@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euHow does the American Mafia do anything anymore without getting arrested? : r/NoStupidQuestions
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1crv0yd/how_does_the_american_mafia_do_anything_anymore/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSeemingly insignificant things hurt the most. Today I feel betrayed, like my safe place was taken away from me. And simultaneously so lonely, completely alone in how I feel. I have trouble focusing on anything, and I can't do anything about it.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@ErikUden@mastodon.dei do not care about marco “gusanito of state” rubio's opinion on anything, actually
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks LB Ernest Jones IV defends Sam Darnold after 4-INT game vs. Rams: 'If you've got anything to say, quite frankly, (expletive) you' https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-lb-ernest-jones-iv-defends-sam-darnold-after-4-int-game-vs-rams…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168
Nobody gives a shit anymore about anything.
It’s fine to post absolute tripe like this on a corporate website.
It’s fine to post quotes that were never said in a newspaper.
It’s fine to reference science that doesn’t exist in scientific papers.
It’s fine to commit code that was never checked to software.
It’s fine to post music that no one made.
It’s fine to share videos of things that never happened.
It’s fine to steal, lie and scam people.
All of this is hyped and cheered on by governments, organizations, businesses and individuals.
What in the fucking fuck is wrong with everybody?
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioMy husband and I have been sick with the flu and completely out of anything going on with society for the past week.
This time of illness has been worse than COVID - I showed up to urgent care last week with a 104.2 F (40.1 C) fever after sleeping for 22 hours straight.
I am still delirious and unable to keep track of meetings or emails, so trying to get caught up on work will be a struggle.
Don’t be like me, get your flu shots if y’all can 😭
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere's a lot of chatter here in Minneapolis about a far-right group staging a hate rally / “march” / attack on Saturday — and a lot of confusion about what the targeted community is asking in response.
If you want to rush in and play hero, STOP.
If you heard “don't go downtown, don't do anything,” also STOP.
The targeted community has a specific and nuanced request for us all. The information here is the best summary I've heard. Please take a moment to read.
#Minneapolis #MSP https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/115906410015463575
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI have become so used to not owning anything (beyond my electronics) that I feel anxious at the idea of buying big things like a car or even a house. When I used to have my own bike I was always going to check on it whenever I heard a noise outside. Eventually I moved on to those shared bikes and that's much more relaxing..
How do you all deal with owning things? If you own a car, or a flat / house, are you actually more happy than if you were renting it? If it got stolen or damaged in…
@scott@carfree.cityWelcome to San Francisco, where Oceanview has no ocean view, Golden Gate Avenue doesn't go to Golden Gate Bridge or Park, Front Street doesn't front anything, Main Street isn't a main street, and the Sunset is too foggy to see the sunset.
https://mastodon.social/@jef/116078846
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaI knew since I was young id be falling down this road (my eroded and distorted memories are falling in line, there is nothing to prove anything, yet sometimes narrative is all we have)
@steve@s.yelvington.comPlanning a trip abroad. Today I checked out the CDC website, like I used to do. Sadly, I can't believe anything on it anymore.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIntroducing Meta Segment Anything Model Audio (SAM Audio) https://ai.meta.com/samaudio/
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@grumpybozo@toad.socialPresented without comment for those who don’t need any.
I have no clue whether this will do anything to anything.
Because I’m testing it. On others. Fishing for idiots…
![A badly cropped snippet from a Postfix header_checks file including text. 2 lines are cut off and the last line is split in half. How careless:
# add header to deal with unwanted Microsoft reactions (2025-10-02
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@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy152gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineOn Nov 3rd I saved a LibreOffice Calc as CSV.
Then I kept on modifying and saving it for two weeks.
Today it crashed, and it turns out it never saved *anything* to the .ods.
I am... unhappy.
@dichotomiker@dresden.network
@shochdoerfer@phpc.socialI am seeking speakers for my @… & @… meetups. We prefer in-person presentations in Frankfurt or the Mannheim area, but remote talks are also an option.
If you have anything interesting to share with us, let us know. We'd be …
@hex@kolektiva.socialI feel as though I should illustrate the difference that this one single constraint can make by two examples.
The rules of Simon Says are maximally authoritarian. You must perform any action ordered, with the only restriction that the authority must say "Simon says" first. Were you forced to stay in this system, it would be the most despotic autocracy possible. But it's not. It's a silly game because you can leave at any time.
