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wtrmt

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Father, Husband, Designer 🇻🇪🇨🇱

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flexghost, to random
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The Kansas Republican Party hosted a fundraiser last Friday

During which, attendees could pay to assault an effigy of President Biden

Remember when simply criticizing Trump or Bush policies would trigger the right—causing them to scream “it’s unamerican to disrespect the president!”

These are deplorables

🇺🇸

Large republicans kicking a punching dummy dressed up like the sitting president of the United States. One of the most bland “come together” moderates and they’re this triggered.

wtrmt,
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@flexghost were gonna need more baskets!

GottaLaff, to random
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WTAF!

"U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified information.

The decision would be in keeping with a tradition that dates back to 1952, but it would mark the first time an admin has volunteered to share classified information with a candidate who is facing criminal charges on charges that he mishandled classified documents." https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/07/biden-intel-briefings-trump-00145651

wtrmt,
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“The written reports will be in Russian, with nice, colorful images.

“A box of crayons and other activities will be included with each delivery”

“A sharing QR for each social media site and a WhatsApp phone number account, with a +7 country code, will be provided in a separate card”

@GottaLaff

wtrmt, to random
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Glen: did you see this? @glennf

From: @straphanger
https://urbanists.social/@straphanger/112016568540795157

wtrmt, to random
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Food for your next newsletter, Stephanie: this wonderful video about public toilets in Japan.

Theres so much to learn here!

https://youtu.be/8TrxtRuECq8?si=jfzNscWIDnneTxec

@stephaniewalter

wtrmt,
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@stephaniewalter

😃

This one is well researched and has the footnotes to show you the data, which is relevant to what we do in research. This may resonate with your audience.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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Hi, Fediverse,

I have my weekend blog post.

Click here: https://terikanefield.com/why-some-prefer-oligarchy/

Why some prefer oligarchy (and what's Russia got to do with it)

No, the members of Congress carrying water for Putin are not useful idiots or easily fooled.

They are Putin's allies and willing partners.

I offer some history and a timeline to explain how and why.

(Nobody should get the error this time. If you do, wait a few minutes and try again. Let me know because I have something else to try.)

wtrmt,
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@Teri_Kanefield it worked on the first try!

gruber, to random
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What are the best / most popular PWAs for phones? Bonus points for ones that work better on Android, double bonus if they only work on Android.

First two on my list (neither of which seem to work any better on Android/Chrome than iOS/WebKit):

https://phanpy.social/

https://app.color.io/

wtrmt,
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@gruber Try https://elk.zone: I've been using it for some time, on my Mac and my iPhone, as a PWA

Hey_Beth, to random
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"Taking their cues from the GOP, the mainstream press has devoted their front page coverage to “but her emails”-level scandals, like President Biden’s age and DA Fani Willis’s private life. What will this mean come November?"

DAME Magazine looks at how corporate media, like my boycott object of affection, the NYT, chase fake scandals and ignore Trump.

@damemagazine

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/02/20/media-cant-stop-stoking-outrage/

wtrmt,
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@Hey_Beth @damemagazine when @onthemedia asked the NYTimes this weekend why would they go with the same “but her emails!” stupid story, the spokesperson stuck to their guns saying that even the coverage of the Clinton story in 2016 was great journalism.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-breaking-news-biden-old-bobi-wine-fight-democracy?tab=summary

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Aaron Rupar:

Fox commemorates Presidents' Day by writing up a new presidential rankings showing as the worst president of all time. Can't make it up.

Fox News [sic]:

New presidential rankings place Obama in top 10, Reagan and Trump below Biden

wtrmt, (edited )
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@GottaLaff this kind of leadership works because they allow his followers to feel righteous about the horrible things that they always thought but could never talk about or do. Resentment is a powerful political motivation.

@zakalwe @Wileymiller

LeftistLawyer, to random
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Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please!

https://newrepublic.com/post/172710/russia-build-safe-space-conservative-americans-move

wtrmt,
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“Tuckersia”! @LeftistLawyer

wtrmt,
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Tuckergiztan also has a ring to it @LeftistLawyer

GottaLaff, to random
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Not from The Onion. For realsies…

Via Acyn:

“So Donald sent out a fundraising pitch that reads, Dear Melania I love you. Even after every single indictment, arrest, and witch hunt, you never left my side”

wtrmt,
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@paul @cindyweinstein @GottaLaff “big card, strong card”

stroughtonsmith, to random
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If Apple's vision of ‘spatial computing’ really is the future of computing, Microsoft is very clearly and decidedly writing Windows out of the narrative in the first week

wtrmt,
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@stroughtonsmith another Windows Phone mess?

