[tech notebook] Names too on the nose tech.interfluidity.com/2024/04

Let the right one in.

An image of a mosquito, pressed against a screen, perhaps trying to get in. An image of a mosquito, pressed against a screen, perhaps trying to get in.

totality, motherfuckers. social.coop/@dyani/11223733977 ht @xerophile

Today's solar , partial here in Florida, captured in a lens flare, and projected onto paper through a pinhole.

Photo of the sun during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The sun is too bright for the cellphone camera to capture the crescent, it appears as a bright, yellow-white blob. But the crescent of the eclips is clearly visible in a lens flare just below. Photo of the sun during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The sun is too bright for the cellphone camera to capture the crescent, it appears as a bright, yellow-white blob. But the crescent of the eclips is clearly visible in a lens flare just below.
Photo during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The crescent of the eclipse is visible projected through a pinhole onto a piece of paper. Photo during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The crescent of the eclipse is visible projected through a pinhole onto a piece of paper.

@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(i don't know anything about openrss.org, just endorse the exhortation to publish full feeds.)

@chiraag @404mediaco i find it particularly galling when i catually pay to subscribe to something but still see truncated little stubs in my reader.

good on @404mediaco

i love you for your rough edges. even when they cut me.

"I'm not a eugenicist, I'm just an anti-dysgenicist."

"Full text in RSS, please" openrss.org/blog/full-text-in-

"you cannot avoid 'punching down' without a confident sense of in which direction 'down' lies. If you see what I mean." ~Freddie deBoer, from a fascinating review of my sister 's new book "Help Wanted" freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/r

is it gonna be hard for the Fed to cut rates while gold is on such a tear?

@jonathankoren @BenRossTransit all i want is a clutch on my ebike. is that too much to ask for?

“Toyota is developing a manual transmission emulator for electric cars, to return some of the driving engagement.” nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion ht @BenRossTransit

// bizarre.

@atomicpoet all your pwnage are belong to us.

@punnie @wattdefalk @PatrickoftheG @paninid and X is the male Y. (we’ve got the whole chromosome thing *backward*!)

@drwho @Polychrome I spent a bit of annoyance writing an RSS notifier (e-mail newsletters and Mastodon announcements supported) that is careful not to send the same item twice, (As identified by RSS GUID… if the GUID changes, it would; if that comes up I’ll also track link URLs and never resend those. But I haven’t seen that in the wild yet.) Anyway, if you are interested it’s github.com/swaldman/feedletter I’d love any feedback, and would be glad to help.

“I continue to be nauseously optimistic.” @rbreich robertreich.substack.com/p/whe

@PatrickoftheG @paninid why isn’t m double n?

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i'd hope for more.

from "academia.edu":

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7 of your readers are interested in Hallucinogens Text: 7 of your readers are interested in Hallucinogens