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So, #chopin dropped this new waltz, and it's pretty dramatic. Nice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfse_wSUmw&t=67s

I cannot stop posting. It's what I was meant for.

Chinese OW models laundering US LMs, themselves laundering GPL code. There is some irony to it.

[ July 9, 2025 - July 11, 2025] Conference or similar: Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism” https://philevents.org/event/show/127314

Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism”
The aim of this workshop is to schematize what we might call Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism.” The name “Walter Benjamin” may not necessarily call to mind an explicit theorization of fascism. While Benjamin is well-loved for his aesthetic theory, his critique of historical and technical “progress,” and his theorization of juridical violence, none of these necessarily indicate a unifying or even detailed theory of fascism such as we find in the work of his contemporaries, such…

Echo de menos a los amantes de la naturaleza y contenido de montaña por aquí 😭 ¿Alguna cuenta interesante para seguir aquí o en #Pixelfed? O en #Loops
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I have used excellent niche services this year:
• https://elicit.com: scientific publications summarisation using a LLM (don’t know if trained on or RAG). It cites them and I didn’t experienced hallucinations
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Thank you, @… . It's been decades since I thought about DOS Shell.
Our first PC came with MS-DOS 5 and also Windows 3.1. So even then DOS Shell seemed quaint and antiquated. But in a fun way.
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@… Can I interest you in /dev/null As A Service?
For the low price of $5.99/month, you can send me a link to anything, and I will lose it for you!
This is a write-only service.

@… Very cool!
I agree. This isn’t the 1980s any more, and we’re past the point that one person can build an operating system. And this is a large chunk of an operating system.
This is why I’m not even trying. But if people were willing to try with me, and I trusted them, I might change my mind.
(Unrelated: I am working on another pair of “…