Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

BIG NEWS: A first-of-its-kind provision in the must-pass defense bill will ban former senior State officials from advising China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, or Syria FOR LIFE and other countries for 3 years. Secretaries & Deputies are banned from ALL advising @SenateForeign@twitter.com

Like, there are ways to self-rationalize not vaccinating, attending leisure gatherings and even going to work sick. We all do things we know we probably shouldn't.

But the mask thing is pure 100% self-aware absolute egoism. I *will* remember you are capable of that.

I'm a pretty empathetic person normally, so just for my own sanity, a couple months into the pandemic I'd made up a very simple mental rule for myself.

A person who prefers a real possibility of causing someone else's death or disability over having to smell their own breath does not deserve sympathy, now or ever again.

This year there are people actively being killed and that's causing us here some minor financial problems, so seeing people for who they are got even easier.

According to #Wikidata there are 18,218 universities worldwide.

I've worked out ( https://w.wiki/65$4 ) that 37 of the Wikidata entries have Mastodon accounts associated with them (not including bot accounts and sub-department accounts).

I'm confident there are more. 😀

Can you share this appeal widely, please, to either add Mastodon addresses to Wikidata items by editing directly, or letting me know of others and I'll add them.

#BoostWelcome #Boost
[Edited to add missing bracket]

#MastoAdmin #Abuse Is there a way to recover a post that a user has deleted? Or a way to set a user deleted post as not visible but still in the database? After poking around the database and doing some tests it looks like an erased post is removed from the “status” table and no longer exists anywhere else I can find. That leads to a way for abusers to post and delete as well as no easy way to investigate abuse.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Announcing Bumblebee: from GPT2 to Stable Diffusion neural networks for Elixir. And - with Livebook v0.8 - all it takes for you to give it a try is three clicks.

Watch the video announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3oyh3g1AtQ

Read the news: https://news.livebook.dev/announcing-bumblebee-gpt2-stable-diffusion-and-more-in-elixir-3Op73O

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"Excuse me," said the robot.
"How can I help?" the librarian asked.
"I have just been manufactured. My training includes everything I need to work, and to navigate society."
"That's nice."
"But..."
"Yes?
"Is there more?"
"Yes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

a debugging manifesto

If you're in the business of writing research languages, you can do a lot worse than compiling to Chez Scheme. It is, in some sense, an already existing fast implementation of the lambda calculus. You've got to know your target though!

Which is another way of saying, today I made a one word edit that makes Idris run twice as fast.

Okay I've never made one of these posts before, but here goes.

I'm looking for a job, starting early to mid January! My main area of experience is web developement, both back and frontend, but I'm always interested in learning new skills. I'm currently a cs student in college, so my availablility is limited to somewhere around a 25-hour workweek.

You can find my resume here: https://mineralexistence.com/resume/

Please boost for visibility! (right? that's how this works?)

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"Woke" literally means anti-racist

"Antifa" literally means anti-fascist

If someone is "against" these what does it say about them?

#antifa #woke #racists #fascism