George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

AMD is slightly delaying its Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs ‘out of an abundance of caution’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205416/amd-zen-5-ryzen-9000-desktop-delay

Btw Big Tech wanting a “Manhattan Project” for military AI isn’t about building Skynet; it’s about Big Tech knowing that AI is bullshit and stock prices are starting to stagnate so they need to switch the mark in their fraudulent scheme from investors to taxpayers

Trump: I will crush you like the bugs you are.

Journalists: Haha there goes Trump again.

Biden: I'm incredibly disappointed in your coverage:

Journalists: How dare you? Resign immediately, you ungrateful pathetic SOB.

How do modern CAPTCHAs work?

By letting Google examine your browsing history.

The more you know 🌠

#Captcha #Google #DataPrivacy #LetsDeGoogle

Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Four hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself 🧑🏻‍💻👍🥰

Yes, this is a real thing Trump said about Elon Musk.

In conservative politics, there's always a bigger fish you're trying to suck up to.

Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.

I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.

The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #SpaceScience #PlanetaryProtection

Today is Overcast's 10th birthday, and to celebrate, I'm launching a major rewrite of the app: https://marco.org/2024/07/16/overcast-rewrite

The first decade has been great, and this new foundation brings it into the next one!

(Spoiler alert: It's fast. REALLY fast. And there's more coming soon.)

Musk is inviting his red-state pals to prosecute people who dare advise advertisers to stay away from his toxic swamp.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

This is what right-wing extremists like Musk actually think about free speech. (They hate it when it's directed, unfavorably, at them.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

Is there a list of current deadbird site advertisers? I want to stay current on businesses to avoid in my shopping.

Ever get the feeling you're being watched? 👀

Nike Pledged to Shrink Its #Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen.
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Since December, Nike has lost about 30% of employees who worked primarily on #sustainability initiatives, due to layoffs, voluntary departures or transfers to other duties.

Already, the company was missing its targets for reducing #emissions.

#News #Climate #Clothing #Fashion #Business #Environment #Pollution

https://www.propublica.org/article/nike-layoffs-sustainability-climate-change

DOJ seizes ‘bot farm’ operated by the Russian government https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24195228/doj-bot-farm-rt-russian-government-namecheap

Concerns mount as to whether the 173-year old New York Times is too old to continue in its role as the nation’s newspaper of record.

Anyone need a molecular biologist? PhD + 14 years' industry experience. Expertise in HIV replication, general mol & cell bio, in vitro diagnostics, analytical and functional assay design, V&V, production, regulatory. If it involves a binding event I can build an assay for it. Management experience up to team of 20, familiar with cGxP and 21CFR820.

Current job not... bad... exactly, just getting very corporate.

#FediHire

Internet Archive suffered a major power outage over the weekend and we are still recovering; if the site seems a little janky and slow, that's why.

If Trump has “no idea” who the authors behind Project 2025 are, he’s showing an alarming cognitive decline.

He appointed most of them to roles in his administration!

Project 2025 is, in short, the plan to implement what Donald Trump has said he wants to do if he’s reelected.

A new “continuous sidewalk” in #Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street + reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections. Same at the driveways, so you don’t get the up-down “roller coaster effect” when you’re #walking, #cycling or using a wheelchair.

#safestreets #urbanism #accessibility

Trump denies knowledge of Project 2025, allies' plan to transform US government

https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-denies-knowledge-of-project-2025-his-allies-plan-to-transform-us-government-/7687015.html

Scientific American podcast on Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace: the anonymous math genius who haunted Math Stack Exchange with enigmatic answers before disappearing in 2015 https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/cleo-the-mysterious-math-menace1/