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jsit

@jsit@social.coop

Developer, designer, writer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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

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janl, to random
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Best new iOS feature by far 🤩🤩🤩

jsit,
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@janl Which phone and iOS version do you have? I can’t do this on a 14 Pro on 17.4

GottaLaff, to random
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To clarify. Via Rupar:

Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for like this.

Eric Columbus:

Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the opposite of just talking about cars.

Me: Here's the thread:

jsit,
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@GottaLaff I think there are two things going on here. (a) What was Trump literally saying? And (b) Is it missing the forest for the trees to focus on what he was literally saying?

I understand the argument that whether he was promising literal physical violence is beside the point; he has demonstrated again and again that he has no issue with political violence on his behalf.

But I also think citing this truncated quote as proof that he is calling for violence is arguably disingenuous.

jsit, to bluesky
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Let’s say you’re trying to decide between two Mastodon instances, run by Sandra and Billy.

You agree with some of Sandra’s moderation decisions and priorities, but not all of them. Same with Billy.

Which do you join?

In the / model, you can opt-in to both of their moderation systems, and set custom warning/hide levels for different categories of offenses.

Then if one of them starts getting weird or shady, you just unsubscribe, no need to migrate your account anywhere.

jsit, to random
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Please forgive my being pedantic but this comic absolutely infuriates me because most of these vowels are not schwas at all

jsit,
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It’s extra frustrating because, like many XKCD comics, it derives much of its humor from your being “in on” some piece of esoteric knowledge, but here it’s getting it entirely wrong.

jsit,
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My undergrad IPA training is extremely rusty, but this guy on a different social network transcribed it:

Most of these are /ʌ/ though, even in US dialect. (Schwa is /ə/.)

[wʌts ʌp]
[wʌz dʌg ˈɡʌn.ə kʌm]
[dʌg lʌvz bɹʌnt͡ʃ]

[nʌ̃ˈʔʌ̃ dʌgz ˈstʌk kəz ʌv ə ˈtʌnəl əbˈstɹʌk.ʃən]
[ə tɹʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ʌv ˈʌn.jənz]

[əx]?? [ʌx]?? ("ugh" can be so many things.)

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    jsit,
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    @rooster There have been a couple attempts at this!

    1. @Goldfish (RIP)
    2. @vidzy (Possibly also RIP)

    jsit, to random
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    No matter what you think of the “influencer” “profession,” if a TikTok ban means that some people will lose their livelihoods, that really says something about our reliance on centralized platforms.

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Via Judd Legum:

    So said that couldn't remember when his son died within several years and that was proof that his memory was shot but now the transcript has been released and it turns out Biden immediately recalled the MONTH and DAY

    jsit,
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    @GottaLaff It’s too bad @juddlegum doesn’t post here anymore.

    MikeDunnAuthor, to random
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    jsit,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor

    Art by @NathanNun

    https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1054416974/soviet-cat-poster-4-hours-work-4-hours

    jsit, to random
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    Enough with POSSE, I'm going POSTI:

    Publish (on your) Own Site; That's It

    jsit, to random
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    God bless Cord Jefferson who used his speech to beg Hollywood to make mid-budget movies again.

    “Instead of making one 200 million dollar movie you could make twenty 10 million dollar movies. The next Martin Scorsese is out there.”

    molly0xfff, (edited ) to random
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    The feed is built on top of the reading list software I've been running for a few years, and it ingests posts from Citation Needed.

    I can also write posts in the microblog and automatically crosspost them to Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky, while keeping the original post on my site. Like this (https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202403091817)!

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    jsit,
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    @molly0xfff This is so cool -- Molly White dot net is running some "reading list software"? What software is that, something you built yourself?

    jsit, to random
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    I wish it were socially acceptable to wear berets.

    Not for me, I wouldn’t wear one, I just want to see more people in them.

    jsit, to random
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    I don’t know much about football, and maybe this guy is a dick or something, but good on Jason Kelce for bawling uncontrollably while announcing his retirement.

    Crying is good and we need more examples of big strong men crying in public.

    deadsuperhero, to random
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    Okay, look,

    My last article linked to a public discussion that I thought was pertinent to the story. Apparently, people are harassing @aurynn now, and that's fucked up.

    Just because a source was linked, doesn't mean it was an invitation to be horrible towards someone that created a post. That's not what we're about.

    Aurynn, from the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry for any grief the article caused you. I'm sorry. I have nothing against you as an admin or as a person, it's just that your status was where the conversation with the dev was happening.

    jsit,
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    @deadsuperhero @aurynn @tchambers For too long harassment has been tolerated or encouraged on social media.

    People have been rewarded or encouraged to be so virulent and dogmatic in their opinions that this kind of vigilante public scolding is the norm now.

    As long as we’re harassing “the other team,” we are acting nobly.

    jsit, to random
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    Sarah Jessica Parker, Jason Alexander, and Drew Barrymore are all doing commercials for weird scummy mobile games. How are they getting these big names?

    jsit,
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    @bitprophet Haha yeah I guess I’m just showing my age.

    Turns out these are all coming from the same game studio:

    https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jason-alexander-sarah-jessica-parker-playtika-commercials-mobile-games-1235848272/

    TheBreadmonkey, to random
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    Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car

    jsit,
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    @TheBreadmonkey @plainreading Art by Andrew Neal of Wander Lane: https://wanderlane.tumblr.com/post/30799385151/art-for-alphabooks-paul-muaddib

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    @TheBreadmonkey @plainreading He also made this:

    bikepedantic, to random
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    miss me with your flexposts-are-useless comments

    video/mp4

    jsit,
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    @bikepedantic you’re in my hood!

    jsit, to wordpress
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    > Blogs now either look like Substack/Medium or Snow Fall and I didn’t want to pattern kottke.org after either of those things. I don’t want to write articles — I want to blog.

    This is exactly how I feel whenever I redesign my blog, and why I built the theme "skltn."

    https://kottke.org/24/03/kottkeorg-redesigns-with-2024-vibes

    jsit,
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    Let blogs be blogs

    verge, to random
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    Volkswagen ID.7 review: a superior EV that happens to be a sedan https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24084671/volkswagen-id7-review-ev-sedan-specs-price-photos

    jsit,
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    @siracusa Is there a global button shortage? Has the cost of knobs exploded over the last decade? Why this madness?

    bryanhansel, to random
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    I just saw this on Threads:

    Everyone STOP what you are doing.

    Go to O’Reilly Auto Parts website.

    Type: 121G in the search bar and hit enter.

    You’re welcome.

    jsit,
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    @nf3xn Hm I know what Slashdot is, but what does this mean?

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