@teledyn@mstdn.caOn the topic of trying to find a USEFUL use for AI Coders, I wondered why we didn't have a Code Converter/Debugger/Explainer. For one thing, we have so much code built in problematic idioms, wouldn't it be so nice to point AI at your git repo and say "rewrite this old BASIC app in Go"?
And it turns out there is such a service, and it's a free one:
@cdarwin@c.imThe anti-lab-grown-meat movement is about conservative cultural insecurity — the fear that, without the force of law, some conservative cultural norms will fade away…
This is the real fear
— not of lab-grown meat itself, but of the changing culture its popularity would represent.
Whether conservatives find the meat substitute to be adequate is beside the point.
Society would have decided that some of their most cherished beliefs can be disposed of.
Both humankin…
@keithjgrant@front-end.socialIf you’ve got 99 bottles of beer on the wall, why are you passing one around? Clearly you have enough for everyone to have their own bottle.
@josemurilo@mato.social"Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects…To executives, #GoogleReader may have seemed like a humble feed aggregator built on boring technology. But for users, it was a way of organizing the internet, for making sense of the web, for collecting all the things you care about no matter its location or type, and helping you m…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialIt's sunday and I logged in and the very first thing I came across was this one from @… - https://mstdn.social/@MarvinTheMartian
@beaware@social.beaware.liveSoooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.
@servelan@newsie.socialThe midwives at NewYork Presbyterian-Allen Hospital, which primarily serves Black and brown patients, have been told their jobs will be cut on March 3.
Why Is One of the Nation's Largest Hospital Systems Eliminating Their Midwives?
https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe best bang for your bucks, if you have any bucks to spare, is in #state #legislatures, where we could flip multiple houses for what was spent losing to Marjorie Taylor Greene by 30% in 2022.
But why #Arizona? The Washingto…
@thibaultmol@en.osm.town @josemurilo@mato.social"Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects…To executives, #GoogleReader may have seemed like a humble feed aggregator built on boring technology. But for users, it was a way of organizing the internet, for making sense of the web, for collecting all the things you care about no matter its location or type, and helping you m…
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialMy adopters starved me, too. & despite the fact that I was CLEARLY malnourished, no one ever tried to help me. Why not? Because society has been taught to believe adopters are saviors & saints. But abusive adoptive parents are not uncommon. That “better life” trope needs to be yeeted into the sun—when you give up your child to #adoption , you’re abandoning them to an utter crapshoot, &…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03267 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
@MediaActivist@todon.euThe reality - as this neat article that also cites David Graeber suggests - is that anarchism is incredibly appealing at a time when we find ourselves "entrenched in a kind of zombie capitalism: 'no one really believes in it, it’s no longer really alive, but still it stumbles on, refusing to die.'" Why Young People in the UK are Returning to Anarchism:
@TedUnderwood@sigmoid.socialJack Clark’s Import AI newsletter is always fun; this one especially because it explores the shared interest Meta and the CCP have in preventing fine-tuning of their models.
In a “Palantír”-level irony, one of the projects to prevent all further learning is called SOPHON. https://
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzAmy: How many times?
Hugh: Only once.
Amy: Because somebody—
Todd: It happened twice.
Amy: It had to have happened more than one time.
Hugh: OK, then I probably did it, like, three times.
Amy: All right, why?
Hugh: I don't know. Because I needed to go so bad.
Ryan: Well, why didn't you just go to the bathroom?
Hugh: Because I was like so far away from the bathroom and—
Listeners, there is a bathroom in the basement.
@cdarwin@c.im
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.orgI read/heard that one of Zuckerbergs visions for the great AI future is that people will have numerous bots to act on their behalf on social media.
I shudder at the prospects, why would you want to be on social media if not for the interactions with other people? What could possibly be gained by having a bot speak for you?
Just in case, I have now added a #human tag to my bio to signi…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWhen you start a #FOSS project:
*ugh, why do simple foss projects include all these dependencies? I'm gonna keep mine lean and simple!*
After 100 hrs of a FOSS project:
*writing user management from scratch sucks. There's a pkg for that. I will include this 8000 line library to use one single static method. Also I have written a horribly thread unsafe linked list implementation a…
@al3x@hachyderm.ioI find the comparison of the thinness of iPad Pro with the one of the
iPod Nano very apt.
As in: do I have an iPod Nano next to me to visualize this? No.
