@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-21 16:26:03
Samsung rolls out a Perplexity TV app, which works alongside Samsung's Vision AI Companion, on its 2025 TVs; 2023 and 2024 TV models will get it later this year (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-get-perplex…
@macandi@social.heise.de2025-10-15 08:29:00
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-25 22:43:17
Annual plant sale at #SutroStewards nursery! I picked up a couple of rare San Francisco wallflowers and some little coast buckwheats, both #CaliforniaNatives.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-12-21 14:08:22
My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-12 19:57:46
Born on this day in 1919,
Art Blakey
—jazz drumming legend and founder of The Jazz Messengers.
For 35 years, he turned rhythm into mentorship, shaping generations of greats with every beat.
https://bsky.app/profile/thatericalper.com/post/3m2xtmjzn7y2l…
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-24 00:39:05
Babbitt , by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life & the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Literature to Lewis in 1930.
The word Babbitt has entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards.
w…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-22 00:41:55
13yo: "and at the end of art class they take our sketchbooks"
me: "that sucks"
13yo: "Yeah, it does."
13yo: "Anyway, I was trying to draw a staff but I was having problems with the feathers..." ⚚
me: "Hey, I have a Staph *infection*!"
13yo: 😐
me: "..In case you need a drawing reference or something"
13yo: 🤨
me: "...what?" 😇
13yo: "I'm afraid of what else you'…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-20 20:41:14
I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-01 10:35:53
A profile of Cultured, a profitable art magazine founded in 2012 by collector Sarah Harrelson, who has maintained long-term relationships with major advertisers (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/an-art-magazine-in-this-ec…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-21 01:21:07
A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/20/josh-woodward-google-gemini-ai-safety.html
