Ben Ford :grinchsmile:

Developer Advocate at @puppet; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! *\o/* I run marathons in those funny finger shoes.

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Staff Chief of Joints
the_etrain@beige.party

My Humps is my favorite song about Wednesdays.

13 hours ago
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Corrosive Dream
corrosivedream@troet.cafe

"Oxygen extraction by the body’s tissues was compromised in patients who had symptoms of after "

"Patients are told that their symptoms are a result of deconditioning, or decline from lack of physical activity.
Our findings contradict that hypothesis."

news.yale.edu/2023/12/19/study

1 day ago
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Jamison Foser
foser@mastodon.social

We knew the Republican Supreme Court would overturn Roe, but I was struck by how little the justices seem to have cared about the content of the actual decision to do so.

Wrote a thing for @takebackthecourt about what that means:

takebackthecourt.substack.com/

1 day ago
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Snowshadow
Snowshadow@mastodon.social
1 day ago
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Lili Saintcrow
lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com
ETA content warning for US politics and That Orange Blivet.

The cynic in me says, “This won't matter, he's escaped every other kind of consequence."

The rest of me says, “Maybe this will be the one that sticks?” Because boy howdy, it's a big one.

nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr

1 day ago
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jwz
jwz@mastodon.social

DNA Lounge Cybertruck (for pissing on), 2001: dnalounge.com/backstage/log/20

1 day ago
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Dana Fried
tess@mastodon.social

A St. Louis cop crashed his SUV into a gay bar, then beat up and arrested one of the owners (who is now charged with "assault").

riverfronttimes.com/news/st-lo

1 day ago
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Ghent
Ghent@social.devopsdays.org

So it begins .....

1 day ago
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Andrew Zonenberg
azonenberg@ioc.exchange

I can't be the only one who thinks this.

Given the circles I run in, often both meanings are equally plausible at first and I have to stop and think.

2 days ago
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Geordie 🕳️
geordie@aus.social

I am a simple man begging for tutorials with written word and not some 19 year old screaming WHAT'S UP YOU GUYS in a YouTube video

December 04, 2023
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Clive Thompson
clive@saturation.social

Man, the "dead internet" is arriving

@bhawthorne describes his recent experience searching for basic info online -- he looked for the temperature to roast hazelnuts, and got nothing but stochastic-parrot garbage: infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/1

He concludes:

"I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past."

2 days ago
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jwz
jwz@mastodon.social

Migrating from 1Password to Apple Keychain.

I had been a user of 1Password for at least 12 years, but now I'm breaking up with them and have switched to Apple Keychain instead. So far, I have no regrets.

1Password 7 was the last version where the...
jwz.org/b/ykHP

2 days ago
binford2k shared a status by BenjaminHCCarr

Make no mistake— is owned by
If we’re not careful, , , and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors. With vanishingly few exceptions, every , new entrant, and even AI research lab is dependent on computing infrastructure of Microsoft, Amazon, and to train their systems, and on those same firms’ vast consumer market reach to deploy and sell their AI. technologyreview.com/2023/12/0

2 days ago
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Cory Doctorow
pluralistic@mamot.fr
2 days ago
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Max Leibman
maxleibman@mastodon.social

You better watch out
You better not cry
You better not pout
I’m telling you why:

Toxic masculinity forbids displays of emotion

3 days ago