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A colleague took the research team crabbing and I'm low key disappointed that we didn't come back with more boats than we left with. #yarr
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Storytelling masterpiece. 5 stars.
#dog #dogs #dogstodon #DogsOfMastodon #humor #humour #storytelling #writing
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How do modern CAPTCHAs work?
By letting Google examine your browsing history.
The more you know 🌠
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I have been working on this for the past two months, after growing increasingly concerned about the influence this industry is trying to exert. Did you know crypto companies have spent more this cycle than the oil or pharmaceutical industries, despite being a small fraction of the size?
A guy in the park is playing with a remote controlled car and two dogs leashed to each other. After briefly getting themselves wrapped around a tree, the dogs managed to tackle the cat.
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I love #AOC She’s scrappy, viciously intelligent and seems to be truly wanting to do what is right.
I hope she can keep those who are wanting to turn tail and run in place and holding the line.
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PSA: when a company has a sudden disaster and then you hear on the socials “the CEO sold stock two days before it happened!” or whatever, almost every single time, that’s because the CEO sells stock on a preannounced, fixed, repeating schedule, which is specifically to avoid insider information influencing the decision when and whether to sell. And if you’re selling on a fixed, repeating schedule, then there will always be one that happens to have been not too long before any given disaster.
I’m not saying that the illegal version of this never happens, I’m saying it doesn’t happen quite as often as people posting this stuff in a scandalized tone think it does. I mean, what, do you think the C-suite of Crowdstrike were pre-informed that they were gonna accidentally crash their own product and decided to offload some of their stock instead of stop the push to production?
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For those curious about the big outage, I can offer an explanation in non-tech terms.
The problem is a program called Crowdstrike. Crowdstrike is a virus scanner (well not really, but let's keep things simple). A LOT of big businesses use Crowdstrike. It's very good at detecting threats and has a lot of good tools for monitoring big fleets of computers.
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@ai6yr It does mention climate change, although it's buried fairly deep in the story:
"Fellow concert-goer Mattia Rossi was more philosophical, noting that the freak storms that hit Italy earlier this summer as evidence of climate change wreaking havoc on the southern Mediterranean's weather systems."
The NPR page also has side links to numerous climate stories.
On vaguely blaming Africa, one is reminded of the closing placard from The Swarm (1978):
"The African killer bee portrayed in this film bears absolutely no relationship to the industrious, hard-working American honey bee to which we are indebted for pollinating vital crops that feed our nation."
@khird Wouldn't the lower right corner look even weirder if it was aimed properly?
Also, any advice on getting those lines aimed precisely at the vanishing point a meter away from the paper?
#Violet will allow you to boop her snoot, but first you have to shake her paw. Also the other one. #DogsOfMastodon
@khird Here's a 3-point attempt. I always have trouble pointing rays at an imaginary vanishing point well beyond the page.
Weigh in on the design of the new, more seismically resilient Burnside Bridge. #pdx #portland #bridges #earthquake #architecture
- Siva Afi
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I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
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