Are people carrying and using iPod Nanos and iPad Pros in the similar way? No.
Then why not comparing it with anything else?
@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.placeFelt rather unproductive today, so I decided to check out some games instead. So, this is where you come in: Tell me why I'm dead wrong – and why those are your favorite games ever! 😜 (Both are rated as "Overwhelmingly Positive")
#BuckshotRoulette #SheepyAShortAdventure
@risottobias@tech.lgbt"But why do we have another advocacy organization starting up?"
Because the current one is either so unheard of or so dragging it's feet on advocacy that a new organization with better leadership has seized a niche alongside you?
And their volunteers are more vibrantly signing up to the fresh cause?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, they have a point, do they, you hypocritical son of a bitch?
If they have a point why did you veto every UN call for a ceasefire apart from the current one and then call the one you abstained on non-binding and stress that nothing has changed and you will continue to sell arms to Israel to continue the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people?
They do have a point, yes.
The point is you’re complicit in genocide.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzStephen Jones shares why Cowboys didn't pursue Derrick Henry https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/stephen_jones_shares_why_cowboys_didnt_pursue_derrick_henry/s1_13132_40332618
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#SquirrelsOfMastodon
#Squirrels on the “bird feeder”
April 2024.
#NaturePhotography
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSomeone gave me a 1 star rating and ngl I'm a little bummed about it! Don't know why. 😢 Made a big dent overall as I only have 53 ratings so far. Bad ratings start to clear/turn over after 100. That one 1 star rating dropped me from 4.96 to 4.89. 😬 (Have to have 4.7 to maintain "Top Dasher"). Please be kind to your dashers. 🙏
#doordash
@grumpybozo@toad.socialEvery time I see something like this, I wonder why it didn’t work.
My one LSD experience (decades ago) was not at all a significant event. It was mildly fun, with an uneasy hangover. Didn’t make me more or less anxious or depressed, both of which I have been to varying degrees since I was a kid. Didn’t make me psychotic either, which I am fairly sure I’ve never been.
Brains are weird.
@tcely@fosstodon.orgPlease try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT
@johl@mastodon.xyz
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHere's why one NFL owner doesn't think league will have more streaming and less games on broadcast TV
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres…
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyzWhy disabled people object to assisted suicide – when they’re not “pro-life” - Global Comment https://globalcomment.com/why-disabled-people-object-to-assisted-suicide-when-theyre-not-pro-life/
@kctipton@mas.toBird flu outbreak in cows is latest avian flu curveball - STAT #h5n1
@bourgwick@heads.socialbill graham on woodstock, 1970. made me lol.
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldWhy There’s So Much Confusion Over Housing Inflation
Axios - March 5, 2024
“When January inflation numbers came in hot last month, one big reason was a spike in owner's equivalent rent (OER), but the uptick may have been largely driven by a change in statistical methodology that was revealed over the last week.”
@aardrian@toot.cafeI grabbed the second in the Midsolar Murders series, “Chaos Terminal,” because the first was pleasant and a space murder mystery seemed fun.
The editing was so poorly done that I had to keep re-reading entire sections, my mental image of a crime scene or interview blown up by it.
These images are spoilers, obviously. If you look…
1. Where is Reggie?
2. When does Mallory stand?
3. Is she talking *to* or *about* Parker?
And I only started taking pics at the end…
@adrianriskin@kolektiva.socialI'm rereading Wilkie Collins chronologically and these days I'm on The Moonstone. A great deal of the plot hinges on various members of the gentry being deeply in debt. Despite the fact that all the laws, all their violent enforcement, are in their favor, after all, they write the laws, they absolutely can't escape their debts without finding some way to pay them.
Their laws provide them with all their wealth through the violence of enclosure and slavery. They provide them with endless serfs,* servants, and employees by (a) making it illegal to be unemployed and (b) taking away every possibility of employment other than wage labor, and yet, even with their frictionless ability to legislate whatever they want they've given themselves no escape from debt other than payment or imprisonment. Why?
I can't think of any reason besides the stability of the capitalism they all rely on for their obscene wealth. Yes, they take everything from their slaves, their colonies, and their working class, but to be able to repudiate debts would take everything from the finance industry on which their wealth also depends. There'd be no one to sell to them. They'd have nothing to do with their money without the vast luxury economy which supplies everything that makes their wealth worthwhile.
