
2025-06-06 15:36:36
Russell Wilson says Giants drafting Jaxson Dart 'doesn't change anything at all,' veteran focused on 'success'
https://www.cb…
Russell Wilson says Giants drafting Jaxson Dart 'doesn't change anything at all,' veteran focused on 'success'
https://www.cb…
Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Companies are pursuing small nuclear reactors to power their data centers, and I can't see how anything could go wrong with that
Just discovered Bunny's new magic containers feature and I've immediately stopped trying to learn Kubernetes, this honestly looks fantastic: https://bunny.net/magic-containers/
Proper docker container deployments, raw TCP/UDP support, automatic anycast, autoscaling, pay for what yo…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02321 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…
Some creatives and academics are rejecting AI on environmental and ethical grounds, and describe the pressure they feel to use AI to "keep up" with others (Emine Saner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
"You must have a market for interesting jobs, good housing, and a market to switch partners. Because people do that too"
#sovereignity #North
How the Bochum dish lost the signal from #Resilience at 19:15:33 UTC which would be 1 to 2 minutes before the nominal landing time. It never came back - while on the webcast, which just aborted, they didn't say *anything* and refer to a news briefing in a few hours. Same crisis (non-)communication as two years ago, I'm afraid ...
So the idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce. To promulgate this notion is to be either ignorant or nefarious. The destruction that Musk set in motion remains running in the background as an ambient menace to our safety and livelihoods. Musk’s legacy is still being written.
Alex Shepard - The New Republic #USA
121gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
#WritersCoffeeClub 5: Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, 'I wish I wrote that.'
Most anything of Sir Terry Pratchett, I have an immense admiration for his wit, his humour, his intelligence, and his writing. I'm not remotely funny, not in my opinion anyway, which makes me awestruck when I find someone who is.
There should be a law that says a smart watch MUST at all times, regardless of anything, at some place on screen, show time.
It's beyond me that both Apple and Garmin don't follow this rule. I walk somewhere, right hand busy with holding something and this thing decides to show me some notification for the next 30 seconds.
Well fuck you watch! As the name suggests (Uhr, zegarek) your main job is to show time. Not AliExpress notification about my package leaving the tarif…
Skype Is Officially Shutting Down for Good https://www.howtogeek.com/skype-shut-down-may-5-2025/
I wasn't a fan or anything, but like for many others, it was my first video conferencing app and I can't help but feel a certain sense of melancholy.
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21920 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…
I used to fantasize about video games wowing audiences by using AI to do things previously impossible.
Voiceovers using your chosen character name.
A “teleport in” effect using a latent space walk for a unique look.
Fighting game CPU opponents that feel human.
Pokémon games with all 1,025 mons and dozens of animations each.
But my fantasy will never come true. The features might appear, but anything AI will produce more controversy than wowing.
Justifiabl…
@… Unless the CVE was published by the library author, I see no evidence that they actually learned anything.
I see the church, the state, the authority, the family, the master, anything that seeks to dominate me as expressions of authority that stand in opposition to the free development of the individual and the creation of a society based on voluntary cooperation and mutual agreement.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism
137gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
The "says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning'."
But it al depends on which "game" is one interested in winning.
https://fortune.co…
Genuinely, Canadian media, can we stop platforming Jim Balsilie every 5 minutes? I wouldn't take the man's advice on where to have lunch, let alone anything of consequence, and yet the newspapers treat him like some kind of guru rather than the man who squandered BlackBerry's lead and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Social media platforms have become so closed this days. I hate when I get a Tik Tok link. I can't do anything with that and I am not creating a Tik Tok account. How exactly do those platforms resonate around that? Aren't they making it harder to get new users? Are people really going around and creating accounts in all platforms just to be able to see that one link they received from someone?
QB Wilson a mentor for all Giants, not just Dart https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459241/wilson-natural-mentor-all-giants-not-just-rookie-dart
Is #dodecaphonic #music actually used for anything but horror/terror music? I mean, it is the worse music one can listen to.
#composer
Finally watched Blade Runner. Fantastic æsthetics. I'm still not sure what, if anything, happened.
Now at #tdose in Katoen kamer, Tessel Renzenbrink from @… presenting an "Ask Us Anything" talk on getting really easy funding for your project.
@…
it's been a while since I wore anything that says "gay", and today I realized that this study-mandated fitbit is a good excuse to signal something.
... thinking I want a band that says, "if you try to beat me up, I'll try to make it weird".
