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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-04 03:00:05

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-03 06:31:14

this week! 🎉
bolha.one/@cadusilva/115481273

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-11-03 08:21:03

new DM footgun has entered the chat bolha.one/@cadusilva/115481273

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-04 11:40:51

Spotify Wrapped's Listening Ages sparks widespread social media discussion and follows in Spotify's tradition of issuing gimmicky, loosely data-backed offerings (Madison Malone Kircher/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2025/12/03/style/s

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2025-11-04 17:22:16

A good friend of mine has the Muppet character "Beaker" as his avatar. For reasons.
He offers me advice. I offer him advice. We chat. These are #ChatsWithBeaker
The link in the discussion thread:

-> Sounds like you might need to go to .Chotchkie's. Maybe get some coffee.
<- only if the cute waitress is there, who I am pretty sure is an immortal.
-> Also
-> It's weird how the people who starred in Bram Stoker's Dracula have all barely 
-> aged since 1992. Probably nothing to worry about
<-Holy shit.
<-and I LOL'd at seeing Tom Waits on that list.
-> https://bsky.app/profile/jamieson.bsky.social/post/3m4sty7uefk2x
<-Jesus I hate this timeline
-> We should be shoving weasels into the large…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2025-11-03 09:55:13

I'm at the Alasca Cloud summit in Dresden today. Feel free to come say hi! #Alasca #Cloud

A presentation in a modern conference hall: A person is speaking at a lectern in front of a packed audience, with a large screen behind them showing a slide titled "OSS Virtualization & IaaS" along with a schematic diagram of open-source cloud infrastructure. To the right and left are information boards and exhibition booths with green light accents, and several empty chairs are waiting on the stage for a panel discussion. The high, bright room with metal beams, hanging spotlights, and slender …
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2026-01-03 13:17:56

Good Morning #Canada
Overnight news of Trump attacking another country in a blatant attempt to seize their resources should be a wakeup call for Canada. Does anyone here think a strike on Ottawa to remove the current government couldn't happen? Could the U.S. find a stooge willing to become the interim leader? How much oil, aluminum, uranium, hydropower or other resources would be looted before Trump strokes out from too many big macs. Yesterday I would have laughed at this scenario but today it starts to be less of a fantasy.
I glossed over this article when it was first published back in November but now I'm leaning towards support of developing a volunteer force in Canada. Perhaps a 2-year voluntary military service for our youth to provide employment and training. I don't want a volunteer military force to ever be used and hopefully it becomes a deterrent. But unfortunately a serious discussion is needed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ElbowsUp
ctvnews.ca/canada/article/the-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-31 22:16:09

The racist subtext to the SNAP discussion (that isn't always subtext) (pbump)
pbump.net/o/the-racist-subtext
memeorandum.com/251031/p128#a2

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-04 23:42:38

Jeanty’s Confusing Role, Meyers Trade — and What’s Next for the Raiders si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-ve

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-11-02 09:51:02

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2026-01-02 08:24:46

@… oh! You changed it, despite my plea 👍 and now, in the most obscure way imaginable, the change relates to discussion, elsewhere, of a true crime that is non-domestic.
Such strange wanderings …
#life

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-12-21 16:42:45

'Not under discussion': Kremlin denies preparations for trilateral US-Ukraine-Russia talks: benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/not-u

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-30 13:26:28

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim

Short fluid sim of a grid of small "streamers" being disturbed by a series of comb-like movements to create increasingly complex marbling patterns
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-11-01 01:23:05

Just finished "Two Tribes" by Emily Bowen Cohen. It's a bit didactic and I didn't love the art, but if was interesting as a discussion of mixed heritage and out got into a lot of good details; I feel like it might be super interesting to a pre-teen audience. It reminded me a lot of "Twin Cities" by Jose Pimenta as well as some of Pimenta's other work, but IMO Pimenta is the superior artist and storyteller.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-11-02 19:51:03

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info
2025-12-01 01:22:19

I just discovered that the "prefix group name" option for #FreeCAD VarSet properties was removed a couple months ago. That feature was such a wonderful affordance for reducing typing and now it's gone. I missed the discussion when it was being axed and it makes me very sad. It looks like "I don't like the aesthetics so you shouldn't have it" won the day. ☹

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-12-25 21:07:44

Another ancient classic.
Donald Trump was visiting a primary school in Orlando and visited a 4th grade class. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mr.Trump if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy.'
So our illustrious POTUS asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy'. (1/4)

Trump directs Pentagon to test nuclear weapons, just before meeting China’s Xi
Donald Trump on Thursday morning said he directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons
“on an equal basis” with Russia and China,
-- abruptly inserting nuclear issues into the discussion just before meeting his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, for a high-stakes trade summit here.

