ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years

1930s - FDR bank rules enacted

1930s-1980s - no major crisis

1980s - rules rolled back

1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years

2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted

2010-2018 - no major crisis

2018 - rules rolled back

2023 - crisis?

Okay that’s nice. 🥲

The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press #Sustainability https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears

Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas

In Utrecht, NL people have been falling into a pond because duckweed has been stressed by the cold and turned it red an looks exactly like a cycle path.

A retronym is a word that describes something that used to be the only kind of something, like acoustic guitar and postal mail (or snail mail).

Here's a new one to me: pork bacon!

#Language #EnglishLanguage #retronym

🚨 The Antarctic annual minimum has definitely passed ➡️ "This is the lowest sea ice extent in the 1979 to 2023 sea ice record, setting a record low for the second straight year."

See more at http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2023/02/antarctic-sea-ice-minimum-settles-on-record-low-extent-again/

A complete Rainbow taken at around 30k ft above the Earth.

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As part of a wave of layoffs, I got laid off from my backend development job last month as the company's financials I was working with have been steadily decreasing. I applied for another job shortly after, and after a month of interviews and an honestly great response from their team, at the last minute, they told me that they were focusing their hiring efforts away from the US and towards Singapore. With Calckey donations, I don't have enough money to pay for rent or groceries. So I'm asking to #GetFediHired, I'm the lead developer on the Calckey project, and I'm a fullstack, multi-language developer. I have 3+ years of enterprise experience, and I work great on teams as well as solo. Resume and references available upon request.

Serious poll, trying to get a more accurate read of the vibes.
Please boost for a larger sample size.
Considering everything you can think of, what do you consider the state of the world to be?
#poll #polls #fedipoll

@rozanski @codinghorror You may also like the barn.megaparsec measuring spoon. A barn is an area roughly covering a Uranium nucleus. A megaparsec is three and a bit million light years. Multiply them and you get a volume, about a third of a teaspoon. My spoon is within ~1%

Here’s one for #mosstodon

ProTip: try not eating avacado toast

Hypercapitalist techbros already calling for, wait for it, government intervention!

What happened to "the market will solve it"?

"The market solves it" only if it's your money on the line, not their stock options.

Remember all this bullshit about "we get the big payouts because we take the big risks"? Yeah, well… observe what happens when the risks actually materialize. Crying for risk-mitigating bailout *checks notes* literally the next day.

#SVB

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Pups are loving all the beach #walkies🐾 this morning
#DogsOfMastodon

For the first time since 1987, vinyl albums outsold CDs by units in the US. https://www.pcmag.com/news/music-throwback-vinyl-records-outsell-cds-for-first-time-since-1987

First, the very good news: Version 4.0 of The Ultimate Tape Archive, a compilation of Commodore 64 cassette-based software, has been released, with Internet Archive as the primary download!

https://archive.org/details/Ultimate_Tape_Archive_V4.0

16gb of cassette based software, scans of the cassettes and inlays and instructions.

The even better news: The collection has ALL of them, emulated!

https://archive.org/details/ultimatetapearchive

That's 2000 tapes for you to enjoy.

@RIDDLES Sun, Mar 12, 2023 2:00 AM - Sun, Nov 5, 2023 2:00 AM

California is getting drenched from another #AtmosphericRiver event 💦 #CAwx #CArain

Satellite + radar since yesterday shows the incessant rain, with flash #flooding now affecting #Kernville

It's 'cooler' to say "I am not woke" than "I am scared and insecure of things I don't understand and I react angrily about it"