... it's unreasonably hard to search for "leather pride watch band".
Cacaphony. The best food places are obviously close to, or in this case on top of, the market. Anything you want, fresh and exactly how you want it.
#photography day 12 of #30daysIRL
Anytime someone says, "AI is here to stay, nothing we can do about it," I think, there's a person who is not doing the big, deep work of climate action.
If they think we can't do anything about an overtly exploitative and corrosive technology that has only just emerged in the last few years, then they couldn't conceive of the major shifts the rest of us have been and are doing.
The idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce.
That narrative goes a long way toward letting Musk and Trump off the hook for a multitude of casualties
—those already in the ledger and those to be counted later.
It suggests that his reign of terror was actually ineffectual when,
in fact, it was massively successful;
Trump and Musk destroyed that which they’d planned to all along.
Most crucially, it suggests that reign of terror has …
Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
#doctorWho
Steelers finally get their quarterback in Aaron Rodgers, but buyer beware https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6406962/2025/06/06/aaron-rodgers-steelers-quarterback-concerns/
Surprisingly fun. Was stumped by the last enemy but got through by the skin of my teeth. https://llmarena.com
Stock buybacks should be illegal
https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/114610239799915892
Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00408 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…
For any observant souls who spotted my #MicroPrompt before an edit, yes, I originally had a typo, sorry for any confusion! If Timeome as a word makes you think of anything I will also totally take that as a prompt word! Or you can just write inspired by typos in general! !
@…
The forScore website’s been down all day. Attempting to connect to
https://forscore.co or anything in it produces
"
Error establishing a database conn…
My mantra for today is that I’m not going to do anything that I don’t want to. We should get at least one day a week where we can live like that, right?
I've gone through exactly what Ellen Pompeo did at LAX. I was headed to Italy & the TSA detected something on my shoes. Sirens went off & before I could say anything, I got detained.
A guy with military gear & a rifle appears & I got to play 20 Qs for an hour. I'm showing my plane ticket, itinerary, passport, driver's license, business card, Academy of Magical Arts membership card, Disney D23 card... not kidding.
Almost missed by flight. A tad unsett…
Fun post: Dave Farquhar, History of #overclocking
#Celeron:
> In 1998, Intel released the Celeron to compete with cheap CPUs from AMD and Cyrix. To make it, they took all of the Level 2 cache off a Pentium II, clocked it at 266 or 300 MHz, and sold it at an AMD-like price. But due to the lack of L2 cache, it was slower than a previous-generation Pentium running at 233 MHz, let alone an AMD or Cyrix chip running at 266 or 300 MHz.
>
> But the L2 cache was the Pentium II’s limiting factor in overclocking. So a 266 MHz Celeron ran happily at 400 MHz, or potentially even 450 MHz, the same speed as the fastest Pentium II at the time. It was slower than a Pentium II at the same speed, but it worked well for 3D gaming.
>
> But the only people who bought those Celerons were overclockers and people who didn’t know anything about computers. […]
106gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training
Chao Huang, Yuesheng Ma, Junxuan Huang, Susan Liang, Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, Wenqiang Liu, Nima Mesgarani, Chenliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23625
The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians https://www.404media.co/egg-yolk-popping-instagram-tiktok-ioda-anti-porn-laws/
So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".
And if it is: Holy shit can tech dudes just stop showing us how little they understand text or anything? Like, we understand. You can't read.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114580482764268200
James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he burned out. So far, so common.
What I find interesting is something what he says that doesn’t resonate with me at all: “you gotta enjoy the process”
For me, I’ve NEVER enjoyed the process of creating ANYTHING.
I always:
1. wanted something to exist (sometimes out of spite 😇),
2. hated every second of making it happen,
3. enjoyed that it exists.
Guess there’re 2 types of creators. 😅
…
Grand Theft Auto Vice City: completed!
It turns out that pootling around finishing up side missions was actually the right thing to do. I started by finishing up the taxi and ice cream van missions, unlocking the regular payments from them, then I headed for the golf club to see if there was anything more to do there. It turns out that there wasn't, but I jumped in a boat and found myself on Prawn Island where there was a film studio in need of some tender care.
What a great reminder of what am amazingly funny person Akilah is.
Will There Ever Be Flying Cars? | Akilah Hughes Asks Hank Anything
Complexly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnR0szT4mg
Finished 1923 this week. Doesn't have the elŠn of Yellowstone/1883, esp when it comes to dialogue, but was a very solid ride nonetheless. My favorite thing is how they brought the era to life.
