Some say the swordfish has no natural predators, often forgetting the penfish which is believed to be mightier.
Teacher: William Shakespeare is credited with the invention of over 1,700 words. He was a linguistic genius.
Student: Can I make up words and use them in my papers?
Teacher: Absolutely fucking not.
VC funding idea: Create a news organization that tells only the news and specifically EXCLUDES all political analysis or commentary. This happened. Next story. This happened. Next story. This important person said this in their official capacity as ____. Next story. Well, it wouldn't make any money, so...okay, no VCs...non-profit?
Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at https://rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility :)
Take a moment to remind yourself about – and gauge your own – intellectual humility.
Intellectual humility is about acknowledging your limitations.
Even if you’re an expert in your field, you should have the willingness to admit you don’t know everything there is to know about the world. And it’s a necessary characteristic of the great scientists and innovators.
https://theconversation.com/intellectual-humility-is-a-key-ingredient-for-scientific-progress-211410
#science #philosophy
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it's amazing how angry i get when someone dares to call me on the phone i carry everywhere with me
Yeah, wasn’t gonna vote for her. Now, will actively work to make sure she isn’t the winner https://l.threads.net/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fmeet-the-press%2Fvideo%2F9-year-old-asks-nikki-haley-if-she-would-pardon-former-president-trump-i-would-201069637673&e=AT1D9_38-47rPl8Rbla8tH98gESLa3ahxxTc3n4GTZ3UuItdG7i1B1MrcncCYERqpIh3oIoVe5-Xlotdxw558Kxxf7QQVO3jIsXbulp5gCF5M2By3jsfMitf-FP1NY1yAw
Oh, the evil irony.
#ClarenceThomas will get to decide whether #tfg engaged in an insurrection that his wife helped organize.
Let’s take a look at the #SCOTUS #ethics code. Second paragraph under “Disqualifications.”
Count the ways Thomas should disqualify himself.
Would be sweet if #JackSmith would announce that #GinniThomas is a likely witness in the #insurrection case. See the last sentence of this section of the code.
Billions in student loan debt canceled through a public service program https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/122623_debt_forgiveness_op/billions-student-loan-debt-canceled-through-public-service-program/
Government and nonprofit workers are getting billions in student loan debt canceled through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007 during the George W. Bush administration, to encourage people to work for the government and nonprofits.
#Tucson #Arizona
CNN - Recordings, emails show how Trump team flew fake elector ballots to DC in final push to overturn 2020 election. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html
For our friends at #37C3:
1. we have public bridges for use if you'd like a fast first hop onto the #Tor network:
https://bridge.emeraldonion.org
2. we have a linux shell script for deploying #obfs4 bridges if you'd like to create your own private bridge for personal use:
Over the last year https://HoneytreeTech has created easy and simple scripts to install, configure and secure hard to manage #FOSS apps like: #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube, #Superdesk, #Postal, and others.
The last installer for 2023 will be https://listmonk.app.
#Listmonk is a #OpenSource alternative to email marketing and newsletter platforms like #mailchimp and #ActiveCampaign
You can check out the and get the auto-installer scripts on our GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/Honeytree-Technologies/repositories
Mammoth 2.2 is live. Faster feed, quote post stuff coming from Threads, cuz: who needs sleep.
My house isn’t messy, it’s just sorted by Date Last Modified
.NET Aspire Preview 2 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-dotnet-aspire-preview-2/
An opinionated, cloud ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed applications in .NET https://github.com/dotnet/aspire
mbin releases v1.2.1 - it's a decentralized content aggregator and fork of kbin
it supports all ActivityPub actor types and can communicate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Misskey, Peertube, etc
full changelog here: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1
#mbin #kbin #aggregator #software #activitypub #fediverse #oss #foss #opensource #reddit #mastodon #pixelfed #misskey #peertube #fork
🎅 You have an old unread notification from Santa!
700 million mobile phones unused in drawers across the #EU could make the perfect Xmas present for someone!
Thanks to our new recommendations for EU countries, it is much easier to return phones, tablets, and laptops. They include:
🔄 financial incentives to return devices
🔄 tools to estimate the value of devices for buy-back
🔄 easy ways to return and collect devices via postal services
It is a win-win for us and our planet.
