@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-17 19:57:03
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dining Dead:
🎵 Burn Your Dinner
#DiningDead
https://wearediningdead.bandcamp.com/track/burn-your-dinner
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p7ZWyzSXbsGHvJ7WOQo7q
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-17 19:57:03
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-17 10:00:01
Tip of the Day:
Never fry bacon in the nude.
[Correction: always fry bacon in the nude; you'll learn not to burn it]
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange2025-09-18 11:38:16
Microsoft Azure/Cloud/AD considered harmful (twice, again)...
Context: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115220941705031025 and
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-08-16 06:51:22
From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
via @mimsymars@threads.net
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-08-16 18:01:13
burn it all down
https://archive.is/tR3PX
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-08-16 06:24:04
Back to poking at the solder cross section test sample.
Initial findings:
1) I should have sanded them more by hand prior to embedding. There's a LOT of material to burn through. I've probably worn out 5-10 P180 sanding disks so far and am not even at the PTHs on the main region of interest yet.
2) The samples are quite a bit off level. I need to figure out a better way to fixture them in the embedding mold so they don't tip forward.
I'll keep on polis…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-07-11 18:09:50
Cowboys Rookie Tyler Booker: Not Winning at Alabama Fuels My 'Burn and Passion' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-rookie-tyler-booker-not-winning-alabama-fuels-my-burn-passion
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-04 05:10:36
Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-09-08 16:48:38
Just imagine this has to be payed for by the users (instead of the VCs): high cost and high energy needs may very well make LLMs unsustainable.
OpenAI to Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/142…
@TFG@social.linux.pizza2025-07-16 05:43:58
Your annual reminder that Richard Palmers name be cursed and he may burn in hell.
#capitalism
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-07-11 06:07:03
@cobordism@berlin.social2025-09-16 11:04:28
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/
"Intentional, opt-in micro-communities are rising [..] where creators chase depth over scale, retention over virality. A writer with 10,000 devoted subscribers can potentially earn more and burn out less than one…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-08-15 14:01:30
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-08-15 14:01:30
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-06 02:01:21
OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-says-business-will-bur…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-13 22:27:13
After being informed his heat shield may have come loose,
John Glenn held steadfast in the face of real uncertainty,
-- as he observes the retro pack burn up outside his window,
illuminating the cabin in an orange glow,
during re-entry on February 20, 1962.
"This is Friendship Seven. I think the pack just let go ...
A real fireball outside! ...
Great chunks of that retro pack breaking off all the way through!"
-- Credit: NASA / And…
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.org2025-08-14 04:20:42
I watched "Thief" (1981), directed by Michael Mann. Sort of a heist movie, sort of a mob movie, but aspires to be a Cassavetes movie. An interesting mix, and really well shot. Ryan Coogler said this was the film that made "wet-downs" a thing, and judging by all of the wet streets & sidewalks, I believe it.
Features Willie Nelson in a minor role. Also features a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-07-12 22:13:43
If you burn fossil fuels (and have no plan to migrate to an EV & heatpump or similar), plus you buy a lot of plastic (made from fossil fuel) and acrylic/polyester clothing - well I hate to break it to you, but you cannot make up for this by being a vegan or re-posting toots from a Kindness to Animals NGO.
Those animals you want to be nice to require a clean world with a normal climate in order to survive (incidentally, so do we).
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-18 11:00:49
"2025 on track to beat UK record for wildfires, warn firefighters"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wildfires #Climate
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-11 13:33:13
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-09-11 16:05:29
on this week’s good ol’ #GratefulDead cast, we unpack “franklin’s tower,” including tape of garcia's 1st time singing it, a look into the multitracks, & robert hunter’s verse-by-verse lyric breakdown (in response to our buddy jürgen fauth!)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-07-11 11:04:31
"[Chain of reasoning] reports are untrustworthy on principle: they are plausible explanations for plausible responses, and since the inferences involved are more complex, they burn more compute and carbon per query as well as introducing more mistakes"
This is a particularly offensive point about #LLMs: we actually do have a class of systems, inference engines, which do reason and can…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2025-07-14 12:00:02
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2025-09-13 11:25:11
Sonnet 055 - LV
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword, nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death, and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-10 15:44:43
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2025-07-11 17:26:10
It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-12 19:05:52
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
Anoushka Shankar:
🎵 We Burn So Brightly
#AnoushkaShankar
https://open.spotify.com/track/18BOCDDdJ12B5sPAefLUBw
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-14 18:11:39
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-07-09 06:47:23
911? Send the burn unit here, stat.
