JWZ: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.
It's Cory. This time the guy holding court is Cory.BTW, the Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops, the actually-open, ActivityPub based clones of Instagram and TikTok, just hit $35,000 in its first 13 hours. The creator of Mastodon just ceded control to a new non-profit. That's how you do it. By spending money to build free things for the public interest out in the open, not by tithing your money, labor and attention directly to VC-funded for-profit corporations.
For those who don’t know jwz, among other things, you have him to thank for Firefox/Mozilla’s existence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Za…
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Good evening Squirrel Fans.
My inner child has been throwing tantrums today as I handles a couple of setbacks fairly badly. So this quote seemed appropriate:
“Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Where ever you are in your day I hope you’re enjoying it! 😊🫶🐿️🖖
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#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves
For today’s diary update please follow #TimsASDjourney
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One student killed, another wounded in Nashville school shooting
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/one-student-killed-another-wounded-in-nashville-school-shooting?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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One student killed, another wounded in Nashville school shooting
Nashville Police spokesperson Don Aaron says the 17-year-old shooter wounded another student Wednesday at Antioch High School before turning the gun on himself.PBS News
"Losing my leg is not the biggest loss in my life, what hurts me more is that I want my mother. I don’t want to live without her,” Mohammad told Drop Site News, his voice wracked with pain.
...Occasionally, the mothers of other children receiving treatment alongside him feed him and help him to use the bathroom... He often eats alone."
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
dropsitenews.com/p/20000-pales…
Over 20,000 Palestinian Children Orphaned by War in Gaza
Palestinian families have stepped in to take care of children not their own but the volume of children orphaned by the war is staggeringDrop Site News
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On March 10-11 the @tgx_um group at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) is organizing a Chemistry Development Kit 2025 User Group Meeting: cdk.github.io/nwo-openscience-…
The two day event will include a day where developers and users can present their CDK work, and a day where we can hack on CDK (using) code.
The meeting is funding by the Dutch Research Council, nwo.nl/en/projects/osf232097
another speaker is confirmed:
- Prof dr Sonja Herres-Pawlis (RWTH Aachen University): “News from the InChI: making the InChI FAIR and including inorganics”
The CDK has had InChI support for many years and recently gained Reaction InChI support
cdk.github.io/nwo-openscience-…
#inchi #chemistry #cheminformatics #opensource
Chemistry Development Kit 2025 User Group Meeting
Repository to track the progress of the NWO Open Science Grant accepted for the CDK in 2023.nwo-openscience-2024
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I wrote this piece about not giving in to pressure back when news about the OceanGate submersible's implosion broke. I'm republishing it in my Substack on the 25th anniversary of my mother's death by drowning, rafting on a river she didn't want to be on
gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/…
Giving In To Pressure And Taking On Bad Risks
If my mother had gone with her gut, and stuck to her guns, she might well be with us todayGregory B. Sadler (Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy)
Office of Management and Budget Chief Russell Vought refused to pinpoint where the sudden flurry of Day One executive orders had been drafted, despite the fact that many of them fell in line with Project 2025, a plan of Vought’s own design.
Trump’s Budget Chief Pick Refuses to Answer Questions—and GOP Lets Him
Republican senators were apparently all too happy to let Russell Vought skate through.The New Republic
"If Trump had issued this executive order after his first inauguration in 2017, I would already be writing its obituary. But it is not 2017 anymore."
Trump Tests the High Court’s Resolve With Birthright Citizenship Order
The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.The New Republic
From Project Gutenberg:
Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 4
by Vasco de Lobeira
Get it at: gutenberg.org/ebooks/55005
Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 4 by Vasco de Lobeira
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Blog post — yes, it’s bad. And there are fights to be fought. But there are still the day to day things, including the reading
johnrakestraw.com/post/quotidi…
#uspol #uspolitics #reading #quotidian @bookstodon
Quotidian life in the midst of turmoil
Or perhaps I could call this post “How does one live in a world that seems to be falling apart?thinking out loud
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Let them fight
Here's Why Musk Is Bashing Trump’s New Stargate AI Initiative forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/202…
Musk Bashes Trump’s New Stargate AI Initiative With OpenAI And Oracle As ‘Fake’—Here’s Why
Musk slammed a Trump-backed $500 billion AI joint venture building out OpenAI’s artificial general intelligence.Derek Saul (Forbes)
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Trump tasks US envoy Kellogg with ending war in Ukraine within 100 days – WSJ
Trump tasks US envoy Kellogg with ending war in Ukraine within 100 days – WSJhttps://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-tasks-us-envoy-kellogg-with-ending-1737535073.htmlBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
I am begging men to learn something, anything, about how food works
World and citizens of the United States, Please Pardon Our Dust
World and citizens of the United States, Please Pardon Our DustPosted by golfnut82BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Też tak macie?
"Reading in dark mode doesn’t just mess with my eyes while I’m at it — it sticks around afterward too. Every time I finish a long article, I end up seeing horizontal stripes everywhere I look, like my eyes just won’t let it go."
Ja tak totalnie mam i zastanawiam się, jak ludzie to znoszą
iamvishnu.com/posts/please-don…
Please Don't Force Dark Mode — Vishnu's Pages
Dear website designers, Please don’t force dark mode on your users. If dark mode is a characteristic of your brand, please ensure you choose a comfortable...iamvishnu.com
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Found my old 2013 Canon EOS-M and my cheap 50mm lens. I think I want to start using this, almost vintage, but awesome camera again.
#california #jurupavalley #inlandempire
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Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) issues ultimatum for Russia on Truth Social
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) issues ultimatum for Russia on Truth Socialhttps://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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in reply to davel • • •i wonder why it's so hard for people to understand this about social media with significant financial backing; it literally happens every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 .
and here i am bieng the pot that's calling the kettle black since i did tiktok up until monday. lol
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in reply to davel • • •Loops is not open source lmao, its just Dansup promising that he'll opensource it in an eventual future.
Saying "this platform is not actually open because the people running it are bad, come to these actually open platforms", and then proceed to list a closed-source platform is incredibly funny
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