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I listen to the Volts podcast for technical news about innovations on the electricity grid, so this excellent discussion of the intersection between epistemology and social psychology was as unexpected as it was interesting. Highly recommended.
Volts: The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Starting from: 00:40:37
Episode webpage:
Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…
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Well, Fediverse Friends, I've done a thing.
I've decided to start blogging again, since I seem to have more time on my hands that I would like as of late.
The most interesting bit - at least in my mind (and certainly worth a larger discussion in a future blog post) is that it is self-hosted on Ghost, and in theory, you should be able to follow it (@…
I have been thinking about how LLM agents pose a threat to open source projects and what strategies can offer us at least some protection. Nevertheless, this is likely to remain a challenge: https://cusy.io/en/blog/how-llm-agents-endanger-open-source-projects.html
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In a discussion about Polymarket trading on military strikes; "We are fast approaching the Jim Bell event horizon."
"NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists"
'"This is like a stick in the spokes of merit review,” says one staffer who requested anonymity because of fear of retaliation. “It devalues discussion of the merits of each proposal.”'
https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-pares-down-grant-review-process-reducing-influence-outside-scientists
h/t @…
This is why I don't fully trust 48hills, even though they're on "my side" in being pro-labor and anti-billionaire. Tim Redmond thinks it's a good thing that a 100% affordable housing development was forced to lop a floor off to preserve views 😫
"The staff reached out to the neighbors,[...]took feedback, and as a result made some changes that lowered the height of the new buildings. That, in a reasonable world, is how this should work" No it's not!!…
Had a great night out catching up with old geek friends in Manchester last night. Topics over interest covered 3dprinting, ISAs (both sorts) the inevitable AI discussion as well as how our kids are dealing with growing up in our future.
»Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk«
On Mastodon / Fediverse, shortening the URL is not necessary at all, because they are not marked in their full length. Apart from the shorter tracking, their data collection frenzy as well as their timing is also very inconvenient.
🚫 https://…
Heat pumps are efficient but small electric generators very much not so.
Anybody know how the cascade performs? If you have a fixed amount of propane and a suitably large generator and wish to heat a house, are you better off running a generator heat pump or just burning it? Assume for the sake of discussion that utility or local solar electrical power are unavailable and that you can't easily capture waste heat from the generator exhaust
I'm in something like 13 different #Slack communities, mostly for various #journalist groups.
Lots of discussion in many about ICE.
Discussions about leaving slack due its ties to #Salesforce, …
In discussion with some speakers we are looking to recruit for #ATmosphereConf, I said we have lots of really great tech talks, but also "how do we shine a path on the road ahead and equip community & builders with some approaches and mindsets"
An invitation a dutch scientist (Cas Mudde) received from the BBC. Quite sick....framing a discussion like this...
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/casmudde.bsky.social/post/3m7zngddjtk2e
Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).
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Among all the (entirely justified) rhetoric about “affordability” I find a striking lack of discussion of half the problem. It’s not just that the rent is too damn high (it is) it’s that the pay is too damn low.
I post on social media expecting discussion, not silence. Disagreement—when it’s thoughtful and evidence-based—is how we learn. Echo chambers don’t make us smarter; conversation does.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-over-dogma-what-weve-lost…
This led to great discussion in an MA class on crowdsourcing and citizen science today
From: @…
https://hcommons.social/@mia/116053173459026787
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Just thought this was kinda neat discussion on the work the put into the slang in Cyberpunk 2077
https://youtube.com/shorts/o8uwh63MA00?si=thPbIZ1sOzTXq4o5
I have not updated my main Mac to the new OS. I have updated my laptop, and regret it. I am concerned about security updates but I believe Apple provides security updates for not-too-old versions.
This UI, though, I just do not feel comfortable with it. I am hoping I can skip this major version and that the next one will be more in line with Apple's historical attention to getting UIs right.
Please don't respond with discussion about the UI, but: please do respond if I am making a security mistake by holding off on the update.