The announcement signaled a reversal of decades of United States nuclear policy that could have far-re…

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2025-10-29 16:50:46

Currently having a discussion with this spider about WHY it's a bad idea to make its nest inside my cutlery drawer

Fairly large spider and its web in the corner of one of the compartments of my cutlery drawer.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-10-31 07:15:18

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: [V.O.] Right.
CALLY: Orac, operate teleport as instructed. Orac?
ORAC: Yes.
CALLY: Did you hear what I said?
ORAC: Teleport operation is a menial task much more suited to one such as yourself.

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This scene appears to be set aboard a spacecraft, likely the Liberator, given the distinctive futuristic interior with its sleek walls and control surfaces. The setting has the characteristic clean, technological aesthetic of the series with muted lighting and curved architectural elements.

The scene shows three crew members in what appears to be a tense moment of discussion or briefing. One figure stands in the foreground wearing light-colored clothi…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-12-01 02:22:42

Event: Dec. 6 Book Response on Living Islam
Join us for an evening of conversation inspired by Living Islam: Muslim Expressions of Faith, the acclaimed book byProfessor Ali S. Asani, which invites readers to explore the many ways Muslims around the world understand and experience their faith through culture, art, and everyday life.  The discussion, moderated by Alisha Kurji and featuring Dr. Alnoor Dhanani (Harvard University) and…

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-10-30 21:42:37

My God, what is the name of this act?
"The Aristocrats"

A screenshot of a text-based email client showing a single discussion thread. The subject of the thread is, "The ls command", and the thread is composed of 25 replies, some 5 or more l;evels deep, all received on the same day (30 October 2025). The same few names are represented over and over.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-30 01:13:48

#Anarchism

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-11-28 15:06:56

I made the familiar point yesterday during a panel discussion that even if AI were approaching human intelligence, we're nowhere near human power efficiency (in "intelligence per watt")
But is that actually true anymore? We need huge power to train models, but once we have them trained, distilled and quantized, what do we have?
The human brain draws abt 20 Watts. An M4 doing local inference on a heavily quantized LLM won't draw more than 40 Watts.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-10-15 18:51:07

Patriots' Drake Maye elite? How QB has played his way into MVP discussion; how high is New England's ceiling?

cbssports.com/nfl/news/pat…

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-12-28 11:01:37

There is much discussion in the UK describing many of the governing party's own MPs as 'rebels'. But isn't that what we want our democratically elected representatives to do - listen, and think and speak for themselves? #democracy

@felwert@fedihum.org
2025-10-28 08:08:37

This morning, the #MetaphorsOfReligion conference starts with the panel on “Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis,” including our own presentation “Religious Metaphors at Scale.” I am looking forward to the discussion!

SESSION 4:
Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Analysis
Chair: Tatjana Scheffler

The Venom of Heresy: A Computational Approach to Tracking the
Development of Anti-Heretical Hate Propaganda Metaphors in
Western Christendom, 1000-1150
David Zbiral

Counterfactual Metaphor
Markus Egg

Religious Metaphors at Scale: Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Identification and Analysis
Frederik Elwert, Sebastian Reimann & Lina Rodenhausen
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-30 23:00:04

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-30 02:12:26

*discussion of house finances between 13yo and his mom*
13yo: "Um, this is a lot of Life Stuff. I'm going to sleep, I've got Pokemon [video games] to play in the morning."

