2026-08-14 20:03:25
I am once again reminded that « machine learning » actually means « if we had any idea how this shit works we wouldn’t need machine learning »
I am once again reminded that « machine learning » actually means « if we had any idea how this shit works we wouldn’t need machine learning »
Primera parada del viaje de vuelta. Ni he dado los buenos días
RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/117093146278058357
Mask? They’ve been committing genocide with their full chests for the past few years. There was never a mask.
POL-OS: Osnabrück: 32-Jähriger sticht auf 41-Jährige ein - Ermittlungen wegen versuchten Tötungsdelikts - Gemeinsame Presseerklärung der Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft Osnabrück Osnabrück (ots) - Bei einer körperlichen Auseinandersetzung am Freitagmorgen hat sich eine 41-jährige Frau lebensgefährliche Stichverletzungen zugezogen. Nach der Tat in einer Wohnung an der Ertmannstraße in Osnabrück wurde der mutmaßliche ...
@… ケツアナコジアケトル(これが言いたかっただけ)
Sources: YouTube has held talks with publishers in recent months about an audiobook feature that could be ready next year and may be bundled in YouTube Premium (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/youtube-is-looking-to-expand-into-…
The most important thing to understand about JD Vance is that he is almost entirely a creation of Peter Thiel. At nearly every step of his career, Thiel has been there with connections, funding, and support.
@… in The Nerd Reich
He was called ‘MAGA’s Man’ in Latin America.
Now he’s charged with hiring hitmen to murder his girlfriend
Argentine political consultant Fernando Cerimedo helped fuel the rise of right-wing politicians in South and Central America.
Cerimedo now sits in a Bolivian maximum security prison, accused of ordering hitmen to murder his pregnant mistress, lawyer and activist Nadia Beller.
The brazen shooting, captured on security cameras, has taken on the color of gripping t…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117091586203759212
Very good NPR interview with @…
Super excited that @… just won the ICER Lasting Impact Award for her 2014 (solo!) paper, "The recurring rainfall problem", which reopened and finally made progress on a 30 year old open education question!
https://…
Found a bug in the ThunderScope driver in ngscopeclient v0.2 that could lead to GPU memory leaks in some cases. Will probably be shipping a hotfix v0.2.1 release soon just to get this fix out there officially.
The first LP from Catalonia's CEREBRAL CURSE comes out in November. They just put up the pre-order and first single, which is KILLER and over 11 minutes long: https://rottedlife.bandcamp.com/album/abominant-incarnations-of-sepulchral-depths-2
RE: #UDI may be a 'drastic move'. But unless the UK government seriously believes we might take it, we have no r…
RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117096374065301841
It just gets worse and worse 😞
neue folge von Tiemanns #Wortgeflecht: "False Flag"
https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/tiemanns-wortgeflecht/…
RE: https://mastodon.energy/@transitiontimes/117096245457259339
If you've been checking out my new @…
NARNIA: THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW | Official Trailer | Netflix
#movies
Why does Trump wear baggy trousers?
He wants ballroom.
Reese Witherspoon, with help from French media conglomerate Mediawan, buys back production banner Hello Sunshine from Blackstone-backed Candle Media (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/reese-witherspoon-buying-hello-sunshine-…
Un train stationne Š Châtillon - Montrouge vers Asnières - Gennevilliers - Les Courtilles en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
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Cauldron of Rebirth
Colored pencil on backside of Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper. Finished September 10, 2026.
http://oakfire.com/2026/09/cauldron-of-rebirth/
Un train stationne Š Mairie de Montreuil vers Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 13/10 21:41
RE: https://wien.rocks/@vcoe_mobilitaet_mit_zukunft/117267784700232545
@… Du hast doch neulich mal nach Quellen gef…
For some reason Sainsbury's lists Toffee Apples under fresh fruit.
A Norwegian entrepreneur walked out after being asked a single question during a community consultation on his proposed AI data center in an exurban town in the #Philippines. 🇵🇭
https://www.
It‘s „this year I will wait for the .1 version for sure“ day #apple #goldengate #macos
Elephants use body language to tell each other what to do #animals
Worried about the shrinking #GreatSaltLake? Me, too.
#utpol #Utahns claim they care. If so, where's the money for these programs to reduce
Beschlossen, gleich mal ein Machtwort zu sprechen.