#MAGA #micheletafoya #lol
Original post:
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-13 22:33:29
Two wildfires are burning at or near the North Rim, known
as the White Sage Fire
and the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The latter is the one that destroyed the lodge and other structures.
The park initially was managing it as a controlled burn
but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew to 7.8 square miles (20 square kilometers) because of hot temperatures,
low humidity and wind, fire officials said.
No injuries have been reported.
Millions of peo…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-06-29 11:11:05
Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn #environment
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-08-28 23:52:35
Views of #Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1961165064666312956 -> https://bsky.app/profile/dutchspace.bsky.social/post/3lxigiz466s2o
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-07-13 01:32:35
Is anybody else very sensitive to acidic flavors?
Like, most hot sauces just taste like slightly vinegar with a side of burn to me (and thus aren't particularly pleasant to eat), i can't taste the pepper at all.
Every store bought Asian sauce in a jar (and some frozen ones) tastes predominantly of vinegar to me. I've found exactly one frozen orange shrimp sauce that actually tastes sweet and orangey like restaurant sauce does, rather than just like acid. I assume this…
@davej@dice.camp2025-06-23 19:38:33
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-08-25 20:03:24
I've skimmed the actual text of the so-called "flag burning" executive order.
It is a more dangerous order than it looks.
The EO looks at "desecration", a more expansive concept than "burning".
It leverages other laws, such as a local "no burn day" order (often used in forested areas during high fire risk situations), to initiate deportation and other punitive responses that may themsevles happen too quickly for a trial or any min…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-08-27 17:55:59
Man who burned flag near the White House says ‘it was my right as a citizen’ - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/27/flag-burn-arrest-trump-order/
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-08-08 15:48:31
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-09-13 01:33:00
Learn how fire researchers are burning down homes to find ways to save them. Find out the innovative methods being used to protect communities from wildfires. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-07-20 17:42:03
from my link log —
Chess grandmasters do not burn 6000 calories per day.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/167018896
saved 2025-07-02 ht…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-08-01 16:55:03
Here’s a fascinating dive into the dissonance between the Trump admin’s “Back to petrochem! Burn ourselves alive!!” energy policy and the actual reality on the ground, which is a massive shift toward renewable energy.
Reported by @… (my old friend from college!), featured on @…:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072025/inside-clean-energy-solar-and-batteries-lead-us-power/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-09-04 21:58:27
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth...
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-06 09:10:10
Influence of Density Distribution on Synchrotron Polarization Dispersion in Magnetized Interstellar Medium
Yawen Xiao, Jianfu Zhang, Alex Lazarian, Dmitri Pogosyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02938
@evemassacre@assemblag.es2025-09-03 09:47:30
This afternoon I will start a project that I postponed all summer: Figuring out how to move my club collective's web stuff to a new provider. (*shakes fist at Hosteurope which should burn in hell for switching their mail service to bloody Microsoft 365 model with a monthly fee per every single email adress*) Last time I did this was 15 years ago and I can't wait to relearn / see what has changed and is more complicated today! 😅
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-10 11:00:36
"Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-08-01 15:36:01
Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada und #Europa.
Im Juli 2025 wurden auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks außergewöhnlich starke
@scott@carfree.city2025-08-01 03:25:04
Don't usually weigh in on L.A. stuff but if it's not safe to build 7 duplexes there, then it's not safe to rebuild 5,000 single-family homes there. Make up your mind, Newsom and Bass.
https://laist.com/news/housing-homeles
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-01 01:40:39
KPop Demon Hunters' rise to become the most-watched Netflix original movie followed a slow burn and reaffirms the old Hollywood rule that nobody knows anything (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-09-03 17:53:18
Facts look different in different contexts...
Nigeria, Libya, Caspian Sea, and other oil patches in impoverished places are effectively without the concept of environmental regulation. They flare whatever wherever they want. In Nigeria the rampant theft of unrefined oil and "fire pit refining" is beyond anything done by regulated refiners in TX.
Not that we want to emulate Nigeria or Azerbaijan or Libya...
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-09-10 05:15:49
I really hate bad AI voice overs. I do appreciate & celebrate AI use in many scenarios like prediction & image processing but bad voice synthesis, especially on YouTube, rly gets on my nerves. They can make some videos utterly unwatchable.
Cheap synthetic speech can burn in hell.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-11 03:57:22
Current Situation:
The Gifford Fire moderated today
but continues to burn in the rugged Garcia Wilderness,
advancing toward the Huasna Valley and the community of Pozo.