So as a class from time to time they'd sacrifice some of their peers to the violence of law enforcement because it was necessary to save the whole system from collapse. But none of this adds up to a respect for the rule of law or a system of equality under the law, either of which would also cause collapse.
Capital's control over the social narrative was relatively primitive in the mid 19th century, and it's easy for us to spot the contradictions, but nothing's changed at its core. Even now the law applies to the ruling class as necessary to stabilize capitalism and to the working class, slaves, and colonial subjects as necessary to control and continue their violent exploitation. Things look a lot better now on the surface because they've had to evolve that way to preserve stability, not because anything is different in essence.
And for all that it's a really banging novel, highly recommended! This, along with The Woman In White and (my personal fave) No Name are just pure Victorian fun (bracketing the ocean of bloodthirsty imperialist capitalism on which their entire society floats, as does ours).
#WilkieCollins #VictorianLiterature #TheMoonstone #Capitalism
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* Speaking metaphorically.
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toWhen you start a #FOSS project:
*ugh, why do simple foss projects include all these dependencies? I'm gonna keep mine lean and simple!*
After 100 hrs of a FOSS project:
*writing user management from scratch sucks. There's a pkg for that. I will include this 8000 line library to use one single static method. Also I have written a horribly thread unsafe linked list implementation a…
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialFor all those Gaviscon ads which say there's only one cause of indigestion in all its forms, acid stomachs, that may be the condition but what causes acid, reflux or otherwise could well be heart failure.
Or other similarly nasty things.
So if you have it a lot find out why.
#Adulting
@Ozzy@social.linux.pizzaone of my domain(an old side project) is getting expired notice came, I have no idea when I decided to drop that one or why, then I said to myself ok let me 301 redirect those to the main domain, then I tested and I realize it is already there, then I said ok let me check the code base is it clean 🤓 it is clear, I said to my self "Good boy" happy #caturday
@elliek@mstdn.caEdit: So reason has prevailed, and we will not be getting another.
Our ages (74 and 67), potential compatibility issues with current incumbents, and costs have all factored into the decision.
Thanks!
The mother of one of our cats (Zaz) is due to have another litter next week.This is what's going on in my mind.
We have 3 Cornish Rex Cats already:
Badger who is 9, we got as a retired breeder, then aged 6
Pangolin, also retired breeder is about 4
Zaz will be 2 next week.
#caturday #EllieKPosts
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deAmong my peers, I'm the one who always praises #OpenSource software. Recently, however, I was quite surprised when someone who usually uses proprietary programs told me they have completely switched from the official :youtube: app to #NewPipe. In disbelief, I asked why – of course the built…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialEverything you think you didn’t need to know about your phone’s IMEI serial number. https://tedium.co/2024/04/27/mobile-phone-imei-number-history/
@JorgeStolfi@mas.to"Why? Because that four-finger jerk rejected my application and hired that fake Saruman instead! 'He's got a nice Tower, what have you got', he said! Well, dumbo, look at me now! We got the One Ring, and we are coming for you. You will see what happens when one scorns a Wizard!"
#FictionalCharactersConfessions
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@cdarwin@c.imThus far, the Supreme Court’s rulings in both the 14th Amendment and presidential immunity case have helped to reinforce Trump’s narrative that these criminal indictments aren’t really about him, they are about his legions of MAGA followers.
In equating his problems with their problems, Trump has ample fodder
— bogus as it may be
— to once again argue that his legal troubles are not of his own doing, but rather, the work of political adversaries who have been conspiring to i…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzReport: Dallas Cowboys’ Brass Says ‘We Just Didn’t Have The Money’ To Sign Star Running Back https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_dallas_cowboys_brass_says_we_just_didnt_have_the_…
@rberger@hachyderm.ioAn article on why consumers should be able to see the full contents of the loan applications submitted by dealers to lenders. Written by Tom Oscherwitz, one of the team where I work.
(Its free access, but you have to create a login to see it 😞
#ConsumerRights #DataProtection
@tcely@fosstodon.orgPlease try Session, SimpleX, or Threema before deciding to stay with Signal (or WhatsApp).
They do a lot of things well, but when deciding things like this that could greatly improve the user experience I've found the Signal developers / leadership are not making good decisions.
#QT
@danirod@fosstodon.orgI know I made a thread about this about a month ago, but I've found again another one of those "that server is not a Mastodon, therefore it must be a scrapper" complaints and I am confused again.
