@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-04-02 15:09:45
“they stole my apes, Odo” — Still relevant
“I SEEM TO RECALL YOU TAKING GREAT GLEE IN EXPLAINING THAT CENTRALISED PLATFORMS WERE OBSOLETE THANKS TO NFT'S.”
“WELL-”
“BUT NOW YOU WANT THE AUTHORITIES HELP IN POLICING THE SALE OF THESE…THINGS.”
https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/11159
@hanno@mastodon.social2026-04-30 13:32:37
PSA: that linux root exploit is significant. Nobody cares about the number of bytes of the exploit. It's about as meaningless as the also popular "this attack takes only xx seconds / xx minutes". If attackers want to become root, they really don't care if you need 700 or 7000 or 70000 bytes. Or if it takes 2 seconds or 5 minutes. Irrelevant metrics for impact.
Relevant Qs are: how reliable the exploit is, how widespread the vulnerability, etc.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-23 08:21:14
Why this is all relevant to the OP is that there is actually nothing preventing us from exploiting these same vulnerabilities (and doing so far more effectively). The (illusion of The) Satanic Temple has already given us some vision of what that could look like. We can imagine a religious institution that actually challenges power in the way TST claims to do. We could imagine an institution that is more radical. We could imagine an institution so dangerous it actually forces the state to choose between it's own survival and alienating liberals by (more) visibly clamping down on freedom of religion.
One could imagine an anarchist or solar punk religion that intentionally builds an alternative society within the shell of the old, one that recognizes the validity of other religious sects (like, for example, Quakers) who are doing similar things.
While there is a very interesting spiritual element to #CultPunk. I think there's also a very interesting set of radical opportunities that we have long since ignored....
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-27 18:51:00
“Judge Beryl Howell directed the agencies to complete searches for responsive records by July 1 and start producing records to the committee at a rate of 500 pages/month for each outstanding request. The judge explained that her decision was motivated by the fact that the requests are “time sensitive” and relevant to matters of “imminent public debate.”
Judge issues huge blow to Trump’s meddling - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-steal-election-2676962398/
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social2026-05-28 14:55:07
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on pre-chunked documents, tying retrieval to arbitrary boundaries. Carles Onielfa is joining us at #bbuzz26 to explore an experimental approach that surfaces semantically relevant text spans, without chunking.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/towards-chunk-less-rag/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-03-16 21:50:13
Searching for Life-As-We-Don't-Know-It - Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory for Exoplanet Life Detection: #Life, But Not As We Know It: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/life-but-not-as-we-know-it
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-19 02:45:38
Q&A with Jonah Peretti on why he sold BuzzFeed, the structure of the deal with Byron Allen, his new role as president of BuzzFeed AI, HuffPost, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/932154/peretti-allen-buzzfeed-ai-slop-soci…
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-03-27 08:44:42
Enabling ab initio geometry optimization of strongly correlated systems with transferable deep quantum Monte Carlo
P. Bern\'at Szab\'o, Zeno Sch\"atzle, Frank No\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25381 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25381 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25381
arXiv:2603.25381v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A faithful description of chemical processes requires exploring extended regions of the molecular potential energy surface (PES), which remains challenging for strongly correlated systems. Transferable deep-learning variational Monte Carlo (VMC) offers a promising route by efficiently solving the electronic Schr\"odinger equation jointly across molecular geometries at consistently high accuracy, yet its stochastic nature renders direct exploration of molecular configuration space nontrivial. Here, we present a framework for highly accurate ab initio exploration of PESs that combines transferable deep-learning VMC with a cost-effective estimation of energies, forces, and Hessians. By continuously sampling nuclear configurations during VMC optimization of electronic wave functions, we obtain transferable descriptions that achieve zero-shot chemical accuracy within chemically relevant distributions of molecular geometries. Throughout the subsequent characterization of molecular configuration space, the PES is evaluated only sparsely, with local approximations constructed by estimating VMC energies and forces at sampled geometries and aggregating the resulting noisy data using Gaussian process regression. Our method enables accurate and efficient exploration of complex PES landscapes, including structure relaxation, transition-state searches, and minimum-energy pathways, for both ground and excited states. This opens the door to studying bond breaking, formation, and large structural rearrangements in systems with pronounced multi-reference character.
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@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-04-19 08:36:34
Went to see a 1 man version of Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' last night. Sounds a bit implausible but it worked well.
The Great Money Trick, actually an explanation of capitalist reproduction (simple) via expropriation of surplus value, is brilliant. Do read the book if you haven't. Relevant to today's long recession.
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2026-03-19 19:57:26
Parteireform?! Einerseits ein bisschen seltsamer Zeitpunkt dafür, gibt ja gerade durchaus inhaltlich relevante Fragen der Politik, andererseits beim starken Wachstum von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen nachvollziehbar, dass an einigen Stellen nachgesteuert werden soll.
Ich habe mir die Vorschläge des Bundesvorstands, die jetzt zur Urabstimmung gestellt werden sollen, mal angeschaut und erste Eindrücke aufgeschrieben.