This steep, inaccessible terrain has no recorded fire history,
making containment challenging.
Crews are strengthening control lines along Avenales Ranch Road, the Salinas River bed, Hi Mountain Road, Caldwell Trout Creek, and the Huasna River.
These efforts will continue tonight.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-08-05 20:21:37
Patrick Mahomes still bothered by Chiefs Super Bowl loss: 'Where are we going to go now?'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrick-mah…
@outer@mas.to2025-08-29 22:34:40
“In front of the United Cigar Store this evening the men were gathered to burn dirigibles, sink battleships, blow up dynamite works and, all in all, savor the very bacteria in their porcelain mouths that would someday stop them cold.”
--From Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
That man was tripping. It might have been brain chemicals alone, but nobody else used those chemicals like that.
#Writing
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-07-28 21:24:12
Remember that my support posts are only starting points, templates. They are not the final word on support.
Added that reminder as an update with examples of more testing *you* need to do (anchor link):
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/tweaking-text-…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2025-06-29 19:38:41
#ListeningClub Since I’ve been able to ambulate a little better lately, I’ve returned to lugging albums upstairs to slowly burn my CD collection. That was The Cramps performing “Psychotic Reaction” live at the Peppermint Lounge in 1981 from their “Smell of Female” EP which, if you can believe it, I listened to an inordinate amount of times during my high school days.
@jake4480@c.im2025-06-25 02:22:55
I started watching Midsommar today (thanks, @…) - I'm like, over halfway done - this movie could've been edited, man. SUPER slow burn. I mean they probably could've cut like, at least 30 minutes of this stuff.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-29 21:01:53
The Ethereum Foundation pauses its grants program, which awarded $3M to 100 projects since 2018, to rethink its spending strategy and reduce its burn rate (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/368804/ethereum-founda…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2025-08-28 15:55:41
The Sony PVM-9044Q came in and initial testing looks great so far. I have the NES connected via Y/C In (a.k.a. S-Video) and the image quality is outstanding. There is some tube burn-in which is noticeable but pretty minor overall, nothing that will get in the way of playing games at all. Overall geometry looks good, doesn't really need a ton of correction.
#retrogaming
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-06 15:38:18
“Trump has a child’s understanding of the world and is driven by ego and whatever impulses come into his weak mind. It’s causing the U.S. economy to burn as he pursues trade and economic policies that are completely unworkable and destroys U.S. leadership on the global stage. And he’s doing a lot of it to distract from the Epstein files.”
Trump discovers rejection on the world stage — because of his 'weak mind': analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-international-leaders/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-11 14:08:42
Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
responded to Trump’s
"Pocket Recission" attempts by saying that “any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.”
Other moderate Republicans issued similar statements, and even Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed some concern, saying he agreed with the president on policy but worried about the process.
Still, the House Republican Co…
@samir@functional.computer2025-07-26 16:24:06
@… I think it’s supposed to be the opposite of “conservative”. Conservatives want to conserve the status quo, progressives want to change it (in any direction). It was never a useful label on its own, but now people call themselves “conservative” even if they want to burn down the existing government and replace it with a kitten on a stick, so… totally useless now.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-30 17:56:35
Just read this post by @… on an optimistic AGI future, and while it had some interesting and worthwhile ideas, it's also in my opinion dangerously misguided, and plays into the current AGI hype in a harmful way.
https://social.coop/@eloquence/114940607434005478
My criticisms include:
- Current LLM technology has many layers, but the biggest most capable models are all tied to corporate datacenters and require inordinate amounts of every and water use to run. Trying to use these tools to bring about a post-scarcity economy will burn up the planet. We urgently need more-capable but also vastly more efficient AI technologies if we want to use AI for a post-scarcity economy, and we are *not* nearly on the verge of this despite what the big companies pushing LLMs want us to think.
- I can see that permacommons.org claims a small level of expenses on AI equates to low climate impact. However, given current deep subsidies on place by the big companies to attract users, that isn't a great assumption. The fact that their FAQ dodges the question about which AI systems they use isn't a great look.
- These systems are not free in the same way that Wikipedia or open-source software is. To run your own model you need a data harvesting & cleaning operation that costs millions of dollars minimum, and then you need millions of dollars worth of storage & compute to train & host the models. Right now, big corporations are trying to compete for market share by heavily subsidizing these things, but it you go along with that, you become dependent on them, and you'll be screwed when they jack up the price to a profitable level later. I'd love to see open dataset initiatives SBD the like, and there are some of these things, but not enough yet, and many of the initiatives focus on one problem while ignoring others (fine for research but not the basis for a society yet).
