@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinetrump asked russia, in public, to get involved in 2016 election on his behalf.
We all saw it.
So miss me with this nonsense Obama made up trump colluding with russia: we can see him ask them for help.
https://youtu.be/OsvWg2FBnts
And, trump, your name is all over the Epstein files, rig…
@brian_gettler@mas.toHappy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
https://
@salrandolph@zirk.usWhenever I find myself falling out of love with New York, or with life (virtually the same thing), I slip a copy of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems into my back pocket.
Today, I invite you see the world through Frank O’Hara’s New York eyes.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/way
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaChris Volpe is running for the US Senate in Ohio. This is the seat vacated by JD Vance, currently held by Republican Jon Husted.
It might seem early, but now it's a good time to start thinking about that 2026 election and trying to rebalance the scales. I like what Chris has to say so far. Not an endorsement per se, just a "hey, you should check him out, and then check out the other candidates, too."
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust 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.
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.socialIch bin ja in der Welt des Cellos nicht zu Hause, aber das ist immer noch die beeindruckendste Performance, die mir bislang untergekommen ist (Solo ab Min. 3:33).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fe4hfmiUo&pp=ygUbbG91IHJlZWQgdmVudXMgaW4gZnVycyBsaX…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineListening to No Kings in The USA by Gangstagrass: #NoKings #Indivisible
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizzaSome shenanigans with Pearls in an Extreme/3xCorruption Ground Control Job in FBC: Firebreak.
First I was a *little* low on health to be hopping (Shake It Off) across the minefield. https://youtu.be/xKMxz_9X3cg
Secondly, this is the effect on the Hiss.
@pre@boing.world
There's a woman I know who, when she was pregnant, was very keen to hear the opinions of crystal diviners and homeopath medics on what sex her new baby would be but wouldn't let the ultrasound-scan technician that actually knows tells her because Spoilers.
On that note, I'm happy to watch #doctorWho #badWolf #tv
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngJust learned that my little visual cosine gradient generator tool (from 2015) is featured in this popular video tutorial (1.1M views) about artistic shader programming:
https://youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY?t=971
The tool is still here:
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialBritish comedian, Bob Mortimer, on WILTY. “I can break an apple in half with my bear hands.” https://youtu.be/mMRhcE7TZgY?si=qC3Tt62d0Wg0UFwD
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialA little Furality Somna montage to remember how much fun it was :neofox_happy:
https://youtu.be/kxyTMeegZQ4
This will be made public in a few months on YouTube, and I'll also post a shorter version on TikTok in a few days. But you get to see it first, awesome creatures of Fedi :neofox_cool_…
@sperbsen@discuss.systemsOur trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 18 City of my walks and joys!
A celebration of Manhattan. I love Whitman's embrace of cities as being just as vital as nature unspoiled. It reflects the humanist aspect of his joy in the world, not a Thoreau-like rejection of civilization.
I also love that Whitman is writing about cruising the streets, making eye contact with potential lovers, celebrating offerings of love.
as I pass, O Manhattan! your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love
Offering me the response of my own—these repay me,
Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Whitman punched up the first line in later editions, escalating to "City of orgies, walks and joys!"
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialAs @… 's 5 principles of civilized AI have popped up again at #bibliocon25 I was wondering if they are published somewhere in a reliably quotable form?
There's a recording of the talk on Youtube (
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe bonnes nouvelles have been exceedingly rare the last 2½ years, but let’s hope that “Bonne nouvelle” by Herr Krank and Cogan is a good omen—I think it’s my track of the year in any case!
https://youtu.be/VIj2uwkV6xQ?si=tVm6NgF0Skmcjd5m
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyMassive glacier collapse in southern Switzerland today, destroying homes in the village of Blatten.
https://youtu.be/y0o8jEF4YaQ?si=CXT3Z8e-JilQCc_X
@vrandecic@mas.to"Why the Left lost on Trans Rights" - a conversation between Sarah McBride and Ezra Klein. Below the link to YouTube, but you can also find it as a podcast. It's not about Trans rights, really. It's about the culture war; grace; demanding perfection in action and flawlessness in language instead of accepting allyship in substance and grace when someone is trying; about not having space to think differently.
1.5h, but I recommend listening. So many nuggets of wisdom.…
@sproid@social.linux.pizzaThe scientific method most of us learned in school—observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion—isn't wrong, but it's woefully incomplete.
https://youtu.be/ulVc6stmrB0?si=brE3SS6qDkKplHF8
@lalle@social.linux.pizzaThe recording of my @… presentation "All the DataOps, all the paradigms" is now online. I have observed that most teams are not aware of differences between data processing paradigms and their practical consequences, so I tried to contribute some order and structure. As usual, I tried to squeeze in too much and rambled, but I hope that it i…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592
@pre@boing.worldWent to Small World Festival. Mostly dry and occasionally sunny.
Small World has such a nice friendly hippy vibe, lots of deadlocks and goths and pirates and beautiful face paints.
Bands all energetic and talented and mostly have been playing here together for 20 years in one form or another. All of 'em doing it for the love of it. Pony doing a great job of organizing the team to put it together.
One dude seemed pretty new, making up synth songs with his repeats and beeps and rapping from audience suggestions. Failed to photograph him well though. There's another 4 bands mentioned in the photo descriptions here.
Medically necessitated more or less total sobriety at the moment, so different whole thing. Those I knew well there mostly working, so lots of time alone dancing soberly and reading. Wish I was better at talking to strangers.
Still good times.
