
2025-06-04 02:36:00
Google pauses the rollout of Photos' AI-powered Ask Photos feature due to issues with latency, quality, and user experience, per a Google product manager on X (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678858/google-photos-ask-…
Mike Macdonald: 'Crazy' to ask if Sam Darnold will be Seahawks starting QB https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-macdonald-crazy-to-ask-if-sam-darnold-will-be-seahawks-starting-qb
O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS
Ask your MP to support a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK #AnimalRights
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
@… so, it I were to ask here whether your ~900 lines of Go were in a public repository anywhere, no-one would ever read it and I wouldn't get a reply?
@… Hey Richard, just checking in to ask how you are!
Currently, half of my morning messages are to ask how people are recovering after contracting [insert bug here] lol.
Hope you're improving!
to no one's great surprise, the nyt continues to suck https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lt4dmcwiic23
Why having a blog when you can just tell the story around a fireplace when people ask?
The FOMO about the 10-year University of Cambridge REAL Centre Anniversary Celebration Conference is *real*.
If you can't be there in person, join online.
Incredible lineup.
12 June 2025
https://www.eventbrite.co…
Maybe it could even guess when you've been around someone, setting aside blocks where your hrv, etc. seem to be fairly uniform...and one could then identify that block as being x or y (could be a person, ones pet, watching a TV show) and then it could watch for similar patterns of measurements and ask if you were in xs proximity again, over time we might find unique signatures associated with specific people, activities, locations?
TFW when you open the pantry to discover a 2kg jar of sliced pickles that no one remembers buying.
Yes, we’re a neurodivergent household. Why do you ask?
"Jim Coplien ends his talk with a simple call to action: at every conference where new technology is introduced, software engineers should strive to be skeptical; to ask whether it improves the quality of life of society as a whole, and to take it home only to increase the human value of our products and services.
Focus on the people. Again and again. Because that is what Agile and OOP were all about, to begin with."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/james-coplien/
#today at uni. Managed to debug the slightly vexing heat loss problem in my bungalow-2 model in progress. It turns out that I had the new roof segments on 'upside down' even though they have only one layer and are actually walls. (Don't ask ... yet... Maybe I'll understand what I'm doing in a few months!)
I may or may not load #ICEBlock. I’m unclear on the validity of the privacy claims and don’t have the time to dive into it deeply...
However, I found it amusing that someone complained about it wanting “Always On" location services. Clearly someone not getting the point that it is meant to *ALERT you when ICE is nearby. Not to tell you only when you ask.
Restaurants ask President Trump for "targeted relief" from immigration crackdown (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/03/trump-immigration-ice-raids-restaurant-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p53#a250703p53
“It would basically kill the AI industry overnight”
- that sounds good to me -
Nick Clegg thinks asking artists for use permission is a bad thing https://musictech.com/news/industry/nick-clegg-ai/?utm…
Revisiting Isocurvature Bounds on the Minimal QCD Axion
Peter W. Graham, Davide Racco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03348 https://arxiv.…
I must be using Microsoft #Copilot wrong. Most of the things I ask it to do end up screwed up. Example: I asked it to tell me all of the URL shorteners that use the .li TLD. It gave me a few and then pointed me to a list someone maintains on GitHub of URL shortener domains. Ok, good start. I ask it to pull all the .li domains from the list for me. It does that. But I spot checked the list and f…
Mathematics A Missing Factor in Assessing the Antiquity of Vedanga Jyotisa
Jaidev Dasgupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02216 https://a…
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks and AI podcasts publicly; viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678915/google-notebooklm-share-public-link
FREE LATTE
The bearer may present this post to any STARBUCKS anywhere in the world and ask for a FREE LATTE.
Ask before you Build: Rethinking AI-for-Good in Human Trafficking Interventions
Pratheeksha Nair, Gabriel Lefebvre, Sophia Garrel, Maryam Molamohammadi, Reihaneh Rabbany
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22512
Learning to crawl: benefits and limits of centralized vs distributed control
Luca Gagliardi, Agnese Seminara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02766 https://
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07453 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…
Good communication relationships across an organization are necessary if you want to draw an accurate representation of how parts of your system interact. You may think you understand how others use outputs, but you can’t be certain until you ask. Knowing who to ask comes from relationship building.
From: @…
https://fosstodon.org/@ama_conf/114601855016106036
Watch Micah Parsons ask Tom Brady for autographed jersey during Fanatics Fest https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/watch-micah-parsons-ask-tom-brady-for-autographed-jersey-during-fanatics-fest
How Do Vision-Language Models Process Conflicting Information Across Modalities?
Tianze Hua, Tian Yun, Ellie Pavlick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01790 https…
Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions.
But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief
(including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable),
as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit,
many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine
and its “iterative design pr…
Of course we can adjust the event poster design to accommodate your 131 characters lecture title, although at this point I am rather hesitant to ask our responsible staff member to do so.
