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Baseball is a really fucking weird sport, or: Let's talk about baseballs. Like, the physical object. - pt 1 

, when I talk to non-fans about baseball, one of the things that surprises them the most is that an average baseball game goes through something like 80-120 balls per game. After a ball has been used, it's either send down to be used in minor league games, used in batting practise, sold to fans, or occasionally caught by a fan directly, so it's not *entirely* wasteful, but that's still a lot, roughly 40 pounds of baseballs.

Jeff's latest new instance seems to be humanist.social

the HTML details/summary elment is so fuckin awesome

violence 

gee i wonder why they're called executives

adhd 

anyone with adhd (or not) do this thing where they don't just mentally defocus on the task, but physicallly unfocus their eyes too

about posting "news" for "awareness", especially for allies 

Things you should ask yourself before posting "news" articles about negative subjects in particular:

1. Is this something that nobody saw coming?
2. Is this an article that provides an actionable step forward, some sort of concrete way to deal with the problem?
3. Does this article elevate a perspective of a marginalized group that isn't normally covered?

If you can't answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, *do not* post it.

It's ragebait, it's not useful, and it won't make anyone aware of anything they're not already aware of - all it'll do is make people feel more depressed. It's worse than doing nothing.

If you *can* answer "yes" to at least one of those questions, then post it - but with an appropriate CW, because a lot of us don't always have the energy to deal with negative news.

chatgpt 

chatgpt is really being used as the new "i copied your question into Google and copy-pasted the first result with no verification or any value". I want off mr bones' wild ride

bank shit 

fucking hell i added a recurring bank transfer of 5 whole euros a month to my German N26 account, because it has a mastercard number I can use with Backblaze, and now I have to fill in a form because they're worried I might be doing international tax evasion, with explicit focus on if I'm totally sure im not secretly a US citizen that's required to pay taxes to them??

ChatGPT shit, quora 

Just realized that Quora released an overly confident GPT-based thing as well...

I guess they're trying to make their userbase redundant?

tech, ranty, microservices and "serverless" 

Amazon: "The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs."

Oh look, they've finally acknowledged what some of us have been saying ever since *checks notes* Amazon started pushing the microservices/serverless hype on everybody

But nooooo, why would you ever listen to anyone who *isn't* a megacorporation, surely they can't be more competent than Amazon!

(Source: primevideotech.com/video-strea)

@aurynn @mike I think these problems with defederation and misbehaving admins would be much less severe if there weren't large instances that have users who don't even know who their mods/admins are. The "99% of users on that.domain are totally innocent" objection to defederation wouldn't apply if the instance were small enough for nearly everyone to have had some direct interaction with their admin at some point. There'd both be fewer innocent people to affect, and they'd be more likely to have actually noticed the behavior themselves and had a chance to make a choice in how to deal with it.

All of these “defederation is bad” takes are, in essence, saying that instance administrators exist to be vanity domain names and that a single contiguous fediverse is both possible and desired.

I reject both of these premises. Defederate early, defederate often, build the anarchic consensus you want to see.

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@TakeV I could see that evolve into a whole series. Dvorak the Explorak.

Recommended #fediblock for decayable-dot-ink

This place hits pretty much every hateful trait bad instances have. Be careful if you actually go to that site. It is quite nasty.

Shout out to the person that sent me the info. Big props.

@f0x ikr. I fscking hate that you can't unbind that, because I keep closing the entire tab when I just want to delete a single word :(

That happens once every few weeks.

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