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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you’re wondering how crypto is doing, Solana (the blockchain Trump used to launch his scam coin) just released an ad where a dude named “America” bravely announces he wants to “invent new technologies not genders.”

PS. Solana has lost 48% of its value since Trump’s inauguration.

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Use wrong addresses.

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

jwz wrote:

Absolute no ragrets about "bandomain valvemanufacturer.ltd"

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

That moment when you've fixed a crash, but you still need to figure out what caused the crash in order to write the commit message.

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

A long-time Symbolic Software client recently gifted me a new M4 MacBook Air (much appreciated!), so I benchmarked it against my trusty M1 Max from 2021.

Stunned at the results, which it accomplishes despite a much smaller wattage and with passive cooling.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

Beau's brewery in Vankleek Hill, Ontario.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Not sure how much I’ll be livetwooting this year. But a good bit from the first narrative talk (Adam Dolin) was that God of War (2018) had a variable cooldown duration for Kratos/Atreus combat banter.

Early in the game they yell reminders at each other a lot. By the end, they do it much less often, because they’re supposed to be good at this now. (As is the player!)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Chuck Schumer cannot protect you from what's coming. He's not built like that.

But if you're honest with yourself, you knew that already.

Just like a Pomeranian cannot protect you from a pack of coyotes. It's not mean to the Pomeranian to say that. The Pomeranian doesn't understand that he's food.

jwz wrote:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34195

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Make imperfect art. Let that human hand shine through. This is true creative beauty.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mytwobits01@freeradical.zone wrote:

The fretless bass is the most carefree fish in the ocean.

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inata@types.pl ("I'm sick of that dank blimp.") wrote:

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

As I said elsewhere, the current administration has made it clear they're making the US a place that is no longer a safe place for foreigners to visit, so why would other people want to come here

https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/foreign-tourism-us-forecast-trump-tariffs-trade-war-russia-ukraine-war/

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
david_blue@threads.net ("David Blue") wrote:

I have a new site! Rather than have multiple domains (separate career, coaching, teaching, training, production), I put everything under one easy-to-find banner. Everything ya need, on the new official!

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

Voice Of America (VOA) was created to fight authoritarianism during WW2, and now it has been shuttered by a wannabe authoritarian US President

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

Me to a product leader: your product sucks compared to your competition, here's the side-by-side.

The competition: ~2MB of critical path JS (>6MB unzipped) with React and an effing rainbow table (380K, 770K unzipped) in the main bundle.

React + NPM have now dragged the average so low that you don't even have to be good to win!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

i think it is very sweet and wholesome that there is a wired article about hash tables
https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/

jwz wrote:

If Patreon was software, I would never, ever upgrade it.

Every change they make is worse than the one before.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkt

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

The concepts of “what's legal” and what's not are irrelevant until someone figures out a way to punch these criminals hard enough to make them cower.

It ain't gonna be the courts.

If it’s not evident by now, they don't give a damn about what the courts say.

Old rules don't matter.
#politics

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

The contents of this Manual should be carefully controlled and should not be allowed to come into unauthorized hands.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Nietzsche Goes on Hot Ones

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/594

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
tiffany.c.li@threads.net ("Tiffany C. Li") wrote:

I have a new op-ed in @sfchronicle today, on DOGE's privacy invasions and historical parallels that should concern us all: "From IBM and the Holocaust to Japanese incarceration, history shows danger of DOGE privacy invasions."

Link below 👇

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein I get big into papercraft.
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/03/17.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Attachments:

• video: 2a2754ed8d7f78d6.mp4

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

They put beagles out of work, that's how you know they're evil (well, that and the fascism)

https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/

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

Winter is still here.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/17/winter-isnt-over-yet/

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

generating sample outputs from Argh Studio Storyteller to help folks see how to use it. here is page 1 of a 4-pager

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

Express your green. #grickledoodle #stpatricksday #green #hulk #muppets #yoda #kermit #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ first drive: 460 miles on a single charge
The Escalade embodies the American luxury car ideal, and now it's gone electric.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/the-2025-cadillac-escalade-iq-first-drive-460-miles-on-a-single-charge/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social