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Aral Balkan

“mastodon.social has over 2 million users … I think it's safe to say the the mastodon codebase is tuned for mastodon.social”

muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2

I keep getting asked why I’m working on the Small Web – which is tuned for instances of one (not two or two million).

This is why.

(It’s also why I was advising a certain someone to limit the size of his instance… until my advice was no longer compatible with their plans/welcome.)

#sizeMatters#federated#fediverse
Bunny Watson

Night Watch, Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

Do zoom in! And in, and in, and IN some more. 🔍 😃

"This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000,000 pixels, in size.

The distance between two pixels is 5 micrometres (0.005 millimetre), which means that one pixel is smaller than a human red blood cell.

The team used a 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS-camera to make 8439 individual photos measuring 5.5cm x 4.1cm. Artificial intelligence was used to stitch these smaller photographs together to form the final large image, with a total file size of 5.6 terabytes."

#Art #NightWatch #Rembrandt #Photography #Hasselblad #SizeMatters

rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/oper

Rijksmuseum.nlUltra high resolution photoThe Rijksmuseum published the largest and most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch on its website, making it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"His former press secretary, Stephanie Grisham, told the Democratic convention tonight that when the cameras are off, 'Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them basement dwellers.' Grisham endorsed Harris, saying: 'I love my country more than my party. Kamala Harris tells the truth. She respects the American people and she has my vote.'”


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William Lindsey :toad:

"Harris joined the crowd virtually from a rally she and Walz were holding at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last month the Republicans held their own national convention in that venue, and for Harris to accept her nomination in the same place was an acknowledgement of how important Wisconsin will be in this election."

~ Heather Cox Richardson


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heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Letters from an American · August 20, 2024By Heather Cox Richardson
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump in 2024 is both an older candidate and a more tired one. His current campaign is a rerun rather than a burst of originality. Symptomatic of this tiredness is his repeated deployment of old talking points and nicknames and his nursing of grudges from his 2020 election defeat…."

~ Jeet Heer


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thenation.com/article/politics

The Nation · Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe BidenThe former president is caught in a nostalgia trap of his own making.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Donald Trump is down so bad that his campaign is bringing back Republican dirty tricks from 20 years ago.

Kamala Harris is packing arenas and rising in the polls while Trump whines about crowd sizes during incoherent press conferences and in insane Truth Social posts."

~ Stephen Robinson


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publicnotice.co/p/swiftboating

Public Notice · Desperate times: Trumpers launch Swiftboating 2.0By Stephen Robinson
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