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Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
TARRANT: I have it.
AVON: Sector eight?
TARRANT: Sector eight.
SOOLIN: That's the asteroid?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/2 B7B4

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I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

Save your disrespect for the unrespectable. It's all too easy to let contempt for those in power spread to all like them in any way.

Die ePetition 181278 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Verfahren in den Angelegenheiten der Freiwilligen Gerichtsbarkeit mit dem Titel
Information der Bürger über gesetzliche Fristen durch Behörden und Gerichte
kann bis zum Montag 04. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Her…

Die ePetition 181278 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Verfahren in den Angelegenheiten der Freiwilligen Gerichtsbarkeit mit dem Titel
Information der Bürger über gesetzliche Fristen durch Behörden und Gerichte
kann bis zum Montag 04. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Her…

Does "x is 2 times weaker than y" mean something? Does "x is 1.07 times weaker than y"? What about "x is 0.2 times weaker than y"? Where does this construct come from? Is it regional?

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

remember cool cool winter? yeah me either
#photography #mosstodon #lichenSubscribe

Past week statistics for faction war.
Check more info in the ALT text in the attached screenshot or just look at the screenshot 😄
Editing to take a glimpse at the guild "Mastodon Fediverse Unity" ... 3/7 online...
#MastodonFedivers #AlbionOnline

Just another day at the office. #Italy25

Der Wetterbericht: am Sonntag, teils Schauer und Gewitter, 28-37°.
#klimakatastrophe

On my way home back from #VoxxedDays Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Thanks a lot to @… and the amazing team 🙏
Special mention to @… for th…

Ahoj @… @… @… , vy mšte k OSS a upstreamu tak nějak blíž, tak by mě zajímalo jestli víte o něčem takovémh…

Not only do #Youtube's automatic AI voice-overs sound like customer-service hotline robots ... their translations aren't even correct!
Here's one of those funny "interview with a Javascript programmer / Linux user / etc." videos. It's subtitle right at the beginning mentions a "404 page" (you know, the web server "page not found" errors). The mo…

"Engagement": Be Friendly Because It's The Right Thing To Do
#connection #relationship

"Engagement": Be Friendly Because It's The Right Thing To Do
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Look at how Trump’s fascist government treats a journalist asking questions about israel’s Hannibal Directive and its illegal nuclear weapons.
Oh, sorry, I meant Biden’s.
Lesser of two evils and all that, I guess.
https://www.newsweek.com/s…

Video: Journalist Sam Husseini Forcibly Removed From Blinken's Last News Conference
Sam Husseini was grabbed by security members and escorted out of the room.

Fuck the IDU and the Nazis they rode in on. We don't need their bullshit here.
#MapleMaga #cdnpoli

Die USA, die sich gerade erst über EU-Moderations-Pflichten für grosse (US-)Plattformen aufgeregt hat, hat ein Gesetz, welches für spezifische Inhalte dasselbe fordert. Weltweit. Auch für Kleinst-Plattformen.
https://connect.iftas.org/library/legal-r…

BLAT BORD – COSSOS
#rock

the wind splitting seconds again
#bloomscrolling #photography #tulips

Large Average Subtensor Problem: Ground-State, Algorithms, and Algorithmic Barriers
Abhishek Hegade K. R., Eren C. K{\i}z{\i}lda\u{g}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17118

Large Average Subtensor Problem: Ground-State, Algorithms, and Algorithmic Barriers
We introduce the large average subtensor problem: given an order-$p$ tensor over $\mathbb{R}^{N\times \cdots \times N}$ with i.i.d. standard normal entries and a $k\in\mathbb{N}$, algorithmically find a $k\times \cdots \times k$ subtensor with a large average entry. This generalizes the large average submatrix problem, a key model closely related to biclustering and high-dimensional data analysis, to tensors. For the submatrix case, Bhamidi, Dey, and Nobel~\cite{bhamidi2017energy} explicitly hi…

The only feature I want from new personal tech is reduced total energy use. Maybe longer battery life.
So, the opposite of this shit.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114374812564672612

Darf man heimlich eine Kamera im WG-Zimmer eines Mitbewohners anbringen? Das OLG Hamm hat dazu eine wichtige Entscheidung getroffen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10439336?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitrae…

Josh Kesselman, founder of rolling paper brand Raw, acquires High Times magazine for $3.5M, after its private equity owner failed to make loan payments in 2024 (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/high-times-mag…

New Owner for High Times Magazine Bets on a Counterculture Comeback
The anti-establishment magazine, which was taken over by a private equity firm in 2017, was purchased this week by an avid fan and reader for $3.5 million.

at the very end of tulip season I allowed myself to cut a bouquet. having it on my desk might have been a mistake - I got utterly and completely hypnotized by the way how the wind in the tree outside my window that is filtering the sunlight coming in made them look differently from split second to split second. so hard to look away. so many pictures taken. so many decisions to make. but now tulip season is truly over.
which one do you like better, and why?