You don't have to have watched anything else to get it, but the other stories fill in context.
That said, I'd start with 1883, to this, to Yellowstone if I was new to it.
#film
Sometimes I just google random ass programming questions just in case I get an answer that I could use at some point for who knows what even if I'm not really doing anything remotely related because I'm very normal
i hate that i even gotta say this but just so it's on record, anything you see me post online — blog or otherwise — is 100% my own voice! (and yes, those were em dashes, dangit!)
merely mimicking journalistic cadence is enough to get you accused of assisted writing now 😭 i do not like this timeline
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 anything
#AdrianneLenker
https://hardrock.bandcamp.com/track/anything
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PwWESSlTwzvw9B7bmtTLS
101gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
(this might piss off both sides but hey)
One of the weirder parts of the AI debate for me is the "destroying the environment" bit.
Love it or hate it - my $500 graphics card with open source downloaded models is absolutely keeping up with the big boys for anything remotely useful and my electric bill is the same
#AI
Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/
I 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 …
«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
101gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
APPARENTLY web kits like Wix now offer an AI assistant that builds your web template, but of course you are trapped.
So, asking for a friend 🤣, is there anything similar that spits out a WordPress template his father can actually use? 🙄
Admittedly his wix looks good, but I could-a tol' him, only noooo…
There is an open letter on BlueSky moderation practices as they apply to Gazans which I was invited to sign.
I have been feeling pretty helpless so I read the letter. It was very balanced and reasonable. The asks are not- as I saw them being misrepresented as immediately- to allow anyone who says they are in Gaza to post anything.
For any observant souls who spotted my #MicroPrompt before an edit, yes, I originally had a typo, sorry for any confusion! If Timeome as a word makes you think of anything I will also totally take that as a prompt word! Or you can just write inspired by typos in general! !
This is my ocassional reminder that this live performance from 2009 of a song released in 1977 slaps extremely hard and has never been topped by anything so far!*
* Don't at me.
https://youtu.be/QMvE0yFnR0I
Is it just me or is the Rainbow Capitalism in short supply this year? Not even Tim Apple has said anything about pride. Acknowledged Memorial Day tho.
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457
120gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.
#GrindayFriday for this week is TRADING HANDS from the UK and their new EP 'I'm Going Out of My Mind, Does Anyone Want Anything?'
Trading Hands play a wild mix of powerviolence, grind & fastcore. This stuff is FAST, heavy, raw, tons of breakdowns. You can listen to this in no time at all. Blink and you might miss it. Weird, dynamic, I can't get enough. Easily one of my favo…
Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.
"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/
I... got scammed.
By https://firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: https://gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210001220
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.
Divya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
«Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears»
And this is just the beginning: Most big scientific conferences are not only already committed to 2025 venues but also 2026, given the long contract deadlines for such events. Academic societies are very reluctant to cancel existing contracts given how expensive doing so is.
Imho, 2027 will be the conference year to watch (if anything resembling a US academy is left by then).
https://archive.is/20250524023504/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01636-5
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
Divya and Shantini have vetted that yes, these are real people in real crisis who need help.
The two of them aren’t professional fundraisers or anything. They’re just doing their best with the tools they have, trying desperately to help a few people.
Yes, I wish that we had proper organizations — NGOs, international aid, a functioning democracy! — to help •all• the people in need all at once. We don’t. Elbow grease is all we’ve got.
https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
Some lineless art of my otter sona Jay!
I'm an hour and 30 minutes late for my timezone, but it is what it is.
I love this lil guy, I should make more art of him 🦦
#Art #DigitalArt #FurryArt
97gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
LOVED "Deaf President Now!" by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim. It's on Apple TV, now! If you're like me and prefer to go in without knowing anything, skip the trailer. :)
https://youtu.be/m-gIp9CDFtM?si=-zzyj9-T8kU8-Igs
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457
I wanted to replace my home PC with my laptop for my daily tasks, but for some reason the old ViewSonic monitor is incompatible. It doesn't show up on the hdmi connections when I list them with xrandr and, what's worse, it's the same with all other laptops, no matter if they run Windows or GNU/Linux.
In the end, after testing it on 3 laptops and a minipc, it only works connected to my current PC.
Has anyone seen anything similar? 🤨
«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/
82gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
116gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
107gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
92gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
65gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
66gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2