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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-15 17:55:39

Once upon a weekend a year ago during Art Basel... (vol. 2)
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11260824

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-14 21:10:37

A profile of Pat McAfee, among the top American sports pundits with millions of followers and an ESPN show, and a sports bro culture dominated by ex-NFL players (Aaron Timms/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/sport/ng-inter

How the rightwing sports bro conquered America
By extension of the Trump-aligned ‘manosphere’, figures such as ESPN’s Pat McAfee have upended US culture with their brash, hypermasculine punditry

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-15 17:53:51

Once upon a weekend a year ago during Art Basel... (cc @… who was also part of this show)
mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11260388

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-15 15:48:15

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown
Budding scholars pursue overseas jobs amid attacks on education and research, prompting fears of an American brain drain

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-13 13:23:47

Green Therapy
(an impression from an early morning hike last July)
#ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Photo of a small bay of a large mountain lake with rick green water, surrounded by lush mixed alpine forest. A small island (also forested) is further into the lake, outside the bay. A dense layer of gray, moody, deep hanging clouds is obstructing the view of the tall peaks in the background.
@jtk@infosec.exchange
2025-07-15 11:38:07

syslog-ng statement on #AI shortly after rsyslog AI announcement: fosstodon.org/@PCzanik/1148562

Peter Czanik (@PCzanik@fosstodon.org)
@jtk@infosec.exchange @John_Livingston@mamot.fr We embrace AI, but it is not replacing humans in critical locations. Humans write the code, as using AI has the risk of introducing non-GPL code into our code base. AI tools analyze our code for security and other problems, but we decide which advice to take seriously. Humans write the documentation, but AI makes it easier to find information in the docs.

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-14 16:28:14

Growing pains: The lives of Ukrainian teenagers at war: benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/growi

Growing pains: The lives of Ukrainian teenagers at war - Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine
The Kyiv Independent asked teens in Ukraine aged between 14 and 17 about their experiences during Russia’s war.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-15 08:52:06

Well, another one bites the dust... Code Climate is shutting down and their new replacement service (only upgrade option) with the fascinating strapline "Code With Vibes, Merge With Confidence" does inspire anything but... 🙄
(Been using CC for years and even though it produced a lot of false positives, it generally was a very useful tool which sent me off on several major refactoring journeys over the years, from which not only I benefited as a maintainer, but all users of my…

Cropped screenshot of a part of the Code Climate dashboard with the message: "🚨🚨 Code Climate Quality will be shut down imminently and replaced with Qlty Cloud. 🚨🚨 Upgrade to Qlty Cloud now"
@privacity@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-14 16:05:23

Data-Driven Pricing: Key Technologies, Business Practices, and Policy Implications
fpf.org/blog/data-driven-prici
@…

Data-Driven Pricing: Key Technologies, Business Practices, and Policy Implications
In the U.S., state lawmakers are seeking to regulate various pricing strategies that fall under the umbrella of "data-driven pricing": practices that use personal and/or non-personal data to continuously inform decisions about the prices and products offered to consumers. Using a variety of terms—including "surveillance," "algorithmic," and "personalized" pricing—legislators are targeting a range of practices that often look different from one another, and carry different benefits and risks.

@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-14 18:47:56

Well that is helpful. NOT! #xcpng

Error message installing XCP-ng
@arXiv_eessSP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-16 08:07:49

Movable-Antenna Array Enhanced Downlink NOMA
Nianzu Li, Peiran Wu, Lipeng Zhu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11438

Movable-Antenna Array Enhanced Downlink NOMA
Movable antenna (MA) has gained increasing attention in the field of wireless communications due to its exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via localized antenna movements. In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for an MA array-enabled base station serving multiple single-antenna users in a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. We aim to maximize the sum rate of all users by jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming and th…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 14:12:35

My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…

Minecraft screenshot of an aerial view of a large mountain valley with a lake and creek meandering through it. Partially forested mountain slopes. Misty/hazy atmosphere.
Minecraft screenshot of an alpine lake surrounded by steep mostly bare rocky mountains. Some low-growth vegetation around the lake. Low hanging clouds and gray sky.
Minecraft screenshot of an high alpine landscape, half-way up a mountain slope and viewing across the valley to a small plateau with low-growth vegetation on the other side. Low hanging clouds.
Top down 2D view of the WorldPainter map (2560x2560 resolution) of the entire generated and painstakingly designed alpine terrain with snow capped mountains, lakes and rivers, talus fields, vegetation zones and transitions etc.