This is like the non-boomer version of the "why are you appearing on my Facebook feed, you are hacking me"
Good morning to all the people who follow me and thus have their instances "scrap" my toots so that they can be f***ing read.
@johl@mastodon.xyz
@iragersh@mstdn.socialJust sent a note to NYC DOT Commissioner. DOT-646556-R7W This HHP / Route 9A Northbound Exit 12 exit ramp is two lanes wide. Why does a road posted at 50mph require an exit ramp that is two lanes wide? One can only make the turn onto the exit ramp from one lane so we have a case of parts of one lane expanding to two lanes. Seems very wasteful.
#RoadWaste
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaMy two are Geany and notepad . I use Notepad for my one Win10 machine and work. Geany I use on my Win10 machine and linux boxes when doing coding. Geany I have it set to do FreeBasic, Rust and COBOL compiles.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-favorite-
@spamless@mastodon.social“We have come to accept … [contempt for the rule of law] as commonplace… No one seems to act with outrage and revulsion anymore when an American president—a former one who wants to hold office again—acts with flagrant and utter disregard for the constitutional principles and laws that make this country what it is. The rule of law isn’t just empty words. It [led us to form] a democracy, not a monarchy, based on … equal treatment for all before the law.”
Via @…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders CB Jack Jones reveals why he won't be recruiting free agents https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_cb_jack_jones_reveals_why_he_wont_be_recruiting_free_agents/s1_17313_40015805…
@mamday@kolektiva.socialI have mentioned before that I dated someone in my 20s for seven years. Yes he told people that he only wanted me for one thing. As far as I know he had nothing he could share with people arguing that was all I was good for but I don't actually rule out that he wasn't enough of a creep to have that opportunity (and have heard some evidence he may have done that). Anyway I have never regretted breaking up with him and the fact that so many people thought he was one of the good ones when we were dating is definitely part of why I hate on men so often
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialSo to let me explain, this is a Very Normal Typesetting task for a book. Make two column text, with an embedded figure. Keep the baseline rhythm uniform. That means the two columns next to each other will always have the same baselines.
Make the figure full column width.
Until this became available, I could not find a way to do this. It's a subtle reason that multicolumn layouts for text on the web never really took off. (horizontal scrolling and snapping is perhaps another reason, but the fact that it looked like crap is part of it.)
I've been hand-solving variations using context-specific hacks for my whole career: text under e-commerce product cards. Images on a product page with a caption with text next to them that don't have funky gaps where the text goes underneath. Images with captions inset in text, too. Marketing pages with two bits of copy next to each other.
Lack of little nuances like this is why the whole web lands on "well I guess we'll set it in 16 pixel Helvetica with one line margins between paragraphs”. It stifles making anything but Browser Default Text or variations on it look good.
Remember how fresh Medium looked when it came out? Even its relatively small shake-up of the dominant formula felt good. Of course now, big easy to read serifed type in a single column is the brand of "this is a newsletter”
@gfriend@mas.to
@scott@carfree.city"That is the reality of life."
Life itself is not possible without copious parking spaces. It's not because of policy choices like underfunding transit and designing streets for speed above safety. No, dependence on cars is just how it is, and will be, forever. This is car brain.
https://sfba.social/@b…
@josemurilo@mato.social"#DigitalPublicInfrastructure, typically viewed simply as a means to provide gov services to individuals, has the potential to become a powerful platform for facilitating interactions among govs, businesses & citizens.
The time has come to establish effective & necessary #institutional
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWhy does iTerm2 have >100MB in a frequently updated file named “restorable-state.sqlite” and should I just whack it and see if a smaller one gets created or exclude it from backups and let it be, which may mean growing without bound?
#UnanswerableQueries #IWeep6Colors
@axbom@axbom.meSome of you may have seen me researching online signing services yesterday, testing about five different services through their trial accounts. One of those companies just called me up(!) and wanted to book me in for a demo of their product.
I said I went with Docuseal because it’s open source and I have control over my own data as I can self-host. “Oh is that important to you, why?”, he asked. So I actually went on a rant about digital ethics, indieweb and how we are tracked whatever …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems"""
The case of One Laptop per Child shows us why it is dangerous to ignore the origins of charisma: one risks being perpetually entranced by the newest charismatic technology. This is not to say that cultural change with a technology-centric project is impossible. Still, even more realistic reforms grounded in the realities of their intended beneficiaries sometimes have difficulty gaining broad popular support outside the school unless they add a charismatic gloss of rapid, revolutionary change.
