Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Atrocities are OK because America has been an atrocity factory for centuries!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/28/a-bad-way-to-defend-america/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
HIV & malaria drugs cut off from poor countries, a rising TB outbreak in Kansas… we are about to get hit with a centuries-level regression in public health.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sometimes cruelty is the point:
“Trump order set to halt supply of HIV, malaria drugs to poor countries, sources say” - https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-order-set-halt-supply-hiv-malaria-drugs-poor-countries-sources-say-2025-01-28/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I’m making progress on my Skaven.
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Mastodon FeedWhen you order literally anything online, they insist on a phone number for shipping. What number do you give them?
Mastodon Feedwhen the men who tore down the stars burned the True History,
they sought in part to erase the original, truer purpose
of the GPU: to Paint -
every color we humans ever imagined,
castles in the sky,
flocks of starships, fleets of pegasus,
rainbows and waterfalls and violet-green fire and pearlescent ooze; everything -
and still we dream of these,
in the songs we pass down
in secret moments of hope
Mastodon Feeddnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:
ANTI FASCIST PIZZA BAKER
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zenmorph@indieweb.social wrote:
@fromjason At this point one-and-done software applications sound like heaven. Most of us are weary and done with the whole rent-seeking miasma pushed by modern big tech. This business model needs a stake shoved straight through its ugly black heart. Corporate culture has become vampiric.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nathanolsenart@mastodon.art ("Nathan Olsen") wrote:
GUYS! I GOT THE BADGE! 🤯
COME JOIN THE FUN AND BACK TINY DRACULA ON KICKSTARTER:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nathanolsenart/tiny-dracula-1
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:
what with the new administration setting policies and those policies being applied to public codebases, and a non-zero chance repos will be altered or deleted?
Now is as good a time as any to fork and / or clone your favorite repos from your favorite US government organizations.
https://social.coop/@cstanhope/113901553753747592
the link from @cstanhope is a 404 now for me. Maybe GH's broken, maybe NASA's Transform-to-Open-Science repo has been deleted or made private.
but oh hey I happened to have cloned that repo and have the changes handy.
EDIT:
cloned main branch viewable at https://github.com/brianwisti/Transform-to-Open-Science (h/t @drwho for the gentlest of nudges)
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If your answer doesn't start with a capital-B, you're wrong by default.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
It's never been about the AI models because that's not where the money is
The money is in selling companies expensive computational power through bloated bundling services with hard to understand egress fees. The money is in shoehorning Internet-tethered chatbots into all of our productivity apps, then increasing our subscription fees by 20%.
The money is in the cloud. Without it, The Made in The USA business model for selling you artificial intelligence simply doesn't work.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
What has wallstreet in a panic is not just that #DeepSeek was built for a fraction of the cost, but that it can run locally.
Because the money was never in the AI models themselves, but in the computational power and infrastructure required to run those models.
If anyone can run a ChatGPT-comparable model on an M3 Macbook Pro, then where's the business model?
We're back to one-and-done software purchases, and that's horrible news for the corps spending hundreds of billions on infrastructure.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A lot of people who seem to have Big Opinions about how much it costs to build a browser only have toy and/or trailing-edge systems in mind, and it's BAD for the discourse.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:
nothing in the seminal teachings of “Tubthumping” imply that you are expected, upon having gotten knocked down, to get up again without assistance from your comrades. it is through solidarity and mutual aid that we get up again to ensure there ain’t nothing gonna keep us down.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ellie@social.lol ("Ellie") wrote:
heeeeelp, how do i use a binary search tree in lzss compression?
this is not a meme, it’s just one a.m., i'm tired and still have a sucky uni-thing to do, so i've decided to make it fedi's problem
edit: i think i figured it out (this is the type of thing smart people write blog posts about, right?)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is 'Nazi.' Nobody cares about their motives anymore."
― A.R. Moxon
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cassey@urbanists.social ("Cassey Lottman") wrote:
My friend @skiles has made a hobby the last few years out of making websites critiquing anti-queer lobbying organizations and SEO-hacking them to high rankings for that organization's name.
Eventually one of them, a subsidiary of Focus on the Family, filed a complaint against one of his sites under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy system of the World Intellectual Property Organization at the UN.
