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@waider @jwz Illuminant is the NNTP to ActivityPub gateway you can run today! https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/about/
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whitequark ("✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧") wrote:
chat, is anyone willing to sell me a PCIe Gen1/Gen2 x1/x4 analyzer (any of these specs, the more the merrier, doesn't need to go any higher) at a reasonable price?
(please boost for reach!)
Mastodon Feedgleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:
If Hegseth wasn't such a gross abuser of women and alcohol, maybe there would be room to focus on his utter lack of qualifications to lead a large government department.
Mastodon FeedApropos of nothing, I remember some guy who spent most of the 90s having people tell him that it was insane to combine a mail reader and a usenet reader into the same app, because they are completely different software platforms that serve completely different intents and have different feature sets.
Oh wait, that was me. The guy was me.
Mastodon FeedI see this thread is going to be One Of Those.
Oosp.
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Mastodon FeedCan someone explain to me how it makes any sense for Pixelfed to be a thing that has its own accounts, rather than being an ActivityPub client whose GUI just happens to be image-focused?
Mastodon Feedalexwild@mastodon.online ("Alex Wild") wrote:
The trouble with Hegseth isn't that he's an abusive alcoholic, or that he's unqualified, or whatever. It's that he will use the military to kill U.S. citizens. That's why Trump wants him.
Republicans absolutely hate Americans and will not think twice about doing a Tiananmen Square.
Mastodon FeedThem: "We are launching a new publication"
Me: 😐
Them: "We intend to do journalism differently"
Me: 😐
Them: "We will be beholden to no one in our search for truth"
Me: It's a Substack isn't it?
Them: "You will be able to subscribe using the Substack platform"
Me: (closes tab)
Mastodon Feedjerry@infosec.exchange ("ChatJERRYPT") wrote:
Here is an example video:
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Mastodon Feedjerry@infosec.exchange ("ChatJERRYPT") wrote:
Perhaps my favorite thing on TikTok is the flurry of Chinese people recording “goodbye from your Chinese spy” videos, overlayed with the song “When I see you again”
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
it's not correct, but to a first approximation you can get pretty far reading the german "bzw" as "by ze way" and i think that's beautiful
Mastodon Feed"quisling anti-woke zuckerberg streisand-effects fediverse into increased relevance via shadowbanning pixelfed hyperlinks" sure is a sentence
Mastodon Feedpatrickworld@mastodon.online ("Patrick 🌎") wrote:
Man, I just wish my dad lived long enough to hear white guys telling each other to go back to Africa
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Mastodon FeedLinuxAndYarn ("Rachel Rawlings") wrote:
@tiffanycli I think you misread The New Gilead Age
Mastodon Feedtiffanycli ("Tiffany Li") wrote:
I thought the New Gilded Age was going to come with better hats
Mastodon Feed2/ 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.
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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.
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- 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)
Mastodon FeedDaojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
I’m not normally a fan of biopics but Nosferatu really does capture Neil Gaiman
Mastodon Feedstavvers@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
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- 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)
![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.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/109/472/364/893/362/996/original/698eff16cf30a3ec.png){kind=link}
Mastodon Feed@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.
Mastodon Feedrazhael@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.
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- 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)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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/
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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:
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- 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)
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hierarchon@inherently.digital ("doll!") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedReblogged 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
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good moves
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/mastodon-goes-non-profit-BFWtBNGuTFC9Lt2hUrCGIg
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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]
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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!
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- 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)
