@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
@anildash@me.dmOne pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… (amazing)
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialSuch an amazing band Lawrence, watch/listen them honouring the Beatles during a concert in a Liverpool club.
#lawrencetheband
@johl@mastodon.xyzSo there’s a collaboration between Charli xcx and John Cale (former member of Velvet Underground). And it sounds and looks amazing.
https://youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://mastodon.scot/@Gurggles/115702276238213386
This amazing dance scene, presaging the work of Bob Fosse, is even better with modern music as the sound track!
@cobordism@berlin.socialAmazing article. both deeply moving and insightful.
For anyone who has ever marvelled at the writings of Oliver Sacks.
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/oliver-sacks-put-himself-into-his-case-studies-what-was-the-cost
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialOh my GOD WhatsApp's Windows Client can now minimise to the FUCKING SYSTRAY this is AMAZING this is like the only software update for 3 years that has made anything even slightly better.
@groberschnitzer@graz.socialThe new Blawan album is amazing! Excellent sound design, with some really distorted - but still melodic, sounds. Album of the year stuff!
#Blawan
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI'm occasionally browsing Facebook Marketplace, and it's 80% scams and prostitution.
Kind of amazing at how badly it's curated, you'd think their systems could filter this stuff out easily.
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaTwo years ago, I was in South Korea—definitely the highlight of that year. The food was amazing, the winter vibes were perfect, and everything was so affordable.
But for a long time, I’d had Japan on my list. I’ve been checking plane tickets now and then, only to watch the prices climb higher by the minute. Even though flying to Tokyo is just an hour or two longer than flying to Seoul, it’s nearly twice as expensive. So, I decided to go back to South Korea instead.
This time, I’l…
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaWeekly news round-up from Saigon:
Nix-shell (for me, as a desktop user) is a powerful tool to, temporarily, enable software I wouldn't otherwise use. And that someone took the trouble to package filen-desktop as a nix package is amazing.
The Intel wifi drivers work ootb on FreeBSD 14.3, which makes it possible for me to install Ungoogled Chromium later on (as a pkg it is only available on stable releases) I got an error after compiling for 4 hrs on an i7 with 16gb, so there'…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI snowboarded the face of the Matterhorn & this video is the single most amazing, yet most TERRIFYING thing I've ever seen.
Andrzej Bargiel is unbelievable.
▶️ I Skied Down Mount Everest (world first, no oxygen)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cjZvFY6__qw&…
@rachel@norfolk.social
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialFucking amazing. Not surprising at all coming from such unfuckable losers, but still amazing.
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115503363869254443
@frankel@mastodon.topThis week, I received an interesting task: dusting off a legacy #Java application. The application analyzes specific #XML files in proprietary format. I know XML doesn’t sound sexy to junior developers, but it has an amazing benefit. One can validate a file against a grammar. Such grammar is called an
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you think I don’t support trans people, then we’re clearly not on the same page. I love my fellow trans folks so much, you’re powerful, brilliant, and completely valid.
🌈✨:bisexual_pride: 🏳️⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️🌈
Keep shining with pride and standing tall in who you are. The world is better with you in it, never stop being your unapologetic, amazing self.
@usul@piaille.frSur son premier short de youtube j'ai vu qu'il était Mongol
Baynaa's channel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@BaynaaJB/shorts
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115695468912298101
Looks a good person (@…) made a mirror of the support website (with a UI that's amazing and every manufacturer should take note), so at least I found the drivers. https://toshiba-mirror.depau.gay/product/?mid=1073769759
@hippyjo@c.imSo in the midst of wild predictions of doom and amazing change, making a big old pot of chicken noodle soup from scratch still brings the calming comfort of nostalgic memories from days gone by...
#chickenSoup #home #comfort
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
@almad@fosstodon.orgThis is such an amazing summary…yeah we’re probably fucked
https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialImagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@cheryanne@aus.social10 Amazing
There are so many amazing businesses, clubs, charities, organisations, groups and individuals in regional Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/10-amazing/
@anildash@me.dmI've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.
