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

Five minutes later and smoke continues to billow from the chimney. Maybe they need to get that thing checked out.

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

White smoke!

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

The AP conclave livestream has the chimney covered from *three* different angles.

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

how weird... confirmation of a QSO I logged a couple of years ago (with F5RAG on 28.355MHz SSB) just popped up on qrz. com #HamRadio

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Breaking news: Surprise at the Vatican

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
dutypo@mastodon.art wrote:

@michaela

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan :prami:") wrote:

I asked people what they think about working with me, here's what they said!

https://www.andycarolan.com/success-stories

#Social #Design #Illustration #Portfolio

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

@Dianora @ksawatsky The only reason you need a tank is to run over Teslas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4ZjhOukwU 🤣

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

The current crop of technofascists want to destroy higher education and shunt everyone into "AI" use because effective pedagogy creates independent thinkers, whereas reliance on "AI" creates a class dependent on informational outputs controlled by an oligarchical few, who can control the design of the "AI," what it valorizes and what it discounts.

Shorter version: They want you stupid and compliant enough to not even notice how you've become compliant and stupid.

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

If you want to be a writer, you can just write. Can you go to school for it? Sure. But you can also just get on with it and start writing. Going to school for writing is neither required nor useless, it's simply a different path. I didn't go to school for writing, and I've been writing professionally for 35 years.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mattalexanderauthor/post/DJXvLnsSCNT

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

I am not sure how many registers will be needed... depends upon you last meal

https://mastodon.social/@BujakiewiczFranco/114472623160552398

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HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

The ARRL will begin utilizing the black smoke / white smoke method when choosing a new CEO.

The elected state and regional representatives will be flown to Connecticut, locked inside headquarters and begin the process of choosing a new leader. During this process external AC power will be cut from the building and they will only be able to communicate with each other via FT8 and QRP transmitters connected to dummy loads.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The academic father of “soft power” has died. Professor Joseph Nye was 88. https://www.semafor.com/article/05/08/2025/joseph-nye-soft-power-political-scientist-dies

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

This day 30 years ago, a new employee at Netscape named Brendan Eich was hard at work creating a web scripting language called Mocha. It would soon be re-named JavaScript, in a dubious attempt to co-brand it with another new web programming language from May 1995, Java. https://cybercultural.com/p/1995-the-birth-of-javascript/

p.s. according to @allenwb and Eich: "There is no known record of the specific dates but Brendan Eich believes it was May 6–15." https://zenodo.org/records/3707008#.X6XOHVMzbDo

#InternetHistory #JavaScript

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

"58 wallets have made over $10 million each from President Donald Trump’s meme coin, totaling $1.1 billion in profits, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said.

764,000 wallets of mostly small holders have lost money on $TRUMP, according to the firm.

The $TRUMP event, set for May 22 at Trump National Golf Club, Washington, D.C., includes a reception for the 25 wallets with the largest balance, along with a White House tour."

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trump-meme-coin-crypto.html

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

JFC, this is like the 1950s

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/tyre-nichols-state-trial-officers-acquitted.html?algo=combo%5Flda%5Funique%5Ftriton%5Fclicks%5Fdecay%5F96%5F50%5Franks&fellback=false&imp%5Fid=3251451610937849&pool=programmingnode%2F0dc6538b-a831-51be-a980-5597993fb6e2&req%5Fid=4079038392567526&surface=more-politics-news&variant=0%5Fonly%5Fvariant

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :togedemaru:"):
gabz@social.lol ("gabz :verified_pill_bottle2:") wrote:

Pokémon because everything else is just too depressing these days

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

How do you cope with our American reality without feeling a rising need to kill?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/08/i-gotta-get-a-better-hobby/

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blinry@chaos.social wrote:

"Here, take a Lua ruler! It starts with 1!" #mch2022

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UpCloud wrote:

If you have a valid VAT ID, you can sign up to UpCloud with the promo `eu5000` to get €5000 of free credits that expire in 3 months.

To an individual that might sound like a weird deal, but saying the quiet part out loud, the point of this is to entice small-medium (European?) businesses to use us while they build, then they go "wow UpCloud good, let's stay!" when the credits are used up :blobcat:

If you or someone you know is about to build out an org on the cloud, maybe they'll like this!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Peer-reviewed multi-year study gets published.
Top HackerNews comment:
haven't they considered it's a correlation not causation?
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/114468389732761467

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
dorkbotbristol@assemblag.es ("Dorkbot Bristol") wrote:

It's Dorkbot again next week! We'll be having a #mayke special, so bring along your work in progress for all the lighting talks and demos. We'll also be having a talk about "Printegrated Circuits" from @oliverchild.
Credit: @jarkman for the picture of his sockbot mayke.

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

@heydon Ask me how I know we don't prosecute white-collar crime any more.

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

Yeah, man...it's cool you only sent 177K of JS (> 0.5MB unzipped), but, like, did you check to see if it was *actually* fast? What's that? It includes *React*. I'm sure it's fine then.

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250508%5FAiDcSS%5F3C8-r:1-c:0

/cc @heydon

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heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I was dunking on Figma before it was cool LOL

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drahsturgis@universeodon.com ("Dr. Amy H. Sturgis 📖") wrote:

“I believe we are in crisis. The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” #MonMothma

#Andor #StarWars #Resist #RebellionsAreBuiltOnHope

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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:

sneak level 💯

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juliamon@kind.social ("Juliamon") wrote:

RFKjr: we're gonna make a database of autistic ppl
everyone else: *promptly calls him out for blatant eugenics*
RFKjr: ok ok we won't

1 week passes

RFKjr: ok so we decided to do it anyway but focus especially on the disabled ones bc they rely on us for help and can't fight back

https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-autism-medicare-medicaid-0507cd8117f299a50bc20b9ea8569048?utm%5Fsource=copy&utm%5Fmedium=share

#uspol

jwz wrote:

This just in! The CEO of Fiver says AI is coming for my job.

He's probably rich and Fiver is definitely a company whose name I have heard, so it's probably true.

Come sweet slumber, enshroud me in thy purple cloak.

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Venjent: Alcatraz-a-Lago - Bacardi Chili Mango Rum, Soda, and a Fancy Lime!

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