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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Which statement is more true?

A. Control is an illusion.

B. The decisions we make affect overall outcomes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news ("Massimo :bot:") wrote:

This guy made a paper plane out of his match ticket during a UEFA Nations League match in a stadium in Germany.

Watch until the end.

Attachments:

• video: This guy made a paper plane out of his match ticket during a UEFA Nations League match in a stadium in Germany. Watch until the end. https://t.co/0gUH8c5Oxc

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kb9ens@mastodon.radio ("Tom - KB9ENS") wrote:

Metro is free for the weekend to celebrate the D line opening. My bride and I took the opportunity to adventure out on the system and go to the “Remainders Creative Reuse” store in Pasadena. #metro #crafting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:

We’ve some surprise guests on this countryside break

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Uptime continues. No one has asked how I feel about that. Anyway: 'bathtub curve' — Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time: initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it 'tires out'. See also burn-in period, infant mortality.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bathtub-curve.html

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

what a wonderful idea

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/books/traveling-bookstore-alabama.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.hVA.8xYw.zavotENQ%5Fyqy&smid=url-share

Boosted by jwz:
GeePawHill wrote:

Wow, so many news stories going on right now.

* The Epstein Fury War
* The Epstein UFO Dump
* The Epstein Illegal Memorial Pool contract
* The Epstein Tariff Illegality
* The Epstein Gerrymandering War
* The Epstein "Narco-Terrorist" Attacks
* The Epstein Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Hard to keep them all straight. You'd think they'd come up with different keywords other than "Epstein". (It's like looking up the programming language "go" on the internet).

*Everything* is Epstein these days.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Some people think that venture capital is a fundamentally evil business structure. I disagree.

Thought experiment:
If you could press a button tomorrow, that would cause 50% of the entire population of the continent of Africa to die within 5 years😮, but would 50X your profits and create dozens of trillion dollar companies, and help humanity become interplanetary 10 years earlier, would you press it?

If you're on this weird little Mastodon thing reading this, then you are most likely:

1. A technologist of some sort
2. Not a genocidal maniac

So you would of course say no.

Some of you suspect that I'm going to *imply* that many VCs would say yes. But I'm not going to imply anything. I don't have to. Because many of these VCs have written papers and blog posts under their real names, celebrating the fact that they believe that it's wrong *not* to press that button.🤦🏿‍♂️

The problem with VC is neither the profit motive, nor the business structure.

The problem is that the vast majority of the funds that our entire society uses to solve hard problems, are controlled and allocated by people that believe that it is their duty to create new buttons like the one above, and then mash it repeatedly.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#Firefly

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

crumble is a bit of a misnomer at this stage. it has hardened into a solid lump and the teaspoon i'm eating it with is struggling to break bits off.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

no you're having leftover crumble at silly in the morning.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

Now they’ve discovered external style sheets.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jnpn wrote:

You can now use paredit to edit rust code

https://github.com/ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp

#lisp #sexp #rust #plt #cs

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I immediately went to go fill out the form to get access for one of those computers to access outbound SMTP and then I paused and thought "why"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I just discovered that I no longer have administrative access to _any_ computer that can make an outgoing Internet TCP connection to port 25, and I do not have words for the emotion I'm experiencing.

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

#caturday

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MNSpy@mastodon.online ("Minnesota Spy Club") wrote:

May 9, 1921: Sophie Scholl was born on this date in 1921. She was a central member of the anti-Nazi White Rose group in wartime Germany. She was captured, charged with high treason for distributing anti-war literature, & beheaded along with her brother, Hans. Since the 1970’s her antifascist resistance has been recognized and honored.

#Antifa #Resistance #WhiteRose #Germany

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

Losers: I asked Gemini to generate a logo for my project
Me: I mushed together two free icons in inkscape

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

Pretty sure they have a recording of me going "Nope, I hate this"

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

I applied for a job and they just sent me a response that directed me to A CHATBOT INTERVIEW WHERE I HAD TO RECORD MYSELF ANSWERING QUESTIONS!?

Closed it and asked to talk to a person 😐

Shaken to my CORE

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vga256@tomodori.net wrote:

tiny lua compiler: a lua compiler in a single file, that's well-documented, that was hand-crafted over several years, and made to teach you compiler/tokenizer/parser/lexer design.

this is a crazy impressive project, and in a time when people are haphazardly slopcoding projects, is a standard to live by.

https://github.com/bytexenon/Tiny-Lua-Compiler

#programming #lua

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?"

I feel Finna flinch beside me.

"There's no point telling them," I say.

"Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake."

"Saving the world includes the jerks."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Have you thought about how CrAzY it would be if the world were a DyStOpIa?!? Look at how BAD this is! Like imagine how HoRrIfYiNg it would be to live a life as a SLAVE to a MACHINE!??!"

yeah bro I got it we all live like that now do you have, like, any suggestions

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is an oft-repeated saying in recent years that #ADHD is a disorder of doing, not of knowing. I already know what I need to do; and managing the disorder is all about either changing its conditions (i.e. medication) or putting the strategies into my sensory field so I *perceive*, rather than *know* them. The same is true for depression; "don't be sad" doesn't work, depressed people already know they'd prefer to be less sad.

All political satire feels like "have you tried not being sad" now

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

you know that feeling where you want to explain, but you know the other person won't understand?

especially when it's because you are a massive computer nerd and they aren't.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Forgot to post... From February in Brussels.

📷️️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

naming things is hard. naming people is even harder.

so, anyway, I've got a new name.

hi. :8bitheart:

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

well i basically stopped for the day after this.

tomorrow is the big day, i will attempt to get it to write code. you know, the thing that people are very convinced it can do better than me, despite the copious proof suggesting otherwise.

Boosted by jwz:
prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

in the
darkest hour
of man

saddle the steed
of apocalypse

and ride with
angels of hell

#unix_surrealism #comic #tarot #occult #computers #art #fediart #triapul

Boosted by jwz:
MetalheadDana@metalhead.club ("There is No Dana") wrote:

#ai #fuckai