@steve@s.yelvington.comTwo men are snuggling in the back of the presidential limousine. One is a convicted felon and the other is under an international arrest warrant for unlawful deportation and transfer of children to a foreign country. Guess which is which?
@steve@s.yelvington.comSo what's the real story about the doge creep who got beat up by an underaged girl at 3am?
@steve@s.yelvington.comPrivacy: Heading to the SF airport I saw a billboard for Zenni infrared-filtering glasses to foil face recognition software.
@steve@s.yelvington.comI remember being outside of the Red Mosque in New Delhi. Some dalit boys, the underclass, were selling postcards in the park. Two cops showed up with batons and beat them. They ran. They would return. Police brutality does not stop crime. It only pleases cruel people.
@steve@s.yelvington.comFuck ice.
@paulomalley@c.imWhat if you could skip the most boring parts of your research? 🤔
I spent the last week testing the SciSpace AI Agent, and it's honestly wild. This feels like the future for students and researchers. I documented the whole thing so you can see it in action.
🎥 https://youtu.be/5hS28-f2Vgk
✨ I …
@steve@s.yelvington.com50 cents in 1986 is $1.44 today. So why is pinball five bucks???
@steve@s.yelvington.comRuling by decree, sending armed troops into cities and neighborhoods. If only we had a word to describe that.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… Neat!
My first association before reading the post was this album cover…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… Neat!
My first association before reading the post was this album cover…
@steve@s.yelvington.comRuling by decree, sending armed troops into cities and neighborhoods. If only we had a word to describe that.
@steve@s.yelvington.com @steve@s.yelvington.comTrump is imposing martial law to address a 30-year low in actual District of Columbia crime -- when the White House isn't counted.
@steve@s.yelvington.comCall the Minnesota murderer what he is: a Christian terrorist.
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-lawm
@steve@s.yelvington.comTrump sure wants you to forget about his pedophilia. National Guard in DC to stop the wave of ... lower crime.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… @… I’m currently reading Langdon Winner’s “Autonomous Technology” (1977), and one of his interest…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… @… @… I’m currently reading Langdon Winner’s “Autonomous Technology” (1977), and one of his interest…
@paulomalley@c.imI think my most-sent email of all time is "Does Tuesday at 2 pm work for you?" followed closely by "No worries, how about Wednesday?" 🫠
But what if you could just... not do that anymore?
There’s a scheduling tool hiding in plain sight in Gmail that ends all this nonsense. You offer times, they click once, and poof—it's in the calendar.
I filmed a quick guide on it because this needs to be public knowledge:
@steve@s.yelvington.comOptimism.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… Ich arbeite in einer departmentstruktur, und ich kann dir gerne von den nachteilen erzählen.
@paulomalley@c.imStop spinning your wheels trying to understand those complex Excel formulas.
Seriously. Let AI do it for you. 🤖
Microsoft Copilot now gives instant, plain English explanations right inside your spreadsheet. It’s a massive time-saver for anyone working with complex data... Or even just someone new to Excel altogether.
Could this be the best Excel update in years?
See the game-changing feature in action in my new video:
@steve@s.yelvington.comAdding RSS support to @openvibe.social is a great idea, but the implementation drowns the unified feed that is the real reason for using the app in the first place.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThis increasingly reminds me of the 19th-century “we can solve all problems by building bigger guns” proto-bros that appear in several of Jules Vernes’s stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/zuckerberg-meta-data-center-ai-manh…
@steve@s.yelvington.comActual profile of an Instagram bot:
"Passionate about creating, inspiring, and making a difference. Exploring new horizons every day"
@steve@s.yelvington.comTrump tried to pull this crap with the 2020 Census and was stopped by people who insisted on obeying the law.
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr @steve@s.yelvington.comHmm. There's an unsecured "Bedroom Speaker" on my wifi scan. Wonder how much mischief that's asking for.
@steve@s.yelvington.comProof of life. Day 2 of Dead & Co.
@steve@s.yelvington.comI am thankful for the Spanish-speaking immigrants who quickly and efficiently replaced my front porch roof this week.
ICE can go to hell.
@steve@s.yelvington.comAI is powerful and useful when it's properly trained and properly constrained.
And the slop we're seeing right now is neither.
@steve@s.yelvington.comChicago Navy prepares to repel the hordes from King Abbott of Texas.
