Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'? - Slashdot
Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California.developers.slashdot.org
Pretty wild to watch the best soft power (USAID) just disappear. I wonder if that role will end up being served by the military directly now.
Last spring I was doing some work with USAID folks. Good people doing things in the collective interest.
How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-ai-co…
w/ @alex
teilten dies erneut
"It's a free country"
...until it isn't. Musk isn't a member of any advertising corporation's promotional department and has no say on any advertising corporation's promotional strategies of choice.
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-52832…
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
mögen das
Alex Feldstein mag das.
The danger of the law going after a criminal absolutely is a deterrent. Without it, there would be far more crime.
Dems don’t need to be more like Trump. Trump is not and was never popular. He got fewer votes in ‘16 than Romney did in ‘12, he barely got more votes in ‘24 than he did in ‘20 (when he lost).
If everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump would have lost. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump would have lost.
Trump doesn’t win, he’s never been a popular candidate. The Democrats just lose to unpopular candidates by doing even more unpopular things.
Yesterday afternoon I responded to my inner paranoiac by doing a trial mix of the title for the second sideSister album. It was a fun learning experience.
The first and most important thing is that, yes, I can turn what we have into something that "sounds like a record". I had been a bit unsure about this, given that the approach we've taken to recording this album is quite different from any process I've used in the past.
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After applying clipping to individual drum kit elements (which allowed me to reduce their actual volume while retaining their impact), I turned my attention to the bass.
I tried a new technique for me, parallel processing the bass, with one channel bumping the pitch up an octave and applying a saturator to the result before merging with the original. It only takes a little of the octavated bass to provide definition; the original delivers the gut punching. Nice.
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Copyright Week 2025
Day 1: Copyright Policy Should Be Made in the Open With Input From EveryoneCopyright is not a niche concern.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Was die US-Zölle für Mexiko, Kanada und China bedeuten
US-Präsident Trump hat wieder Ernst gemacht und Mexiko, Kanada und China mit neuen Zöllen belegt. Die drei Länder kündigten Gegenmaßnahmen an. Die Zölle haben auch für europäische Unternehmen Folgen.
Vollste Solidarität in den #suendibleibt, der gerade von RWE gerodet wird, aus dem #dietilebt
#allewaelderbleiben
#jederbaumzaehlt
#waldstattasphalt
#keinbaumistegal
I feel like the Overton window has shifted massively to the right, and is still shifting faster and faster. It scares me that fascism is now normalized enough that they’re just dropping the pretense completely.
I’m not just scared because of the US but also because of Germany, in Germany the conservatives have recently broken the taboo of collaborating with the AfD, and are embracing vile racist rhetoric more openly than ever. The next federal election is in 3 weeks, and the conservatives will most likely win it by a landslide. It terrifies me. It feels like it’s obvious that we’re far beyond the point of no return (here, in the US, and probably in many other places too), fascism is considered “normal” now.
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@enby_of_the_apocalypse Sickening. Imagine the reaction if the January 6 insurrectionists were people of color.
You may have heard that a trans pilot was falsely accused of piloting the military helicopter that crashed with the commercial plane last week. She was nowhere near that location.
I said a while back:
I've been on HRT for a couple years now so I've seen a lot of changes when looking into mirrors, but the most important one is that the person on the other side seems to be smiling more.
You, a nonbinary person, are real.
No twisted rhetoric, tired bigotry, or irrational thinking can permanently plaster over the truth of your existence.
Hold tight to the truth.
I think the talk I gave with @tsyesika at FOSDEM today is maybe the talk I've had most people say they enjoyed that I've ever given. It was basically a "ten minute comedy sketch lightning talk, with purpose"
Sadly the recording / stream apparently failed to get the camera on us, which means you're going to miss a lot of it, because a lot of the humor was in the emoting on both of our ends
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On the one hand, I'm happy these people are resisting fascist ideology.
On the other hand, why are they still working for Meta? They're forking over private data of people who have had abortions to the authorities.
Wouldn't the right to do be to quit on the spot?
What would you do?
mashable.com/article/mark-zuck…
Mark Zuckerberg removed tampons from men's restrooms. Meta employees put them back.
