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What's life like in advertising these days? When I was a child you could buy a commercial during the Saturday morning cartoons to sell your toy (or buy the whole cartoon) and you could put your car commercial on during the Evening News.

And you'd reach most of your "demographic."

But now? a maze of influencers and fragmented media (I don't think influencers really matter much, they are just the most familiar item in the new landscape for advertisers.)

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the public. For example, if you are waiting, there are two ways to avoid waiting becoming suffering. You can either find something interesting to think about, or do the mindfulness thing and intentionally keep words out of your head.

Neither option is possible if there is an ad playing. Medical ads are the worst. Health fear is one of the worst mental states, and deliberately inducing that is just evil. When those ads are playing, I get out of the supermarket faster, and buy less.

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So to me the breakthrough would be finding a way to reach the public without causing annoyance or pain. If I am trying to find something online and an ad gets in the way, that is unpleasant.

However, I look through Slickdeals and Vine every day. Sometimes buy something too. Those are ads but I want to see them. How can we make advertising more like Slickdeals, and less like pop-ups on phones and shingles vaccine commercials in Ralphs?




AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower, Mt. Umunhum, Los Gatos, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the interference to TV reception, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53…

#photography

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@CppGuy My partner’s dad used to work at a British defence facility in the sixties.

He told us the men would pop up to the radar dishes on the roof for a few minutes on a Friday so they didn’t have to use condoms on the weekend…

Probably explains a lot about GenX.



Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

wired.com/story/ai-safety-inst…

#news #tech #technology #security #AI #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump

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A very useful resource for understanding the meaning of shell commands and how they work. Entering examples in the search bar and getting accurate explanations is great.
Oh, I really wish I had known this sooner.
explainshell.com/



today is the last day to submit a comment to the white house on tech companies & trump trying to loosen copyright for the purpose of AI:

whitehouse.gov/briefings-state…

If you care about art & privacy, please voice your dissatisfaction with this plan.



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Niiiiiiiiiice


Okay okay okay I am *excited*

Thanks to the kindness of @mhoye , I have now acquired an Artifact. And I am going to get up to some utter nonsense with it


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Apparently the last shipped Newton software has a critical bug if the date is allowed to progress past January 2025, so… 1996 it is!

I love how they went to the bother of stuffing the margins of all these intro/setup screens with cute little drawings.

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The Newton’s clock is actually good for about 15 years. There was a patch to let it reference dates after 2010, and now there’s a new replacement patch for 2025.
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My brother still has one of these in a drawer somewhere that he bought new. My brother has a history of backing the wrong technological horse.




When Gonzo Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrated George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995)

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Pals! Page from a National Geographic in my collection, 1925. The article is “Collarin' Cape Cod. Experiences on Board a U.S. Navy Destroyer in a Wild Winter Storm” by Lt. H.R. Thurber.


Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn

Interactive version
moebio.com/research/sevensets/


in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

This isn't on the FAA: it was an engine fire in an older 737-800 (manufactured before 2001). Either a bird strike or maintenance, nothing to do with air traffic control or the airport.
in reply to Charlie Stross

@cstross Certainly not ATC, but, the FAA does set the maintenance and airworthiness standards for aircraft, which may have been a factor here.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Nope. Or to have tornadoes and soon-to-be erupting volcanos. FEMA and Alaska Volanic Observatory have cuts.


15 March 1935 | A French Jewish girl, Paulette Wajnryb, was born in Metz.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 6 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among the 639 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber.



God, I had to physically restrain myself.

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Looking at these and getting an American psycho business card internal monologue like "the tasteful rounding of the keycaps..."


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mastodon - Link to source
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@mcSlibinas Yeah, it's fine now, didn't take long to get used to.


