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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

After revisions, U.S. shows weakest job market in years, shocking stock market

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

blue cheese (the blue is Cherenkov radiation)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
forty2@oldbytes.space ("Paul") wrote:

@gsuberland related: I’ve often said cheese is like the transuranic elements in that it doesn’t go bad, it merely decays to a different isotope of cheese.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VoiceofDuum@mindly.social ("Cromley") wrote:

Plundered from @DamienMarieAtHope 's Bluesky account

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youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Anonymous") wrote:

How a single French-Canadian captured nearly 100 Nazis, forced more to flee, and liberated an entire town of 50,000 people by himself. Later led victories vs China and North Korea. “I fought the war with only one eye, ... and I did pretty good.” allthatsinteresting.com/leo-major

How A One-Eyed Canadian Rambo ...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape:") wrote:

We have a new person doing the Inkscape challenges this month and I was wondering if you guys would throw them a bit of attention for their first one? Draw a boat using #inkscape 🚣

https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/inkscape-challenge-august-2025/

#competition #foss #vectorArt #svg #drawing

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RunRichRun ("Rich Stein (he/him)") wrote:

@jsonstein @kcarruthers
Absolutely. The book referenced in the article is "Brain on Fire," by Susanna Cahalan (2012). Worth tracking down/requesting at the library. Autoimmune issues (esp. viruses) are back in the news as a result of COVID/long COVID (NYT: Apoorva Mandavilli: "How Viral Infections Cause Long-Term Health Problems; 22 Nov. 2023).

Obliquely related, is Nicole Rust's very good book," Elusive Cures: Why neuroscience hasn't solved brain disorders — and how we can change that" ...1/2

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Someone was kind enough to visit the Multnomah County courthouse and found some records related to @anniegreens, so we now know that she passed away on January 7. Not having a date before was unsettling (to me, at least). I’ve updated the page that I made to include the date.

https://neatnik.net/remembering-anne-sturdivant/

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

I'm hosting a reunion party that none of my old classmates will attend! So we can talk about anything.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/01/kent-meridian-high-school-class-of-1975-50th-reunion/

https://www.youtube.com/live/rA%5FTTgFz8vI

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

an interesting perspective

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yoram-hazony.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

I think Herr Trump is rapidly losing the 18-35 age bracket for the Republicans at this point

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/south-park-trump-conservatives.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

the working poor suffer the most from Herr Trump’s erratic governance-by-whim

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/world/africa/lesotho-tariffs-textile-industry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange wrote:

Mary Had Schizophrenia—Then Suddenly She Didn’t: Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/mary-had-schizophrenia-then-suddenly-she-didnt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

@lerxst yes. The Chinese ophthalmologist who alerted the world (inadvertently) was jailed and died (probably of COVID) not long after. Le Wenliang. Fuckin’ unintentional hero.

*Edit* — Wikipedia says he was “admonished” by the cops, but died in hospital quarantine. Whatever. Dude blew the whistle and got picked up by the constabulary, silenced, and then fucking died of the disease.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Source: https://pridever.org

#code #programming #coding #release #releases #tool #tools #software #program #programme #funny #meme #memes #picture

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AJ_andrew69 ("Andrew J Spaulding") wrote:

Keeping this going!

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stevebenen@journa.host ("Steve Benen") wrote:

How weak is the job market? Excluding the pandemic, Americans haven’t seen employment numbers this bad since 2009 — during the Great Recession.

The question for the White House is simple: “If Trump has created a ‘hot’ economy, why has American job growth slowed to a 16-year low?” https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/us-job-growth-turns-cold-trumps-agenda-takes-toll-economy-rcna222448

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

What is the probability that ActivityPub will connect 1 billion people by the end of 2029?

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GIFS_of_Puppets@ohai.social ("Muppet GIF of the Day") wrote:

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF of Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch laughing, descending into his trash can, and then slamming the lid down from Follow That Bird

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:fluffy_tail:​

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Robinbannks ("Robin Bannks") wrote:

Stand Up

August 1, 1969 ~ The second album from Jethro Tull is released. It's the debut album for guitarist Martin Barre who joins Tull after Mick Abrahams leaves the group due to creative differences with Ian Anderson. Mick wanted to stick with the bluesy stuff -- Ian wanted to broaden the sound to include folk rock, classical and chamber. Glad we stuck with The Mad Floutist. Listen to Stand Up by Jethro Tull on Amazon Music ... #JethroTull #standup #60srock #blues…

http://robinbannks.com/2025/08/01/stand-up/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

All these universities and museums tripping over themselves to appease our tinpot Stalin. Have they no self-respect?

https://wapo.st/3HhfyxU

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

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simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:

This morning I gave someone an introductory talk on how HTTP works, by demonstrating a few simple HTTP transactions by hand using "openssl s_connect" (gone are the days when you can do that using nc), explaining what all the bits and pieces are, and then showing how to look up what Firefox is doing in the developer tools to see full-sized examples.

Right at the end of the talk, I thought "hang on, this seems like exactly the kind of 'learn a thing from basics' material that @b0rk likes to write about, I wonder if she has a blog post covering the same ground?"

Better still, she has a whole zine! https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/12/new-zine-on-http/ Moral: perhaps I should think of that _first_ next time.

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

I love this

https://examplecat.com/

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

it is most definitely a two-cup morning. I dare not work on my codebase; modules will crumble into byte-dust if I look at anything, much less modify lines.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
svgeesus@mastodon.scot ("Chris Lilley 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿") wrote:

Incremental Font Transfer is now an @W3C Candidate Recommendation.

IFT defines a method to incrementally transfer a font from server to client. The client loads only the portion(s) of the font that they actually need, significantly reducing data transfer. Multiple incremental additions to the same font are possible, such as a user agent updating a font as a user browses multiple pages.

https://www.w3.org/TR/IFT/

#webfonts

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

TIL people made quarter-tone grand (and upright) pianos.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quarter-tone%5Fgrand%5Fpiano

https://www.august-foerster.de/en/quartertone-grand-piano/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieqi54XE2lI

Imagine being a piano tuner called in for one of these beasts.

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

What kind of writers do ad agencies have? Falling back on that pathetic 'genes'/'jeans' nonsense is the disappointing wit of a smarmy little child.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/01/im-not-mad-at-sydney-sweeney-im-just-disappointed-that-this-is-the-only-genetics-education-most-people-will-get/

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Homestar Runner's "Back to a Website" turns out to be a great critique of where the web has gone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z7kVH9xePM