@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialScience-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
@brichapman@mastodon.socialExecutive presence is not about how you stand or what you wear.
It comes from four qualities you build from the inside out: care, clarity, curiosity, and courage.
The leaders who inspire others stop performing and start living these qualities.
What would change if you focused on these instead of trying to project confidence?
Read more: [link]
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialOn The Road - To Xi’An/Objects 🔶
在路上 - 去西安/物 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caAs we embrace the Winter Solstice, the year's shortest day, let's reflect on nature's genius and ancient history. 🌌 Stonehenge, aligning perfectly with this celestial event, stands as a testament to human ingenuity. Its timeless mystery and the cosmic forces continue to ignite our curiosity and remind us of our place in the universe's awe-inspiring SPECTACLE.
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzOut of curiosity, I just watched the 3'39" video on the front of the Green Party web site, which turned out to be themed primarily on what it means to be "super rich". Really good video overall, I thought.
I especially wanted to highlight one phrase which stood out to me:
"Since the pandemic began".
A lot of people would have said "Since the pandemic" or "during the pandemic" - as if it were over now.
I'm thinking: _Someone_ on his team knows the difference. I'm not saying it's definitely ZP himself, I expect he takes input from colleagues on the speech-writing, but still. _Someone_ there knows the pandemic is still happening.
There's an allusion to air quality as well.
Thank you whoever that was!
#GreenParty #UKPol #CovidIsntOver
@cdarwin@c.im“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialScience-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Before we go into what is missing, let us take a moment to understand why this partial story is so popular. Many software engineers do not engage with the broad “software engineering literature” very much: through the act of reading this magazine you are placing yourself at the pinnacle of software engineering curiosity!"
https…
@cheryanne@aus.socialSupermindstretchers
Join Ben Crisp, Tom Crisp, and Brendan Williams as they revisit The Curiosity Show...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/supermindstretchers/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 22: Yuki Urushibara
I've got a few more mangaka left on my short list, and might very well get to at least one more, but Urushibara is the author of Mushishi and anyone who knows either the manga or anime understands immediately why she appears here.
Mushishi is a "seinen" anime, which means it's written for adults, not children or teenagers (although it's very accessible for all ages). It deals with a vast array of life's circumstances through the lens of a traveling mushi expert and the various whimsical supernatural creatures he is called on to deal with. He's not an exorcist though, instead understanding that humans must live in harmony with the mushi, and working like an ecologist to sort things out. As is probably obvious, Urushibara is an incredible world-builder; she's also a top-notch artist and above all, her stories are overflowing with kindness, humanity, and respect for the natural world.
Besides Mushishi, I've read "Suiiki", and it's one of the few manga I stumbled through in the original Japanese, which says a lot given my limited reading vocabulary (and the fact that it doesn't include rubi). It weaves the supernatural into a story of childhood innocence and curiosity in a lovely way.
Much like Shirahama who I mentioned earlier, Urushibara's stories are full of gentle wisdom for all ages, but Urushibara's work is quieter and less dramatic, with an adult main character confident in his expertise instead of a young-and-learning protagonist.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@brichapman@mastodon.socialCheck out my latest article - "The 4 C's of Executive Presence (And Why They Have Nothing to Do With Conformity)"
https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-4-cs-of-executive-presence-and?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=…
@arXiv_statML_bot@mastoxiv.pageCuriosity-Driven Co-Development of Action and Language in Robots Through Self-Exploration
Theodore Jerome Tinker, Kenji Doya, Jun Tani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05013 https://
@david@boles.xyzThe Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialPlan C turned out to be a nice day in the mountains. But Woah was there a chill wind. Good that I was prepared.
#hiking #wandern #mountains
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWow, https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2019011532/chch-physicist-s-examination-turns-nz-x-ray-history-on-its-head when I saw the picture, I thought, 'I recognise that guy…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageKnowledgeTrail: Generative Timeline for Exploration and Sensemaking of Historical Events and Knowledge Formation
Sangho Suh, Rahul Hingorani, Bryan Wang, Tovi Grossman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12113 …
@emd@cosocial.caNothing hurts my head more than reading about time. https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115688679152089280
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euMiracle Process (YouTube channel)
"Explore diverse factories to quench your curiosity about China's manufacturing processes."
https://www.youtube.com/@miracleprocess/videos
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageDNS in the Time of Curiosity: A Tale of Collaborative User Privacy Protection
Philip Sj\"osv\"ard, Hongyu Jin, Panos Papadimitratos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24153 ht…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI wonder how well the low-curiosity people incompetently running our mostly-idle government have understood the nature of who government helps the most.
