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Free Geek Twin Cities is an incredible resource.

That is all

so from the looks of it, the bots are scraping trending hashtags like #SilentSunday , #RulesToSqueakBy , #MonochromeMonday etc, all of which are filled with gentle civilians posting pretty photos and thoughtful advice. perhaps the most sporting thing to do in the circumstances would be to drive a little-used hashtag to the top of the chart instead

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AI grifters have turned their attention to scraping mastodon hashtags to generate seo spam blogposts. you know what to do

Wow just had a really nice conversation with someone on the train for like 45 minutes

Good morning everyone. :)

I hope you have a Magnificent Monday.

Always remember, you are loved and your dreams matter.

Today we are gonna be talking about how Hard Disk drives work.

An HDD consists of one or more rigid disk platters, typically made of aluminum or glass. These platters are coated with a magnetic material that allows for data storage. The read/write head, also known as the disk head, is an electromagnet mounted on a movable arm. It can both write data onto the disk by aligning magnetic particles on the platter and read data by detecting the orientation of those particles. The disk platters are spun at high speeds typically between 5,400 and 15,000 revolutions per minute by a spindle motor, allowing for quick data access. Data is stored in concentric circles, called tracks, on the disk platter.

anyone have a contact at Voxility? they're dropping my traffic and won't answer my emails because I'm not a customer

Being awake and outside before 8 am is freaky. Why are there bicycle queues on the road?

@morachbeag Yeah, this always bothers me. It always comes from the most from hardcore marxists, but like... Marx was racist. Yeah, class is important to focus on, and I'm for a balanced socialist society, but Marx also said Mexicans were lazy, despite not having actually lived in Mexico to understand why you would take a nap in the middle of the day: the same reason mid-day naps are common in Vietnam, the heat will kill you. He just broadly attached the concept of "lazy" to any people of color he didn't feel like "worked hard enough".

Mexico isn't/wasn't poorer because the people there are "lazy". There's something else, and that something else is important to note: colonization and resource extraction from wealthy white people, mostly from other countries, particularly Europe.

Sorry to tangent. This just really bothers me when people say to "set aside racial differences" and focus on class. Black people were literally not allowed in white unions until relatively recently in history. You can't simply ignore that.

"People who use AI at work feel that they're more productive" is an argument I've been seeing in various forms lately, which, as a recommendation, is not far removed from "people on cocaine at parties feel that they're more interesting."

What Happened Yonder? My @why2025camp talk: 'Consent for Hackers, negotiating consent based on HTTP status codes' has been accepted and confirmed.

Let's talk to people about negotiating consent before engaging in personal and physical interactions. Your browser does it with every webserver, so why shouldn't you do the same with people?

#WHY2025

uspol, austerity 

FYI, the Chemical Safety Board (yes, that government agency with the Youtube channel which investigates chemical accidents) is getting shut down.

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Succes voor actiegroepen tegen medeplichtigheid aan genocide in Gaza: schip Maersk Izmir met F35-vleugels mijdt Rotterdamse haven
#DoorbraakEu

doorbraak.eu/succes-voor-actie

Wij begonnen allemaal ons leven op dezelfde manier als mijn piepkleine dochter nu: hopeloos afhankelijk. En niemand van ons ontgroeit dat echt, ook al wordt ons geleerd net te doen alsof. Dit is namelijk de centrale leugen van het liberalisme: dat we onafhankelijk zijn, zelf ons eigen leven opbouwen, en dat we los staan van anderen. Maar het conservatisme is niet minder bedrieglijk. Het prijst het gezin aan als de ideale eenheid van het sociale leven, maar dan een gezin dat hiërarchisch opgebouwd is en zich afsluit voor buren, vreemden en mensen in nood. Het pleit zogenaamd voor orde en persoonlijke verantwoordelijkheid, terwijl het stiekem de banden van solidariteit, die het zelf romantiseert, doorsnijdt. Het resultaat is een wreedheid die zich voordoet als stabiliteit, een cultuur van ongeïnteresseerdheid, verpakt in de taal van traditie. doorbraak.eu/nu-de-wereld-in-b

Do any *ethical* residential proxy services exist? So with full, informed consent from everyone whose connection is used, and without shady separation between the buying and the selling side.

I learned something. Tent pegs are named after fish in Western Europe, but a different fish in every language.

Dutch: haring (herring)
French: sardine (sardines)
German: aal (eel)

Budapest :drgn_flag_rainbow:

Another angle; some sources say there were between 100 and 200 thousand attendees!

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