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kdawson

@kdawson@tldr.nettime.org

Recovering physicist, erstwhile bellwether.

I did some stuff at the dawn of #blogging and before, around a career as tech writer, software developer, manager, tech marketer, unelected pundit, technology journalist, community builder, editor, web designer, developer, and #hosting provider. Interests in #physics from #cosmology to the #quantum scale, #media and #communications through technical means, #virology and #epidemiology, #social #justice, #poetry, and #dadjokes. Living in Minnesota.

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kdawson, to random
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Bummer. Finally tested negative for #Covid yesterday, 11 days after symptoms began; now today it's positive again. A faint line but undeniable.

glennf, to random
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Listen, I know the universe doesn’t work this way. But I’m listening to a podcast and someone on the podcast says the word “mat” at the moment I am filling in the word “mat” in the crossword puzzle, it just feels weird! Yes, yes, every other word in the crossword puzzle, they didn’t say.

kdawson,
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@glennf "COINCIDENCE You just weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on." — John Brunner in Stand on Zanzibar

kdawson, to H5N1
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New studies show pasteurization inactivates bird flu in milk. Good thing, too, as cats have died (50% mortality) after drinking unpasteurized milk from infected cows.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/bird-flu-pasteurization-inactivates-h5n1-in-milk/

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4636692-cats-died-after-drinking-raw-milk-from-cows-infected-with-bird-flu-cdc/

h/t @CaramelizedShallots

cabel, to random
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An incredibly cool WebGL demo from our good friends at Little Workshop, who can make amazing things happen in a web browser. https://equinox.space

kdawson,
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@cabel OK, in the generator room. Cheat code? Anybody? Beuller?

AskPippa, to random
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Something else to see during the dark of day.

kdawson,
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@AskPippa The image is missing the most rare and compelling body that will be (probably) visible on the ecliptic at totality: Comet Pons-Brooks.

https://www.astronomy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/comet-pons-brooks-during-eclipse.jpeg

kdawson, to random
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IMO making your window square results in a more pleasing screenshot, and YMMV.

kdawson, to random
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Way more fun than it ought to be. @aral has created this simple thing.

https://draw-together.small-web.org/

video/mp4

kdawson,
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@aral I'm almost competent to read that code. Not quite maybe. I sometimes see the canvas clear to white in a single move. Is there a timer somewhere in there I missed?

kdawson,
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@aral Seen this? Someone is playing Life in there.

kdawson,
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@aral @ErikUden You probably know, but the site is not reachable now — various errors of the form "Unable to connect". Maybe it's just overloaded.

kdawson, to random
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I'm greatly enjoying the Today I Learned bot, @todayilearned , which is a feed from Reddit's /r/todayilearned.

kdawson, to random
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Today on Lesser Pi Day, dine on things that are approximately like pie, such as tarts, flatbread pizza, moon pies, perhaps large cookies. Hold off on the actual pie until Greater Pi Day, July 22.

3.14 differs from pi by .00159..., while 22/7 diverges by only .00126... My favorite pi approximation is 355/113, which comes within 1 part in nearly 10 million (but doesn't translate into a calendar date in any obvious way).

The first million digits of pi:

http://www.piday.org/million/

kdawson, to random
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This afternoon my wife and I got our spring #booster #Covid shots. Changing it up this time, we opted for the #Novavax vaccine (a first), and to use the contralateral arm from our previous practice.

There is some research indicating that switching arms might boost the immune response, but the largest effect was seen when switching for the two shots of the initial series, not for boosts.

https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/02/06/switching-arms-improves-effectiveness-of-two-dose-vaccinations-ohsu-study-suggests

kdawson, to random
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“Political long Covid is neither the great divider nor the great equaliser. It’s the great destabiliser.” Fabulous analogy by David Runciman writing in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/07/how-covid-changed-politics

kellogh, to random
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i always do web browsing in "private" mode in safari when on iOS, so i always "accept all" cookies bc i trash tabs often so the cookies are pretty much only good for that single site

is that good reasoning? for maintaining privacy

kdawson,
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@kellogh Yes, seems effective enough w.r.t. cookies. Problem is that there are a half dozen other ways sites track you, and I don't know how many of them private browsing blocks.

kdawson, to random
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I won a con­test at the state fair for grow­ing the biggest pick­le. It was kind of a big dill.

K_REY_C, to random
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Anyone know what the typeface on this page of an old book is?

Page 26

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035172421&seq=26

kdawson,
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@K_REY_C >> @glennf

kellogh, to random
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i’m at a point where if i get laid off or fired, i think it’ll be the last time i ever work for someone else. there’s something freeing about that

kdawson,
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@kellogh Time comes, if you're at all competent, that you become less attractive as an employee. Unwilling to put up with BS, inclined to speak up and challenge authority. The balance tips. Time to go be on your own.

kdawson,
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@kellogh Good for you. That wasn't my trajectory. :)

kdawson, to random
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Timeline of the development of online communications, beginning in the 60s (in glorious 1999-era Web 1.0 design aesthetic). Engrossing, but perhaps only for those whose careers spanned this time.

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/timeline.shtml

Jaden3, to random
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Sumtime when I fw mastodon I just feel like a IG nigga just fking my gram ona nother mf no I saying?
But I fw with this mf now and I love y'all.
New to masto from Dec 23.
Hit me up muthafckers ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I want more followers and shit to fw ❤️❤️❤️
Love Jaden xxx

kdawson,
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@Jaden3 Gotta say you send me to urbandictionary more often than anyone else I follow. ❤️

shellsharks, to random

The first 100 people to star this toot shall have their Mastodon handle forever enshrined on this page https://shellsharks.com/starsharks. A can't miss opportunity to be sure.

*Remember to star first before boosting to ensure you reserve your spot! 😆

kdawson,
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@shellsharks Kind of scrambles the incentive to star, dunnit? When I star a post it is with the expectation of gifting the poster with a small endorphin hit; and that expectation endows me with one too.

kdawson, to superbowl
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I don‘t trust the owls at Machu Pichu. They’re all Inca hoots.

TNLNYC, (edited ) to random
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In this age of AI, I have a crazy idea: A person-made directory of sites that are individually crafted by individuals (think Yahoo! in the early days). No algorithms, just human edited directory lists. Would you visit such a site?

Please boost to increase participation.

kdawson,
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@TNLNYC See this site:

https://diagram.website

adamengst, to random
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@vnglst Pong Wars is very cool, but it would benefit from a randomizer at the start so it doesn't always end up at this stuck point 32 minutes in.

kdawson,
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@adamengst @vnglst Same.

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