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kate, 17 days ago to random

We blocked Anthropic’s ClaudeBot across the 6,000 sites we host at 7:55 this morning. On our busiest server this caused traffic to drop from a peak of 493 requests per second to just 90:

mhoye, 18 days ago to random

This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

hannah, 18 days ago to random

Hi friends,

In a last minute meeting between pre-op appointments preparing for my major craniotomy tomorrow, Scribely and I have agreed on terms to hand off the http://Alt-Text.org project.

The code will remain open source, and the project will become a 501(c)(3) with support from Scribely. Should the project be successful its operating costs will likely be considerable and I believe connections to industry are necessary to sustain its contributions to web accessibility.

💜 Hannah

ShaulaEvans, 21 days ago to random

Question for security-minded people:

How are you handling video calls in light of Win 11 Recall / Copilot?

I do not consent to other people randomly recording me. How on earth do I vet everyone's operating systems for work calls?

Right now I am angry & thus not framing the question elegantly. For the love of all that's holy, do not lecture me about asking the wrong question or in the wrong way.

If you have mandatory work video calls, how are you handling this yourself?

ElleGray, 24 days ago to random

this morning I was out-poetried by a sidewalk that had thoughts on pain, impermanence, resilience and beauty

rachel, 24 days ago to random

transfem oomfs, when you got on HRT and your hair started coming back, how long did it take before the new growth stopped being a completely untameable frizzy mess?

notsle, 26 days ago to random

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ElleGray, 27 days ago to random

Saw this and immediately wondered if the sound a parent made stepping on it in the dark in ancient times is the same noise we'd make today

erosdiscordia, 27 days ago to random

Happy agender day! Please dump all your unwanted gender into this bin:

🗑️

I, the gender trash panda, will happily collect and root through them.

miriamrobern, 27 days ago to random

Got pulled over. Auto registration lapsed while we were distracted by, y'know, everything.

Police officer was apologetic and solicitous with me, all smiles, and then asked for my license (with my deadname) and disappeared into his car. For a long time.

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isotopp, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random German

Source: https://x.com/KatysCartoons/status/1504463231380865031

https://x.com/KatysCartoons

CaramelizedShallots, 28 days ago to random

Fingers crossed on this one. Here is a petition to sign if you are in North Carolina. Keep the pressure on.

https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-passage-of-nc-bill-237-banning-masks-in-public

#masks #NC #PublicHealth

Teryl_Pacieco, 28 days ago to writing

"Eat pests, always trip potential burglars, and when the mood strikes, provide purrs."

The kittens repeated these wise words from the older cat.

"What about the red dot?" asked one curious ball of fluff.

"What about the red dot?" the older cat asked back.

"How do we catch it."

The older cat washed her whiskers making her pupils wait, "If you catch it, then what?"

The kittens couldn't answer, realizing the chase was much more exciting.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Caturday

charlotteclymer, 30 days ago to random

Republican Congressman Rich McCormick, who believes trans rights are bad for American families, has filed for divorce from his wife of 12 years (and mother of their seven children) after revelation of his alleged affair with Republican Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne, who also believes trans rights are bad for American families.

luckytran, 30 days ago to random

"lf a person refused to (unmask), that right there should cause you some sense of alarm."

NYC Mayor Eric Adams continues to encourage businesses to request customers to unmask. This is ableist, puts people's health at risk, and is NOT required by law.

video/mp4

benroyce, 1 month ago to H5N1

people are aware that #h5n1 is in cow's milk

i made a few posts that #rawmilk is popular with #maga, and this is a possible vector for transmission:

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112339025056616724

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/112301494616847164

it's far worse than that:

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-12/raw-milk-enthusiasts-uncowed-by-bird-flu-risk-in-dairy

"Mark McAfee, founder of Fresno’s Raw Farm and the Raw Milk Institute, said his phone has been ringing off the hook with 'customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it.'"

we live in a world with suicide cults of ignorance

pixelate, 1 month ago to accessibility

A few more notes about video games and VoiceOver Recognition: the story mode of Blazblue reads very well with screen recognition, even better than Windows OCR! In some games, when menus have descriptions, you can tell which menu item you're on by the description of the item at the bottom. With the Provinence app, audio latency is amazingly low with my AirPods Pro 2. So, playing games using those is really, really amazing! No game mode needed! I can't wait for more blind people to get into this! #accessibility #blind #gaming #Provinence #iOS #RetroGames #emulation #emulators

ploum, 1 month ago to random

Thanks everyone! We closed the loop!

Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles.

No humans needed any more!

Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.

imnotyet, 1 month ago to random

What we didn't learn about the Black Panthers, but should have
The Black Panther Party history holds vital lessons for today's movements confront
racism and police violence,yet textbooks either
misrepresent or minimized the significance of
The Black Panthers.
This local organizing that the Panthers engaged in has been erased in the textbooks,yet it is precisely what won them support

They fought in black communities across the nation for giving the poor, decent housing,healthcare, education

tmcw, 1 month ago to random

today in late capitalism, my doctors office asked for a cash donation because they are nearly out of operating cashflow because of the cyberattack on change healthcare, a unitedhealth subsidiary

somehow i feel like unitedhealth, which still has a 500b market cap, could maybe chip in here

tilton, 1 month ago to random

Oh, the irony...

benetnasch, 1 month ago to random

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/library-librarians-e-books-license-policies

"Librarians are developing open-source alternatives to Libby and hoopla and testing "experiments with publishers that don't involve restrictive licenses," says Jennie Rose Halperin, director of Library Futures."

Fuck yeah!

GottaLaff, 1 month ago to legal

Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

#BREAKING: Judge #CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald #Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule. #documents #legal

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

ianturton, 1 month ago to Font

Interesting new dyslexic friendly font - https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

finally seems that font designers are actually talking (and listening) to dyslexics about what makes a font hard to read.

#dyslexia #Neurodiversity #font

rickhasen1, 1 month ago to random

Is it too cynical to believe that Judge Cannon timed the announcement of the postponement of a Trump classified documents trial to take away from the salacious sex details from Stormy Daniels' testimony today?