Nekso (@Nekso@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 2 images The new map is officially out! Download here: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/etelande-free-custom-realistic-minecraft-mountain-range-2-5k-x-2-5k-1-21-5/ #minecraft #minecraftmap #terrain

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-14 02:53:43

"Central to the hearing was the Department of Justice’s argument that the president’s determination of a “rebellion” or “danger of rebellion” is not subject to judicial review. Breyer appeared skeptical of that claim."That’s the difference between a Constitutional government and King George,” the judge said."
'Monarchy': Federal judge compares Trump to 'King George' - Alternet.org
alternet.org/monarchy-trump-ki

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-13 06:30:01

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Photo of the three major summits in the Allgäu High Alps with another mountain pass (hiding another valley in between) in the foreground. Some part of the rocks and the pass are in sunlight. The pass is partially rocky with some grassy patches with low-growth mountain pines. The main summits are partially shrouded in moody gray clouds. The telescopic view and depth compression lends the scene and shapes an almost abstract character (intentionally!)...
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-07-05 08:05:31

We are watching the transition to a fascist state in real-time in the US. #fascism

Trump is waging war against the media – and winning
As the president’s attacks are met with a distinct lack of resistance, critics warn that freedom of the press is eroding in plain sight

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-07-13 08:42:03

from my link log —
Reading NFC passport chips in Linux.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/readi
saved 2025-06-25

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to generate an MRZCan you read a cancelled passport?Cryptography and other…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-11 12:34:14

Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video

Short 18second, 270° video panorama of a beautiful large & deep alpine valley from around 800m above. The ground drops off steeply directly next to the narrow path (already on a slope itself). The mountains on the other side are up to ~2700m above sea level and ~1600m above the valley floor with green & rocky slopes, forest in the lower sections. A small road is leading along the last houses towards the end of the valley (the border pass is briefly visible between 12-14 seconds). Semi-cloudy bl…
@jamestdg@mastodon.world
2025-06-04 05:16:20

I did something for #PrideMonth this year!
See more on the NG post: newgrounds.com/art/view/jamest

NG Pride 2025

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-06-04 14:48:10

👇 👇 👇
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed
The senator and twice Democratic presidential hopeful is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to build a new progressive movement. He reveals why he thinks Republicans are scared to speak up and what went wrong for Kamala Harris in 2024

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-06-04 14:48:10

👇 👇 👇
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed
The senator and twice Democratic presidential hopeful is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to build a new progressive movement. He reveals why he thinks Republicans are scared to speak up and what went wrong for Kamala Harris in 2024

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-20 10:10:18

Time to update my offline dictionary app/files.
GoldenDict-ng:
github.com/xiaoyifang/goldendi
Some excellent, freely available *.slob dumps:

GitHub - xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng: The Next Generation GoldenDict
The Next Generation GoldenDict. Contribute to xiaoyifang/goldendict-ng development by creating an account on GitHub.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-29 14:13:35

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs
David Obura believes humans have been using nature for free, and tipping points at some reefs have already passed

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2025-06-26 14:25:33

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

@spamless@mastodon.social
2025-07-08 18:26:49

#justice #crime #law
Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted? | Criminal Cases Review Commission | The Guardian

Kevin Nunn has spent 20 years in prison for a horrifying murder. Was he wrongly convicted?
In a case full of surprising scenarios, the time and place of the murder were never established, and Nunn was found guilty despite a lack of forensic evidence. He is still maintaining his innocence, but will he ever be freed?