@steve@s.yelvington.comThe Minneapolis woman shot and killed by ICE:
https://www.startribune.com/she-was-an-amazing-human-being-mother-identifies-woman-shot-killed-by-ice-agent/601559922
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali stayed in a hotel with an amazing view 25 years ago
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI've spent five minutes reconfiguring my browsers so that they render every site using the same very readable font (Atkinson Hyperlegible from the Braille Institute - #font
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
@bourgwick@heads.socialtruly amazing: the sprawling serial novel by the late rick harris, aka thoughts on the dead, set in little aleppo, somewhere between springfield & macondo. literary fiction as text cartoon. wise & dark & so, so funny. sadly, only available from amazon print on demand: https://www.amazon.com/Book-No-…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialThese showcase entries all look fantastic. It really is amazing what folks can do with #godot https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotengine/115509258722105002
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThe solar PV story is pretty incredible. China's long term strategic plan (with all the negative things that went with it) is bearing amazing fruit that's changing the economic proposition around the world, especially in the poorer (colonised) global South: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8JFCJP70rg…
@emd@cosocial.ca
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itbahaha what an amazing dad pun
@zudn@theres.lifeIt's amazing. Take the long view.
#blogging
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMike Vrabel's message to Patriots on turnaround leading to playoffs: 'We're not here just to get here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-vrabel-s-message-to-patriots-on-turnaround-leading-to-playoffs-we-re-not…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe term “yada kenarji” is part of our private family lexicon, and I want it to become general English.
It’s a based on my kid mishearing “chaotic energy” when they were very young, and that’s what it means: something adjacent to “unhinged” and “the zoomies,” fun but also alarming, with both a physical and mental component.
“Michael J Fox as Marty McFly being all cool, taking in his amazing new life, and then Christopher Lloyd just busts in with all this yada kenarji”
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… I have not had a chance but it sounds amazing!
and this is unrelated to the Arctic Monkeys or no
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'rr' is a very odd debugger - it can run backwards (kind of). Normally when debugging a program you get to a crash and find that a variable has a bad value - your challenge is now to find out how it got that way. With 'rr' you can watch the variable and tell it to 'reverse-cont' backwards until it found what wrote it! It's not that often you need it, but when you do it's amazing - it's also great for helping understand a code base you don't know.
@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialAmazing creature. Even the back of his head is sexy.
#ThorpeThursday #MonteMarkham
Season 1 Episode 6 "The Sky is Falling"
#RandomBaywatch
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialWhat a wild start – this is going to be an amazing match now … 🤩 #PSGFCB
@jswright61@ruby.socialThey have buried the lede. I mean it's great that he is masking. And it's funny that it doesn’t conceal his identity all that much, but it's AMAZING that Tom Hanks routinely rides the NYC subway to and from his work.
https://aus.social/@DenisCOVIDinfoguy/11549455514672757…
@mlncn@social.coop
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgmy current favourite dictionary is
GREEN’S DICTIONARY OF SLANG
https://greensdictofslang.com/
Green has been compiling and updating it since 1993, it’s amazing
stick it in your bookmarks and don’t forget to consult it when you see a strange turn of phrase
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' All-Pro: Tyler Booker 'one of the best rookies' I've ever seen https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-all-pro-tyler-booker-one-of-the-best-rookies-i-ve-ever-seen
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis is a beautiful and amazing graphic novel about a phone scam victim.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-india-digital-arrest-by-phone-graphic-novel/
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… The filet arrived, and my wonderful amazing loving fiancée (at the time) asks for the ketchup.
The waiter goes silent, but ultimately responds that he’ll find some.
Time passes, dishes are getting cold, and my lady reluctantly eats her filet sans sauce. She’s upset, but we’ll live.
In comes a visibly exhausted waiter, he found ketchup.<…
@boris@cosocial.caIt was amazing working with A. Woodward on "Goosetopher2", now called Goodstuff.
Do I want new geese mascot every year? I mean...
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7gfe42sz22e
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWhat an amazing story about a guy who was down & out, climbing back to the top.
