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The Calyx Institute

Attention members of the Calyx Institute! Do you want an extra month of your unlimited and unthrottled #mobile internet for free? Refer someone today and you both get an extra month of #wifi membership benefits! members.calyxinstitute.org/ref. #data #digital

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There's a brewery in Seattle called Perihelion, and today is Earth's Perihelion, so I might go after work today just to give them a hard time for not doing anything special for the occasion, lmao.

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Tangentially related to the Damar Hamlin heart attack disinfo, I find it incredibly irritating when people insist on saying that a person whose heart has stopped for a period of time, but survived, "died".

Death is irreversible. If you die, you don't get resuscitated after. It's permanent. Irreversible. There is no exception.

What is the point in perverting the definition of death to mean "heart stopped beating" other than to sensationalize for clout? People are gross...

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A highlight in history:

On January 16, 2005, blehbot, the first and only IRC bot running on the Unununium experimental Operating System, goes live on the chat room on irc.oftc.net.

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SuperIlu

Ok, as promised: I created a new #bot for Mastodon.

@c64_disks downloads the latest #C64 releases from #CSDK and renders the contents of the #D64 disk images into a visual representation of the data.

Example:
mastodon.social/@c64_disks@bot

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Vegetable Gremlin ⍼​👻
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BrianKrebs

Do you know how many times I've heard over the past few days how much the media is failing to follow the money in this story about the newly elected Rep. George Santos? This story makes it clear that's exactly what happened.

washingtonpost.com/media/2022/

So let's follow the money, shall we? Starting with Mr. Santos' latest filing for The Devolder Organization, which is apparently responsible for his sudden unexplained wealth.

search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/Corp

The organization lists its address as 336 N. Babcock St. Ste 104, and says another organization at the same address but Ste 101 is there called D&D International Investment Services Inc.

Both are affiliated with an individual named Devaughn Dames, who appears to be both a physician and a CFO somehow. He's also very passionate about spreading his knowledge about how to handle your money wisely. His linkedin page mentions both companies. He also seems to be an IT expert; previous domains include web.archive.org/web/2016051807

One of Mr. Dames' email addresses (dev.dames at gmail) was used to register the vanity domain devaughndames[.]com. Firefox didn't like what that site tried to do when I visited it, but it loaded an empty page that had the heading "Financial Educational Services." But the pop-up takes you to a domain called myuwe.net, which is for an entity called United Wealth Education.

Now, UWE is full of stock photos and videos, and there isn't much there about who runs it. And after spending a few minutes on this site, you'll probably come away with the conclusion that the site is tied to some type of scam.

Well, if you look up the name of what Myuwe.com used to be called -- Financial Educational Services -- you'll see they were shut down JUST THIS YEAR by the US Federal Trade Commission for being a giant pyramid scheme that bilked people out of more than $213 million.

How's that for following the money? :) Wait, I'm not done yet.

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My wife got me a Ring doorbell camera for Christmas.

We don't have a doorbell at all in our apartment. Literally can't install it.

Not a problem though, she bought it so I could take a stab at rooting it.

She knows me well.

No success yet, but it should be fun to tear open and get prodding.

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Abeba

2023 energy

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Widdershins Smith 🐘🥏

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

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poVoq

The internet wants to be fragmented slrpnk.net/post/204842

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So I have some doubts about this suspect that's been arrested in the Idaho killings. The police have sent missed messages since the beginning, made virtually no progress, and are still withholding details on how they established this man as a suspect.

Now the suspect is waiving his extradition hearing and submitting to DNA testing, seeking swift exoneration, which isn't characteristic of a guilty suspect. I have a feeling the police might be full of shit here, I guess we'll soon find out.

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Alt-text correction: Upon further review the "Two Dots" ad is in Chinese, not Korean, and it is an ad for a iOS app, not for music.

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To be clear, I have nothing against sex work or sex workers, it's just funny that Facebook paid me $10 to help them decide the relevancy of an ad for handjobs, which I assume is not allowed by the TOS.

I couldn't decide if it was relevant though, because they seem to be ignoring the language preferences I already provided them.

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Occasionally Facebook pays me to do little tasks via their "Viewpoints" program. Usually it's stuff like sentiment analysis, voice recognition training, or opinion surveys, but today they were just fucking with me.

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lemmyreader

Haiku Is Such A Unique Operating System lemmy.ml/post/685299

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Field-FX

Get ready! The party is starting at 7PM GMT over on twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

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Success!

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Greg H 🏳️‍🌈

@PeggyJoan I’ve already seen some of “them” deriding Mastodon as a leftist echo chamber. But, if by echo chamber, they mean that fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, et al running amok isn’t tolerated, then so be it.

I already do view Twitter as a home for the alt-right. That’s why I deactivated my account earlier this year.

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Wife has work today, and I don't. I think I might take an extremely long walk today. is such a great place to explore on foot.

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