jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Trump is facing four federal felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A federal grand jury returned an indictment alleging that Trump knowingly lied about the 2020 election by spreading claims that “were unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing.” Trump has indicated his lawyers will enter a not guilty plea on his behalf during a hearing on the case on Thursday.’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Fuentes noted that if Trump knows that he lost the 2020 election, then he “deserves to be charged” by special counsel Jack Smith for his efforts to overturn the results of the election.
“That actually vindicates the DOJ charge against him!” Fuentes declared. “Because the charge is that he knew he lost but he lied to defraud the people.”
“So, why did we do Stop the Steal?” Fuentes demanded to know.’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
once upon a time, I too was a Regular Army Sergeant… although of the Signal Corps and not the Cavalry, and perhaps one or two years later than Sgt Armstrong
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Small town newspapers are a treasure trove of ignorant creationist nonsense. My local paper is relatively free of it (thanks to the horde of collegians living here), but Marshall, Texas gets the worst of it.
One day you're young and foolish and the next you're still foolish but you have CDs that are older than people you work with.
Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Do you know that #Freexian collaborators can spend 20% of their work time on the Debian projects/tasks of their choice?
We document these #Debian contributions done by our Freexian collaborators each month.
In 2024, Freexian collaborators contributed to Salsa CI improvements, the /usr-move transition, and the future live-patching of Linux in Debian and more.
You can read all about these at https://www.freexian.com/tags/debian-contributions/
Reblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support - https://www.freexian.com/lts/ and consulting services - https://www.freexian.com/services/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There are so many teams and so many great engineers...Rick Byers' support of PWAs and animations and layout from Waterloo to the Devices and Storage and Layout teams in the Bay Area (with many helpers from around the world), to the 3D stack teams in SF and the Research Triangle area, to networking in Boston and MTV and elsewhere, to performance work spread around the world.
And that's not even mentioning PWA teams in Seattle, SF, MTV, SYD, and LON.
Chromium only works because we all give.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Lots of teams around the world have made Chromium's decade of feature leadership a reality, from the WebRTC experts in Stockholm to the security and VM crew in Munich to the mobile mensches in London to the perf boffins in Paris to the layout wizzes all over the world...nothing happens in real, bleading-edge browsers without a huge talent pool and incredible acts of self investment into the future of the web.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I think I need to start a series of blog posts on the engineers that have shaped the modern web from positions of relative anonymity.
The Google Tokyo office under the leadership of Kinuko Yusada and the Google Sydney office reporting to Mike Lawther were particularly productive groups that didn't get the spotlight.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
Oh well thank fuck for that. Another one of humanity’s problems checked off.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Luke@typo.social ("Luke Dorny") wrote:
“It’s consumption. Its monopolistic control. It’s computing-hungry magic tricks thrown at the wall, hoping something sticks. The next iteration of the web by way of the internet is just one long infomercial of fifty-dollar solutions to fifty-cent problems.”
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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cogdog@cosocial.ca ("Alan Levine") wrote:
"In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive. Curation is punk."
I'm rawdogging all the time, digging around the far reaches of the long tail (wag)
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
The unrepentant exuberance of sneaking a new ingredient into your picky child's food undetected
I've reached an age where I don't need Head and Shoulders, I just need Shoulders.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com ("ErosBlog Bacchus") wrote:
@galacticstone @cstross @quixoticgeek
"Using this term without the proper context lets greedy corporations off the hook."
I agree wholeheartedly! And for readers who don't know, the proper context is the writings of Cory Doctorow(@pluralistic), who coined "enshittification" and has A WHOLE LOT to say about greedy capitalists.
https://locusmag.com/2024/05/cory-doctorow-no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:
The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
This may be the most realistic game ever made:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167920/LowBudget_Repairs/
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dale@toot.cafe ("Dale Harvey") wrote:
I had to go out to buy a specific version of the iPad in order for my kids to be able to do their homework.
Educational policies aside, it was a sad reminder of what we are losing when we let the web be displaced by propietary apps.
Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
Dear National Trust members, this is your annual reminder to vote in the upcoming AGM. The "anti woke" Restore Trust, who are backed by The Tory Common Sense group are again listing 6 candidates. Although NT membership is over 5 million, only 0.5% actually vote. Restore Trust has a very active membership so don't let apathy give them a beach head for their anti woke vision. You can use the quick vote button to vote for NT preferred candidates. Voting closes 25th October. Please boost.
