@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaBehavioural surplus is the extra information that can be processed when we interact with an app, website or device, in order to be repackaged and sold as accurate predictions about us.
https://theprivacydad.com/what-is-behavioural-surplus/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialIt's not over. Join the fight this Monday, June 16th @ 5PM PT.
✅ No Kings: What's Next in the Fight? (Attendee Debrief Call)
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/798722/?utm_source=indivisible
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
@cdarwin@c.imNetanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan
@geant@mstdn.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow to bet Miami Dolphins in 2025: Super Bowl odds, win total, props, best bets and what you need to know
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPadilla warns about what happens "when cameras are not there" after removal from Noem event (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/padilla-warns-about-what-happens-when-cameras-are-not-there-after-removal-from-noem-event/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p69#a250615p69
@salrandolph@zirk.usAfter weeks of writing from news and social media, I decided to turn towards art for a while. I thought I’d be able to make an easy trade: from fresh hells to fresh heavens.
#Art
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialhey quick question
what drugs were the RMII people on
multiplexing a fully asynchronous signal (CRS) with a fully synchronous signal (DV) to get this weird... half-asynchronous-half-synchronous thing where *some* rising edges are referenced to REF_CLK and some are not, but all falling edges are
what is wrong with them? and more importantly how the fuck are you supposed to use it in a MAC??
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@frankel@mastodon.top
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What is cosh(List(Bool))? Or beyond algebra: analysis of data types.
https://nikitadanilov.github.io/aodt.html
saved 2025-04-23
@trochee@dair-community.socialWhat a great write-up of the bananas ideology currently running ( and ruining ) the world
The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-pol…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…
@Jyoti@mas.toSooo... I was in town and this guy looked at me funny. I'm pretty sure he was planning something.
So I shot him dead.
What do you mean I was the aggressor? What do you mean 'murder is illegal, you striking first is not self defence?'
He was blatantly shifty.
^ THE ENTIRE WESTERN MEDIA TODAY
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
New Radicals:
🎵 You Get What You Give
#NowPlaying #NewRadicals
https://garrisdj.bandcamp.com/track/new-radicals-you-get-what-you-give-garris-beat-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Cwsd5xI8CajJz795oy4XF
@paulomalley@c.imEver hidden Excel rows or columns only to forget what's tucked away? 🤔 Stop playing hide-and-seek with your data! 🙈
Discover how Excel's grouping feature lets you easily collapse and expand sections. No more guessing or endless scrolling to find what you need. 👁️ Bring clarity and control back to your spreadsheets. ✨
Check out my latest video on how to effectively use this often overlooked feature of Excel:
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaWikipedia article states
> was born [...] in what was then West Germany.
I am happy that this user decided to add a topic to the talk page rather than edit the main article:
> It's still West Germany, so the addition of "what was then" is misleading. Well, it's factually wrong.
#Wikipedia
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usDid you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhat do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
https://mastodon.social/@DerFlanhop/114687128725758582
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhat do parade attendance and hands have in common besides size?
https://mastodon.social/@DerFlanhop/114687128725758582
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat was 1946 and close to eight decades of settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and now genocide, asshole?
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@raiders@darktundra.xyzOffseason Program Ends For Las Vegas Raiders, Pete Carroll – What We Learned https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/15/offseason-program-ends-pete-carroll-las-vegas-raiders/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in August https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-august
@lukem@hachyderm.ioIt bothers me big time that many Reddit threads are auto-translated to my native language and indexed in search engines.
As someone who frequently searches for highly local knowledge, I find this annoying.
If I search anything in my native language, it usually means "I want to know what my fellows think", and not "I want to read what English-speaking community says, just translated to Polish".
Outside of a few specific exceptions, Reddit in general is such a waste of time and data.
@kazys@mastodon.socialSunday reading. A long-form essay on the Rise and Fall of the Author. I won't hide the link today so it'll be shadow-banned across social media. Well, what else is new? Except that this should either be a book or heavily edited down. So it goes.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_project
The Rise and Fall of the Author - varnelis.net What we all really want to know: does this idea have legs?
The Library of All Plagiarized Books, Google Imagefx, 2025In Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” Menard undertakes what appears to be an impossible, even insane, task: recreating, word for word, “the ninth and thirty-eighth chapters of the first part of Don Quixote and a fragment of chapter twenty-two.” Menard ... 