This charismatic pressure can put even open-eyed reformers in a catch-22. They must promise dramatic results to gain the social and financial support for reforms, and then they must either admit to not achieving their goals or pretend that they did achieve them. Either way, funders will declare that the project is finished and withdraw financial support, and then researchers and other observers will begin to note the discrepancies between reformers’ promises and their own observations. Thus, projects that rely on charismatic technologies are often short lived; their resources are cut off before charisma recedes into the background and before the technology becomes part of everyday classroom experience. This catch-22 has dogged efforts for educational reform, development, and cultural change — especially those funded through grants or other short-term funding — for well over a century. As the technology community moves on to the next charismatic device without learning from its failures, this will continue to hamper the possibility of real, if incremental, change.
[…] After all, charisma is ultimately a conservative social force. Even when charismatic technologies promise to quickly and painlessly transform our lives for the better, they appeal precisely because they echo existing stereotypes, confirm the value of existing power relations, and reinforce existing ideologies. Meanwhile, they may divert attention and resources from more complicated, expensive, or politically charged reforms that do not promise a quick fix and are thus less charismatic.
"""
(Morgan G. Ames, The Charisma Machine)
@davidbauer@mastodon.socialOne newsletter issue, so many things you'll learn.
Why we need to defend mental privacy. Why Putin killed Navalny. How many people have been killed by cars since their invention. The best way to spot an idiot. How democracies die. How a DJ can intercept the future. And how sound designers for televised sporting events fake sounds so we hear what we expect to hear.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… I just want to expand a little on this because we also have Linux ARM builds and have made them available for quite some time. Also these packages require manual intervention to get DRM to work (the user has to fetch their own copy of Widevine from ChomeOS) and replace one of our bundled libraries to have working Netflix. Why did we put these out when all s…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThese days I don't have that many haters (I mellowed out so much) but there's one dude who really fucking hates my existence and spends quite some time telling others what a shithrad I am and it's kinda weird TBH.
Like, Dude, you hate me and what I write and say, why do you spend your days telling others about it instead of doing something that's fun and enriching your life?
@paulomalley@c.im🙀 Data Analysis Doesn't Have to Be Scary! 📊
Are you one of those people who breaks out in a cold sweat at the mere mention of Pivot Tables? I get it! They can seem super intimidating at first. But trust me, they're powerful tools that can transform the way you work with data.
That's why I made this new video tutorial all about breaking down Pivot Tables and making them approachable. In it, I'll guide you step-by-step through creating your own interactive Sales D…
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seBut that struggle also outlines an important fact about car-free urban areas—that once cities make the decision to reduce or remove cars, they rarely go back. No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukI might just have to start watching baseball religiously.
https://aftermath.site/mlb-baseball-ohtani-see-through-pants
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTravis Kelce reveals foolish reason why Cowboys didn’t draft him https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/travis_kelce_reveals_foolish_reason_why_cowboys_didnt_draft_him/s1_13132_40066428
@tml@urbanists.socialWhile dressing and packing you gear in the hotel before checkout: Wondering why you have an odd number of socks, where has one gone? A few minutes later you realise you are wearing a sock on just one foot so far.
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialIf anyone had ever wondered why I followed @sassycrass (RIP) over on Twitter* here’s just one reminder from back in 2022: Another Mask Incident
*That’s a Trick Question - I can’t imagine anyone wondering that.
