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Local Animal Shelter Will Name a Feral Cat After Your Ex-Boyfriend — Then Neuter Him
For $50, they'll name a feral cat after your ex-boyfriend — then neuter him. Philly Today: Animal Shelter Helps You Get Revenge On Your Ex by VictorFiorillo
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- @SteveFaulkner on the one hand, i wanna ask what this is about. on the other hand, ugh, no thanks. ()
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if you eat a toaster pastry without cooking it first, that’s called Pop-Tartare
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No one has a cooking blog named “desperate thymes” yet and so there’s still progress to be made in the world.
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Posted 58 photos: Three days in The City for TAG f2f. Caledonian Sleeper home. There were bagpipes, because it was Burns Night.
https://rhiaro.co.uk/2024/01/photos-ldn
Three days in The City for TAG f2f. Views of shiny buildings from the Apple office. Lots of coffee and fancy food. Pizza at Purezza with MW before the Caledonian Sleeper home. There were bagpipes, because it was Burns Night.
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18 years later... I kind of wish Atom had found a way to use RSS in its name somehow I don't think people necessarily know what I mean when I say my site has an Atom feed, but my inner pedant gets upset when I call it an RSS feed! I wish "web feeds" had taken off as a term but I don't think it ever did
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happy international don't-pipe-curl-into-bash-awareness-day for all those who celebrate
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How do you publish an article about how to plan for inability to drive safely in old age, without any mention of moving to a place where you don't need a car?
An “advance directive” for driving is one tool that can help seniors and their loved ones plan for post-driving life. Will your older self refuse to give up the car keys? Here’s how to plan.
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My friend the activist says that by wearing a mask she is engaging in prefigurative politics: embodying a desired future through actions in the present. I ask if she desires a future where everyone is masked. She says no, she desires a future in which we take care of each other.
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— “Deathly violence is always spiritually uncleansing” , by @hober@mastodon.social ()
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Me happily spreading the good word about new CSS features on TikTok. Specifically ‘text-wrap: balance’ TikTok: why don’t you just use tailwind I think they missed the point of the video ✨
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"Why does this button not work ??" "Have you tried licking it? "
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The whole thing, on the **webpage**
Cat and Girl
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- On Being Listed in the Court Document of Artists Whose Work Was Used to Train Midjourney With 4,000 of My Closest Friends and Willem De Kooning ()
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- @numist what you want is AST diffing. which is a pretty good argument for languages whose surface syntax is closer to the AST. I miss Lisp. ()
- @tojiro but that would require effort ()
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A lot of people have responded to my Duolingo post with things like "Never work for free," and "I would never donate my time to a corporation.” Which I completely agree with. But here's the thing about Duolingo and all of the other companies like it. You already work for them. You just don’t know it. On Duo, I thought I was learning a language. Participating in the community by helping other learners and building resources seemed like part of the process. Luis Von Ahn, the CEO of Duolingo, was one of the creators of CAPTCHA, which was originally supposed to stop bot spam by getting a human to do a task a machine couldn’t do. In 2009 Google bought CAPTCHA and used it to get humans to proofread the books they were digitising (without permission from the authors of those books btw). So in order to access much of the web, people had to work for Google. Most of them didn’t know they were working for Google - they thought they were visiting websites. This is how they get you. They make it seem like they’re giving you something valuable (access to a website, tools to learn a language), while they’re actually taking something from you (your skills, your time, your knowledge, your labour). They make you think they’re helping you, but really you're helping them (and they’re serving you ads while you do it). Maybe if people had known what CAPTCHA was really for they would’ve done it anyway. Maybe I still would’ve done all that work for Duo if I’d known it would one day disappear from the web and become training data for an LLM ... ... Or maybe I would’ve proofread books for Project Gutenberg, or donated my time to citizen science projects, or worked on an accessibility app, or a million other things which genuinely improve people’s lives and the quality of the web. I didn’t get an informed choice. I got lured into helping a tech company become profitable, while they made the internet a shittier place to be. How many things are you doing on the web every day which are actually hidden work for tech companies? Probably dozens, or hundreds. We all are. That’s why this is so insidious. It’s everywhere. The tech industry is built on free labour. (And not just free – we often end up paying for the end results of our own work, delivered back to us in garbled, enshittified form). And it’s a problem that’s only getting worse with AI. Is that thoughtful answer you gave someone on reddit or Mastodon something that will stay on the web for years, helping people in future with the same problem? Or is it just grist for the LLMs? Do you really get a choice about it? #enshittification #duolingo #capitalism #AI #LLM #google
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NEW COVID wastewater update from Biobot: Looks like we are near the peak. The historical data shows we are in the second-largest wave since the start of the pandemic. Currently in the US, ~1 in 23 are infectious with COVID, and there are ~2 million new infections a day.
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"Jaywalking," also known as "walking."
