Flutterby™! From 2024-11-01 to 2024-11-30

RT jessitron @jessitron@hachyderm.io

One cannot explicitly change what is implicit.

...[beware] the lure of urgent transformation as a controlled process.

- Nora Bateson, Combining

Just discovered Camo to use my cell phone as a camera. With Know Before You Grow done for the year, now I need to find places to practice broadcasting an event so that I can be better at this when we start again next year...

https://reincubate.com/camo/

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Thousands (in Dublin) Turn Out For Nonexistent Halloween Parade Promoted By AI Listing. AI slop spam SEO sites: +1, humans: +0.

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Google Gemini still seems to have problems with superscripts and exponent operators... Excerpting the Wikipedia article that says 2^136,279,841 − 1 as: "As of October 12, 2024, the largest known prime number is 2136,279,841 − 1, which has 41,024,320 digits"

Which... well... 2,136,279,840 does not have 41 million digits.

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Facebook for me these days is filled with bullshit link bait posts. The most annoying thing about this is that they look like LLM generated hogwash. In this case, no, The Bee Gees were not Australian, they were born on the Isle of Man. So, yeah, the link bait has negative value, exposing ourselves to it makes us less smart.

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RT requiem 🏴 @requiem@hackers.town

“GitHub Spark: Can we enable anyone to create or adapt software for themselves, using AI and a fully-managed runtime?”

We had this in the 80’s, it was called BASIC.

It ran on 8 bit computers that you could actually own for a couple hundred bucks, most of which consumed less than 100 watts.

It was so simple that anyone could learn to use it, so concise that entire pieces of software could be distributed via printed magazines and so universal that most programs could be run on completely different computers with little or no modification.

The best part? Using it made you smarter, not stupider.

[ related topics: Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence ]

There's been talk for years about textbooks being interactive, and with the introduction of the iPad we started to see some of those things (who, among early iPad users, didn't buy The Elements?). Textbooks come alive with new, interactive AI tool, "record" the diagram on an iPad, use Meta's "Segment Anything" tool to make the diagram interactive, with a claimed 60% success rate right now.

The video is worth a watch, they demonstrate some simple ramp and optics/ray tracing problems and experimenting with resistor networks.

Augmented Physics: Creating Interactive and Embedded Physics Simulations from Static Textbook Diagrams, Aditya Gunturu, Yi Wen, Nandi Zhang, Jarin Thundathil, Rubaiat Habib Kazi, Ryo Suzuki from UIST '24: Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676392

Via Research Buzz

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I grew up pretty rural, the school I went to as affiliated with a large dairy farm, my family had goats, sheep, and ducks, the latter two we ate. I enjoy meat.

But I have had some ethical qualms about the impacts of meat on the broader world, and Sonoma County's Measure J has brought up a lot of issues about local factory farming.

So the framing of "4H clubs are the ROTC for factory farming" has me pondering a few things this morning.

https://allpro.social/@Pixley/113425176030836700

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neyes: ASCII art "xeyes" using ncurses and xterm mouse mouse

Via.

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A bright spot: Former Ohio cop Adam Coy found guilty of murder in fatal 2020 shooting of unarmed Black man Andre Hill.

Whatever the results of tomorrow's election, we'll still need to keep our sleeves rolled up and keep working towards a better future. Useful: No-Box Thinking: Navigating Change Resistance in Small Town America

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Dear PDF publishers: It's 2024. We lost the 8.3 filename convention decades ago. There's no reason to continue to name your files "G4149.pdf" or "science.pdf", you can actually tell me what's in the file, by name.

Signed: Someone trying to make sense of his downloads folder.

Some years ago I spent the evening at the studio of a local public broadcaster mashing reload on various websites to try to give the on air folks something to talk about on election night. This evening we'll be attending an election night gathering, and I already have the California Secretary of State election results site in a tab on my phone, but there's no way we're gonna know the results before we run out of steam.