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-12-11 06:05:08

»Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk«
On Mastodon / Fediverse, shortening the URL is not necessary at all, because they are not marked in their full length. Apart from the shorter tracking, their data collection frenzy as well as their timing is also very inconvenient.
🚫

@boris@cosocial.ca
2025-12-09 17:31:02

In discussion with some speakers we are looking to recruit for #ATmosphereConf, I said we have lots of really great tech talks, but also "how do we shine a path on the road ahead and equip community & builders with some approaches and mindsets"

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-10-24 05:53:34

Fascinating discussion about potentially withdrawing Social Security at 62ish.
▶️ Social Security: Stop Waiting Until 70? The Math Nobody Shows You
youtube.com/watch?v=7NkIQsw8P9

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-11-29 11:40:52

Just finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-12-25 04:38:03

Several times now, I experienced discussions that reached a point where someone replied with "But ChatGPT says..." and screenshot. Usually it went downhill from there.
Is this the new Godwin's Law?
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of someone posting the result of an LLM prompt approaches one."
#ReductioAdHitlerum

Ron Burgundy leaning back with a beverage, captioned well that escalated quickly
@adulau@infosec.exchange
2025-10-22 07:25:04

Following a discussion with @… about a cybersecurity format that uses YAML, I’ve come to the conclusion that the acronym really stands for “Yet Another Misaligned Language.
#yaml #cybersecurity

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-17 19:20:45

Discuss: The pros of having a conman president.
#uspol #discussion

@geant@mstdn.social
2025-11-24 12:51:14

⏳ The #TNC26 Call for Proposals closes this week.
We’re looking for presentations, interactive sessions, and side meetings that encourage collaboration and spark new thinking.
Whether you want to share your research, walk us through a new piece of transformative technology, or lead a discussion on pressing challenges our community is facing, we want to hear from you.
Submit by 27 N…

TNC26 call for proposals banner
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2025-11-22 07:00:34

Great discussion between @… and @… on Peter Thiel's speech series on the anti-Christ (aka desperately seeking someone other than billionaires to blame for ya know, capitalism).

@toothFAIRy@scholar.social
2025-10-24 12:02:26
Content warning: Conference toot #OpenScience

The monitoring of Open Science by UNESCO indeed brought stakeholders from Aruba together on the topic for the first time! Together with the Aruba National Commission for UNESCO the University of Aruba discussed our progress towards implementing the UNESCO recommendation (of which I should read the discussion summary later today!).
Hoping for a better timing of the next #OSFestival in August or something so that I don't have to miss out on next year's edition!

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-10-18 14:28:59

I thought I was too old to get excited about protocols, but this atproto discussion from Dan Abramov delivers:
overreacted.io/where-its-at/
(a follow up to his open social post)

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-24 14:40:48

Paint samples arrived today and it was obvious which was gonna work better so I ordered a full 2.5l can.
Only to get an email back saying they can't make that colour in that varnish. Weird. That was literally the only actually blue they said they'd do last time they said they couldn't deliver what the website let me order.
After some discussion they have referred it to the Tainting Supervisor and it's apparently going to be here Monday.
Similarly for the wood, failed to arrive again today. They reckon Monday this time really for reals. Fingers crossed coz the carpenter can't do more until the wood arrives really and he's going on holiday this time next week.
So assuming the wood comes, four days to build the doors and finish off the walls of the closet and stuff.
Hopefully it can all be done in that time. Or at least the hard bits leaving the easy stuff for the less carpentery builder.

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-10-31 03:03:05

@… @… yeah, Mastodon is not good for this type of technical discussion (it mangles what's pasted).
I guess that the first of your urls was something like what's in this screenshot (note the alternative text for …

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-10-20 18:28:46
@stephane_klein@social.coop
2025-11-13 10:04:57

Looking for a Mise plugin for Nx: #Mise #Nx

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-10-21 18:38:06

One thing I learned from our female IT-specialists is how offensive the term "man days" is.
Recently there was a discussion (all men) about efforts and "man days". I just said "It's Person Days - there are quite a couple of women in the team as well."
Short silence, bit surprised looks.
"Sure"
Continued in "Person Days"
Sometimes it doesn't take a lot to change language to the better. Just do it.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-17 11:00:54

Really good Reddit discussion that asks: CISO or Head of Engineering? Who is responsible? Meaning, who is responsible for cyber compliance?
As one commenter noted, the only acceptable answer is the CEO and the Board.
reddit.com/r/c…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-19 03:20:54

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman<…

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-12-20 08:45:40

I listen to the Volts podcast for technical news about innovations on the electricity grid, so this excellent discussion of the intersection between epistemology and social psychology was as unexpected as it was interesting. Highly recommended.
Volts: The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Starting from: 00:40:37
Episode webpage:

