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LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women” - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/10/03/women-lgbtq-mexico-community-migrant-support

LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”
Discover insightful articles on LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”

In an alley in my #WestSeattle neighborhood #spring

Biden Defends #Trans Community, Supports the Equality Act in State of the Union – Georgia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News
https://thegavoic…

Biden Defends Trans Community, Supports the Equality Act in State of the Union
News, events, features, entertainment, interviews, Pride, nightlife, organizations, families, marriage

@… @… I don’t think the point was exclusively about capitalism—but that community building in sole service of profit/shareholders ends poorly for the community.
It needs to be grass-roots and led by the community so it can contin…

In an alley in my #WestSeattle neighborhood #spring

TIL: posting the XKCD comic strip "security" is a violation of Facebook's "Community Standards on violence and incitement"
#xkcd #facebook #infosec

Security

The presence of an aggressor in the one statement and the total absence of an aggressor in the other is indeed notable.
https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/112397954667657673

Zecharias Zelalem (@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social)
Attached: 2 images Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today. This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so. "Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise. The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army. Please compare with the 2022 citation…

Public Square Amplified teams up with NJ Urban News for a community forum on #protest, #democracy and #journalism
this Friday, March 8th!
IN perons and on-line: 5pm - 6:30 pm ET
Lawrence Ham…

Shelly Lambert from the Eclipse Foundation giving this year's keynote about #community and planting trees to create a healthy eco system. #Java #Javaland
If you can't be around you still can watch the …

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation ( #JHF ) in #Pittsburgh approved over $1M in grants September 13, including funds to:
🔹develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University;
🔹establish the Women's Reproductive Health Emergency Grant Fund;
🔹develop a campaign to advance heal…

Jewish Healthcare Foundation Approves over $1M in Grants, Including Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon; Women's Reproductive Health Emergency Grant Fund; and Oakland's LGBTQ-Friendly Senior Housing Community
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1M in grants September 13, including funds to develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University; to establish the Women's Reproductive Health Eme...

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community.
Malaysian stories
1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 09, 2022.
https://www.thee…

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community. Malaysian stories 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 10, 2022.

LinkShare: Wakelet Community 2024: https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/04/04/linkshare-wakelet-community.html

Dammit.
A #WestSeattle / White Center cultural staple — the Full Tilt punk-friendly optionally-vegan ice cream beer and pinball shop — is closing its doors at the end of May, after the abrupt death of its founder last month.
ht…

Seriously though, if you'd like to read about a pretty amazing woman who I've had the honour of getting to know better since joining the Board of the local women's shelter society: Ellen Frood is it.
“Her mother was a pioneer broadcaster with CBC in Ontario and Quebec and one of the first appointees in the late 1960s to the National Advisory Council on the Status of Women.
“A beautiful role model for me to follow,” says Frood, who 40 years later was invited to Ottawa…

Twitch: Neue Tools und Apps für mehr Sicherheit und bessere Monetarisierung
Für 2024 plant Twitch dem CEO Dan Clancy zufolge neue Tools und Apps mit Fokus auf Community-Ausbau. Auch Monetarisierung und Sicherheit soll verbessert werden.

Community Detection for Heterogeneous Multiple Social Networks
Ziqing Zhu, Guan Yuan, Tao Zhou, Jiuxin Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04371 https://…

Community Detection for Heterogeneous Multiple Social Networks
The community plays a crucial role in understanding user behavior and network characteristics in social networks. Some users can use multiple social networks at once for a variety of objectives. These users are called overlapping users who bridge different social networks. Detecting communities across multiple social networks is vital for interaction mining, information diffusion, and behavior migration analysis among networks. This paper presents a community detection method based on nonnegati…

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

«Quantifying the self with others» looks at the particular #CitizenScience community that is #PersonalScience / #quantifiedself.
«This community cultivated useful conversations about personal health data, the sorts of participatory “reflection and dialogue” needed to achieve “a shared vision” for these technologies, through specific communication techniques that integrated personal and community goals or transcended them by marshalling an open science data imaginary.»
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241247831

@… https://www.theonion.com/police-department-defends-decision-to-buy-entire-fleet-1851449724

