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‘Dirty Rain’ Falls Over Multiple States
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‘Dirty Rain’ Falls Over Multiple States

Rain showers following a massive Texas dust storm left buildings and vehicles from Missouri to West Virginia covered in a grimy film, a rare weather event known as “dirty rain.” What do you think?
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#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons
Unsettled Tom Meme. Text reads "Me reading what some of you are putting up with just to play some dnd"
#ttrpg #funny #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #dndmemes #ttrpgmemes

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Elon Musk to CNN: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it's they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” Empathy, he said, has been “weaponized.” Now read the attached, below: G.M. Gilbert was the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. His words are as valid today as they were in the 1940s. "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, | think, is the the absence of empathy." -- G.M. Gilbert

What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?

One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick: Here is something I’ve never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood: The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the…
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I may have become a little obsessed with border patterns...
#DreamsOfAmarna
Sheet of border patterns inspired by ancient Egypt. They are all in turquoise and green, set on a diagonal.
#dreamsofamarna

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Hi #makershour @makershour I’m Vicki and I had a lot of fun making this Clanger
Side view of knitted Tiny Clanger
#makershour @makershour group

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#history #SilkRoads #china

A study has ascertained that the domestic cat were traded along the Silk Roads to China. Cats arrived into China about 600CE, which was 1500 years after their introduction into Europe. Cats were given as gifts by merchants to wealthy Chinese.

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#history #china #SilkRoads

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Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?

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Have Li-ion Batteries Gone Too Far?

The proliferation of affordable lithium batteries has made modern life convenient in a way we could only imagine in the 80s when everything was powered by squadrons of AAs, or has it? [Ian Bogost] …
Hackaday

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#ThrowbackThursday to my first time playing Respectable Street "Punk On The Patio" 2025.02.21 #tbt (Vid description: a white guy with long hair DJing at a big table. The background has industrial looking power lines and then behind that is a high rise apartment building.)
#tbt #throwbackthursday

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► FunHouseRadio.com
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
FunHouse Radio
#meme #stream

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Kriminalitätsstatistik: Brandenburger Bericht wird in Teilen zurückgezogen

Erst am Montag hatte Innenministerin Lange die Kriminalitätsstatistik vorgestellt. Nun stellt sich ein Teil als fehlerhaft heraus.

"Es ist schon bemerkenswert: Erst wird mit großem Pathos eine Statistik präsentiert, die eine verzerrte Darstellung der Ausländerkriminalität liefert und dabei rechtspopulistische Narrative bedient - und dann stellt sich heraus, dass die Zahlen schlicht falsch sind“

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Kriminalitätsstatistik: Brandenburger Bericht wird in Teilen zurückgezogen

Der Tagesspiegel

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#ScribesAndMakers Shameless Self-Promotion Day.

Behold! and click on my shiny self!
lydiavvinters.com/

And buy pretty prints and journals: redbubble.com/people/OddlyWitc…

(I know, I can never do a self promo without wielding a bit of ridiculous sarcasm.)

#writingcommunity #artist #illustration #fedigiftshop #design #mastoart

Loads of tiny pictures together on a black background. All fantasy illustrations.
Collection of posted spells.
Blogposts.
Product images of designed notebooks and journals.

Lydia Vvinters

Eclectic Witch
Lydia Vvinters
#writingcommunity #MastoArt #illustration #fedigiftshop #artist #scribesandmakers #design

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TI's tiny #microcontroller is the world's smallest and costs less than 20 cents - zdnet.com/article/tis-tiny-mic… " This remarkable device is only a little larger than a pepper flake." insane

TI's tiny microcontroller is the world's smallest and costs less than 20 cents

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (ZDNET)
#microcontroller

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This is disgusting

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Arlington Cemetery scrubs pages of Black, Hispanic, women vets

The Arlington National Cemetery website "unpublished" links to material about Black, Hispanic and women veterans.
Matt White (Task & Purpose)

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Essen. Drei Unbekannte haben einen 33-Jährigen im Essener Westviertel hinterrücks angegriffen. Die Polizei hat Fotos der Männer veröffentlicht.

Nach einem hinterhältigen Angriff dreier Männer auf einen 33-Jährigen bei McDonald‘s an der Hans-Böckler-Straße im Essener Westviertel fahndet die Polizei mit Fotos einer Überwachungskamera nach den mutmaßlichen Schlägern.

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Brutaler Angriff bei McDonald‘s: Wer sind diese Schläger?

