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a jolly new palette for you to enjoy:

Down Pour (#447288),
Mermaid Net (#26cdd9),
Kinetic Teal (#66ccb9),
Jittery Jade (#7de8ba), and
Spirited Green (#bbddc6)

#color #ColorPalette

a block of five horizontal color swatches in Down Pour (#447288), Mermaid Net (#26cdd9), Kinetic Teal (#66ccb9), Jittery Jade (#7de8ba), and Spirited Green (#bbddc6).

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tech ceos in the 1990s: computers can be bicycles for the mind

tech ceos in the 2020s: imagine a multiverse, but filled with Clippy

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"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@stilloranged
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt

@stilloranged
and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"
the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct...
because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED

@stilloranged:
this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors

@libbymiller maybe you could upgrade to a flightless duck

@libbymiller a pond'll keep your snails down apparently, if it's got frogs in

@supercollider this might be of interest, this video is a demo of sapf, he's planning to do another one about writing code: https://mastodon.green/@adamarmfield/114722366939737881

@jackeric @25kV there are some MCU's designed for driving motors which can work on higher voltages and cope with more noise, for the most part I think people would be using some kind of giant transistors to work with HV if necessary

@jackeric @25kV most likely not :)

Aaron Lanterman has done a demo video of sapf: James McCartneys New Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth (Sound as Pure Form) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2WYXOdXoM

@zachleat the company i worked for had a thermal one that crapped out if there was too much black for too many pages

@amberfirefly similarly it can be very calming to repeat something that you know to be 100% true for about a minute, a statement like "water is wet", the style is like an inspired "ah, water is wet"rather than angry or desperate repetition, this is taught to people with PTSD

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Instead of using butter with your garlic bread, you should switch to Linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which one works best for your needs.

@sheean low rise buildings are apparently much more energy efficient

someone's made their own 25khz cpu https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/16/penn_state_boffins_2d_cmos/?td=rt-3a

adamarmfield boosted:

I just learned that there was a Dutch 80s remake of the 1940s song "Chattanooga Choo Choo" called "Ik Neem De Eerste Trein Naar Zandvoort"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEGpFmcKYQk

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If there's anything that illustrated the hollowness of the Democratic Party as an effective opposition for me, it's this.

Yesterday, I watched a video of a sitting US Senator being thrown to the ground and cuffed by fed goons for asking questions of the fed official he has direct oversight authority over.

Within minutes, I'd gotten DOZENS of texts from Dems and Dem orgs asking for $5-$50 to "fight fascism."

That's it. "Are you terrified that your country is slipping into fascism? Pay me."

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you know what this system needs? more complexity

@amberfirefly you probably need to be careful not to inhale the pine resin fumes

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Web sites with a Facebook pixel were communicating with local native apps (Instagram, Facebook, maybe WhatsApp) to log (and attribute) incognito web browsing activity.

Write-up: https://localmess.github.io/
Story: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-03/the-covert-method-meta-uses-to-track-mobile-browsing-without-consent-even-in-incognito-mode-or-with-a-vpn.html

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3 Billion Devices Run Java™

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