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-11-17 18:21:14

Seeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-10-20 05:22:23

Continuing work on the PIC12F683 video. Ripped out all of the early rambling guesswork floorplan analysis I did on the top metal and replaced it with a much more in-depth floorplan discussion looking at the substrate-level floorplan.
Video is now just shy of an hour 20 in length and I still need to add:
* Quick intro to digital CMOS layout and standard cells (planning to film this tonight)
* Deep dive on SRAM
* Deep dive on flash
* Deep dive on fuses/configuration…

kdenlive screenshot showing a closeup of a polysilicon layer with an annotated package pinout floating above it
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-12-30 07:14:00

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
GAN: Bounty hunters. They're going to sell us to the Federation.
BLAKE: But how did they get on board?
AVON: Gan?
VILA: It wasn't Gan's fault.
GAN: They used me and a voice synthesizer. It was very well planned.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 describes the image as: "This image appears to be from the classic British science fiction television series "Blake's 7," showing a group of characters gathered in what looks like the interior of a spacecraft or control room. The scene has the distinctive visual style of late 1970s/early 1980s British television production, with somewhat muted lighting and practical set design.

The image captures what seems to be a tense moment or discussion, with several people gathered arou…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-12-29 04:00:05

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange
2025-10-21 13:55:32

A new open letter urging the EU to stick to hard climate targets was signed by nearly 2200 international scientists: zenodo.org/records/17399532
Please spread the word widely and send towards your representatives for the upcoming decision.

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2025-12-29 14:19:34

#Shitpost #Shitposting #MaybeBillHicksWasRightAboutAdvertising

The image is a social media post, likely a meme or humorous observation. It features a photo of a display of paper coffee cups with various labels, accompanied by text.

The main focus of the image is the stacked coffee cups. They are arranged in multiple columns. Each cup has a different color and a label with a word or phrase, presumably related to topics for discussion. The labels include "Artificial intelligence," "Marketing & Sales," and "Innovation." There's a sign in front of the cups th…
@MichaelLondonSF@mas.to
2025-10-24 02:25:21

80 people came to the Bartlett
seminar by Joe Penny last night, with 30 more online from as far away as Mexico. Very strong talk and discussion. Read the (free) book by Joe and Amy Horton. Next London Planning seminar 6 November. uclpress.co.uk/book/disrupt...

@Speckdaene@nrw.social
2025-10-21 17:52:39

#Science #ClimateChange Open letter by Scientists: #Climate Neutrality is Europe's Greatest Economic Opportunity

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-12-12 19:03:35

Among all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.

@bogo@hapyyr.com
2025-11-19 11:39:14

I had another training at my office for people interested in joining the magical free world of #OpenStreetMap. Every time I have different discussion from the attendees, even I do the same workshop. This time was not different.The main focus was now around the need to contribute to #OSM since it's not s…

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-10-16 15:06:47

We •also• want forces that pull toward convergence and consesnsus: forces that challenge ideas with contrary evidence — and forces that challenge vile ideas with “ugh, wtf, go away you Nazi turd.”
Yes, the latter too! Filtering is a crucial part of free society. You can’t have a useful discussion about climate change or global trade or time zones if you always set aside plenty of time for dingbats who insist the Earth is flat.
It’s not that people don’t think that! It’s that the idea deserves no more time and attention than that necessary to refute it — because it’s absurd and harmful and counterproductive.
3/

@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-23 21:37:15

The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
fpf.org/blog/the-draghi-dilemm
@…

@eichkat3r@hessen.social
2025-10-14 09:36:32

stelle mir manchmal vor wie ich im publikum einer panel discussion zu industrie 4.0 sitze ans mikrofon trete und frage "wer garantiert mir dass der digitale zwilling nicht böse ist"

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-10-21 06:55:21

You wanted to live in the future. Here's a clip of Whoopi Goldberg drawing the line between those filthy robots and real humans.
#AI #TillyNorwood

Taken from a Tilly Norwood discussion.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-15 13:21:40

An invitation a dutch scientist (Cas Mudde) received from the BBC. Quite sick....framing a discussion like this...
Source: bsky.app/profile/casmudde.bsky

An invitation a dutch scientist (Cas Mudde) received from the BBC
@phpugmrn@phpc.social
2025-10-23 13:32:04

Get ready for a night of PHP learning and networking! On Oct 30th, join us for the PHP Usergroup Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar meetup, featuring @… and @…. Talks, discussion, and community - what more could you ask for?