@steve@s.yelvington.comOlympic diver Greg Louganis is selling his medals so he can afford to move out of Trumpistan. Leaving the country.
@steve@s.yelvington.comDead and Co., San Francisco. Bob Weir can be seen on the monitors. The fog plays a role in the light show.
@steve@s.yelvington.comChicago, before the expected invasion by troops from some meth-addled, crime-ridden red state. The homicide rate in Jackson, Mississippi, is more than four times that of Chicago.
@steve@s.yelvington.comOn HHS.gov there is a "quiz" to help identify which vaccines you need.
Or, rather, there was.
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageAn ancient L- type family associated to (460) Scania in the Middle Main Belt as revealed by Gaia DR3 spectra
Roberto Balossi, Paolo Tanga, Marco Delbo, Alberto Cellino, Federica Spoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17642
@steve@s.yelvington.comBest comment on a story about flying through dangerous air turbulence: "Don't conjugate around the bathroom."
#malaprop
@steve@s.yelvington.comIt is amazing how much of MAGA hangs on personal loyalty to a decaying corpse. But history is full of the bones of narcissistic sociopaths who thought they'd live forever. What's next? President Eyeliner? President Naziferatu? Sure, the sickness in American society is widespread, but who steps in when he's gone?
@steve@s.yelvington.comWhen Bezos bought the Washington Post it seemed he might be a savior.
He turned out to be Smaug.
@steve@s.yelvington.comLimited immunity for Maxwell ... So long as she limits her revelations to Democrats and leaves Trump out of her mouth.
@steve@s.yelvington.com @steve@s.yelvington.comThou shalt not say Epstein....
https://southpark.cc.com/sites/hetrumpedus/index.html
@steve@s.yelvington.comMad respect for a guy who made a flugehorn cool.
RIP Chuck Mangione
https://youtu.be/1mLdUFw4Xfc?si=uu7aW9IwfAWRRM80&t=2
@steve@s.yelvington.comThe second amendment is a cancer on the Constitution. Its primary objective is to preserve to the states the ability to raise militia to act as slave patrols.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sharon Bezaly, Charles Medlam & Terence Charlston:
🎵 Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E minor, BWV 1034
#JohannSebastianBach #SharonBezaly #CharlesMedlam #TerenceCharlston
@steve@s.yelvington.comTeachers are spending about $895 a year on their classrooms, according to a national study released by Minneapolis-based Adopt a Classroom. It’s a 49% increase from 2015.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/teachers-face-rising-costs-to-k…
@steve@s.yelvington.comWent to the movies. They're selling fleece blankets. Turn down the aircon and cash in!
@steve@s.yelvington.comI talked about photojournalism and photo-fakery with a classroom of middle schoolers today. Sharp kids. They understand the assignment.
@steve@s.yelvington.comBluesky tells Mississippi to go suck eggs.
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126
@steve@s.yelvington.comI need my front porch roof replaced. Can't get a callback from my contractor. I suspect his workers have gone to ground.
@steve@s.yelvington.comAccording to the genealogy-obsessed Mormons, I am descended from at least four Crusader kings of Jerusalem. So I'm watching a Great Courses video to better understand the Crusades.
I was not expecting such theological weirdness. Mind-boggling.
@steve@s.yelvington.comToday in stupidity:
@steve@s.yelvington.comTrump said there would be consequences if Russia didn't agree to a ceasefire. The consequences? Simply that Trump went home whimpering with his tail between his legs.
@steve@s.yelvington.com @steve@s.yelvington.comI'm so old I remember when some people claimed the iPad would save print journalism.
@steve@s.yelvington.com @steve@s.yelvington.comDid Trump miss a chance at his dream Nobel by not arresting and jailing the war criminal Putin?
@steve@s.yelvington.comOMG these fascist magats are such inept buffoons.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
@steve@s.yelvington.comBrilliant. This was shared on facebook. It sort of ties at all together don't you think?
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Johann Sebastian Bach, Avi Avital, Avi Avital, Ophira Zakai, Ira Givol & Potsdam Chamber Academy:
🎵 Sonata in E major, BWV.1034 (4th mvt)
#JohannSebastianBach #AviAvital #OphiraZakai #IraGivol #PotsdamChamberAcademy
