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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Happy Mothra’s Day

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deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:

In just three months under Mayor Daniel Lurie’s leadership, San Francisco has seen a 50% spike in overdose deaths, with 192 lives lost in early 2025 alone. That’s nearly two people dying daily from preventable causes. We’re seeing too much of the same failed War on Drugs and governing by press release that we saw with the last administration..
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https://www.deanprestonsf.com/blog/overdose-deaths

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

Greenspun’s tenth rule, “Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp”, would later be adapted into a popular song, “Boulevard of Broken Schemes”

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

In a sane world, the government would be trumpeting this triumph of medical science—a great victory for public health.

But we live in Trump world now, so we won't be able to get the Moderna Covid+flu vaccine this year. People will get sick needlessly, and people will die.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/modernas-combo-covid-flu-mrna-shot-outperforms-current-vaccines-large-rcna205242

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

More climate scientists discarded.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/11/there-will-be-nothing-left-after-the-billionaires-are-done-with-us/

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

Every Republican sycophant who fears the next election is going to support suspending habeas corpus and elections for the duration of the "emergency", which will never end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/11/two-signs-of-the-end-of-democracy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6skuCiLCjRA

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alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

Do you approve of the state of the software industry?

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will@ruby.social ("Will") wrote:

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webology ("Jeff Triplett") wrote:

🤷‍♂️ I miss Visual Basic

https://micro.webology.dev/2025/05/11/i-miss-visual-basic/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

I love this new era of social media where in someone rolls up in your comments clearly want to start an argument or just plain be a dick, we immediately exile them with "hide comment for everyone" and then block or restrict them, it's so much nicer than having to tolerate a chud dropping a turd in the punchbowl and then demanding everyone have a cup of what they're serving up

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

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kfh@chaos.social ("Karl Fredrik 🦊") wrote:

@Natasha_Jay Statens Vegvesen (Norwegian Public Roads Administration) actually has a propane-powered waffle iron made from two manhole covers, which they bring to events

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In another world he might have been that color.

#Plushtodon

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Lacci@disabled.social wrote:

This is really important advice, especially for anyone dealing with mental health struggles or a chronic illness.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Totally normal non-autocrat non-corrupt behavior:

Trump is preparing to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar -- a gift for use by Trump as the new Air Force One until shortly before he leaves office, at which time ownership of the plane will be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation.

It's almost like the emoluments clause doesn't even exist. If a half BILLION dollar plane isn't a "gift" then words don't have meanings anymore. smh

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

I think your ex understood you the right amount

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

digging up a raised bed, so it must be Spring

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

she be daid a loooong time now, so nope

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matt@isfeeling.social ("Matt Birchler") wrote:

Listening to a podcast where they just don’t know if iPhone users will be comfortable buying things outside the App Store. For some in-app things, maybe, but we gotta stop talking about ecommerce as some sort of niche thing.

The App Store made about $90 billion in revenue last year, while ecom did about $6 trillion, so App Store transactions account for about 1.5% of global ecom. That’s a lot for one store, but it’s still a slice.

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netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

The beauty of Mastodon has shown me that we can yank the power back.
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114483540182713109

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

I mean, with this crew, there's always some racism and sexism in their decision making, but there's also usually a grift of some kind too. I just have trouble seeing it sometimes.

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

I've been wondering whether the firing of Carla Hayden was just about racism, but with the firing of Shira Perlmutter it sounds like there might be something else too:

Rep. Joe Morelle ... is alleging it is “no coincidence [Trump] acted less than a day after [Perlmutter] refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/trump-u-s-copyright-official-00340306

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meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

I haven't posted any new #music in a while, so here is the latest album by I'm With Her. It was released just a couple days ago, but I've been listening to most of these songs for months and it already feels like home.

https://imwithher.bandcamp.com/album/wild-and-clear-and-blue

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johl@mastodon.xyz ("Jens Ohlig") wrote:

The UK’s i.AI office has extended their AI-driven Lex tool with Lex-graph, a knowledge graph visualizing the connections between laws, amendments, citations, and so on.

The graph has over 820,000 nodes (legislation and provisions) and 2.2 million edges (connections between them).
https://ai.gov.uk/blogs/understanding-legislative-networks-building-a-knowledge-graph-of-uk-legislation/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
collin@ruby.social ("Collin Donnell") wrote:

It’s bizarre we talk about USPS and Amtrak as operating at a “loss.” They are public goods, so I don’t know why there’s an expectation that they turn a profit. Whatever the shortfall is should be considered the operating cost of the service, like every other agency.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Itchy@mastodon.sdf.org ("Scratchy") wrote:

"DOGE has broken so much of what didn’t need fixing, resulting in layoffs of 1000's of federal workers... Musk has literally embodied inefficiency and we can now, once and for all, retire the romantic mythology that any accomplished businessperson will succeed in managing the $7T budget of the U.S. government. Our country is not a for-profit entity and cannot be treated as one, because it is responsible for the welfare of a third of a billion people."
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/11/we-should-welcome-maga-remorse-i-should-know--it-saved-me/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stvfrnzl@mastodon.online ("Steve Frenzel") wrote:

https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-devs/2025

This was a fun survey, but when asked about my favorite music artists of the last 12 months, only three options is not enough 😅

I wish I could've added a link to my #tidal account...

ANYWAY, if you're a #dev and don't want to vote for the hottest #JavaScript framework for the nth time again: Take a look, it's about you as a person in this industry

#survey #StateOfDevs #html #css

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

Gentle morning light,
Whispers through the blooming trees,
Cat purrs, dreams take flight.

- via https://arghstudios.com

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD via WI8X@6:33am EDT on 5/11/2025:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has risen to 80. The Solar Flux Index has dropped to 134. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. Chance of flares today: 40% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.