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shoq, to random
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Wouldn’t it be wild if there was a Sunday news show that did nothing but debunk the bullshit on all the other news shows—in real time? Dana Bash says something idiotic (again), and you quickly flip on the Bullshit Today Channel (BTC), and a panel of people who actually know something are patiently explaining what she doesn’t know, isn’t saying, or can’t comprehend?

teajaygrey,
@teajaygrey@rap.social avatar

@LexiGirl who?

Sorry, I'm a Californian. The political BS around California being part of America is contentious enough.

Am I supposed to know who that person is?

We have approximately 333.3 million Americans presently and I will be dead and buried having never heard of most of them, let alone ever bothered to get to know the slightest thing about them presumably.

Based on search engines, she's apparently some "journalist" for CNN?

I haven't paid for cable since my marriage fell apart in 2005 and have no plans to pay for advertising laden media ever again. My ex-wife liked soap operas. I already spend too much time staring at glowing screens and don't need more distractions from for-profit morons.

@shoq

shoq,
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@teajaygrey @LexiGirl

Dana Bash joined CNN in 1993. She has since become one of the network’s most prominent political correspondents and anchor. Which is not a reflection on her skills as a journalist, which are fairly opaque.

AkaSci, to random
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The largest camera ever built for astrophysics arrived this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.

The LSST camera, built by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, is the final major component of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope to arrive at the summit.

Development of the observatory has been funded by the NSF and the DOE.

First light is expected in Dec 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jB1s_YEcJi8
https://rubinobservatory.org/news/camera-arrives-chile
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AkaSci,
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The Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time LSST Camera is the largest camera ever constructed for astronomy. It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical camera, capable of viewing light from the near ultraviolet to near infrared wavelengths.

Length: 3.73 m
Height: 1.65 m
Weight: 2,800 kg
Pixels: 3.2 billion
Wavelength: 0.32–1.06 μm
Filters: 6 (u-g-r-i-z-y)
Field of view = 3.5°.
Operating temperature: -100°C

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/lsst
https://www.lsst.org/about/camera/features

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AkaSci,
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The focal plane of the Vera C. Rubin telescope consists of 189 charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors, arranged in a total of 21 3-by-3 square arrays. The system is cooled to about -100 °C to minimize noise.

The 3.5-degree field of view of the 60 cm wide array is 40 times the area of the full moon in the sky.

Camera Data Rates: ~3.2 GBytes/sec peak raw data
1 pixel = 16 bits (raw)
3.2 billion pixels read-out time: 2 sec

https://rubin.canto.com/v/gallery/album/HDSNU?display=curatedView&viewIndex=2&column=image&id=o46f0msu2d6733e7v1r2opt66t
https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/lsst

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robb, to random
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Some breaking news about slashpages. The name had previously been coined, independently from @shellsharks, by @caleb.

The website has been updated to reflect this https://slashpages.net/

anniegreens,
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@robb phew 😅 thank goodness I didn’t publish the other post I was going to yesterday, fixing now!

@shellsharks @caleb

Erdrokan, to random French
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Un giorno, un gelato
Tant qu'il fait beau

sun, to random
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Thinking through the Biden meme manager thing, you can probably only make good memes shitting on the other side not making your side look better. The only thing that worked for them was Dark Brandon, which admittedly is good.

sun,
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@lain woah really? steve's moment may be arriving

s8n,
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@lain @sun :trump_mad: skibideez nuts!

tournesol, to random
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Ce mardi, une proposition de loi transphobe va être votée visant à interdire les transitions médicales pour les personnes trans mineures et condamner les médecins qui feraient des prescriptions en ce sens.

Vous pouvez faire entendre votre voix en envoyant un mail aux sénateurs. Rendez-vous sur outrans.org pour trouver une copie de mail ou juste vous informer.

Aidez nos adelphes, aidez la France et la communauté trans internationale.

Daojoan, to random
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"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

abm0,

@Daojoan May be, but it's also an imperative of capitalist competition, so it's not going to stop until capitalist competition stops.

shiri,

@abm0 @Daojoan THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS! ::rings bell::

huuishuu, to Twitch
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So apparently, according to Twitch, livestreaming yourself playing the SAME CLIP for 22 hours straight with EARRAPE AUDIO is perfectly fine & doesn't violate their terms of service. Are you...kidding me?

Audio at 1% to protect your ears.

video/mp4

huuishuu,
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I wish it was a joke. I reported them THREE TIMES and each time they said "no violation occurred".

How is this not a violation???????

Ok, gotcha Twitch. I'm gonna go loop a gif for 24 hours straight with earrape as the background because that's apparently not a violation of your TOS.

otheorange_tag, to random
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Later today on 4:30pmPT/7:30pmET riff or just listen https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjilFQek73bcAgmOzXgRlnPCUI4OpnfVu Oliwia, Albrecht, Both Bach (BWV 1065) same as ripped off from Vivaldi Op 3 AKA RV 580) , Stravinsky, and a choral only piece. Several soloists appear twice. ( @stuartgrist @theClurichaun @bunnyhero

Looping, to random French
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The Beekeeper sur Prime Vidéo avec Jason Statham, OUAIS VIOLENCE !!!

Looping,
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@CypherSephiroth on regarde pas un Jason Statham pour la qualité des dialogues. VIOLENCE !

Looping,
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@CypherSephiroth quand il tabasse des agents du Swat FBI quel pied.
Mais il tir dans le gilet par balle.

FaithinBones, to Plants
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ju, to random
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I will be running for the GNOME Board of Directors this year: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/2024-board-candidate-julian-hofer/21168

bragefuglseth,
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@ju Best of luck!

loewe, to random
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voting ends today at 19:00 UTC, so make sure to drop your vote if you haven't voted already

masukomi, to random
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I've been working on my game for a while now. I've learned a LOT along the way, & I obviously like sharing & discussing game design.

So, I put together a 7000 word blog post with the high level things I've learned that will probably apply to anyone trying to design a game.

The experienced game design folks hopefully already know this stuff, but most of us are still figuring it out.

Let me know if this helps, or if you've got a different take on any of it.

https://weblog.masukomi.org/2024/05/25/lessons-learned-while-making-my-game/

masukomi,
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Required disclaimer: the thing is 7k words long which means it /definitely/ needs to be edited.

However, it took me more than a full work-day to make this thing and I just don't have the motivation (financial or otherwise ;) ) to bother right now.

So, 🙇‍♀️ I'd like to apologize in advance for rambling bits & sentences that should have been cleaned up, and images that could have been cropped more, and all the other stuff that editing would have fixed.

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