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mattblaze, to random
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Today I've been scolded on Mastodon by different strangers for:

  • Failing to apologize for, or justify my use of, Twitter/X (I don't actually use Twitter/X).

  • Lacking sufficient propriety in expressing my refusal to justify my use of Twitter/X, which I don't use.

  • Posting insufficiently interesting things because I was too busy exceeding the bounds of propriety when I refused to justify my use of Twitter/X, which I don't use.

I think people need to adjust their expectations of my feed.

jonathankoren,
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@mattblaze I still think you getting scolded for not putting black and white photos behind a content warning because black and white photos are “depressing” is the wildest thing on mastodon

MrNuclearMonster, to random
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FYI if you have this mug from valve it has lead in it and you should throw it away. I just tested it with my kit from detectlead.com

Had to throw away a bunch of other stuff, too.

jonathankoren,
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@MrNuclearMonster Huh. I would have thought that was more of an Aperture Science thing.

jonathankoren, to random
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New GNU/Linux dropped

https://woem.men/notes/9qxrusljr7vs0008

nyrath, to random
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Can A Human Land A SpaceX Rocket On Its Tail?
(Nope)

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=6505

jonathankoren,
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@nyrath reminds me of the stories in “Digital Apollo” where they talk about how the astronauts wanted to fly the rockets off the launchpad instead of trust the computers.

Supposedly, Armstrong was the only one to manage not to cause the Saturn V to breakup on launch according to the simulators.

jonathankoren, to random
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12yo: “We’re not in Kansas anymore”! I know that! That’s a reference to Avatar!

Me: 💀

jonathankoren,
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@harish I don’t even know why he’s been watching and rewatching Cameron’s Avatar movies.

thedansimonson, to random
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I really liked Dune 2. I am now a Denis Villeneuve Stan.

jonathankoren,
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@trochee @thedansimonson the TikTok mashup of Wonka and Dune 2 is canon.

jonathankoren,
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@trochee @thedansimonson https://youtu.be/l0-cXTAuuYo

Violinknitter, to random
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Video of contractor talking to an elderly woman offscreen, while examining a sketchy outlet & power switch on a basement ceiling:

C: “Who’d you say did the electrical work?”

W: “My nephew Thomas, he’s very handy.”

C: “What year did his house burn down?”

W: “About two years ago” sudden audible confusion “How did you know his house burned down?”

jonathankoren,
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@Violinknitter I saw that TikTok!

Jesus. Wires just shoved into the outlet.

dfeldman, to random
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If there were another binary backdoor similar to the xz attack that was found today... how would you find it?

(The xz attack was found by chance and some trivial issues that caused performance degradation)

jonathankoren,
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@dfeldman yeah. I don’t know. I’m also curious about how this got into the code at all.

My initial thoughts are always some sort of clandestine hack, or maybe slowly trickling in the code until suddenly all the parts are there. But I fear it came in through the front door with a “lgtm” comment .

jonathankoren,
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@dalias @dfeldman score one for clever and sneaky.

jonathankoren, to random
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Santa Cruz if finally exerting its control over Sacramento

https://scicomm.xyz/@dantheclamman/112168460305072043

jonathankoren, to random
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I am really dumbstruck that young people are still in 2024 reading URLs with “backslash”

jonathankoren,
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@trochee bruh.
block

jonathankoren,
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@trochee i swear, it’s more grating than pronouncing “cache” as “cachet”

jonathankoren,
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@trochee Yes. I’ve been listening to a podcast put out by West Point where they interview soldiers about their time in Afghanistan and Iraq and everyone ends up saying, “weapons cachet”.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spear/id1256188715

Every story is visceral, and it seems like every story involves getting ambushed, often predicated with, “We knew we were walking into an ambush.”

Today’s episode was a Lt Col that now teaches math at West Point, talking about when he was a special forces lieutenant getting ambushed in Afghanistan, and the predator drone that was dispatched to him fired in the wrong direction and killed a family, and how when he realized it was a hellfire missile, lied to the relatives about who killed them.

(“I know the JTAC was looking at what I was looking at.” “I still remember his callsign, because I blamed [the pilot] for that.”)

jonathankoren,
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@trochee whenever someone mispronounces “cache” as “cachet”, I always think of Smithers’s response to Mr Burns when he asks if Homer is related to Richard Nixon. “Unlikely sir. They spell and pronounce their names differently.”

cassidy, to denver
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🪇🪕🎺🎶 Casa Bonita, Casa Bonita 🎶🎺🪕🪇

with @katie, @btkostner, and @lizkecso

Me and Katie posing in front of some skeletons, with a terrifying face peeking out from a hole behind us
Liz walking into the mouth of a giant scary skeleton
Me, Liz, Katie, and Blake at a table in Casa Bonita

jonathankoren,
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@chuck @cassidy

video/mp4

HeavenlyPossum, to random

The funniest thing about Donald Trump is that he is so routinely honest in public—“I will be a dictator,” “there will be violence if I lose”—and yet the majority of people are so concerned about decorum, so terrified of appearing to overreact, that the American political system just plods along as if he hadn’t said what he said.

jonathankoren,
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@HeavenlyPossum WRT the fear of overreacting: I have heard — and I believe this is certainly part of it — that fire alarms not only exist to alert people that the building is on fire, but to provide cover for people that smell smoke, but don’t speak up because of embarrassment.

jonathankoren, to random
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Moby Dick going hard today

From: @mobydick
https://botsin.space/@mobydick@botsin.space/112108269592115578

trochee, to Seattle
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I've lived in for twenty-plus years and I'd never come down to see the Hat and Boots in before today.

Beautiful day for it.

A two story tall pair of cowboy boots, and a forty foot wide hat, in a small green park. The sky is deep blue overhead. This picture focuses more on the hat — brick red almost pink, with a wide brim — and less on the boots.

jonathankoren,
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@trochee
That’s unfortunate. Maybe next time.

jonathankoren,
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@trochee have you seen the Sound Garden? I have not seen it on either of my trips to Seattle

jake4480, to industrialmusic
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Today of course marks the 30th anniversary of nine inch nails' legendary record The Downward Spiral. This masterpiece of an album was released March 8, 1994, and was a pretty intense thing for 14 year old me to hear.

This photo is from Instagram - Trent just posted it, saying what 28 year old him had to say still excites him but breaks his heart. It's a dark album, man. All the pigs are still lined up.

Here it is, in all its glory: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL1ZJvW8jPWdzeDhA516qxjWVrfVPxRie&si=9FU_s5DF6kn6YcBV

#90s #1990s #90sAlbums #90sMusic #90sRock #industrial #IndustrialMusic #NineInchNails #TheDownwardSpiral #TheDownwardSpiral30

jonathankoren,
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@jake4480 it is a dark album. I remember when The Fragile[*] came out, and I remember telling a friend that I was surprised how hopeful it was, considering the nihilism of The Downward Spiral

[*] Perhaps my favorite album — or at least what I say when I have to pick a favorite studio album. I think of it now as a harbinger of his current film score career.

jonathankoren,
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@jake4480 absolutely. Trent Reznor had some serious battles, but he’s seem to have beaten them. Like every recent interview I’ve read with him makes it sound like he’s well adjusted and happy now.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Whats that you say, favoriting a post is functionally useless because there's no algorithm on Mastodon?

Tell that to my instant gratification addicted lizard brain that's getting hit with a tidal wave of dopamine every time my phone vibrates.

jonathankoren,
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@lowqualityfacts masto remains so weird with notifications.

It appears I’m the only person to like this.

Come on people! LQF practically begging for likes here!

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