Step 1: Pick up nasty dog poo with dog poo bag.
Step 2: Throw dog poo bag to the side of the road.
????

Okay, hear me out. A Baking Show, but no one gets eliminated. The contestants help and learn from each other throughout the series and at the end of it they vote on who takes the top prize. Cooperation not Competition.

#USPol #VoteBlue

So the U.S. “advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution.” due to terrorist-organization inspired threats. Sec of State Blinken said in a statement, “people in the LGBTQ+ community continue to face insidious forms of stigma and discrimination."

Bitch, you gotta be kiddin’ me. There are currently 515 anti-#LGBTQ bills in U.S. states right now. Facing insidious forms of stigma and discrimination?

THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!
https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights-2024

The decisions and policy that have the most profound impacts on the greatest number of human lives often aren't the ones talked about most often in political discourse.

What is the biggest difference between life in this era and say... European feudalism?

I would argue it's near universal literacy. And along with simply having access to the written word, the highest percentage of a population armed with some scraps of what you might call a "liberal arts education"

The ability to self-teach.

the secret they don't want to tell you about vegetarian food is it actually tastes better than meats when it's a dish not intended to imitate meat at all

Frozen World ❄️ 🏔️ Speedling for Twistedthorns

#furryart

Let us all celebrate the death anniversary of Christopher Columbus, a man who was such an asshole he was jailed for mistreating Native Americans *in the 15th century.*

Huh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary

do you need a bit of chaos in your day-to-day life? don't worry, i'm here to help 🐺

This week, an anti-colonial uprising broke out in Kanaky, an archipelago in the South Pacific. Kanaky was named “New Caledonia” by British colonizer James Cook and has been occupied by France under that name since the 19th century. The Kanaks are black indigenous peoples of the islands whose cultures face genocide from white French “immigrants” who drive them from their lands and impose capitalism. For more general information:

https://www.infolibertaire.net/?s=Kanaky

France is a member of NATO, an ally of Israel, the capital of anti-immigration racism in Europe, a nuclear-armed state, etc. By attacking France, we support not only Kanaky’s struggle for freedom but also that of many other peoples, including other French colonies in the South Pacific. and Caribbean.

If you live near a city, you probably live near a French political, cultural or diplomatic institution or a company that does business with them. You probably live under a government which maintains links with France. Targets are everywhere!

Solidarity means attack, the lessons we learned in the fight against genocide in Palestine, Sudan and Congo can be applied at the same time to those pushing for the French-led genocide of the Kanaks.

Black Power Worldwide! Death to France!

Received by email

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/17/solidarity-means-attack-fuck-france-free-kanaky/

#AntiColonial #callToAction #internationalSolidarity #Kanaky #oceania

How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they _didn't_ embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

Ha! The Discord GDPR/Data Export thing reveals that it's running models to figure out what gender you are. If you go to /activity/analytics/events-*.json and grep for predicted_gender you get something like:

{
  "user_id": "282657081457115136",
  "predicted_gender": "male",
  "probability": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_male": 0.8413839340209961,
  "prob_female": 0.11650349199771881,
  "prob_non_binary_gender_expansive": 0.04211260750889778,
  "model_version": "2024-05-08T00:00:00.000000Z",
  "day_pt": "2024-05-15 00:00:00 UTC"
}

Anyway, they seem to have this datapoint _over time_! Meaning you can make a graph of how male/female/NB you are according to discord, here is mine:

Best genre of work bikeshedding: what’s. that. integer!

Is it auto incremented? Is it random? It’s too small to be random but too big to be serial! Is it a date stamp? Is a portion of it a date stamp? What’s the current Unix timestamp? How many digits is a billion? … XOR?????

Hey Graphics Folks, ever wonder who the “Phong” was that invented Phong shading?

Turns out his last name wasn’t Phong, that online picture of him isn't even him, and his death is connected to the U.S. military’s use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War.

Dr. Oh, Dr. Tran, and I wrote about it here:
https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/

Hey folks!

I'm the creator of Python @pillow & today is my birthday. Can I ask you for a favor?

I'm looking for a new role & I'd appreciate a boost. Check out my resume here:

- https://aclark.net/resume/

I'm passionate about Python, open source & making a living with open source. What's the next move?

Thank you @willmcgugan for the nudge ❤️