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jsit

@jsit@social.coop

Developer, designer, writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ex-https://mastodon.social/@tinymixtapes

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Thomas, to random
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This simply cannot be accurate. Europeans are shitting 6 or 7 times a day??? Is this true???

jsit,
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@Thomas

Sadly no :(

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18akvsg/number_of_unesco_world_heritage_sites/

[gives myself a wedgie]

jsit, to random
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Something I get from Mastodon’s particular brand of anti-establishment sentiment is this kind of anachronistic vibe? It all kinda feels like this very earnest, 80s/90s, Adbusters, Berkeley, Whole Earth Catalog, almost boomer-leftie feel to it.

Anybody know what I’m talking about?

aaron.rupar, to random

PELOSI: Trump has the worst record of jobs loss of any president

KATY TUR: There was a global pandemic

PELOSI: He had the worst record of any president. If you want to be an apologist for Donald Trump, that may be your role

jsit,
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@atrupar I mean…she’s not wrong

jsit,
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@richard_merren Nobody hesitates to bring up the 2008 financial crisis when discussing unemployment under Obama’s first term.

These aren’t excuses; context matters.

jsit,
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@tdwllms1 I am by no means saying Trump was good or Obama was bad. I’m only saying that blaming the entirety of Trump’s jobs numbers on his performance alone, and accusing someone of apologia or both-sidesism for pointing out that this directly coincided with a global pandemic, is inane.

Trump can be a shitty person/president and have been dealt a rotten hand.

jsit, to random
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One of the absolute worst degradations in modern/mobile UIs is the way tap targets are constantly moving as content is dynamically loaded.

Many times I have tapped the wrong thing because something has moved.

I have even sometimes hovered my thumb millimeters away from the screen, waiting to be sure nothing will change, and the moment before I make contact, the content of the screen changes and I tap the wrong thing.

samf, to random
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Hey @Gargron quick question, why is Biz Stone on the US non-profit board for Mastodon? He’s clearly still invested in Twitter and Instagram as platforms, posting at both places but only uses Mastodon to syndicate his Medium posts. I’m not seeing any action to indicate any passion or interest in the fediverse whatsoever.

It’s curious, is all.

jsit,
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@Gargron @samf It’s not just that he doesn’t post here; he actively posts on Twitter rather than here, to 2.5 million followers.

This is not what I imagine someone who wants Mastodon to succeed would be doing.

pabloniusmonk, to music
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Anyone know of any Public Radio music stations here stateside that have a Mastodon presence? 📻🎵

(Open to Community Radio Music stations as well.)

Please boost for reach.

jsit,
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@pabloniusmonk

Two of the best are both here:

@wmbr

@WFMU

jsit, to random
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I remember liking the first half of this one. The jump scares in the last half got to be too gratuitous to me.

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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You dread the day…

jsit,
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@BasicAppleGuy Most of my life is spent at 90 or below. Do people really buy new phones this frequently? (I’m at 87 right now on an iPhone 14 Pro.)

jsit, to bluesky
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“Blacksky is providing a platform to amplify, protect, and moderate Black content so users can safely build community online.

“The mission and purpose of the project is to de-center whiteness as the default and to provide a space for Black folk to discuss the Black everyday in a way that feels affirming.”

https://www.blackskyweb.xyz

@blackmastodon

gbhnews, to random
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what do you all think about the state of news visibility here on mastodon?

https://mastodon.social/@MediaOnMastodon@toot.io/112316173190323025

jsit,
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@gbhnews It’s so valuable to the fediverse that you continue to show up every day as an example to others.

thisismissem, to random
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Kinda feels like Mastodon should support that <...> syntax for URLs to say "hey, don't add a preview for this URL"

jsit,
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@thisismissem I had not heard of this syntax! Where is this used? It would be like this?

<https://joinmastodon.org>

gedeonm, to random
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If Humane didn’t want bad reviews of their product then they shoulda improved their product before they released it. That’s how this stuff works.

jsit,
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@schwa @gedeonm People are (wrongly) saying it’s “unethical”

https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-mkbh-dtrashes-humane-ai-pin-firestorm-over-damage-startup-2024-4

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@janl @schwa @gedeonm I think it was more than that, enough that he made a response video:

https://youtu.be/QztFpzKsdeA

jsit, to wordpress
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Anybody have any ideas on how to import Mastodon posts into ?

(To be clear I'm not talking about enabling ActivityPub on WordPress.)

gbhnews, to random
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A little vintage realness courtesy of the reigning monarchs at the GBH Archives.

Nothing, and we mean nothing, stops the marathon greats.

grainy, timestamped footage of an old TV broadcast shows two men, one with a microphone, recounting a story from the 1935 Boston Marathon.

jsit,
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@gbhnews What is that marquee on (what became) the Hotel Buckminster building? Was that a movie theater??

evan, (edited ) to random
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Who is your favourite out of these four Beatles?

jsit,
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@evan Crazy how close this was! I became a boring Paul guy as I got older.

mcc, to random
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I hate git

jsit,
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@mcc I’ve always been curious to try Mercurial. Any thoughts on that?

jsit,
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@mcc Never heard of jj, will check it out, thanks!

jeffowski, to random
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jsit,
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@jeffowski @cypnk I've seen a version of this joke in the form of a red bumper sticker that says "If this bumper sticker is blue, you're driving too fast"

jsit, to random
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I want a “couch to 5k” but for hot sauce.

gbhnews, (edited ) to fediverse
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🌞 Good morning ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 58F at Logan Airport and visibility is 2.5mi.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley calls the latest round of student debt relief "life-changing" as the Biden administration continues to find ways to eliminate some segments of it.

Harvard says it will resume requiring standardized tests for applicants.

On this day in 1861, the U.S. Civil War began.

jsit,
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@gbhnews Haha I don’t get what I’m choosing between!

evan, to random
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This is cool. New social app, integrated with ActivityPub.

https://www.lyrak.com/blog/introducing-lyrak

jsit,
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@evan Are you supposed to be able to follow folks on there from here? I can’t seem to.

ivory, to random
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@jsit Yea it will happen eventually. We will be revamping the compose view from the ground up and trying not to spend time making changes there because it's all going to be tossed anyways.

jsit,
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@ivory I just lost all my drafts again. Not sure when this happened, but I don’t think I’ve gone on/off the TestFlight recently.

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