Let's flip this and imagine a room. During a specific period of time you will have absolute control over everything in this room. In this room you have total freedom. This is not even the limited freedom, the coordinated freedom, the compromising freedom of civil society. You could, without consequence, perform any action you wish in this room. You could say anything, destroy or steal any object, order any individual to perform any action, kill any person in the room with you and take anything they own. This is the sovereign freedom, the absolute freedom, of dictators and kings. The only restriction is that you are not allowed to leave the room while you have this freedom. In fact, you really only have this level of freedom because the room is actually empty other than for you. I am, of course, talking about a form of torture still common in the US: solitary confinement.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgA few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeFor a couple of days now, #Zigbee2mqtt in my #HomeAssistant has been randomly crashing, and the „watchdog“ function of HA is not automatically restarting it. I didn’t change anything about the hardware, I just updated the software (but not sure if it is connected to that). It’s been gett…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialNice, open talks... , the delegation from Denmark and Greenland has to excercise self-control i think.... "U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that NATO should help the U.S. acquire Greenland and anything less than American control is unacceptable, hours before Vice President JD Vance was to host Danish and Greenlandic officials for talks."
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netWhy do I feel like Vinge's Singularity really *is* about to hit, but rather than politely advancing to posthumanism and quietly fucking off to infinity, it's instead going to make sure that all actual sources of information get overrun with crap, that everybody in our entire civilization who actually knows anything gets fired from their jobs for being insufficiently productive due to refusing to using AI tools, and then we're just going to drown in this inifinite circle jerk of A…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump will do anything to grab power and prepare for dictatorial rule
He now floats the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico
"to fight drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump has been pushing for
"the participation of U.S. forces” even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzPreviewing the NFL Divisional Round Saturday Slate https://insidethestar.com/previewing-the-nfl-divisional-round-saturday-slate
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'the focus on creating is just the little capitalist devil sitting on our shoulders telling us to produce more.
...
the most radical act today is to just make something. Especially if you are not good at it or if it’s a bit of a struggle. Draw if you’re not good at it. Play the piano even though you’re not great. Make something just for the fun of being in this world, touching it, being in it. Becoming you. Let this radicalize you a bit.
Fuck creation. Love making.'<…
@nohillside@smnn.ch„20 years from now we'll be inundated with documentaries more honestly detailing what a gargantuan bullshit artist Elon Musk was. Until then we appear stuck in a press-enabled purgatorial innovation mythology comically detached from anything resembling factual reality.“
https://
@shriramk@mastodon.socialOkay, let's admit it, it's rather fun to be able to tell a machine "Let's rock and roll!" and it is able to infer that I mean, "Yeah, that design document is now in great shape, we should start generating code".
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"I don't know anything about Angola...
...but Angola's in trouble."
- Charles Barkley
@bourgwick@heads.socialwith love to rob reiner: spinal tap was absolutely one of the most influential bands of the '80s & had a powerful shaping impact on the alt '90s. if the rock & roll hall of fame meant anything, they'd have been inducted long ago.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWorking on improving error reporting in ngscopeclient rather than having filters simply silently produce no output, or log to stdout, when something goes wrong.
Here's my current WIP: the block that has problems displays a warning icon and summary title up top, then you can mouse over it to see more detailed error information.
Thoughts? Anything I should change before I start working on adding this sort of feedback to more filter blocks?
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizzaBeen driving a truck (without trailer) for almost a year now.
Just had my first week on the tractor-trailer (or semi-truck as some call it).
Feel free to ask me anything. : >
#askfedi
@fgraver@hcommons.socialI stopped buying books (or anything, really) from Amazon years ago, when it became apparent the working conditions at their many processing centres are appalling and they were actively busting unions. I have never regretted that stance, and I have always been able to find the books, etc. I need from other sources.
I hope more authors — and big name ones too — will follow this lead.
#BoycottAmazon
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineBrennan Lee Mulligan *really* can't help giving monologues in almost anything he does and I'm totally here for it <3
https://watch.dropout.tv/very-important-people/season:3/videos/archimedes-and-ollie
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAt this point today I'm willing to light anything on fire with the word "Plex" on it. I've never had a server fight me so goddammed hard. It's taken 10x more effort to rebuild the Plex server than it did to build the Jellyfin server. However, that part of the Great Migration is done and I only have two more servers to move over to Debian.
#homelab
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy156gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@Lach@social.linux.pizzaTrying to fix my friend's TV that won't turn on. Maybe it's that triac? It must be that triac, can't SEE anything else wrong here. 🤪 #electronics #repair
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRight now is the ideal time for people with positions on the left end of the Overton Window to find offices to run for wearing a big blue D.
Anything. School board. State leg. County clerk. Sheriff.
If you want a real Left party in the US, the only serious strategy is to do to the Dems what the Fash have done to the GOP. Be the party. In the US, it really can be that simple.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 09 - Sand
AVON: I wasn't going to say anything. [The ship is shaken and they are all thrown to the ground.]
SOOLIN: How much more of this can the ship take?