HINT: If government help was mostly for the poor, we would not have both billionaires and homelessness.
Air traffic control is a state-socialist subsidy service. It exists to make commercial passenger and cargo airlines feasible, an unevenly-distributed benefit. Reducing capacity by 10% won't affect 90% of Americans.
…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The moment was absurd but revealing; the university wasn’t resisting bullshit education, it was onboarding it. Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.»
An excellent read about how/why uni admin pushes the use of "AI" and the impact
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: I didn't come here to be... flattered.
EGRORIAN: You came here out of curiosity and because you scented there might be something in it for you, mm, am I right?
AVON: Close enough.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/127 B7B5
@bogo@hapyyr.comMy talk at @… got accepted.
https://26.foss-backstage.de/session/disobey-foss-tools-to-fight-back-and-their-a…
@yaya@jorts.horsemy Lyft to the pub is booked for 5:40am
why am I doing this to myself
it's partly morbid curiosity about who else is hardcore enough to be there for the 6am kickoff lol
@cjust@infosec.exchangeMaybe she should do a collab with Skrillex
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a69167004/jameela-jamil-accidentally-orgasm-farmers-dj-set/
@geant@mstdn.social💸 “Earn €1,000 a week. 100% safe. Limited time only!”
It looks tempting. Everyone else seems to be doing it. And the inner voice says: what if it’s real?
That’s exactly how cyber criminals exploit social engineering tactics like curiosity, greed, and FOMO to get us to fall for the bait.
When something sounds too good to be true, pause & breathe. Try box breathing (4–4–4–4) to reset before you click.
🔗 Explore the 2025
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza@… made me think about my preference for minimalist apps
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_design/
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netToday's curiosity questions:
For MIT People
(read: anyone who's been there studenting/facultying/visiting/trespassing/whatever within the last decade or two):
(1) Is 'Toad Sexing' still prohibited nearly everywhere?
(I figure that either it was a passing fad in the early-mid 1980s and the signage/graffiti was eventually eliminated;
or it may have gotten enshrined the way the 'smoots' have been; I haven't been there recently so I don…
@UP8@mastodon.social🐪 Mathematical models reveal a 'hidden order' in dryland vegetation worldwide
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-reveal-hidden-dryland-vegetation.html
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[5/10]:
- In-Context Curiosity: Distilling Exploration for Decision-Pretrained Transformers on Bandit Tasks
Huitao Yang, Guanting Chen
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com"Don't use curl -o /dev/null (or -o nul on Windows) because it's not portable, use curl -IXGET instead"
Can you imagine…
So out of morbid curiosity, what platforms is curl available on that don't have a /dev/null (or nul)?
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."
@lilmikesf@c.im
@erc_bk@fosstodon.orgJust as I've started to get a pretty comfortable with all the coordinate representations, projections, etc., I see this. If I would've came across an older dataset with this before now, I'm not sure what I would've done. Tried an internet search out of curiosity, but didn't come up with much. sp::char2dms converts it to numerical coordinates, but I didn't see any other functions/pkgs out there that does that conversion.
@cheryanne@aus.social2025 Aussie Bird Count 20-26 October
You don’t need to be a bird nerd to take part in the Aussie Bird Count. All you need is 20 minutes, a spot to birdwatch (backyard, park bench, schoolyard or balcony) and a bit of curiosity.
#Birds #Australia
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[5/10]:
- In-Context Curiosity: Distilling Exploration for Decision-Pretrained Transformers on Bandit Tasks
Huitao Yang, Guanting Chen
@johnhobbs@mstdn.caAfter a successful career in information management, I've discovered the thrill of lifelong learning and the joy of embracing new challenges. What keeps your curiosity alive? Share your experiences below! 🌟 #StayCurious #LifelongLearning #InspireOthers
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/11]:
- HAMMER: Hamiltonian Curiosity Augmented Large Language Model Reinforcement
Ming Yang, Xiaofan Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Dengliang Shi, Jintao Du, Yu Cheng, Weiguo Zheng
