panton41

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I hold a B.Sc. in Journalism Informatics with minors in Writing and Journalism from Indiana University. I've mostly used my education to write better quality smut that I sell on Kindle as Hara Surya.

Single adopted mother of a very strange teenage daughter.

Approach with caution. I am the one you warned me of. It is entirely possible that I am a figment of my own, or some else's, imagination. Do not taunt Happy Fun Sarra.

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gamingonlinux, to random
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Every time. Where did it go?

panton41,

@gamingonlinux Magnets...

JoshuaHolland, to journalism
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It’s been 17 years since Mitch McConnell started filibustering everything and like 15 or 16 years since political reporters began treating that as totally normal and writing that routine legislation did or didn’t have the 60 votes necessary to pass.

panton41,

@JoshuaHolland If they want to filibuster, then they need to get up there and talk, non-stop, for as long as they can. This whole "we filibuster" then they go home for the weekend need to stop.

gamingonlinux, to Steamdeck
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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.5.13 Preview improves WiFi, brings LED brightness controls https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steam-deck-steamos-3513-preview-improves-wifi-brings-led-brightness-controls/

panton41,

@gamingonlinux I'd really love the ability to tell it to pause charging the battery at 80% to preserve its life. There's a Steam Deck mod program that can do it, but it causes the system to constantly crash and reboot.

panton41,

@unwantedpamphlet @gamingonlinux Yeah, but I'm on a fixed income and $90 can be whether I eat for a given month or not.

panton41,

@unwantedpamphlet @rotopenguin @gamingonlinux Meanwhile, I have mild cerebral palsy in my hands and arms, which makes delicate stuff like that difficult.

And, I could do basic car maintenance 20 years ago when cars were simpler, but these days it takes 30 minutes just to get to the point where you can begin changing your spark plugs because of so much crap piled on top of the cylinder head cover.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💖I hope all the judges think I'm pretty too! 💋

Via Ron Filipkowski:

asked if hired her because she’s hot:

“I don’t think I’d be on TV or sitting here if I didn’t look the way I look. I think I caught attention. I’m very honest about that and I don’t mind. I’m not a feminist … Someone asked me, 'Would you rather be smart or pretty?' ...Easy! Pretty! I can fake being smart!...You have to honest, it doesn’t hurt to be good looking.”

ADDED: https://politizoom.com/alina-habba-id-rather-be-pretty-because-i-can-fake-being-smart-thats-what-you-think/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

panton41,

@GottaLaff Makes me think of the Ron White bit, "You can't fix stupid."

mcc, to random
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There has been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.

panton41,

@mcc I use latent diffusion image software that runs completely locally. I won't touch LLMs until I can do the same (which isn't far off).

GottaLaff, to Florida
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🤦🏻‍♀️Insanity.

“’s top health official called for a halt to using mRNA coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, contending that the shots could contaminate patients’ DNA — a claim that has been roundly debunked by public health experts, federal officials and the companies” 💉😷

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/01/03/florida-surgeon-general-ladapo-covid-vaccine/

panton41,

@GottaLaff Can the AMA, you know, revoke his license?

RickiTarr, to random
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Sexual Congress sounds like the worst porn ever made.

panton41,

@RickiTarr I remember around the time Obama got elected there was a political-themed porn video with the actress "Lisa Ann" as Sarah Palin.

gamingonlinux, to Steamdeck
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Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/heres-the-top-steam-deck-games-for-december-2023/

panton41,

@gamingonlinux I picked up the Fallout tabletop RPG and it got me back into playing the video game on my Steam Deck. Turns out it's not hard to get Vortex working on a Steam Deck, so that's let me mod Cyberpunk 2077 and Skyrim: Special Edition.

JonBaker, to random
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SATAN: Welcome to hell!

ME: Where’re all the people who were telling me I was headed here? I kind of expected them to greet me as like an “I told you so”

SATAN: Oh they’re all in heaven. Together

ME: God, that sounds insufferable

SATAN: It is! Anyway, it’s open bar so go nuts

panton41,

@JonBaker South Park where the only people who get in to Heaven are Mormons.

mcnees, to random
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Edwin Hubble announced in 1925 that Andromeda and other spiral nebulae were in fact separate galaxies outside the Milky Way, in a paper read to an AAS meeting by H.N. Russell.

The Universe was far larger than what many astronomers had allowed themselves to imagine. It was more than just our little island of stars.

Hubble built on observations by Vesto Slipher, collaborated with Milton Humason, and relied on Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s Cepheid variable work to reach this conclusion.

panton41,

@mcnees He was also a science and Spanish teacher at New Albany (Indiana) High School around 1910 and also coached basketball. He lived in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky at the time.

mcc, to random
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It would be good if in real life every time you approached a car this message appeared

panton41,

@mcc I wish I had the typical video game HUD in real life. It would make life SO much easier.

