OldBrushNewPaper @OldBrushNewPaper@wandering.shop

I need my adjusted income from last year, I don't have any of my paperwork because everything got thrown out or is in storage, Intuit deleted my TurboTax account and my adjusted income with it, and the only way to get that info from the IRS is to have them mail it to your last known address (which is in Los Angeles) or they can get it to you digitally if they can verify your identity by texting a phone number you pay for.

My past-due balance is $75. Help?

A Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth

http://www.languagebasecamp.com/linguistics-for-language-learners-what-is-the-ipa/ (via kottke)

It's been kind of an awful day, does anyone have anything nice they'd like to share? animal pics, interesting facts, something that makes you happy

Anyway I’m out of money now moving between two cities in two weeks. If you would like to help: https://cash.me/$veryeleanor

mew!

i will be doing a smol april fools joke this year. it will be silly and hopefully not scare anyone. but if you would like to know what it is so you are not surprised, please DM me and i will tell you

CALL TO ACTION
We need your help, #Fediverse! @blodeuwedd and I want to test a theory, and we need lots of data.

THEORY
Any standard love song can become a (significantly improved) sci-fi epic simply by changing all instances of the word "love" to the word "launch."

EXAMPLE
🎵 🎵 You'd think that people would have had enough of silly launch songs
I look around me and I see it isn't so
Some people want to fill the world with silly launch songs
And what's wrong with that
I'd like to know
'Cause here I go again
I launch you, I launch you
I launch you, I launch you 🎵 🎵

STUDY OUTCOMES
1. Determine whether the theory is supported by evidence
2. Determine which songs benefit most from being rewritten in such a manner
3. Delight

DATA NEEDED
Any and all song lyrics involving "love" to be replaced with "launch." Support our research efforts by replying with new examples! Together we can create better, more exciting music with minimal effort and skill.

The other night I offered a friend of mine, who is a professional baker of incredible treats, a piece of cake that I'd made, and said, "it's just poundcake, it's not a big deal," and she pointed at me and said, "EVERY cake is a big deal," and I've been thinking about that a lot

A new fossil bed along the Qingjiang River in China, dating back to the Cambrian era (slightly earlier than the Burgess Shale), has turned out to be a treasure trove. Half the species found there haven't been previously described, and an incredible amount of soft tissue has been preserved, yielding unprecedented detail: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/spectacular-trove-of-cambrian-fossils-uncovered-in-china/

I somehow locked my site into a loop where I can't log in because I need to log in because I was testing membership logins for my book website. Oops.

Once this is sorted, if anyone here has Wordpress skills and could help me with some basic layout stuff and also figuring out a plugin for paid membership stuff I would like to know what I could do to get your help!

I'm wasting whole days of my life learning stuff I just need done.

To get your first page of toots ever just append ?min_id=0 to your public profile page address

If the CEO for the company you work for is hardly ever there, you probably work for a shithead.

Upcoming talks:

Copenhagen, March 26: presenting the opening keynote at the CPH:DOX Art, Technology, and Change conference on Small Technology as “The Antidote to Big Tech”

https://cphdox.dk/en/art-technology-change-2019/

Singapore, April 6: Taking part in the Straits Times Education Forum to debate the motion “Entrepreneurs today do more harm than good”.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/education/st-education-forum-to-debate-modern-day-entrepreneurship

"Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 17 m/s (34 kt, 39 mph) are usually called "tropical depressions" (This is not to be confused with the condition mid-latitude people get during a long, cold and grey winter wishing they could be closer to the equator ;-))."

https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/A1.html

Uhura!

#startrek

tha camp got raided by the police, my friend was not caught but (most of ?) his frinds are. alone again, no money again. borders , borderprotection and injustice still up. #SmashFortressEurope

(via @briankrebs@twitter.com) Apparently Facebook has been storing user passwords in plaintext for years. Not intentionally; it looks from the description that this was a leak into logs which got persisted. Mistakes happen, but on this scale it's pretty terrifying. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/

So just curious, I hear a lot here about PeerTube as a federated YouTube alternative, but I haven't heard much about its record or plans to deal with the sorts of abuse that makes YouTube such a problem. That is, harassment of various sorts, toxicity, spreading of misinformation/outright propaganda, Nazi channels, and other sorts of abuse.

How are they on that stuff, or if they're not far enough along yet are plans to deal with that being "baked in" from an early stage?

#peertube #harassment

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