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2025-06-10 19:23:14

Halfway to the Peak - Ice Absorption Bands at z ≈ 0.5 with JWST MIRI/MRS: #galaxy is much like dust that is closer to us, helping them understand early galactic activity.

@gevoel@mastodon.green
2025-06-28 08:03:03

Groot stuk in de Guardian over Klimaat in het algemeeen en Climate Tipping Points in het bijzonder, met links naar meer informatie.
theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-11 08:44:23

Bitter Willow & Mountain Pine by the lakeside.
(The beautiful blue backgrounds are the colors of the water)
#NaturePhotography #Photography #BloomScrolling

Close up picture of branches of a small bitter willow tree, with flowers and cotton-like fluff. The picture almost looks like a pattern of a kimono...
Macro photo of a single twig of a dwarf mountain pine with flowers at the tip. The background is a plain azure, the color of the nearby lake, completely out of focus.
@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-06-28 12:42:42

Free speech target or terrorist gang? The inside story of Palestine Action – and the plan to ban it theguardian.com/politics/ng-in

Free speech target or terrorist gang? The inside story of Palestine Action – and the plan to ban it
It started as a group of activists on a budget – now it could be banned under terrorism laws. But were lobbyists behind the proposed ban?

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-14 20:28:39

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
The Ting Tings:
🎵 That's Not My Name
#TheTingTings
djaf.bandcamp.com/track/the-ti
open.spotify.com/track/1i1OuCN

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-07-08 18:58:11

Do you know someone who found their way out of a cult, or did you, and do they or you want to help others find their way out too?
I designed a t-shirt for that:
bit.ly/CultSurvivor-whitewriti

Are you a cult survivor? Do you need a new shirt? You can get one! [two t-shirts, one black with white writing and one pink with black writing, both displaying a design with the text "Cult Survivor" above an illustration of three figures with raised arms and the phrase "(ask me how)" below them] My new design available on Threadless in many colors and styles for adults and children [shocked emoji] bit.ly/CultSurvivor-whitwriting bit.ly/CultSurvivor-blackwriting
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-10 12:37:25

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Photo of a step mountain slopes covered in dense forest, with the fresh green colors of early summer. The extremely hazy blue light is nicely emphasizing each layer/slope. Talus fields higher up, the peaks out of view. In the bottom third, the forest is getting some direct sunlight and is reflecting in the completely still surface of a large mountain lake. The light and entire scene has the character of a classic landscape painting.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-05-27 18:50:32

This is why people are sending donations to Luigi's defense lawyers...
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int

They sued after their medical devices failed. But billionaire bankruptcy moves could mean they get nothing
A Guardian investigation found that legal claims against private-equity-backed healthcare companies are increasingly being delayed or obstructed in bankruptcy court

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-06-27 17:31:18

I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.
(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and

Cast iron historical marker with the following white text on black: Pagdaong sa Nasugbu Sa pook na ito dumaong ang mga sundalo ng Unang Batalyon at 188th Glider Infantry ng 11th Airborne Division sa pangunguna ni Lt. General Robert Eichelberger, 31 Enero 1945. Nagsilbing kabalikat ng hukbong Amerikano ang mga gerilyang Filipino na pinangunahan ni Tenyente Koronel Marcelo Castillo at Koronel Eleuterio L. Adevoso.
Historical marker mounted vertically on a concrete pedestal with a few steps before it and surrounded by a low concrete wall.