The end-to-end (e2) argument is about where to put functionality in a layered system. It generally argues for functions to be moved out and up, but it does not say you cannot have functionality at lower layers or in the middle. The paper states "A great deal of information about system implementation is needed to make this choice intelligently."
Seen in a discussion about the recent GNU inetutils telnetd vulnerability, someone incorrectly states:
"End to end prin…
Do any of y'all submit your top 10 metal things of the year to the Metal Archives for their poll? I haven't before, but now that I have an account there, I'm gonna do it this year. I guess as long as you have an account there before December 2, and it can be LPs, EPs, or splits even as long as they were released this year and were new material.. the rules are on this forum thread along with discussion, and you'd submit a DM there to the poster of the thread.
First Do No Harm
FDNHPodcast is an in depth discussion with equestrian trainers and professionals dedicated to making horse training happen for the horse not to the horse...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/first-do-no-harm/
A discussion in the immigration office, at the airport:
-- Name?
-- Muhjmatil Ahmed Khan.
-- Sex?
-- Three times a week.
-- I mean: male or female?
-- Doesn't matter. Sometimes even with camel...
Had a fun time talking about my tiny CM system at @…. Lots of good questions and discussion.
It’s pretty well baked now, as ever more to do but keen to find more users for feedback and discussion.
Check out its revamped website:
After a coworker told someone to just deactivate IPv6 ("it only makes problems, noone needs that, it should be scrubbed completely"), we got into a heated discussion over a distance of several desks and space dividers.
Coworkers without IT-background pulled up chairs, brought snacks 🍿 , played Godzilla sounds from their phones.
They probably didn't understand most of the technical terms we shouted at each other, but they liked to watch.
Hacker News discussion of Michael's post:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949564>
@…
At @… we're running many linter-ish tools in CI that I'd like to have easy to apply (codespell, various indentation/sorting stuff, cargo clippy --fix). Are there existing tools that I can wrap those in, so that at the end of a PR's CI run, I get a neat set of "fixup!" #git
@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…
@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…
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Recent #Mastodon releases have introduced new features, at the cost of growing web UI clutter. I hate the additional clicks required for the most common actions, but perhaps it's an acceptable cost?
https://github.com/mas…
Welcome to the Resistance:
Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid
on the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn since Trump returned to the White House.
Liberals are voting for Zohran at the ballot box,
fighting ICE in the streets,
and just generally looking favorably upon social democracy.
This discussion puts the moment in historic context and plots out the strategic exigencies and opportunities ahead.
I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …
I don't think I ever got the reddit model down but I'm going to try it out on this piefed instance with a new New Jersey community
#newjersey
Another ancient classic.
Donald Trump was visiting a primary school in Orlando and visited a 4th grade class. They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.
The teacher asked Mr.Trump if he would like to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy.'
So our illustrious POTUS asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy'. (1/4)
mich nervt es wenn programme eine plugin schnittstelle haben aber keine möglichkeit damit alle funktionalitäten des programms zu erweitern
zb kann man wohl in gimp keine zusätzlichen tools zur toolbox hinzufügen sodass man sich immer durch menüs klicken muss
es lohnt also nicht wirklich für wiederkehrende tasks ein plugin zu entwickeln
<…
@…
Proton does not offer email-based discussion lists as far as I know?
Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://<…
Hab gerade angefangen Ghostty unter macOS lieb zu gewinnen, aber einen nervigen Bug entdeckt wenn Vim über SSH verwendet wird.
Die gute Nachricht: Es gibt wohl einen Fix.
Die schlechte Nachricht: Der Fix ist erst im kommenden Release, für das es noch keine geplante Veröffentlichung gibt :(
https://githu…
Re: discourse about #FediSoWhite
I'm a white man. Was on Twitter throughout #BLM and gained an awful lot of free education from Black folks on there. That was the start of me consciously following diverse folks which is a strategy that's improved my life immensely.
