@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-19 05:05:45
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-19 05:05:45
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-18 18:41:11
Beloved Ex-Browns Star Tabbed to Sign With NFC Contender https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nick-chubb-nfc-contender/
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:19:08
"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-07-17 15:07:39
In 2024 I emailed my local MPP because I thought his hotel expenses were fishy. His office responded to me that I was "singling him out" and that all Toronto MPP were doing the same.
Today, my MPP is resigning from his Minister position
Good riddance Stan
https://www.…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-14 18:35:37
Texans WR Tank Dell is 'almost there' in return from 2024 injury: 'It's light at the end of the tunnel' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-wr-tank-dell-is-almost-there-in-return-from-2024-injury-it-s-light…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-06-16 06:08:25
#Podcast
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten #Endometriose-Fälle ist in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich gestiegen.
Laut Schmerzforscherin Esther Pogatzki-Zahn deutet dies darauf hin, dass die Erkrankung häufiger und früher erkannt wird. Eine frühe Diagnose kann helfen, Beschwerden gezi…
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza2026-05-16 16:37:14
Setting up remote access to Bambulab 3D printers that are on a different VLAN than yours is a pain in the ass.
Bambulab has chosen the wrong path. It might carve out a niche among users who aren't very tech-savvy when it comes to 3D printing (and who aren’t interested in learning either), but all of us nerds who have used their printers are going to tell them to go to hell.
By the way, if you're trying to set up remote access using pfSense or OPNsense, here's a great …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-11 20:15:51
Lionsgate and gen-AI company Runway expand their partnership, giving Lionsgate an equity stake in Runway and launching a program to develop and produce new IP (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/lionsgate-equity-st…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-11 16:11:41
Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…
@jake4480@c.im2026-07-11 17:17:15
Got my Phlegmesis tapes in from Iron Fortress! They were on sale and I couldn't resist. 'The New Wave of Rotten Fornication' was of course one of my top 20 albums of 2024, and even the Phlegmesis LEFTOVERS are sick.
Here's New Wave if you wanna hear it: https://phlegmesis.bandcamp…
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizza2026-05-11 14:20:47
Bright red Indian shot flower (canna indica). Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. November, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #bloomscrolling
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-06-12 05:17:33
May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-06-09 17:57:10
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-07-15 18:54:09
Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys lose key pass rusher for start of 2026 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lose-charles-snowden-three-game-suspension/76542357b63b576f4cc8f5d2
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-11 14:55:48
ITV says advertising revenues from the World Cup are about 30% higher than those from Euro 2024; Telemundo says it sold out of key World Cup ad inventory (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48f2f704-74e0-40e0-b657-253d48e657f7
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks2026-06-01 15:46:14
I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 19:10:53
"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-06-28 17:56:02
No idea if this looks reasonable, but it's a start. objdump from Synopsys' open source toolchains looks similar.
Ref:
https://foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors.github.io/documentation/2024.06/toolchain/
Addendum: also r…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-06-25 12:17:22
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2026-04-29 15:36:01
Net als bij #Brexit blijft #NigelFarage te koop voor rijke lui https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-06-04 15:37:11
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-04-23 15:59:15
Alisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-04-27 15:00:23
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-21 04:59:04
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889
This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-05-22 04:01:01
Gibt es weitere Verzögerungen bei der Einführung der e-ID? Ankündigungen vom BAG zu Organspenden deuten darauf hin.
"Das erklärt zumindest teilweise die Verschiebungen bei der Widerspruchslösung: Mitte 2024 sollte sie ursprünglich in Kraft treten. Dann hiess es zweite Hälfte 2026, dann Anfang 2027, heute, laut Tages-Anzeiger, drittes Quartal 2027.
Im Raum steht also offenbar die erneute Verschiebung des E-ID-Termins."
… wettet @…
@compfu@mograph.social2026-04-26 06:06:51
Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks2026-06-01 21:16:03
Here's my blog post on how to make a mosquito bucket. Has a dozen or so tips, plus a video of mosquito larvae in a jar that looks like a lava lamp. https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-05-31 19:24:36
In the central Netherlands, this was the 5th (or possibly 6th) warmest spring in the 126-year record. It was also sunny and dry.
Probably quite popular with many, but a clear sign of our changing climate. Personally, I've come to dislike hot weather in May; happy that it has cooled down now.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-07 22:15:28
Historical pairing of Jared Verse, Carson Schwesinger to lead Browns defense in post-Myles Garrett era https://www.nfl.com/news/historical-pairing-of-jared-verse-carson-schwesinger-to-lead-browns-defense-in-post-myles-g…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-22 14:11:13
Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing $75M, equal to what Thrive invested in 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-investi
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-06-14 04:06:02
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-29 08:15:47
A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks (Ciara Zavala/Local News Matters)
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/04/2
@joe@toot.works2026-07-15 23:01:04
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-04 01:31:50
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 21:26:05
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-06-23 01:11:49
In honor of the current over-the-top #HeatWave in Western Europe here is #DavidGilmour performing the 1970 #PinkFloyd piece "Fat Old #Sun" in #Rome in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvP1sQGKREM. Other recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5x6WBylnw (2024, same tour), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTplhld7Ro (2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGn6hvhuso and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqlI-HYuCA (both 2006).
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-06-30 16:24:15
Angie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol