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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-22 17:29:58

IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281

A bright turquoise wall features bold black text with a motivational message addressing feelings of heaviness due to caring about social and ecological issues.

The text emphasizes the impact of a trillion-dollar propaganda machine, concluding with encouragement that it didn't succeed in overwhelming the reader.

Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-21 23:01:12

SEC filing: Ambiq Micro, which makes ultra-low power chips, is seeking to raise as much as $85M from its IPO, marketing 3.4M shares at $22 to $25 each (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/arm…

Chipmaker Ambiq Micro Starts Marketing US IPO
Ambiq Micro Inc., a maker of ultra-low power semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications, is seeking to raise as much as $85 million from an initial public offering.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-21 18:27:54

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
ZEN: Fifteen minutes.
JENNA: How long before her detectors pick us up?
ZEN: Twelve minutes.
JENNA: We can't go down, if that's all the time we've got.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/625 B7B5

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see this is a scene set in what appears to be a spacecraft interior, with characteristic futuristic design elements including curved walls and sleek surfaces. Two women are present in the scene - one wearing a light-colored, flowing garment with a belt, and another in a patterned outfit. The setting has the distinctive aesthetic of late 1970s science fiction television, with clean lines and a sterile, high-tech atmosphere. The scene appears to be…

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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-05-22 11:59:15

»One of Mr. Reagan's advisers, David Stockman, later wrote that the real aim of fiscal policy was to create a ›strategic deficit‹ that would slam the door and reduce the size of the federal government.« https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html

Opinion | Ronald Reagan
Editorial assesses presidency of Ronald Reagan; says he will be ranked among most important presidents of 20th century, forever linked with triumph over Communism abroad and restoration of faith in free markets at home; says he profited from good timing and good luck, and was fortunate to have as counterpart Mikhail Gorbachez, Soviet leader ready to acknowledge his society's failings and interested in reducing international tensions; says he leaves complicated legacy

@bici@mastodon.social
2025-06-22 16:50:34

The Cradle of Civilization
Assyria Babylonia Sumer Persia Elam Medes Parthian
Babylonia - Born Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iy4u3E6iLA
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DIODATO - Babilonia

The image is a map of ancient regions in the Middle East, highlighting the area of Elam. The map is color-coded to distinguish different regions, with Elam marked in orange. Key cities and regions are labeled, including Babylon, Sumer, Assyria, and Persia. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are visible, flowing through the region. Notable cities such as Babylon, Sippar, Nippur, Uruk, and Lagash are marked with red dots. The Persian Gulf is shown in blue, and surrounding groups like the Medes, Part…

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-06-21 18:19:38

Randall Monroe's recent "xkcd What if" video has a Great Lakes connection.
"What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?"
Super cool system where we did fieldwork some year ago.
Kudos for mentioning trouble with the Niagara Board of Control. 🏅
https://youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs?featu…

image/jpeg a line drawing comic of a stick figure in front of a white board showing a river flowing over a height and a glass with a straw in it. An arrow points to the straw.
xkcd.com

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@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-06-18 00:30:08

Urban Living II 🌝
都市生活 II 🌝
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

**English:**
This black-and-white photograph shows a modern urban scene with a sheltered area for scooters and bicycles. The shelter has a flat roof supported by uniquely shaped pillars. Several scooters are parked under the shelter, and a person is seen riding a bicycle on the adjacent path. The background features trees and a few pedestrians, suggesting a park or recreational area. The image captures a moment of everyday life in a city setting.

**Chinese:**
这张黑白照片展示了一个现代城市场景，其中有一个为摩托车和自行车提供的…

**English:**
This black-and-white photograph captures an industrial scene featuring a bridge-like structure elevated on pillars. The structure extends horizontally across the image, leading the eye towards two tall smokestacks in the background. The smokestacks are part of an industrial facility, hinting at a factory or plant. The foreground is filled with dense foliage, providing a stark contrast to the industrial elements. The sky is clear, adding to the sharpness and contrast of the image.

…

**English:**
This black-and-white image depicts a covered walkway or corridor with a series of evenly spaced columns supporting the roof. The perspective is from one end of the walkway, looking towards the other end where a few people can be seen walking. The walkway is paved and flanked by greenery on both sides, creating a serene and orderly atmosphere. The light filters through the structure, casting shadows and highlighting the architectural details.

**Chinese:**
这张黑白图片描绘了一个有顶棚的走廊或通道，一系列均匀…

**English:**
This black-and-white image features a tree with sprawling branches in the foreground, partially obscuring the view. Behind the tree, there is a whimsical scene with two large panda sculptures, one of which appears to be sitting and holding a small object. The background includes a body of water and a large building, possibly indicating an urban park or a recreational area. The overall composition creates a playful and intriguing atmosphere.

**Chinese:**
这张黑白图片的前景是一棵枝叶繁茂的树，部分遮挡了视线。…

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@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-22 09:17:31

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Wen-Fan Wang, Ting-Ying Lee, Chien-Ting Lu, Che-Wei Hsu, Nil Ponsa Campany, Yu Chen, Mike Y. Chen, Bing-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15227

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Environment designers in the entertainment industry create imaginative 2D and 3D scenes for games, films, and television, requiring both fine-grained control of specific details and consistent global coherence. Designers have increasingly integrated generative AI into their workflows, often relying on large language models (LLMs) to expand user prompts for text-to-image generation, then iteratively refining those prompts and applying inpainting. However, our formative study with 10 designers su…

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-21 09:52:50

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Dani\"elle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Florian Krellner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14116

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Exploiting the fact that samples drawn from a quantum annealer inherently follow a Boltzmann-like distribution, annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) have gained increasing popularity in the quantum research community. While they harbor great promises for quantum speed-up, their usage currently stays a costly endeavor, as large amounts of QPU time are required to train them. This limits their applicability in the NISQ era. Following the idea of Noè et al. (2024), who tried to allev…

@shoppingtonz@mastodon.social
2025-06-22 17:38:45

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A little glimpse and we've got...
4/8 players online including me who is also online in the guild.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data regarding my ore gathering round 4...
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