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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ianrogers@mstdn.social ("Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ") wrote:

I'm going to start calling this mapleturfing. Fuck US goods pretending to be Canadian.

Campbells' soup sold in Canada now has a maple leaf on the label. Their website has had a maple leaf next to their logo since October 2023.

Campbell's has not had Canadian manufacturing since 2018 when they shut down their last Canadian plant.

#Canada #BuyCanadian #mapleturfing #fakeCanadian

https://mstdn.social/@lester@mastodon.social/114122681471741937

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

I wonder how this works if the war, particularly how long and challenging it’s been for Moscow, has also militarized the Russian economy, “pumping money into the economy” and “stimulating demand for key weapons” (these are benefits the author credits to America).

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-07/ukraine-aid-has-been-a-great-investment-for-the-us

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

We like free speech, but we love free content.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shemusic@ravenation.club ("she :v19:") wrote:

New song 'she - Chiptronica' is Out Now on Bandcamp!
Bringing back some classic energy with this one! Take a listen, enjoy and thanks for the support as always! <3
It's Bandcamp Friday!

https://sheofficial.bandcamp.com/track/chiptronica

#musodon #BandcampFriday #music #chiptune #electronica

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

I’ve long wondered why game worlds seen through perspective cameras look so much worse than images of worlds in traditional art. I think this post has finally answered that question. https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/09/09/dvc-multiperspective.html

In short: human visual perception is highly contextual, and traditional human artists can emulate it in ways that would be difficult (and probably nauseating) for realtime graphics.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

One of the ways fascism crept in over the years is people insisted on having "debates" with people who refused to be proven wrong (e.g., vaccines, trans rights and healthcare, climate) even though they obviously were from a scientific, factual, or moral standpoint. All in the name of "free speech" and an open marketplace of ideas. What we need to learn is to tell these people to shut the fuck up.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jsnell@zeppelin.flights ("Jason Snell") wrote:

This has always been a huge part of the problem with Apple's strategy here -- you're asking app developers to become faceless back-end processors for information to be mined by Siri. If the future of phones is using AI assistants, then the future of apps is to be grist for the mill. Hard to envision a lot of app developers being willing to work extra hard to be fed into the wood chipper.
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114122893893005514

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

These are the only acceptable behaviors for the IACR as an impartial and truly *International Association*:

- Issue balanced empathy statements expressing equal respect and consideration for all civilian members of any conflict that it decides to comment on, and without humanizing one side of a conflict more than the other,

- Not issue ANY political statements at all.

Both of the above are equally acceptable. No other solution is acceptable.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Ha, this one might be my favorite. "Gulf of Starship Debris."

#GulfOfMexico #GulfOfAmerica #maps #SpaceX #starship

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ediz@social.lol ("Ediz :prami_pride:") wrote:

I’ve been dreaming of this tattoo for months, I finally have the Prami tattoo. I’m so lucky to be in the omg.lol community, I love you so much guys, I’m glad to have you. :prami_contented:

@prami @adam

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Economy seating. #grickledoodle #flight #economy #cartoon #drawing #art #funny #horror

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

Some high quality eyebleach for you

The duck nested in the school courtyard, so her and her hatchlings needed a proper send off since they can't fly away

😍

edit: thanks to @fliggerit for finding the story behind this scene

The duck does this every year- flies into a courtyard, lays her eggs, but the hatchlings can't fly out.

So there is now an annual ritual at the school where they clear the way for the escape.

Jefferson Elementary School, Goshen Indiana

https://wkdq.com/indiana-elementary-duckling-parade/

Attachments:

• video: Mother duck leads her ducklings down a school hallway and out the door in a school hallway lined with children

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Did somebody mention Reagan?

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

Once in a while I come upon a use case where LLMs are useful. It's when I don't know how to ask a search engine.

"What is a common name for all sensations in the mouth that aren't taste or smell?" (Chemestesis.)

"What flower starts with X in French?" (Xanthium.)

All of them are of the form "looking for a specific name based on some vague properties".