Landing at Nasugbu historical marker
NHI historical marker for the landing of the American forces at Nasugbu during World War II

@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 09:25:30

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-10 20:30:55

Kirk Cousins 'moving forward' in role as Falcons backup QB for 2025 season nfl.com/news/kirk-cousins-movi

Kirk Cousins 'moving forward' in role as Falcons backup QB for 2025 season
Kirk Cousins told reporters on Tuesday that he's is "moving forward" in his role as backup QB for the Atlanta Falcons, focusing on supporting Michael Penix Jr. as he preps for his second pro season.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-12 21:35:46

Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
mastodon.energy/@jonshell/1148

Jon Shell (@jonshell@mastodon.energy)
It seems pretty clear that we're well along the technology learning curve for batteries now. The Chinese government's single-minded focus on renewables, mostly solar and some wind, is going to change the global energy landscape in ways we can scarcely imagine. @TheAtlantic@flipboard.com just published a photo essay that captures perfectly the scale of the Chinese march towards energy independence: https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/…

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-10 16:09:44

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gulp:
🎵 Morning Velvet Sky
#NowPlaying #Gulp
gulp1.bandcamp.com/album/morni
open.spotify.com/track/7EN51qx

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-11 20:04:35

DraftKings bettors place wagers to win $2.5M, $1M on Raiders reviewjournal.com/sports/betti

DraftKings bettors place wagers to win $2.5M, $1M on Raiders
A bettor at DraftKings wagered $25,000 to win $2.5 million on the Raiders to win Super Bowl 60 at 100-1 odds in their first season under coach Pete Carroll.

@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-06-08 05:35:16

Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte weddingweiser.de/als-der-weddi

Erinnerungen an ein Kaufhaus: Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte
Die Geschichte dieses für den Wedding so prägenden Hauses erzählt nicht nur …

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-11 16:58:01

Protecting our furry friends: EU sets first ever minimum standards for dog and cat welfare - Talking Europe
france24.com/en/tv-shows/talki

@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl
2025-05-27 17:40:10

“I testify as a conservative and say: ‘What are you guys doing? Have you lost your mind?’” he said. “Some of these bills are attacking battery storage of all things. How dumb is that? It’s sacrificing your core conservative value principles in order to protect the oil and gas industry.”

Trump hates wind power. But these Texas Republicans are embracing it
Wind turbines have become a financial lifeline in rural areas, but state legislators are now targeting them

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 23:59:59

"Everyone should learn to code" worked *so well* for the past 15 years, don't really see anything going wrong here.

Andrew Ng shilling something called the AI Fund.
@Dragofix@veganism.social
2025-06-29 18:58:19

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future theguardian.com/environment/ng

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-07-03 09:48:09

"LLMs are okay at coding, but at scale they build jumbled messes. I’ve scaled back my use of AI when coding and gone back to using my brain and pen and paper."
albertofortin.com/writing/codi

After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain • albertofortin.com
I've been building MVPs and SaaS products for 15 years. Let's work together on your next project.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-07 15:21:22

There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka thi.ng/pixel-flow

Test video (a recent POV hiking clip posted a few days ago) showing optical flow information via color-coded overlaid field vectors. The white arrow/triangle in the center shows the current mean flow direction/magnitude

Naive, lightweight CPU-based dense optical flow implementation

@SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social
2025-06-04 23:29:49

call your state reps and tell them to make transit their highest budget priority today! this tool makes it easy.
in SF, Matt Haney especially needs to hear from you!
movecalifornia.org/state-fundi

Contact Your Representative About Transit Funding — Move California

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-06-30 10:00:09

"Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Climate

Inside a plan to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants
Risk analyst Tony Cox’s work has been backed by the chemical lobby, and some health experts are alarmed

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-30 15:49:14

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that there’s no real MAGA vision at all.
Instead, they write, “the governing ideology of the far right in our age of escalating disasters has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism.”
This is an “end times fascism” that is taking advantage of social and environmental catastrophes
and “simultaneously provoking and planning for them.”

