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@MostlyBlindGamer @Benhm3 it’s adorable, geeky, 90s internet stuff.
@MostlyBlindGamer @Benhm3 no picture required, just know the ambassador speaking is a besuited charming gentleman sitting rather awkwardly. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfYttPJgbc_/?rpxt=MzRpanN5ZmJra3Vu
Goat morning (and cat morning) from the barn cat who wants to snuggle even while the goat who wants to smash him is getting milked right next to him on the stanchion. Second picture shows the half-hearted smashing attempts (the cat is not bothered by this at all, which makes me think the goat's head-butting is not very strong, though she sure appears very angry at the cat!)
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Interview: Bernie Sanders on Why It’s Vital for Democrats to Replace Chuck Schumer | The Nation
...he is just not in tune with where his constituents are at... the United States should not provide another nickel of military aid to Israel, period...Chuck is a guy who wants to tinker around the edges.
Do you have a candidate in the race for majority leader? Chris Van Hollen has indicated he’s interested. And you would support him? Yes.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-chuck-schumer-interview-exclusive/
NEW: A veteran who couldn’t get cancer treatment.
Another unable to get surgery for a burst appendix.
Trump officials claim their VA overhaul hasn’t harmed veterans, but our reporting in New Jersey reveals a healthcare system stretched thin and falling short.
https://www.propublica.org/article/east-orange-va-hospital-veterans-decline-new-jersey?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Veterans #Hospital #NewJersey #VeteransDay #Health #Medicine #Trump
02:38 on Monday November 9th, over the Timor Sea
Bit unrelated, but is there any evidence that shows H1-B visa holders are paid less/exploited ? I'm seeing this a lot lately, mostly as comments on Reddit, Twitter and other socials (mostly by right wing heavy people/community), but would like to know if there's any evidence for these claims.
@kjv If there was evidence, people would actually point to it versus just ranting on social media without showing any data.
There are actually a bunch of rules in place to prevent this which big tech follow quite rigorously.
@filiph @freediverx not sure what part of their work you are referring to, but even their manifesto didn’t survive unscathed by the time they died. Engels even acknowledges this in one of his prefaces to later editions, where he presents the document as a historical artifact, but acknowledged the vast splinter movements and the flaws in their original document.
Like any plan, it needs to be adjusted with reality.
@Migueldeicaza @filiph
Exactly. No one has “figured this out” yet, but my vision of an ideal society is one that strives for democracy, egalitarianism, and an economic system that benefits the whole rather than the few.
Capitalism was an improvement on feudalism/monarchy, but we’re well past due for the next evolution—hopefully in the correct direction.
i mean, just impeachment would've been okay with me... seems a little extreme
@molly0xfff Sure, but what worries me more is, just what were they trying to summon with that kind of blood sacrifice?
The fuck in the thinly veiled threat or spectacular poor taste are they implying?
@hacks4pancakes mafia's style from Trump and this "administration" nothing surprising and after they will mention Ukraine and starlink?
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@aaronmoodie @mwichary @clive It’s been a while since I used it, but Ulysses was great, and looks like it’s still amazing. Drafts!
@mwichary @aaronmoodie @marcedwards
I’ve heard about it, should try it
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Size and commercialisation generally go hand in hand. After all, how do you keep something running with infinite users submitting infinite content for free?
This is a big issue for everyone, it’s important that the fediverse understands that size might some day increase the importance of sensible business models or proactive funding initiatives to counter the growth. This doesn’t mean harmful profit models necessarily, but it does mean keeping revenues under control for individually run nodes or for archiving services for old fediverse domains that might not exist forever.
all available #eth0 talk recordings are now published
-> https://media.ccc.de/c/eth0_2026
I did an oopsie during the modal logic talk so it sadly wasn't properly recorded. which is a shame because it was a nice talk...
@clive Yeah, I wrote my book in Scrivener. It was okay! But I also think it inherited some badness from rich text editing in Mac OS, the same stuff Notes smoothed out with its “poor text” approach.
My main problem with scrivener is that it has tons of features I never ever use … clutters up the UI
But for what I need it to do it works very well
I am certain if I put the time into it, I could configure obsidian to replicate exactly what I get out of scrivener — without the feature bloat, and with the additional benefit of markdown
I’m just lazy
@MostlyBlindGamer @Benhm3 people get angry when I link videos from other platforms here.
There is an extremely popular meme on multiple platforms right now that started when the Finland Embassy to Australia posted an advertisement for a dating trip to Finland that was extremely awkwardly cute, then their next post was a bureaucratic embassy closure notice for Tuesday. The whole world started announcing in a series of dramatic pieces that “the Finland Embassy to Canberra Will Be Closed!!✨
@MostlyBlindGamer @Benhm3 it’s adorable, geeky, 90s internet stuff.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
LOL you MAGA twats are all so delusional. You could find a conspiracy in the facts surrounding your own birth. But keep it up. This kind of make-believe will help you lose again and again. And that’s good for the rest of us.
I think I might do a "let's play #lispgamejam entries" stream later today.
Gonna go live in one hour. 11am US Eastern time.
"Some sloppy thoughts about AI" (Headline is a pun)
https://write.halfbyte.org/some-sloppy-thoughts-about-ai
> If this means that, in the long run, there is no longer a place for me here where I am right now, working as a freelancer on web applications (for the most part), then so be it.
Boy howdy, do I relate to this feeling. There's a decent chance that next year might become the first year since I finished university where I'm not doing paid web dev or software dev work. It's been increasingly slim pickings this year.
@baldur - Just piping up to say that you're not alone here. I'm pretty much in the same place with similar questions.
I'm very pro-local models and I'm looking forward to when more of the externalities are priced into the per-token cost, BUT I'm also a lead developer in an area where I have clients sending me their AI-authored code to include in what I'm building for them. (I informed them that since I didn't write it, there's no more warranty on the deliverable, and they're responsible now.)
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