Back on Twitter before the Muskening, there was a lot of diversity. Black Twitter was a thing, and not just first-world (anyone else remember "O jewa ke eng?"). When I went looking for people to follow to diversify my feed, I found them in abundance.
That's why it's so clearly false to me when people claim that the fediverse is secretly diverse, and why anyone making that claim sounds suspect to me. Sure there are a ton of great Black and other POC folks you can find on here, if you look hard. But it's nowhere near the levels of diversity and community that were on Twitter. Which you would know had you been following those people before, so now I have to assume you weren't, and wonder why you feel qualified to make statements about diversity even though you haven't made an effort to engage with diverse voices before?
Also, if you were actually following some of the excellent POC voices on here, you'd know that across different servers and interest groups, almost every group has had a discussion of #FediSoWhite at some point. If all the Black people you follow are independently talking about the lack of community and diversity here, you've either got to believe them or start putting on your clown makeup, and the later is absolutely a choice.
Data Over Dogma: What We’ve Lost in Social Media Discussions
I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, and thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to consider other viewpoints—even without changing our minds—we’ve lost something important.
Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
VILA: I'm now in the inspection compartment. [V.O.] I am now depressurizing. I am now trying to open the hatch.
TARRANT: [V.O.suit comm] Use your delicate skillful touch.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/176 B7B4
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Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim
This was my rabbit hole for today - a fun and fact filled romp through AI datacentre (& other) water usage discussion from Hank Green:
Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??
https://www.youtube[.]com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc
As always - Hank takes a comple…
I was unreasonably giddy when I stumbled across the real-time discussion of implementation of a feature I use regularly in Shotcut — the proposal, the math, the initial implementation, and then how it evolved into the feature I use.
There's something so cool about seeing people nerd out about stuff and seeing development happen in the open.
*discussion of house finances between 13yo and his mom*
13yo: "Um, this is a lot of Life Stuff. I'm going to sleep, I've got Pokemon [video games] to play in the morning."
We're reading this terrific biography for my grad seminar this week. Hamon brings novel insight to Riel, a figure about whom so much has been written, in the process proposing a provocative reading of Canada's origins. I can't wait for our discussion.
Est-ce que le message est assez clair lŠ ?
Que le public dépende du privé pour la discussion publique finit systématiquement par pencher du côté des intérêts privés.
"Après une amende de 120 millions d'euros pour violation de la DSA, X coupe l'accès publicitaire de la Commission européenne : un précédent lourd de conséquences pour les infrastructures numériques publiques"
This is right up my alley. A discussion about the merits of the various #simd implementations. There is even a mention of #linaro and #arm in the episode.
For any political party with principles around LBGTQ , freedom of speech etc , X, Whatsapp and Facebook are no longer platforms for discussion. Everybody should leave, there are better alternatives. Many people find it difficult however, also in my own party (D66, Netherlands).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
I almost signed up for Gaggle Mail even though it's US-based. I figured at least they seem to have good sense in seeing the value of email for discussion groups. And then while trialing I saw they have a function to summarise email discussions via ChatGPT that is *turned on by default*. I mean, wtaf.
So I'm deciding on self-hosting Mailman. It always seems to come back to self-hosting in the end, doesn't it... which is not nearly easy enough for most people to grapple with.
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I see the "maybe we shouldn't do free buses" discussion popping up again. Fares are dumb, and the other day - IN THE FREEZING COLD - I couldn't enter the subway with my kids because the OMNY reader wasn't accepting fares.
#FuckYourFares
I post on social media to invite conversation, not to shout into an echo chamber. Disagreement, evidence, & thoughtful discussion are how we learn. If we’re unwilling to even consider other viewpoints, we’ve lost something important.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/data-ov…
I'm looking for an alternative to Gaggle Mail that is based in the EU.
Essentially listserv hosting (email-based discussion groups).
Any tips/boosts are welcome 🙏
Read more about Gaggle Mail to understand what I'm looking for:
https://gaggle.email
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