Bei McDonald‘s im Essener Westviertel ist ein 33-Jähriger hinterrücks angegriffen worden.
Jörg Maibaum (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung)

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Dry stone dyke nerds: what do you call the ridge of ragged stones on top of the wall? Here, on Sanday in Orkney (Scotland), they're Rag Stones. What do youse call them?
A ragged dry stone wall with awkwardly stacked rocks and a lot of lichen
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I don’t know what they’re called, but I do know @kristiedegaris knows a _lot_ about dry stone walling.
@Kristie
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Kristie
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@shezza_t Copes here in Perthshire, boring I know. I've heard toppers from drystone wallers in England. Regional styles and regional lingo for Drystone is so interesting!
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@kristiedegaris I’ve walked sections of our most famous Northern Irish dry stone wall, and wish the guides would give more details about the actual wall itself.

We hear about its length, and how many men were involved in building it; but nothing about why they built the different sections the way they did.

@BadgerandVole

A grey granite dry stone wall stretches across a scrubby heather covered plateau, climbing up the slope of the mountain in the distance.
A straight on look at the intricate construction of a granite dry stone wall, showing the seemingly random boulders that make up the main body of the wall. The top level of the wall is capped with much smaller stones. The grass of the field behind the wall can be seen in the gaps between the stones.
Looking along the Mourne Mountain wall at Hare’s Gap. The wall here looks like the stones have been shaped to make a much more closely knit structure. The top row of stones jut out over the wall.
Close up on the Hare’s Gap wall showing a large flat step stone jutting out from the face of the wall.
@Kristie @Badger
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Kristie
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@shezza_t The stones jutting out might be through stones but hard to tell, and the stones on top are called coverbands where I'm from.
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Badger
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@kristiedegaris @shezza_t we'd call those through stones (steens, though), too! The rag(ged) stones on top of our dykes is to deter roaming livestock, although I've had to repair a few dykes where a bull has put all his weight on it to try to get to a grass verge! It seems much more peaceable to have a neat, flat layer. Also: we mainly have beach stone, so I'm envious of how neat these can get!!
@Kristie @@shezza_t
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Kristie
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@shezza_t They can indeed get very neat, but the core of the craft is doing what you can with what you have!
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Badger
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@kristiedegaris @shezza_t Indeed! And I can do a decent job with round stone and a rubble heart, I just really enjoy it when it's not quite such a balancing act! Still, it's very much early days for me, a little over a year apprenticed to an octogenarian expert, so I know I have a lot of learning to come!
@Kristie @@shezza_t
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Kristie
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@shezza_t I've been doing it for 4 years now and I'll be learning forever I think. We use a lot of fieldstone here in Perthshire so something like sandstone or slate is a treat.
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Over a month of development went into this little guy! Can’t wait to share him with the world this weekend! #StarWars #Droid #PitDroid #Scifi #3dprinting #3dprinted #maker
My 3d printed Star Wars Pit Droid
#StarWars #SciFi #3dprinting #maker #3DPrinted #droid #pitdroid

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This is not AI:

Trump threatens to copy Putin’s Crimean invasion, by using existing US bases on Greenland as a bridgehead to invade the Island — just like Putin sent thousands of soldiers to his Sevastopol base on Crimea to start the invasion.

I am sorry, but I can only conclude the US is now an enemy of The Kingdom of Denmark.

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Many high politicians in France support the idea of sending troops to Greenland... if Denmark request them.

lejdd.fr/International/menaces…


Menaces de Trump contre le Groenland : Jean-Noël Barrot n’exclut pas l’envoi de militaires français

Le président des États-Unis n’a de cesse de réitérer sa volonté de mettre la main sur le Groenland, territoire semi-autonome du Danemark.
Tristan Cavert (Lejdd.fr)

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The facts behind the 19 programs President Donald Trump described as ‘waste’

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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption


The facts behind the 19 programs Trump described as ‘waste’

Ten million dollars for male circumcision in Mozambique, $8 million to make "mice transgender," and $20 million for "the
@politifact
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #trump #gopcult #corruption #ethics
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twosky2000
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some rumors and false understanding through starting in the middle of the conversation.

I be quite now, I'm follow because DnD.

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Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron
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Trump Announces New Visa Tier For Immigrants Who Will Be Friends With Barron

WASHINGTON—Extending an offer to immigrants hoping to relocate to the United States, President Donald Trump unveiled a new type of visa Thursday for any foreign citizen willing to move to America to be friends with his son Barron.
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The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. The back cover reads as follows: Shanghaied May Ri struggled when the EM goon clamped an aromatic wet rag over her nose and mouth... Waking weightless and nauseated—stuffy head pounding, being floated somewhere—despite grogginess, she eyes-closed punched someone, spinning away to bounce off a wall. The click of cartilage, the thump off a bulkhead, the blare of a warning horn, and "Rig for ring spin!" rang in her ears. A tech clapped a bag over her mouth before she vomited up her last putrified meal, while enduring the blonde's glare as blood beaded around her nose. May Ri glowered back. Sitting on the wall, dragged on her butt, her inner ear then her innards soon informed her the wall was becoming the floor. From the author: “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”

RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist (@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe)

> 2503.01 — Women #Writever #Mars #SpaceOpera ## Mars needed women. May Ri bought into the hype and the spiel, not realizing it was the last gasp of a long dead oligarch's dream. When the money dried up, nobody would finance the supply missions.
Eldritch Café
#writingcommunity #writing #writer #author #sciencefiction #writersofmastodon #art #sff #artwork #alttext #writers #gender #scribesandmakers #fiction #boostingissharing #commentingiscool #sf #rsdiscussion #rsstory #rsmarsneededwomen #coverart
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Crowd Supply is hosting: Hackaday Europe pre-event: Bring a Hack. Come hang with us if you are in Berlin!

crowdsupply.com/events/2025/3/…

Hackaday Europe pre-event: Bring a Hack | Crowd Supply

www.crowdsupply.com

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Join the Crowd Supply team for Hackaday Europe 2025 at Motion.labs in Berlin. The event takes place on March 15th and 16th and will be filled with cool talks, badge hacking and workshops. This is a ticketed event.

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Hackaday Europe | Crowd Supply

www.crowdsupply.com

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Executing a “wind down” implemented in the final days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Treasury has now formally ended an exemption that allowed sanctioned Russian banks to process European payments for oil sales.

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#Google calls for weakened #copyright and export rules in #AI policy proposal - techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/goog…

Google calls for weakened copyright and export rules in AI policy proposal | TechCrunch

Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump Administration's call for a national "AI Action Plan." The
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#Google #ai #copyright
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AIPAC ur bags
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AIPAC ur bags
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from slave labour to pollution, data harvesting to copyright theft... it would seem industry can't make an honest buck once it gets to a certain size. Break 'em up I say!

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In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity - arstechnica.com/science/2025/0… " Selecting trainable dogs may have gotten us dogs that would do anything for a treat. " plausible... #dogs

Have we accidentally bred some dogs for obesity?

Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
#dogs

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I don’t often tear into the Democrats. But I have to call them out when they’re about to go with their worst political instincts. My write-up on the possible Senate Democratic capitulation: open.substack.com/pub/statusku…

Senate Dems: Don’t Be Complicit

Senate Democrats believe they are in a political bind, but that’s true only if they lack resolve and lose the narrative.
open.substack.com

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This online database tracks the 100+ legal challenges against #trumpmeltdown - mashable.com/article/trump-law… more, please....

Dozens of lawsuits against Trump chronicled in handy online tracker

Keeping tabs on the numerous challenges to the Trump administration just got a little easier.
Chase DiBenedetto (Mashable)
#trumpmeltdown

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#Mastodon is taking off! But Internet history provides numerous examples of other promising platforms for the digital public sphere that have died untimely deaths (remember Second Life?).

@rwg and @aram, who have reviewed the history and looked at the challenges, and still bullish on the #Fediverse.

Do you think Mastodon will have staying power? theconversation.com/the-fedive…
#MastodonMigration


The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls

The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
The Conversation
#fediverse #mastodon #mastodonmigration @Robert W. Gehl @Aram Sinnreich
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Regezi
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🤫 more than Mastodon or Pixelfed...
I'm still thinking about whether there could be a Fediverse where, for example, controversial (state) representatives would be read at all..? On which additional levels would journalists have to move in order to still see the controversial things despite being hidden or blocked?
Even if I feel extremely comfortable here (would like to read more science here) - some aspects of the former Twitter may be difficult to implement...
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Troed Sångberg
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My Mastodon instance need no external funding. It thus has provably more staying power than any commercially funded service.

@rwg @aram

@Robert W. Gehl @Aram Sinnreich

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#Covid #Vaccines Have Paved the Way for #Cancer Vaccines - wired.com/story/wired-health-l… "The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients." but will #muricans be allowed to use them...? #vax
#covid #vaccines #cancer #muricans #vax

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No lies detected.
X post by Acyn (@Acyn ). The text of the post quotes Walz, stating, "WALZ: If trade is so bad with Canada. He was the guy who signed the deal. I think this is how he ran business. He stiffed contractors, he stiffed workers. He doesn’t pay his bills. He declares bankruptcy. The one thing is his claim that he’s the business president. He is the worst possible business executive that I have ever witnessed." Below the text, there is an image from an MSNBC broadcast featuring two individuals in suits sitting at a news desk. The background shows a cityscape at night with lights. The ticker at the bottom of the image reads, "THE TRUMP ECONOMY: 0R’24 AMPS UP CANADA ATTACKS AT EXPENSE OF U.S. ECONOMY," and includes the MSNBC logo, a timestamp of 8:14, and the label "LIVE."
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Elfbiter
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Note that there really are businesspeople who think that _that's how business should be done_.

