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dgoldsmith

@dgoldsmith@mastodon.social

Started in #physics, landed in #computers. Flipping bits since 1971. Software Engineer at a large tech company. I write #fanfiction in my nonexistent free time. Trans girl when JFK was President. San Francisco Bay Area.

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dgoldsmith, to random
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All the other charging network companies are partying right now.
https://mastodon.online/@electrek/112366670991747462

dgoldsmith, to random
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One of my favorite SMBC strips of all time.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/112364333985702450

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

I'm not holding my breath this heralds a break in the fever of the trans moral panic, but it's a step in the right direction. And it's always good to see the haters foiled.

Kansas Republican Votes No On Trans Ban: “Govt. Involvement Is Not The Answer” https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-republican-votes-no-on-trans

#transphobia #fascism #ProtectTransKids

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn, more about the good news from the Fourth Circuit:

4th Circuit: Gender Identity Is A Protected Characteristic, Blocks State Coverage Bans https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/4th-circuit-gender-identity-is-a

thisismissem, to mastodon
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”But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threads“

It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.

All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)

Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits everyone

dgoldsmith,
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@thisismissem Thank you so much for posting this thread.

jeffjarvis, to random
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The Times is found out and criticized for its petulant, unethical use of news columns to punish Joe Biden for not giving A.G. an interview. What does it do? Engage in self-reflection? Ha! It doubles down, whining about Biden. The Times is broken.
https://www.nytco.com/press/a-statement-from-the-new-york-times-on-presidential-news-coverage/

dgoldsmith,
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@jeffjarvis The Times needs to get a better dictionary because apparently they're unfamiliar with the concept of hubris.

Mari_Kurisato, to random
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I’m facing a significant challenge and need your urgent support. With my medical and dental debt totaling $10-12K, compounded by unexpected expenses like my mother's broken arm and my child's hospital visits, the situation is dire.
1/4

dgoldsmith,
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@Mari_Kurisato Just in case you don't already know about these folks: https://unduemedicaldebt.org

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

We need more allies like this.

Maine Signs Trans And Abortion Sanctuary Bill Into Law, Despite Violent Threats https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/maine-signs-trans-and-abortion-sanctuary

dgoldsmith, to random
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Another excellent essay from @juliaserano on the Cass Review and its place in the ongoing moral panic over trans health care.
https://mastodon.social/@juliaserano/112322154826979242

Albatrossity, to nature
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Tree Swallow giving me advice this morning, near Manhattan KS

#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #FlyoverCountry #Migration #Swallows

dgoldsmith,
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@Albatrossity @futurebird Auditioning for @birdfeed ?

transworld, to transgender
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Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research and promoting false equivalences | Scientific American

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anti-trans-efforts-use-misinformation-epistemological-violence-and-gender/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

dgoldsmith,
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@transworld @christineburns Here's a non-paywalled version of the same content:

Simón(e) Sun and Florence Ashley: Tactics of… | OpenMind Magazine https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/q-a-how-misinformation-has-been-weaponized-against-trans-rights

gwynnion, to random
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NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.

dgoldsmith,
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@gwynnion Sturgeon's Law applies to everything…

dgoldsmith, to random
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Fun General Relativity fact: Local spacetime is curved towards the center of the Earth by the Earth's mass, but the body of the planet resists compression via the electromagnetic repulsion of atoms. That repulsion also pushes you, like the ground you stand on, away from the path you'd follow otherwise. This pushing is accelerating you, and you feel it just like you feel acceleration in an elevator. This equivalence was a key insight of Einstein’s. 1 / 2

dgoldsmith,
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“But how can I be accelerating? I'm standing still!”

If you’re in a closed elevator it also looks like you're standing still, but you still feel the acceleration. In the case of gravity, the fact that you have to accelerate to stand still relative to the center of the Earth is a consequence of spacetime being curved.
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dgoldsmith, to random
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I certainly never grew out of it, despite practicing conversion therapy on myself for 30+ years. I told people I was a girl when I was 4 (in 1961!) and that I wanted to be a girl when I was 8. There was zero support for trans kids and barely any for adults. Trans people were uniformly monstered and I did all I could to banish that aspect of myself. It didn't work, of course.

