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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

how to get smart again - postcards by elle:

"Not every book or movie has to be critically acclaimed and award winning, but I want to purposely choose media that forces me to think and reflect for a bit because I don’t think I’ve heard myself think in a while."

I am somewhere along this path, too. https://postcardsbyelle.substack.com/p/how-to-get-smart-again

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The August 1979 BYTE magazine issue on Lisp is a snapshot of the language in its early days.

The editorial is really interesting as it mentions Lisp was the preferred language of Gary Kildall. The editorial on Kildall and Lisp: "[...] the alternative "M-expression" form of LISP, with special characters noting relationships, is perhaps the most elegant and natural form of expression for many problems."

https://archive.org/details/BYTE%5FVol%5F04-08%5F1979-08%5FLisp/mode/2up

#lisp #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Holberg@mstdn.social ("Mats Holberg 🇺🇦") wrote:

Yeah, I was the guy at Costco today with a cart full of Midol and chocolate.

I haven’t mentioned this in a while. A couple years ago I found out how many lives of people who menstruate are interrupted every month because they can’t afford hygiene products.

I now work with a service club to make period kits for homeless youth. Everything they need for a cycle: tampons, pads, liners, wipes, Midol, chocolate, etc.

I mention this because I didn’t even know about period poverty. Maybe you, too?

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@jwcph Anyway, I’m not going to apologize for caring about the details here. That seems more like a “you” problem.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@jwcph Under the rule of law, the way we figure out if something is illegal is by analyzing the conduct in question against the law. (And both the facts about this airplane scheme and the law itself aren’t completely clear here; there’s not enough information to categorically say it’s illegal. I do think it PROBABLY is, as I said).

We don’t just declare “that guy is a criminal, so this must be a crime”. That’s what fascists do.

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

Advocates for science need to stop giving creationists the privilege of leeching off science for clicks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/18/stop-letting-creationists-host-your-ideas/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’”- Isaac Asimov

Podcast bros really dialed this up to 11. Any half assed theory is as good as science even if it makes no internal sense.

It’s tragic the internet has made people even more misinformed.

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

Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna207395?utm%5Fsource=fark&utm%5Fmedium=website&utm%5Fcontent=link&ICID=ref%5Ffark

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mangochutney@social.lol ("Alex Hoffmann") wrote:

Bei uns im Ort ist heute Verschenktag. Heute früh habe ich also meine Bücher durchgesehen, um zu prüfen, ob welche davon verschenkt werden können. Dabei bin ich auf ein Buch von J. K. Rowling gestoßen. Das ist dann direkt im Altpapier gelandet. Wo es hingehört.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh Brenecki") wrote:

Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.

I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.

My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.

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

what a slimebag

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/musk-s-pac-sued-for-not-paying-q6NHC825R%5Fy9MrMF4deaYw#cdda858a-f8d3-411f-b361-a1c5aef1013e

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

Drink special @ Promiscuous: Wellness Influencer -- Bacardi mango Chili rum, starry, grenadine, lime

Attachments:

• gifv: 08ef75377b8b5c59.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

But, time debating how Biden could or should have been convinced not to stand for
reelection is time wasted when we have none to spare. There is a fascist in the WH, Congress is controlled by a fascist cult of personality. 4/

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

NYC is so big that when some small disaster happens here we mostly hear about it from relatives that live out of state and see it on tv and then text us assuming we were nearby. Like no mom I didn't get squished by the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man I was in a different borough

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

Computer science is applied math, a rigorous discipline. It's where you can prove that O(n×log n) grows slower than O(n²).

Software engineering is a behavioral discipline. It's driven by ill-defined business metrics ("bug", "customer value") and is full of beliefs about methodologies formed in the absence of any hope to measure these things precisely.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This is the exact same mistake that gutted the Tories—you don't defeat fascists by pandering to them, you have to *oppose*. Only the media climate in the UK is inherently pro-fascist. Implement the findings of the Leveson Report and commission a sequel for social media (and a follow-up for LLM generated propaganda)!

Boosted by jwz:
mulegirl@sfba.social ("Erika") wrote:

Treat yourself.
https://www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-amp-billy-enamel-pin-fpbpz-y2d7t

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space ("Lynnesbæn :bune_ylw:") wrote:

i don't know why people get confused about [confusing topic] so often. it's literally just [straightfoward rule], unless [extremely common condition], in which case you just [counterintuitive transformation] or [inexplicably different pattern] depending on [obscure property]. it's like [overused analogy] except [exception that makes the analogy useless].

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hnrfineart@sfba.social ("Heather Robinson Fine Art") wrote:

Dang fortune cookie you didn't have to come at me so hard

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matt@social.lol ("matt :kirby_yay:") wrote:

i'm back on the statuslog grind! complete with a new ATProto lexicon and Bluesky crossposting (as well as status.lol and Mastodon crossposting)

https://status.lol/matt or @right.now.mmatt.net !

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Looks like 21 injured so far, several critical, based on radio chatter. Ugh.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

You are probably having a better day than the captain of that tall ship that lost a fight with the Brooklyn bridge just now.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@jwcph I said “likely illegal” because it’s likely illegal. It’s not *certainly* illegal, because we don’t actually know exactly how this crazy scheme is supposed to work. It’s probably legal for a foreign government to donate an airplane to the US. It’s probably not legal (under the emoluments clause) for a foreign government to donate a plane to the president. This deal seems deliberately structured to blur those lines. Will it successfully pass legal scrutiny? I don’t know. Neither do you.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #EthicalTech

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
JaxVent@lgbtqia.space ("Jax UK") wrote:

I’m a 50 year old woman, but it doesn’t seem that long ago I was a very pretty teen girl becoming aware of the looks from older men.

Men looked at me until well into my 40’s, until I became invisible to them. I’m so glad I did! This isn’t about that.

Lately I’ve noticed men looking again. I don’t like it and never wanted it. I noticed because we do. Then I realised, they are not looking at me but my 14 year old daughter beside me.

I want to gouge out their eyes.

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

Gutsick Gibbon vs Jerry Bergman. You don't want to know what the odds are.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/17/its-gonna-be-a-slapstick-rout/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccuhdd6EOXs

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Eurovision is always a fun stress test for the fediverse. Across #esc, #Eurovision, #esc25, and #esc2025, over 15K posts have been been made today. For comparison, 863 posts have been made in another trending hashtag, #Caturday.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kims@mas.to ("Kim Scheinberg") wrote:

Terrible Maps created a map of the U.S. with the first letters of each state omitted

The results are more humorous (and in some cases apt) than one would expect, like Ouisiana now starting with the french word for 'yes'

I find the dig at Alabama to be in poor taste, but as someone who hails from Bruce's native state... hooray for Ew Jersey!

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#eurovision #Denmark doing RGB PC

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
derf@social.skyshaper.org wrote:

"keep it straight, guys – said noone ever at #eurovision"

Eeeeyup.