I took the day off to do a thing. Then I registered to vote, and got my passport photo taken.


i want to try to collect up some observations about programming in this mode, and how it differs from usual programming even in languages like Agda, which have much richer interactions than usual

kolektiva.social/@beka_valenti…

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probably a good reference point here would be something similar to how some Lisps in the past have debugging modes where, when an error is encountered, the program shifts into a REPL that lets you fix the error live as the code is running
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undefined variable? drop into a REPL and let the user define it, and then continue running the program

use appropriate patching to insert that definition back into the program's source code so the definition doesn't get lost and repeat itself





Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links.

The shameless racism is nakedly on display.

bsky.app/profile/derekdel.bsky…

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Fortunately there is a complete list of Medal of Honor awardees at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_…

Many of the profiles don't have photos. Many were Black and Brown Americans.




Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news campaign, IOC's Bach says

The International Olympic Committee had to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games, its outgoing president said.

reuters.com/sports/paris-games…

#news #olympics #paris #parisgames #russia #disinformation #politics #ioc





I've got a long held a theory that if a store's cash register says "IBM" on it, that store is a dead man walking. But anyone who's been in a Bay store or tried to buy something from their website recently has to have known this day was coming.

theglobeandmail.com/business/a…

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I was confused why "landlords" are on the list of reasons that a company older than Canada had to shutter but then I remembered that absolutely bonkers trend starting in the 90s and 2000s where businesses would sell their own real estate to renter companies and then rent the real estate back from those companies because that made Green Line On Graph Go Good Direction, and even as a callow yoot I remember thinking, what the actual fuck are you actually fucking doing, you short-sighted donkeys.
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From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson's… :

It looks like the end of the #HudsonsBayCompany has been coming for a while:

"In 2006, Jerry Zucker, an American businessman, bought HBC for US$1.1 billion."

The real estate was apparently reorganized under its own holding company:

"It also owns or manages approximately 3.7 million square metres (40 million square feet) of gross leasable real estate through its HBC Properties and Investments business unit."

(Granted, that "or" seems to do some heavy lifting to obfuscate how much it actually "owns" vs. just "manages".)

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non-paywalled link to article:

"Hudson’s Bay Co. may be forced to close all stores"

by Susan Krashinsky Robertson, Retailing reporter
Published 9 hours ago

archive.ph/mhsz7




Despite the rain, despite the government shutting down every form of public transport towards Belgrade, the amount of people on the streets of Belgrade right now is absolutely *insane*.

Today's protest is already being referred to as the biggest protest in Serbian history — and rightfully so.

The people are still pouring in, the peak of the crowd isn't expected until 8pm.

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"Protesting university students have led the nationwide anti-graft movement, which started after a concrete canopy collapsed at a train station and killed 15 people in Serbia's north on Nov. 1.

Many in Serbia blamed the crash on rampant government corruption, negligence and disrespect of construction safety regulations."

cbsnews.com/news/belgrade-prot…




in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Robert Heinlein was wrong about many things, but about the bald eagle: "the American Eagle eats carrion, never tackles anything its own size, and will soon be extinct".
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

omfg. Everyone knows you don’t mess with a Canada goose. We call them cobra chickens or assault chickens



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Playing chicken with my supply of toilet paper again. I learned an important lesson from last time and used a black marker instead of a red marker because the red marker bled into the paper and left red spots that alarmed me at a glance during use

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Another lesson was "don't put the only message on the outer edge because as you use the roll, the message will be erased"
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Some company should make a novelty roll like cash register tape that has a warning stripe. Or like the end of the roll turns to Brawny for a sensory notification.
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@jlamoree Yes! the last 200 squares are rough and splintery. That will be good motivation.
in reply to Emily Velasco

Also an excellent reminder to check one's calendar for major holidays.



Intro 5/10
This paper circuit project became my all-time favorite for parent-child workshops. It never fails to amaze kids or parents as the result is just fun to use and the build process is easy and straightforward. The idea is quite simple, and you can also repurpose an old PC fan for it. You can check my workshop instructions here: voltpaperscissors.com/spinartr…

#papercircuit #electronics #papercraft #STEM #MINT #maker #DIY

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