If gender-affirming care had been available then I would have asked for it.

#IWasATransChild
https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-avyLznx5Sj-BkxwxrGd1Dw%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

LGBTQNation, to random
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Neo-Nazi who attacked Planned Parenthood & plotted a “race war” gets 9 years in jail
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/neo-nazi-who-attacked-planned-parenthood-plotted-a-race-war-gets-9-years-in-jail/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq

dgoldsmith,
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@LGBTQNation @lgbtq I think maybe the stock photo choice of a POC in handcuffs is pretty bad when the neo-Nazi is very unlikely to be a POC?

dgoldsmith, to random
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33 feet (10m), less than the size of both objects. One of these days the luck will run out.

NASA satellite’s space junk encounter was even closer than thought | Space https://www.space.com/nasa-timed-satellite-russian-space-junk-near-miss-february-2024

#SpaceJunk

davidbrin, to random
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Our planet faces many dangers (as shown in EARTH*). While much depends on restoring wisdom+sense to our present, there are also dangers farther ahead, like the sun's rising temperature across the next 100M years. Here's how our heirs might save our world!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8x-ZqjXPc

dgoldsmith,
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@davidbrin Additional bonus: we get to have total solar eclipses for longer.

futurebird, to random
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So night terrors, sleep paralysis etc. seem to be a real thing. I've had "bad dreams" but never anything that sounds like these experiences. It sounds like it's scary. Scary like when you are home alone and hear a sound and don't know what it is.

I'm curious if people who can have this are can be aware that it's not real when it's happening.

When I get anxious I can also know "this is just that thing" and I'm sort of detached about it?

Can that happen with fear?

dgoldsmith, (edited )
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@futurebird I've had this happen exactly once, and I recognized it immediately when it did. I didn't see anything but there was a feeling of a kind of malign presence at the foot of the bed. I wake up really quickly so it passed within seconds. It was discomfiting but I wasn't truly frightened. Knowing what it was definitely helped.

dgoldsmith, to random
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From @ErinInTheMorn:

It's such a high-quality scientific review that the author is already walking it back…

Dr. Cass Backpedals From Review: HRT, Blockers Should Be Made Available https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/dr-cass-backpedals-from-review-hrt

#transphobia #pseudoscience #ProtectTransKids

renchap, (edited ) to random
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Nobody seems to have noticed it but the Mastodon project have been granted funding by @NGIZero in the Entrust fund.

This is amazing, but the best part is that this funding is targeted at implementing… Quote Posts 🎉

This effort started several months ago and we already did some preliminary work, but this will be a big feature for our next 4.4 version. This funding will cover the ActivityPub work, as well as backend, web frontend and official mobile app implementation.

dgoldsmith,
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@renchap @thisismissem @NGIZero :toot:

drahardja, to TeslaMotors
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I’m feeling better and better about this post.

#cybertruck #ev #tesla https://sfba.social/@drahardja/111350788885338476

dgoldsmith,
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@drahardja The Edsel of EVs.

dgoldsmith,
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@drahardja Assuming there is any tech in the Cybertruck worth reusing…

dgoldsmith,
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@drahardja Didn't Porsche do 800V first?

tao, to random
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A friend of mine was lucky enough to take this remarkable photo of the recent solar eclipse, in which a plane had left a contrail below the eclipse. She was wondering though why the portion of the contrail that was in the path of the eclipse appeared curved. My initial guess was that it was some sort of refractive effect, but why would the refractive index of the air be so much different inside the shadow of the eclipse than outside of it? With only a few minutes of eclipse I doubt that there would be a significant temperature change. Anyway, any theories would be welcome!

dgoldsmith,
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@tao @futurebird It's not:

  1. An optical illusion: I held a straight edge against the image and the effect is real
  2. Temperature differences or refraction: the Moon's shadow on the ground is over a hundred miles wide and given the geometry the plane and its contrail are entirely within it. The affected portion of the contrail is at most a few hundred feet long.
    It's entirely possibly it's just a coincidental air current. That’s not as unlikely as people might think.
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