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Initial applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell by 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 187,000 in the week ended July 18, the Labor Department said Thursday, below forecasts of 215,000 in a FactSet survey and 212,000 in a Reuters poll [wsj.com#1][pbs.org#1][fastcompany.com#1][eleconomista.com.mx#1][aawsat.com#1][soha.vn#1]. The weekly total was the lowest since the week ended Sept. 6, 1969, a
I keep thinking about how Mozilla was building a whole OS around web standards technology, then ditched it. And refused to do anything App-like for over a decade. Even as the web moved towards app capabilities. Today, it still doesn’t support progressive we apps. And I can’t tell if it’s […]
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New in the #PleiadesGazetteer Zotero library: Messina 2023 = Vito Messina, “Seleucia-on-the-Tigris: Embedding Capitals in the Hellenizing Near East,” in Iran and the Transformation of Ancient Near Eastern History, ed. Touraj Daryaee et al., The Seleucids (ca. 312–150 BCE) (Harrassowitz Verlag […]
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To summarize how I feel about the gotcha in general: - Gender dysphoria isn't unique to trans people but it's of course a trans issue - A cis man treating his androgenic allopecia is probably not GAC but a cis woman doing so probably is - Transphobes don't care about the hypocrisy. They just […]
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I think this article -- although a few days old -- is a good checkpoint on the Moda Center situation. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7459933/2026/07/20/tom-dundon-trail-blazers-portland-moda-center-nba/ Mayor Wilson and Gov Kotek have been doing a grave disservice, trying to ram through a […]
[Size streamers and growing] I've been asked about it many times and no, I never intend on adding one of those redeems that endlessly grow the streamer, even if I am in the Macro/micro community. Personally, I find it extremely obnoxious when I'm watching a game or art stream and the streamer […]
People often say Mastodon is confusing because they don’t know what server to join. I’ve found it to be the opposite. My server is almost immaterial. My feed is who I chose to follow just like twitter was before they ruined it with algorithms. But I always feel like I’m missing something when […]
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@RonJeffries Yes, the elephant in the room where I was ranting about standardization was that teams are supposed to practice continuous improvement! But that's at least a blog post to itself. Continuous improvement by autonomous teams is not the same thing as, "Adopting this process asks us to […]
@mespinozart yes! One of the best parts of fandom is fan creators being inspired and expanding in some way on another creator’s work. Usually it’s art and fic, but I love when there are other combos too! Fandom is all about going “yes AND” and building on each other. It’s like improv comedy only […]
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@larsweisbrod An seiner Influencer Karriere kann der Gute noch arbeiten, aber inhaltlich ist das eine kurze und knappe Zusammenfassung, der Problematik, weswegen ich so oft beim Deinem Antinaturalismus widersprechen muss. Diese Position lässt sich nicht vertreten, wenn wir es ernstnehmen, was […]
On my way to work today, I saw a man with a little girl — perhaps his daughter — waiting to cross the street. They had clearly just come from a bakery, each holding a large white bag full of bread. I stopped the car. The black-haired man, still waiting and looking at me, waved and began to walk […]
One of the challenges of very long lenses is that they tempt you to compose images of subjects that are very far away. But the farther away something is, the more the atmosphere can distort the image. The effects of heat distortion, pollution, humidity, and weather are amplified across longer […]
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> "What are your thoughts concerning Contabo (hosting)?" I’ve been looking into them, and right now I’d describe their US jurisdiction status as a bit of a "gray area." The full company name is, Contabo GmbH, based in Germany. While they offer services in the US, the main question is whether […]
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I am SO tired of shows that are all about rich white women, and their blatant tokenism. I also feel terrible for the Black women who work on those shows because I *KNOW* their tongues are scarred from all their biting. We already know that white-male centered shows can die, it's that these […]
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i think i'm finally going to look into #ATproto. at the time it came out t felt more like a marketing stunt to promote BlueSky especially since they didn't even bother to open source their server software. but it seems like people are starting building on it and from what little i've seen it […]
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Bush's old AG says ICE's death squad traffic stops don't work. Trump doesn't know public sentiment because he lives in a fantasy world, but the GOP fears losing the midterms because an American KGB is snatching and killing people […]
@cartocalypse As with any convention, it depends somewhat on opinion. My take: double-underscore is for Python-provided methods that you want to override, like __mul__ or __getitem__. Not for adding your own unrelated methods; if you want those to be "private", use single underscores. Python […]
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Oops. I wish that when I had copied a symbol to make a new part in #KiCad, and then proceeded to forget to update the pinout, that I had at least used a symbol that had the pinout that 95% of the SOT23-5 buck converters on the market seem to use. But no, of course I copied the symbol with a […]
The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 1,000 and shows no sign of slowing down, officials say. The virus is spreading faster than the 2018-19 outbreak, with armed conflict and a lack of funding hampering relief efforts. Read more from @npr […]
Primate Labs released Geekbench 7 on July 23, updating its cross-platform CPU and GPU benchmark three years after Geekbench 6. The new version uses larger datasets, adds media workloads and redesigns the multi-core benchmark [macworld.com#1][theverge.com#1][macrumors.com#1][tomshardware.com#1][9to5mac.com#1]. The release is available for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux [digitaltrends.com#1]
via @COLocalAffairs State Demography Office Newsletter July 2026: Now Hiring: Population Projections Demographer https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CODOLA/bulletins/421cafa?utm_source=censusSDC *Colorado State Demography Office* * Neal Marquez Named as Colorado’s New State Demographer * […]
