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@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 00:30:00

Urban Life 101 🏙️
城市生活 101 🏙️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography

Ilford FP4 E.I. 64

**Alt text in English:** A black and white photograph of a puddle on a paved surface. The puddle reflects a utility pole along with some surrounding trees or foliage. The reflection appears slightly distorted due to ripples and debris in the water.

**Alt text in Chinese:** 一张黑白照片,显示在铺砌地面上的水坑。水坑倒映出一根电线杆以及一些周围的树木或植物。由于水面的波纹和碎屑,倒影看起来有些扭曲。
Ilford FP4 E.I. 64

**English Alt Text:**
"A black and white photograph of a plant with large, broad leaves. The plant is situated indoors, near a window, with light filtering through the leaves, creating a dramatic contrast and shadow effect. The leaves are detailed and appear slightly wilted or drooping."

**Chinese Alt Text:**
"一张黑白照片,展示了一株具有大而宽叶子的植物。植物位于室内,靠近窗户,光线透过叶子,形成戏剧性的对比和阴影效果。叶子细节清晰,看起来有些枯萎或下垂。"
Ilford FP4 E.I. 64

**English Alt Text:**
"A black and white photograph of a bicycle parked and secured to a metal bike rack. The bike is positioned at an angle, with the front wheel prominently displayed in the foreground. The word 'FOREVER' is visible on the frame of the bicycle. The background consists of a paved sidewalk and additional bike racks."

**Chinese Alt Text:**
"一张黑白照片,展示了一辆自行车停放并固定在金属自行车架上。自行车以一定角度摆放,前轮清晰地显示在前景中。自行车车架上可以看到“FOREVER”字样。背景是铺砌的人行道和更多的自行车架。"
Ilford FP4 E.I. 64

**English Alt Text:**
"A black and white photograph of a staircase in what appears to be a subway or underground station. The stairs are equipped with a central handrail and are flanked by walls on either side. The lighting is artificial, casting shadows and highlighting the steps. The stairs lead upwards, suggesting an exit or an upper level."

**Chinese Alt Text:**
"一张黑白照片,展示了一个看起来像是地铁或地下站的楼梯。楼梯中央设有扶手,两侧有墙壁。灯光是人工的,投下阴影并突出了台阶。楼梯向上延伸,暗示出口或上一层。"
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-04 20:37:00

SEC filing: Uber appoints Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora to its board of directors following a broader executive shakeup this week (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/06/04/uber-board

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-11 05:40:52

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:06:58
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Wish World
:tardis:

A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
:tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis: :tardis:

@arXiv_csCG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-10 16:15:49

This arxiv.org/abs/2306.07237 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

@pre@boing.world
2025-06-02 20:28:08
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Reality War
:tardis:

Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
:tardis:
#doctorWho

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2025-06-02 10:43:54

Someone in my LinkedIn network posted this, and I have no inkling if it is genuine or sarcasm (see: Poe's Law).
Full text of the post in the image Alt Text.
NOTE: Please do not dogpile this person due to my toot.
#LLMs #WorkerReplacement

This is a screenshot of a LinkedIn post that has the following text.
FINALLY AI WILL KILL HR 🤖 💼

I’m so excited that AI will free us from the broken and inefficient HR paradigm of nearly worthless interviews, performance reviews, and promotion decisions.

When an LLM can gain access to your accounts (with proper permissions established), we’ll be managing Human Resources like we do cash flow and other resources: plugging the right people to the right places at the right time. The synthesis of …
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-05-23 20:44:41

Der Terror und die #AfD: „Immer wenn eine radikale politische Richtung Rückenwind hat, dann entwickeln sich daran auch noch radikalere Flanken, die sich legitimiert fühlen, einen Schritt weiterzugehen.“

@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-05 07:29:13

Interlinking internal and external magnetic fields of relativistically rotating neutron stars
D. Ntotsikas, K. N. Gourgouliatos
arxiv.org/abs/2506.04198

@arXiv_qbioTO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-05 07:37:42

Cardiovascular function changes following lung resection: a computational model to compare afterload increase and contractility loss mechanisms
Shiting Huang, Sanjay Pant, Sean McGinty, Richard Good, Ben Shelley, Ankush Aggarwal
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01264