@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-08 02:45:09
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-08 02:45:09
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-07 22:35:08
Married this lovely person 15 years ago! What a wonderful journey it's been. And now we have a little buddy to join us.
Went for a date at Campbell's Tavern for pizza and music.
@compfu@mograph.social2025-09-07 05:50:38
More info on the OK Go music video made with #Blender and facial capture:
https://social.coop/@cwebber/115159149329871264
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-10-08 21:58:51
I haven't been able to access https://0pointer.net since yesterday. I think the service is down. Am I the only one? @…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-07 09:25:24
My least favourite and most infuriating app experience?
Having a page load, see a button I want to click, right before I click the button, the app loads in more bits of information or another button and knocks the one I wanted to press to a different location, thus having me click the wrong one.
@laura@social.coop2025-10-05 16:06:09
Anyone else around #Wirral #Liverpool going to see the Power Station film on Tuesday? https://power.film/ "Two artists in Waltham…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-08-06 16:03:09
This never would have happened if the Constitution was on the blockchain. (...and sybil attacks weren't possible, etc)
https://social.coop/@cwebber/114981633667255962
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-06 03:37:50
I bet I'm the only person in #Japan who learned about what #OnePiece is not from anyone here, but from following news about #Indonesia and that symbol being used as a sign of protest against
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-07 17:59:16
SIMPLETON: Yes, this will crash the economy because wrong math = lost money
EXPERT: No, this won’t crash the economy because people screw up even without AI, business operations are already riddled with ridiculous errors, and human systems have grown resilient to pervasive local failure
WISE SAGE: Yes, this will crash the economy because the economy is currently propped up by gullible investors •believing• this BS is real actual magic, and if they find out it it sucks like normal, the bubble pops
From @…: https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-10-06 22:24:44
Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?
So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel will cause any harm!
https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-06 11:47:33
I wish you could filter out reviews from westerners on #HappyCow or other review sites for #Asian #vegetarian food.
It's a generalization, but can't trust most of them them. Too many mediocre, overp…
@laura@social.coop2025-08-05 07:05:55
opportunity for a hardware/mech/process engineer to join a #ClimateTech startup, in Falmouth UK. The team are excellent folk, working on a neglected problem (capturing SF6 emissions from substations) to make a properly net zero grid. Might suit a #maker type who likes living by the sea?
@mlncn@social.coop2025-08-03 20:17:42
With apocalyptic haze from wildfire smoke descending on many parts of North America now a frequent occurrence, we should have experts letting us know if we should expect a thick and hearty smoke with aromatic notes of cedar, a thin haze redolent of classic LA smog, the lung-coating miasma of fire imbued with Canadian tar sands, or a literal tire fire.
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2025-10-02 15:47:01
Random quick rough mock I made this morning, but only posting it now @… https://social.coop/@scottjenson/115300084480889349
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-05 00:55:33
East and #SoutheastAsia have the most populated time zones in the world.
Yet most so-called "global" #civilsociety calls or meetings are set at times that are incredibly inconvenient for those of us here. And, as a result, you see so few
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-08-04 12:52:59
J'ai découvert la spécification "Brand Indicators for Message Identification"
#TIL
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-05 11:48:57
Officially moved to TIDAL from Spotify now. Fuck Spotify.
@mlncn@social.coop2025-08-03 18:17:03
One place where you CAN donate to support people in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren
@ewon_c@social.linux.pizza2025-07-31 23:58:45
Sad but funny😆
From: @…
https://social.coop/@afewbugs/114929620840207383
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social2025-08-30 21:17:55
My son’s chickens have a box fan in their coop. One of the Cochins, Luella, has recently taken to yelling into it bc it makes her voice sound funny, and she is SO fascinated by that. 😂🤣😭 #ILoveChickens #ChickensOfMastodon
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-30 17:56:35
Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.
