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

60 Minutes segment on CECOT / CBS pulled by white supremacist sympathizer, and enabler Bari Weiss, lives on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
vidak@social.solarpunk.au wrote:

books that changed my life forever:

"COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation"

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/book.pdf

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

eSUN claims their TPE 83A is made of 97% Tetraphenylethylene. That seems highly unlikely and Is probably just a translation error? Does anyone know what it's actually made of?

https://www.esun3d.com/uploads/TPE-83A-filament-MSDS.pdf

#3dprinting

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

Shame on OU.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/oklahomas-disgrace-continues/

A student’s claim of religious discrimination on an individual assignment in an online Psychology Course taught by a graduate teaching assistant has come to resolution. As stated previously, the student followed two available processes at the University: the grade appeals process in the college and she made a formal claim of illegal religious discrimination. As already announced, the grade appeal was decided in favor of the student, removing the assignment completely from the student’s total point value of the class, resulting in no academic harm to the student. The claim for discrimination has been investigated and concluded. The University does not release findings from such investigations. At the same time of the investigation, the Provost—the University’s highest ranking academic officer— and the academic Dean reviewed the full facts of the matter. Based on an examination of the graduate teaching assistant’s prior grading standards and patterns, as well as the graduate teaching assistant’s own statements related to this matter, it was determined that the graduate teaching assistant was arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper. The graduate teaching assistant will no longer have instructional duties at the University.

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

It's easy to get swept up into the sensationalism of it all. We all do it from time to time. It doesn't make you a bad person. We're human!

It's a problem when we fool ourselves into believing there's virtue in the spectacle. That somehow this is marching us toward a more just society. It's not. It's a circus.

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

There's a thin line between helping bring justice for victims and participating in a spectacle. The #EpsteinFiles feels mostly like a political soap opera, with "stay tuned until next week" baked right into the script.

What is supposed to come of this? Other than more ad revenue, podcast subscribers, and sold merch?

"I generated content" on the bottom left of the image. Assuming the letter cut off what's "A"

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

Image of Trump with young girl emerged after #EpsteinFiles dropped. There’s no proof it’s real | Snopes.com:

"While Edwards' YouTube account used the image as the thumbnail for a video titled “The FBI forgot to redact this,” and he mentioned “one file they forgot to redact” involving Trump “and a 14-year-old girl” (at 0:22), Edwards did not show the thumbnail image during the 10-minute video, indicating it was likely ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/image-of-trump-with-young.html

This is the pic of Donald Trump on Epstein's plane with a child.&10;This is the pic the DOJ deleted yesterday.&10;Now they want to scrub this from the Internet.&10;Share this everywhere.&10;&10;Fake, Al generated image of Trump next to what appears to be a young girl with her face blocked out.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The regime has announced two proposed rules intended to make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) for trans youth to receive the healthcare they need.

We expect robust legal challenges to these hate-filled proposals and are actively engaged with organizations on the frontlines of the fight about how best to respond. For now, the most important thing you can do is submit a public comment about the harm these rules would cause.

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

Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026:

"I believe that 2026 is the year when everything begins to collapse."

Ed has refused to give a timeframe for the AI bubble burst since he’s been talking about it. This is the first time I’ve seen him provide a year. Shit is getting bad I guess. https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/

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remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"There are a few common threads between all of these stories:

- OpenAI doesn't have cash.
- The Disney licensing deal? Paid for in stock.
- The AWS contract? Amazon has to give OpenAI $10 billion to pay for it, because OpenAI doesn't have the cash.
- Broadcom's deal with OpenAI? "not much" revenue in 2026, probably because OpenAI doesn't have the cash.
- The Money For Data Centers Is Running Out.
- Blue Owl is the loosest lender in the universe, and if it’s having trouble raising money, everybody will very soon.
- Investors are aggressively dumping Oracle because it keeps trying to build more data centers for OpenAI, a company that does not have the money to pay for its compute.
- AI Is Wearing Out Its Welcome, and the AI Bubble Narrative Is Impossible To Ignore

It used to be (back in September, at least) that you could announce a big, stupid deal with OpenAI and see a 40% stock bump. Now the markets are suddenly thinking "huh, how is it gonna pay that?"

