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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-29 02:13:36

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-11-28 15:09:26

Ontology is shaping up to be the buzzword of 2026 because they are offering what #LLMs are lacking: formal grounding
LLMs offer creativity but need logical grounding. Ontologies provide this formal structure, anchoring meaning and unifying diverse data sources into a single semantic layer. They are essential for achieving precision and are one of the most reliable defense mechanisms against

The image is a political cartoon that illustrates a perceived shift in the artificial intelligence (AI) community's perspective on the importance of "ontology" between 2023 and 2026. - 2023: The term "ontology" was widely rejected in the AI field, as depicted by a stamp machine smashing documents labeled "ontology rejected". - 2026: The cartoon predicts that "ontology" will be a required component for "The Future AI Foundation," as shown by a stamp machine approving documents with the label "…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-29 11:16:46

Big Tech's EU lobbying hit €151M in 2025, up from €113M in 2023 and €97M in 2021; between January and June 2025, Big Tech had 146 meetings with EU officials (Corporate Europe Observatory)
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10

Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.

@rmdes@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 15:35:22

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC

@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social
2025-10-29 20:58:20

Manche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.

Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class
The ‘Scholar’s Stone’ (Suseok수석 水石) which is used as an extensive and pervasive motif in Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 film reveals a good deal of what the concept of ‘intersectionality’ in Critical Race Theory (CRT) seeks to uncover. The Scholar’s Stone functions also as a prism to see refracted through the movie the various hues and colors of Confucian culture still present in contemporary Korea, and these in turn can be further analyzed using aspects of CRT. To ground this thesis…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 02:00:18
Content warning: Muddled maunderings of a doddering fool.

#muddledMaunderings caveat emptor.
Details within.

A book is a set of possibilities. I read this in a short story in the November/December 2023 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction. The story was titled, The Four Last Things, by Cristopher Rowe. I don’t know why, but the phrase has attached itself in my mind. In the story, the phrase is almost a throwaway line, spoken by a character to an AI in answer to the question, what is a book? It’s like watching a meme invading my mind in real time. I can almost feel tendrils of connection spreading into, …
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-28 23:58:05

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-28 12:42:01

from my link log —
XTerm control sequences.
invisible-island.net/xterm/ctl
saved 2023-08-23

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-21 01:29:07

No foul found in GOP-drawn 2023 North Carolina congressional map | Courthouse News Service
courthousenews.com/no-foul-fou

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-11-18 19:56:29

Vorschau: Tatort: Das Wunderkind • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2023
#crimi #krimi

@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-14 01:11:29
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it doesn't look too hard in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXseyTdynCo - battery, screen, USB-C port (the Achilles heel of many phones), daughterboard, mainboard, cameras, ...
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-21 01:29:21

The Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees
has been sentenced to 14 years in prison
for a case in which he was convicted of funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts,
including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
The trial in Washington DC included testimony from the act…

Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama campaign
Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel was convicted in 2023 after a trial that included testimony from actor Leonardo DiCaprio and former US attorney general Jeff Sessions

@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-14 01:11:29
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it doesn't look too hard in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXseyTdynCo - battery, screen, USB-C port (the Achilles heel of many phones), daughterboard, mainboard, cameras, ...
@krone@frawas.de
2025-11-08 09:29:12

Wohnung eiskalt - Irrtum: Grazerin blecht Heizkosten für Landesbüro #News #Nachrichten

Wohnung eiskalt - Irrtum: Grazerin blecht Heizkosten für Landesbüro
Mit einem kuriosen Problem sieht sich eine Grazerin seit ihrem Einzug 2023 konfrontiert: Ihre Heizkosten explodieren, obwohl sie alle Geräte ...

@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-28 21:13:17

Judge orders #Dept of Edu to restore $1 Billion in #school funding for #MentalHealth grants that they've refused to honor in #DJT exec branch effor…

Judge orders Trump administration to restore school mental health grants The Education Department had cut more than $1 billion in funds meant for counseling students as part of Trump’s anti-DEI push. Posted Today at 11:39 a.m. PT A school psychologist greets an elementary school student in Alexandria, Virginia, in August 2023. (Craig Hudson/ For the Washington Post)
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-05 17:20:29

Tom Brady reveals his dog is a clone of his late pet reviewjournal.com/news/nation-

Tom Brady reveals his dog is a clone of his late pet
Tom Brady has revealed that his dog Junie is a clone of his late pet Lua, who died in 2023.

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-27 03:11:29

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Skinny Pelembe:
🎵 Who By Fire (6 Music Session, 9 Oct 2023) (feat. Beth Orton)
#SkinnyPelembe
skinnypelembe.bandcamp.com/alb
open.spotify.com/track/4UxlJ8V

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-12-01 21:22:04

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025. Ein Balkendiagramm zeigt die monatlich zugebaute Batteriespeicherkapazität in Deutschland von 2013 bis 2025. Die Kapazität, gemessen in Megawattstunden, steigt ab 2020 stark an und erreicht zwischen 2023 und 2024 Spitzenwerte von über 500.000 MWh pro Monat. 373 Datensätze ohne Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-14 21:42:01

from my link log —
Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/
saved 2023-11-03 …

@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-04 16:29:06
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@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-08 10:34:29

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
Giacomo De Palma, Marco Fanizza, Connor Mowry, Ryan O'Donnell
arxiv.org/abs/2510.06147

Non-iid hypothesis testing: from classical to quantum
We study hypothesis testing (aka state certification) in the non-identically distributed setting. A recent work (Garg et al. 2023) considered the classical case, in which one is given (independent) samples from $T$ unknown probability distributions $p_1, \dots, p_T$ on $[d] = \{1, 2, \dots, d\}$, and one wishes to accept/reject the hypothesis that their average $p_{\mathrm{avg}}$ equals a known hypothesis distribution $q$. Garg et al. showed that if one has just $c = 2$ samples from each $p_i$,…

@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
2025-12-01 22:23:03

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

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Ein Boxplot-Diagramm zeigt die Bruttospeicherleistung von Batteriespeichern in Deutschland nach Inbetriebnahmejahr von 2012bis in die Gegenwart für Privatpersonen mit Stand vom 29.11.2025. Die y-Achse ist logarithmisch skaliert (in kW), die Medianwerte sind als Zahlen angegeben. Die Leistung steigt über die Jahre an, mit Medianspitzen von 5,8 kW in 2023 und 2024. Ausreißer sind als rote Punkte markiert. Es wurden 373 Datensätze ohne Bettaeriespeichertechnologie ausgefiltert. Die Messwerte unter…
@lilmikesf@c.im
2025-10-11 18:38:19

Incarcerated Welsh rock singer Ian Watkins #Lostprophets killed in another UK prison attack behind bars, in 2023 he'd been stabbed and held hostage by inmates. He was 48 and had spent over a decade in prison thus far after a 2013 drug bust found pedophiliac materials on his electronic devices, and after police investigation, he admitted to a string of sex offences – including the attempted rape of…

Lostprophets . Welsh rock sensations, plucked from obscurity on the British underground punk-rock circuit by the American record industry. Lostprophets split in 2013 following singer lan Watkins' arrest for a string of sexual offences, to which he later pleaded guilty.
Paedophile Lostprophets singer lan Watkins killed in prison attack Watkins was jailed for 29 years in December 2013
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-12-04 16:29:06
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