@mlncn@social.coop2025-08-03 18:03:31
Heartbreaking recital of geopolitical facts by a person directly affected.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-shrinking-every-day/50837
BDS is the minimum, the baseline, for what all of us need to do now
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-09-03 10:57:42
J'ai découvert l'outil de build Javascript avec cache remote nommé "nx"
#TIL
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-05 19:00:48
"Co-op to power 140 supermarkets with Welsh wind energy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #COOP #Energy
@matematico314@social.linux.pizza2025-09-19 15:17:56
#LB Este é um meme antigo, mas jš pode ser considerado um clšssico rs.
https://social.coop/@Eliot_L/115228765617541844
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-02 01:58:48
The #Japan #media #cooperative, @…, I've been working with for 2 y…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-01 19:51:10
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-08-26 20:03:47
@camerontw@social.coop2025-08-11 09:57:16
See the man without a head? Using an AI image is a way of broadcasting that you are careless
@mlncn@social.coop2025-08-03 17:41:50
We know rich people in general pick fascism every time but the naming of names is not done enough; this is about a couple aristocrats in Germany and i hope somebody does the same tracking for the (unofficial) aristocracy in the US
https://electronicintifada.net/bl…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-10 10:25:46
Petition to rename the United Kingdom “Pound Store United States”. https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115003927188139242
@trochee@dair-community.social2025-08-20 03:56:27
@ncoca@social.coop2025-10-01 11:33:27
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-01 20:54:02
Are you interested in Worker Cooperative game dev studios?
What about building your own someday with fellow collaborators?
Then pop along to this online panel discussion from game devs in cooperatives doing just that! Details below 👇
https://social.coop/@denmanrooke/114955247…
@mlncn@social.coop2025-10-02 00:45:53
Fasting for #YomKippur thinking only of people starving in Gaza, people facing fascist brownshirt style attacks in the West Bank, and people suffering in all ways from the multifaceted onslaught of #Israel's genocide against Palestinians, going on three years into its US-funded-and-fueled hyper-militar…
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-09-01 14:20:22
Quel impact Tailwind CSS a-t-il sur la taille des pages d'un site de contenu ?
#WebDev
@ncoca@social.coop2025-10-02 08:15:19
What happens when stakeholders along the #supply chain join forces to eliminate #genderbased violence? Find out how investigations by an NGO led to a unique labor impact story in my latest feature for Triple Pundit.
@ncoca@social.coop2025-10-02 02:25:59
Had a chat with our local cafe owner, who, it turns out, regularly goes to #Indonesia to source coffee and loves it. She showed us the Luwak Coffee she has, but only offers to regular customers - not on the menu!
I've finally figured out the mystery of who in #Japan is drinking
@laura@social.coop2025-08-23 20:07:07
Laggy #CommonplaceBook notes: https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/08/commonplace-book-climate-slop-defence.html on climate, slop, defence, and more
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-25 17:46:40
@mlncn@social.coop2025-10-02 00:10:48
a lot of Frey signs illegally in public boulevards—and at abandoned houses—in #Minneapolis
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-31 09:12:30
Équivalence de l'empreinte carbone de l'entrainement de Mistral Large 2
#LLM
@ncoca@social.coop2025-10-02 00:04:29
Jane Goodall was one of perhaps a handful of people I've ever heard speak, like the Dalai Lama, who you just feel their presence and aura as someone truly special.
Truly was glad I got to be around her in person, once - something I won't ever forget. 🙏.
https://
@laura@social.coop2025-09-22 07:08:15
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-23 22:47:52
The absolute scale of the Cologne Cathedral is impossible to convey in pictures. There's not many buildings in the world that have filled me with such awe.
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-31 05:46:13
This "international" #climate #NGO seems to have its entire senior management consist of a handful of white people located not just in #Australia, but within a single state!
How can this be possible i…
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-30 02:18:16
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-20 20:07:16
Gamescom
@ncoca@social.coop2025-07-30 01:33:40
One thing that's great about living in #Japan is that it's one of the few countries where the main hard-left party both has some power, and is critical of the pseudo-#fascist, ethno-#nationalist party tha…
@mlncn@social.coop2025-07-24 17:54:27
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-26 13:12:45
Do any game devs in my network here live and work in Donegal?