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14708 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…
If you work with Poles don't ask them how their weekend was. Especially Sunday.
Found a way to make a scammer to hang up on me. She was calling from 'Microsoft' and wanted me to download a file so she could remove a virus from my computer.
So I told her that I had to go to my computer, and continued to ask her what she was wearing, if she touched her self while she was working and so on. Success! The 'dirty man' trick worked! She hung up on me 😂
The asymptotic $\chi$-boundedness of hereditary families
Bruce Reed, Yelena Yuditsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01070 https://arxiv.o…
The season for being on the edge of collapsing due to overheating has started. I just hope nobody's going to ask me to close the window.
After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
"He will need laws," said the Demon slyly.
"What! You, his appointed Enemy for all Time! You ask for the
right to make his laws?"
"Oh, no!" Satan replied…
some of yall i wanna talk to alot more but we both have our different things we usually talk abt and idk enough abt yours to strike up a convo and i never know how to ask random shit out the blue without pain and suffering for everybody and and and
Court filing: Paramount and Trump ask a judge to stay their 60 Minutes lawsuit until Thursday as they are in "good faith, advanced, settlement negotiations" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/p
One call made my day...
Can we move the implementation from Friday to Thursday? Answer, yes.
Can we arrange for a special set of backups before and after? Answer, yes... after I pick up my jaw when it hit the floor. (Normally we ask for just one before we start).
Is it plausible that someone who did a psychology degree in the UK in the early 1980s but went on to work in a largely unrelated field has never heard of The Trolley Problem?
I ask only for a trivial reason and to satisfy my curiosity. Backstory is that a UK talk show host took a call in the last week where the caller said, "you know The Trolley Problem?" and he said no, but I am sure he did that only so the caller would explain in their own words for the purposes of the show…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19673 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…
if you follow this account bluesky then remember to follow this bridge account so I can see your posts and stuff
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xbifsywyv5pka5jlknhv5yv3
A couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.
I have taken to looking for Copilot AI in GitHub responses before filing issues. If it’s there, I don’t file. Feeling a bit validated here:
https://hails.org/@hailey/114752144098708214
(limited alt to come, but if you want more ask OP…)
“i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.” https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdogmom.bsky.social/post/3lqj7isldfs2y…
@… I’ve got to ask, ask it came up in the pub, how on earth does one go about getting a parrot these days? It doesn’t feel like something you get in the pet shop.
Looking at an interesting AI tool, get to the end and find instructions on how to ask ChatGPT to generate prompts for this tool.
We're so cooked as a species.
From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?
Now at #tdose in Katoen kamer, Tessel Renzenbrink from @… presenting an "Ask Us Anything" talk on getting really easy funding for your project.
@…
A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.
It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @… to call mine.
Alas I've just ordered a WIFI enabled, AI washing machine; and the copyright doesn't even include CURL; I thought the 5 year warranty would enable be to ask @… for advice on getting my clothes cleaner.
Still, it seems to have everything else, NuttX and contiki low power OSs (neither of which I've come across), Uboot, wpa_supplicant, cJSON, FatFS
#IndieGames I played and finished in June. Mostly demos, due to NextFest. Strange Horticulture is the only full game I played, recommended as a chill experience.
The top 2 rows of demos I'll likely buy near release (depends on pricing, of course!) The next row I'll likely buy at some stage, the final 2 rows ... perhaps not for me.
Feel free to ask for more details if you're interested in any of these!
LOL this is me at gigs when a drunk person comes up and asks if we can play a particular song where there has been weeks of back-and-forth with the client/planner locking down the set list.
I say we definitely do, fucking awesome song man, enthusiastically and with absolute certainty, then go back to playing and never think about it again
I am not a fan, to say the least, of unsolicited messages, and texts bother me more than emails. I am, of course, sympathetic to candidates and their need to raise seemingly endless sums of money. And I do want fresh voices and people willing to make hard sacrifices representing me. But hear this all candidates who ask for my attention via text - RESPOND on point to any questions I ask, and do so within a day. Otherwise just buy yard signs and billboards.
#ToolTipThursday für Bibliotheken!
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Er erleichtert die Katalogrecherche und empfiehlt Medien – auch bei vagen Anfragen.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09377 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…
An Efficient deep learning model to Predict Stock Price Movement Based on Limit Order Book
Jiahao Yang, Ran Fang, Ming Zhang, Jun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22678
ASK ME ABOUT PEEING MY PANTS!
- Cybertruck bumper sticker
"A review of 700 body parts named after 432 people found 424 were male physicians. "
A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist... | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635470-100-a-womans-body-is-a-mans-world-just-ask-an-anatomist/?c=pidayemail&utm_source=nssub-
How crazy is it? About this crazy. So far.
https://youtu.be/75PeExNmaS8?si=7EaSaHjv-S1RNI5x
As always:
- Follow the money
- Ask “Who benefits?”