DAYNA: Look, there must be some way to get Tarrant off that planet.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/287…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euOne thing I fail to believe is that releasing the Epstein files will incriminate Trump in anything after he's had the whole year to vet, redact, counterfeit, destroy, silence, intimidate, bribe, take over key government agencies, amass billions. Instead, why not go to the corpos who he bullied into submission and fealty. I am sure they'll be more than happy to wash their hands and testify how he and his accomplices extorted their innocent businesses. This will be bigger than the Mafi…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
@timbray@cosocial.caI must be weird, am one of the apparently 0.02% for whom #Pluribus isn’t doing much, 6 episodes in (haven’t seen latest). I mean Rhea Seehorn is great but she’d be greater if they gave her a chance to be anything but angry-and-rude for even a minute here or there. Also, how about another character with a character? Will watch the last 3 shows despite massive suspension-of-disbelief failure, hopin…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
@publicvoit@graz.social
@stf@chaos.socialjust released liboprf-0.9.3
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol fo…
@stefan@gardenstate.social"AI is not anything new, it's not creation, It's a collage of the past, masquerading as the future." - Crispin Hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAs2C_433Ho&t=3033s
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAutomated #galaxy sizes in Euclid images using the Segment Anything Model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03642 -> A New AI Tool to Map the Outskirts of Galaxies
@lornajane@indieweb.socialI am greatly amused to see it's time for some announcements about funding for trains in the north again. No need for actual trains or anything, the announcements are the only thing running to timetable.
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeStephen Miller is feeling powerful. He's out here claiming "might makes right" and saying the US can do anything.
Miller forgets that he's not the one with the power. The powerful guy repeats himself constantly, wanders off to look at his ballroom construction mid-speech, has fluid-filled ankles, and over-thinned blood. Miller forgets that the "powerful" never remain so for long and that "with great power, there must also be great responsibility."…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI don't really have words for what to say about what happened at Bondi Beach earlier, except to applaud the incredible bravery of those who intervened, to offer condolences to those who are grieving, and to shake my head in disbelief at anyone who thinks killing Jews could ever be the answer to anything. #BondiBeach #Bondi
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy168gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali'mma stay up late, drink too much, and work out the kinks in a mix tape i'm working on called pay the man. no, i don't know what it means. it doesn't mean anything. but if you just want to blurt out "pay the man" in a tourette's kind of way, this would be good background music for it
the j card wants a little more ink
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Are Wrapping Up Their Defensive Coordinator Search https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-are-wrapping-up-their-defensive-coordinator-search
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThat’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deremember all of this when pam bondi claims she didn't know about anything and was just an innocent bystander at the next nuremeburg trials
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: I know what you mean.
ARTIX: I'm sorry, sir.
[Leylan walks towards the exit to the Flight Deck]
LEYLAN: I'm going to my quarters. Anything I should know?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/24 B7B2
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI don’t get the urge of Democratic politicians to write condolences when a Republican dies, especially when they did egregious things, repeatedly.
Like you could just not say anything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy220gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @grumpybozo@toad.socialTL;DR: The DNC/RNC “pipe bombs” were not actually bombs in any operational sense.
They were symbolic bombs.
Also: I was a better explosives chemist at 9yo than Brian Cole. My powder actually exploded. If he really thought his casually mixed ingredients would do anything, he is an imbecile. @…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhile helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePCIe update: I'm now able to parse incoming InitFC1-* DLLPs and store away the credit counts in a register (which I don't actually use for anything yet), and emit a singular InitFC1-P DLLP of my own
Next step will be writing the rest of the setup logic so I can actually fully bring up VC0, then start sending UpdateFC idle DLLPs at regular intervals to keep the link alive when I'm not sending traffic.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Have teams figured out 5-man front? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-teams-figured-out-5-man-front
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy234gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWe outnumber the pigs. By a lot.
They don't win by using force. They don't win by shooting us, or kidnapping us, or locking us up. If anything, that kind of thing backfires. They don't win by making us afraid or angry.
They win through propaganda, by making us turn on each other, by making us feel hopeless or that any of this is inevitable. They win by leading us to believe that any of their behavior is justified.
Take care of yourself and each other, and shut d…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTwo easy questions to keep in mind when considering using an LLM for anything, if you’re going to do that:
1. Does it matter if it’s wrong?
2. Is it useful to have examples of what’s typical?
Those two cut through a lot of noise.
/end
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialWe always talk about things that get worse with #Aging - but what about the things that get better? For example I feel that people become more confident and able to make faster decisions, especially about what they like or want to do. Can you think of anything else that improves with aging?
Trying to get ideas for a research fellowship proposal :)
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy233gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Have teams figured out 5-man front? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-have-teams-figured-out-5-man-front
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy199gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy242gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe Trump regime desperately, desperately wants the situation in Minneapolis / St. Paul to explode. Anything sand in the gears that helps prevent that from happening is a godsend — and this lawsuit certainly is sand in the gears.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy243gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy190gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy169gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy220gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy106gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy232gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy220gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy103gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