- Between the environmental impacts, the horrible labor conditions and undercompensation of data workers who filter the big datasets, and the impacts of both AI scrapers and AI commons pollution, the developers of the most popular & effective LLMs have a lot of answer for. This project only really mentions environmental impacts, which makes me think that they're not serious about ethics, which in turn makes me distrustful of the whole enterprise.
- Their language also ends up encouraging AI use broadly while totally ignoring several entire classes of harm, so they're effectively contributing to AI hype, especially with such casual talk of AGI and robotics as if embodied AGI were just around the corner. To be clear about this point: we are several breakthroughs away from AGI under the most optimistic assumptions, and giving the impression that those will happen soon plays directly into the hands of the Sam Altmans of the world who are trying to make money off the impression of impending huge advances in AI capabilities. Adding to the AI hype is irresponsible.
- I've got a more philosophical criticism that I'll post about separately.
I do think that the idea of using AI & other software tools, possibly along with robotics and funded by many local cooperatives, in order to make businesses obsolete before they can do the same to all workers, is a good one. Get your local library to buy a knitting machine alongside their 3D printer.
Lately I've felt too busy criticizing AI to really sit down and think about what I do want the future to look like, even though I'm a big proponent of positive visions for the future as a force multiplier for criticism, and this article is inspiring to me in that regard, even if the specific project doesn't seem like a good one.
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-08-22 21:21:17
I'm still a bit upset that the people with basically all the money in the world have decided to burn a huge chunk of the global economy, and potentially kill billions of people and end complex human society, because someone invented math that could flirt with people who, despite having basically all of the world's money and the ability to kill billions of people and end complex human society, are the most incompetent and pathetic fucking losers on the planet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Olhz2JXrll8
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-08-23 14:36:05
Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less: For fire suppression and cooling, location is everything https://phys.org/news/2025-08-trees-tropics-cool-suppression-cooling.html
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-07-09 07:56:19
Legit Q: What will be the consequences to #Trump if he's outed as a pedophile?
❌ His base doesn't care about his racism, sexism, lack of ethics or criminality
❌ Congress kowtows & rolls over for him every week
❌ SCOTUS is bought & sealed
❌ Reasonable people already know he's evil incarnate
I don't see this as a means to weaken or oust him.
Fr…
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org2025-08-25 18:24:31
https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-flag-burning-4628d588350db4f6baf10ae1d91f49c1
To be honest, I don't want to burn a flag. I don't believe that liberals should let MAGA get away with appropriating national symbo…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-20 18:56:23
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Radiohead:
🎵 Burn The Witch
#NowPlaying #Radiohead
https://hlc999.bandcamp.com/track/radiohead-burn-the-witch-hlc-synthwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/3DpuYpzkvUWXbmzCm6pfzR
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-27 23:30:30
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Goat:
🎵 Let It Burn (edit)
#Goat
https://goat.bandcamp.com/album/let-it-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AGGkrFwa2LyzUkzo9rd2L
@Jyoti@mas.to2025-07-20 20:08:00
Just a reminder:
You don't owe *anyone* the time and energy it takes you to type a reply.
You are not a free encylopaedia.
You have limited time and energy, don't waste it on sealions, trolls and other associated fuckwits.
Block freely, throw out blocks like confetti at a wedding. Engage with good faith arguments but even then, only if you feel like it.
Don't let social media drain you, burn you out.
@bibbleco@infosec.exchange2025-06-28 12:11:59
Incomprehensible USG self-sabotage. The combination of arrogance, stupidity and ignorance required to burn down hurricane and weather forecasting -- IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF THE HURRICANE SEASON?! -- will, incontrovertibly, kill people. I hope their surviving friends, family, coworkers etc get together and sue those responsible into smoking holes in the ground.
#NHC
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-10 10:28:10
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Anoushka Shankar:
🎵 We Burn So Brightly
#AnoushkaShankar
https://anoushkashankar.bandcamp.com/track/we-burn-so-brightly
https://open.spotify.com/track/18BOCDDdJ12B5sPAefLUBw
@spamless@mastodon.social2025-08-24 20:34:51
The new 35-cm offset at the feet is a challenge. This is my fourth week at this level. (I do declines on Sundays.) I upped the ante after hitting my goal of two sets of 100 or more at a 29½-cm offset. So, the challenge continues. I turn 70 four months from today. I think I'll have two sets of 100 or more of these before then.
