Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

No exact results. Similar results found.
@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-30 20:30:03

#uspol

Generals and admirals at Hegseth's pointless "warrior ethos" meeting with the caption "This could have been an email"
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-29 09:28:21

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers
Haoyu Wu, Qingcheng Zeng, Kaize Ding
arxiv.org/abs/2508.20408 arx…

Fact or Facsimile? Evaluating the Factual Robustness of Modern Retrievers
Dense retrievers and rerankers are central to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, where accurately retrieving factual information is crucial for maintaining system trustworthiness and defending against RAG poisoning. However, little is known about how much factual competence these components inherit or lose from the large language models (LLMs) they are based on. We pair 12 publicly released embedding checkpoints with their original base LLMs and evaluate both sets on a factuality b…

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 06:59:05

Long but very good:
"An essay on wank"
It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!
I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.
deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it says what it facially does, but also not push too hard or at all, because challenging the factuality or other face-value elements of the statement is a personal attack on the person saying it and their identity. I'm sure we've all been in such situations, unfortunately, and we can all point to lots of…

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-28 17:50:44

Trump admin issues mea culpa in Oregon National Guard case
lawandcrime.com/high-profile/w

@Simone21@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 21:18:35

Im Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde in der Schweiz die "Geistige Landesverteidigung" gross geschrieben:
Es ging darum, dem Feind im eigenen Kopf keinen Zentimeter Gebiet zu überlassen.
So etwas brauchen wir jetzt europaweit. Wir dürfen es Russland nicht erlauben, uns auseinanderzudividieren.
Es ist geistige Landesverteidigung, wenn wir an unseren Werten&unserer Solidarität festhalten.

Schweineköpfe vor Pariser Moscheen: Festnahmen in Serbien
In Frankreich wollten Täter mit Kadaverteilen vor muslimischen Gebetsstätten Zwietracht säen. Nun wurden in Serbien elf Verdächtige festgenommen. Die Spur führt offenbar nach Moskau.

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-30 12:55:28

Unfortunately, smart money says that Alligator Auschwitz is already living up to that nickname.
esquire.com/news-politics/poli

Wait, How Exactly Did ICE Manage to “Lose” More Than 1,000 Alligator Alcatraz Detainees?
It appears that the agency is just as incompetent as it is cruel.

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-30 01:53:13

It would seem that colonialism and imperialism are also features of late stage communism.
hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-

China: Draft ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law Tightens Ideological Control
A newly proposed law in China would provide a broad legal framework to justify existing repression and force assimilation of minority populations throughout the country and abroad.

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-09-28 21:48:51

Because for a moment there one of Trump's minions was in the news more prominently than he was, and we obviously can't have *that*!
#uspol

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-08-29 18:42:27

In 1985, Sol Wachtler, the chief justice of New York's Supreme Court, famously said, "Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich."
That's what makes it so funny that prosecutors failed to get a felony indictment for the guy who threw a sandwich at National Guard occupiers in Washington, DC.

Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.

@stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org
2025-08-30 16:30:33

In fairness, I wouldn't take his calls either.
indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-m

Modi refused Trump's calls 4 times in recent weeks: German newspaper
US President Donald Trump tried to talk to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi four times in recent weeks amid a raging trade dispute, but the Indian leader refused to talk, according to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine. This demonstrates the anger and caution in New Delhi, suggests the Mainz-based newspaper of record.