Police Department Defends Decision To Buy Entire Fleet Of 1967 Ferraris
CHICAGO—Dismissing concerns that funds were being mismanaged, the Chicago Police Department vigorously defended its decision this week to buy an entire fleet of 1967 Ferraris. “We will use these babies to keep the community safe, and we will look badass while doing so,” said Chicago Police Superintendent Larry…

⚓ ‘We’re tough’: Baltimore pulls together after bridge collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/community-response-baltimore-bridge-collapse

Media: Chinese leader wants to work with international community to end war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/media-chinese-leader.html

Im Fablab Cottbus beschäftigt man sich gerade kreativ-kritisch mit einer besonders bekloppten Umweltsauerei – den Akkus in Einweg-E-Zigaretten.
https://community.fablab-cottbus.de/t/akkus-von-verbrauchten-vapes-nutzen/543

Akkus von verbrauchten Vapes nutzen
Vapes (Einweg-E-Zigaretten, auch unter dem Markennamen Elf Bar bekannt) sind ein recht großes Umweltübel, werden aber reichlich verkauft. Die Teile sind Sondermüll, da sie einen Li-Ionen-Akku und diverse Gifte enthalten, landen aber sicher im Hausmüll oder schlimmer in der Umwelt (Entsorgung im Hausmüll ist nach Hinweis auf den Geräten ja nicht erlaubt ☠ ). In diesem Projekt sollen Infos rund um die Nutzung der alten Akkus und Projekte mit den Akkus vorgestellt werden. Ac...

Today I learnt about Masakhane, a 'grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans', helping make sure that the 2000 languages and related names and cultures in the continent are represented in technology #NLP

Masakhane
Our Mission Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Despite the fact that 2000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages are barely represented in technology. The tragic past of

📢 Hey, #dotnet folks! We are accepting presentations for #JetBrains .NET Days 2024. This is always a fun event, and you can submit talks of 30, 45, or 60 minutes.
As a presenter, you're not alone. We're here to support you every step of the way. You'll receive assistance from our …

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Thinking back to that time when WCAG 2.2 first went to review and French #overlay company #FACILiti, best known for its SLAPPs, asked to get a side-door added to WCAG for overlays:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Draft for Review
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

A more broad question, both for creators and people who watch/listen:
What infrastructure, teams, etc. do large content creators have, in order to support them doing the work? Editors, producers, community management, tech support, ?
#Creative #Content

"Community wind turbines and heat pumps could be a win-win against fuel poverty and climate change"
#Wind #WindTurbines #Energy

Wind-powered heat pumps could slash energy bills by up to one third
Adding solar panels and a battery to the mix could make the cost and carbon savings even greater, according to a new report.

So, I had a successful Pokémon Go Community Day.
Caught quite a few Shiny Bagon, and have evolved a few Salamence from Shelgon.
#pokemon #pokemongo

On my way from Bray to Dublin for this evening’s Codú meetup.
Pop by and say hi if you’re around :)
#bray

Codú - The Web Developer Community | Meetup
Welcome to Codú, Ireland's largest coding community!**Join this group to learn more and attend some of our events.**Whether you're a beginner or an experienced coder, our community is the perfect place to enhance your skills, learn from others, and contribute your knowledge.Why join us? Here's what

Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24118984/patreon-…

Patreon is taking Reddit’s approach to content moderation
Creator platform Patreon is expanding community chats, a Discord-like feature first introduced in September. Now chats will be available on the web and to free users.

What a sad interview
#news

I’m so excited for this. The Fitchburg Cutoff Trail is so nice, but goes nowhere useful. Getting to Belmont Centre is a big deal. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2024/03/06/after-a-4-year-delay-belmont-gears-up-to-bui…

@… I expect that the community focused on Android is even larger than on Apple products, especially here on Mastodon 😉

tired: "for project docs and support, interact with the community on our Discord"
wired: "chat with other community members on our completely private self-hosted instance to avoid your comments being vacuumed up by current and future LLMs"

🔴 Starting the Noita portion of the stream on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/archivist0628 ! 🔴

Paging all #asstodon and #baseball aficionados. TIL about donkey baseball. This is a thing I never knew I needed. Now I'd like to know more.
Source: The Port Credit News, July 21, 1937,

Only 1/4 of USDOT's "Reconnecting Communities" grant money will remove or narrow highways, and much is going to widening projects.
Because state DOTs are unwilling to propose narrowing or removal.
https://www.