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Browser Use, one of the tools powering #Manus, is also going viral - techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/brow… "Browser Use is one of the components Manus employs to execute various tasks, like clicking through site menus and filling out forms." #ai

Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral | TechCrunch

The virality of AI 'agent' platform Manus from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has benefitted another tool: Browser Use.
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#ai #manus

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Corruption is the name of the game for the entire GQP

Marjorie Taylor Greene Urges DOJ Probe Into Tesla Protests—A Possible House Rules Violation Since She Owns The Company’s Stock forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2…


Marjorie Taylor Greene Urges DOJ Probe Into Tesla Protests—A Possible House Rules Violation Since She Owns The Company’s Stock

Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Violated Ethics Rules: Urges DOJ, FBI Investigation Into Tesla Protests While Owning Company’s Stock
Zach Everson (Forbes)

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Popular program to promote women becoming aerospace engineers is at risk
"Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…

Popular program to promote women becoming aerospace engineers is at risk

“Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all.”…
Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
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Al & Val's Modern Homesteading
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My niece is an aerospace engineer. She's gone from working on one of the the SLS engine stages to now managing a DoD project that's recently been in the news. She's received the Army's top civilian employee award. Without her, both projects would have been far longer in development.

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fun post:

nanochess.org/transputer_opera…

in the early 90s I got a job writing code for a professor, and the computer I used at work had an expansion board full of transputers. alas, I never did anything with it beyond loading a hello world


My teen years: The transputer operating system

History of the evolution of my C compiler and operating system for transputer when I was age 16.
nanochess.org
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John Regehr
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I wonder if this prop unintentionally illustrated the ergonomics of their programming environment
a four-handled coffee mug promoting the Inmos T9000 Transputer
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Matt Blaze
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Also, that seems to illustrate timesharing, not multiprocessing. Multiprocessing would probably be a single handle attached to multiple cups.

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In our latest office hours, we chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky to talk about the cross-platform design system she and her team are building. If you're curious about Open Source design and/or the look and feel of Thunderbird, check it out!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Design

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/v…


VIDEO: The Thunderbird Design System

The Office Hours Team chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky about moving from 28 shades of blue to the new Thunderbird Design System.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#OpenSource #design #thunderbird
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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@lps Thanks! We also have an account here that automatically posts whenever we upload a new video to our TILvids channel, @thunderbird@tilvids.com
@Thunderbird @lps

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How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record. Parts 1 and 2. By Peter Kaufman

A fascinating look at how video dominates our era, and how we can establish truth in the video age.

openculture.com/2025/03/how-th…

openculture.com/2025/03/how-th…

How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2

Eastman giving Edison the first roll of movie film, via Wikimedia Commons This piece picks up where Part 1 of Peter Kaufman's article left off yesterday...
Peter B. Kaufman (Openculture.com)

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And there you have it. comicsands.com/musk-daughter-i…

Vivian Wilson Reveals Musk Uses Sex-Selective IVF

Koh Mochizuki (Comic Sands)
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Tiny Gamer Alec
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Is anyone remotely surprised? The man is a colossal egomaniac who wants to leave a literal army of mini-mes to control the world when he finally fucking dies.

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That makes sense.
It is common for foot surgeons to perform foot surgery with their feet.

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This is a form of dogfooding and an important incentive mechanism too keep up foot quality.

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XKCD: Off by One

Source: xkcd.com/3062/

It does come at the cost of a lot more off-by-40-50 errors

Off By One

xkcd

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I'm getting a couple of things digitized for a small exhibition in the fall called Fashion Police: Legal and Social Regulation of Women's Clothing, including this fabulous memento mori image about the fleeting vanity of fine clothes and other fashionable pursuits. id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/991538…
A handcolored late 18th century engraving depicting a woman bisected vertically to represent life (left) and death (right); in life, the woman stands in a park with a high hedge, fashionably dressed, holding a fan in her gloved hand, at her feet are items representing earthly pleasures--playing cards, a masquerade ticket, a book on gaming, and a book of "Romances and novels"--in death, she is depicted as a skeleton, standing in a cemetery before a large obelisk gravestone, holding an arrow which points towards a wormed skull and a bone lying before the gravestone; the upper portion of obelisk is engraved with biblical verses on death and vanity, the lower with selections from Hervey's "Meditations among the tombs", Alexander Pope's "Elegy to the memory of an unfortunate lady", and a line from Hamlet, Act 5, scene 1.
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