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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
The Jonas Brothers for sure
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DS90210 ("Deep Space 90210") wrote:
Ezri: All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you’re anxious.
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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🐝") wrote:
try this power exit in your next meeting
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paulschoe@mastodon.world ("Paul Schoe") wrote:
From this article about how bad life was before vaccines:
'Out of the nearly 2 million children who received the vaccine in 1955, only one died. Every corner of the U.S. had victims before the vaccine.
Even my tiny grade school of 100 children in 1950s Nebraska had two polio victims, one of them known as “Skippy” for his gait with braces, and both dragged themselves around while the rest of us screamed and chased each other on the playground.'
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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:
“Joni Mitchell, who didn’t have a choice whether to take the vaccine because it didn’t exist when she was exposed, contracted polio at age 9. She writes: ‘If [polio] eats the muscles of the heart, it kills you; if it eats the muscles that control the flexing of your lungs, you end up in an iron lung; if it eats the muscle of your leg, it withers.’ She began to sing and write songs while in the hospital for polio in her spine. Mitchell has had post-polio syndrome for the past 30 years. That’s a long time to suffer for a decision somebody else made for you.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/07/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-autism-hhs.html
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gnome@floss.social ("GNOME") wrote:
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (@osuosl) has supported major open source projects for over 20 years. 🖥️🌍
Now they need your help to keep going.
Learn more and consider donating: https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/
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appleinsider ("AppleInsider") wrote:
Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you?utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon
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ArRo@troet.cafe ("Armin Rohde") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:
Welsh university researchers develop biodegradable batteries to power the future of medical implants
#News
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
A timely reminder that we on this small island have some clinically batshit place names :neofox_googly:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:
A piechart, but for Hotel California 🌴
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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
That person the reverse engineer the Microchip CLB? He did a whole project using the CLBs to create a time-to-digital converter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQA89V9lAonxGPTtCKu4LObzSHyTk-gakk%5Flph7WlV8y94fRNXltXDVaNxafzX%5FsYIuslnAerhjTfH0/pub
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Every “log in with Facebook” button and every “Sign in with Google” pop-up you encounter is Big Tech trying to better connect our social graphs. We all know that.
But it's also the #OpenAI eye scanner straight from a Black Mirror episode. Can you imagine if the Orb gained mass adoption coupled with a chat bot that people confide in?
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I'm not waiting for the judgement of history, I'm judging these motherfuckers harshly right now
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Before I continue, let me say that I am for the #OpenWeb. The World Wide Web is a gift. It's a miracle that it exists, truly.
But I'm am vehemently, staunchly, against the unification of our social graphs under a single power. Is that a controversial take in the open web religion? Is it blasphemy? I don't know.
Anyway,
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
But right now, our #SocialGraph is fractured. Always has been. No one corporation or entity can connect all the data points we leave scattered across the web. It would take an unprecedented amount of coordination and relinquishing of power.
Over the years many have tried to unify our social graphs with protocols and APIs. Many have failed.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
It's everything about us because everything about us is logged, analyzed, and distributed for cash all across the World Wide Web. Our lives are so deeply embedded into devices that there isn't much the Internet doesn't know about us.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The social graph is our lives reduced to data.
It's our relationships, our friends, our enemies, our lovers.
It's our likes, dislikes, and indifferences.
The social graph is the food we eat, and the drinks we drink. It's the medicines we take. The drugs we use.
It's our strengths and our weaknesses. Our neuroses, our reactions, and avoidances.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Our Social Graphs, from the viewpoint of capitalism, is the last bit of gold in the mountains of data centers we call the Internet.
A single, unified social layer over the web has proven elusive. Our identities remain plural and scattered.
What is the social graph? I can speak from a marketing perspective. 1/🤷
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lo__ ("__ol") wrote:
@fromjason I never expected "concern troll" to rhyme with "patent troll" this egregiously
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ratfactor@mastodon.art wrote:
Here's today's recycled cardboard project - a little display for my "project stack" so I just see the current item nice and clear.
https://ratfactor.com/cards/stack-display
This is a follow-up to: https://ratfactor.com/cards/project-stack
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djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:
there is one long, dark alley within each and every cell in your body that, were you to shrink yourself down small enough to turn the corner into that alley, is completely nondescript other than this sound coming through the wall of a nearby structure.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:
I've been meaning to do this for a while now but this past week I finally got around to starting the nand2tetris course, this time with my 2 kids
I bought the book a few years ago, but I found out recently that they've added a free course on Coursera that seems to have all the same materials: https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer/
it steps you thru the process of building up a working computer architecture from the most barebones starting point; if you're interested in learning on a lower level how computers work, I'd highly recommend it--it feels rigorous without being unapproachable
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
esoastronomy ("ESO") wrote:
New instance, new #introduction !
Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm making my bookmarks public on Raindrop dot io. My two most active collections are Websites and Articles. You can subscribe via RSS if you'd like. I bookmark anything and everything I find interesting.
Articles: https://raindrop.io/fromjason/articles-fromjason-xyz-39384569
Websites: https://raindrop.io/fromjason/websites-fromjason-xyz-39386925
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
2007— "The potential is "Orwellian," said Michael Fertik, ... "When you have a lot of traffic that comes from identifiable IP (Internet protocol) addresses that exhibit a lot of trackable behavior, you generate a staggering amount of rather specific information about individual users as well as classes of users. And in many social networks, the greatest part of their value is to identify users by name.""
https://web.archive.org/web/20151029160031/http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci%5F7333740
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Lmao. Wow. Some things never changed.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
2011—"For the past few days, a mystery has been unfolding in Silicon Valley. Somebody, it seems, hired Burson-Marsteller, a top public-relations firm, to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, urging them to investigate claims that Google was invading people’s privacy."
Fun bit of #InternetHistory.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I got suckered into the Mac ecosystem when a friend of mine gave me his PowerPC Mac mini because he was getting out of tech, and I actually had no working computer at home (I was burned out on computer touching although I did it at work). I then bought my own Intel Mac, and then Apple obsoleted my computer. I looked at the prices and was shocked into remembering my trash panda ways. So I decided to put Fedora on it and never bought another Mac.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Except for a brief, regrettable period where I used a Mac[1], I've always been a bit of a trash panda when it comes to tech. It started back when I was a kid and realized people would often just give away their old computers.
It's always felt a little ironic that my personal tech lags since I work in tech, but there's just tremendous value in the older stuff if it works for you.
[1] See next toot...