A Highway Split Their Community. Efforts to Fix That Face Opposition.
The Biden administration is spending billions to reconnect communities of color that have been fragmented by highways. Some projects have stirred debates over how to mend longstanding harms.

Daily pic of #brisbane

RIP Albini, who died at 61. He was an a**hole for the right reasons, after he grew up a little:
> “However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently – but these days he also says things like: “Life is hard on everybody and there’s no excuse for making it harder. I’ve got the easiest job on earth, I’m a straight white dude, fuck me if I can’t make space for everybody else.”

Matrix certrainly has its rough edges, but I find it awesome that pretty much every major Linux community now has their dedicated space. All federated, of course.
#Matrix #Element #ElementWeb

Don't forget, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.…

New paper alert! @… and I argue in our paper in the Journal of Architecture published today that adolescents' positive perceptions of school depend (among other things) on the school layout and levels of visibility from the classroom, which enables a greater sense of belonging to the school community
Full paper here:

„Wir müssen Desinformation jetzt wirksam eindämmen” - deshalb baut #Correctiv eine Faktencheck-Community auf, die gerade im Wahljahr gegen Falschnachrichten und für einen faktenbasierten Diskurs eintritt. 👍
…

„Wir müssen Desinformation jetzt wirksam eindämmen”
Sich für die Demokratie zu engagieren, ist aktuell ein Bedürfnis für viele. Das zeigen 3,5 Millionen Menschen, die auf Deutschlands Straßen demonstrieren. Dies nachhaltig und mit gesellschaftlicher Wirkung zu tun, ermöglicht das CORRECTIV.Faktenforum, die erste Faktencheck-Community im deutschsprachigen Raum. Nach dem offiziellen Start der Community zu Jahresbeginn öffnet sich das Projekt nun schrittweise für Nutzerinnen […]

This is incredibly tone-deaf of StackExchange. They're a community-driven project, and the community has been very clear that they are skeptical of AI and AI-driven business.
However, all SE data is also CC-BY, same as Wikipedia, which means OpenAI is pretty well-justified in just crawling the SE data. I'm not sure what this agreement buys either party.

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models | TechCrunch
Stack Overflow, the developer Q&A site, has inked a licensing agreement with OpenAI to supply data to its models.

There are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the #Fediverse, and a bunch of other work going on as well.
So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!
If you care, you can participate, it…

Social Web Incubator Community Group
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017. The SocialCG provides space to collaborate and coordinate for implementors who are building on any of the specifications published by the Social Web WG, and related technologies. It is also a place to incubate new proposals which build on or complement the Social Web WG recommendations…

@… Yeah, even the most basic functionality, which used to be rock-solid, has been degrading for a while now.
I now discover that you can’t even access your music library anymore!
It’s even worse than what this post

@… Yeah, even the most basic functionality, which used to be rock-solid, has been degrading for a while now.
I now discover that you can’t even access your music library anymore!
It’s even worse than what this post

Steam Community :: cellfourteen :: Review for Strange Brigade
https://steamcommunity.com/id/cellfourteen/recommended/312670

No Monday Vibes Here, Just Pinball!
LIVE NOW 🔴🕹️ #Twitch #SmallstreamersConnect

Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

NO RELATION. I don't know him.
New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor…

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
Joe Kahn, after two years in charge of the New York Times newsroom, has learned nothing.

Good Morning #JavaLand!
Final preparations this morning. In the afternoon we will kick off the #community activities with our unconference sessions
Speakers dinner in the evening. I am thrilled to explore this new venue today!

Red Hat announces RHEL AI, a platform for developing and running open source LLMs, and InstructLab, a community project to let experts enhance AI models (Bryson Masse/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/red-hat-unveils-rhel-ai-a…

Red Hat unveils RHEL AI and InstructLab to democratize enterprise AI
With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01510 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

Reverse Influential Community Search Over Social Networks (Technical Report)
As an important fundamental task of numerous real-world applications such as social network analysis and online advertising/marketing, several prior works studied influential community search, which retrieves a community with high structural cohesiveness and maximum influences on other users in social networks. However, previous works usually considered the influences of the community on arbitrary users in social networks, rather than specific groups (e.g., customer groups, or senior communitie…

Host a successful community listening session: Advice from API Inclusion Index leaders https://americanpressinstitute.org/host-a-successful-community-listening-session/

Host a successful community listening session: Advice from API Inclusion Index leaders
Community listening is a crucial tenet of improving community engagement, along with asset mapping and collaborating with other local news outlets — all part of the API Inclusion Index cohort’s efforts toward better engaging communities of color.

