Seen on Reddit from a post by user jcflyingblade; too amusing not to share.
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J. David Eisenberg
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtSemi-retired CS teacher at a local community college. Cat person (but currently catless). Have written/co-written some technical books. Currently living in Graz, Austria.
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I think I have found one of the smallest art installations ever. It is embedded in a stone wall on the stairway to the Uhrturm (Clock Tower) in Graz, Austria. I’m guessing it’s about 10 cm in diameter.
I am wondering how much trouble I am going to be in for posting this for my students in an Intro to Linux class.
Das ist wirklich Schlau. / This is very clever.
This is a marvelous advertisement.
The word „Nachspeise“ means dessert, and „Nasch“ means sweet (or sweet tooth). Using a wafer as a hyphen is just brilliant.
The small text at upper left translates to “You can’t help but like Manner“, and the text at lower right means “Happiness brings people together.“
Very unsettling moment today when I turned on my old laptop, which I had not used for about a year, and realized I had totally forgotten the password for my user name. (It’s a different password on the new laptop.)
I was about to use #SystemRescue to manually change the password, then decided: well, let me try one variant of what I have been unsuccessful with. Luckily, it worked.
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@nando161@partyon.xyz #AltText4You
A slide from a Thomson Reuters presentation. At left, a large orange circle with the words Trust, Partnership, Innovation, Performance (one word per line)
At right, a small yellow circle with the words OUR VALUES.
There is a very small overlap between the circles, making it appear to be a Venn diagram with very little overlap between the words at left and the values at right.
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@Eurospoofer@mastodon.social @kralcttam@mastodon.social Hey, they don’t hand out FIFA Peace Prizes to just anyone!
Wouldn’t it be great if King Charles came to the podium in Congress and said only four words: “We are not amused.”
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@cdarwin I wouldn’t be surprised if 50% of Oman’s take goes directly (or indirectly) to Trump.
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@BrianJopek#AltText4You
Headline: The NEXT big Iran War announcement
Caroline Leavitt is near the podium at the White House. She is looking at a group of people clicking on their cell phones behind a wall partition, and asking “What are we waiting for?” One of the people replies “Everyone to get their trades in.”
Well, that certainly took #Iran and the #EpsteinFiles out of the news cycle...
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@BreakingImpossible @kibcol1049
Enhanced #AltText4You
Animated cartoon showing a blond-haired girl blowing out a candle on a pink layer cake with the larger layers on top. The candle gives off sparkles as it is extinguished.
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@staringatclouds@mstdn.social @Geri@mastodon.online @PaulNickson@mastodon.social
It would certainly give a whole new meaning to “the merry month of May.”
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social You mean you don’t recognize this as “the moment when Trump truly became President”? /s
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@ShaulaEvans I would never criticize Chris Christie for his size. He knows it’s a problem, and he’s working on it. (Jokes about bridges, on the other hand...)
When Donald Trump or his supporters portray him as a magnificent physical specimen, I think mocking them is not out of bounds.
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@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu #AltText4You
Wall painting. Text: Get in the box for Israel. At lower right, a flag-draped coffin.
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@Alice@beige.party My brother could never pronounce “chipotle” correctly; he always reversed the L and T. Probably because the T-L combination doesn’t occur in English that often.
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@artemis For those who might be considering teaching: for community colleges (at least in California) you only need a Master’s degree in the academic area you teach. The money isn’t great, but many community colleges will hire part time adjunct faculty.
Also, if you are teaching a course that is articulated with a university system, then it is at the same level as university. It’s not watered down. For example, the data science course at the college where I taught uses the same materials as the beginning data science course at UC Berkeley.
@patriksvensson Extra #AltText4You
An altered cover of "The Adventures of Tintin" by Hergé. The title reads "Tintin and the Vibe Coders." The Captain, Tintin, and Milou are in a small boat. There is a burning pile of wood in the middle of the boat. The Captain appears to be warming his hands. Tintin and Milou are aghast (word balloon: “!?”)
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@grishka@mastodon.social @bagder@mastodon.social#AltText4You
Mock headline from CNN:
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits orphanage.
[photo of Altman, staring at camera with a blank expression]
“It’s heartbreaking to look into those sad, hopeless eyes” - Said one of the kids
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@digichelle@hachyderm.io Agree; it should not be asked. If someone does ask me, I’ll jokingly say “I’m mean enough when I’m sober.” (The real reason is that I don’t like the taste of alochol - for me, it tastes bitter, but telling people that does not dissuade them: “Oh, you’ll like .”)
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@Kels_316 #AltText4You#AltText4You Four photos.
Upper left: a house (under construction?)
Upper right: A long-hair orange cat in a doorway.
Lower left: Workers in hard hats, underground.
Lower right: People descending into a hole via a rope. They are wearing safety helmets.
[I am unable to provide a more coherent alt text; the post seems totally unconnected to the images.]
Perhaps we should rename the Strait of Hormuz to “Schrödinger’s Strait’. It is open and closed at the same time, and its true status can only be known when it is observed by a government.
Given that it’s a waterway, I would add a joke about the wave function collapsing, but nothing comes to mind.
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@petealexharris @cdarwin Good point. Only thing I can think of is: “Nice little civilization you got there. Too bad if anything were to happen to it.”
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@karlauerbach This is some Kim Jong Eun level cult of personality shit. (In fact, North Korea doesn’t have Kim’s picture on the passports, which says a lot about how bad this is.)
„Das Enshittification Game“ is an interactive theater performance that will take place here in Graz, Austria in September. Full info at https://planetenparty.at/portfolio/das-enshittification-game/
I wonder if @pluralistic knows about it.
I wonder what would happen if Gov. Beshear of Kentucky were to make a Senatorial appointment to replace Mitch #McConnell...and named Elaine Chao to fill the position. (Yes, it would raise the question and of whether the appointment was constitutionally valid, and lawsuits would follow.)
I suspect that would put the Republicans in a somewhat untenable position.