Andy telling it like it is.

Reporter: You're the first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold medals. That's an extraordinary feat, isn't it?

Andy Murray: I think Venus and Serena have won about four each.

#misogyny #sexism #Patriarchy

Saw some asshole griping about people promoting for sale things they make here on Mastodon.

So I blocked his stupid ass instead.

Look. Some folks lost their ENTIRE LIVELIHOOD when Twitter went tits up.

Save the arguments about building on other people's platforms for another time. Because for many, this is immediate, desperate, and is the difference between eating this week or not.

Don't be a dick.

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

The Small Web isn’t about going back to the days of GeoCities. It’s about going forward differently, using modern tech in a non-colonial manner.

It’s not about building clones of Twitter, YouTube, etc. There’s no way anyone can self-host a dozen different services. Instead, it’s about having a single-tenant place on the Web that you own and control without technical knowhow; a place you can add Twitter, YouTube, etc., *features* to.

https://small-tech.org/research-and-development/

#SmallWeb #SmallTech #SingleTenant

It’s so cool to be able to tail your database (append-only JavaScript log¹) when playing with Kitten².

(If I do say so myself.)

The output on the right is the initial state of running the following command on your project folder to tail the domains table when the project is being served on the domain dev.ar.al:

kitten db tail domains --domain=dev.ar.al --all

:kitten: 💕

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#using-javascript-database-jsdb-a-not-so-scary-database
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/app#kitten

#Kitten #SmallWeb #JavascriptDatabase #JSDB #js #web #dev

Bring this back as an EV, you cowards.

It's my birthday!

I humbly request some boosts.

@10EXP thanks for the kind and thoughtful reply. I'm considering creating a specific account ...

Today in #gamedev - want to finish making plans, and play more with #kaboomjs

https://kaboomjs.com/blog/3000

Kaboom really is a great 2D game engine for the web.

Finished it! Really happy with how this turned out. Not gonna lie, populating the furniture with hundreds of items was initially intimidating. (Where to start?!) But I eventually got into the groove and was really enjoying the process by the end.

This kit has been an amazing adventure.

#miniatures #library #books #diorama

It's so funny how so called next gen social networks like #threads are withering, yet #mastodon - predicted to "fail" and "die off" is still cranking along. Not to mention all the #fediverse apps that are growing in usage.

@kohelet and you can use it as much as you want!

Yesterday, the best news which has ever come out during my lifetime, did. There's going to finally be an HIV cure. It's a ways down the road, but this all but guarantees it.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-treatment-based-gene-safely-effectively.html

Here's the original paper explaining what was done in detail. Again, it's going to be a few more years before this is on the shelf, but there's finally hope for the end of HIV.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41434-023-00410-4

Here's one of the two papers where the technology germinated about a decade ago. Note that the last paper was SIV instead of HIV, but it's such a good model, it almost always translates to humans.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2647

Here's the other one. If you don't like reading original source materials like this, or want to read the first announcement with the details on the good news, I'll sum up...

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.2623

This is a gene therapy which inactivates HIV/SIV by entering the virus itself and editing the genome. This is cool in and of itself, but it is meaningful because it does a thing called "draining the viral reservoir". This is what makes it a cure and not just a treatment.

The reason why you can only suppress, and not eradicate viruses, is because they will go into a dormant state and hang out for years and then re-deploy, and you're back where you started.

This is why, as amazing as antivirals are, you're generally stuck taking them forever.

This is also why Sovaldi is such a big deal: it actually *cures* Hepatitis C, which previously was only treatable. You take it (along with other things) for twelve weeks, and at the end you are free of the virus. This is a first. No other cures for viruses exist.

And now there's a method to drain the viral reservoir and inactivate HIV. And this isn't just the best news of my lifetime, but it also paves the way for therapies to cure Hep B, and any number of others.

I am so excited, so happy, so hopeful.

✨💖✨

@GamingNews the retro look and feel and the catchy music make it kinda fun.

Some things #ai and #socialnetworks cannot do or steal:
1) writing your own words with your name - they are yours no matter who tries to "scrape" them.

2) making friends - friendship is like a superpower that we all take for granted.

3) your family - family is complicated, but the power of family cannot be denied or stolen

4) your freedom - never ever take your freedom for granted. Never ever let anyone take that from you - at work, at home, anywhere.

I could have played #bg3 yesterday but instead I spent hours getting my android device up and running and playing a bunch of 20 year old RPG's

Yesterday I made a little progress on my web game. I learned a lot and figured some things out. But not a lot of "changes on the screen". Today - more of that, perhaps more playing with #kaboomjs

#denweaver

Which is better?
Should I keep tooting about my game here, or should I create a specific account for it and post updates through that?

Someone posts something on #mastodon you don't like.

Mute that person.

Problem solved! Move on!