Media: Chinese leader wants to work with international community to end war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/media-chinese-leader.html

My kid downloaded a new videogame and I was sure I heard him saying it was
MBA 2k24
And I was like "job simulator games have gone too far"

shocked, shocked to find that this is the case
women do more academic housework than men in departments?
this is my shocked face 😐
https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/112233316106462167

X rolls out support for posting Community Notes in India ahead of the 2024 general elections and says the program now has contributors in 69 countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/x-rolls-o…

X rolls out support for posting Community Notes in India ahead of elections | TechCrunch
Weeks before the national elections in India, X said that it is rolling out support for posting Community Notes.

🔴 Up on Twitch at https://twitch.tv/archivist0628 doing game dev, and more! 🔴
Today on the menu, implementing some physics and playing some Noita

"How One South African Community Stopped Shell Oil in Its Tracks"
#SouthAfrica #Shell #FossilFuels

How One South African Community Stopped Shell Oil in Its Tracks
Activist Nonhle Mbuthuma founded a local organization along South Africa’s Wild Coast to fight a proposed strip mine 17 years ago. Despite ongoing personal threats, she’s still working to protect her Pondoland community from oil exploration and other harmful development.

The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats
“Donald Trump is enemy number one for the Latino community, for the immigrant community, but also enemy number one for all the basic elements of democracy,”
Héctor Sšnchez Barba, president Mi Familia Vota, said at the news conference.

Latino Advocacy Groups Call Trump’s Deportation Plans a Danger to Democracy
The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats, saying that defeating the former president is their top goal.

"build exciting things with boring technology"
Yes!
https://phpc.social/@sarah/112231688445848023

Don't forget, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.…

Patreon rolls out a Reddit-like community moderation feature that lets podcasters, artists, writers, and other creators assign community members as moderators (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24118984/patreon-…

Patreon is taking Reddit’s approach to content moderation
Creator platform Patreon is expanding community chats, a Discord-like feature first introduced in September. Now chats will be available on the web and to free users.

Arrived at @… early. Very good first impression. I think we will have a lot of interesting discussions, talks and fun here. Already met a lot of people! #community #JavaLand

shocked, shocked to find that this is the case
women do more academic housework than men in departments?
this is my shocked face 😐
https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/112233316106462167

Ukrainian non-governmental organizations released a statement on the threat to democracy and human rights in Georgia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/ukrainian-nongovernmental-organizations.html

"build exciting things with boring technology"
Yes!
https://phpc.social/@sarah/112231688445848023

Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more (Nicholas Yong/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/<…

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

Pretty sure this is a plot point in Metal Gear Solid
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112238948609812916

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image So are giant container ships losing propulsion/power near bridges a normal everyday thing we never knew we needed to be terrified about, like things falling off passenger planes?

X rolls out support for posting Community Notes in India ahead of the 2024 general elections and says the program now has contributors in 69 countries (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/x-rolls-o…

X rolls out support for posting Community Notes in India ahead of elections | TechCrunch
Weeks before the national elections in India, X said that it is rolling out support for posting Community Notes.

New voting laws in swing states could shape the 2024 election
“It’s really kind of a tale of two democracies,” said Liz Avore, a senior adviser at the Voting Rights Lab
Voting in Michigan will be easier for many people this fall than it was four years ago.
There will be nine days of early voting.
All mail ballots will have prepaid return postage.
And every community will have at least one drop box for absentee ballots because of a measure adopted by voters with…

New voting laws in swing states could shape 2024 election
Americans will find voting is different this year, but whether they have an easier or harder time than they did four years ago will depend on where they live.

