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Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 4:51 PM

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

I mean, if electronic signatures are not legally binding then all the rights to every book I've written in the last decade are instantly reverting to me, and as interesting as that might be to contemplate, let's just say I'm not expecting that anytime soon

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/lead-investigator-james-comer-biden-autopen-digital-signature-rcna216719

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 3:56 PM

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

What if I'm fucking tired of being deferentially fair to abominations?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/to-be-fair/

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 3:52 PM

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

"I gave you a pardon, now get in line and say this"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kenklipp/post/DMIZ8JuqVZf

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 3:31 PM

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

"Emergence" must be short for "emergency".

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/emergence/

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 3:29 PM

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Another Jojo doodle! This time Jolyne Cujoh! I somehow saw slight similarities with Sailor Moon during her transformation sequence, so I turned her shirt print into a brooch and her Stand ability into the ribbons surrounding her.

#mastoArt #sketchbook #sketchbookDrawing #watercolors #watercolorMarkers #JojosBizarreAdventure #JolyneCujoh #JolyneKujo #IsThatAJojoReference

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 2:10 PM

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

If you're not listening to Open Mike Eagle, now is a good time to start

RE: https://www.threads.com/@open%5Fmike%5Feagle/post/DMIYsb3RlCt

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 2:08 PM

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

Please stop sending me Pascal's wager. It only makes you look like an idiot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/an-aurelian-wager/

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 2:03 PM

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.2") wrote:

https://htmlforpeople.com/ is #BuiltWithEleventy 🏆

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 1:22 PM

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

I'm only human. Sometimes I like seeing right-wingers in misery.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/15/gossip-time/

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 1:18 PM

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

The worst thing you can do to a Cybertruck owner is simply to not acknowledge the car. They hate it lmao

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 1:04 PM

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

The @freexian team discussing with other #Debian fellows at the #Debusine BoF. #DebConf25

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 11:38 AM

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

ATASCOIID: A 998 Byte "big" #BreakOut for the #Atari800, just published by Frederik Holst for the @abbuc Software Competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ffy4TXI-c

#RetroComputing #RetroGaming

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 9:26 AM

Boosted by jwz:
CORVUSPHERE@todon.eu (":crow:CORVUSPHERE :crow:") wrote:

In today's picture: Corvus crassirostris (known as thick-billed raven). #CORVUSPHERE #CorvusCrassirostris #ThickBilledRaven :crow:

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 9:25 AM

Boosted by jwz:
nateseubert ("Nate Seubert") wrote:

Yeah, I’m still working on this one. I’ve been fixing the leaves. They’re better, now.
#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #newcontemporary #newcontemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #losangeles #surrealism #wip #workinprogress

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 9:25 AM

Boosted by jwz:
flameReactor ("Flame Reactor") wrote:

Cavilian wiggles.

If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.
#fractalArt

Attachments:

gifv: Fractal imagery.

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 7:45 AM

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

I really love the multi-page view transitions on @geoff's blog:

https://geoffgraham.me/blog/

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 7:09 AM

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Americans chose a government that is defunding cancer research and attacking life saving vaccines. We had the Star Trek future within our grasp and chose the Empire from Star Wars instead.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/12/mrna-vaccine-cancer-research-trump-administration

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 6:38 AM

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 4:03 AM

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

Working on some much needed improvements to the profile page in status.log.

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 2:12 AM

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

People keep telling me that paying 10x+ for React or Angular vs a contemporary tool like Fast, Lit, Svelte, Preact, Qwik, or Solid (etc. etc.) is fine because "it's only 50K."

And I hear that, but by the third or fourth React version on the page, I really start to wonder.

Mastodon FeedJul 15, 2025, 1:32 AM

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

Here’s something I’ve often wondered about:

“Quicklinks”

Or “quick links”

Usually a label to a list of links in a website navigation.

It’s one of those folk terms of two words jammed together that probably didn’t exist before the World Wide Web.

Who started this? What makes them “quick”? Or, “quicker” than other links? It seems like the label has fallen out of favor with the maturity of content strategy and user experience design professions. But it’s still out there: in Microsoft products on the U.S. Navy website…

I started my web career at the beginning of the Responsive Web Design era. Every now and then I would get a request to add quick links as a feature.

Were Quicklinks ubiquitous in the early 2000s? Earlier? What were some of the websites that pioneered this term? Does the phrase predate the web somehow? And why does my iPhone autocorrect to capitalize Quicklinks?

So far I found a NNGroup article from 2014 arguing in favor of more descriptive labels and better patterns for this kind of navigation. But the mystery remains… who started Quicklinks?