Emergent Dynamics of Active Systems on Curved Environments
Euan D. Mackay, Giulia Janzen, D. A. Matoz Fernandez, Rastko Sknepnek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24730
As Israel announces 22 new West Bank colonies:
RT:
Apartheid South Africa was destroyed.
That didn't mean that white South Africans were massacred or expelled.
Likewise, Apartheid Israel will end. Not with 2 States (an Apartheid State and a Bantustan), but with one, plurinational State, based on equality and reparations, from the river to the sea.
It's a big ask, a hard to realise dream, but no less realistic than the fantastical non-solutions that dominate m…
Give #ClaudeCode superpowers! 🚀 💪 🪄
Use "ask aider" to ask other models in parallel, combine the answers, select the best, and complete the job.
that concept is fucking crazy ‼️ 🤯 😱
🧵 👇
#ai
"Under the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, if Congress rejects the rescission package or does nothing, the administration must release the money back to the intended recipients — effectively undoing the DOGE cuts."
What are your bets?
https://www.
type TimeoutID = ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
const n: TimeoutID = setTimeout(...
clearTimeout(n)
Use this so that your typescript code works no matter the environment
No longer will I need to ask is this code using NodeJS.Timeout or number (browser)
#typescript #webdev
Pro tip: If you can't clearly articulate your question after I ask to clarify 3 TIMES, I read that as you not caring about either the question or my time you're wasting.
And don't tell me that you need a "phone call". Don't impose your inability to articulate a question in email/IM upon my time.
If a starting date is mentioned in an academic job posting, and if the job involves teaching, which customarily follows a specific calendar, I’d have thought that it’s rather obvious that there are reasons for this particular starting date.
Of course, you can always ask, but it’s typically not possible to move the semester to accommodate you.
#AcademicChatter
If you ask your technical team to migrate off US cloud infrastructure, they’ll pull faces and ask “to where!?”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/ditching_us_clouds_for_local/
Hiddenlayer came up with a security bypass for all LLMs. Just ask for a script of a Dr. House episode and inject some policy XML. Also, use l337sp33k: #llmsecurity #llm
Rather they are, amongst other things, that emails in Arabic be sent when Trust & Security moderates an account, so that recipients can understand how platform rules have been breached.
Given the extremity of the situation, this seems like an aggressively moderate ask.
Scientists were preparing an experiment to ask the ultimate question.
They had worked for months gathering one each of every computer that was
built. Finally the big day was at hand. All the computers were linked
together. They asked the question, "Is there a God?". Lights started
blinking, flashing and blinking some more. Suddenly, there was a loud
crash, and a bolt of lightning came down from the sky, struck the
computers, and welded all the conn…
Folks are getting a wee bit more concerned about their privacy now that Donald Trump is in charge of the US.
You may have noticed that he and his regime love getting their hands on other people's data.
Privacy isn't the only issue. -- Can you trust Microsoft to deliver on its service promises under American political pressure?
Ask the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) which after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fo…
I honestly think Trumps cribs his hedgy bullshit answers from a Magic 8 Ball -
- Better not tell you now
- Ask again later
- Signs point to yes
- You may rely on it
- Outlook good
- Outlook not so good
- My sources say no
- As I see it, yes
@… my friend should be bridged from @kaludiasays.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy but they do not appear! I can't find a good place to ask why and track down nay issues.
Online Fair Division with Additional Information
Tzeh Yuan Neoh, Jannik Peters, Nicholas Teh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24503 https://
To this day I'm still not sure whether the fact that none of the circumstances in the song Ironic are _actually_ irony, does in fact, make the song ironic or not, but at this point Im too afraid to ask.
#AlanisMorissette #irony
Can you describe specific ways you have integrated Al tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond simple prompt usage.
there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.…
Aaron Donald granted Jared Verse's request, puts him through an intense workout: 'Ask and you shall receive'
https://www.cbssports.com…
Democrats ask Bondi for Epstein files after Musk's Trump allegation (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5337155-democrats-ask-bondi-for-epstein-files-after-musks-trump-allegation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p123#a250606p123
Four Democrat-Led States Ask FDA to Lift Restrictions on Abortion Pill
https://gizmodo.com/four-democrat-led-states-ask-fda-to-lift-restrictions-on-abortion-pill-2000612027
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Today I was basically my own biggest fan club, cheering myself on with all the confetti and good vibes 🎉
I spent the day treating myself like the absolute legend I am, and honestly, if I were someone else, I’d totally ask me out 💅
Sending all the love out to you beautiful humans, be queer, be awesome, and keep buzzing like the fabulous bee you are 🐝💖
#Queer
Ask not what your guru can do for you. Ask what you can do for your guru.
"Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
"An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have
said 'Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help grow…