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I think, at this point of time, all fediverse software supports markdown, some even support LaTeX formatting. But, Mastodon still doesn't support any of that. I sadly observe that everyone around me posting per posts with bold, italics etc, while I can't.
Mastodon feels like the gnome of fediverse software.
#FreeSoftware

Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post after her cartoon was rejected by editors. She said, “I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, 'Democracy dies in darkness.'"
Join us May 29th at 8pm ET via Zoom for a conversation.
Sign up: #Cartoonist #Press #FreeSpeech

The challenge of HEPA filters in the classrooms.
h/t @…
source: https://xcancel.com/kadamssl/status/1938267359233429683#m

In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Good riddance. It was always meant to end eventually, 2 big egos can’t stay together for a long time. But with all the damage that he did, I’ll be having a hard time forgiving anyone still supporting him. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/politics/elon-musk-…

And I completely forgot in my setup list: Mullvad VPN. The only usable and secure VPN!
#linux #unix #opensource

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
David Gray:
🎵 Please Forgive Me
#NowPlaying #DavidGray
https://allenabel.bandcamp.com/track/please-forgive-me-david-gray-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Zsc5iKqeqfIyYsLuB2vrp

Jeg forlod den sidste flok sommerfestdeltagere for godt en halv time siden og tillod mig at skrive en sms til en af kollegerne om de måske kunne stille lidt af den tiloversblevne mad på kŸl så det kan spises i morgen (og så sendte jeg en lille grædesmiley over at min bŸtte med dessert var forsvundet i oprydningen).
Hun har lige sendt mig disse billeder 😭♥️😂

Apple will eigene KI-Modelle für Entwickler freigeben
Aktuell nutzen Entwickler Modelle von OpenAI, Anthropic oder Meta für ihre Anwendungen. Künftig will hier auch Apple mitmischen – mit eigener Technik.
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KI-Training: Britisches Oberhaus standhaft gegen Freigabe geschützter Werke
Die britische Regierung will geschützte Werke fürs KI-Training freigeben, wer nicht will, soll widersprechen. Viermal stimmte das Oberhaus nun dagegen.