The parallettes add range of motion and make things tougher still. Try 'em! You'll feel the burn.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-08-19 14:01:26
More than 343,000 hectares (848,000 acres) of land – the equivalent of nearly half a million football pitches [or a suare with sides 58.6 km long] – have been destroyed this year in Spain, setting a new national record, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)
Wildfires rage across Spain and Portugal as record area of land burned | Climate News | Al Jazeera
@jamie@boothcomputing.social2025-07-22 13:10:05
Content warning: Wordle
I kind of rolled backward into the answer. I was ready to burn a word for some letter positions and as I was typing I saw the right word. #Wordle
Wordle 1,494 4/6
🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-08-05 12:21:10
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: But I don't think of YOU as an enemy, Avon. I think of YOU as a future friend.
AVON: [Puts his arm about Servalan and pulls her against him] Your plan had better be fireproof, Servalan, or I'll see you burn with it. [Kisses her. While continuing to hold Servalan he activates com in bracelet behind her back.] Cally?
@pre@boing.world2025-07-19 22:29:10
Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-08-21 14:53:04
@vague@social.linux.pizza2025-08-27 15:16:29
I expect the world to burn before #Trump actually prays re: White House statements over the shooting in Minneapolis.
I'd pay good money to see him on his knees repentant though
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-02 08:55:19
Sub-Neptunes Are Drier Than They Seem: Rethinking the Origins of Water-Rich Worlds
Aaron Werlen, Caroline Dorn, Remo Burn, Hilke E. Schlichting, Simon L. Grimm, Edward D. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00765
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-09-06 14:00:33
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-25 17:44:52
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Rose City Band:
🎵 Slow Burn
#RoseCityBand
https://rosecityband.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn
https://open.spotify.com/track/6bjIsswmRyroGB9BHJSfmx
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-21 23:26:31
Cowboys Embattled Backup QB Torches His Haters With 8-Word Burn https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-critics-throwing/?adt_ei=[email]
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-09-13 14:16:12
Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada:
Nach über einem Monat hat #Neufundland und #Labrador das la…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-05 11:00:30
"Portugal’s burned land triples compared to last year amid intensifying wildfires"
#Portugal #Environment #Climate
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-23 06:15:10
How much of my children's future is AI going to burn up? That depends on how much we feed the hype beast. *That* is why "don't use AI at all without mentioning the drawbacks & a very good reason" is my stance (and I'm an AI researcher, technically).
Local models that run on your laptop: acceptable if produced by ethical means (including data sourcing & compensation for data filtering) & training costs are mitigated. Are such models way worse than the huge datacenter-scale models? Yes, for now. Deal with it.
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, even DeepSeek: get out. You're feeding the beast that is consuming my kids' future. Heck, even talking up these models or about how "everyone is using them so it's okay" or about "they're not going away" I'd feeding the beast even if you don't touch them.
I wish it weren't like this, because the capabilities of the big models are cool even once you cut past the hype.
#AI
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-27 19:07:12
Fascists absolutely LOATHE these flags 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 So I’m flooding the feed with them, louder and prouder than ever!
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Crank up “Rise Like a Phoenix” by Conchita Wurst and let these colors burn bright as a middle finger to hate and oppression.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-09-04 19:15:36
Microsoft extends dominance of carbon removal market: Big tech group’s dealmaking spans investments in projects that burn or bury waste
https://www.ft.com/content/9ed59c61-7d10-44f7-91ce-2c34b12f411b
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@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-09-02 01:37:31
Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds #Turkey
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-22 18:43:29
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Hibou:
🎵 Resolve to Burn
#Hibou
https://hibouband.bandcamp.com/track/resolve-to-burn-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/612TazCkf4idA4HndmEAAp
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-07-12 22:30:48
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2025-07-24 11:25:10
Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-19 16:49:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Gap Band:
🎵 Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
#TheGapBand
https://djsouthernguy88.bandcamp.com/track/the-gap-band-burn-rubber-on-me-slowed-chopped-by-dj-southern-guy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q1NvoaU74oZrh5ETMIWfL
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-27 19:54:28
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Heaven Shall Burn:
🎵 War Is the Father of All
#NowPlaying #HeavenShallBurn
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/track/war-is-the-father-of-all
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BN80vkQuCynmnt6mpaNyd
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-25 10:57:58
Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-29 21:34:34
Cowboys fan burns Micah Parsons jersey — how Steelers' T.J. Watt played a role in trade https://steelerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/steelers/2025/08/29/steelers-cowboys-tj-watt-micah-parsons/85893657007/…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-03 15:04:00
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-03 14:58:00
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 15:00:49
"Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives"
#HeatPumps #Energy
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