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@covidsewage@simonwillison.net So...Palo Alto #SARSCOV2 levels in wastewater are *the highest they've ever been* - including the giant first Omicron wave in winter 2021-22. Palo Alto's not going to be the only place this is true. +I don't think predictions are adequately accounting for the fact that most kids went back to school today - bringing their family's holiday infections with them. That's going to amplify the wave. People no longer care about infecting their friends & neighbors. Terrible timing.
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- @fullfathomfive @virginia & her wife gave my kiddo the cutest book, The Snow Wombat, several years ago. I still read it to her and it makes me smile every time. ()
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The fact that the 737 MAX 9 even has "door plugs" is kind of absurd. Only terrible airlines like Ryanair would even use that second rear exit (it's needed for very high density configurations). So everyone else is put at risk because Michael O'Leary wants to smash more people's knees??
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- RT @chaykak: “sorry I responded late to your email I was unjustifiably terrified of opening it” ()
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Talk about eroding customer trust. Yikes.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io @RuthMalan@mastodon.social Yeah I cannot stress how much the big players prevent entrants into the market, and how much sheer cost they impose to stop spam, while still not being that good at it. Email as a system is way more complicated than most people know, and the fact that it still works at all is a miracle.
— Mx. Aria Stewart (@aredridel@kolektiva.social) ()
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For those keeping score at home.
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Not to be too smug about it, but I'm feeling pretty good about my decision not to buy a 737-MAX.
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Threads is where you go to have someone get mad at you for being too critical of their favourite Brand™️. Bluesky is where you go to have someone get mad at you over your choice of sandwich filling. Mastodon is where you go to have someone get mad at you for using the Wrong Software to open .doc files.
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- A tumble into 2024 ()
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- RT @veenadubal: In a country with the highest child wasting rate in the world, taking eggs away from children (because of a newly found rel… ()
- I want to love this watch so badly, but: https://www.watchcrunch.com/tesseraic/posts/a-tale-of-two-date-windows-271943 (Threads) ()
- homophobia from the New York Times (hober@cohost) ()
- @erynofwales I am literally doing the same right now. Happy to be an animal with you. 😁😅😘 ()
- this post brought to you by the number 7 and the letters “but I really need to send this bag back to stitchfix, ugh” ()
- When did the USPS replace all the hinged mailboxes with slot mailboxes that can’t accommodate even small packages? So annoying. ()
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@stevestreza@indieweb.social we showed a video of it to my partner’s daughter and her summary: “it didn’t event drop!? It just moved down!”
— Eryn Wells (@erynofwales@mastodon.social) ()
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- @amyvdh I'm somewhere between 3 and 4, I think. I've several years of Jesuit education to thank for that. ()
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One cannot simultaneously value my privacy and share every detail of my visit to a website, down to the &#%* screen size, with 1505 partners.
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I've always hated the Borg Queen, as I think it completely undercuts the key property of The Collective, the collectiveness. So in my head canon, the queen is a result of adapting to Hugh's return to the collective. When Hugh is returned, we know The Collective (or at least part of it) turns into a motley crew of individuals desperate for a leader. So in my head, the uninfected part of The Collective creates the Borg Queen to serve as this leader, thus adapting to "individuality virus" that Picard inadvertently unleashed. #starTrek
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- @knowler @brianleroux this is exactly right. As Mark Pilgrim said ages ago, HTML is The Format. https:// web.archive.org/web/2009033006 0533/https://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-history-2009-edition ()
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@brianleroux@indieweb.social My rule of thumb is to always persist to HTML. Editors can use Markdown if they want, but it should be able to get the content back into HTML without any content loss, otherwise, it’s not up for the job.
— Nathan Knowler (@knowler@sunny.garden) ()
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- I’m impressed by how much repressed Catholic shame this toot surfaced in me. ()
- tbh one of these days I’m gonna give in to my basest impulses and broil mashed potatoes *with nothing under them*. ()
- @karlcow molten chocolate cake, but I think we stole that from La France, ne? ()
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@ben@werd.social such privilege to have @maggie keynote our conference this year. I think her ideas will have currency decades from now.
— John Allsopp (@johnallsopp@indieweb.social) ()
- @karlcow a brownie sundae when the brownie is fresh out of the oven… mmmmm ()
- I’m no cook, but I do some things pretty well. EJ and I are having shepherds’ pie for dinner tonight. ()
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@hober@mastodon.social shouldireadthecomments-dot-org would be a true public service
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- @slightlyoff I suppose http:// shoulditweet.org/ and https:// shoulditoot.org/ could use some company. Perhaps "shouldieverlookattheorangewebsite.blogspot.co.uk"... ()
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Since it's my birthday today, I asked @natbat@wandering.shop if she could set me up a non-profit foundation which works as a co-operative where people can pool resources and donate their domain name and cash to keep it maintained (and static files served from it) forever, with a board of directors that appoints their own successors and keeps the thing running in perpetuity without it depending on any single individual She said she already got me a new watch
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