So just watch this, and you've got all the news coverage you need until tomorrow: The Onion: Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter (YouTube)

And, because I won't be able to actually keep from horse-race coverage, Time and the AP: See a Map of the 2024 Presidential Race Results

Sonoma County election results (from the County Clerk's office page on the elections)

California Secretary of State election results

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RT RolloTreadway @RolloTreadway@beige.party

@davej @RickiTarr There's an old trade unionist saying here in the UK, which I bring up quite often but it often bears repeating:

Vote Labour on Thursday, fight Labour on Friday.

And I think that works in most countries, replacing Labour with the name of the relevant party. You vote for the people you're most able to influence, you do everything you can to help them win, and when they do win, that's when you get to work.

[ related topics: Work, productivity and environment Heinlein ]

Huh. Henry 1, a CHP helicopter, and a parade of police cars with sirens and lights headed east on Washington.

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Huh, not only Henry 1, a CHP helicopter, and a whole bunch of police cars (I couldn't see the agency markings), but at least one Petaluma Fire SUV. Activity is now down around 101 and Lakeville. Don't see any smoke.

[ related topics: Humor Photography Law Enforcement Pyrotechnics Aviation - Helicopters ]

Tons more sirens, and a Nixle alert to avoid the Petaluma Marina off Lakeville. This is a large response.

https://nixle.us/FY3F5

More on all the helicopter traffic: https://www.petaluma360.com/ar...news/police-petaluma-man-marina/

"Unconfirmed police scanner reports and witness accounts on social media said the man was complaining about Tuesday’s election."

The article says "in the river", others listening to scanner suggest he's stolen a kayak.

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Bertrand Russell writing to Sir Oswald Mosley:

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell

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If you can't see because your windshield is sorry and you're driving into the sun, maybe don't accelerate hard away from the stop sign through the cross walk?

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Ate, slayed and served: How LGBTQ+ social media pioneers new language

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A thread of artwork inspired by Iranian protestor Ahou Daryaei.

I don't know if it's statistically significant, but it feels like so many people, including decades military vets, bugging out and leaving the country right now. I don't have that luxury, but I can sure see a future in which the US doesn't make it to 250 years, where the economic engine states decide that enough is enough, the future matters, and carve off. Or one where they don't. The 1930s comparisons seem so apt on so many fronts.

RT Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange

I have the spoons to give you all one or two right now. Americans:

You need to make a risk decision right now about whether to leave the country (particularly if you or family are in a vulnerable group).

Some people do not have the luxury and I deeply respect those who stay to protect them. If you do have the capability to move, there are options, from skills and even apprenticeship visas, to digital nomad, to heritage visas. You have -options. Tons of people have been forced to immigrate for a better life, we have just been privileged to not typically have to. You can sell stuff. It’s just stuff. There are companies who can help you with that. Visas are arcane, but there’s help. Look for the helpers.

It’s expensive, and it takes time and you need to make a plan right now, today. Not three months. Not six months. I’m modeling off the 1930s timetable.

Our federal government and judiciary is done for our lifetime. Period. You have to gauge how much your community and state can protect you from the worst harm, and how self sustaining you can be.

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Study Finds Self-Driving Waymos Are More Expensive Than Taxis, Take Twice as Long to Get to Destination

A new study conducted by Forbes reveals how Waymo, a leader in the robotaxi industry, still lags considerably behind human-driven ridesharing services in two key transportation metrics: time and money.

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Apropos of the impending public health disaster in the United States: Calgary's plan to reintroduce fluoride into drinking water pushed back to 2025

“In just eight years after fluoridation ended in 2011, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy by children to avoid death by infection rose 700 per cent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.”

[ related topics: Children and growing up Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality Health Flowers ]

"Hey it's <redacted>, and on my podcast <hip word> we are bringing you a special series about the basics of cocaine, what should you use it for, what tools are right for you, and what privacy issues you should ultimately watch out for..." <-- what your "AI" podcast ad sounds like to me.