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/google

Moeten we ons niet eens heel erg boos gaan maken op Microsoft wegens obsctructie van de rechtsgang?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-sanctions-on-iccs-chief-prosecutor-have-halted-tribunals-…

Trump's sanctions on ICC's chief prosecutor have halted tribunal's work, officials and lawyers say
Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.

Very large rock formation near Wick that looks like a bear!
https://maps.app.goo.gl/xcbyx52hj6PHvaMn7

Moki Mcfly – Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/13/moki-mcfly-divinetion-music-in-the-key-of-zero/

Culinarily and insult-wise both, there's no clear distinction between a fruit and a vegetable.


Sorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

First Toronto bike share dock was installed east of the 404 and north of the 401 on #Sheppard and Brian Drive. Technically #NorthYork but essentially first station in North #Scarborough

404 Sleep not found

There are prophecies for those with eyes to see

Austin-based Autonomize AI, which develops AI agents for automating administrative workflows in healthcare and life sciences, raised a $28M Series A (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/12/autonomize-ai-raise…

Exclusive: Autonomize AI gets $28M for health agents
It's the latest sign of investor appetite for infrastructure-layer AI in health care.

@… Indeed, I’m going to have to replace my duck.

#ripNatenom #natenom

#pastpuzzle 338
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

Protest filling the street at 24th and Mission in San Francisco
#ICEProtests #FuckICE

Because it was a US phone , my first cellphone wasn’t in the museum, but my first iPhone was.
A week ago @… and I were exploring the great London Science Museum. Really worth a visit.

#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus, meine Pfingstrosen sind spät aber prachtvoll, und auch dieses Jahr gibt sich wieder ein Fingerhut im verwilderten Teil die Ehre.

Even if the $180bn claim isn’t bullshit (I’m reasonably confident it’s bullshit), why aren't we acknowledging this makes Musk’s failure rate in government 91%?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg98rl717o

Trump 'disappointed' with Elon Musk's attacks on budget bill
In response, Musk accused the president of "Such ingratitude", adding: "Without me, Trump would have lost the election".

23km bike ride today, to one town over, stopped for coffee, got my brows done, and dropped the bike at a shop for some long-overdue maintenance. Need to replace the chain, worn cassette, stretched brake cables, and clean a winter's worth of road grime out of every crevice.
That'll take a week, so bussed home. Got another coffee across the street while waiting 3 minutes for a transfer.
Good day.
#BikeTooter #life

Emails Reveal the Casual Surveillance Alliance Between ICE and Local Police (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/emails-reveal-the-casual-surveillance-alliance-between-ice-and-local-police/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p66#a250616p66

Der ominöse Wanderweg 404 poppt südlich und westlich von Wien immer wieder auf. Passend, dass der Verein, der den damit nummerierten Wienerwaldweitwanderweg betreute, sich vor einigen Jahren aufgelöst hat.

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

POL-LG: Weniger Verkehrsunfälle und Verletzte: Verkehrsunfallstatistik 2024 für die Polizeidirektion Lüneburg
2014: 32.284 Unfälle, 2024: 35.769 Unfälle
Mittelfristig gibt es da in #Lüneburg eher nichts zu feiern.
#verkehr

Autonomous life-like behavior emerging in active and flexible microstructures
Mengshi Wei, Daniela J. Kraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15198 https://

Autonomous life-like behavior emerging in active and flexible microstructures
Many organisms leverage an interplay between shape and activity to generate motion and adapt to their environment. Embedding such feedback into synthetic microrobots could eliminate the need for sensors, software, and actuators, yet current realizations are either active but rigid, or flexible but passive. Here, we introduce micrometer-scale structures that integrate both activity and flexibility by 3D microprinting concatenated units and actuating them with an AC electric field. This minimal y…