The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-11 21:51:08

Good night with an epic 1994 track/journey by the late Peter Kuhlmann & Richie Hawtin aka Pete Namlook & Plastikman:
29 minutes and 17 seconds of sonic wonder, no beats...
A Million Miles To Earth
youtube.com/watch?v=nVVeVWDLoS

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-09 10:46:30

Missing Ukrainian student found dead in Italy in apparent suicide, authorities say: benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/missi

Missing Ukrainian student found dead in Italy in apparent suicide, authorities say - Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine
An 18-year-old Ukrainian girl who had gone missing in southern Italy was found dead on July 8 in what Italian authorities say may have been a suicide, Ukrainian …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-12 11:06:51

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
michael-hansmeyer.com/white-to

Night time photo of 3D printed tower at the center of a small Swiss mountain village. The tower is made from pale concrete, illuminated in pink LED lights. Steep mountain slopes rising up behind the village

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-08 07:36:53

Launch pad.
(Not really, but that part of the Saalfelder Weg very much makes me feel like wanting to take off... Höhengefühle!)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View of a narrow ridge path going around some rocks in the foreground and leading straight toward a steep drop off in the distance. The slopes are covered in dry yellow/brown grasses. Further back the peaks of the Allgäuer High Alps (e.g. Hochvogel on the RHS) and the Lechtal Alps in the far, far back... Blue hazy sky with a few small clouds.
@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-06-08 05:35:16

Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte weddingweiser.de/als-der-weddi

Erinnerungen an ein Kaufhaus: Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte
Die Geschichte dieses für den Wedding so prägenden Hauses erzählt nicht nur …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-06 11:19:32

#ThrowbackThursday meets #FootpathFriday
(Dolomites, late October 2024)
#LandscapePhotography

27 sec 360 degree camera pan near a small path in a majestic high alpine valley in the Dolomites in autumn 2024. One side (higher up parts) already start looking wintry, the opposite sides still in warm sunlight and the rocks are gray, yellow and peach colored. Big talus fields, some overgrown with dwarf mountain pines and larches in bright rusty orange.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-10 12:05:39

Drake Maye 'starting to really find a stride' in Patriots' new offense nfl.com/news/drake-maye-starti

Drake Maye 'starting to really find a stride' in Patriots' new offense
New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is looking more comfortable in Josh McDaniels' offense as the offseason progresses. 

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-10 03:55:32

Saw this on Reddit; Russia offers asylum, reckon he'll go elsewhere?
Musk selling AI technology to China, while pulling out of America - Google Search
google.com/search?q=Musk selli

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-07-05 06:18:17

Low-key judging a FB friend na halos araw-araw kung mag-post ng dasal pero meron ring mga post na may hashtag na “BringPRRDHome”. 👀

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-04 05:46:13

It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
…

‘Saying Trump is dangerous is not enough’: Bernie Sanders on Biden, billionaires – and why the Democrats failed
The senator and twice Democratic presidential hopeful is on tour with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trying to build a new progressive movement. He reveals why he thinks Republicans are scared to speak up and what went wrong for Kamala Harris in 2024

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-03 13:33:10

#ReleaseTuesday — New version of thi.ng/tsne with ~15-20% better performance[1] due to avoiding repeated internal allocations and skipping gradient updates where unnecessary...
[1] Benchmarked …

Highly configurable t-SNE implementation for arbitrary dimensions

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-02 10:46:34

#ReleaseMonday — New version (v0.27.0) of thi.ng/genart-api, a platform-independent extensible API for browser-based computational/algorithmic/generative art projects:
This version feature…

thi.ng/genart-api

@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-08 01:58:11

Progress today. I got ansible working with the vmware inventory, and managed to solve the old (v8) machines complaints about python. New update script completed that takes snapshots, checks RHEL or Debian base and does update/reboot. All in all, successful day. And during all that, I got XCP-ng working. No VMs on it yet, but the system is ready for messing with finally. #ansible

@weddingweiser@berlin.social
2025-06-08 05:30:03

Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte weddingweiser.de/als-der-weddi

Erinnerungen an ein Kaufhaus: Als der Wedding bei Bilka einkaufte
Die Geschichte dieses für den Wedding so prägenden Hauses erzählt nicht nur …