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Popehat: And yet it moves — thoughts on the day after

RT Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Microsoft are effectively giving up on Copilot Pro subscription ($20/month) as almost nobody paid for it.

Instead they are bundling it into Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions and inflating the renewal prices there. There’s no opt out.

Effectively allows the Copilot revenue and user numbers to be inflated.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/...ot-office-features-microsoft-365

This feels a lot like Zoom doing similarly.

Edit: Pivot To AI says the same thing.

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron Consumerism and advertising ]

Reminder that during the first Trump administration, the EPA had to pull down all of their documentation on climate change. Just this morning Start archiving stuff now. Just this morning I was reading papers on fluoridation off of nih.gov...

Reminder via Bacchus of ErosBlog

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RT Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ @jerry@infosec.exchange

I think i stumbled on the next billion dollar idea: AI bots to play video games for you. Playing video games can be mentally taxing - wouldn’t it be nice to offload that work to AI so you can do other things, like get a 3rd job to help pay for my game playing AI bot?

[ related topics: Games Work, productivity and environment Heinlein Currency Artificial Intelligence Video ]

Qasim Rashid — What Went Wrong in the Democratic Party? Lots of good stuff here, about how the Democrats have lost their social media game, how Biden promised to be a one term President and then reneged, but also:

The Democratic Party’s obsession with courting Republican voters by moving to the center is an abject failure of a strategy. In 2020 the Biden Administration actively courted Republicans. Only 6% of registered Republicans flipped party lines and voted for him. In 2024, Kamala Harris actively courted Republicans, promising to appoint a Republican to her cabinet, inviting former Republican members of Congress Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to speak at the DNC, and even proudly accepting the endorsement of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney—a man credibly accused of war crimes by Amnesty International. As a result, a whopping 5% of registered Republicans flipped party lines and voted for her, while 4% of Democrats flipped party lines and voted for Trump. All that for a net 1% gain, while losing young people nearly 30% to Trump. A truly failed strategy.

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"Organic Erotic ... furniture"? Is this some sort of JD Vance reference?

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I see people going "oh shit, in 2028 the Dems are gonna run Gavin Newsom", and I've gotta say y'all's optimism is totes adorbs.

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Crap, why didn't my image upload? Trying again: "Organic Erotic... Furniture"? Some sort of JD Vance reference?

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FBI IC3 notice 241104: Easy Access to Information for Conducting Fraudulent Emergency Data Requests Impacts US-Based Companies and Law Enforcement Agencies

Easy Access to Information for Conducting Fraudulent Emergency Data Requests Impacts US-Based Companies and Law Enforcement Agencies Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight a trend of compromised US and foreign government email addresses used to conduct fraudulent emergency data requests to US-based companies, exposing personally identifying information (PII).

Via Tech Crunch: FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people’s private information, via /..

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I mean, we already knew that Cop29 was a cynical attempt to greenwash petroleum production and middle eastern human rights abuses, but... Cop29 CEO Elnur Soltanov filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit

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RT a libi rose @rose_alibi@post.lurk.org

for those in the US... please be aware that the national crisis lifeline (that 988 number) will call police without consent on people in crisis. the trevor project will also. inclusive therapists has a list of lines that will not involve law enforcement without consent: https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/contact#crisis

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Suggested on a local "Indivisible" group that maybe the progressive tendency of crapping on potential allies harder than adversaries might have contributed to low Democrat turnout, in this case attacking a town Councilperson over an "Is it time to make sure our passports are up to date!" post.

Got back replies about how this person didn't pass a litmus test, so...

I mean, proving the point handily, but datum.

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Zip ties and boards for testing the quadricycle steering geometry​...

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Another view of the quadricycle mock up ..

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Dear social media websites: Reloading your shit and blowing away my in-progress comment is not a feature.

And I wouldn't even be on Nextdoor except that the nEXTdoORTION business model of amplifying hate and rage unless you "volunteer" to moderate and fact-check makes it a necessity.