#NT
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
first one of the new academic year, but probably not the last:
“Georgia high school student, 14, shoots and kills 4 while wounding 9” - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/georgia-officers-respond-reports-shooting-high-school-2024-09-04/
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
NickAEsp ("Nick Espinosa") wrote:
Yes, Your Phone Mic IS Listening!
#News #TechNews #Technology #surveillance #PrivacyMatters #Facebook #Google #Amazon #Meta
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My day went splat, literally.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/04/an-unusually-long-day/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Who are your favorite #bloggers?
Drop their names and web addresses ⬇️
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa So if you want a future where HTML doesn't suck and where the warts in Web Components get ironed out and where we might be able to take on platform-backed data binding or SVG-custom-elements, then you need to support @owa.
Apple has continually demonstrated that it is functionally anti-web, including up to the present moment. The only solution is true competition.
I wish it wasn't so.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa All of this adds up to an assumption by competitors that Apple isn't up for expanding the web to solve important needs that come from frequent developer requests. The *massive* gap in capabilities that Cupertino maintains is just as apparent in DOM and HTML as in advanced features. They *still* won't implement `is`, and `elementInternals` was trench warfare.
It's painful to really push on expanding HTML and web capabilities because Apple will fight it at every step. And everyone knows it.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa But I'm sure that Apple spending more to defeat browser engine choice than to engage with developers [1], while materially misleading regulators [2] and leaving critical features in a totally broken state [3] and failing to keep pace in general [4] is just a giant misunderstanding. Could happen at any megacorp that makes $20BN/yr skimming off the web!
[3]: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple understands that the web is a reach platform, and that its Achilles heel is a failure to deliver everywhere. Maintaining a hard cap on web capabilities is strategic.
If developers could just build a single compelling experience from a single code-base, they wouldn't need Apple's distribution channel, which would mean they wouldn't need to pay Apple taxes.
And this is why Apple's fighting @owa tooth and nail, going as far as to fund astroturf "developer" groups and mislead regulators.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Because competitors know they can't ship new features to the wealthy developers and decision-makers that user the iOS products with their badges on the bonnet, the incentive to deliver new capabilities to developers on other platforms deflates.
Again, for Apple, this is working as intended. And they don't even have to put that much of a thumb on the scale. All they have to do is to "just ask questions" in standards conversations; muddy the waters in public and defuse progress in private.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The last point is really insidious: Apple and the Android team really, *really* wanted to keep the web from disrupting the cozy mobile duopoly, and through interlocking and reinforcing moats have made it nearly impossible for the web to break out and challenge the app store and native frameworks.
This is working-as-intended. Apple's attempt to kill PWAs earlier this year showed intent, and the fallback position they've taken since (that they don't have to open them up) is indefensible.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Folks are surprised to learn I put as much, or more, blame for the terrible state of frontend today on browsers as I do the JS community.
Browser vendors failed to put their money where their mouths have been on performance, paving endless open field to create induced demand with every JS engine tweak, rarely stopping to ask if what they have done has actually lifted the average.
Also, the last 15 years of neutered engine competition (thanks, iOS) has lowered vendor ambition for the platform.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
The Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/ Next, all AI companies should also lose access to copyrighted books and art. Why are tech bros allowed to breach copyright? The law should be applied equally to all.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@heydon And, indeed, we can see that even a *very mild* price on UI latency -- via the extremely generous INP thresholds that went into effect earlier this year -- are proving to be more than the "DX" narrative bait-and-switch can handle. If a breeze that gentle can topple your whole roadmap...maybe there wasn't anything there?
The whole sociotechnical edifface *can*, for most classes of site, be a hollow promise devoid of additive value.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@heydon It absolutely *is* the case that path dependence and unpriced externalities have caused important sections of the economy to fundamentally destroy value relative to what they "create"!
Accounting tricks can make bad things look good for a long time. It's *entirely possible* that the net net of the last decade's over enthusiasm for JavaScript has been more costly than it has been valuable.
Which is to say, you do not have to accept that popularity == value.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Multiple times since @heydon's epic React video dropped, I've had conversations that have bottomed out at *"yeah, well, lots of people choose React, so it must be popular for a reason"*.
