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glennf

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Glenn researches and writes about the history of printing, focused particularly on newspaper comics and printing molds. Pre-order his book How Comics Were Made. He’s a long-time technology journalist, who contributes regularly to Macworld and TidBITS and writes books in the Take Control Books series. A former Amazon employee (1996–97) who used to eat burritos with Bezos, Glenn is more interestingly a two-time Jeopardy! winner.

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gknauss, to random
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The views you’re trying to hide don’t generally end up on flagpoles in your yard. It’s what inside Alito’s skull — and implicit in his decisions — that’s really terrifying.

veryrobin, to random
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The first design files date back to 2018, which sounds about right. But! Tiny Grotesk is out today! Please have a look. It’s high-concept but also, just, you know… a type family. Just some fonts.

https://tinytype.co/type/tiny-grotesk

andybaio, to random
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This is it, the last XOXO ever. Really proud of this launch lineup, and I love the website @ashur and @emicab made for it. So fun! https://xoxo.zone/@xoxo/112480714014034873

rightardia, to random
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Cartoon: Happy Armed Forces Day!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/20/2241665/-Cartoon-Happy-Armed-Forces-Day?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_recent_news&pm_medium=web

glennf, to random
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Just acquired what I believe is the oldest extant flong (paper-like printing mold used to cast metal plates) of a newspaper comic strip—or any comic strip. This is from 1912. My research has found an earlier illustration (1891, alerted by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston) and plate (1896, Billy Ireland Museum at the OSU). It’s an early gag comic, just a few years after daily strips start (1903) and Sundays (1896 for sequential stories).

parismarx, to tech
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“The certain knowledge that Kevin Roose is a credulous dumbass who makes a jingle-bell sound if he nods his head real fast only does so much to moderate the obscenity and offensiveness of his ascribing ‘playful intelligence’ and ‘emotional intuition’ to a predictive text generator.”

https://defector.com/if-kevin-roose-was-chatgpt-with-a-spray-on-beard-could-anyone-tell

sugar, to random
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actual question my friend (also looking for work) is getting when they apply to work at a local cofe shop

sugar,
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this one defies explanation but it's from a job app for a hotel front desk position

CindyWeinstein, to random
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How low can you go? "Every one of the Supreme Court’s nine justices is well aware of the recusal statute that binds federal judges . . . Even then, before produced its own totally voluntary, never-say-never ethical guidelines in 2023, internal policy and external law required them to refrain from acting like thin-skinned partisan nuts, and to recuse themselves from relevant cases when they failed to adhere to this standard. This is a low bar to clear."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/alito-flag-supreme-court-justices-stop-the-steal-ethics-rules-pitiful.html

AmandaMarcotte, to random
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Alito's quasi-denials of his fascist flag-flying are just as telling as his choice to do it in the first place.

The flag tells us he supports fascism. His excuses tell us why: He believes he and Trump should be kings who are unaccountable to the public.

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/18/samuel-alitos-snide-denial-of-his-jan-6-flag-is-just-as-ugly-as-flying-it-in-the-first-place/

bdiss, to Economics
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"At this job, we offer a flexible schedule because work-life-balance is important!!"

buermann, to random
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Great Scott there's a fourth Brent Bozell!?

Why does anybody take the right's allegations about paid activists seriously when anyone on the right who is not a billionaire is on a billionaire's payroll? The Brents being obvious cases in point, along with at least half of the Supreme Court.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conservative-activists-son-sentenced-to-nearly-4-years-in-prison-for-relentless-attack-on-capitol/ar-BB1mAbPH

buermann,
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The outside agitators at Columbia were a chat group of 100 right wing billionaires, executives, and Israeli officials organizing police riots through the board of trustees and mayor's office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/
https://archive.is/7JJzV

craiggrannell, to random
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The only thing I disagree with in this news is the notion the government should make an exception for this man. And that’s because he’s been in the UK for 40 years. Anyone who’s been here for even a fraction of that should at the very least have ILR. No pissing around. No exorbitant fees. Just a right to reside. Again, at the very least.

That this man will be in his 80s before this cruel, ridiculous govt would allow him permanent residency is sick.

From: @HeatherMJ
https://mastodon.social/@HeatherMJ/112449372340401578

estherschindler, to random
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"The Court agrees with Quintana that tacos and burritos are Mexican style sandwiches," the judge wrote. https://www.wishtv.com/news/indiana-news/indiana-judge-rules-tacos-burritos-are-sandwiches/

xankarn, to random
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Justice Alito, you’ll remember, shuns the SOTU, because attending a presidential address sends the wrong message about our independent judiciary.

The bad faith of some people knows no limits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html

lapcatsoftware, to random
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Good news, everyone!

I just received a phone call from an Apple representative. They confirmed that there was indeed a software bug in the bundle pricing calculation, which was fixed yesterday. They also said that affected developers, such as myself, would be compensated for our lost revenue.

That’s all I know for now. I was told that I would also be receiving a follow-up email later.

The conversation was pleasant, and the Apple representative was very nice about it.

glennf, to random
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Listen, I know the universe doesn’t work this way. But I’m listening to a podcast and someone on the podcast says the word “mat” at the moment I am filling in the word “mat” in the crossword puzzle, it just feels weird! Yes, yes, every other word in the crossword puzzle, they didn’t say.

kdawson,
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@glennf "COINCIDENCE You just weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on." — John Brunner in Stand on Zanzibar

lexfri, to random
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I'm pleased to share Lex.Games is now available for iPhone and iPad!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lex-games/id6498941705

Featuring six daily word games and puzzles, including Conlextions, Lexicogs, By A Vowel, Six Appeal, Letter Opener, and Mind Control.

kottke, to random
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TIL that some tiny bits of bitcoins are more valuable than others. “Those produced in the year bitcoin was created are considered vintage, like a fine wine. Other coveted sats were part of transactions made by bitcoin’s inventor.” https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/the-hunt-for-rare-bitcoin-is-nearing-an-end/

onpaperwings, to random
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🚨BIG RED ALERT! 🚨

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176368120465?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=JzhbupxSTLO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=oRfalFKxRoa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

cammerman, to random
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I grew up on sci-fi stories about superhuman AI that had bit-perfect recall of nearly infinite data and could do intricate and sophisticated math like it was a triviality.

And today, OpenAI and these other hucksters have something that is literally incapable of remembering what it, itself, just said, or reliably adding two single digit numbers, and they have the temerity to call this thing "AI."

This is computing snake oil.

gtconway3, to random

Imagine if Joe Biden said this, exhibit 976,359

annmlipton, to random
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that is not where i expected this sentence to end

glennf, to random
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It just struck me what Apple got wrong with its “crushing ad.”

They thought we would identify with the iPad, not the creative instruments and materials.

pixelscience,
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@glennf Honestly, since 2016 who hasn’t felt crushed by life generally?

scottmichaud,
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@glennf Interesting thought.

Personally I think their mindset was more "We're compressing human art and innovation" when it looked more like "Fear my crushing presence, humanity!"

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.

The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.

Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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AkaSci, (edited )
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Six months after it suffered a serious brain injury and after months of mind-boggling ultra-long-distance surgery, the Voyager 1 spacecraft walked and talked at full data rate today!

After transmitting a full memory readout on Friday at 40 bps, Voyager 1 switched to the science-mode 160 bps rate, which presumably the DSN site at Goldstone was able to receive and decode today.

Congrats and kudos to all who made it happen.
👏 :mastodance:
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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