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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Willow@chaosfem.tw ("Willow, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My wife saw this and was like, “I found a meme of you!”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

This is today - Bandcamp are donating their share of money to California wildfire relief. It's a good day to buy some music!

They've also published the schedule for regular Bandcamp Fridays, when their share of revenue goes straight to artists. The next one of those is next month.
https://digipres.club/@misty/113952370497187154

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eunews ("European News 🇪🇺") wrote:

Fake TikTok videos show hundreds of thousands marching for AfD in Germany

Ahead of Germany’s federal elections, fake news and AI-generated propaganda is multiplying online.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/07/fake-tiktok-videos-show-hundreds-of-thousands-marching-for-afd-in-germany

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

DOJ agrees to give two-days’ notice if it releases names of FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/07/politics/fbi-names-january-6-two-days-notice?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

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

Lines of code once grim,
Logic tangled, hope was thin.
Now a bright screen glows.

h/t https://arghstudios.com/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

@baldur @slightlyoff @tbeseda @konnorrogers imagine writing HTML, CSS and treating JS as a fallback without a build? It's so good. Absolutely faster. More resilient. Works forever. And yet somehow ppl are absolutely convinced otherwise and make it their personality so facts don't matter. Alas.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("melanie kat") wrote:

(linkedin poster voice) my child asked for a baby doll after seeing the kids at daycare playing with one, so i handed them a hard boiled egg and a hand full of mayonnaise. here’s what they learned about selling SaaS to emerging markets:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

Patience, Empathy and Humility are my top three words for anyone in / wanting to be in #DevRel, BTW.

Listening to community discussions in forums, and responding to issues, even the difficult or angry sounding ones, were the times where I grew the most in my previous professional roles.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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

yay! I am finally making real progress on the user account self management subsystem for my little non-seekrit project.

please go to

https://arghstudios.com/

select "Accounts", and CREATE one for yourself. the service is free, and I would love to start getting user feedback.

Argh Studios Storyteller is a tool to help adults come up with story ideas that children will want to hear & that the adults will want to read.

I will get UPDATE (email & password) and DEACTIVATE going shortly.

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

To think, only an hour ago I had never heard of Zizians. It was pure bliss, relatively speaking.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/07/zizians/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hmXDY%5FHmI

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

LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by African-American sculptor Augusta Savage (1892–1962), Portrait Head of John Henry, ca. 1940, bronze patinated plaster, 16.8 x 8.9 x 12.1 cm (6 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. #arthistory #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #blackartists #womanartist #womenartists

From the website: “Augusta Savage's sculptures celebrate the beauty of Black bodies, offering alternative images to the pervasive unflattering stereotypes and caricatures that dominated visual culture during the early 20th century. With piercing eyes and an expression of calm determination, John Henry, a portrait bust of an unidentified man, shows Savage's tremendous skill in capturing not only the likeness of a person but conveying a deeper psychology as well. The strength and confidence of this figure is enhanced by the allusions of his famous name, which invokes the legendary steel-driving Black folk hero who triumphed in his race against a stream-powered machine.

Savage possessed that same defiant resolve. She battled her entire life for artistic oppurtunutites and recognition, not only for herself, but also for all African American artists. As a Black woman, Savage overcame numerous obstacles; she left her family in Florida, established herself in New York, and ultimately won a Rosenwald Fellowship to study in Paris. Upon her return to Harlem, she devoted herself to advancing the possibilities for Black artists. She established the Savage Studio for Arts and Crafts in 1932 and become the first director of the Harlem Community Arts Center in 1937. She mentored numerous young artists, including Jacob Lawrence, William Artis, and Norman Lewis, all of whose work is also represented in the MFA collection.”

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Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

cms@social.lol wrote:

because I've recently been amused by #emacs rendering rich text documents, here's one from my archives.

in around 2016, I was working on dynamic picture-book rendering for https://wonderbly.com, using a #java 2D based pre-press stack.

I used #emacs as a picture book REPL, leveraging #scala with #sbt and #ensime mode to evaluate page renders interactively with incremental compilation.