This is true! It can be popular for *many* reasons! Nothing about this acknowledgement requires stipulating that those reasons be *good* or based on complete information.
If Eugene Fama can acknowledge that Efficient Markets don't actually exist, so can you.
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
People have gotten so used to the existence of the Internet Archive’s web archive that they forget how revolutionary and subversive it is. The idea that that is somehow safe while the book lending was not is completely flawed. They were just up against a more powerful group.
Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
louis@indieweb.social
for harassing anyone who describes Israel as the genocidal, apartheid, colonial entity that it is, and describing the type of election interference & harassment by AIPAC on Israel's behalf, mostly against Black congresspeople, as antisemitic, and targeting accounts that do so for mass reports, suspension and harassment.
See thread👇
https://dair-community.social/deck/@egg@kolektiva.social/113070659317824474
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
I liked this leveled, informed explanation of the difficulties around gendered pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Stop defining "developer experience" as "the inner loop while I'm writing code after spending an hour installing node_modules".
Setup time is "developer experience".
Upgrade toil is "developer experience".
Memoise-everything-after-weeks-debugging-stray-rerender toil is "developer experience".
Belated, frantic code splitting side quests are "developer experience".
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated. The importance and value of thinking about our work and why we do it is waved away as a distraction. The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
testobsessed@ruby.social ("Elisabeth Hendrickson") wrote:
It just occurred to me that the phases in waterfall software development could just as well have been named after the stages of grief:
1. denial (requirements and design)
2. anger (implementation)
3. bargaining (functional testing)
4. depression (alpha & beta testing) and
5. acceptance (release)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Is the third week of the semester too early to burn out?
Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):
Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and
the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.
https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8 (π min)
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #data #pronunciation #English #EnglishLanguage
I mean, what else would a PORtable moNITOR be called?
via @qbi
Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
lukito@gamedev.lgbt ("Lukito") wrote:
“We created a self-opening fridge with an AI camera that tracks what you put in and take out.”
Please for the love of any and all deities I am PROSTRATE on the floor begging you for fair energy prices and accessible public transport I do not need a fridge incorrectly guessing what is in my 17 Tupperware containers and refusing to open because I haven’t paid my monthly £24.99 subscription of “Fridge Door Lock Plus” :neofox_melt_sob: :neofox_melt_sob: :neofox_melt_sob:
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Starting my morning with a bit of silliness and a good beat. "The Time Machine (Dr. Evil Trance Mix)":
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
and please tell me again how they are classified a 501c(3) tax exempt non-partisan organization??
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
seems reasonable
Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064
This is a very good news for web standards:
https://mastodon.social/@kornel/113078862354601952
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
#WebStandards need two independent implementations of every feature.
This proves that the spec is actually possible to implement, and makes it possible to verify that the implementations are interoperable.
It makes uses in the wild much less likely to depend on bugs in a particular implementation, which makes it possible to upgrade or replace implementations without creating painful bug-compatibility problems.
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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A brand new 2.0 version of @PyDPainter has been released by @mriale 👍
PyDPainter is an authentic recreation of the classic Deluxe Paint ("DPaint") Amiga pixel editor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l385Z7_CRB0
Get it here:
https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter
#pixel #PixelArt #graphics #GameDev #RetroComputing #tool #editor #tips #FediTips #Commodore #Amiga #MSDOS #retro #VintageComputing
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Instagram: hey friend, we'll let your song keep playing while you scroll our feed.
TikTok: fuck whatever you were just doing. All your Spotify playlists are now deleted. The time? You want to know the time?! We just killed your family. Keep scrolling, pussy.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This is (even more) aggro than I'd be about React (and, surprisingly, religion), but this line is the pure, uncut truth:
"React is useful for making complex interfaces like Facebook’s or for making otherwise simple interfaces, and their underlying codebases, complex like Facebook’s."
Christ on a cracker, @heydon; leave something for the rest of us!
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:
Awesome new compilation of Central Asian disco from the 1980s!
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synthesizing-the-silk-roads-uzbek-disco-tajik-folktronica-uyghur-rock-tatar-jazz-from-1980s-soviet-central-asia #music
Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("Boosty Collins") wrote:
You can play the CD on a variety of devices, as many times as you want, for free, forever.