@design_law@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 17:35:07

The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here:

What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement
Tuesday, October 28, 2025, 12-1 pm
Chicago-Kent College of Law 
Room C50
Join the Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent Program in Intellectual Property Law for a lunchtime panel on skinny labels, patent infringement, and pharmaceutical litigation! The panel will focus on the role of drug labeling in pharmaceutical patent litigation and will include discussion of the pending Supreme Court cert petition in Hikma v. Amarin, on which the Supreme Court ha…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-11-28 23:49:06
Content warning: Discussion of rape in Le Guin's fiction

Just finished "Orsinian Tales" by Ursula K Le Guin. It's... good, but not nearly as anarchist as a lot of her other work. These are short fiction stories weaving mostly through a fictional Eastern European country during the cold war, although some stretch farther back into history.
As typical for Le Guin a bunch of male protagonists, and a few parts that might seem to excuse sexual assault, which I've always found an odd thing in Le Guin's work (the rape in "The Dispossessed" bothered me too; the lack of strong female characters in "A Wizard of Earthsea" also sticks out to me). On the other hand, I've read from an interview that she wrote "Earthsea" absolutely knowing her audience (teenage boys) and intentionally writing something that would sell, which speaks to true mastery of her craft (I think the opening of "The Word for World is Forest" demonstrates what an expert can do wielding an intimate understanding of pulp science fiction tropes with intent, for example).
In any case, she writes sublime similes and sparse characters who nevertheless seem to embody deep wisdom about the human condition. I feel that often enough just a few words or sentences in a story bear forth hefty wisdom while around them Le Guin constructs something like an austere painting in muted tones, full of rich details that one can easily miss.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-11-14 10:30:04

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-googl

@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io
2025-12-17 18:46:09

"NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists"
'"This is like a stick in the spokes of merit review,” says one staffer who requested anonymity because of fear of retaliation. “It devalues discussion of the merits of each proposal.”'
science.org/content/article/ns
h/t @…

@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 08:53:31

Excellent blog by @mobilityhouse.com on #V2G / bidirectional charging standards.
mobilityhouse-energy.com/int_e

@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
2025-10-07 22:31:05

Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list: youtube.com/watch?v=v1Mfirg2-Z
> Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion about the use…

thumbnail titled Every goto in the Linux Kernel with a background made from goto statements.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2025-11-12 06:54:23

Yesterday I found myself on France24, discussing AI policy for 40 mins.
You just never know where your day is going to end up.
Anyway, it was actually a really good discussion as all the panelists tried to push past questions of money and shares to consider society and its values.
youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E

@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
2025-11-18 20:32:40

We're hosting a public Meeting on 27 Nov 19:30 at Harbour Hotel in Galway together with Sinn Féin, Social Democrats, Labour & Independents discussing what is next for the left following on from the presidential election.
All welcome to attend and contribute to the discussion.

What's Next for the Left? public meeting graphic showing the speakers Paul Murphy TD, Cllr. Alan Curran, Cllr. Helen Ogbu, Mark Lohan, and Cllr. Eibhlín Seoighthe. Chaired by John Cunningham.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-10-15 14:51:33

i wrote a couple of rather long comments about dnssec on lobsters lobste.rs/c/bjnikb
sadly the discussion is about a total trashfire of a blog post 🚮

@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza
2025-10-20 10:15:53

I could have written "maybe we rely a bit too much on these giant server farms owned by a single entity?" but I like the more silly and less serious approach to the discussion.
Beside, writing it here I'm just preaching the quire. So we might have some fun meanwhile!

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-10-29 04:43:06

@… Mastodon is probably not ideal for the technical discussion that will arise.
Please consider opening an issue in GitHub. I watch the repo.
Thanks

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-09 15:00:01

A discussion in the immigration office, at the airport:
-- Name?
-- Muhjmatil Ahmed Khan.
-- Sex?
-- Three times a week.
-- I mean: male or female?
-- Doesn't matter. Sometimes even with camel...