▶️ Marshall Faulk: The Trade That Grew The Greatest Show on Turf
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wICUxiGoE5E&si=JMFPjPm4DR5cMxa3
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFrozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Amazing meeting': Trump touts progress on multiple fronts with China after meeting Xi (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/30/amazing-meeting-trump-touts-progress-on-multiple-fronts-with-china-after-meeting-xi-00629580
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p9#a251030p9
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social"My strongest social media belief is that Threads isn't real"
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialthe food truck in the parking lot of the marathon station on the corner of washtenaw and golfside is AMAZING!!!!!!!
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialIt's amazing how often "Questions usually have answers, and we can find the specific supporting evidence for them" is both true and a helpful attitude to have when working in tech.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGreat song with an amazing choreo/dance routine, she really felt the track.
#prince
@paulwermer@sfba.social"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"...the conservative writer William F Buckley Jr’s boundaries for the conservative movement: expunge all antisemitism and “expel the lunatics”."
Buckley also opposed racism and white supremacists.
Yes, there was a time when, while disagreeing with conservatives & Republicans on many issues, I at least felt I understood the basic premises and that we shared at least some values. It's amazing how the John BIrch wing has dominated, and how a reality show snake-oil…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioActually amazing things don’t need large scale hype—and vice versa things that have large scale hype machinery behind them are never amazing.
(This is probably some kind of “razor” but not sure if it has a name.)
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgWow, the new #Immich "OCR text recognition" and "find similar pictures" features are absolutely amazing! 🤯
@publicvoit@graz.social"There Is Something Faster Than #Light"
#brainfuck
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(IEEE Spectrum) 11 Amazing engineering events in 2026: Brain chip helps blind people see https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-technology-2026 on Elon Musk and Neuralink Blindsight: "some experts worry he is overpromising on the quality of the brain-computer interface";
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialMy amazing niece flying solo. I took this still* from a video of her getting ATC clearance, taking off, and flying. Solo. She’s not yet 20.
I rly don’t have the words to describe my feelings as I watched the video. I cried like a baby—I can say that much.
Yesterday, I bought her a pair of Ray-Ban aviator shades for Xmas. Because she’s an aviator. ❤️
* I chose to share a pic w/ her face obscured for social media, but she’s as beautiful as she is brilliant.
@bogo@hapyyr.com
@shriramk@mastodon.socialOne of the things I expect most US academics love and hate about winter break is reading dozens of folders of amazing PhD applicants (love the energy, passion, accomplishment) who are interested in working with you but you're going to have to disappoint almost all of them (hate).
@gwire@mastodon.socialAmazing.
> US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
https://www.404media.co/army-tells-soldiers-to-go-to-german-food-bank-then-deletes-it/
@mlawton@mstdn.socialAlso, special shout out to Wirtz who has weathered so much criticism as he's tried to adapt. He was the best we'd seen him tonight. I salivate at the prospect of him growing further.
And while Ekitike had a middling rating on FotMob of 6.3, I think his job was extremely difficult and he was far better than that number. He has a sophistication in reading the moment that is amazing for such a young player.
@UP8@mastodon.socialThe last thing any Camaro owner wants to hear about his car is that it is bitchin' even if it is
#photo #photography #monocromemonday
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIt’s amazing how many people don’t use headphones when watching TikTok/Reels/Shorts on public transportation.
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@outer@mas.toThis 59 minute video is a fascinating, wonderful show. Lots of pizza and popcorn are needed to absorb it.
It explains the science of the technology that makes modern computer chips. But it's also an amazing story of the HUMANS involved, and a story of overcoming a huge number of almost insurmountable science/engineering problems.
https://www.
@keen456@infosec.exchange@… Saw your recent thread on training your apprentice, and it's amazing- thank you so much for posting this, and sticking with us on this platform. It's always a joy to read your posts- your humanity & compassion shines through.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
Mason Bates, Lauren Snouffer, Sun-Ly Pierce, Miles Mykkanen, Andrzej Filończyk, Edward Nelson, Patrick Carfizzi, Craig Colclough, Eve Gigliotti, Richard Croft, Ellie Dehn, Amanda Batista, Efraín Solís, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, John Moore & Yannick Nézet‐Séguin:
🎵 The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay - Act 1
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIt’s amazing how you can make #FreeTube so simple and distraction-free!