@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-15 15:54:33
@rberger@hachyderm.io"What comes next? Perhaps it shouldn’t be so hard to imagine, given the drift of what’s now called geoeconomics. Already, China commands global trade, and modeling from Bloomberg shows that, as constituted today, the tariffs will only add to the lead — pushing many more countries to work more with China and less with America. According to one model, 30 percent of American trading partners would fully recover from even total cessation of U.S. trade within one year; within five years, more than half would. "
#GiftArticle #China #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/china-trade-economy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.hIwJ.AfGyLW35RqaM&smid=url-share
@johl@mastodon.xyzThis is what an Iranian friend posted: مسئوليت تكتك اين خونا
تنها وتنها جمهورى اسلاميه.
“The responsibility for every single detail of these crimes lies solely with the Islamic Republic.”
I agree.
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgWhat's better than a hike with #OpenScience friends?
#OSR25CH
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageSubjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
Noemi Dreksler, Lucius Caviola, David Chalmers, Carter Allen, Alex Rand, Joshua Lewis, Philip Waggoner, Kate Mays, Jeff Sebo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11945
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaIf you are what you eat, I guess that makes me a cheese danish.
-- Anonymous
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGotta love when optimizations and unit tests result in you catching what you thought was a regression, but turned out to be a long-standing corner case bug you've been chasing forever.
Tl;dr implemented an AVX512F version of the inner loop for the eye pattern, which had previously only supported AVX2 and AVX2-FMA.
It promptly failed the unit test despite being a straightforward vector stretch of the AVX2 version (with some small changes because a few instructions I used from …
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThe Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a 21st-century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new stand-alone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. […]
😬
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialLet’s just for a second – purely hypothetical, of course – suppose there was a podcast where some random guy talks to people from the web community about their personal websites and what they’re curious and passionate about.
Who would you love to see as a guest? 🤔
@jake4480@c.im
@muz4now@mastodon.worldWhat The Wreck?
- from a strange inspiration comes these solo improvisations -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
@jpanzer@mastodon.socialLet me explain what I did today… no, there is too much, let me sum up:
@servelan@newsie.socialNo Kings: What's Next in the Fight? (Attendee Debrief Call) · No Kings
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/798722/?utm_source=indivisible
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialRolled credits on Claire Obscur: Expedition 33 last night.
Fucking thrilled. What a wonderful, beautiful, haunting, rewarding, trusting game.
#ClairObscur #Expedition33 #ClairObscurExpedition33
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in August https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-august
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioI just read Lorena Barba's "Experience embracing genAI in an engineering computations course: What went wrong and what next" and it's one of the best pieces I've read on the challenges of using LLMs in beginning computing classrooms.
"Students quickly developed patterns of using AI as a shortcut rather than a learning companion, leading to decreased attendance and an 'illusion of competence'"
13/10 will read again
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28926647.v1
@samir@functional.computerOh good, my phone is autocorrecting “really good” to “real good”. That’s what I want: to text more like an American child.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIf the US starts participating in striking Iran the danger for further escalation is great. Because why would Iran in that case not attack oil fields, US bases in the Gulf states? Close the strait of Hormuz? It could then also try to unite everything that is extreme/radical in the muslim world against the US. What is missing is a scenario for de-escalation, also because Netanyahu is not interested in that is my impression.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzO.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n
@geant@mstdn.socialWhat's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 2
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇 From Community Hub sessions to beloved Lightning Talks—here’s what not to miss!
📌 Explore the full programme − https://t…
@grumpybozo@toad.social“Read what Jeff Greenfield thinks Bill Buckley would think about Donald Trump” is a headline worthy of Matt Groening.
Or a LLM parlor trick…
(It’s Politico. Greenfield lives, who knew???)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotNote to web designers: if you set a size for body text fonts, a substantial part of your audience won't be able to read your page at all, so you've lost them; and more tech-savvy users will either zoom the page, breaking your clever design, or remove your styling altogether (which is what I tend to do).
The user knows what size of font the user can read. The user has their preferences set up so they can read their screen. Trust the user.