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Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs

Via lobste.rs

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Good read: Jack Cook: When Machine Learning Tells the Wrong Story, on using JavaScript to tell things about other system activity, such as what web sites a user might be browsing in other tabs or applications.

Via lobste.rs

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Epson Facebook ad for the SureColor v7000 crowing "the only UV flatbed printer under $200,000 with red ink", and... What do the other colors cost, I wonder?

The meat braise is simmering and the dough is rising for these Gua Bao with Braised Pork Belly, Seasoned Daikon, and Hoisin-Soy Sauce...

https://www.americastestkitche...oned-daikon-and-hoisin-soy-sauce

Bao wow!

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Wait, Midnight Burger doing a Huell Howser homage? Just when I though I couldn't love a podcast any harder...

In a time of dark news comes a bright spark of hope. Rolling Stone: The Onion buys InfoWars. Mother Jones: Infowars Acquired by The Onion, Will Become a Parody of Itself. ABC News: The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families. NBC: The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction

The Onion: Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’, By Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO

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RT Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

Two things that they don’t tell you about the Trolley Problem



1: it’s a shopping trolley

2: you’re playing it every time that you purchase something

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RT Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

If the worst does not actually come to pass, I don't think I'm going to be sitting here going "oh noooo I can't believe I strengthened my communities, made sure I'm up to date on my healthcare needs, and volunteered for causes I believe in"

3/3

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Warning on Stardew Valley 1.6: Spend down to under 100M before you upgrade, apparently it truncates that invisible digit...

RT David Chisnall @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

On behalf of the United Kingdom, I would like to welcome the United States of America into the select club of countries that have voted to impose economic sanctions on themselves.

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Ask MeFi thread about ChatGPT hallucinating a book in answer to a question (with various commentary about it getting it right in other circumstances, and pros and cons of the approach)

I'm reminded of a BBS discussion in the pre-Internet days, where a participant created a fake citation out of a slightly plausible author and some other kinda plausible details, and it took several others (including me) a bit of time to conclude that it was, in fact, bogus.

[ related topics: Books Net Culture Community ]

Inspired by an AskMeFi thread, I asked Google "what were the socio-economic impacts of the texas locust plague of 1976?"

It confidently gave me a list of impacts (of this non-existent event)...

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According to Google Gemini, 1976 was a bad freakin' year for communicable diseases...

"what were the socio-economic impacts of alabama avian syphilis outbreak in 1976?" indeed...

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Ya know, Apple, if you could solve your MacOS "Thread 1: "The window has been marked as needing another Layout Window pass, but it has already had more Layout Window passes than there are views in the window." bullshit, there are a bunch of us on the Inkernets that would be super happy... okay, super less pissed off.

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I'm not the first to observe that in Matt Gaetz we're about to have an Attorney General who has first-hand experience with sex trafficking: ABC News: Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources

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Dear XCode: It's cute that you think projects will have less than a page of tests, but losing my scroll position every time I click on the test tab is unconscionable.

Okay, I'm gonna restart XCode, give the debugger one more chance to behave, but I'm about ready to try to figure out where the stupid binary it is and just use lldb directly. Argh.

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In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024

Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928–Nov. 12, 2024) was an American mathematician, computer scientist and co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System.

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RT Max Leibman (Taylor's Version) @maxleibman@beige.party:

Me: How are you?

Them: I can’t complain.

Me: Oh, my gosh, I’m so sorry. What happened? Is it some sort of aphasia?

RT Andres Salomon @Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

The 12yo was explaining to me how he takes shortcuts with his homework, not actually reading the material but just summarizing based on the first/last paragraph and... I explained to him that is a valuable skill, it's how McKinsey works.. the government refuses to actually read primary sources (due to lack of staff or whatever), so they skim through and summarize and charge the government $20mil and then the state uses the bad summary and fucks up and McKinsey charges another $20mil to fix it..

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I haven't been able to duplicate this Google AI fail personally...