⭐ #FreeSoftware
@anildash@me.dmExciting news, friends: I’ll be joining an amazing lineup this week as MC for the Mozilla Festival in Barcelona! If you’ll be there in person, please do say hi, and if not, join online as the schedule promises to be extraordinary. Get the details here: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' All-Pro: Tyler Booker 'one of the best rookies' I've ever seen https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-all-pro-tyler-booker-one-of-the-best-rookies-i-ve-ever-seen
@steve@s.yelvington.comNjinga Mbende, queen of what is now Angola, was my 10th great-grandmother, according to FamilySearch dot org. This came as a surprise. It may not be true (officially she had no children) but her story is amazing.
@hippyjo@c.imAmazing.
Besides offering the exceptional perspective of a retired military analyst and Russian linguist who is currently living in Ukraine-
Dylan Combelick is also leveraging his blog into a charity for Ukrainian soldiers.
He shares insight and perspective that will never appear in corporate media, based on real life experience, understanding, and presence in Ukraine.
Please support his work, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall, and thank you!
The U…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukConsider some Dead coding {💀} ?
It's December and quiet, it might be a nice small project on a code base you already know - it's amazing what you find! I'm not talking about rewriting - I'm talking about just removing whole unused functions or libraries.
Now, if you're doing this on an area of code maintained by someone else don't wade in with thousands of changes, try a few and just check you're not deleting stuff people want.
If you find somethin…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#GamesDoneQuick just started!
A whole week of amazing speedruns is ahead of us, raising money for charity and being generally pretty cool all around (trans rights!).
If you haven't heard of this before, check out the schedule at #GDQ2026
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioImagine they'd come up with this concept in the 1970s and 1980s! What amazing computers we could have had if we'd only put it all in the keyboard! 🤦♂️
@shriramk@mastodon.socialFrom reporting about last night's World Series Game 6: This is the kind of amazing act that makes someone a professional. Not only the sensory ability but also the ability to act on it in a fraction of a second. And it completely changed the game's outcome.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboy Roundup: Dak Prescott's amazing Christmas gesture, Building a brotherhood https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-amazing-christmas-gesture-dallas-cowboys-building-brotherhood
@stefan@gardenstate.socialit ended really good. great pacing and emotional moments.
After season 1 I stopped watching due to bad reviews but after season 4 ended I caught up and while season 2 wasn't my fav I really did come back strong and tell a really amazing story.
#strangerThings #tv
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI’d never have such amazing insight myself, it can only be done with trillion-dollar investments in sandcastles (data centers)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI wish the Milwaukee Recreation web site was easier to use / better designed but then I guess I wish for a lot of things...
Like, also it's amazing that 30 years into the World Wide Web thing there are so many terrible and crappy and difficult to use web sites.
https://milwaukeerecreation.net/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCeeDee Lamb gets amazing injury update ahead of Cowboys practice https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/ceedee-lamb-amazing-injury-update-ahead-dallas-cowboys-week-7-practice
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWe already made computers amazing for text and language.
Hypertext > LLMs
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioCurrently sulking because years ago I got rid of my Sony tape deck from the 1990s which was amazing and I think they didn’t even sell it in the US
Stupid past me
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPeople vibe-coding an app for someone else: 😊 This is awesome, it’s the future, so amazing!
The same people when being told an app for them was vibe-coded: 🤬 See you at court!!1!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWatching The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), it's such an amazing New Year's movie.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/115825586012782892
Congrats to them on the 32 years, but also look at how amazing GUIs used to look like before the "flat design" shit destroyed them.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s amazing how much of Wendy’s music isn’t available on streaming platforms. Vinyl it is!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioEnjoy the amazing colors of tonight’s desert sunset