And if that breaks your design, yo…
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialThis is just yet another example of what happens when #ClimateChange is ignored. A ramp-up of extreme #weather is causing #insurance companies to stop offering coverage in areas around the globe where…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but #emoji don’t cause radicalisation" https://theconversation.com/adolescenc
@outer@mas.toAs you ford life's rivers, keep your knees bent and face upstream so you can better see what's coming at you. But as you crawl life's ductworks, face downwind and keep your mouth shut lest you suck in dust-bunnies.
#NaturalPhilosophy #Strife and
@fell@ma.fellr.net
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldI like your guitar.
- one of my brother's friends, before. What he meant was, "I'm going to steal your guitar."
@joe@toot.worksI have n8n running on the home server, copying data down from a number of web services and I have a plan for what to do with it that really excites me. I might start blogging again to talk about it.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialGreenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world? https://phys.org/news/2025-06-greenland-iceland-world.html
Record-breaking heat wave due to climate change hits Iceland & Greenland: Scientists
@JorgeStolfi@mas.toThe ICE teams must show results. If a team had to spare innocent and legal immigrants and asylum seekers, it may go a week without a single arrest. What would they tell their boss then?
@andycarolan@social.lolSince moving ALL* my cacti and succulents from my office to my bedroom, they are doing SO much better! Clearly south facing window was too much for them.
Anyway, I am left with a whole empty window ledge that I am wondering what to fill it with.
Suggestions please?
#WFH
*aside from a plastic one with a cute face on the pot
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineThis goshawk (?) was completely frozen in place - she had just killed what seems to be a crow, and the other crow on the fence was making a call i never ever heard (kinda like a cat looking at a bird, iykwim) and there were a couple other crows circling around.
I found it a very sad demonstration that life is a bit shit for everyone involved.
@drbruced@aus.socialWent to see Soccer Mommy, as US-based indie musician, in Castlemaine last night because I couldn’t get to her Melbourne show. Wow, what a great concert and venue - the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. Instead of peering over the heads of 500 people, I saw her with maybe 100 others, and with fantastic acoustics. Totally worth the extra effort to travel 90 minutes out of the big city. #livemusic
@ben@a11y.infoThis #GAAD and every GAAD, you can champion #accessibility by hiring accessibility specialists, paying them well, ensuring they have what they need to be successful and make a change, and by not putting their heads on the chopping block first whenever layoffs roll around.
@erk709@social.linux.pizza
@detondev@social.linux.pizzait really is generally safer to assume a male christian singer-songwriter is closeted gay than otherwise. it really is fundamentally lyrically androphilic despite the surrounding style. it really is mostly love songs about falling to your knees and pleasing jesus if you know what i mean wink wink
@eglassman@hci.socialMy largest remaining NSF grant, which was awarded by a competitive process on the recommendation of national experts, was terminated yesterday. The money would have paid for PhD students to invent better AI systems for everyday people who need programs written for them but can't or won't write them themselves. I'm sad that the rate of progress we make will slow down significantly, because all our progress is made public for everyone to benefit from. That's what
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgWhat can you say.
#perfection #cars #photography
@david@boles.xyzThe Precarious Republic: Understanding the Fascist Threat to Modern Democracies
What if it doesn’t take years, or even months, for a democracy to collapse—but only a few short weeks? The idea that a stable republic could fall in ninety days may seem exaggerated, until you look at the historical record. Then it becomes a haunting possibility. Fascism doesn’t always arrive with fanfare or fire. Sometimes, it walks in through the front door…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
BLAKE: Let go! [Shakes free, takes aim, and fires] Avon, run for your life! [Muttering] Come on, come on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/447 B7B5
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAI is just a tool, like a pencil. A pencil that can only write and draw what some faceless corporation somewhere allows you to write and draw.
#AI #theMastersTools
@whitequark@mastodon.socialwhat the fuck https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/driver-api/usb/error-codes.html
@geant@mstdn.socialWhat might the future of research and education networking look like?
“Foresight 2030: Navigating Change” report explores 9 key challenges, 3 possible futures, and one key takeaway: change is coming, and collaboration is our strength.
📖 Read the article by Charles Hutchings, Raimundas Tuminauskas & Beatrix Weber −
@cdarwin@c.im @fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
What is systems programming, really?
https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
saved 2024-10-10
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat we know about the at-large suspect in Minnesota lawmaker shooting (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/14/vance-boelter-shooting-suspect-minnesota-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p9#a250615p9
@muz4now@mastodon.worldThe "other" day job - what matters
#CreativeLife #BeBetter
https://muz4now.com/2025/the…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks designing digital experiences: think about how this can translate to what you’re making.
