the price they expect it to always be. (remote)

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

No earthlings were harmed by this event.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/14/cool-catching-the-crash-of-a-space-rock/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0-DemC939I

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Yay! NHK[1] started publishing #sumo highlights from the tournament that began yesterday. It's going to be the sixth one I'm watching, completing a full year. I think I'm a full blown fan now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@NHKWORLDJAPAN/videos

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

vicorva@mastodon.art ("V, The Dragon Witch 🌙") wrote:

Hello! I wrote a fantasy series about a subterranean town of necromancers and their librarian, and maybe you'd like it.

It has a dark aesthetic and a sweet heart and focuses on community building, belonging, and legacies of hurt.

It also features Wandering Larry, the pet zombie most readers report being surprisingly endearing.

Available most places you buy books, DRM-free and with free sample chapters! https://veocorva.xyz/books/books-and-bone-by-Veo-Corva/

:boost_ok:

Attachments:

• Books and Bone by Veo Corva. The cover features a witchy woman clutching a thick tome to her chest. She stands in a tomb surrounded by swirling spirits. The image reads: A librarian's and-necromancy fantasy with small town charm in a city of the dead. Follow Ree, necromancer town archivist, as she attempts to keep her family and neighbours from killing a foppish, amiable, and arrogant historian from the world above. (remote)

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

hierarchon@inherently.digital ("doll!") wrote:

Attachments:

• wile e coyote in the trolley problem, except when he pulls the lever the trolley just moves sideways and hits him (remote)

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

wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

Dan McQuillan has written a great commentary on this Plan:

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labours-AI-Action-Plan-a-gift-to-the-far-right

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

good moves

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/mastodon-goes-non-profit-BFWtBNGuTFC9Lt2hUrCGIg

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

“… the attempt to find the truth about climate change increasingly depends on calculations that only computers can make, and the attempt to reach social consensus about climate change increasingly depends on recommendation algorithms that curate our news feeds, and on creative algorithms that write news stories, fake news, and fiction.” [1/2]

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

“… we are in a political deadlock about climate change, partly because the computers are at a deadlock. Calculations run on one set of computers warn us of an imminent ecological catastrophe, but another set of computers prompts us to watch videos that cast doubt on those warnings. Which set of computers should we believe? Human politics is now also computer politics.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/0Cqwlz6 [2/2]

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

lurnoise@mastodon.art ("Lur Noise") wrote:

Hi! I'm Lur Noise and I do illustration, concept art and comics.

I love drawing sci-fi, fantasy, tech, architecture, critters and plants. I'm available for commissions and work!

#PortfolioDay

Attachments:

• Color illustration of a sailboat with solar sails. The hull is painted white and red, and technical data about it can be seen on the top left corner. (remote)
• Color illustration of some red slipper lobsters resting atop of a tiled, half flooded floor. The tiles are blue and yellow, with fleur-de-lis flowers drawn on them. (remote)
• Color illustration of the interior of a brutalist tower, light leaks through a big circular opening on the wall with a golden disc on its center. What it seems the working place of a radio operator can be seen inside. (remote)
• Color illustration, reimagining the painting in a sci-fi setting. Athena is wearing a phoropter, a parabolic antenna as a shield, a scaffolding bar as a spear and a space blanket. She is standing against a concrete wall. (remote)

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

smarr@mastodon.acm.org ("Stefan Marr") wrote:

A fun BA thesis from down under:

Reinvestigating Typed Assembly
Language for the Garbage
Collection Interface

by @hayley
https://applied-langua.ge/~hayley/honours-thesis.pdf

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

Happy New Year!
(to those using the Julian Calendar)

Attachments:

• 8590347ee2405540.jpeg (remote)

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

Today in History: First "Be-In" held in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco CA, 1967

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

The laughter in the room is horrifying.

Joyce Vance:

This bit with Oklahoma Senator Mullin is very cringe. He winks at allegations of #Hegseth sexual abuse, saying he too was not in prison because "my wife loved me too" & that his "lord and savior forgave me." Then he asks Hegseth to say something nice about his wife & prompts him to remember the kids.

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

Today in History: Albert Schweitzer born, 1875

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

RichardLittler@pixelfed.social ("Richard Littler") wrote:

Mashup: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) versus Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975).

I meant it as a satire of some description, which I can't quite put into words.

Attachments:

• Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow (1565) composited with Rick Guidice's space colony painting for NASA's Ames Research Center (1975). (remote)

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

The Richard Dawkins Award is very hit-or-miss…this year, it's a miss.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/14/another-conference-i-wont-be-attending/

Attachments:

• John McWorter, well known kook (remote)

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

mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

So, people are wondering why this Free Our Feeds scam is focused on spending money on Bluesky and not on actually building out real public social media, the Fediverse.

The answer is that it is a grift. There is no way to get rich off of public infrastructure, so they are trying to kill it in favor of continued corporate dominance of social media.

If you really want freedom from billionaires maybe don't give them $30M of public money.

#FreeOurFeeds

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

bison@pixelfed.fr ("Bison") wrote:

Hello #portfolioday

I'm Bison a woodcarver from France.

Here is my website :
https://bisonrimant.fr

You can also find me there :
https://linktr.ee/bisonrimant

Attachments:

• Woodcarved humanoid goose wearing an armour plate, holding a shield and a mace with a red robin on the handle (remote)
• Woodcarved humanoid octopus wearing a dress, holding a book with a duck on it. It has a kingfisher on it's head. The base is a dark pond, there is a tiny head of an unhappy frog and some bulrushes (remote)
• Woodcarved Moo deng the baby pigmy hippo (remote)
• A standing up cat (remote)

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

hisham_hm ("Hisham") wrote:

https://hisham.hm/2025/01/14/frustrating-software/

There's software that Just Works, and then there's Frustrating Software.

htop Just Works. LuaRocks is Frustrating Software. I wrote them both.

As a user and an author of Frustrating Software, there's a very particular brand of frustration caused by its awkward workflows.

(cont.)

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

Ange wrote:

ICYDK I've been recently live-streaming about file formats, including PDF, polyglots...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2-EpKoPE60Vh6z5zUOn6KRxB55NitlJf
Feel free to come up with suggestions, questions...
Soon the DOOM PDF too ;)
I'm also writing a hands-on book on PDF internals & hacking!!

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

starting to assemble an "About" page https://arghstudios.com:50433/about.html

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

Why is the very worst social media also the most popular?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/14/the-us-is-going-to-ban-tiktok/

Attachments:

• Graph of relative popularity of social media apps, Facebook at the top, then Instagram, then TikTok (remote)

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

AiG can always find a way to make two awful things even awfuler.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/14/whats-the-opposite-of-chocolate-and-peanut-butter/

Attachments:

• A hunk of meat with frosting and sprinkles (remote)

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

on dark winter mornings

Whispers of cold air,
Blankets hug, dreams intertwined,
Morning's quiet glow.