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-28 22:00:04

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-23 02:11:00

Scoop: Homan says fentanyl as WMD "at least" merits discussion (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
axios.com/2025/10/22/trump-dhs
memeorandum.com/251022/p173#a2

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-11-19 03:23:02

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-10-27 16:09:10

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
CALLY: I'd like a straight answer.
AVON: Try a straight question.
blake.torpidity.net/m/309/163 B7B4

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This appears to be a scene set aboard the Liberator spacecraft, showing three crew members in what looks like a tense discussion or confrontation. The setting is the ship's flight deck or control room, characterized by its distinctive futuristic interior design with curved walls and control panels visible in the background.

The woman on the left has curly dark hair and is wearing a white top with a dark outer garment. She appears to be gesturing as sh…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-08 20:16:37

Commanders owners anticipate possible stadium name discussion Sunday with President Trump nytimes.com/athletic/6789811/2

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-25 12:00:05

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-11-26 19:46:02

@… thanks, some discussion with William J. Franck at <reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-12 07:56:47

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."

Welcome to the Resistance:
Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid
on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House.
Liberals are voting for Zohran at the ballot box,
fighting ICE in the streets,
and just generally looking favorably upon social democracy.
This discussion puts the moment in historic context and plots out the strategic exigencies and opportunities ahead.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-14 23:56:13

Q&A: Stephanie Ruhle, Katy Tur, Ali Velshi, and Brandy Zadrozny talk about MSNBC's rebrand to MS NOW, extending their work to platforms like YouTube, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-07 15:01:36

Sources: Google Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer clashed with colleagues on internal forums over topics like gender and Gaza; moderators deleted some of his comments (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/go

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-10-26 13:10:20

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
TARRANT: Yes?
AVON: [Indicating Harmon] Him.
HARMON: Why, you ly...
TARRANT: Easy Harmon.
HARMON: They were my friends.
TARRANT: Let him finish.
blake.torpidity.net/m/302/371 B7B3

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This scene appears to be set aboard a spacecraft, likely the Liberator, with its characteristic white and metallic interior design. Three crew members are engaged in what seems to be a tense discussion or confrontation in a corridor or command area of the ship. The characters are wearing the dark, fitted uniforms typical of the series, with visible insignia patches. The lighting and set design create the futuristic, somewhat sterile atmosphere characte…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-10-14 03:23:05

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-11 14:21:46

For any political party with principles around LBGTQ , freedom of speech etc , X, Whatsapp and Facebook are no longer platforms for discussion. Everybody should leave, there are better alternatives. Many people find it difficult however, also in my own party (D66, Netherlands).

@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe
2025-12-24 14:12:16

@… thanks!
It didn't bug me personally (virtual hardware). I can't recall where I first saw a discussion, but it would have been users of NVIDIA on physical hardware.
Maybe something should be noted under <

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-12-24 16:22:06

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
AVON: As soon as I get this linked into our communications set-up, we should be able to read every message that the Federation puts out.
JENNA: Any sign of the interceptors?
blake.torpidity.net/m/106/131 B7B4

Claude Haiku 4.5 describes the image as: "# Scene from Blake's 7

This image captures a tense moment from the science fiction series *Blake's 7*, showing four cast members in what appears to be an interior spacecraft or space station setting. The scene takes place in a utilitarian corridor or control room, identifiable by the metallic walls and industrial design typical of the show's aesthetic.

The four actors are engaged in what seems to be a dramatic confrontation or discussion. One cast mem…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-11-06 03:23:03

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-12-17 00:05:31

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-11 01:00:05

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007). 51083 nodes, 140778 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/slashdot_threads
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-10-17 19:51:02

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-11-19 07:13:24

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
AVON: We, have the gold.
TARRANT: We're well ahead of schedule.
AVON: We are going to need to be. We have to put Scorpio down on Beta Five, unload the gold, and get Scorpio back into orbit. All before they arrive.

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This image shows a scene from the British science fiction series "Blake's 7," featuring five actors gathered around a futuristic control console. The setting appears to be the flight deck of the spacecraft Liberator, with its distinctive curved control panels and technical equipment visible throughout.

The actors are engaged in what appears to be a tactical discussion, gathered around illuminated control surfaces displaying maps or strategic informati…