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Photosynthetic software developer & dog enthusiast from Pittsburgh 🌱 I post flowers photos from walks with my dog Macy 🐕 Also post about Judaism, Pittsburgh, heavy metal and sometimes computer he/ him 🌱 https://Josh412.com 🌵side project: @skygram.app 🌲
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely 1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma) 2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar 3. Proceed to grow as usual 4. Repeat step 2
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Got my flu and COVID vaccines this afternoon. Still very easy to get here in Pennsylvania and in most places.
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Hey Mr Tariff Man tariff me banana
Traveling back in time to when I started getting interested in open source software to show younger me this tweet, shaking the poor guy and asking frantically “you see how none of these words make sense to you? That’s a very good thing. Do you really want to just understand these sentences?”
Yep. Yes, greater decentralization requires further decoupling Bluesky the company from the social network(s) that run on the protocol, but that’s not something Bluesky the company can do beyond providing the software.
Choices define myself Doubt is a traitor, I can tell Fear is my enemy I fell It's our differences that make us beautiful
I have listened to this new @themountaingoats.bsky.social like 7 times. Perfect vibe for a lot how I feel this week.
Love how pop punk the new Coheed is. I like that they are leaning into fun stuff and deep lore at once by expanding the thematic crossover with Afterman — probably my second or third favorite Coheed record. I also like the idea of records that slowly expand.
I love this song. I really liked the record with Elton John and all of her collabs, but been waiting for her to do another Brandi Carlile record and hopefully do a tour that comes to Pittsburgh. One wish granted so far!
Also, just found out about Maruja. Wow this goes hard, post-punk with sax from people talking about their new record on Reddit. music.apple.com/us/album/loo...
I am very much like “oh no” after this week and trying to find the positives to be happy about. Made a playlist of all this good new music from this week. Reminder that good things still happen
Huge week for new Josh-coded music 🌲 New @coheedandcambria.bsky.social song. Expanded Vaxis III ! 🌲 Brandi Carlile with just her band again! 🌲 @polyphiaofficial.bsky.social did a video game song 🌲 New record from Between The Buried And Me goes hard🤘 🌲 Love the new @themountaingoats.bsky.social
This parsha has laws for waging a holy war to conquer the land. But many rabbis read it as a metaphor about inner war inside us versus the outer war to survive. reformjudaism.org/learning/tor...
There is a mitzvah not to hate Egyptians or Edomites that is hard. It is a commandment to love PEOPLE who belong to a group that has harmed us. I think it’s a good reminder to separate people from leaders. www.hadar.org/torah-tefill... www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy....
Since the old Rabbis rejected the idea that this was a rejection of cross-dressing for self-expression, modern Rabbis read it as a warning against the harm that comes from denying your true gender or other part of your true self.
Some I learned about Parashat Ki Teitzei, which includes Devarim 22:5, which is used by fundamentalist Christians as a prohibition against cross dressing. The rabbis of the Talmud, Rashi and the Ramban all agree this is in context of idolatry or deceiving people, others it is totally permitted.
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Went to Kennywood for Phantom Fall fest for first time last night. Excellent spooky vibes for nighttime rides. 🎃🎢🌲
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It’s the one with the most Jerry so…
Dying for a party that says “NO, we all ball, even if we gotta use a tooth for an eyeball”
This is the shit they’re defunding. Scientists can make your teeth see so you can get back to balling and they want to take that away from you forever
What a great question. Bluesky Is more than an X clone. Under the hood, each part of the app can and is ran by different companies. The app you download, the server hosting your data, each feed you scroll, and your chosen moderator can all be ran by unrelated parties.
The thing that connects them is a protocol. In this case it’s called the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (or atproto) atproto works like traffic laws. As long as you follow the rules of the road, you can drive a car (run a service) Folks like Blacksky (and Bluesky of course) built connecting roads
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Jerry, they are going to be roasting your ass on WednesdaySky.
Always has been, always will be
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Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌
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You’re the high priest! What else do you need to know?
And eventually you get What We Do In The Shadows-grade vampires.
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I didn’t see the first one, does it not include the resurrection? I would have assumed it did…
I know it’s not the main thing here by a lot, but do they just not know that you can crop the screenshot?
In 17:14, God says the people can appoint a king, but the king has to be able to make a copy of the Torah. Lots of debate about what that means, which leads to conclusion you need to carry a small Torah with some verses with you. They have even found amulets like this ajr.edu/parashat-sho...