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JAMA Editor's Note: At a Higher Dose and Longer Duration, Ivermectin Still Not Effective Against COVID-19 doi:10.1001/jama.2023.1922

Cochrane meta-analysis of 11 eligible trials examining the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 published through April 2022 concluded that ivermectin has no beneficial effect for people with COVID-19.

And that this has been found again (and again, and again), and that there are still trials recruiting participants for studies is raising questions about ethics in medical research. The Ethics of Clinical Research — Managing Persistent Uncertainty.

University of Minnesota Center for Infections Disease Research and Policy: Higher ivermectin dose, longer duration still futile for COVID, trial finds

[ related topics: Ethics Education ]

Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework

Because of its seemingly out-of-the-blue response, u/dhersie shared the screenshots and a link to the Gemini conversation on r/artificial on Reddit.

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If you ever feel ethical qualms about eating bacon, know that the bacon feels no qualms about eating you: Woman Eaten by Her Pigs After She Collapses While Feeding Them

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Install MicroPython on your Ikea Tradfri LED

Via

GM using religious overtones in their emails that attempt to upsell me on car bullshit is ... something ...

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Worth pondering about any simulation or model. Greg Pogorzelski: The thing about the Kobayashi Maru

I honestly don't know what Jira is trying to do here with its "Spark a conversation: Light up the comment section - add an update, ask a question, or @mention someone." prompt.

Like, am I supposed to be doing "hey, @someone, do you come to this issue often?" or "Who do you think would win in a fight, XCode or VisualStudio?"

What metrics are they trying to optimize here, 'cause it ain't good product.

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Word to the wise: back up your SQL server to a text readable format regularly, especially if you hope that `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y` occasionally will just keep you running along fine.

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Sanitize your inputs, kiddos. The Register AI + ML: Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders — Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character

Via

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I'm doing a lot of thinking about career direction, and trying to figure out languages to commit to, and whatnot, and I love C, and have enjoyed the expressiveness of C++, but boy the direction of the latter appears to be a total shitshow, both in terms of the language, and the culture. I was aware of the Patricia Aas thread, this follows up a bit: On "Safe" C++

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Once again, Google's AI summary is a tremendous bullshit generation machine. In this case, positing that one of the reasons the Carolina bays got created was "The tail-fanning of a huge fish".

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RT react loading skeleton @ionizedgirl@toot.cat

so if google is forced to sell off chrome, does that mean The Onion can buy it

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RT Joelle @joelle@social.joelle.us:

You can buy a basic 8 inch by 2.25 inch by 4 inch clay brick at Lowes for 73 cents.

Been thinking about this a lot, especially with discussion about measuring crime rates in various demographics: RT Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town

The operational definition of crime is “anything done by a person whom the government wishes to imprison”. Everything else is simply obfuscation.

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Not all heroes wear... well, I guess we don't know what they're wearing... Cops Searching for Vigilante Who Installed NSFW Traffic Signs in Colorado. The "don't kill any kids today" one is fantastic.

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AI Has Enshittified America’s Advanced Stealth Fighter

A new report on the F-35 revealed how maintenance crews have to constantly fight its terrible AI systems to get anything done.

Turns out maybe dancing bears aren't the best dancers?

Via

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‘For the very first time I really enjoyed sex!’ − how lesbian escort agencies became a form of self-care in Japan. Little weird that the agency profiled was started by a man, but interesting both for the history and evolution of sex laws in Japan, and that there's a lot about how we approach sex that can be improved.

Via

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I hadn't ever updated my Zoom profile to include my pronouns, just got off a call in which I was trying to suss out the other party, and the fact that they included pronouns was a very useful tell.

So I've finally updated my profile.

Microtonal Can Can (YouTube video). What if we divided up the scale in different ways? The Facebook post through which I discovered this notes:

As one of the comments said, the 23-EDO variant is the Can’t-Can’t.