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-08 23:32:39

Trump is spiraling. We face the consequences. Where are the other branches?
lawdork.com/p/trump-is-spirali

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-02 13:02:41

Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

Short video of a deep cyan/blue mountain creek flowing through some rocky narrows, surrounded by lush forest
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-06 13:30:11

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." — T.S. Eliot
(No better way to summarize my own research of the past four months...)
#QuoteOfTheDay

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-05-31 23:35:49

New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

‘Empathy is a kind of strength’: Jacinda Ardern on kind leadership, public rage and life in Trump’s America
Young, progressive and relatable, the former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power, she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, she explains why

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-01 16:18:47

Last night at the end of the valley, marking & celebrating several occasions/milestones in one of our fave places...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

View of a large cirque with a 400m tall waterfall and even taller vertical rock walls going up on either side. The valley floor and slopes are covered in lush green meadows and forest. Blurred spring flowers in the foreground. Overcast gray sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-08 08:40:47

One of the most chill, touching and positive 303 & 707 slow acid beauties ever made (also re-upping because yesterday was 7/7 day) 😍
Roy Of The Ravers - Emotinium (2015)
soundcloud.com/acidwaxa/roy-of

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-08 08:35:19

RIP Bill Atkinson — Thank you for everything!

An old B&W portrait of Bill Atkinson dithered into a 1bit image using his own Atkinson dithering algorithm.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 13:01:26

Various thi.ng updates, bug fixes, additions and new version of github.com/thi-ng/zig-thing/ — now fully compatible with current Zig v0.14.1
On a more diary/devlog note: I also updated several of my Zig based work-in-progress art pieces to the latest version (some of them not touc…

Still image/poster of DANZA, an abstract, generative physics-based realtime animation. The composition shows multiple overlapping patches of cloth sims, each represented by tens of thousands of small dots, each patch in different colors.
Still image of S-TRACE, an abstract generative realtime animation based on omnidirectional sphere tracing and multiple agents exploring the constantly changing positive & negative spaces

GitHub - thi-ng/zig-thing: Small collection of data types/structures, utilities & open-learning with Zig
Small collection of data types/structures, utilities & open-learning with Zig - thi-ng/zig-thing

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-06 02:06:39

"Devastating": Mahmoud Khalil describes missing the birth of his son in new legal filings | Salon.com
salon.com/2025/06/05/devastati

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-06 12:58:28

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

EHER (@eher@phpc.social)
My daughter, during a tough moment, said something that really stuck with me: "I'm not a machine. I can make mistakes. Even the printer, which is a machine, doesn't always work." She's five. And honestly? She's right.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-27 14:10:40

Super busy week, but here's some #FootpathFriday for you (from our amazing sunset solstice hike last Saturday), along a ridge which is part of the DE/AT borderline... 😍
#LandscapePhotography

Short 30 second POV video of the last few meters of rocky path before a steep 400m precipice. The camera pans around revealing stunning rock cliffs, mountains in warm alpenglow and beautiful forest.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-25 06:11:46

Meadow magic.
(absolute highlight on yesterday's evening hike)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Close up of a beautiful mountain meadow in full bloom, with wild flowers in yellows, violets, purples, whites, orange, pink...
A more zoomed portrait view of the same meadow with forest and mountain slopes in the background, all in fresh lush greens.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-29 07:22:57

Yesterday near Rossgundscharte, Allgäu High Alps
(Longest, most stunning & varied tour in a while, traversing Warmatsgundtal into Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley — 21km, incl. 1450 hm grueling descent over loose gravel...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

A narrow path on a steep mountain slope is leading into the void/sky. Below and next to the path is a large tooth-like rock cliff (unnamed summit). In the background the grandiose peaks on the eastern side of the Rappenalptal with green steep slopes further down. Semi-cloudy blue sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-04 13:51:27