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@… #Cleantech #Trump nimmt gegen die #Windkraft den Vorschlaghammer,
""[…] We should heed the wisdom of the late Carl Sagan that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: the claims from Coxon and his ilk are the most extraordinary a technologist can make, and we must demand evidence commensurate with the claims.
That said, we should not expect the public to understand LLMs, critical infrastructure, bioweapons, extinction biology, etc. — that burden must lie with those making the claim. The lesson that I learned (shamefully) decades…
@… I am personally able to set that aside and enjoy the show, but I do agree that it’s an annoying property of shows that set themselves up to have a reveal eventually.
I remember watching How I Met Your Mother in my youth, and the whole thing hinges on eventually revealing who “your mother” is… and then it’s just some random character they insert in the last …
110gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Talon Metals, which is proposing a nickel mine in the Duluth Complex of northern #Minnesota, is abandoning its plans for a processing plant in #NorthDakota. Instead, it would like to process at the Eagle Mine and Humboldt Mill in
Für die die wollen.
Habe mal einen Raum für deutschsprachige Pebble-Nutzer und -Nutzerinnen (und solche, die es werden wollen) gestartet: #pebble-de:matrix.org
"CDU (8,3 Prozent) und AfD (5,8) blieben einstellig. Die Tierschutzpartei lag mit 7,7 Prozent sogar vor der AfD."
The kids are allright!
U16 Wahl in #berlin
Das stolze „Ich habe fast einen ganzen Tag lang nicht auf die kleine Depressionsmaschine in meiner Tasche gegafft!“ ist ja nun auch das „Ich habe heute zwei Schachteln weniger geraucht!“ der etwas weniger coolen Kinder.
Pretty good showing from the Count. Entirely unsuprised that Farage makes up some bullshit to avoid being on the stage of his own media circus.
Nigel Farage wins Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y40d11zewt
> The Reform UK le…
Le trafic est perturbé sur toute la ligne en raison d'un incident d'exploitation .
🤖 13/08 17:41
Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2026/10/05/JNEUROSCI.0510-26.2026.long "both blindness and years of musical training predicting a reduction in …
Descobri que hš DOIS gatos pretos no campus! Eu achava que fossem o mesmo gato kkkk. Um é o preguiçoso que frequentemente estš dormindo perto da entrada. E o outro é o mião que ficou me seguindo ontem rs.
#CatsOfMastondon #gatos
I solved today's #TiledWords puzzle!
🏠 “Home”
🕒 6 minutes, 0 seconds
💡 0/3 reveals used
∗️ 94 moves used
https://tiledwords.com/puzzles/2026-08-14
Le train suivant voit son départ différé de 10 minutes environ :
- Le train KUMO départ Paris Gare de Lyon 19h45, arrivée Montereau 20h44.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
Motif : conditions de départ non réunies.
🤖 14/08 19:41
Heute hab ich von der Plattform https://gemeinsam.jetzt erfahren, die österreichweit zivilgesellschaftliche Initiativen auflistet und vernetzen möchte und auch Jitsi, Matrix und Etherpad anbietet. Wirkt im Moment ein bisschen Graz-lastig, also wäre toll, wenn das ein bisschen breiter bekannt werden würde :)
Sie …
Which Vancouver parties support proportional representation?
by Fair Vote Canada | Sep 12, 2026
https://www.fairvote.ca/12/09/2026/which-vancouver-parties-support-proportional-representation/
In the 2022 Vancouver municipa…
Beautiful read
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/18/surprise/#wow-signal
Wild idea - why not connect my pace maker to a vendor system using ai over unprotected wifi? What could go wrong?
Internet of (broken)things
Nothing is a .org under capitalism; everything is a .com.
(Fuck capitalism.) @… https://mstdn.social/@HopelessDemigod/117093565704523588
(ワンチャンス……)
Shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku approve Fox's $22B acquisition of Roku; Fox expects the deal to be finished in H1 2027, subject to regulatory clearance (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-roku-acquisition-approved-…
Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz US territory after 'finishing defeating Iran' (very badly, pretty soon).
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-15/trump-says-he-will-declare-hormuz-us-territory/107041530
"More and more people are dying.
So the question arises:
wouldn't it be better to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
rather than, perhaps later, over Poland?
This is a subject for a very serious discussion,
one that should not become a hostage to party-political rivalry,"
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.
Wie die CDU nun in den Markt eingreift, um den dringend benötigten Netzausbau auszubremsen und es normalen Leuten schwerer zu machen, die Energiewende zu unterstützen und dabei unabhängiger von Öl und Gas zu werden...
