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@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-16 22:25:58

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-06-18 17:03:11

#Windows11's new #StickyNotes app (a thinly disguised #OneNote) is fucking annoying. Since it is so-called "smart", and it attempts to provide context around the "source" of your note, its window is…

Windows 11 sticky notes app showing a note I just made. It captured the fact that before switching TO it, I was working in a browser window.

If I tab AWAY, unless I blow it open to its own little subwindow, the note itself closes (which I guess is reasonable). And for some reason the "+Note" and "Screenshot" buttons now appear. The addition of these buttons now shifts my list of notes down, visually disruptive.

If I tab to another application (or back to a browser as here), that "Recent notes" label changes to "Your notes from <Vivaldi icon> <name of webpage> - Vivaldi".
Which is yet ANOTHER visual disruption out of the corner of my eye.

And there's a setting called "Remember the source: Automatically capture the active window information to help you remember better." with a checkbox.

If you uncheck this box, the stupid label change remains, all that stops is where the top of your note has a snip of `Source: <what window you had open>`. The visual disruption of that label changing, and having the +Note/Screenshot buttons appear and disappear all the time is annoying AF.

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-07-18 09:25:22

Now out in #TMLR:
🍇 GRAPES: Learning to Sample Graphs for Scalable Graph Neural Networks 🍇
There's lots of work on sampling subgraphs for GNNs, but relatively little on making this sampling process _adaptive_. That is, learning to select the data from the graph that is relevant for your task.
We introduce an RL-based and a GFLowNet-based sampler and show that the approach perf…

A diagram of the GRAPES pipeline. It shows a subgraph being sampled in two steps and being fed to a GNN, with a blue line showing the learning signal. The caption reads Figure 1: Overview of GRAPES. First, GRAPES processes a target node (green) by computing node inclusion probabilities on its 1-hop neighbors (shown by node color shade) with a sampling GNN. Given these probabilities, GRAPES samples k nodes. Then, GRAPES repeats this process over nodes in the 2-hop neighborhood. We pass the sampl…

A results table for node classification on heterophilious graphs. Table 2: F1-scores (%) for different sampling methods trained on heterophilous graphs for a batch size of 256, and a sample size of 256 per layer. We report the mean and standard deviation over 10 runs. The best values among the sampling baselines (all except GAS) are in bold, and the second best are underlined. MC stands for multi-class and ML stands for multi-label classification. OOM indicates out of memory.

Performance of samples vs sampling size showing that GRAPES generally performs well across sample sizes, while other samplers often show more variance across sample sizes. The caption reads Figure 4: Comparative analysis of classification accuracy across different sampling sizes for sampling baseline
and GRAPES. We repeated each experiment five times: The shaded regions show the 95% confidence intervals.

A diagrammatic illustration of a graph classification task used in one of the theorems. The caption reads Figure 9: An example of a graph for Theorem 1 with eight nodes. Red edges belong to E1, features xi and labels yi are shown beside every node. For nodes v1 and v2 we show the edge e12 as an example. As shown, the label of each node is the second feature of its neighbor, where a red edge connects them. The edge homophily ratio is h=12/28 = 0.43.

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-07-17 18:07:52

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

A four-, five-, and a six-year old are seated in a booth with a bright orange tabletop in front of a purple each with a small cup containing vanilla milkshake. They're eating with straws and spoons. So far, it is not a messy disaster.

This is a cheerful photo of three children enjoying milkshakes at a restaurant booth. The setting is a classic ice cream parlor with its distinctive blue and yellow booth seating and black-and-white checkered floor.

The children are seated around a bright orange…

This photo shows three children sitting together on a wooden bench in a public building. The setting has large windows in the background showing green grass and trees outside, with some chairs and bicycles visible through the glass.

On the left is a girl with shoulder-length blonde wavy hair wearing a light pink/lavender t-shirt with a sparkly design paired with light blue shorts and pink Crocs-style shoes. In the middle is a girl with her hair in small buns or pigtails, wearing a light blue d…

This photo shows the Michigan diag, a public green space with a concrete sidewalk running along the right side. The area features a well-maintained grassy lawn with several young trees planted throughout, each surrounded by dark mulch circles. The trees appear to be newly planted or relatively young.

In the background, there are mature, established trees providing a canopy of green foliage. White banners or flags can be seen hanging from poles, though the text on them isn't clearly visible. Th…

@vrandecic@mas.to
2025-08-18 15:34:12

One reason why I think the Web as a whole may be struggling is that Google doesn't link out to the Web as much anymore. Here is one example. And in this case, it doesn't even have to do anything with AI.
I was searching on my phone for "Bundespräsident" (the German word for Federal president, formally the highest role in the German administration). My language setting is English, I was searching on Android, from within Germany.

Screenshot of the Google result for Bundespräsident, part one

Screenshot of the Google search result for Bundespräsident, second and final part

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-06-18 15:44:13

'The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study'
Report just released: https://braiduk.org/the-responsible-ai-ecosystem-seven-lessons-from-the-braid-landscape-study

Seven ‘lessons learned’ from the first waves responsible Al
The 'Al' in R-Al is an elusive and rapidly moving target
R-Al must expand stakeholder reach to include impacted communities
Narrowly technical approaches to R-Al do not work
Public trust is essential to a sustainable R-Al ecosystem
Good intentions are not enough for R-Al
R-Al must address questions wider than ethics and legality
R-Al is not a problem to be solved but an ecosystem to be built and sustained

The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

@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.

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**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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@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social
2025-09-17 17:20:53

Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players: A Tribute to Squeezebox Rockers
(Discuss)
https://dyingscene.com/archive/heroes-of-the-punk-accordion-a-tribute-to-squeezebox-rockers/
This is a few years old so there’s been some lineup chang…

Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players: A Tribute to Squeezebox Rockers
The sound of the accordion is, in my opinion, one of the best, weirdest, and most unique additions to the punk genre. For most it’s easy to see the instrument as nothing more than a novelty b…

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-18 05:37:42

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

The image features a person wearing a large, round silver peace pendant necklace, an orange hoodie, and black headphones. The individual has long, light brown hair and is standing outdoors with a rocky hillside and a blue sky with scattered clouds in the background. The person is also wearing a beige backpack with a visible button that reads "FREE JULIAN ASSANGE" The setting is a public area with a metal fence and street lamps visible in the background.

The image shows a person standing in a hallway, holding two flags. The individual is wearing a black dress with a floral pattern in pink, paired with black tights and knee-high black socks. The person is holding a rainbow pride flag on the left and a flag with a gender-fluid flag in the right. The hallway has light-colored walls and a wooden floor, with recessed ceiling lights illuminating the space. On the right side of the image, there is a framed certificate on the wall and a green plant. Th…

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-07-17 17:25:21

I love the non-profit block of the Art Fair, I love to go and argue with the anti-tax people and the Mars society dweebs, to glare at the Republicans, to donate to Planned Parenthood and some of the off-brand religions, to smile and wave and loudly greet the communists HI COMMUNISTS!!! They always wave back. It is such a welcoming feeling!
I’ve been twice already today, once with four grandchildren who collected tons of swag and were cute as hell.

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