@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-05-27 04:21:10
#joshJohnson is a smart guy. I’m watching him being interviewed and he’s giving an example of his process. He tells stories. He told a story about a couple of his friends taking another friend to a strip club. And in the course of the evening this friend became convinced that the dancer was falling in love with him. She was just doing her job, and doing it well, engaging with him and making him…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-25 03:54:23
Failing chemical tank in Orange County rises to 100 degrees
— the maximum temperature on the gauge
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-24/failing-orange-county-chemical-tank-rises-to-…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-26 18:14:50
A long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism
@sean@scoat.es2026-03-25 15:47:23
Regularly, I use the following for near-realtime communications ("text messages”).
- SMS/RCS/iMessage (friends, family)
- Facebook Messenger (friends, family)
- What's App (friends)
- ActivityPub/Mastodon (friends)
- Matrix (friends, work)
- Discord (work)
- Mattermost (friends, locals)
I'm sure I'm missing some.
The fact that no one is allowed to make a single piece of software (for wide distribution) that talks on all of thes…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-25 23:44:37
Las Vegas Raiders front office discusses NFL draft, trade of Tyree Wilson —WATCH LIVE https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/las-vegas-raiders-front-office-discusses-nfl-draft-trade-of-tyree-wilson-watc…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-26 14:56:05
Filing: Monzo reports its "refer a friend" payouts grew 40% YoY to £29.5M for the 12 months ending March 2026, as part of a broader £143M marketing spend (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/23de626c-0359-462a-b06b-ce7fe7095a89
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-27 17:10:28
Bills GM Brandon Beane shut down trade interest in WR Keon Coleman: 'His best year is yet to come' https://www.nfl.com/news/bills-gm-brandon-beane-shut-down-trade-interest-in-wr-keon-coleman-his-best-year-is-yet-to-co…
@funkvolk@mastodon.social2026-05-26 12:56:09
@UP8@mastodon.social2026-05-26 00:03:43
Harvard № 13 Chandler Piggé and Cornell № 23 DJ Nix scrambled for the ball with Harvard № 12 Dutch Dowdell (6'6" !) following close behind
#photo #photography #sports
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-22 02:47:52
A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…