I have some other game devs I know looking to connect up with other game devs locally. Give me a shout!
#IrishGameDev #GameDev #IndieDev
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-08-26 19:53:23
Je viens de finir « POC serveur Git HTTP avec exécution de scripts au push »
#Git #SvelteKit
@mlncn@social.coop2025-09-26 19:02:20
Submitting a potential talk to #DrupalConChicago (at the deadline, as is tradition) and it requires i acknowledge "that all accepted sessions will be presented in person, on-site in Atlanta"
The logistics are going to be interesting.
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-26 07:09:53
Anyone have any idea if https://Meet.Coop is still being maintained? Maybe someone at @… knows?
It had been working fine, but today, suddenly a few people couldn't get audio to work.…
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-08-29 08:28:21
@… félicitation pour l'idée et l'exécution de l'association "L'Échappée Belle".
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-01-20_1028/
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-23 20:45:44
Köln old town
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-27 18:03:58
I'll go a step further - won't buy #Starbucks coffee ever, as I haven't for at least 5 years now (and even then, when I was forced to during a business meeting)
#Strike #Labor
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-28 17:40:18
I hear they're finally bringing quote toots!
Thank goodness. I've always enjoyed this method of engaging with and promoting others.
And I also respect those who decide to turn the feature off for themselves. That's valid too.
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-24 21:16:10
@ncoca@social.coop2025-07-24 20:33:31
One thing I liked about #Greenpeace was that they always made an effort to include social factors in their reports or research, and not have it just be about #climate or #environment.
Yet, in this rep…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-20 10:41:15
If you're in or around Galway tomorrow, check this out!
From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…
@ncoca@social.coop2025-07-18 00:58:14
Interesting findings on the #sustainability backlash, but the choice to include #Turkey as Asia-Pacific and not either #MiddleEast or
@mlncn@social.coop2025-09-17 04:35:12
If there's a shooting in your apartment building, would you feel helped if your building were razed in response? When there's a shooting a block from a police station, do we destroy the whole block including the police station? Whatever Frey's excuse of the moment for destroying the makeshift homes of unhoused people, it is collective punishment— of the victims no less.
(Comment posted on @…
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-09-22 13:11:54
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-09-13 11:34:34
Ceist agus Craic for Catherine!
Table Quiz this Wed Sept 17th at Massimo Bar Galway, doors at 7pm
€10 per person.
All funds raised will go directly to the Catherine Connolly TD Presidential Campaign.
Link to register - bígí linn!
https://shorturl.at/VOItx
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-26 01:33:27
Haven't booted into #Windows on either of my laptops in 2 months. At this point, is it even worth keeping it on there?
@ncoca@social.coop2025-07-27 03:43:31
Really sad news from #Myanmar. Ma Wutt Yee Aung sounds like a true hero. We've lost another bright, young leader, someone we should have empowered and elevated, not ignored and allowed an oppresive regime to murder.
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-10 10:17:45
I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-17 13:11:27
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-20 10:59:02
#jaidecouvert ContainerLab qui permet de simuler des infra réseaux
#TIL
@ncoca@social.coop2025-07-19 03:14:14
@mlncn@social.coop2025-07-21 00:20:36
Content warning: uspol, trivial
How is it possible that every media source and Democratic politician (that e-mailed me, anyway) used Trump's propaganda term for the particularly vile piece of legislation that did in fact pass (despite arguably reaching the threshold of attention where popular opinion can still influence policy, if people had had a clear understanding of what it did)? Obvious alternatives like "Brutal Billionaire's Bill" were right there for the taking.
