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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
williampietri@sfba.social ("William Pietri") wrote:

@dsalo Just read that bit recently! @overholt

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
amuse@infosec.exchange ("Matt Linton :donor:") wrote:

I'm super out of touch, why do so many Instagram reels have a very quiet audio track underneath the main audio, which drones on and on about the thing you're watching at almost subvocal levels?

Is this a secret hypnotism thing or something?

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
datum@zeroes.ca ("datum (n=1)") wrote:

Long COVID treatment study recruiting volunteers now in the USA:

trial will test if two repurposed HIV antivirals can reduce symptom burden in adult participants with Long Covid

This is the excellent Putrino lab! Participation criteria and contact info: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06511063

#LongCOVID #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks ("Lisa 🦔") wrote:

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie?

Easy:
https://mastodon.wurzelmann.at/@wurzelmann/114160322969674883

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
enby_of_the_apocalypse@kolektiva.social ("undead enby of the apocalypse") wrote:

@wurzelmann

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.

Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.

They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so.

And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

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

Aw, man. I loved Sheen. RIP.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DSG3uMRjhzj

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Christmas time means an attrition battle between my cats and me about whether the baubles belong on the tree or not.

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

Hell yes to this. I wrote an essay a couple years ago about why this film is, and I quote myself here, "a goddamned delight."

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/12/the-december-comfort-watches-day-12-josie-and-the-pussycats/

RE: https://www.threads.com/@edgar%5Falan%5Fpickle/post/DSFkOrZjonL

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I've realized we don't have a lot of time left to ship orders before Christmas, and the sample of the new "Live laugh federate" pin might take a few more days to arrive at my home for product shots, so I've put it up on the shop with the picture the manufacturer took for me. This is the last new product this year.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/live-laugh-federate-soft-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
W6KME@mastodon.radio wrote:

Okay, unpopular topic for public discussion, but it's important.

Let your doctors stick cameras in you. It's for a good reason. I have friends that resisted who are no longer with us.

I'm in the middle of prep for a morning Photo Opportunity, and it's SO MUCH LESS MISERABLE than it used to be. There is no excuse for avoiding this stuff. Honestly, this is only mildy inconvenient, not the torture it was ten years ago.

Get your damn #colonoscopy when they say it's time.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rperezrosario ("Rafael Pérez") wrote:

Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?

Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.

#poll #os #computing #fediverse

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bbcnewsfeed@mastodonapp.uk ("BBC News Top Stories") wrote:

US seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, #Trump says

Venezuela condemns the operation as an act of "international piracy", vowing never to be an "oil colony".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w9lg11jw0o?at%5Fmedium=RSS&at%5Fcampaign=rss

(c) #BBC #News

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

the use of unmarked helicopters was theater, not any sort of mission necessity. an assault via unmarked rotary wing aircraft looks like they are ashamed of their actions, like they think they need deniability as the cameras roll...

so much performance, so little substance. but then ,that is pretty much the norm in this administration.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis.

Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery.

The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.

The shoppers were volunteers, participating in a study published on Tuesday and organized by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer publication. In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart.

On item after item, they found significant differences. In a Target in North Canton, Ohio, some shoppers were charged $3.59 for a jar of Skippy peanut butter that others could get for $2.99. At a Safeway in Seattle, some people paid $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins while others paid $4.89. And at a Target in St. Paul, Minn., some people were charged $4.59 for a box of Cheerios that others could get for $3.99.

“Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.”
(...)
Groundwork’s findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price, offered to all customers for a predictable period, is breaking down in the digital age. Companies are using sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices quickly in response to competitors’ offers and consumer behavior."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html

#USA #AlgorithmicPricing #DynamicPricing #Insatacart #Inflation #Algorithms

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

After all, why shouldn’t electrical-transmission towers take the form of giant ethereal robots? https://choishine.com/Giants.html

(h/t @nelson )

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

'Terrible judgment': Conservative slams Trump-appointed judge for attending his rally https://twp.ai/9PXt5z

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ayoub.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("elia ayoub") wrote:

Only recently found out that Kropotkin lived in Brighton. Just found the street

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

not just "yes", but "hell yes"

https://choishine.com/Giants.html

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

the most difficult part about cooking a pan of brownies is making myself wait while it cools at the end.

(data structure + algorithm = brownies)

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

Quality parenting, highly approve

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jewelstaite/post/DSGuh1mEQ46

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
orci ("J.R. Orci") wrote:

NO THANK YOU :yikes:
https://www.theverge.com/report/841994/operation-bluebird-twitter-trademarks-petition

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There are 109 peach #Plushtodon's left, 65 blue ones; winter and summer mugs are sold out; 8 cherry blossoms mugs and 89 autumn mugs left; 14 sticker sheets left (but I ordered more); and finally 131 logo enamel pins that just arrived yesterday. #Merchtodon

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Mostly I was only using it for the ability to use variables in media queries, which CSS still hasn't really replicated. But other than that, and a few loops here and there (which are easy enough to hard-code), it's just gotten to the point where there's no real benefit over vanilla CSS, but lots more overhead.

It does add some kbs, since I'm no longer smooshing everything into a minified file, but not enough to be concerned about. Might play with optimizing through other means anyway.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

2025 may just (barely) be the year that I (finally) remove Sass from my website.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cssbasics@hachyderm.io ("CSS Basics") wrote:

Drawing Triangles with #CSS Using Borders: "A long time ago, I wrote an article about triangles in CSS, and explained why the common border-based approach was far from ideal and should generally be avoided... Until now." https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68086/drawing-triangles-with-css-using-borders-an-exception

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
valkyrie@wandering.shop wrote:

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

Maybe I make a WWWW (World Wide Web Wrapped) 2025

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

My #smolweb adventures continue. Adding to my initial Gemini Capsule hosted by the inspirational @adele (who introduced me to the smolweb, and #permacomputing )and my Gemini #selfhosting experiment there is now a #Gopher hole.

gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/problemfox/

#alwaysLearning #agingCyberpunk