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techghoul, 16 days ago to random

sarlacc are just lazy sandworms

pluralistic, 25 days ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Boeing's deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/

#Pluralistic

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mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

People on Twitter are debating whether a person using uncommon words like "delve" are trying to sound smarter than they are, or worse, are ChatGPT bots, because "normal" people don't talk like that.

You don't have to get upset, or embroiled in the debate. Not worth the time or attention. But I'll share some important context as your friendly neighborhood Nigerian 🙋🏿‍♂️

Many Nigerians have bigger English language vocabularies and better command of grammar than the typical American or English person

futurebird, 1 month ago to random

Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should be so many insects, so many ants, so many tiny creatures filling the parks, hitting the windshields of cars.

Remember when bugs used to hit the windshields of cars because the air was so full of life?

I guess most people think this is 'improvement' but they are wrong. There is a campaign to put the American bumblebee on the endangered species list!

We are living in an eerie lifeless netherworld and I don't know why more can't see it!

techghoul, 3 months ago to random

been thinking a lot about physical instructional books, and how greed and ai have made the entire digital body of human knowledge suspect. the disinformation age is eating the information age, and the last standard reference before that is print.

every second old encyclopedias are rapidly gaining value

gutenberg_org, 3 months ago to books

British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died #OTD in 1970. He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica. via @wikipedia

Bertrand Russell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/355

#books #science #philosophy #mathematics

Title page of Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

malwaretech, 4 months ago to random

We haven't done any layoffs, we just happened to relocate our office to the worst state in the US, resulting in many of our employees leaving.

techghoul, 4 months ago to random

never hear constitutional originalists advocating 14 year copyright term

techghoul, 5 months ago to random

enjoying this @pluralistic copyright / public domain analysis

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes

thexylom, 5 months ago to journalism

Hello everyone, it's #Newstodon Friday, and we got a shoutout in @niemanlab Predictions for Journalism, 2024!

From our real-time line-item budget to completely rebuilding our audience on Mastodon and supporting a young, diverse crop of journalists, we've shown time and time again that we are the future of news. We're glad that our effort is recognized by Michael Greshko and the Nieman Lab.

#science #health #environment #climate #innovation #news #journalism

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/12/science-journalism-has-its-defector-moment/

“We're starting to see flickers of this DIY energy within corners of science media. The nonprofit Gen-Z newsroom The Xylom, founded by Alex Ip, covers subjects such as climate and COVID- 19 through a distinctly global lens; by its measure, it's the only North American news outlet that regularly publishes science stories in Nepali.”

lisamelton, 5 months ago to random

I was checking my profile for other reasons and noticed that I'm hovering just 15 followers shy of 20,000. Eeeek! 😱 Yes, I know it says "20K" but Mastodon started rounding up to that weeks ago. 🤷‍♀️

First, I'm humbled that so many people follow me to get a curated feed of the Fediverse. Thank you! 🥰

Second, being OCD, I'm kinda annoyed that I'm not quite at that big round number. 🤣

So, do a sick-at-home lady a favor and see if you can improve her mental health. Love you all, Lisa. 💖

mcc, 7 months ago to random

If you went back to say 2010 and said that by 2023 I would be regularly opening a packge labeled "assay buffer" to perform western blot protein detection tests in my own home, I would have been very excited. I would not have asked the important question.

malwaretech, 8 months ago to random

idk why everyone is so obsessed with the idea of starting companies. I just got yet another LinkedIn DM asking me why I'm doing influencer stuff instead of starting a company while I'm still relevant. My guy, I have to be at a conference in another state in 4 hours and I haven't even booked a flight. What kind of company do you think I'm gonna be able to run?

universalhub, 8 months ago to boston

Retaining wall on steep hill behind #OakSquare apartment building collapses causing mudslide that partially buries some cars in mud
#Brighton #Boston #mud https://www.universalhub.com/2023/retaining-wall-steep-hill-behind-oak-square

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

Catnip is in the mint family.
So why is cat toothpaste meat flavored and not catnip flavored?

(mint isn't safe for cats, sadly, but catnip is so I have questions.)

I just don't understand how meat flavored toothpaste is going to help at all with her meat flavored breath.

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

Would you like to hear a charming little angsty song?

If you know who "The Cure" is, but never heard of "The Church" that is a crime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osz-GQbX37o

techghoul, 8 months ago to random

just enjoyed this wcvb chronicle 1984 lookback with video original teacher andi edson @universalhub
https://www.wcvb.com/article/back-to-school-nostalgia-kindergarten-college-tufts-new-year-1984-education-boston/44911918

futurebird, 9 months ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember an ant, a colony member, a sister and a worker: Daffodil the Eastern Black Carpenter Ant. Daffodil loved to explore, she loved to escape and that's how we first got to know her, and suspecting that the same ant was escaping over and over she was given her yellow colors and her name. #namedAnts

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gbhnews, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to fediverse

🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 73F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 miles.

Special Counsel Jack Smith got a secret warrant for former President Trump's Twitter account, documents show.

There's been an 80% drop in unruly passenger incidents on US flights since 2021.

Free school meals, a pandemic program, are now permanent in #Massachusetts.

There are 82 days remaining until #Halloween.

esther, 9 months ago to random

Reminder that you should absolutely never use the website called “sci-hub dot st” to get free access to research papers instead of feeding the greed of for-profit publishers.

That’s basically communism, which is of course illegal. 👩🏻‍🏫

universalhub, 9 months ago to boston

Watahtown man wants to staht a riva ferry to #BeaconHill called Wada Hoppah
#CharlesRiver #Boston #WatertownMA https://www.watertownmanews.com/2023/08/04/watertown-man-planning-to-ferry-people-to-and-from-boston-on-charles-river

mekkaokereke, 9 months ago to random

Fantastic accomplishment!♥️👍🏿

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/

And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.

So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢

Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.

#BlackMastodon

universalhub, 9 months ago to random

The most #NewEngland road signs ever. #Fitchburg https://www.facebook.com/AmandaCote/posts/pfbid0zW2t7EwvYkAWnK7bk271Nm4TNrpn9NeKfm1jhoEXrhiy5qPG5FtyLBH5Ew4XYdCWl

mcc, 10 months ago to random

Someone submitted this feature request to Tusky (Mastodon Android client) and I think it is a very interesting idea for Mastodon in general https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issues/3860

futurebird, 10 months ago to random

Clarence Thomas has been letting his "friends" from the ... (and this is their real name!) "Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans" use the Supreme Court's rooms and furniture -- which isn't really done and seems mostly a scheme to gain favor with the kind of wealthy people Clarence admires so uncritically.

"The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans!"

might as well be

"The Society of Artificially Endowed Fail-sons and their Bootstrap Pulling/Licking Lackeys."