I think Harley is going to miss her large play area - which is a few acres, including our neighbour's yard where her buddy lives - and her front porch where she can keep watch while sunning herself. She is well trained to never approach the road out front, and we've never needed a fence. I think more walks are in our future, which is a good thing.
#DogsOfMastadon #Moving

Eine Erwerbung von der Buchmesse: Sa Wala - Für Nichts von Ren2x Galeno. Ein philippinischer Comic, der als Teil einer Präsentation über die philippinische Comicszene in Leipzig vorgestellt wurde.
In der Horror-Kurzgeschichte geht es um einen mysteriösen Hahn mit übernatürlichen Kräften, der vom Vater einer armen Familie gefunden und in Hahnenkämpfen eingesetzt wird, um ein bisschen mehr Wohlstand zu bescheren. Dabei ist recht schnell auch den Beteiligten klar, dass das alles kein gute…

Erik Strauss – FTUR
#abstract

web nerdery
Functional indexes would make IndexedDB useful in some really neat new ways.
Most of all: encrypted data, with a choice about what's exposed as indexes.

#A2VanityPlateSpotting
M1XTAPE
not my car. big ups.

Dammit. 🤣
#StarWars #Aurebesh

Skandinavisch-unterkühlt: Die nach der norwegischen Hauptstadt benannte Station Osloer Straße der @ubahnberlin.bsky.social
#wedding65 #berlinwedding #meinwedding

The office last night. Palais Royale, South Bend IN.
#music #guitarist

Brain Network Analysis Based on Fine-tuned Self-supervised Model for Brain Disease Diagnosis
Yifei Tang, Hongjie Jiang, Changhong Jing, Hieu Pham, Shuqiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11671

Brain Network Analysis Based on Fine-tuned Self-supervised Model for Brain Disease Diagnosis
Functional brain network analysis has become an indispensable tool for brain disease analysis. It is profoundly impacted by deep learning methods, which can characterize complex connections between ROIs. However, the research on foundation models of brain network is limited and constrained to a single dimension, which restricts their extensive application in neuroscience. In this study, we propose a fine-tuned brain network model for brain disease diagnosis. It expands brain region representati…

I just took a look at the proposed text for these "trump accounts".
The language begins at page 741 in the linked-to .pdf file, below.
The language is rather vague. For example, it does not indicate the base date for measuring the age of the "beneficiary". Is it the conception date or the live-birth date?
And the text is filled with terribly vague phrases like "Rules similar to the rules of section" - There are big devils lurking in that hor…

Trump to promote $1,000 ‘Trump Accounts’ for newborns at White House event
President Donald Trump is set to host a roundtable at the White House on Monday to promote a key feature of the sweeping Republican domestic policy bill – a provision that would provide every American newborn with a $1,000 investment account, a White House official told CNN.

Ich habe mir noch kein wirklich fundiertes Urteil gebildet, aber die beste Einordnung zum Thema #Clownswelt, die ich bisher mitgekriegt habe, kommt vom #Topfvollgold:

Sundialll – HUB
#acoustic

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
TYNUS: [Entering with food packages] I've got one for each of you. Hydrolyzed protein.
VILA: Thanks.
TYNUS: I've got to put it in the oven first.
AVON: Don't bother.
VILA: Lost our appetites suddenly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/506

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Reminder to people who drive motor vehicles on streets in the city. Street driving is generally allowed, except where signs give notice it is prohibited. But it must be done with due caution and reasonable speed, and the motorist must yield to all other traffic, including pedestrians, cyclists, and trams, and must give an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Learn more in our 90-second training seminar, "DRIVING ON STREETS, Being A Polite Guest".
#BikeTooter #FootTooter

iCe303 – Echoes Of The Void
#ambient

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

Family biked together over to the advance polls to vote today. Smooth and efficient, ample bicycle parking & competent staff.
Make the future we want to live in.
#CanPoli #BikeTooter #elexn2025

Best trick the devil ever did was convince us computers were slow and so we need more of them

REfugEEs From Beyond – Weird Real Freestyle
#byncsa

A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

more green grasshopper
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #grasshopper

Jazzaria – Fire and Forget
#byncnd

Well my github profile has aged like fine wine.

