@quasirealsmiths@beige.party I love that electric mass transit did this. Definitely this hits on the nose re: sort-of-trillionaire pro-fascist transphobe #ElonMusk owning the car maker. I feel bad for the individual car owner though.
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mastodon 4.6.8Lifelong lover of sci-fi 🚀, concerned about welfare of 🇺🇦, citizen of 🇺🇸, horrified at our current leadership.
“Statistics matter; only stupid people think in anecdotes.”
This thought occurred to me yesterday: No one should ever have to learn about the personal lives of their political heroes, and definitely they shouldn’t ever learn the politics of their personal heroes.
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@huntingdon@mstdn.social @MissGayle@urbanists.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Once a month, a business trip of theirs should be randomly downgraded to coach on their own airline.
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@josephcox The article strongly implies that if you change, in the app settings, Notifications | Show Preview, to “Never” that closes this for future messages anyway. To deal with past, I suppose wiping the phone OS and reinstalling (General | Reset iPhone?) should do the job, assuming the database is not backed up to iCloud.
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@mrfoostang @bontchev@infosec.exchange @relay @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange For me, it’s whenever I am getting frustrated and start to compose an email to describe the problem to a coworker. I average about 3 sentences in before I realize there’s some detail I still need to check
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@joeress@mastodon.social American old nerd here. I kept listening to Jupiter for a while after, but nowadays, for Linux stuff, it’s all your network of podcasts, plus @linuxlads@mastodon.ie
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@grickle Makes total sense. The only thing more Millennial would be a blank gray panel
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@Larvitz@burningboard.net I learned so much from this. It’s going in my bookmarks.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us I still think a simple line graph communicates clearer. I think what this animation provides is mostly distorting drama, due to linear °C in radial direction amplifying the passage of time as 2πr as temperature go up.
On the plus side:
- The annual cycling of the seasons is naturally captured. However, reasonably intelligent people could get that from a gridline for each year on a linear graph.
- The animated nature makes the passage of time explicit. Again, though, how little education do you need to understand “horizontal axis equals passing time”?
The effort is laudable. I just despair. At this point, you get it that climate change is a problem, or you’re probably either a science-denying head-in-the-sand type, or so heavily invested in resource extraction industries that you need people to ignore it.
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@dalfen@mstdn.social We’re a broken democracy at the moment. However I can say definitively, in the words of State Rep Pearson, that Marsha Blackburn is a stupid motherfucker.
I woke up this morning to hear that Trump had made a policy proposal in his #SOTU, basically matching up to $1000 on a 401k-like investment account for workers with no access to such an account. I’m not necessarily against this idea. However, I will point out that we already have something called Social Security where the worker pays 6.2% of their wages into a government-managed retirement fund, and their employer contributes a matching amount. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/investors-brace-state-union-speech-that-may-fuel-anxiety-2026-02-24/
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@CavedaleRhones Puppy piles are the best kind of pile
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@mklopez@mastodon.social I struggle to drink my coffee with all those coffee beans lying about
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org They are nice, but I prefer a General Systems Vehicle from the Culture series by Iain Banks
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@mklopez@mastodon.social You just need some proper linen robes as used in Saudi Arabia
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@david_chisnall @petrillic @rk @norootcause I had a similar interview process at Microsoft over 20 years ago. Personally, I found it kind of fun. They only expected pseudocode on the board, and it was honestly a conversation to see what I knew about algorithms and whether I could think on my feet. This was especially important because I was coming from the physical sciences, and my comp sci minor was 10 years in the rear view mirror. It was a different time. One could still land a coding job with a graduate degree in almost anything.
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@Nichelle@wandering.shop @ComicContext@mstdn.social Why do I remember this was a thing, but no can’t think of the names of most of my high school teachers or college professors
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@vintagefantasyart@mastodon.social @isaackuo@spacey.space One of the great things about “Rings of Power” is the bringing to life of Moria in its heyday.
I’ve always disliked Trump, but this is the first time he’s directly messed with my quality of life. I’m downstream of both of these coal plants, so it affects my air quality. Even if they have good scrubbers in the steam towers, this is horrible from a CO2 emissions standpoint. He had to actually fire 2 TVA administrators and replace them to accomplish this idiocy. Replacement with natural gas plants, as was planned, would have not been perfect, but far more preferable. https://newschannel9.com/news/local/tva-says-it-now-doesnt-want-to-close-its-two-coal-fired-plants-in-tennessee
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@paco@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Yeah. The Democrats knew what was coming this time, and tried to prepare, but that somehow just gave her more energy.
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@shayman@cosocial.ca What sorcery is this‽
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@TimothyRoes @sstendahl I didn't even know https://bitwarden.com/help/integrated-authenticator/ was a thing until you mentioned this. Now I know what that cryptic "Set Up TOTP" button does.