Daojoan, (edited ) to random
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The death of the writer has arrived. Vox have pretty much nailed it in their piece on self promotion.

In the social media era, writers must become podcasters, graphic designers, videographers, and conventionally attractive TikTok models to gain an audience.

The profession of "writer" no longer exists - only the "influencer" remains.

A thread on the demise of the solitary writing life…

wtrmt,
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@Daojoan any creative endeavor suffers when the creator has to dedicate so much to these time sinkholes.

I stopped using twitter and Instagram to restart my creative efforts: I marvel at what can be achieved without their constant distraction.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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“Why didn't they use Memoji instead of Persona?”

Reading between the lines, I think there's quite a bit of NIH going on.

Memoji is built around SceneKit. SceneKit is incompatible with RealityKit (which is meant to be a substitute, but falls far short), and RealityKit's security model, and thus can't be used for 3D content in visionOS.

Apple would have to rewrite Memori/Animoji in some form of RealityKit, and visionOS’ RealityKit is not [today] compatible with iOS/macOS. Lots of wasted effort

Memoji WWDC hero image

wtrmt,
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@stroughtonsmith watching the reviews yesterday, it’s apparent that there’s a lot of room for improvement in the Persona feature.

danielpunkass, (edited ) to random
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After shipping Black Ink for iOS I've given myself permission to return to one of my oldest passions: FastScripts for the Mac. I'm adding new mouse automation features for the next update. It's gonna rock!

wtrmt,
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@danielpunkass can you give me a link to your App? I would love to check it out.

wtrmt,
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@danielpunkass thanks a lot, Daniel!

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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More on the Colorado-Keep-Trump-off the Ballot case

Because I have so much free time now that I turned in my latest book, I figured I'd read the three latest briefs filed in the Colorado case. 🤓

(I will also be going outside to enjoy a beautiful day)

I updated my blog post on the Colorado-Ballot-case with thoughts and analysis after looking through the briefs.

Here it is:

https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/

(The first few people may get an error message As always wait a minute and try again.)

wtrmt,
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@Teri_Kanefield there’s an error 500 in your website. This is a server error (misconfiguration or the program can’t reach the database. Write to your webmaster ASAP)

wtrmt,
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@Teri_Kanefield I’m glad that you’re aware: sorry to bother you!

(For your webmaster: maybe the page has yet to be put in cache and the server is having problems handling the load.)

Daojoan, to random
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Me: I’m not here to judge anyone for using AI but AI alone can’t make you a creator

AI fanatics: HOW DARE YOU JUDGE US

wtrmt,
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@Daojoan “but… my art!”

zachleat, to random
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The first release of Internet Explorer (1995) is closer in time to the Apollo 11 moon landing (1969) than now.

wtrmt,
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@matthiasott @zachleat [tries to erase the thread from his mind, looks away, but not for long: he’s doomed]

wtrmt,
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@Meyerweb @zachleat

Luke, to random
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My first intro to the was at a local computer store near Seattle around 1984-5 that I would frequent after school. The store owners would kindly let me tinker and test out programs like on it without objection.

It would be many years before I actually owned one.

It changed my life & career.
Thank you Steve & Steve
🥋🖌️🎨👨‍🎨🖥️

https://lukedorny.com/articles/mac

wtrmt,
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@Luke it was the same for me: the local store became the meeting place for the enthusiasts that could not get one but loved it.
I was able to get my first Mac, many years later.

mralancooper, to random
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The biggest UI mistake? Asking "Are you sure?". Don't ask for confirmation, but make it easy to undo.

wtrmt,
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@mralancooper @wtrmt that’s novel for me. In my country those are written in stone and hard to do in most cases: they are so riddled with verifications steps due to fraud.

It’s a dumpster fire for usability.

patrick_h_lauke, to photography
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flashed back to this lovely photo of a "day after our xmas dinner" breakfast with the mighty @SteveFaulkner in birmingham https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/53481134381/ (which, after the preceding month having been all about sorting out my mum's funeral, getting my dad into a care home, and starting the process of selling their house, was a welcome distraction)

wtrmt,
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@patrick_h_lauke @SteveFaulkner those are tough times: there doesn’t seem to be any break. I’m glad you did have this one.

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