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🟡 Cartel Violence | 6/10 🇲🇽 Drone attack on CJNG positions in Michoacán Gunmen from the R5 group attacked CJNG cartel positions with explosives dropped from a drone in Michoacán. Wounded CJNG members were seen being evacuated by their comrades. #OSINT #NewsGroup #Mexico #CartelViolence […]
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October 15, 2040 New York Times article: "President Ivanka Trump today announced bombing raids of Saudi Arabia would continue until Saudi King Mohammed bin Salman agrees to give up all enriched uranium held by the Kingdom. 'The Saudis can't have nuclear weapons,' the President declared […]
Damnit... I just realized that game developers only targeting Windows and hoping Proton catches their trust fall are basically Docker bros who conflate Docker containers with package management to get around the "worked on my computer" problem instead of "learning how to code like humans might […]
"artist-alley implements ArchivePub, an open federation protocol built on the ActivityPub data model with DAM-shaped extensions for asset sharing, workflow state, and brand workspaces." "Content-addressed federation: Every reference to asset bytes uses a content-addressed URI: cas […]
I once wrote a story about a Kiwi morning TV show host falling for her occasional French chef guest host. I've popped it up here: https://fictionite.com/f/culinary-delights-version-1-8834bb71 if anyone feels like a short (2149 words), light-hearted, romance short story. #ShortStory […]
**Cuba’s Foreign Ministry denounces slanderous campaign by the U.S. State Department** _Statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly rejecting the new slanderous campaign by the US Department of State against the island, published in its entirety on the Cubaminrex website._ […]
@b Ha ha, this like saying that being arrested for molesting children took a "personal toll" on Jeffrey Epstein. Of course starting a war with Iran for some probably sordid personal reason has been stressful for the orange rapist. Hopefully, the stress will culminate in a way similar to that […]
Steve Hilton says Californians can hate Trump but still vote for him. So Hilton says can hate Mango Mussolini but still vote for his stooge to be Governor . Hard pass. A MAGA with a British accent is still a MAGA. We are in our Becerra era now […]
Urgh.. Every update is a gamble with this phone (Fairphone 6) This time: massive idle drain, probably due to the screen being always active for some reason. If it wasn't for my home automation set to turn on my lights at the same time of my usual alarm, I would've overslept two times this week […]
in related news, I'm going to need you to reach out to your federal elected officials about this, esp Senators on Energy & Natural Resources this is REALLY BAD and we need to see a significant public backlash because this will destroy things like treasured historic homes and archaeological […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116971133263667738 I donated through ActBlue ONCE, over a decade ago, and I'm still inundated with solicitation emails and SMS messages every election. Hell, I even got an SMS ad for Gavin Newsom's book a few months ago. I feel like that one must violate some […]
Korra's in her mid‐forties when the world ends Sozin's Comet comes once every 100 years and last came when Aang was 12 (give or take a century lol) He dies at 66, 54 years after the comet passed (66 − 12 = 54) Korra is 21 at the end of her series, 75 years after the comet passed (54 + 21 = […]
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@spencexyz Now for data usage. My backend is a POI database. https://github.com/giggls/osmpoidb What I do for #OpenCampingMap is looking for various poi inside campsite polygons to make them a site feature (picnic-table, toilet, shower, fireplace, ...) using a PostGIS database. If you just want […]
weeks after I watched it, I keep thinking of “When the river rose” ABC TV. A view of Australia without the propaganda. How they were abandoned by every authority that should have helped them. On the other side how open hearted and incredibly generous were the people that came to help. This […]
Oh, it’s nice to be back where I grew up. I have a strong feeling about what landscapes should look like forged in my childhood… rolling hills, streams in valleys, small fields, lots of trees. The local geology should be obvious… you shouldn’t have to go far to find bits of bedrock, which you […]
@wtraylor Indeed! Since I created the package (some years ago, despite this being the first CRAN release), dplyr has added `recode_values()` and `replace_values()`, which can take vectors (https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/recode-and-replace-values.html) and therefore replicate the core […]
Anyone got recommendations for a custom firmware to put on my Pixel 8a? Getting rather sick of some of the shit Google are doing (ie begging me to update to android 17 after it's been like. only a week) I have android 16 currently, and my phone isn't locked since that isn't common in the UK […]
Hey poppers. There's no need to rush off and have your tea early tonight as Top of the Pops won't be starting until 9pm this evening. Of course if you like your music characterised by slightly fewer repetitive beats, you can always stick your telly onto BBC Four at 7pm anyway for a bit of the […]
Conjectures are being made that AIs are scraping social media for data, which seems plausible, or at least possible. On an unrelated note, did you know that digital media like CDs encode data in the form of a genetically engineered, iridescent worm that's pressed under its translucent surface? […]
@hryggrbyr In Lord of the Rings, all the characters that have an English name (mostly the Hobbits and some humans) have their names translated into similar French names, because Tolkien didn't choose those names randomly and their meaning matter. They also create a feeling of familiarity that […]
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There is a difference between Nostalgia and Appreciation. I can Appreciate an old computer and the programmers for doing so much in a comparatively limited resource environment without being Nostalgic for the time when said machine was contemporary. I can Appreciate a painting from the 1800's […]
Still not over this discrepancy: disability gets accomodations if you're "productive" (even though there are certainly many applicants to choose from, there's no labor shortage here). Race just isn't commented on and doesn't seem to be an issue. And queerness is "don't ask, don't tell" and never […]
… expanded advisory roles, ethical mediation and AI literacy instruction provided that institutions supply adequate training and structural support. The study contributes to ongoing discussions on responsible AI adoption in academic libraries by offering a phenomenological account of […]