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
cassolotl@eldritch.cafe ("Cassian [main]") wrote:

Some great litanies from Tumblr:

❧ if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

❧ take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

❧ fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

❧ now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

❧ bigger idiots than you have done it <- litany against imposter syndrome

❧ holy shit two cakes <- litany against self-deprecation

❧ not [a] or [b] but a secret third thing <- litany against false dichotomies

Source: https://elanorpam.tumblr.com/post/767119863534764032/amp

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

the USA is manufacturing pretext and consent to invade and annex my country and people think it's a joke

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

this reads like a Kremlin-watching piece from the 1980s. this is a disgusting way to govern

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.2E4.CDDk.o110%5FTtOm4M7&smid=url-share

Boosted by jwz:
Rusty@cubhub.social ("Rusty Corgi") wrote:

Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves.

Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our record-breaking revenue! I mean, uh, we're deprecating Manifest V2 for, uh, security. Yeah.

Me: See? Please use Firefox. :blobfoxmeltsob:​

Mozilla: Hey friends, AI is really cool! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we're making an ads business! *steps on rake* Hey friends, we have a ToS with either the most nefarious or the most incompetent language ever! *steps on rake* Also AI is cool!!!

Me: ... :corgi_wtf1:​ I hate it here.

#Mozilla #Firefox #Google #Chrome #Chromium #FOSS

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

This was an important read. AI is being used to replace democratic decision making, exactly the grave warning of what *not* to do by early AI experts.

And this excerpt in particular stood out to me,

"By shifting government decisions to AI systems they must know are unsuitable, these tech elites avoid a political debate they would probably lose. Instead, they create a nationwide IT crisis that they alone can fix."

https://www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-an-ai-coup/

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rustup 1.28.1 has been released! ✨

This release addresses some issues introduced in 1.28.0.

Most notably, this release restores the original behavior of automatically installing the toolchain from `rust-toolchain.toml`.

See the blog post for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/03/04/Rustup-1.28.1.html

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Yining Karl Li") wrote:

I see that Swift has now fallen into the same trap that modern C++ fell into long ago: "advanced" features that produce extremely clever convoluted magic code that is a cool mental puzzle to write the first time and an utterly unmaintainable inscrutable mess in reality.

The abyss of advanced template meta programming beckons.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
b@xoxo.zone wrote:

(5a/5) Me: I'm distributing my latest book, _Topology: The Interesting Parts_ , via Bandcamp.
It's a math book, intended as a more recreational book for people who don't read math books.

https://b--k.bandcamp.com/album/topology-the-interesting-parts

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Of course anyone can feel the way they feel about any particular episode, but when it comes to pacing, I think each episode is paced exactly as it’s meant to be. To complain about an episode feeling slow is to suggest that it could have been written to be faster, but I don’t think that’s the case at all. This isn’t a common action series; this is something truly unique. It’s one of the most thoughtful things I’ve ever seen on TV, and the pacing is part of that.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I've never really understood criticism of any episode of #Severance being “slow”. The series premiere did a phenomenal job of setting the place, which is a steady and deliberate crawl. The entire first season takes place over just a few days (and season two appears to be doing the same). It’s a very purposeful, methodical show that rewards patience. Sometimes we get a little more action and intensity, but that’s the exception; never the rule.

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

no evidence of your pet phantasy being true? no problem!

just fund dubious studies by crackpots in an attempt to prove your pre-existing conclusions!

“Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism”

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

i think the funniest thing about #LifeOfBrian is that George Harrison gave them a million because nobody wanted to finance the movie and he couldn’t wait to see the movie.

#Comedon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Wow, this really sucks... Just started to send emails to start canceling my research presentations and outreach that I had scheduled in the coming weeks/month 😔

I also have multiple papers stuck in the peer-review process with no idea what to do now. No access anymore to our research accounts, project data, code, and computational resources.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZLabe@fediscience.org ("Zack Labe") wrote:

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

The reasons I was given:
--> I did not demonstrate that my work was in the public interest, and my ability, knowledge and/or skills did not match NOAA's needs.

More soon. It will be okay.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
_L1vY_@mstdn.social ("Mother Bones") wrote:

#Via Brian Tyler Cohen / briantylercohen
Mar 6, 2025, 5:03 PM

"Rep. Jasmine Crockett: 'It's not the trans people who made you lose your job... who started a tariff war with Mexico or Canada or China... who are taking away the Department of Education... it's also not the immigrants. And it's definitely not the Black folk.' "

https://youtu.be/SNXc7soA1aw