Notices by jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)

@drsbaitso @lorenipsum The "Swear Jar" Public License

@hashraydamon Oh FFS

What the actual fuck has Patreon done to their web site? Where has the list of my patrons gone? Where is the post button???

[skeleton needed] @molly0xfff

Given Automattic's self-immolation, do I need to be concerned about ratfuckery in the recent WordPress 6.7.1 release?

@jef Paint is so expensive man

@jef You lost me when I couldn't stop laughing at "download the CSV".

Good to see the outgoing Biden regime crowing about the things they are doing in the mad scramble of their last few weeks to fortify the bulkheads against the incoming shitstorm such as [...taps headset...] airline ticket refunds.

How to write a progress indicator, pro-style: (It has been a few years, so tried out Kodi again. It is still trash.)
https://jwz.org/b/ykdc

jfc this paper

"Profound similarities between highly nAChR affine toxins (i.e., from snakes of the Ophiophagus (cobra) [...], Rabies lyssavirus [...] strains [...] and Cobratoxin (naja siamensis) [...] and SARS-CoV-2 specific proteins were found by analyzing the toxin’s amino-acid (aa) sequence alignment and comparing it to the motifs in spike glycoprotein (SGP) from SARS-CoV-2."

https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7

@jef That's to be expected! But it is disturbing that the Explore algorithm is boosting these "one weird trick" articles because that means people are actually reading and sharing this slop.

@fivetonsflax @dansinker Someone on here scolded me for "othering" billionaires.

Pretty regularly as I'm scrolling Explore, some article will be in there with a headline I'd expect to see in the supermarket checkout, hyping snake-oil supplements, or AI, or something this mom did that they don't want you to know about, or the top ten travel destinations, and 100% of the time it is from flipboard dot social.

Really doing the lord's work there, guys.

@theodric I am in this picture and I do not like it

Just so you know, the next fash flood is scheduled for Jan 20

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's our birthday
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/11/22.html

@emma

@mjgardner https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/

"A defense secretary with a tenuous grip on reality, who can’t differentiate foreign enemies from domestic political opponents, and who seems to exist in a state of permanent hysteria is a problem that the US has never had to survive. The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/pete-hegseth-books-trump/680744/

Traffic Sign Liberation.

Boulder: "We don't right now have any information about who put them up," department spokesperson Dionne Waugh said Thursday. "We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdW