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pluralistic, 2 days ago to random

I have been a published writer since I was 17, and never in all those years have I encountered worse editorial suggestions than the automated ones generated by Microsoft Office365.

Makes Clippy look like EB White.

TrillionB, 2 months ago to detroit

If you want to see a 27-foot long hotdog car around #Detroit this weekend, you are in luck. #Wienermobile

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/03/23/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-metro-detroit/73039895007/

TrillionB, 3 months ago to random

CDC says you can manually position the beryllium sphere, as long as you have steady hands.
#CDCsays

atomicpoet, 3 months ago to random

Social media often results in lawsuits.

That is to say, when it comes to social media, people can be very "sue happy". They like to sue, often for irrational reasons, and it can be financially draining.

If you plan on operating a Fediverse server with open registrations, I urge you to consult with a lawyer. And to limit your personal liability, you might want to operate it through the aegis of a corporate entity.

GossiTheDog, 3 months ago to random

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TurnipCannon, 4 months ago to random

If "of all the people we invited to speak, only white men could come" is even actually true, then it also brings up another big problem.

Ask WHY only these guys had the:

• time to take off and go speak at a con
• money to fly somewhere
• money to get a hotel room
• means to probably speak at this conference for no pay

Almost as if the scales are a WEE bit tipped

hacks4pancakes, 5 months ago to random

I know I’ve said this before, but as someone who goes into industrial process environments a lot, the lack in of decent ppe, especially FR gear, that properly and safely fits feminine bodies is a frigging travesty. It’s one of those things that actually leads to a culture of poor safety, because nobody really talks about it - guys typically don’t think about people wearing a bra or hairpins and how they could melt to a person in an industrial accident, and women feel like they have to shut up and be one of the guys. And almost everything that fits better requires a lengthy online order from backstock.

Anyway if you are planning on working in that space and aren’t a men’s size M-XXL like nearly all the gear, I’m always available to talk.

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

TikTok surpasses Twitter (X) as a social media source where Americans regularly get news. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/

TrillionB, 7 months ago to random

Here's a blast from the past.

#MiniCD

GottaLaff, 7 months ago to random

“At one point, Mr. Pratt said, Mr. #Trump discussed the phone call he had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine earlier that year that had helped lead to Mr. Trump’s first impeachment.

👉🏼“That was nothing compared to what I usually do,” Mr. Trump said, in Mr. Pratt’s recounting.”👈🏼 1/…

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/us/politics/anthony-pratt-donald-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jwz, 7 months ago to random

Even when they're not trying to collect rent or surveil me, every new release and every new app just fills me with the dread of "please don't make me learn something new".

rodhilton, 7 months ago to random

Martin Scorsese's quiet crime drama being ruined not by Marvel films keeping the 3.5-hour epic out of theaters, but by the adjacent theater playing The Eras Tour to a room full of singing, dancing, stomping maniacs is the funniest shit.

KimPerales, 7 months ago to random

Judge Issues Victory for Jessica Denson, Permanently Frees All 2016 Trump Campaign Workers From Illegal NDAs. On Oct 11, 2023, a sweeping victory for the former Trump campaign staffer, signing off on a class-action settlement that'll permanently free all those workers from the Campaign’s illegal NDA. Denson 1st sued to invalidate the NDA in 2018 as a pro se litigant, won an initial decision in Mar 2021 invalidating the NDA for herself -5 years later, for the others. #TFG https://protectdemocracy.org/work/victory-jessica-denson-2016-trump-ndas/

grammargirl, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

What do you think of the way "quote" is used in the following sentence? Is it acceptable in formal Standard English?

He began the chapter with a quote from Carl Sagan.

I'm not asking if you'd use it yourself. I'm asking if you would tell someone it's wrong if you had been asked to review a document. If you were an editor, would you change it in a press release you were editing, for example.

Viss, 7 months ago to random

i am very much appreciating the new cyberpunk dlc.

Alice, 7 months ago to random

They're a 10 but they use Winamp without a skin.

timnitGebru, 8 months ago to random

Speaking of Shane Legg, co-founder & "chief AGI scientist" 🙄 of Deepmind, here is this gem he co-authored in 2007 titled "Universal Intelligence" where he wonders, as one does,

"Are men on average more intelligent than women? Are white people smarter than black people?" 🤔 Questions white men like to "ask"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.3329.pdf

ernie, 8 months ago to random

For people who like wall calendars, what do you like about them?

Radical_EgoCom, 8 months ago to random

Establish contact with workers in other countries employed by the same transnational corporations and conglomerates.

Organize together! Unite the workers of every nation!!

hacks4pancakes, 8 months ago to random

Y’all I have to walk past this jacket on my way to class every day but it’s $400 which is more than my laptop cost, and I’m trying to make it to Tuesday https://www.shopakira.com/brands/rhinestone-bomb-crop-moto-jacket

skinnylatte, 8 months ago to random

Someone tried to sell me frozen chicken from a shopping cart in mission bay on the street, on a hot and sunny day

hacks4pancakes, 8 months ago to random

We need to have a talk, and I’m having a really hard time having it with my awesome hacker friends, because everyone is super duper emotionally invested and is deeply hurt by it.

I hope you all aren’t - because it involves all of us and it’s important. It’s not about any of y’all individually or your hard community work.

The talk is about how to make all of our cybersecurity conferences and events and meetups more accessible and conformable for young hackers because I’mreallysosorry, we’ve somehow become Old, and the stuff that we are ingrained with as “hacker culture” like movies, music, and memes all were created before they were born - and they may or may not have any emotional attachment or enjoyment of them at all.

That’s the conversation we need to have and that we are all responsible for and I swear it’s not aimed at any conference or person because we are all in this filter bubble of watching the Matrix and listening to Prodigy and remembering the hamster dance and all of that stuff while awesome was like a quarter century ago.

Part of building a community is thinking about including everyone and their culture under a mantle of good ethics and goals. So we really, really need to start having a chat about when we lean on the 90s hacker aesthetic and memories to the exclusion of people under 30. I had a wake up call hearing some students complaining about it.