Oracle's stock also got dumped because it increased capital expenditures in its latest quarter to $12 billion, on analyst expectations of $8.4 billion.

And the other key thread is the year 2026.

Next year is meant to be the year that everything changes. It was meant to be the year that OpenAI had a gigawatt of data centers built with Broadcom and AMD, and when Stargate Abilene's 8 buildings were fully built and energized. 2026 is meant to be the year that OpenAI opened Stargate UAE, too.

Here in reality, absolutely none of this is happening, and I believe that 2026 is the year when everything begins to collapse.

In today's piece, I'm going to line up the sharp objects sitting right next to an increasingly-wobbling AI bubble, and why everything hinges on a looming cash crunch for OpenAI, AI data centers, those funding AI data centers, and venture capital itself."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/

#AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #Oracle #AIHype #AIBubble

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Split text with blended half shadow on @codepen https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/LYvdBQm?editors=1100

No text duplication whatsoever, no images other than #CSS gradients, no funky fonts* - all done with #SVG #filter magic! 🪄✨

*font used here is https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik+Mono+One - you can see the effect isn't baked into it

#svgFilter #cssGradient #code #coding #web #dev #webDev #webDevelopment #textEffect #textEffects #frontend

Demo screenshot. The text "success" in all caps with a diagonal half split across its face, the bottom right part having an aqua background in addition to being hashed like the top left part. The bottom right part also has a fuchsia drop shadow that is blended with it. The fine print at the bottom says, in a much smaller cursive font with less contrast: "wake up early, work hard and never give up, your dreams can come true... if you're born rich!"

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
5t3ph@front-end.social ("Stephanie Eckles") wrote:

Oh hey, come work with me!

We're seeking an earlier-career front-end dev who is able to work in-office (multiple US locations).

Check it out if you have interest and experience in: #designsystems #CSS #a11y #webcomponents

https://adobe.design/jobs/job-posts/prototyping-and-engineering/r163198-design-engineer

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

I wrote this having spent a lot of my internet time on TikTok, so these observations were through that lens.

I found this essay to be way too verbose and melodramatic to continue writing, so it laid in my drafts graveyard (where it probably should've stayed lol). Anyway, here's another of my unfinished essays.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/the-tragic-life-of-a.html

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

The tragic life of a content creator (late 2023)
Today I deleted my TikTok account. I had 57,000 followers, and 1.3mm likes. I published over one thousand videos over four years. I collected $430 from the TikTok creator fund. I made three friends.

I wrote this having spent a lot of my internet time on TikTok, so these observations were from that lens. I found this essay to be way too verbose and melodramatic to continue ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/23/the-tragic-life-of-a.html

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

The presents were very different that year. #grickledoodle #thething #johncarpenter #horror #holidays #santa #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

A cartoon illustration of Santa with a flamethrower standing at the doorway of the Toy Shop looking at an alien creature absorbing all the horrified elves and reindeer (ala The Thing.) Caption reads "The Thing in Santa's Toy Shop."

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

Bicycles for your mind are great and important but libraries are public transit for your mind and we need them too.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I had a similar problem with this winter scene from Parc Jarry. I LOVED the black and white version, personally, but most people I tested it on preferred the colour version, which I didn’t like. So I came up with a third version that accomplished much of the same as the black and white, but in colour. #montreal #photos #photography 5/6

A family looks out on the sun setting over a frozen pond in the park. It is in black and white which makes the shadows and shapes obvious
That same photo of the family except in colour. The sunset is bright yellow. The shadows are bright blue. The shapes in the picture are less distinct
That same photo in colour except with the blue toned down.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

In this case, I strongly prefer the monochrome version and found initial the colour versions using any of Fuji’s profiles to be substantially worse. So, I sat down and did a bit of thinking and came up with the approach I used in the third version. #montreal #photos #photography 4/6

