@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-07-08 00:30:05
Urban Solitude III 🈳
城市孤独 III 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-07-07 20:09:49
EP 250108a/SN 2025kg - observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic #Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient / The kangaroo's first hop - the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08889 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08886 -> Supernova’s ‘Trapped’ Jet Reveals Source of Fast X-ray Transient / International Gemini Observatory and SOAR Discover Surprising Link Between Fast X-ray Transients and the Explosive Death of Massive Stars: https://keckobservatory.org/fxt/ / https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2520/ - mysterious cosmic explosion is traced to a massive stellar explosion / a breakthrough in astronomy’s understanding of how stars larger than our Sun explode.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-08 06:35:50
Tip for #FlyingLess as a family: prepare for long train rides with board card games. The #privacy friendly app games by @… are absolutely brilliant, easy to use, stable not stealing your data (or trying to sell your kids stuff).
(Edited to give right masto account: top work, thanks Secuso🙏 for the hours of fun your sudoku app has provided already).
https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/105.php
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-07 01:38:13
Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-08-08 06:26:15
Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-07-07 00:58:00
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#FilmCharactersViralPost
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-07 19:45:40
In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-07-08 16:44:15
San Leandro teen charged with shooting & killing 17 yr old girlfriend in her bedroom, is freed from custody by empathetic judge who rejects #prosecution theory of intentional #murder.
#Prosecutors have refiled murder …
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-06 19:16:08
In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-08 13:55:41
Moonvalley releases Marey, its fully licensed AI video model, available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99/month; 80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7300636/ai-hollywood-moonvalley-marey/