@servelan@newsie.socialBlast from the past, if you're interested:
At last we know why the Columbine killers did it.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/04/at-last-we-know-why-the-columbine-killers-did-it.html
@mamday@kolektiva.socialI have mentioned before that I dated someone in my 20s for seven years. Yes he told people that he only wanted me for one thing. As far as I know he had nothing he could share with people arguing that was all I was good for but I don't actually rule out that he wasn't enough of a creep to have that opportunity (and have heard some evidence he may have done that). Anyway I have never regretted breaking up with him and the fact that so many people thought he was one of the good ones when we were dating is definitely part of why I hate on men so often
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzFormer coach of Cowboys' draft pick Cooper Beebe explains why seemingly daunting task isn't so https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_coach_of_cowboys_draft_pick_cooper…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz❝Well, OK, with the possible exception of mosquitoes; in my experience, they seem unnervingly similar to each other, aside from the luxuriant eyelashes on the lucky few. But that’s a different story altogether.❞ https://slate.com/culture/2024/04/sand
@raiders@darktundra.xyz1 Stat Shows Why Raiders Should Have Confidence In Zamir White https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/1_stat_shows_why_raiders_should_have_confidence_in_zamir_white/s1_17150_39964540
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… I just want to expand a little on this because we also have Linux ARM builds and have made them available for quite some time. Also these packages require manual intervention to get DRM to work (the user has to fetch their own copy of Widevine from ChomeOS) and replace one of our bundled libraries to have working Netflix. Why did we put these out when all s…
@kctipton@mas.toLisa Lane might have been the inspiration for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit: A former chess phenom who died in February, age 90. https://slate.com/culture/2024/03/womens-chess-queens-gambit-netflix-lisa-lane.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzAll-Pro LB explains why he spurned 49ers for Cowboys in free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/all_pro_lb_explains_why_he_spurned_49ers_for_cowboys_in_free_agency/s1_13132_40321323
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaThat is assuming you can get Ozempic. If the doctor recommends it and they are a diabetic and they miss one little checkbox some petty drone can deny coverage? Wouldn't they send a short note to the doctor with the question? Also, why do they have to fill it in yearly?
Then the fact that it won't be covered in pharamcare program? Really? How much will it cost society if a diabetic has preventable complications.
@beaware@social.beaware.liveYa know...I didn't think about it until now, but it's kinda wild that the BlueSky bridge was REQUIRED to be "opt-in" by a massive amount of Fedi which just runs like a normal instance runs.
However, we currently have the Momostr.pink relay that bridges to Nostr with no such "opt-in" ridiculousness and Nostr doesn't even have "deletes" at all. You post something, it's there. No going back.
I guess the....6 instances that block it felt the same as the folks that hated on the BlueSky bridge but they decided to use the actual tool they were allotted in every such case, the BLOCK button....
So, why is a Nostr, no delete, opt out bridge, more admissible than a BlueSky, normal deletes, opt out bridge?🤨
I am now more confused than ever about the mindsets of people here.
I genuinely want to know if there's a reason one should be allowed and not the other, if there is one...😬
#Fediverse #Fedi #BlueSky #BridgyFed #BlueSkyBridge #Bridge #Mastodon
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Why late surgeries for Mazi and Luke? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-late-surgeries-for-mazi-and-luke
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
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@beaware@social.beaware.liveI really hope we can get some good people from Threads to move over before Meta starts to do even more untrustworthy things.
Besides the absolutely absurdly move of following and pushing a fake"Fediverse" account that makes people think Fediverse is a single entity or organization, they've already started discussions about expansions to AP to allow platforms to support ads and other shitty ways of monetization.
Fedi needs to make money to survive, I know that. I am behind that, but ads are the shadiest of all the monetization methods because of tracking. Nobody wants to be tracked no matter how "innocent" their activities are.
They've been REALLY quiet since activating AP on their end in a seemingly bad faith move to make the Fediverse seem "useless and pointless to use" by forcing users to educate themselves on the Fediverse if they even know it exists while also making the option to turn it on obscenely hard to locate from normal use.
All in all, I'm VERY skeptical of Meta's intentions and don't really think they'll end up fully federating in the end becuase "why enable a feature that a wide number of our users think is a useless feature?". I feel right now is as far as they're gonna go with it, maybe worldwide, but still one way because that benefits them, not us, and they won't push a feature that people think is useless.
Obviously this is intentional bad faith tactics, but they still have time to prove me wrong and I really hope they do. I really really hope one day we get full federation, but I would be very delusional to have high hopes that such a thing will ever occur given this week's revelations.🤦♂️
#Fediverse #Fedi #Meta #Threads #Mastodon
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys: Shocking Dak Prescott Update Puts Doubts Over Future Beyond 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_shocking_dak_prescott_update_puts_doubts_over_future_beyond_2…
@irannachrichten@mastodon.socialRT by @Khani2Mina: I have just one question: Why is Toomaj still in prison?
On Saturday he was acquitted on the most recent charges. Thank you to everyone who was loud - for him and his freedom. The third day of the trial will follow, but we don't know when. We will not stop fighting for Toomaj.
Quelle: ht…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzLongtime Dallas Cowboy Expected To Test Free Agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/longtime_dallas_cowboy_expected_to_test_free_agency/s1_17198_40054389
