@pgogl@troet.cafe2025-06-28 05:31:26
Dank Mama "Bavaria" Ilse 🙂
Zum Christopher Street Day in am SamstagAnders als am Bundestag: Am Maximilianeum wird die Regenbogenfahne wehen!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayern-regenbogenfahne-hissen-la…
@anneroth@systemli.social2025-06-27 08:36:34
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-27 21:35:52
On the a16z podcast, Bryan Kim said a16z backed Cluely because speed in marketing and building beats crafting a perfect "artisan" product due to AI competition (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-28 13:30:10
In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-06-26 04:17:00
Donnerstag: Texas mit Recht auf Reparatur, Bayern und Wien für KI-Gigafabriken
Republikaner für Reparaturen Buhlen um KI-Subventionen Streit um Online-Altersprüfungen Apple-Aus für Rosetta 2 Darknet-Admins verhaftet #heiseshow
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-06-28 17:08:44
I wonder when brain-worm Kennedy will start mandating SOMA pills for all Americans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-05-29 14:07:15
It's only Thursday morning and I've already had what's probably the most intense and productive week of writing since the home-stretch of my dissertation almost 15 years ago.
I basically wrote the entire first draft - and not a super drafty draft, at that - of what I'm thinking will be the second chapter in my next book.
I'm feeling great.
#AmWriting
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-05-29 00:32:11
Thank you, Norm! FFS ppl, stop listening to media outlets who are to sell papers to both parties & start using your brain:
Trump is extending numerous roles past the non-employee limit. That was NOT the reason #ElonMusk had an unceremonious departure.
Original post:
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-27 15:50:09
Law enforcement remains perplexed at the support surrounding
Luigi Mangione.
But advocates, both old and new, say they should have seen it coming.
Dec. 4, 2024
Brian Thompson’s shocking early-morning murder on the streets of downtown Manhattan spread like wildfire on social media.
Security footage captured a hooded assailant raising a silenced pistol and firing off rounds at the 50-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO as he walked along West 54th Street towards the Ne…
@arXiv_qbioGN_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-05-28 07:36:37
Genetic Influences on Brain Aging: Analyzing Sex Differences in the UK Biobank using Structural MRI
Karen Ardila, Aashka Mohite, Abdoljalil Addeh, Amanda V. Tyndall, Cindy K. Barha, Quan Long, M. Ethan MacDonald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20344
