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

@huitema There are some things wearing a mask can impede. But so what? People deal with risks and benefits all the time. And we can weigh things differently. It’s fine.

But this underlying premise that any inconvenience is inherently unacceptable is complete bullshit. The only answer to that is “grow up already”.

jwz wrote:

In every photo, Andrew Tate looks like he's saying, "Gelato isn't vegan???"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

@cstanhope Argh, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

People have had some success getting these rules overturned with grassroots lobbying, if that helps. There's no big money lobby on the other side pushing to keep them around, so if you can get a few like-minded people organized and make noise to enough state lawmakers, it doesn't take that much pressure to produce change.

https://www.theautopian.com/texas-might-just-pass-the-best-car-law-in-years/

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

the Russians were unable to break NATO despite trying hard over decades, but Herr Trump has succeeded in doing so in just a few months.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15nped8znko

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hard to believe I was there just a few weeks ago. It feels like forever ago now. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

There are all sorts of inconveniences I put up with. I wait in lines. I take out the trash. I pay my taxes and bills. I wait at red lights. All that stuff “wastes” valuable time, money, and energy, yet most of us still do them.

Putting on a mask is a drop in the bucket by comparison.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
resuna@ohai.social ("Resuna") wrote:

@isagalaev @jamey

1991 - Maxtor 8760E 5.25" ESDI drive 760MB storage, was the largest Winchester ever at the time.

Just under $2000 each

We got them installed in all our development servers and finally could fit an entire build of our product in a single file system.

We were still backing up to 60MB tape cartridges.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
schrotthaufen wrote:

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

When people say "scientists (or experts generally) are untrustworthy because they change their opinions all the time", they're actually describing an important reason science is *more* trustworthy.

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

(So absurd we can register inefficient, oversized SUVs that are a danger to everyone that's not a passenger, but not an efficient little utility vehicle.)

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

I can't register a kei truck in Oregon "because they were not manufactured for U.S. highways."

https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/Pages/vehicle/vehicletypes.aspx

But I can register some sort of "Assembled Vehicle" with who knows what sort of manufacturing quality. It makes me want to "assemble" something like a kei truck and get it registered. 😆

(I wish I had the ability and orneriness to do this.)

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

HHS Secretary RFK Jr is proposing banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in top-tier journals, including JAMA and Lancet.

This is bonkers for all sorts of reasons, but let me just mention one. He points out that Lancet has retracted articles. This is factually correct, but it's a reason these journals are *more* trustworthy, not less.

Journals and peer review don't guarantee that what's published is "correct". It's merely the best process we have to get closer to finding the truth.

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

I once heard a joke that the highest level programming language was "graduate student". This was back in the day before all this "AI" hype, and I think it still expresses something that our society seems to desperately want to ignore.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Harvard Crimson- A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from ICE custody. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/29/judge-petrova-ice-release/

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mervelous ("Merve Kayikci") wrote:

„You must begin by unlearning what you have learned.“ – Yoda

Und es wird Zeit, dass ich Mastodon lerne, wenn ich mit Pia Lexa und @mellifluousbox auf der #rp25 das spannende Fedivers-Fellowship „Reinvent Social Plattforms“ vorstelle, bei dem @infodesignerin @annaneifer @lxplm @M3phist0 @praxeology und Yasmina Al-Gannabi daran arbeiten, bestehende soziale Plattformen für den SWR und die ARD neu zu denken.

Danke, dass so viele da waren. Danke für euer Interesse und euer Vertrauen!

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

The COVID virus doesn't care who you voted for. I'm not masking up and getting vaccinated to make a political statement. I'm doing it to protect my health.

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

With new COVID-19 variants looming and renewed attacks on vaccines, masks, and other basic preventative measures, I just want to mention that:

- I still routinely mask up in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces. I mask on planes and trains. I teach with my mask on.

- I test any time I'm feeling under the weather.

- I plan to get the updated vaccine.

I'd *prefer* not to do any of this, but at worst, it's in the "mild inconvenience" category, and far preferable to long-term disability.

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

jwz wrote:

The "Expore" tab just boosted "27 Forgotten Ground Beef Recipes That'll Make Your Family Beg For..."

Yeah, it's time to just block the instance flipboard dot com.

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

About Good Internet:

"Good Internet is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit print and digital quarterly magazine for personal website owners and those interested in using the internet as a means of self-expression, art, and recreation."

This is fun. I love it. https://goodinternetmagazine.com/about/

jwz wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Still needs some refining and priming and painting but I made this little guy for Federico.

I hadn't done any sculpting for a long time but I really really love it - I definitely need to make more time for it 😊

#claysculpting #shrew #MastoArt

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

My question for the "Golden Dome" system is the same as my question for all other defense contracting proposals: "is this more cost-effective than firing shrink-wrapped pallets of $100 bills at the target"

Boosted by jwz:
tygerkrash@mastodon.ie ("TygerKrash") wrote:

Waiter: Good Evening sir, would you like to hear the specials?

Customer: Yes , please .

Waiter: THIS TOWN (tow-own) IS COMING LIKE A GHOST TOWN.

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

Last month, The Whitest Kids You Know re-uploaded their It’s Illegal to Say video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KivCRqfFcqY

Boosted by jwz:
WorfEmail@mas.to ("Worf Email") wrote:

Mother,

I have been thinking about life and mortality today. I would rather die gloriously in battle than from a virus. In a way it does not matter. But in a way it does.

Worf

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Reading the news deals 1d6 psychic damage per article.

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catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

For whomst the bell tolls.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

My business model of selling tours of people's homes doesn't work if I have to get their consent.