"wages georg is an outlier and should not be counted"
😘 👌 via @…
https://tech.lgbt/@chrisisgr8/112058124398938120

Overheard: "[screwball seat-of-pants deployment process 'designed' by researchers and PMs] is like the Vogon poetry of continuous integration"

The Digital Revolution Has Failed
'[don't] fall for any attempt to cast a libertarian “declaration of independence” as a truly liberatory future for everyone' — @…
🔥💀🔥🔥
…

The digital revolution has failed
The benefits of the internet are eroding. The AI boom is only accelerating their demise.

Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more (Nicholas Yong/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/singapore-writers-reject-ai-training/<…

Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work
Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

Survey: 48% of US adults prefer websites or social media for local news; 15% paid for local news in the last year; 63% believe local outlets do well financially (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/05/…

Americans’ Changing Relationship With Local News
More Americans now prefer to get local news online, while fewer turn to TV or print. And most say local news outlets are important to their community.

New voting laws in swing states could shape the 2024 election
“It’s really kind of a tale of two democracies,” said Liz Avore, a senior adviser at the Voting Rights Lab
Voting in Michigan will be easier for many people this fall than it was four years ago.
There will be nine days of early voting.
All mail ballots will have prepaid return postage.
And every community will have at least one drop box for absentee ballots because of a measure adopted by voters with…

New voting laws in swing states could shape 2024 election
Americans will find voting is different this year, but whether they have an easier or harder time than they did four years ago will depend on where they live.

oh, another way of saying this is that both STARSHIP TROOPERS and HELLDIVERS-2 are Torment Nexuses on the order of Warhammer 40k
https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112051895630291733

oh, another way of saying this is that both STARSHIP TROOPERS and HELLDIVERS-2 are Torment Nexuses on the order of Warhammer 40k
https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112051895630291733

Lazy Saturdays are not only for cats.
#DogsOfMastodon

I am proud of the phrase "modal desire paths of the 21st century Internet"
that just fell out of my brain in describing LLM and diffusion-model output

All quality Internet gimmick accounts eventually become DUNE fanfic
I don't make the rules
https://beige.party/@LRRRonEarth/112050018444239925

Kernighan's Law II: Revenge of the Debugged
(I agree, @… !)
https://ioc.exchange/@shac/112391029055067523

Every once in a while I am amazed that one of the contenders for social media dominance right now is literally named "blue sky"
It's a term from project planning, and I'm pretty sure it's intended to mean "what you do if there were no constraints"
1/2

My personal motto:
Slow Down And Fix Your Shit
For literal years.
apparently I'm not the only one: @… said this last year
https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/1107421…

Been watching The Good Place with my eleven year old.
We just watched the last episode of the first season, the one where [redacted for spoilers].
He did not see it coming AT ALL and his bafflement and delight are so pure that I want another go, the way Mindy St Claire wants another rail of coke

I can't believe I didn't do this earlier

I walked my 5th grader to school today, and we encountered a 6th grade friend. Nerdy, slightly gawky kid, into D&D and yoyos and sometimes rollerblading on the sidewalk.
"I'm so nervous; it's the 6th grade science fair today," said Mr 6.
"Science is fun," I said. His demeanor did not improve.
I thought for a moment.
"You can't be a future supervillain without science," I told him.
He beamed like the dawn and went on …

I walked my 5th grader to school today, and we encountered a 6th grade friend. Nerdy, slightly gawky kid, into D&D and yoyos and sometimes rollerblading on the sidewalk.
"I'm so nervous; it's the 6th grade science fair today," said Mr 6.
"Science is fun," I said. His demeanor did not improve.
I thought for a moment.
"You can't be a future supervillain without science," I told him.
He beamed like the dawn and went on …

Get you a pizza joint that can say yes to both #Burien

Get you a pizza joint that can say yes to both #Burien

Wholesome tech post!
(They're rare, so it's worth celebrating!)
https://fosstodon.org/@Nathaniellockhart/112380910601772854
Via @…

oof spent the whole day debugging and the fix was a -8 10 _character_ change in one line of the build configuration
and then everything started working again
🙄

From the SMS no thank you bucket

My brother pointed me to this entertaining but also cuttingly accurate essay
Goodbye to Publications, by Bert-Jaap Koops
https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/15751/10284
it&…

This from @…
https://posts.decontextualize.com/language-models-ransom-notes/
on how LLMs are a kind of de-contextualiz…