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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social Say hi to Denny!

@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org @xilatsad@yiff.life I was going to ask that same question. I'm not quite ready to give up Linux yet, but it's gotten to the point where one has to look at the map and see if any off-ramps are coming up.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social World leaders who are honest, reliable, and trustworthy is a short, manageable list.

@teledyn@mstdn.ca @catandgirl@socel.net Yeah, we worry about out emails while we can read some dude's 4000-year-old shopping list. At least my Kodachrome is probably going to outlast me.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Libraries also try to avoid destroying books. If they have more of a title than they need, they may try to sell off the extra copies. If they're destroying a book, it's probably because that copy has gotten trashed in use.

@prism@infosec.exchange @Finitum@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io He did try to go after the AP for not going along with the 'Gulf of America' thing, and he lost that fight. If Google is giving in that easily, it's because they want to.

@em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social @RAlpenstern@troet.cafe Thanks, description actually useful for the color-blind.

@amydiehl@mstdn.social I've been boycotting Starbucks since they destroyed the Coffee Connection, and that was 30 years ago. In all that time, I've never seen one single story about them to make me change my mind. That run continues uninterrupted.

@newsguyusa@flipboard.social The FCC will send your comments directly to /dev/nul.

@quizzicus@mastodon.online @jwz@mastodon.social Post-it notes stuck to the monitor no longer the worst choice.

@RolloTreadway@beige.party @flargh@mastodon.social Deliberately, to get them out the door as quickly as possible. He thinks, eventually they'll run out.

@Thayer@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange "enforcement? What even is that?"

@Finitum@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io Nothing would happen. The order requests a name change in the GNIS, which might eventually show up on government-issued maps. That's it. That's as far as the authority extends. Everybody else can ignore it.

@20002ist@thepit.social @ben@werd.social Apparently the worry for the Rs is if Mitch is most sincerly dead and a special election is held, it makes an opportunity for someone like Massie (well, actually, specifically Massie) to get his seat.

@enriquericos@mastoart.social @KrissyKat@hoosier.social If it's a ballot initiative, likely he's paying the cost of getting the petition signatures, and probably funding whatever media campaigns to promote it.

@yoasif@mastodon.social @danielcornell@mastodon.social Can we put ChatGPT in jail?

@Pepperbike@mastodon.social @ManWhoTalksToHisHand@mastodon.social @randahl@mastodon.social Keep in mind that [redacted]'s strongest base of support is still racist white evangelicals who have bought into the whole 'christian nationalist' ideology. They think he's going to deliver the dominion over the rest of us heathens they've always wanted. His personal flaws, the corruption, the bullshit, none of it matters if they get what they want.

@newsguyusa@flipboard.social "I'm not dead! I feel happy! I'm going for a walk!"

@poleguy@mastodon.social @xaxat@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social I suppose that would depend on how good your laser was and line-of-sight distance. How close would you really need to get?

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Rudy Guiliani got some stuff done when he was mayor. It was mostly bad stuff.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Amazon is also holding about $140 billion in cash and short-term investments, according to their financial statements. So, yeah, some money manager decided it was cheaper for them to borrow than to spend their own money. Businesses do this kind of thing all the time. But it means that even Amazon has finite resources--they can't realistically spend hundreds of billions without having any idea how that is coming back.

@jvschrag@hachyderm.io Is this how the Fediverse takes over Bluesky and Threads?

@overholt@glammr.us But you know that somewhere at Harvard there's an Admiral Bigbottom Special Collection of all the Big Boat Things.

@futurebird@sauropods.win Yes, no one really knows. In order to make R districts everywhere, these states have had to spread their majority pretty thin in some places. Which means it sill comes down to turnout, good candidates, the usual things. Gerrymandering and voter suppression have worked well for them in the past, but there may be a limit.

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Congress not doing its job and delegating excessive power to the executive is what got us here. Doing more of that is not the answer.

@mstar@mk.absturztau.be @FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital Until you hit one of those metal road repair plates.

@ajh@indieweb.social @mountainwitch@kolektiva.social When my wife recently had to have a hospital stay I would go down to the cafeteria on the hospital's lower level. It might be a toss-up with Subway (though it turned out there was a decent pizza shop across the street).