This parsha includes commandments to create cities of refugee — cities where everyone knows that everyone has sinned — something to think about right before Rosh Hashana: how can we use Torah to be more open about and accepting our past failures. hadar.org/torah-tefill...
18:13 days according to Rashi means “be simple-hearted with God” whereas for the Ramban this is more “have perfect faith in God.” The Rebbe said this refers to being simple and honest, which is way more attainable than perfect. www.chabad.org/parshah/arti...
Lessons I learned about parsha Shoftim. There is a lot to take from Devarim 16:20 but I like reading it as “fix injustice, then don’t be settled, uncover more injustice.”
"Who knew the Torment Nexus would be so unpleasant?"
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Shots please!
Amazing opportunity for @robert.thecure.com to do the funniest thing ever here
Possibly the easiest thing I imagined all day.
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Since we’re all sharing starter packs again, here’s mine! It’s not focused, just a bucket of folks who post real well
Why the Left Should Not Care About Population Decline By Leslie Root 1. It's a fake problem based on long-run population projections that assume things will remain as they currently are 2. And things not remaining as they currently are is kind of our whole fucking deal
And the idea that the world is separated into "belief" and "non-belief"? Yeahhhh that's the least Jewish idea in the world, by the way. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. But Jews can, are, long have been atheists, agnostics, that's a thing. What matters to us is what you DO.
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worm, you just threw a dart at the center of a Venn diagram with very little cross over in the center and hit me square in the face. Excellent work. This is an amazing meme.
Great explanation of what “decentralized” means in AtProto vs Mastodon, how they approach it differently and why trying to compare them directly on “which is more decentralized” does not make sense.
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Technical bankruptcy. Makes sense in relation to tech debt and is nicer way to say “completely fucked”
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you can just move to pittsburgh and this will happen to you in no time
OK, if that’s the case, star is a type of kosher bird, are you also arguing it can’t be consumed with dairy?
They should put this in the siddur.
Ok, but it’s clearly not a bird.
Dream of our species since we first looked to the stars.
Regular reminder that if you're starting to get pain in your wrists and tingly pain in your fingers, you don't have carpal tunnel yet and now is a great time to make some changes.
📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th... It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.
“A fellow human is not designed to make you feel good about having interacted with them, or to convince you of their utility, or to persuade you to bring your thoughts and problems to them instead of someone else; a fellow human is not designed at all. “ defector.com/butlerian-ji...
At least that show was honest enough to put him in jail eventually.
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This site has the juice Jerry!
47. Re’eh www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy....
This also has one of the many commandments to destroy all of sacred spaces of the people of Canaan, which is hard to wrestle with. The Mussar commentary explains how much fear and anxiety is in the text — this is life or death stuff for people who relied on worshipping God to bring the rain.
We can understand this as the difference between negative commands “don’t worship this way” vs positive commands “worship this way,” so there is a deeper meaning here. Rashi taught that these commands refers to Shiloh. www.chabad.org/parshah/arti...
Teachings I learned about parsha Re’eh, which begins with instructions to bring sacrifices to a place God will command, but not existing alters. It doesn’t say “in the temple in Jerusalem which presumably God knew at the time would be where God would want it to be. www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy....
What did they do to her?
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If you’re at all able to get the COVID vaccine anywhere right now, do it.
"build more housing" is the single most important thing we can do to combat a further rightward drift of the electorate what do you think is going to happen as climate migration accelerates
Strong agreement. I think the political problem for Democrats is the fear that affordable housing drives down property values. Personally I don’t give a fuck, I am more interested in the possibility of my home existing in a stable society than higher resale value.
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So what he’s saying is he’s not good at his job. We already know this.
Mamdani's fun idea for a scavenger hunt throughout NYC, using the subway or public transit, has succeeded beyond measure. They've run out of cards! And look how many young people are here. Follow the #ZcavengerHunt hashtag for more live updates as the hunt progresses. Everyone's happy & having fun.
Don’t tell them about this one.
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Me when I have to push like 10 bug fixes to production in a row www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/v...
Different Pittsburgh starter pack go.bsky.app/FuPVNrg
This is also a good Pittsburgh feed bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Moses is consistently trying to pray his way out of shit and even though he knows God better than anyone, it hardly ever works. God, creator of the universe, please correct the typo below — “Sons” not “son’s”