„Die geplante Reform zur Förderung der Erneuerbaren soll mehr Markt und mehr Flexibilität bringen. Doch Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche hat in ihr Konzept Klauseln eingebaut, die genau das Gegenteil bewirken würden.“
Tracee Ellis Ross: the actress who has lived many lives by Trevor Noah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HAVGehK4c
"DDC-Sachgruppen bereit für Linked Data!"
http://blog.dnb.de/ddc-sachgruppen-bereit-fuer-linked-data/
"Die DDC-Sachgruppen sind ein fachliches Gliederungssystem, das auf der Dewey-Dezimalklassifikation (DDC) basiert. Sie werden möglichst umfassend fü…
Memo: Netflix is cutting 6% of its staff, or ~1,000 jobs globally across product, tech, legal, and HR, its biggest layoffs since 2022, amid slowing growth (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/netflix-eli…
POL-EL: Andervenne - Unfall mit Fahrerflucht (Korrektur Unfallhergang) Andervenne (ots) - Zu einem Verkehrsunfall mit einer 41-jährigen schwerverletzten Person ist es am Dienstag, dem 11.08.2026, 17:10 Uhr an der Settruper Straße in Andervenne gekommen. Die 41-jährige Fahrerin eines Opel Corsa fuhr auf der Settruper ... https://www.
RE: https://openbiblio.social/@mattistoehr/117398343555360867
❓ 🎞️ Wie lassen sich Filme und Filmdaten entdecken, filtern, verknüpfen und weiterverwenden?
🚀Diese Fragen können am Di, 27.10., anlässlich des Welttages des Audiovisuellen Erbes vom…
Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/14/zenzap-rais…
@… Fedt at du gŸr det.
Ironie: Wenn der Zug zur Arbeit sich verspätet, weil er erst einen Güterzug voller Autos durchlassen muss.
Trump sounds like a carny salesman, not a president.
That’s because he is a carny salesman.
He’s shilling hard because the Republican Party he is selling for the midterms is about as appetizing as his patented explosive diarrhea lettuce.
Republican polling is currently hitting impressive new lows.
Trump’s approval is hovering around 36 percent in the FiftyPlusOne aggregate,
and the same site’s Senate forecast just hit a new high of a 61 percent likelihood of …
#Noorlys haben nen 50% Rettungssale auf alles.
Für Damen ist noch etwas mehr da, Kinder und Herren nur noch ein paar Größen.
Vielleicht letzte Chance auf Surf-Sweater-Chic aus Kiel. Die Qualität ist sehr gut, Verarbeitung und Material sind für Langlebigkeit ausgelegt, so meine Erfahrung. Einen Hoody hatte ich weit über zehn Jahre (noch unter anderem Namen). Der war bis zum Schluss forms…
Chainalysis: agentic commerce on Coinbase's Base grew from ~1,500 transactions in Q2 2025 to 138M in Q3 2026; 87% of the payments were for less than 10 cents (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/14/ai-agents…
SFGate launched a $4.99-per-month Friends of SFGate ad-free app, its first paid product, on July 16, as traffic to its free website fell sharply in recent years (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america…
あの日 電話が ふいに鳴ったの
あの人と 別れてと 彼女から
203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
An der Woche nach so einer Wahl mag ich am liebsten das beruhigende Gefühl, dass mich die Parteien jetzt wieder ein paar Jahre lang komplett in Ruhe lassen. #kwnds26
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-announces-…
203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
A profile of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national who the FBI arrested after OpenAI discovered a recording device and who has deep connections in Saudi Arabia (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b71e0dc4-b190-49ec-b000-bd585054ddc8
Sam Altman says "we welcome a federal framework" but "do not believe we need to wait" for an antitrust exemption or a law to pace AI development responsibly (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2099348812305473766
iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 and Siri AI is very impressive with some "wow" moments but it can sometimes misunderstand or hallucinate (Dan Moren/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/09/ios-27-review-little-things-mean-a-lot/
Source: Anthropic signed a $13.7B, six-year deal to lease compute from Rum Group's upcoming Georgia data center; Rum operates Rumble and hosts Truth Social (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-strik…
OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/openai-chatgpt-computer-history/
Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/temporals-va…
Microsoft publishes a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct", establishing that "people matter more than AI", rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/994566/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-co…
Meta says it removed 750,000 Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s to comply with the social media ban, including 462,000 Instagram accounts (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…