RickiTarr, to random
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@SimonCHulse @RealJournalism We just don't need to defend old white men with bad opinions all of society does that already. You can be an atheist and still be a garbage person.

panton41,

@RickiTarr @SimonCHulse @RealJournalism Honestly, I think it's telling that in the Pew Religiosity Survey that 24% of respondents were "No strong religious belief" but only 3% (of the overall total) called themselves "Atheist." I can't help but think some of the more vocal and militant Atheists give the whole concept a bad name.

I was trying to read "The God Delusion" a few years ago and Richard Dawkins just came across as an asshole who likes the smell of his own farts.

MissingThePt, to random
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They couldn’t make Home Alone today because Macaulay Culkin is 43.

panton41,

@MissingThePt I seem to recall he did a parody where he was playing the Home Alone kid as a middle-aged adult traumatized by what happened.

cstross, to random
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Nativity-style statuettes found at Pompeii said to suggest pagan ritual

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/24/nativity-style-statuettes-found-at-pompeii-suggest-pagan-ritual-experts-say

Totally shocked and baffled that Xtianity (which is basically iron-age Pokemon for gods) could have "borrowed" the nativity scene tradition from the cult of Cybele

panton41,

@cstross I was researching Zoroastrianism for a novel and read about the birth and life of Zarathustra.

He was born in a barn, angels announced his birth to shepherds, animals bowed to him, he was a farmer until he started preaching at 30 and by 33 he'd caught the ear of a king and converted him.

Keep in mind, Zoroastrianism might have been more than a thousand years old at the time Jesus was born, and the story was well known in the Levant.

MissingThePt, to random
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I feel like the past few years of war, pestilence and strife have prepared us as a species for 2024’s upcoming alien invasion.

panton41,

@MissingThePt I mean, Childhood's End wasn't that bad of an alien invasion...

coffeegeek, to coffee
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Friends don't buy friends Keurig coffee makers for Christmas.

People who don't care about the environment, or want their friends spending $40-$50 a pound on crap coffee, do buy friends Keurig coffee makers for Christmas.

cc @coffee

panton41,

@coffeegeek @coffee I've been working on a novel where Hell is a corporate bureaucracy and the break room coffee machine is a Keurig that only makes decaf.

LadyDragonfly, to random

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I'm telling you why
Patriarchy discourages men from displaying their emotions.

panton41,

@LadyDragonfly Men can openly show negative emotions as long as it's anger.

nixCraft, (edited ) to FreeBSD
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"240 million PCs could end up in landfills when Windows 10 support ends"

Sure.

Or they could be repurposed with or Chrome OS Flex, or , and we can stop being so freaking dramatic.

If you just browse, watch Netflix, shop, net banking, etc, Linux distributions like Mint or Ubuntu could save you money. It is an environment-friendly option.

panton41,

@nixCraft Based off my experience, at least home users will just keep using them oblivious of the end of support until they break. That's assuming they're even turned on.

maxleibman, to random
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It’s the Friday before Christmas weekend, and I’m heading into the grocery store.

Tell my family I love them.

panton41,

@maxleibman I was doing Uber Eats tonight and took some grocery deliveries from Walmart. Our local Walmart has an almost uniquely terrible parking lot layout, and if it's the least bit busy just turns several blocks near it into gridlock. I called my mother and told her I was going into the belly of the beast.

futurebird, to random
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In the late 80s ‘concern’ about childhood obesity caused complaints about fast food advertisements directed at children. Happy Meals if ordered without modifications contained more calories than was recommended for a meal for a child under 12. This is why Wendy’s McDonalds and other have “apple slices” — if you replace the fries in a kids meal with apples the meal comes just under the limit. The funny thing is i love fast food apple slices they are my guilty pleasure. 1/

panton41,

@futurebird I'm 45yos old and started buying Happy Meals because I realized back in the 1950s the modern Happy Meal would have been a reasonable-sized meal for an adult.

gamingonlinux, to Steamdeck
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Steam Deck Verified picks for the 2023 holiday season https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/steam-deck-verified-picks-for-the-2023-holiday-season/

panton41,

@gamingonlinux I replaced my gaming laptop with a M1 Pro MacBook Pro, got a Steam Deck, then replaced my Windows gaming desktop with an M2 Pro Mac Mini and installed Linux on the gaming desktop (but haven't played games on it yet).

My Steam Year End summary has macOS and Steam Deck taking up 5/6 of my gaming time with both about equal. (And Rimworld taking up 29% of my gaming for the year.)

histoftech, to random
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I’m old enough to remember when smoking (and smoke) was everywhere, and the idea that smokers might ever be asked or made to stop was seen as absurd. Many kids (including me) got horrible bronchitis every single year and had other sorts of breathing problems all the time. Many parents (and other adults) died early.

panton41,

@zheng3_jim @histoftech I remember doing it in the 1980s. We used it as a coaster.

panton41,

@histoftech @eyrea @zheng3_jim I used to think staying at home all the time and rarely going out was because I'm broke and an introvert. Now I have a better explanation about why I'd rather spend my Friday nights on Second Life. Other people can't get me sick if I'm not around other people.

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