Hours of hiking at high elevation is the best complement/remedy for hours of coding... Last Saturday we were on the mountain for 9 hours (21km hike), and here's a short POV video from near the highest point, near the pass into Rappenalptal, 900m above the valley... It was a beautiful varied path through many different terrains with some exposed sections and grand vistas, even though the last part of the 1400m descent wasn't anything fun...
Also, between 20 and 30 seconds, the …

50 second POV video of a person walking on a narrow high alpine path, looking into the beautiful deep valley below and the tall mountains on the opposite side, with steep green slopes and rocky cliffs. Next to the path is a standalone, tooth-shaped rock, in perpendicular orientation to the main slope & path direction.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-05 08:48:40

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-21 12:57:42

#ReleaseWednesday — Extracted & extended the LISP-like DSL from an existing #ThingUmbrella example[1] as new small package for better/direct re-use in other projects:

Screenshot excerpt from the project readme, listing basic core language features...
Screenshot excerpt from the project readme, listing basic core language features...

Lightweight, extensible, interpreted Lisp-style DSL for embedding in other projects

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-28 11:45:43

#WaterfallWednesday, pretty much a year ago...
(Coincidentally there on the same day as @…... but didn't know)
#LandscapePhotography

Short close-up video of a small, but intensely flowing waterfall in a canyon, filmed directly from the narrow path going next to it. Turquoise water, spray, the camera initially following the flow, then panning upwards to show the depth of the canyon...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-03 16:03:56

ETH Zurich published a fact sheet with their current insights about the devastating collapse of the Birch glacier and the destruction of Blatten last week...
Article (German):
ethz.ch/de/news-und-veranstalt

Was ETH-Gletscherforschende über den Abbruch des Birchgletschers wissen
Am Mittwoch brach der Birchgletscher unter der Last von Fels- und Schuttmassen ein, die von Felsstürzen am Kleinen Nesthorn stammten. Nach einer Begehung vor Ort erläutern ETH-Forschende die Hintergründe des Abbruchs, der Blatten verschüttete, in einem aktualisierten Faktenblatt.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-03 14:34:27

Hard to describe that one, but give it time to develop... some Latin influences, warm Moog bass, generally loose, understated, slightly melancholic, minimal...
Map.ache - Loosing Is Not An Option (2018)
youtube.com/watch?v=miRAyXQ1DX

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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-20 11:46:36

PSA: Last night, after another DM asking when I'd finally join BlueSky, I set up a @… bridge, so in theory people should be able to see my posts there as well now:
bs…

Karsten Schmidt (@toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy)
Intoxicating, non-toxic! Interdisciplinary open so(u)rcery, computational art/craft/design, landscape photography, electronic music, education. See pinned toots […] [bridged from https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-20 11:46:36

PSA: Last night, after another DM asking when I'd finally join BlueSky, I set up a @… bridge, so in theory people should be able to see my posts there as well now:
bs…

Karsten Schmidt (@toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy)
Intoxicating, non-toxic! Interdisciplinary open so(u)rcery, computational art/craft/design, landscape photography, electronic music, education. See pinned toots […] [bridged from https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-23 17:53:16

To cross or not to cross, that's the question...
(One of the more intense streams — the outflow of a glacier — I had to cross in my life, that bridge looks a lot safer that it was IRL...)
#FootpathFriday #Hiking

Short 12 second video of a small foot bridge leading over an intensely/ferociously flowing glacier creek. The camera pans from upstream to downstream, later showing the creek disappearing into a canyon section (not visible)... bright hazy day/light
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-29 15:09:26

Thanks to a book recommendation by @… [1], I went on a tangent learning more about the absolutely fascinating history and workings of core memory (and core rope memory, its read-only version). Some of this also very interesting for #PermaComputing and …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-26 10:01:16

The King's Lodge
(Not all kings built hunting lodges, even fewer built them on precipices like these, but some of Bavaria's last ones did and not just in one place... Not endorsing kings in any form, just admiring their choice of locations.... btw. the picture only shows the top half of the drop)
#MountainMonday

Photo of a tall rock needle/cliff in the warm evening sun. On another nearby rock on the left, below the summit, a part of an old hunting lodge with wooden terrace, which has been built directly at the precipice of a 500m drop.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-21 11:02:17

Why use hyperlinking if you can create videos recording screens recording screens, just to be able to document other people documenting your own work. The modern internet is just sooo amazing!
#Actiniaria #GenerativeArt

30 second video recording of an iPhone showing an Instagram story of my art piece "Actiniaria" displayed on a large Layer Canvas LED screen with the following text overlaid: "Look at this beauty. Infinite piece by @thing_umbrella running in real time on @meetlayer"
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-27 18:41:22

A great summary of what's happening above #Blatten, incl. lots of illustrations and general glacial geology background knowledge...
youtube.com/watch?v=rIc9OeZ2Tq

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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-21 10:35:55

PSA for people using #Ziglang via the #ASDF version manager: The "official" Zig plugin seems to be unmaintained and doesn't support the new URL format of recent Zig releases, but there's a new fork of the plugin which does. You can switch to it via:
```
asdf plugin remove z…

GitHub - thaolt/asdf-zig: zig plugin for asdf version manager https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
zig plugin for asdf version manager https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf - thaolt/asdf-zig

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 07:00:03

Summer solstice 2025
Short (5km), but absolutely stunning hike with my son to make the most of the solstice evening, with some grand views, sunset, radler and an adventurous T3 path along a steep 400m cliff drop-off... Back at the trailhead after 10pm, still not dark. Summer evenings...
#SilentSunday

Photo of an alpine ridge line with steep rocky cliffs and lush pine forest. The sun is almost dipping behind the mountains in the back and the sky is illuminated in golden glow.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-22 08:44:25

Just found the video again of an old experiment from 2009, showcasing the volumetric voxel brush and mesh conversion of my Java geometry libraries. Even though it's very different, but as for the overall aesthetics, this is the first thing I thought of when seeing the White Tower...
mastodon.thi.ng…

16 second animation of a volumetric 3D model growing via a generative process, using multiple sine-wave driven volumetric brushes depositing material to form an undulating interleaving tower-like structure.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-26 13:08:10

We shape our X and then our X shape us.
vs
Our X shape us and then we shape our X.
(Where X ∊ { biases, beliefs, connections, data, emotions, environments, experiences, fears, languages, music, nature, networks, time, tools... })

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-21 16:22:40

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-21 16:22:40

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-20 11:00:33

Slow, deep, dubby, sparse & spacious, evolving...
Mown - Haze (2025)
#Music4Coding

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-20 11:00:33

Slow, deep, dubby, sparse & spacious, evolving...
Mown - Haze (2025)
#Music4Coding

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-05-24 12:45:35

Dominik Eulberg's beautiful ambient soundtrack/album for "Eintauchen ins tiefe Blau" (Diving into the deep blue), a new nature documentary about lakes, which will premiere at public German broadcaster ARD on June 2 (20:15)
soundcloud.com/dominik-eulberg

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-07-06 10:34:45

Mountain summer
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps

View from above the tree line back down over a beautiful side valley with a central meadow surrounded by slopes covered in dense forest and low-growth mountain pines. Mountain flowers in the foreground. In the background a larger valley and other mountain ranges. Blue sky with clouds moving in from the back.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-01 07:42:10

Summer time is upon us.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps …

View across a large lake with milky blue water in the forested foothills of the Alps, low hanging clouds and hazy silhouettes of larger mountains (Ammergauer Alps) in the background. The view is framed by out-of-focus branches & leaves near the lake shore. Bright pale hazy sky with small clouds.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-06-23 12:05:42

#DebugArt #STRATA #GenerativeArt #AlgorthmicArt

16 sec animation of a Barricellian cellular automata system with different configurations, rules & colors. Each short segment is exhibiting complex morphing patterns of colored regions and chaotic pixel patterns forming & re-forming...