A black and white photograph of a group of people talking in the rain under umbrellas. Looks like a still from a film noir movie.
A colour version of the same. The yellow autumn colours and the reflected blue colours clash.
A second colour version where the blue has been toned down.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, what is the “trick” that helped me enjoy the colour photos more? Turns out, one of the basic approaches to colour in photography and cinematography for decades has been to use fewer, more distinct colours in frame at a time, irrespective of the saturation. The best time to handle this is obviously during capture, but it’s also a useful kind for post-processing 6/6

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The second set of examples pretty much have to be in colour, OTOH, as the colours do a lot of heavy lifting in conveying the story #montreal #photos #photography 3/6

The sun sets behind a birthday party in Parc Jarry. People are having fun among the trees
A green chair has been left to rot under a bridge in Montréal
A very chonky cat stands outside a store in Montréal
The autumn colours in the park look neatly divided into three groups. A woman stands in the distance between the trees

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The first example has to be in black and white, because the whole point of the colouring of many animals is to break up the shape and make them a bit harder to spot. A few of the photos I’ve been posting lately have been in black and white for similar reasons #montreal #photos #photography 2/6

A black and white photo of a duck behind some reeds. The shape of the duck is clear despite being broken up by the reeds.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

One of the things I’m trying to figure out with my impromptu photography retrospective over the past few days is a better understanding of how I can deal with colour. I’ve been trying to figure out when colour is necessary, when it adds, and when it detracts, how best to use it. 1/6

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SistaWendy@toot.cat ("Maura Hubbell") wrote:

I love a nerdy bumper sticker.

A red bumper sticker on the back of an SUV. It reads, “If this sticker is blue, then you are driving too fast. / APS / physics/ www.aps.org”.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

In 2019 I decorated my christmas tree thusly to express my displeasure about the year.

I thought *2019* was a bad year for the world.

2019. 😆

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

Obviously, this already made the rounds, but another example that brings me cheer. Perhaps UNIX V4 is not beloved exactly, but people care enough to preserve it. "UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again":

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix%5Fv4%5Ftape%5Fsuccessfully%5Frecovered/

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

Kristi, She-Wolf of the DHS, was sheltered by Weiss, the propagandist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/put-bari-weiss-and-kristi-noem-in-cecot/

Noem touring CECOT

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Highlights from last week:

- Fix caret never rendering following a newline
- Implement eviction in the HTTP cache using `quick_cache`
- Prescan byte stream to determine encoding before parsing document
- More progress on WebDriver and Web Crypto API

You can help support Servo, an independent web rendering engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

Decorative report cover with the Servo logo that reads "Servo Report Week 51 2025”

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CazimodoCreative@universeodon.com ("Cazimodo Creative") wrote:

Here's the final Xmas custom crochet toy I made this year. This is the second toy I have made for this little girl, who is an extremely talented young artist. Her designs are very clever 😊

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet@a.gup.pe

A child's drawing of a blue alien creature, which has four arms with four clawed fingers on them, flat, webbed like feet and a large round head with one big round eye in the centre showing a large black pupil with two white highlights at the top and bottom. He also has two black head stalks with blue antenna on them. He's wearing a pair of bright green shorts with pink polka dots, and a shirt with orange and pink wavy lines.
This is a photo of the crochet version of the drawing, which is sitting on a little own beanbag next to a red wall and "looking" directly at the camera.

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Many of the women involved are also openly queer and, even though some of them are in heterosexual relationships, (“not that there’s anything wrong with that”, as they said on Seinfeld), the series are clearly personally important to quite a few of the people involved in their production.

And they seem to be growing in ambition. North Star has taken over production of the epic Four Elements, a four series interconnected “shared universe” project set to start airing next year 3/n

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

There’s no way of knowing how it’ll pan out long term. It may stall in terms of quality as you could argue has happened with BL series, but I think in terms of overall industry and audience dynamics, there’s a good chance that we’ll see a number of interesting productions in the meantime. 4/fin