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-08-25 12:58:25
Retour d'expérience de mes posts LinkedIn et mes canaux d'acquisition de mission Freelance
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-08-24_1441/zen/
Au menu :
- Bien que ces messages LinkedIn aient généré 78 réactions, 23 reposts et 7163 impressions cumulées, ils ne m'on…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-23 14:21:46
Ooooh, free and open source Substance Designer alternative... Material Maker! I'll have to check this out in more detail at a later date. #FOSS
@mlncn@social.coop2025-09-19 00:40:18
"Our imposed starvation has killed what was left of this world’s humanity."
"The song that is sung cannot be killed."
https://electronicintifada.net/content/what-sung-cannot-be-killed/50942
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-04 02:25:45
Perhaps of interest as #Prabowo visits #China, since he came into power, I've noticed a huge uptick in #Chinese #propaganda
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-25 10:49:39
My Art Direction advice?
White = Warm off white
Black = Dark grey with a hint of warm tones.
👌
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-08-20 07:04:44
Je viens de donner 30 € pour une seconde saison de l'émission "Argent Magique"
https://www.ulule.com/argentmagique/
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-18 12:51:05
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-25 08:35:38
Let the post Gamescom sickness begin!
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-09-19 15:28:38
J'ai découvert Agents.md
#LLM #CodeAssistant …
@mlncn@social.coop2025-07-18 16:47:03
it annoys me when news headlines refer to a government agency as taking a horrific action when it is clearly the work of the unconstitutional attackers of that agency, like saying the "EPA" is shredding environmental protections, but without an institutional opposition that is willing to defend these agencies and hire the ousted administrators to speak on behalf of the "real" agency, i don't see why i should care anymore.
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-25 10:37:45
Hey 2D artists (based in Ireland preferred)! JOB ALERT! 📣 Especially those who do cozy cartoony or pixel art.
I have some game dev friends here in Galway from Psychic Software (Just released Necromancer's Tale) that are looking for an artist to team up for their next game.
Send your portfolio over to psychicsoftware@gmail.com
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-15 18:18:24
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-25 19:50:42
Another artist JOB ALERT! 📣 This time for a Game Artist Generalist. (must be based in Ireland).
My friends at Biscuit Factory Games are looking for someone who can do a bit of concept work & 3D test-models to try & validate an art direction too.
Send portfolio to community@biscuitfactorygames.com
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-20 11:00:47
On m'a partagé l'expression que je trouve intéressante « Vérité partagée »
#Organisation
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-20 11:00:06
On m'a partagé l'expression amusante « C'est Š nous de ne pas le faire ! »
#ProjectManagement
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-12 10:09:53
Free Palestine
#gamestransformed2025
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-18 00:42:41
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-08-14 11:05:30
Ahhhh! Our #BattleOfTarot prototype demo we're building for Gamescom is coming along so nicely!
Absolutely killer programming work by the one and only @…
and fantastic writing by our narrative designer Len Cunningham as well (
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-18 20:02:16
@stephane_klein@social.coop2025-07-17 14:40:06
Comment perdre deux heures bêtement avec #Requests #python et sa fonction Content-Type multipart :
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-07-17_15
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-11 07:52:18
Won't get as much attention as the #murder of someone I'd never heard off in #Utah, but this suspicious killing of Vian Ruma, a young #environmental
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-18 04:29:01
At a conference yesterday, one speaker mentioned that he naturalized as a #Singapore citizen for "personal reasons" and gave up his US passport.
Sounded strange, so I looked him up and, of course, those "reasons" were tax evasion.
Wished I could have asked him what he thinks about all the migrant workers in Singapore who, despite paying taxes and building the econo…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2025-07-10 12:39:54
Heading to London... and I'm am going to melt.
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-15 23:40:19
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-02 04:55:39
#Gig #workers are playing a central role in #Indonesia's #protests. It's no accident - there's been innovativ…
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-11 07:27:42
#Japan is on the front page of the @… and of course, it's a story about #convenience #stores
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-15 18:03:07
@ncoca@social.coop2025-08-11 23:16:50
After two days offline, coming back online and seeing the news about the targeted assassination of the #AlJazeera journalists by #Israel was a tough, painful return to reality.
So many crimes, no accountability.