He won!Read about it here:
https://johnskinnerportfolio.com/blog/domain_name_battlefield/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
who hasn't done the Blogging Questions challenge? I need to tag some folks!!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
TeenVogue@flipboard.com ("Teen Vogue") wrote:
Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dear-trans-kids-raquel-willis?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Teen Vogue @teen-vogue-TeenVogue
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:
📣 One account I’d follow, even if I was not a user, is the EchoFeed Amplify (https://beep.town/@echofeedamplify) bot. It shares the posts sent with EchoFeed, if the author authorized it. I can’t tell you how many brilliant accounts I’ve found that way.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
No I will not debate you on the ethics of ICE school raids to kidnap kids & strike into them the fear of a tyrannical government.
And if you find yourself defending such fascism, expect a block—and remember that at no point in history were the people who justified targeting children the good guys.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
I’ve spent the last two months reading a dozen Agatha Christie novels, and nearly all feature a game of bridge that ends up being a crucial plot point.
The characters who suck at bridge are always way less likable than the murderer, (or “murderess”— a gendered term we should bring back, honestly) and now I need to know everything about Agatha Christie and find out whst sort of bridge drama was going down in the 1920s.
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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:
@robb @zicklepop To me, the conclusion from all this isn't that Dan is a terrible, terrible person, but that the BDFL model of OSS is inherently problematic for any project that grows beyond a small library with a tiny footprint.
I think folks would be a lot more comfortable if Pixelfed/Loops truly had some kind of panel or group of people with "veto" power to make sure Dan doesn't just go off the rails with no accountability. Otherwise…we've seen this movie before. 😕
Mastodon FeedLukeBornheimer@sfba.social ("Luke Bornheimer") wrote:
The Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project—which was approved by the SFMTA Board in November and supposed to begin construction in early January—was appealed by 3–5 merchants.
Please send an email in support of the project using https://tinyurl.com/ValenciaCEQA — it takes less than 10 seconds!
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Mastodon Feedcmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
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zicklepop@nyan.lol ("melanie kat") wrote:
i literally caught dansup lying and misinforming people about pixelfed's export tools just this month! it's laughable!
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melkat@nyan.lol ("melanie kat‘s writings") wrote:
My Disappointment With Pixelfed
https://melkat.blog/p/pixelfed-disappointment/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
Doubts about Pixelfed https://rknight.me/blog/doubts-about-pixelfed/
In which I have some concerns about how Pixelfed is going, a follow up of sorts to @zicklepop's post (https://melkat.blog/p/pixelfed-disappointment/)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anarchademic@kolektiva.social ("emeritrix") wrote:
PGE wants to cut down part of Portland, Oregon's Forest Park.
Cutting down a bunch of mature trees in Forest Park because the corporation doesn't want to spend a little more to go around is wrong and should be stopped.
Submit comments (contact info and talking points below via link) to the Hearings Officer, your City Councilors, AND the Mayor by 9 a.m. on Jan 29th. (If you already submitted comments to the City in late 2024, please submit again)
Comments can be sent via email. Include the Hearings Officer, all 3 City Councilors from your district, and the Mayor as the recipients. If you live outside of the City of Portland, feel free to include the hearings officer, Mayor and any assortment of City Council members.
Public hearing is this Wednesday, 1/29 at 9am, all virtual.
Here is a link to the Bird Alliance of Oregon's handy action page:https://birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/tell-the-city-to-protect-forest-park-from-development/
#PDX #Trees #SaveTheTrees #PortlandOr #Portland #SaveTheCommons
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- Tell the City to Protect Forest Park from Development Submit Comments now and join us for a livestream of the virtual hearing that may decide the future of PGE's Harborton Reliability Project! On January 29 the City of Portland will hold a virtual hearing to decide whether or not to approve PGE's Harborton Reliability Project. PGE's proposal aims to expand their power grid infrastructure, which would entail developing on top of 4.7 acres of quality habitat in Forest Park. We are deeply troubled by this proposed development in this cherished Park, which is protected by law under the Forest Park Natural Resources Management Plan. Photo of mossy trees, with a Northern Pygmy-Owl in Forest Park, photo by Scott Carpenter (remote)
