Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social
5m agoHeat wave. Happy 250th.
If only there were more data centers. 🙄
https://abcnews.com/amp/US/1-million-power-country-us-blanketed-heatwave/story?id=134467508
Taran Rampersad
540 followers721 following8715 posts since Apr 2, 2024
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social2h ago
...A basilica church, dating back to the mid-fourth century, stands at the settlement’s head, overlooking its main streets, along with remains of two watchtowers to safeguard the outskirts, said Mahmoud Massoud, who chairs the archaeological mission...
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7h ago
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7h ago
No, hashtags don't work as on centralized social media. It's architecture.
And it's just fine with me. 🙃
But, I am on a big server. If you're on a small server, you will see less through hashtags on average, unless you or people on your server follow interesting people.
It's more organic. And it's fine. 🙃
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social8h agoretooted Inspirobot
Your daily dose of true inspiration.
#dailyinspiration #motivationalquote #motivation #humor #comedy
Credit https://inspirobot.me - Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social8h agoretooted sjvn
Accurate enough for web work.
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social9h agoretooted jaseg
This is awesome: Someone actually made a truetype font encoding QR codes, including reed-solomon encoding!
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social9h agoretooted Terence Eden’s Blog
This blog is written in en-GB
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/this-blog-is-written-in-en-gb/Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known.
Here's the thing. No.
All my blog posts start with a simple declaration:
<!doctype html> <html lang=en-GB>There's a reason for that. It is more than the language I speak; it is the culture I live in, the way that I think, and the accent I use.
When your AI bot reads this text aloud, it should do so with a British accent0. That's how I speak. It is OK to hear a slightly unfamiliar accent. You'll be able to figure out what I'm saying. Your world won't collapse if I don't start each sentence with "Howdy, y'all!"
But what should you do if you come across a concept you don't understand?
When The Wicked Witch of the TERFs released the first Harry Potter book "Philosopher's Stone", it was published in the USA with a different title; "Sorcerer's Stone". There were also a dozen other language changes - which caused great consternation in the fandom.
What do you think happens if Skip or Madison come across a kid eating "a sherbet lemon" or a description of Hermione's "fringe" or discover Harry wearing a jumper? Will their little minds collapse under the knowledge that people far away use different words?
No. And neither will you.
It is OK if things are unfamiliar to you.
Up until my mid-twenties, I had never seen or eaten a Twinkie. They were a cultural lodestone in a hundred books and films, but not the sort of thing I could buy locally. So I used my context clues. They seemed like an unappealing foodstuff which, nevertheless, were inexplicably popular.
As a kid, I could recite all the lyrics to Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby without getting half the references. The brain is malleable and can fit in new concepts with relative ease.
So if you see a reference to Count Duckula, or hear me exclaim "Accrington Stanley!", or even blush as I describe an utter wanker - please take it as a sign that the hegemony is not universal and some people exist in a cultural milieu different to your own.
And breathe. It'll be OK.
OK, accents are a whole can of worms. Regional English is varied. There are a variety of countries within the UK which each have their own forms of pronunciation. I'm not sure if there are any BCP-style tags for intra-country accents. ↩︎
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/3/2026retooted nixCraft 🐧
Turns out all that talk about AI ending software engineering careers hasn’t aged particularly well 😂
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/3/2026retooted tech news ᳇ eicker.news
#Cloudflare will block #AIcrawlers from ad-supported pages starting 15 September, unless site owners opt in. This move aims to address the issue of #AI companies using #webcontent for #training without compensating #publishers, potentially harming the open web. Cloudflare is also introducing a “#PayPerUse” system to compensate publishers when their content influences AI answers. https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-pay-publishers?eicker.news #tech #media #news
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/3/2026
Gifted link. Russia seems to be having noticeable issues.
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/3/2026retooted Fedi.Tips
I've made a couple of posters to promote the Fediverse, perhaps on community noticeboards, or at activist or tech events etc.
I've left part of the posters blank so you can customise them with sources of info about the Fediverse (for example useful websites, local user groups, local/national servers to join etc).
You can find the posters (and lots of questions answered) at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/posters-for-promoting-the-fediverse
Also, any feedback, translations or alternative posters very welcome!
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/3/2026
A good trip is one that chases tomorrow, not yesterday.
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/2/2026
That hill appears to be leaking cloud. 😅
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/2/2026retooted SETI Institute
During a recent #SETILive conversation, SETI Institute research scientist Dr. Lauren Sgro sat down with Arizona State University postdoctoral fellow Dr. Sagnick Mukherjee to discuss a problem that has frustrated exoplanet astronomers for years: clouds.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/news/how-clouds-hide-alien-worlds/
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/2/2026
...The researchers then derived a new mean-field theory that incorporates the full distribution of collective activity patterns. This framework accurately reproduced the observed statistics...
Well yeah. Complexity.
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/2/2026retooted JA Westenberg
The future of privacy may come down to a very awkward sentence:
“Yes, I do mind. Please turn it the fuck off.”
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/2/2026retooted Al Jazeera
Oil prices fall to levels not seen since start of US-Israel war on Iran
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/7/2/oil-prices-fall-to-levels-not-seen-since-start-of-us-israel-war-on-iran?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Global News @global-news-AlJazeera
- Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/1/2026retooted Project Gutenberg
Guide to the classics: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden has always been controversial
by Paul Giles
Books in American Literature at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/654 - Taran Rampersadknowprose@mastodon.social7/1/2026retooted ⠠⠵ avuko
Everyone has their own path, but for me, it is only a disability if I’m not able to do something I want to do.
It is not a disability if I can’t or won’t do something society wants me to do.
To each their own, but for me, once I started seeing it this way, a lot of my “disabilities” suddenly disappeared.
