Anime and manga are being increasingly introduced by global companies from McDonald’s to Lego to promote their products and convey their corporate messages, banking on the global appeal of the Japanese art form. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/02/companies/anime-manga-promotion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #anime #manga #amtrak #gucci #mcdonald039s
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still funny to me when electronic component prices end up being on the order of centipence
@gsuberland 1 10k ohm 0402 resistor is like 5 centicents when you buy a reel of 10,000
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Honored to announce our first 2026 Ruby Community Gala honoree and Ruby Brilliant Gem Award recipient: Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), creator of Ruby and steward of MRI. Celebrating his lifetime impact and vision of “programmer happiness” at RubyConf 2026.
@jmarme @MountainTownToys @print lemme know if you want to talk shop. Happy to go into various manufacturing techniques. Something for every budget, been doing it since I was a kid.
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Today we’re launching our RubyConf 2026 Sponsor Spotlight series.
Each week, we’ll highlight partners who help sustain the Ruby ecosystem through long-term support, collaboration, and community investment.
We’re excited to start with GitButler. With deep roots in Ruby and years of showing up at RubyConf, they value real conversations with developers and continue to invest in the community that shaped them.
I don't believe in second brains. Most people I know who built elaborate Notion vaults ended up with digital hoarding problems.
And I'm skeptical of the "Claude Code will 10x your output" discourse.
But I believe in something adjacent to both: coherence as a system.
@Daojoan really interesting article, thank you!
A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
More on Clair Cameron Patterson #Citizen #Scientist...
https://richard.mdpaths.com/history/clair_cameron_patterson/index.html
"consent-respecting quote posts" which do not require consent to fill up the target's notifications while reply spamming continues to occur without consent remains a complete joke https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/116003516564368892
Melania is the Cats of 2026
Sorry folks, the response we were looking for was:
"At least the producers of Cats had the decency to digitally remove the assholes."
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Ruby 4.0に導入されたZJITの強化点を詳しく解説（翻訳）｜TechRacho by BPS株式会社
https://techracho.bpsinc.jp/hachi8833/2026_02_02/156245
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i keep wishing paloalto let you assign zone based on attributes like the routing protocol the route for that traffic came from
but in absence of that i just made a shitload of tunnel interfaces and now there's far too many bgp peers
and now there's far too much load-bearing export policy
which would be fine if we had transit-specific vsys
but we don't have transit-specific vsys
because nobody should be batshit enough to use paloalto as a router
except us
@0x47df firewalls are just routers that don’t work properly
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The US government is shut down again. I mention this only because if some place like Canada were to come down and run things, we could certainly use the help.
We’ll leave the door unlocked.
@mattblaze I can't wait for the midterms, got really tired of clowns who suggest we return aid (!) that Pentagon spent on itself, not us. They can get a Sea Sparrow up there ar$e, my latest offer, znd I'm being generous. Impeach now!!
Saw the Joybubbles documentary over the weekend at Sundance (online). Hope it gets a wide release. That Joybubbles was one of the early, pioneering phone phreaks is reason enough to be interested, but it's his big-hearted humanity that will stick with you.
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one of the early, pioneering #phonephreaks
Yea, I heard the #offthehook #2600oth radio #wbai and podcast folks talk about him over they years, since the 1980s.
Thx for the reminder about the doc at #sundancefilmfestival
"Josef Carl Engressia Jr., aka: Whistler, later known as Joybubbles...He could whistle a perfect 2600 Hz tone"
Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/