Changing the system from the inside? IDK!Christianna Silva (Mashable)
On Trump's orders, officals released water from two California dams - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/environment/story/…
Vink agreed, saying that given how dry it has been in the region this winter, there was no need to make such a release. In fact, he said, farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation.
Stupid
On Trump's orders, officals released water from two California dams
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just opened up two California dams. A spokesperson says the flows are 'controlled' and being coordinated with local officials.Ian James (Los Angeles Times)
Andre Wemans mag das.
Hank G ☑️ hat dies geteilt.
There was a tragedy in Kursk town
Ukraine blamed Russia with a frown
A fatal missile strike
Left the people in plight
In war, innocent lives are cast down
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Ukraine blames Russia for fatal missile strike on Kursk school
Kremlin claims Ukrainian military attacked site in area occupied by Kyiv since last AugustGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Tens of millions of Americans have watched The Handmaid's Tale.
That does not surprise me.
What does surprise me is, some of those viewers watched it and though "Awesome! I am voting for the fascist then!"
One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA's $600B Stock Collapse - Slashdot
On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, "due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek.hardware.slashdot.org
#SaschaJanssen op X schreef:
Volgens mij hoog tijd om op de voorpagina’s van kranten en op journaal de fascistische besluiten te benoemen en te duiden als gevaarlijk. Dat is ook de taak van journalistiek. De macht bevragen daar waar rechten van burgers afgepakt of vermorzeld worden. 1/4
CDU-Parteitag soll am Montag Merz' Asylpläne beschließen
Die CDU will auf einem Parteitag am Montag ein "Sofortprogramm" für den Fall eines Wahlsieges beschließen. Teil sind auch Merz' umstrittene Migrationspläne. In der "Bild am Sonntag" sprach Merz von einer "Garantie" für eine Politikwende.
Deshalb darf #Miosga Nazis eine Bühne bieten im ÖRR.
Aber warum muss ich für die Propagandashow Frau Miosga Geld in ihren kackbraunen Rachen stopfen.
Der ÖRR ist kaputt.
Just about to completely miss out on hourly comic day (again). Usually, I just forget or I'm too busy. This time, I knew, but I've been sleeping lousy all week, and apparently my body decided to catch up by sleeping almost all day long.
This is all I can muster. Hope everyone else who participated or followed it had fun. :)
The Impact of Age Verification Measures Goes Beyond Porn Sites
As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe” for young people to access, and forcing online ser…Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is an important issue.
Right now, PornHub has a huge percentage of this kind of traffic, so it's a great opportunity to come up with a way that safely keeps underage people off the site. Block them and the traffic will be split to sites that care a lot less about following the rules, for both the content and consumption of that content.
David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch’s Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art
openculture.com/2018/07/david-…
David Foster Wallace Explains How David Lynch's Blue Velvet Taught Him the True Meaning of Avant Garde Art
Imagine you're a 'hypereducated avant-gardist in grad school learning to write.' But at your grad school, 'all the teachers are realists.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
So is this kind of like "Shadowland" on Australian Bluey (animated, amazing, creative, selfless parenting series).
In Kursk a tragedy did unfold,
A missile strike, so cruel and cold,
Ukraine blames Russia,
Families left in the anguish,
Heartbreak and sorrow, we are told.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Ukraine blames Russia for fatal missile strike on Kursk school
Kremlin claims Ukrainian military attacked site in area occupied by Kyiv since last AugustGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Robert #Habeck @roberthabeck
Eine dramatische, bittere Woche geht zu Ende. Und doch, trotz des Grabens, der sich heute aufgetan hat, ist meine gesamte politische Überzeugung, dass Demokraten mehr gemeinsam haben als sie trennt. Um diese Gemeinsamkeit kämpfe ich. Aus ganzem Herzen und mit voller Überzeugung.
#Bundestagswahl2025 #Habeck4Kanzler #Die_Grünen
zetabeta
Als Antwort auf It's Going Down • • •let be clear, i'm totally against trump and gop.
however, i advice against such demonstrations, and especially with ordinary smartphones or gadgets. trump administration is already out of control, and may track and surveil demonstrators. and penalties might be draconian.
use other methods, like social media and internet.
khm
Als Antwort auf zetabeta • • •ah yes the famously untrackable social media and internet
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