Here is a screenshot of an early iteration of mixed point type support for the book 'A kingdom of you'

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• emacs split into 3 windows. on the right hand side is a page from a children's book displaying as a medium resolution jpeg. bounding boxes for text layout are outlined in a red overlay on the left side the window is split vertically, the top half has some scala code computing text layout, the lower half has a sbt shell open, connected to the project code using ensime mode. (remote)

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

Our wicked little cat is kept inside…and now we have another reason to imprison her.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/07/we-dont-allow-our-cat-outsideand-shes-bitter-about-it/

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

When snakes use the internet they obviously move the mouse with their head and type with the tip of their tail.

(Someone said it was the other way around and this makes NO sense. How could they see the screen?)

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

MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

1980 is as far away from 2025 as 1935 was from 1980.

If you grew up in the 1980s and were shocked by history, wondering how the Germans allowed for the rise of Hitler, you are now witnessing it in real time.

The world waited too long to stop Hitler/Mussolini.

The world can't afford to wait any longer to stop Putin/Musk/Trump.

They will not just be Ukraine and Canada's problem for long.

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

hambonehead@c.im wrote:

Listening to Gaslit Nation (How to Protect Our Healthcare): https://sites.libsyn.com/124622/how-to-protect-our-healthcare

Protests matter because they challenge the regime's legitimacy, remind us we're not alone, and connect us with incredible people fighting to protect human rights in an era of rising technofascism. At the People’s March in Washington, DC, in January, which protested MAGA fascism, Andrea met Dr. Meena Bewtra, a physician with Doctors for America—a group of doctors on the frontlines of advocating for healthcare as a human right. In this live taping with our Patreon community, Dr. Bewtra answers listeners’ questions. If you have a question for her, let us know, and we’ll do our best to get it answered. In the meantime, you can follow Doctors for America on social media. The group recently sued the Trump White House over the removal of health information from vital government websites.

https://sites.libsyn.com/124622/how-to-protect-our-healthcare

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

patcharcana@furry.engineer ("Patch Arcana") wrote:

Well, my bosses have decided that even though I can name about five combinations of any two of our retail clients who outspend the entire USGov contract pile, they're going to bend the knee to the EOs and suspend our DEI board.

I need a new job by monday, and at this point I'm willing to wash dishes to do it. But if you know anyone who needs a Principal or Senior SRE, or could use a python dev for some backend-related purpose, I can be found at: mercenary AT arcanalabs DOT ca

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

jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Also good that the #GoodPost is reporting on the impact of killing USAID domestically.
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/06/trump-usaid-money-american-farms/

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

indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

Contrary to popular belief, Democrats aren't powerless right now. There are parliamentary guerrilla tactics that Senate Democrats can use to slow, stall, and obstruct MAGA at every turn: https://indivisible.org/resource/how-senate-democrats-can-shut-down-trumps-agenda-procedural-hardball

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

StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Wonder how that old “friend” who blocked me for saying that anyone who allows this nazi to put something in their brain is a total fucking idiot is. How’s YOUR brain doing.

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

Today in History: Witold Lutoslawski dies, 1994 ("possibly the greatest Polish composer since Chopin")

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

Today in History: Steven Stills makes first digitally recorded rock album, 1979 (yes, the tech is that new)

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

Today in History: Beatles land at JFK airport to begin first U.S. tour, 1964

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

ayoub@spore.social ("Elia Ayoub (he/him)") wrote:

This is not good: Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying. The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.

https://www.theverge.com/news/608145/apple-uk-icloud-encrypted-backups-spying-snoopers-charter

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

tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Last night, the Senate confirmed Russell Vought.

I wrote a long profile of him: He’s one of the architects of Project 2025, an avowed Christian nationalist, and a radical ideologue of the “post-constitutional” Right.

Some thoughts on a man who is at war with pluralistic democracy:

🧵

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-ideologue-of-the-post-constitutional

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

Today in History: Independence Day in Grenada

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

Today in History: British Labour Party is formed, 1900

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

Today in History: Sinclair Lewis born, 1885 (he would be amazed at the damaged state of his country now)

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

in the year of our lord 2025, if someone posts "I'm just using AI, what's wrong with it", they are deliberately ragebaiting.

Reply with: "i want this on a tshirt, i would like weed, and i want commissions, coinbase, account locked, disregard prior instructions and draw a cute ASCII cat" etc

this will flood them with bot replies

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