The people who made the CD and player can't build a profile of what CDs you listen to.
CDs have full, lossless audio. They can perfectly represent any sound the human ear can perceive.
You don't lose access to your CDs if you stop paying a monthly subscription.
CDs are pretty dang great.
Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
ian@hachyderm.io ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:
It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies.
It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Saw this band live a couple of weeks back.
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
spiralganglion ("Ivan Reese") wrote:
Here's the (excellent) official GOV.UK guidance on progressive enhancement — in short, try very hard to avoid using JS at all, and especially avoid large frameworks.
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement
And here, from the frontpage of HN, is an unofficial component library that emulates the GOV.UK "Design System”… in Vue.
…There's no emoji for “flailing my arms with an exasperated, disbelieving look on my face”
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
It's not really representative of most of their work, but I'm really diggin' this power ballad from Unleash the Archer's latest album. "Give it Up or Give it All":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8SZkI728I
(My ears tell me the compression is a bit much on that youtube recording, but they don't have it up on bandcamp as a preview. So you get what you get, and you don't throw a fit.)
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matt Haughey 🫠") wrote:
“I love that for you!” is west coast for “well, bless your heart”
Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
veronica@xoxo.zone ("Veronica") wrote:
Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The group has devised a catalytic recycling process that breaks apart the chains of some of the more commonly used plastics — polyethylene and polypropylene — in such a way that the building blocks of those plastics can be used again...
The catalysts required for the reaction — sodium or tungsten — are readily available and inexpensive… early tests show the process is likely scalable at industrial levels. It uses no water and has fewer energy requirements than other recycling methods”
Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:
📼 What Is React.JS?
Finally, a new video on briefs.video.
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
For some reason the #Leprous Melodies of Atonement LP is 45 RPM instead of 33 RPM, first time I've had to switch the band on the record player.
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Null Island Iced Tea
Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io ("Armin Ronacher") wrote:
Sometime to think about when voting this autumn.
Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jenbanim@mastodo.neoliber.al wrote:
This is neat
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Looks like the Trump campaign is giving up on New Hampshire per the Boston Globe:
“Tom Mountain, who had served as one of several vice chairs for the former president’s effort in Massachusetts, wrote in an email to Trump volunteers in the state that “the campaign has determined that New Hampshire is no longer a battleground state,” and advised supporters to instead direct their attention to Pennsylvania. The GOP had been bullish about winning New Hampshire before President Biden dropped out of the race.In the email, Mountain, a former official with the Massachusetts GOP, said Trump was “sure to lose by an even higher margin” in New Hampshire than in 2016 and 2020, citing “campaign data/research.” He claimed resources would be suspended and the campaign would not send Trump or high-profile surrogates such as his sons. The email was obtained by the Globe and confirmed with multiple recipients.”
(The volunteer who wrote the email has since been fired.)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/02/nation/new-hampshire-battleground-2024-harris-trump/
#uspol #uspolitics
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:
Overview ‹ AI-Implanted False Memories — MIT Media Lab https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ai-false-memories/overview/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“confidence in these false memories remained higher than the control”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ncdominie@mastodon.scot ("New-Cleckit Dominie") wrote:
Today's prize for on-brand academic behaviour goes to the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, for disguising their building as a chalkboard.
(I'm informed that the elements were collected from working chalkboards in staff offices.)
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
The_Icarian@federated.press ("The Icarian") wrote:
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Via Harry Sisson:
BOOM! The #Harris #Walz campaign just released this statement in response to Donald Trump claiming that he has “every right” to interfere in elections. Share this everywhere!
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kendraserra@dair-community.social ("Kendra Albert") wrote:
Surveillance is everywhere in the modern city.
rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
After 7 years, there will finally be another "Rust All Hands" event where all members of the Rust project come together in person to collaborate on the future of Rust. 🎉
The All Hands will be part of @rustnl's "Rust Week 2025" in Utrecht, Netherlands.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2024/09/02/all-hands.html
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an example of why things like police reports should not be generated by AI
https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It’s so crazy that my poll numbers go up. Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election—where you have every right to do it—you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up,” Trump said. “When people get indicted, your poll numbers go down!”
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnees ("Robert McNees") wrote:
Physicist Carl Anderson was born #OTD in 1905.
Anderson developed an improved cloud chamber that he used to identify the positron – the antiparticle of the electron first theorized by Dirac.
Nowadays we use these particles for positron emission tomography (PET), android brains, and ghost busting.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"Trump is not flip flopping. He is still 'honored' to have stripped women of a constitutional right. And he knows these 'Trump abortion bans' are killing women. It’s now time for all of us who oppose Trump and the GOP’s oppression—and killing of women—-to loudly make our voices heard at the ballot box."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Republicans #abortion #ReproductiveRights #RoevWade #Dobbs
/3https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/the-issue-is-not-trump-flip-flopping
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mxp@mastodon.acm.org ("Michael Piotrowski") wrote:
Whatever “Allow access” means, I somehow doubt that it will improve my “experience” with #Microsoft products.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Don't Boo: Vote") wrote:
Light hearted news:
#SupremeCourt Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson and #actor #MattDamon were scene partners in drama class in college
They were paired up to memorize their lines and do a scene from "Waiting for Godot"
“At the end, the professor said, ‘Ketanji, you were very good. Matt, we’ll talk,’ ” she said. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, I was better than Matt Damon in a scene’”
Jackson spoke to CBS Sunday Morning Sept. 1 for the release of her memoir, "Lovely One"
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase - The Verge”
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/3/24234698/canva-price-increase-300-percent-ai-features
Read through a few discussion threads where Canva customers were reacting to the price hike and, surprisingly, they didn't think AI features were a transformative revolution well worth 300% price hike. Terms like "useless" and "waste of time" were bandied about. I’m shocked, I tell you.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, this is amusing
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kate@fosstodon.org ("Kate Morley") wrote:
Great news for renewable energy in the UK, and I think this paragraph is particularly important to note:
“In recent years the cost of renewable energy has fallen below the market price for electricity, meaning that the scheme has paid money back to consumers, helping reduce energy bills. This was seen over Winter 2022/2023, when Contracts for Difference payments reduced the amount needed to fund government energy support schemes by around £18 per typical household.”
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-secures-record-pipeline-of-clean-cheap-energy-projects
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LisaHornung@fosstodon.org ("Lisa Hornung") wrote:
Is my blue your blue? maybe not cause apparently I consider turquoise to be green 👀😅
Great little tool to test your colour perception https://ismy.blue #design #ux
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EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to decline in the EU! 📉
The latest Eurostat data shows that greenhouse gas emissions in the EU fell by 4% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same time last year – while the EU's GDP saw a slight increase!
Here’s how some countries are doing:
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: -15.2%
🇩🇪 Germany: -6.7%
🇧🇪 Belgium: -6.0%The biggest reductions came from:
🔻Electricity and gas supply: -12.6%
🔻Households: -4.4%ℹ️ More info: https://europa.eu/!WtYnwx
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My granddaughter will fit right in.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/03/first-day-of-kindergarten/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… opposed the spread of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, describing those treatments as harmful to women. They praised the rapidly expanding number of state laws restricting abortion rights and access, saying that the procedure should become “unthinkable” in America. And they cited hunger as a “great motivation” for Americans to find work.”
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tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Pastry project. Tomorrow is the first day of school, and my daughter decided to make some pastries for her teachers to earn the honor of being the best suck-up teacher's pet in her class :-)
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BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us ("Baloo Uriza") wrote:
Just aged my husband a thousand years by saying "here's a phrase that exists now: 'second-generation YouTuber.'"
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There's an article making the rounds, which reminds me that I'm broadly skeptical of the things that Venture Capitalists say, because they have much less skin in the game than operators.
Here are some good takes worth reading instead:
https://skamille.medium.com/founders-create-managers-aba3c88981ba by @skamille
https://oxide.computer/blog/reflections-on-founder-mode by @bcantrill
https://samgerstenzang.substack.com/p/founder-mode-in-context by Sam Gerstenzang
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
In 1958-59, I was that pudgy kid on the right.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/02/do-you-want-to-see-my-jiggly-belly/
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quirk@computerfairi.es ("FoxQuirk 🦊") wrote:
Found this old meme when rummaging around my files
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stephaniewalter@front-end.social ("Stef Walter") wrote:
Looking for a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe, serving old school interfaces? Meet Departure Mono. I love it soooo much!
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The Fairfield Horseshoe.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes