@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 18:09:37
@… Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 18:09:37
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-01 14:58:42
F-16 ammunition, air defenses — Netherlands announces $290 million Ukraine aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/01/f-ammunition-air-defenses-netherlands.html
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-01 17:31:23
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 13:34:11
Any of you smart people ever mocked Composer in a test? If so, how did you do you do it?
https://github.com/composer/composer/discussions/12755
@…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-30 23:28:42
Schedule F won’t fix government’s performance management problems, report finds - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/schedule-f-wont-fix-governments-performance-management-problems-report-finds/411107/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-01 16:25:33
F-16s scrambled, flares deployed to intercept plane near Mar-a-Lago (Emily Mae/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f-16s-scrambled-intercept-plane-near-mar-a-lago/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p43#a251201p43
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 20:46:09
In which I compare the AI bubble to the Kansas Experiment: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/27/Kansas-and-GenAI
(Tl;dr: In 2011, Kansas slashed taxes based on Tea-Party theories that this would stimulate growth and make everyone better off. It di…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-30 23:37:28
Can you do a favor for my friend @…? He was already having a lousy enough week with his car and his city falling apart when state troopers arrested his wife @… for protesting against the murder of Alex Pretti. (Arrested for what? AFAICT, they were just looking to make an example of some protestors. Just good old harassment via the legal system.)
Now the family has lost work and impending legal bills on top of that new transmission. I’m sure they’d appreciate it if you can chip in a few bucks:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-miriam-recover-from-legal-fees-and-lost-work
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 17:31:37
Thread of videos from @betaworks.com Demo Day last month, focused on new interfaces for computing enabled by or used for LLMs.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7h2osvsy22u
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us2026-01-30 11:12:41
datewithdeath – 0H00x001222223333344d45N67777 8 ° 8 °8 i###pppAABCD,,,D,EF.F.F.F×
https://povertyelectronics.bandcamp.com/album/0h00…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2026-01-31 12:16:31
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-27 22:59:08
Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: #USpol
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 19:02:32
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-01 02:35:32
Panthers Upset Rams to Shake Up N.F.C. Playoff Picture https://www.nytimes.com/video/the-athletic/100000010556030/panthers-upset-rams-to-shake-up-nfc-playoff-picture.html
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.club2026-03-01 13:07:59
Denne artikel fremstiller det som om, der i dag, i hŸjere grad, stemmes på personer end på den fŸrte politik. Det må siges at udgŸre et demokratisk problem, da vi så ender med, at det er de personer der bedst kan promovere sig, der vinder, fremfor dem, der vil fŸre en fornuftig politik. Politik er trods alt mere partier end personer. #DKPol
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-30 23:38:33
Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93…
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2026-01-31 20:39:04
Die halbautomat. Erschließung des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen #SOS für den #Editathon klappt einigermaßen gut: Vorlesungsverzeichnisse der HU ziehen und parsen -> Bilder der Abschnitte zum Seminar herunterladen -> mit qwen-vl strukturieren -> mit OpenRefine reconcilen. Das Ergebni…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-01 06:16:01
Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage (Alan Boyle/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-leo-fcc-extension-request/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-02-27 23:48:40
The F train made an accurate appearance in this SNL skit that my 13yo showed me. https://youtu.be/mJJEW2q2F50?t=290
@tanyakaroli@expressional.social2026-03-01 11:06:43
Sjældent har 1. marts fŸltes så meget som et skift fra vinter til forår 🥰🪻🌷
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 05:51:45
Maybe a roving band of angry orcas will take them all down. https://mstdn.social/@edwilk/115811938936066718
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 18:00:58
Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions. Need …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-31 07:44:34
Another evening of filter refactoring and optimization, a few more nice performance jumps.
I've now done a first pass (remove deprecated method signatures, add explicit input location, add NVTX trace data, do easy GPU optimization if I see an obvious low effort win) on all filters A-F alphabetically plus a few later on that were priorities for one reason or other.
90 down (of which 23 were optimized and the rest just refactored), 115 to go.
Some of the remaining ones sh…
@rer_c@lepoulsdumonde.com2025-12-30 08:04:41
Le trafic est ralenti de Bibliothèque F.Mitterrand vers St-Quentin en Yvelines, de Bibliothèque F.Mitterrand vers Versailles Château et de Bibliothèque F.Mitterrand vers Pontoise.
Rendez-vous sur la rubrique "Recherche Itinéraire", pour retrouver un itinéraire prenant en compte cette perturbation.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : affaires oubliées en gare de Pont du Garigliano (incident terminé)
🤖 30/1…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-28 20:14:30
‘Part of the Raiders DNA’: How Black History Shaped the Silver and Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_EGtsroT74
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-02-25 18:57:16
Zooi ... Maar weer eens Kodi uit de kast gehaald in combinatie met deze app uit de F-droid collectie.
Werkt lekker makkelijk.
Gewoon 'delen naar...' en klaar.
(Na aapassen instellingen)
🙂🙂
PlayOnDlna
#Fdroid #PlayOnDlna #Kodi
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-24 20:15:45
The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion
@datascience@genomic.social2026-01-01 11:00:00
{purrr} has some lesser known functions that make handling of failing function calls easier: safely, quietly, possibly: #rstats
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-01 15:42:04
from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-01-30 20:25:18
Press F to Pay Respects to Your Local Tracker.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-01-30 21:30:04
How To Turn Lentil Soup Into A Winter Treat You’ll Crave #plantbased…
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social2026-01-30 19:36:24
Dem neuen FAZ-Geschichte-Podcast kann man eines sicher nicht unterstellen, nämlich dass er behaupte, unparteilich zu sein oder versuche, seine Parteilichkeit zu verbergen; wir können nun also Geschichtsdeutungen according der CDU-Stiftung lauschen: https://www.
@roland@devdilettante.com2026-01-01 01:48:51
for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2026-02-24 14:41:12
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-28 08:39:33
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome & Sir Antonio Pappano:
🎵 Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: III. Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato, allegro
#Spotify
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-02-28 22:16:28
"Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history" - I am sorry, there is no competition here.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/trump-iran-analysis-us-foreign-policy-g…
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie2026-02-27 20:30:48
Galway City Tribune article announcing my run for the Galway West bye-election.
As most working people know, the current way society is structured is driving us to working long hours often for little pay. It's time that working hard meant having a good life with a secure home.
The successive governments of Fine Gael & Fianna Fšil have put the interests & profits of landlords and investment funds over the needs and housing security of ordinary people.
I've …
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-31 16:58:39
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Anna F.:
🎵 DNA
#NowPlaying #AnnaF
https://open.spotify.com/track/16K4oqZcB9ndj6qHOPRxeZ
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 18:27:36
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 22:06:38
No, Gander is not a “rug pull”.
The crowd equity funding is closing, I think with ~2400 or so Canadian investors including myself, all on the same terms.
Some people didn’t sign paperwork when they got the chance at an earlier offering.
Join us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver in late March if you’d like to meet the Gander team in person
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-30 14:00:46
Quality 'Learing' daycare targeted in Minneapolis 'fraud' video blames designer for typo -- as worker snaps at Post reporter: 'Get the f-k out of here' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/quality-learing-daycare-targeted-in-minneapolis-fraud-video-blames-designer-for-typo-as-worker-snaps-at-post-reporter-get-the-f-k-out-of-here/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p12#a251230p12
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-30 23:32:03
Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-30 20:26:03
US taps Belgium’s Sabena for F-16 repairs for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/30/us-taps-belgiums-sabena-for.html
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-26 21:48:13
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116132712269085120
Update: They opened!
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-01 17:30:46
Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
https://www.
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 19:05:36
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-28 04:27:55
Six planets due to parade across night sky in rare celestial spectacle | Astronomy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/six-planets-due-to-parade-across-night-sky-in-rare-celestial-spectacle
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-02-28 18:54:08
I am afraid AMD, without moving their finger, or giving a single f, is winning and they will peddle a lot more 9000 series cards to a lot of upset owners of 7000 series cards. People are complaining that AA gives you 150 FPS vs MLAA (FP8 emu) giving you "only" 100 FPS. 100 FPS = crap. More FPS vroom means faster, means better. Why it not vroom faster? It's a gacha game.
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 18:42:03
1/ I hate Bitcoin with a probably-unhealthy intensity and have a hook set up so I get notified on big moves (e.g. down 5.3% today). When they come in I glance at the chart and occasionally get stuck for a few minutes. Stock markets have been explained as an argument between buyers & sellers as to the correct value of the underlying real-world thing. But…
#Bitcoin
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-27 00:10:12
NFLPA report cards: Raiders get 'F' in one area, but overall good news https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/02/26/nflpa-2026-report-cards-rai…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-01-31 17:19:49
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115860760450549489
Quick guess, but I’ve read between 1/4 & 1/3 of these
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us2026-01-31 21:28:14
reFUGeeS From Beyond – Under The Radar
https://archive.org/details/refugees-from-beyond-under-the-radar
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-01 10:01:26
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Fletcher, André Previn & London Symphony Orchestra:
🎵 Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra in F minor, IRV 92 (2nd mvt, Romanza)
#JohnFletcher
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jUAm9OWG1bMS7tiRO1kwy
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-29 21:45:34
Saskatchewan winter study.
#photography
@benb@osintua.eu2026-02-01 15:11:06
WOW! Flamingo missiles strike Russia – blackouts in Belgorod, Murmansk, Severomorsk 🚀: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/wow-flamingo-missiles-strike-russia.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-28 14:41:07
Kash Patel's Girlfriend Seeks Fame and Fortune, Escorted by an F.B.I. SWAT Team (Elizabeth Williamson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/kash-patel-girlfriend.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PlA.LGEl.gfsyLHyUt3d5&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p23#a260228p23
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 21:42:20
Def my fave Marvel movie of the past few years
https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115815324355263722
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 17:30:07
GOG @gog.com is getting acquired by its original co-founder Michał Kicińsk
the idea for GOG in 2007 “bring classic games back to players, and make sure that once you buy a game, it truly belongs to you, forever.”
https://www.gog.com/blog/gog-is-getting-ac
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-30 20:15:08
Fuck you Israel.
#Gaza https://mas.to/@kims/115809877280110053
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 17:38:38
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 17:35:39
Really good video from UK Greens leader. Stop running: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q80HKccRoqY
[Disclosure: Member of BC Green Party.]
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-31 20:30:36
Where vaccination rates declined the most, by county (Herb Scribner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/31/measles-flu-vaccine-mmr-rates-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p56#a251231p56
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-28 00:24:15
Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes, and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardra…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-27 17:24:52
In which I’m reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-31 08:14:41
@… Fediverse says hi!
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-30 23:01:25
Scoop: Epstein files include "hung like a horse" message to Clinton email (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/epstein-files-ghislaine-maxwell-clinton
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p133#a260130p133
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-31 17:52:38
The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black
h/t @…
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 17:30:41
Jasper @raedisch.net is joining us at #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver as his first trip to Canada.
Suggested movies or shows referencing Canada and/or Vancouver?
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-12-30 17:29:44
The team at @oxide.computer have company docs on how they expect LLMs to be used https://semble.so/url?id=https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
Pairs nicely (and links to) @bcantrill.bsky.social’s post on using LLMs to write for you on LinkedIn
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-30 19:01:23
DOJ concludes Epstein files review with release of 3.5 million records (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/epstein-files-release-january-trump-clinton
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p97#a260130p97
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-30 23:20:59
Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/woman-told-fbi-trump-abused-her-at-13-epstein-files-reveal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p135#a260130p135
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 21:03:26
RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115979125459235596
Yup I needed a new one
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-29 04:54:05
Blacksky is interesting: https://blackskyweb.xyz
Also, they have transparent finances, which I care about really a lot: https://opencollective.com/blacksky
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-27 21:21:11
Marco Rubio orders US officials to stop commentary that could strain Iran talks (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/marco-rubio-iran-talks-mike-huckabee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p86#a260227p86
@boris@cosocial.ca2026-01-27 17:30:54
I have taken a break from DF to learn… Rimworld.
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3mb2ryqubbs2j
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-25 18:35:59
Got spring crocuses if you want ’em: #Photography
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-29 23:41:38
I always wondered how conducting worked: https://overcast.fm/ ABDzohAmiqQ
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-28 03:31:09
'Not a done deal': California vows 'vigorous' review of Paramount-Warner Bros takeover (Coral Murphy Marcos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/california-paramount-warner-bros
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p119#a260227p119
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 16:56:50
Hey @… here's a screenie of a page linked from masto in Phanpy. How do I get it to open in a real browser so I can come back to it later? This is totally fatal to the way I work.
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-12-29 19:00:33
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-26 20:38:08
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-27 04:26:43
In The Information newsletter, on Block layoffs. Quote:
The best way to destroy public support for AI is for companies to use it primarily to slash jobs. Dorsey says that’s coming: “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.” …Block’s stock, which had been in a slump in recent months, soared 24% in after-hours trading. Investors seem to like the profit implications of a company cutting nearly half the st…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-25 06:06:43
Amazon may be in fairly big legal trouble here: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-bu…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 15:51:00
Vancouver city council calls on feds to address headlight brightness | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-vehicle-headlight-brightness-safety-concerns-9.7061810
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 07:21:53
Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-30 15:35:28
Peeking inside the process of how raw camera sensor data gets turned into an image that looks something like what you see: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
h/t @…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-30 15:18:37
Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-24 18:16:29
IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-24 04:09:48
Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/
What Anil said.
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-25 18:24:42
A report from down in the photography trenches in Minneapolis: https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/6336791578/john-abernathy-pierre-lavie-protest-photographers-ice-minneapolis-thrown-leica
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-02-23 17:30:02
Ouch. What smells like a combination of corruption, arrogance, and ignorance in Vancouver civic staff around planning for False Creek South. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Vancouver-Handling-False-Cre…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-28 19:23:56
Has anybody reading this worked on Google’s RE2 C regex library? I have an amusement for you if so.
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-26 17:54:59
Gregor Macdonald's “Cold Eye Earth” is an excellent big-picture newsletter on energy trends and why it’s so freaking difficult to reduce global emissions. There are grounds for optimism, but still… https://www.coldeye.earth?r=wabr
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-26 17:26:03
Hey, FTC is appealing the Meta (Facebook/Insta/WhatsApp) antitrust case: https://apnews.com/article/ftc-meta-appeal-antitrust-752463c7783ba14b00b686fe0c933f88
(Disclosure: I’m an expert witness for FTC in this litigation.)