Thanks! BTW, to others, this is apparently only for Premium subscribers (costs me $22/year).
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@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt I do not think those are words
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@count_01@mastodon.social Let me guess, that shopkeeper eventually married her.
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Appears to be coded in C. Perhaps it is a good target for re-implementation in Rust or Go?
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@itsfoss@mastodon.social Not subject to near-weekly shifts in the winds of whatever Microsoft and Apple decide their users should have shoved down their throats
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@StefanThinks@beige.party I’m personally on the Dark Side of the Earth for hours every day
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social I have unfortunately had to be in the room a few times when a patient, due to their own online “research”, declares the doctor an idiot when they aren’t agreeing with the “research”-based self-diagnosis and self-prescription.
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net I just did an experiment. I looked on the app for a local big box retailer here in Tennessee. If I am only worried about obtaining a smartphone and laptop computer, lowest prices I can find, I can walk out of the store today with both for about $280 plus taxes, which would probably bring the total to about $315. That is an unlocked Motorola Android phone ($130) and a very basic Intel N150 laptop ($150). I could when walk out with a smartphone for as low as $50 if I don’t mind it locked to some prepaid wireless provider. I’m too used to my 4-year old iPhone and 8-year old business laptop to do so, but I *could*.
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@fortyseven@defcon.social The First Officer stole the show multiple times 😁
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@thetnholler.bsky.social :sigh: more of Blackburn’s brain-dead bandwagon propaganda
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@hllizi@hespere.de @georgetakei@universeodon.com He’s been writing on fascism and adjacent topics for many years. Bloodlands is an incredibly important book IMHO. https://timothysnyder.org/books
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@danwentzel@urbanists.social My favorite of his was The Apostle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118632/ though had to love his performance in Apocalypse Now
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/116086740002523392
Thought @joeress@mastodon.social would appreciate this
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@penpencilbrush@mstdn.social I had never heard of Dr. Suzuki, I think because I’ve never had CBC. Sounds like my kind of guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Suzuki
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@dtm@mastodon.cc @paninid@mastodon.world @A11yAwareness@disabled.social Agree. The phrase “your audience” is doing work here. If you’re writing for the adult populace, then maybe aim for 8th grade. You can assume higher for other audiences. I agree wholeheartedly about the importance of keeping statements plain, especially in works of persuasion. E.g., avoid overused common expressions, even if they sound “plain” to your ears. Say what you’re saying directly.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise crazy
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@streetartutopia@mastodon.online This is the first Banksy piece I’ve actually liked. Amazing!
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Not sure, but the relative sizes all look correct, as well as the Earth-moon distance
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@thetnholler.bsky.social Here’s a non-paywalled article on same: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rutherford-county-library-system-board-022437436.html
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@stoicteacher@me.dm @paninid@mastodon.world That’s an extended noun phrase, not an actual sentence. It’s a fraction of an actual quote trimmed to match a social post format, I guess.
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@spocko@mastodon.online I too have intense discomfort with this, but the full video was definitely something to behold. It made me wish there had been a live action Star Trek show in the disco era. I guess we’ll always have Buck Rogers and Battlestar Galactica, as short lived as they were.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org I’m with you on xenomorphs. I didn’t know it was referencing an emoji for a long time and just assumed it was something macabre about face huggers.
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@Enalys@mastodon.zergy.net I hate #ElonMusk as much as anyone choosing to socialize here instead of his vanity microblog site. SpaceX has definitely figured out reusing rockets for LEO satellite launches and ISS visits, many times a year. That is important. However, Artemis is doing the harder thing right now, plus always focusing on moving science forward. It’s a different task, and it’s the kind of thing that got me interested in going into science and engineering in colllege.
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@billyjoebowers@mastodon.online This is not a problem I’ve had, but I sure believe it happens. I would argue each small (<500 users?) server is a community. Outside of that, it’s federation and loose customs. Only complain when you have someone dead to rights in violation of their own server’s rules. Or complain to your admin that maybe another server is just toxic, whatever that means to your community.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Great. Now I can’t stop hearing the song “Blue Hair” in my head.
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@rhys@mastodon.rhys.wtf I’m not sure what a chud is, but if they constantly whine about “woke” and “DEI”, then I feel you. I just finished watching the first two episodes, and am loving it. I didn’t expect to. I was afraid it would be “Starfleet’s Creek 90210”, but it has a good story and 3-dimensional young characters. Discovery’s last two seasons felt bleak by comparison (though I’m still a fan), and I couldn’t even get halfway into “Section 31” before giving up, but “Academy” is a joyous surprise so far.