Ich habe mir noch kein wirklich fundiertes Urteil gebildet, aber die beste Einordnung zum Thema #Clownswelt, die ich bisher mitgekriegt habe, kommt vom #Topfvollgold:

Meta sues Joy Timeline, which makes nudify app CrushAI, in Hong Kong to "prevent them from advertising CrushAI apps on Meta platforms"; CrushAI had run 5K ads (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that…

Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.

quick belly movement – quick belly movement
#byncnd

Ciudad de Tar – Liminal
@…
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/01/ciudad-de-tar-liminal/

Injunction has been granted!
Hands off our cycling infrastructure!
#BikeTooter #OnPoli #ToPoli #Bill212

I am once again reminded that I am the sort of person who takes photos of manhole covers.

G.Klimpa – Mixtum Compositum
#bass

Some domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

https://ohai.social/@jascha/114456719610997573 This thread! This is the Internet I put time into helping create.

🎵 got my hair done
got my nails done too 🎵
https://www.schwulst.de/termin/heidelberg/csd/2025-06-14-pride-march-heidelberg

The Wikimedia Foundation pauses an experiment that showed Wikipedia users AI-generated summaries at the top of some articles, following an editor backlash (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-ai-generated-summa…

Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.

How are there still not any new Untitled Goose Game levels being produced? #ugg #dlc 🪿

Iliaque – Ombelle
#ambient

Turns out that if you model online spaces after real world ones, it works pretty well. Online spaces let you be in many places at once which changes the dynamics, but as an example of something that ports well,
https://www.patternlanguageindex.com/patterns/intimacy-gradient
This pattern works not just for the design of houses but online spaces. Let people get to know a group in less-intimate space before they end up in the more-intimate space. Having a few gradations works really well, and it doesn't have to be a power play or status game.

ugh I will have to get into turning photos into videos won't I? Because this is fun but I NEED MORE COLORS.
dammit, I just want to look at pretty pictures. Pretty moving pictures maybe as it may be, but...
Anyway, if anybody here has experience and knows what the most pain free way is to turn a series of photos into a short video while using linux and not spending money, I'd appreciate advice (*from people with experience*) in this case.

Goth attire is dark & has spiderwebs because it goes with everything & we haven't had the energy to go out in years and the spiders made a mess

Some people like having exclusives or special features or whatever; especially because of how rare they are. And that includes health and safety and housing and food security.
The inequality is the point.

Researcher brutecat finds a vulnerability that revealed the phone number linked to any Google account via brute forcing phone numbers; Google fixed the issue (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-figur

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account
Phone numbers are a goldmine for SIM swappers. A researcher found how to get this precious piece of information from any Google account.

That said: look sharp. There will be agents provocateur in many places, some dressed in 'our side' garb.
And watch out because the fascists are threatening to come out too.

Reminder: public protest is about visibility, not hiding. The power comes from people being willing to be visible, put their time on the line, and if needed, their bodies.
If you're going to start shit, maybe just ... don't. Direct action of the illegal sort requires careful planning and a tactical and strategic plan for why it will win. It happens sometimes, but it's not the mode, it's not the mode of the No Kings protests. This is a popular, public demonstration of outrage. It's legal (for now, and I hope, ever).
Yes, the police may try to kettle protesters and then trap them into curfew violations in places that have curfews. Masks won't save us from that where it happens. Just running the system with competent representation (and enough bodies to make it A Problem for the system) will.
We don't all need to be masked vigilantes at protests, and in a lot of cases, we need to be worried about the people masking up and starting shit. Remember that this is our opponents current tactic: masked, violent attacks. Don't look like them.

#photography #bloomScrolling #red

Periodic reminder that the literal text of laws are actually full of phrases that have specific legal meanings settled by case law, and in absence of overriding legislation, you need a lawyer or a lot of legal experience to unpack what is actually being said. Sometimes this makes things better than expected, sometimes not.
Lawyers have jobs for a reason and it's not just being bloodsucking leeches.

Exciting visit to two new train stations aaaand they're basically identical to the other stations on the line. How pleasantly boring.
#transit #nap

Dudes who give more credit to claude than their coworkers smdh

Are Medusa's leg hairs all tiny snakes? And can they move her around like a centipede? #pooptoot

This isn't not about AI.
(but AI hype cuts both ways on this. Sometimes it's by people who Just Want To Focus On Business. Sometimes it's New Shiny Toy That Helps Make More Code)

One way I see LLMs harming workers is workers being assigned impossible tasks on the assumption that "AI can do it" then holding them to account when it can't. Human takes the fall, AI takes the win.

Using Figma Sites will get you sued. Just so you know.