Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

Okay, new Zoom background is sorted:

I feel like the fact that Ethel & Julius Rosenberg got the chair for far less than what Donald Trump has done should be a bigger story.

I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.

Concerned AI researcher

That some committees of the European Parliament are now in favour of rejecting this law is very alarming. We urge every member of the European Parliament to save this law - and by doing so save lives. Show your support and tell the decision-makers to restore nature here: restorenature.eu/en/take-action #StopExpansionStartRestoration
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike 2/2

I don’t mean to start any shit but I feel that either *all* socks are tube socks or *no* socks are tube socks

We've been on Mastodon for 6 months now! Time for a re-#introduction to the new folks here:
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https://theconversation.com/us/10-ways-we-are-different

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

Red-figure vase painting depicting the Goddess of Love, #Aphrodite, and her son #Eros, who was often associated with same sex love.

🏛️ Red-figure bell krater, 370-360 BCE.

#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology @histodons #LGBTQ #LGBTQhistory

Medusa was asked not to return to Sea World

one time reddit offered me a job, then their background check found my posts calling trump, andrew cuomo and jk rowling horrible pieces of shit and they rescinded it. what im saying is fuck them and their stupid website

You know who doesn't have to appear in Federal court in Miami on Tuesday?

The e-mail lady.

I miss Robin Williams.
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“The best thing to do is to sit on the sidelines and let [LGBTQ rights advocates and Muslims] kill themselves.”
-Pat Robertson after the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando

It’s too bad there’s no hell.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

If you think antisemitism and racism in the USA aren’t linked and working hand-in-hand, you are mistaken. It’s time to unite all forces against the evil of these ideologies.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/jun/06/harvard-affirmative-action-supreme-court-ron-unz

Excited to get my first Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) 3! These are in high demand & a little hard to find at a reasonable price. They routinely sell for $500 or more. #coco3 #retrocomputing

@budlight@twitter.com @AnheuserBusch@twitter.com @HRC@twitter.com 4. @NBCUniversal@twitter.com says it "celebrates Pride and LGBTQ+ changemakers, organizations, and entertainers all year long"

But @NBCUniversal@twitter.com has donated at least $1,046,000 to anti-LGBTQ politicians since last year

attn: MUD developers

last year, a grad school classmate of mine died at the age of 38. every student and professor who met Geoff Hollis learned that he was a brilliant scholar, a sharp thinker, and a superb university lecturer.

but only a handful of his friends knew that geoff was also one hell of a coder. he spent nights as a grad student building his own MUD engine in C - from scratch, with a built-in custom scripting language - just for the fun of it.

nakedMUD enjoyed several years of regular development and usage from mud designers, before jeff had to shelf it due to his teaching responsibilities.

when he died, his server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it. i've got the most recent version of nakedMUD (3.8.1), but i'd like to preserve v1.0 to v3.8 in his memory.

if you happen to have filenames in the format nakedmudv1.0.tar.tgz sitting around on old drives, i'd love to hear from you. i'm building a little source shrine for geoff, so nakedMUD can live on in memory of a kind, gentle soul.

@stux Apple at it again adding features that other platforms had like 10 years ago or so.....

BTW, I don't wish to yuck on your yums if this is a thing that excites you.

I'm just very, very on the side of "until your computer/phone/whatever is getting in the way of what you do, you almost certainly don't need a new one."

I'm very jaded by events/announcements/the like that drum up hype to convince you otherwise.