@heymarkreeves@mstdn.social @baldur@toot.cafe It's only a 'matter of potential concern' to regulators until rich people start actually losing money.

@Qybat@batchats.net @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green This might start changing a little bit. At least, when 'cloud' services started being a thing, providers sold it as unlimited. Enterprise customers didn't have to curate. There was always more space to dump into. Now the providers are like 'wait didn't mean unlimited forever.' The limits are still large, but now there's a ceiling where there wasn't one before.

@MLE_online@social.afront.org It seems people are reading 'companies are going to do more offline because online is becoming less reliable' as 'companies are going to stop doing things online; that will no longer be an option', which seems like a really unlikely result.

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io What part of "Donald Trump" did he not understand?

@davidho@mastodon.world Needs a little Lego bottle of chain lube, a spare tube, and a multi-tool.

@WellsiteGeo@masto.ai @RolloTreadway@beige.party @flargh@mastodon.social Well, you know, he's a cat. They lose count.

@Tutanota@mastodon.social "Height and bone structure"? "Our algorithm has determined that you should be considering retirement."

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Next we're going to find out that the aliens are in the Epstein files and went to the Island. Of course, they did not need a ride on Epstein's plane.

@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social Does it mean an Impossible burger?

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu That bagel is an abomination before the Lord, but I suppose that is a different question.

@TOrynski@mastodon.scot Well, you'd feel bad if he chocked a piece of Lego now, wouldn't you?

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange When I worked for Mamillan in New York, my wage was not really a 'living' wage. (They were notoriously cheap in those days.) And it is a wage, a work-for-hire deal. If the book sells a little, or a lot, it is the same fee. When I was freelancing, I didn't always get a lot of choice about what I was working on. I mean if a production editor called me up and said, please proofread this vampire romance novel for no money, of course the answer would be no. It's not my book, I have no ownership interest in it. Do you think writers should be paid the same way? I mean, some writers do work that way. They get assignments, they get a fee, they do the job and walk away.

@cdarwin@c.im Giddens is one of my banjo heroes.

@Infoseepage@mastodon.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange Yeah, I wouldn't want something that big for say my home office. But poking around the hardware store website, I'm wondering if you could use a smaller box fan (they have a 9" one) and one of those cylinder-type filters that are made to go in one of the floor-standing purifiers. I've got a Bissel unit that works okay but it's upstairs in my wife's room now.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social "I told him we've already got one."

@mawhrin@circumstances.run This may be slightly tangential to your complaint, but I oversee ebook production for a uni press. Our conversion vendors are all-in on developing AI-based systems for providing alt-text. We've tried it for some of our backlist (where we can't go back to the author), and as you might guess, it's not great. So I have to review and edit the results. It will not surprise you that when it is wrong it can be very wrong. I've got a list of a few hundred titles I need to process. This will not be fun. I envision that at some point, the reading systems are going to try to implement doing this on the fly. That's going to suck.

@eunews@mastodon.social Getting stuck in a US airport is its own kind of punishment.

@mawhrin@circumstances.run @cwebber@social.coop Yeah, it seems way more sympathetic to Zuck than he deserves. He's rich because FB is a river of ad money. He's bought up any competitor that might divert the river of ad money. The real reason no one wants to use the Metaverse is that he created it for the river of ad money, and didn't think about any actual human users. He's unable to create anything of actual value to anybody.

@sbourne@mastodon.social @futurebird@sauropods.win Oh, yes, they will continue to try to press every dirty trick they think they can get away with. In some places it will work.

@renardboy@mastodon.social @harld@masto.ai Is 'efficiency' in the sense of cost reduction and 'efficiency' in the sense of use reduction always the same? I work as a production editor in a publishing office, and we're pretty much paperless. I never print out a damn thing. There are certain advantages for using Word files and pdfs all along the way--usually fewer typos in the finished product. But, being old enough to remember doing it all on paper--even doing layouts with waxers and x-acto knives--I can say that the *process* of editing and proofreading are worse, less efficient, slower, than marking paper by hand.

@glennf@zeppelin.flights I'm definitely an NPC, so no worry there.

@prism@infosec.exchange @Finitum@mastodon.social @jalefkowit@hachyderm.io Please, they changed it before it was even done in the official database. That is some serious compliance-in-advance.