#design #accessibility #a11y
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco
which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the
hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
-- Eric Temple Bell, In R Crayshaw-Williams The Search
For Truth, p. 191.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 13 - Terminal
CALLY: We've got to help them!
TARRANT: No. It's too late. There's nothing we can do. [The links rip at Reeval and Toron's clothing.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/274 B7B3
@samir@functional.computer@… I voted “collaborative document editing tool”, but what I want is “all of the above”, and I think it is a shame that we can’t seem to manage it.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAaron Rodgers to Rams and other wild what-ifs from offseason, plus Shemar Stewart situation could get ugly
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aa…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @jake4480@c.imI spotted this '100 best movies of all time' (maybe most popular/influential, see how they chose them) list via Empire, some I agree with, some I'm disturbed by. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Check the list, agree/disagree? What would YOUR top ones be? I'm gonna throw mine together and see what I get. Can I even come up with 100 that are WORTHY? 😂
@erk709@social.linux.pizza @joe@toot.worksOver the past few months, I've been building out a home server that was originally purely to run on-prem LLMs. Since I wanted it to run killer AI, I named it "Delores." Over the weekend, I received a Mac Mini in the mail that I got a good deal on and set it up to augment Dolores. I was trying to figure out what to name it and eventually went with "Teddy."
From my laptop, iPads, etc, I can remote into an Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, or (now) MacOS and do whatever I am looking to do.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
SOOLIN: Not very, by the look of it.
DAYNA: It was like a tomb up there.
AVON: Orac is wired up and ready in the resuscitation room. Hurry it up.
[Vena and Avon in the mess room.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/326 B7B2
@cdarwin@c.imSam Lynn Ballpark in Bakersfield, where batters face into the setting sun,
is an anomaly in a sport of anomalies.
Or perhaps it is simply
a reminder of what once was.
There’s not one thing about Sam Lynn that makes sense to the modern fan, Wheeler admitted.
“Is it glitzy? No,” he asked rhetorically.
“Is it entertaining for the people that are there?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Are you going to go blind if you look into the sun?
Yes. But it is wh…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHere's what's in the Senate GOP's version of Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5353963-senate-medicaid-taxes-green-energy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p166#a250616p166
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow to bet Buffalo Bills in 2025: Super Bowl odds, win total, props, best bets and what you need to know
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-to-…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAzure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2
@geant@mstdn.socialWhat's coming up during #TNC25 - Part 3
Get a first look at the programme highlights in the carousel below 👇
📌 Explore the full programme − https://tnc25.geant.org/programme/
…
@cdarwin@c.imAs unrest and military troops overtake Los Angeles, terrifying scenes are also unfolding in smaller communities around the country.
They, too, are being invaded by what resembles a secret police force, often indistinguishable from random thugs.
https://www.washington…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDem Assassin Is Armed Guard Boss With Anti-Abortion Hit-List (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-the-minnesota-democratic-assassin-and-what-do-we-know-about-him/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p71#a250614p71
@cdarwin@c.imMelissa Hortman, top Democrat in Minnesota House, shot and killed in home
Gov. Tim Walz confirmed Saturday morning that Hortman and her husband Mark had both been killed in what he called targeted political violence.
https://www.startribune.com…
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine’s military said on Sunday it had attacked a Russian drone factory about 1099 kilometers from Ukraine
-- in the city of Yelabuga in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
The Ukrainian military general staff said the factory produced, tested, and launched drones at Ukraine,
in particular against energy and civil infrastructure.
Videos on social media showed an explosion said to be at the factory in Yelabuga, also known as Alabuga,
which builds Iranian-design…
@cdarwin@c.imEmmanuel Macron has criticised Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
as he became the first foreign head of state to visit the vast, mineral-rich Arctic territory since the US president began making explicit threats to annex it.
“I don’t think that’s what allies do,”
Macron said as he arrived in the Danish autonomous territory for a highly symbolic visit aimed at conveying
“France’s and the EU’s solidarity” with Greenlandon his way to a summit of G7 leaders in …
@cdarwin@c.im"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…
@cdarwin@c.imNadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…