(For those who don’t know, “23-EDO” means “23 equal divisions of the octave.” Modern Western music uses a 12-EDO scale, but you can subdivide a scale however you want. This just gives some examples of why you may not want to…)

Hat tip to Mark Dalrymple.

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Thinking about how "Resistance" isn't so much terrorism and gun play as it is disrupting the mechanisms of the society you oppressed, and then thinking about the proposed Cabinet nominees...

Make sure that "resistance" is doing what you're already doing, but harder.

[ related topics: Guns Home Improvement ]

Wow. Downtown Petaluma must be really hopping today. Third or fourth time in the 16+ years we've lived here I've used parking above the 2nd floor of a garage (would have walked or biked, but I was out anyway).

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I don't often have to factor a lot of primes, but today (well, actually a few days ago) I learned about Conway Factoring.

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The One Petaluma podcast feels like it sometimes struggles to get its feet, but I'm really enjoying episode #4 where city staff talk about what drew them to and keeps them in the job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoDNtyyzdM

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Hat tip to Brian Barnacle for turning me on to the Dan Savage episode of the David Roberts Volts podcast https://www.volts.wtf/p/dan-savage-on-blue-america-in-the , in which they revisit the "Urban Archipelagos" article from The Stranger in 2004, and talk about the housing crisis, zoning, appeals to voters from different demographics, urbanization, gentrification, and more.

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What to use instead of PGP. Breaking down encryption by various different applications and looking at the right tool for each of those.

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RT Jenniferplusplus @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io

// This comment is a message

// and part of a temporary workaround

// remove it!

// Sending this message was important to us.

// We considered ourselves to be skilled engineers.

// This code is not a best practice

// no highly esteemed deed is committed here

// nothing well factored is here.

Law enforcement lobbying delivers large caliber footguns: China Wiretaps Americans in ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

The hackers behind the infiltration of U.S. telecom infrastructure are known to Western intelligence agencies as Salt Typhoon, and this particular breach of U.S. equipment was first reported in early October by the Wall Street Journal. But Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, spoke with the Washington Post and New York Times this week to warn the public that this is so much worse than we initially thought, dubbing it “the worst telecom hack in our nation’s history.” And those articles based on Warner’s warnings were published late Thursday.

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RT Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐼𝑠 𝑆𝑝ı𝑛̈𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑎𝑝 should have been called 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐴𝑚𝑝𝑠 𝐺𝑜 𝑇𝑜 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛

(Save you the Google: This is Spinal Tap was 1984, the Don Bluth All Dogs Go To Heaven was 1989)

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RT brennen @brennen@federation.p1k3.com

useless use of cat? i mean, have you guys ever met a cat?

Stardew Valley fishing is Flappy Bird.

#ThereIRuinedIt

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Gotta say, emergency room on Thanksgiving evening sucks. Charlene took a fall and we're trying to figure out her hip dislocation vs just hurting situation.

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Had anyone considered the climate change impacts of Hallmark movies. I don't know what all they're using to fake snow, but that much artificial sweet dressing can't be good for the world.

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Behind every great cook is a loved one standing right where I was about to take this hot pan what are you even doing in the kitchen trying to talk to me when I have 6 different dishes each in a separate stage and this was going to be a delicate dance but now I've lost my mental order of what nee.... Anyway, got "make this one again" for this dessert from not-usually-dessert people, though given the sweetness of modern apples I'm gonna scale back the sugar even a little more, and think about butter proportions 'cause I had a lot of leakage from my springform.

https://www.davidlebovitz.com/...enspan-french-apple-cake-recipe/

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We got sucked in to Finding Mr Christmas, and because of that have watched a few Hallmark movies. Last night we both said "anything but", and Charlene found Blaze, an Ethan Hawke directed biopic of sorts about dinner songwriter Blaze Foley, and it was a challenging watch, but I think worth it.

And the reflection of writer Sybil Rosen in the portrayal was a good counter to and exploration of the forced women's roles that the Hallmark genre leans so heavily on.

https://www.artsatl.org/the-st...e-begins-here-in-carroll-county/

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