@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-26 11:16:48
Level Up With Sharelle And Dani
We're here to help take your health, fitness and mindset to the next level...
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@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-26 11:16:48
@jackie@social.linux.pizza2025-11-25 00:17:35
the "woke games detector"'s ULTRAKILL problem: there are some games they don't like just because the developer is vaguely progressive and the fandom is largely queer and makes a lot gay fanart of the characters but they have to come up with some 4d chess problem with the game itself
like ah yes the game about robot killing demons in hell and extracting their blood is woke because there's a blahaj easter egg and not because there's shitload of V1 x Gabriel yao…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-10-21 00:59:51
Moody Urbanity - Manmade Confinements 🏗️
情绪化城市 - 人造禁锢 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-10-22 08:04:16
What a nonsense: nationalise it (jointly with France)!
"Eurostar is also the only company currently offering cross-Channel rail services between London and Paris, but others want to set up rival services."
Eurostar orders first double-decker trains - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6n…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 21:34:55
Now what I •really• want is…oh, say, the ability to set a volume level for my daily alarm that’s independent of the other volume settings so that I don’t fail to wake up because I turned down my ringer.
But…I guess that sort of thing doesn’t move sales numbers. Or maybe it’s just beyond the limits of current technology.
@pre@boing.world2025-12-18 09:22:01
Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-12-14 00:30:01
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-19 00:16:59
Derwin James Jr. on Preparing for the Cowboys' Explosive Offense https://www.chargers.com/video/derwin-james-jr-media-availability-thursday-week-16-2025
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-11-14 21:05:53
So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-18 03:22:12
Years ago, my cousin married a guy from rural Illinois who'd played hockey at a fairly high level. I invited them up, saying something like you haven't experienced hockey till you've seen the Canadiens in Montreal. Dude answered: "I don't think it could be any different than watching the Blues in St. Louis." Our relationship never recovered.
@ian@phpc.social2025-10-16 01:19:20
If you're in Austin and want to attend #LonghornPHP next week but can't swing the ticket price, we still have some donated in-person tickets available. Pay $20 now, then get that $20 refunded when you show up. https:/…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-10-15 02:29:58
#SpinalTap has an entry in the #OED.
“…colloquial (usually humorous) (up) to eleven: so as to reach or surpass the maximum level or limit; to an extreme or intense degree. Esp. in to turn (something) up to eleven and variants.”
A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever, the story of Spinal Tap, by Ro…
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-18 13:25:47
Every time that I choose to rely on "external services" for our co-op "because we don't have enough mental bandwidth and have to focus" I end up regretting it rather sooner than later.
Of course I'm ranting because of the damn #Cloudflare catastrophe. But even before that, in Spain we had to deal with traffic blocking at IP level on Cloudflare addresses because of #LaLiga's legal strategy against "pirate" streaming of their soccer matches.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to2025-11-14 19:48:50
One of the things I super appreciate about #ArcRaiders from #EmbarkStudios is that they made their in-game accounts cross platform.
I can go up and scavange low level gear and crafting materials on the #PS5 on the cou…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-12-13 18:05:18
I’ve tried different ways in the past to manage my phone and social media addiction, but what’s finally started working for me, especially now that I’ve been living in my own apartment since October 2024, is deleting social media altogether and setting up network firewalls to block those sites, including federated addresses.
Moving forward, I know I’ll have to cut even more of my online life. I’ve been using my Pi-hole to block distracting domains at the network level, and since I’m to…
@prachisrivas@masto.ai2025-10-10 14:14:16
Just to underscore the point, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo leaving MIT for UZH is probably one of the biggest academic news stories of the year.
(Think: Bad-Bunny-level-for-normal-people big.)
Nobel-winning Economists To Leave US For Zurich: University
https://www.
@crell@phpc.social2025-11-10 19:12:44
As some folks know, I am back on the job market.
26 year PHP Veteran, extensive Open Source and community experience. Specializing in modernization, training up teams, technical leadership, and long-term thinking. Some Kotlin experience as well, but not a ton.
Currently looking for Staff/Principal or Director/CTO level roles. Size of company flexible. Full time remote, US Central Time.
More details on LinkedIn:
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-07 06:51:03
South Korea says it has signed an MOU with Arm to strengthen its chip and AI sectors, including a program to train ~1,400 high-level chip design specialists (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/softban…
@Dwemthy@social.linux.pizza2025-12-11 00:32:58
Cedar river yesterday and today. Planning on checking it out again tomorrow. Saw a lot of logs and a few stumps floating by
#Seattle #WAWx #atmosphericriver
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-29 13:59:24
If AI chatbot companies truly had what they claim they have (arbitrary scaling human-level intelligence)—they would use it exclusively themselves, prompting it to come up with schemes to make money and execute them.
In reality these companies all lose money (in historically unprecedented amounts), to fuel a drug dealer-like approach by giving it away for free and hoping enough people get addicted to sycophantic chatbots; with the goal to charge exorbitant fees for it in the future.
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-06 08:24:22
Huddle In Level Up Podcast
Where we share skills, insights, and experience from business leaders and marketing managers, because there is just so much to learn from the people around you...
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@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-12-08 21:33:20
@crell@phpc.social2025-11-09 22:52:59
This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2