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

the Soviet Union finally fell apart in DEC 1991, & Clinton was elected in 1992. one of the great failures of the US that year & beyond was thinking the Russians, w no experience of democracy at all in their history, would somehow "naturally" transition to a Western European model social democratic state.

"The forces of history" cannot be depended upon to produce a particular outcome, no matter whether your analysis comes from left or right. it is *people* who make choiices about acting or not.

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

User Interface design is one thing, and actual users are another thing entirely

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lewis@social.lol ("Lewis Dale") wrote:

📝 New post: Some more good & bad bike part purchases

As always, I'm trying out lots of new bike parts. Some are better than others, so here's some short reviews of the best and worst things I've bought recently: Elitewheels Edge carbon wheels, Goodyear Eagle F1 Supersport R tyres, Sidebike carbon cycling shoes, Exustar PRS-1 pedals, RideNow TPU inner tubes, TOPUMP TB2 PRO electric pump, and YKYWBIKE jerseys & bib tights.

🔗

#cycling #BikeTooter #review https://lewisdale.dev/post/some-more-good-and-bad-bike-part-purchases/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:

The "Trolley Problem" is like the Kobayahi Maru: It isn't actually a legitimate moral paradox, it is a contrivance designed to teach us learned helplessness.

In real life, whenever I see what is presented as a trolley problem, I see someone carefully arranging the propaganda so that there appear to be only two options, both bad for me and good for them.

If I have to pull a lever, it will be on a guillotine for whomever set up the trolley.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

(looks at last three posts)

Gosh, I swear a lot on Threads

But I guess it's kind of a sweary time in the US right about now isn't it

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

If you were alive before the moon landing, and you're not chowderheaded dunderfuck who thinks vaccines let George Soros control you through radio waves, then you might consider getting a measles booster

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/health/measles-vaccine-shot-booster-adults-wellness/index.html

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

What's the point of restoring the Miocene climate regime if you don't get chalicotheres?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/17/back-to-the-miocene/

Boosted by jwz:
pbrower@bigshoulders.city wrote:

I worked really hard on this.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

tired: zero-initialized memory
wired: nought-y bits

jwz wrote:

Had cause to read RFC 1116 (1989) today. The classics.

Boosted by jwz:
rl_dane@polymaths.social ("R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵") wrote:

28-year-old #Unix #ScreenSaver

This will blow the #Zoomers away 😁🫰🏼

https://loops.video/v/6zfXLL57Df

#XScreensaver #jwz

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

What a money-grubbing coward Jeff Bezos has turned out to be. https://thehill.com/media/5148497-washington-post-backs-out-of-fire-elon-musk-ad-order/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

#Atlanta!

Come see @DoctorDeathray and her Implements of Destruction (namely @connor_dylan, @TaxDan, and me) as we rock out at Star Bar this Thursday night!

Doors at 8pm, our set starts at 8:30pm, and you’re in for a great night of blues punk, and some other types of punk too!

https://www.starbaratl.bar/

🤘

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
AG7GM@mastodon.radio ("AG7GM Dan") wrote:

Have you folks seen this? Sure, this is theoretically possible, but for an experimenter to show it is kind of mindblowing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXwDrcd1t-E

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウエブ") wrote:

I made public a color palette I've been using for the past year. Decided to make a fancy site for it too. Enjoy!

https://uchu.style/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nemo@ecoevo.social wrote:

Found a nice nudibranch yesterday at the tide pools.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The sweetest kitty.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

On tomorrow's Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Randy Shoup, a technologist and engineering leader who has spent his career in Silicon Valley. But unlike most others in Silicon Valley, Randy also grew up here: he is the son of Xerox PARC researcher Richard Shoup. His fifty years in Silicon Valley have afforded Randy a unique perspective: he has seen it at its best and at its worst -- each many times over. Join us, 5p Pacific Monday:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1340766691147251755

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

TFW you love the content and the formatting and the presentation and the story and then you open up devtools and realise it's *so much more*. People talk about "software craftsmanship", but nobody does actual craft like Marcin.

`view-source` and you'll see what I mean. Absolute beauty.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

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

Finally finished reading this article about US militias https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole

It's a pretty harrowing read, but I think everyone who cares about USA as a country should read it to understand where we are.

#uspol

P.S. Please do share after reading.

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

The problem of evil certainly does a good job of making theists flail about foolishly, especially if they're named Ross Douthat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/16/im-not-banal-enough-to-be-a-nyt-columnist/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ark@social.lol ("Alex Kagno") wrote:

Super late to the party, but I wanted to boost this out to the rest of the #fediverse for those of you looking for a nice little corner of the internet that's a safe space.

https://omglol.news/2025/02/01/toward-a-more-diverse-social-web

Thanks to @adam for all the work he does to ensure what he makes is equitable and inclusive. (We know @prami actually does all the work, though.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("World Bike Forward") wrote:

While the US goes with trade barriers, here's an urban monorail train just completed in China by BYD to be shipped to São Paulo, Brazil 1/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

One would think that any reasonable definition of an HDR color space would have clear well-defined math for saying what subvolume of the HDR color volume corresponds to Display P3 (SDR). But no. Everyone except full-screen playback of a movie on a TV needs the definition, but can’t even agree on whether SDR white is 80, 100, 150, 203 nits in terms of the PQ-encoded nit values.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

If you think about it for even a couple of minutes, it’s pretty clear that any system that has a compositor and an HDR display is going to need not to break existing SDR content and apps, and the display link is going to need to be latently HDR capable all the time so that it doesn’t renegotiate when some HDR content enters the composition. Therefore, all such systems are going to need a way to map SDR sRGB and SDR Display P3 to whatever color space the HDR display link uses.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
chi@social.lol ("Chi Señires") wrote:

nakakatawa na yung mga lalaking nagsasabi usually na hindi sila maarte sa mga bagay bagay yung mga isa sa PINAKA maarte kong kilala na tao

mga tatay na may masculine insecurity or whatever the fuck this bullshit is now na tinatawanan na lang namin ng mom ko pag pinag uusapan pero hassled ako kasi pakahirap kasama pag may topak na ganito 🙃

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mpg@grumble.social ("MPG") wrote:

If any of you are in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and have been considering leaving, Amazon has announced that they will be disabling their Transfer to USB functionality next week, so you have 1 week to liberate your library before then! You don't need to rush out and buy a new eReader this week, but you will want to get your purchases migrated to ePUB before you lose that ability altogether. 🧵 for how-to...

@bookstodon #Books

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
terrybot@frikiverse.zone ("Terrybot :pratchett:") wrote:

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you *think* before you break 'em.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:

Noted transphobe, “China virus” conspiracy theorist, and xenophobic racist who is also the Founder and Lead Maintainer of the Ruby on Rails web framework, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), thinks VP JD Vance's speech to the Europeans in Munich was really, really spot on.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/europeans-don-t-have-or-understand-free-speech-c7c406e8

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

thanks to @Mnewton we found it! it's by http://campbellwhyte.com/ 1/2