#smallWorldFestival #music #live
@threeofus@mstdn.socialDid anyone ever establish whether or not Annie was in fact, ok?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgnot enough people have heard of
THE TRAIN PIRATES
https://youtu.be/kG8fmSW_5wM
back in 2008 on BBC3 there was a sketch comedy series called THE WRONG DOOR which featured a lot of visual comedy and special effects
stuff like dinosaurs in a pub, that would have been cutting edge 1…
@CondeChocula@social.linux.pizzaSpanish Anthem but it's in a Minor Key
Parece el theme de un Boss de #castlevania 😂
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U0ZfLr7CpuU&si=Xjm-oW0WVeESuST6
@mikebabyak@musicians.todayMorning coffee #soundtrack. For my money, the greatest entrance in all of Western music.
https://youtu.be/BL5R9oRmDYE
@anildash@me.dmman, the entire Clipse tiny desk took me back to why we all fell for them right at the start, they are just such STARS, but I legit got emotional when they put the *desk* in Tiny Desk at the end of the set. This entire album rollout has been the coronation they've long deserved. https://youtu.be/f7gIBB7jKc0…
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.deWarum hat diese Partei nicht 30% und treibt die Regierung wenigstens zurück in die Mitte!?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0hwB-ZOPvwQ
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.socialRandall Monroe's recent "xkcd What if" video has a Great Lakes connection.
"What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?"
Super cool system where we did fieldwork some year ago.
Kudos for mentioning trouble with the Niagara Board of Control. 🏅
https://youtu.be/pfbzrrcQZjs?featu…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlTrump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory - @…
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc
@Lach@social.linux.pizzaA little more than 30 years ago, I learned basic general relativity in physics. I couldn't really understand time. It just seemed like there was something that was missing.
I developed an idea of how time and space should be described, but I never managed to explain it to anyone in an understandable way.
After recently watching Sabine Hossenfelder tear down a paper with a similar idea (
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaMinnesota --
home of the blonde hair and blue ears.
mosquito supplier to the free world.
come fall in love with a loon.
where visitors turn blue with envy.
one day it's warm, the rest of the year it's cold.
land of many cultures -- mostly throat.
where the elite meet sleet.
glove it or leave it.
many are cold, but few are frozen.
land of the ski and home of the crazed.
land of 10,000 Petersons.
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis band comes in at the top of the list of music I'd like to hear in a dive bar. I also wouldn't be at all surprised to find the band members nursing a beer (or four) inside when I walk in the door.
Supersuckers, "Roadworn and Weary" (1997)
https://youtu.be/HP-nRS5Pklk…
@randy_@social.linux.pizzaI haven’t been very active in the last month. I haven’t watched many movies or taken much photography. All of this is because I finally found a new flat away from city life, close to nature. One thing that has changed is that I’m back to being very active on Couchsurfing. I love meeting new people from around the world, fellow travelers with great stories, and maybe even friends for life. This is much more interesting and important than following every footstep on what’s happening in the new…
@mapto@qoto.orgXueni Yang brings our attention to invisibility vs hypervisibility in Cao Fei's Haze and Fog art movie
#SecurityNarratives
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 34 I dreamed in a dream
On the surface this short poem is a sort of City on a Hill vision. But I'm going to go with a more radical reading.
This poem reads to me as a fantasy of a gay society. A city of men, lovers, set apart from the rest of the world.
a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth ...
the quality of robust love ...
the actions of the men of that city
And in all their looks and words.
I can't plausibly argue Whitman conceived of a city set apart in the way I imagine. Although all of Calamus is him constructing the idea of a society of lovers, comrades, brothers, robust love. That to me is very gay.
Intriguingly, in the unpublished Live Oak draft of this poem it is even more explicitly gay:
I saw them tenderly love each other ...
Nothing was greater there than manly love
It seems to me he dreamed a very gay city.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotThis is Jon Stewart and it's very good presentation showing how what's going on in the US makes no sense at all. He manages some humour in the midst of his obvious frustration. Be ready to laugh through your tears.
Worth a watch:
https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?feature=shared…
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org @brian_gettler@mas.toToday's #TuneTuesday theme is #LondonCalling - songs that name-drop a town or city in the title or lyrics.
This has long been a favorite, a song from an alt-country legend about Townes Van Zandt, the composer of some of the finest US songs of the 20th century. It mentions a whole series of cities.…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaWhat happens if you mix thrash metal, nu metal and trap metal in the same song? Close to this one https://youtu.be/aMcpF8uLpD4?si=SkiOLNOn6-Rzc_-h
@roland@devdilettante.comI am no better and neither are you
We are the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in <-- #SlyAndTheFamilyStoneForEvah :-) https://yout…
@thopan@norden.socialPink Turns Blue – Live in Stuttgart, 2021
So coole Musik, die fließt so vorwärts. 🖤
https://youtu.be/MDKIJ7cwxnE?si=33ox5CkRRhMsPBST
@rmdes@mstdn.social
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 071 - LXXI
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it, for I love you so,
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O! if, I say, you look upon this verse,
When I perhaps compounded am with …
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialThe new Quadcast episode is also available on YouTube if you don't download podcasts. The Spread of Christianity in the Greek and Roman Empires with Professor Teresa Morgan https://youtu.be/ggjDX0Gcdg4
@raysofred@discordian.socialI am in awe
The animation
the storytelling
The drama
https://youtu.be/DxiMRnqWSQE
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialI'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
#AmReading
@vform@openbiblio.social"Mark & Ines besuchen die 'Blinden-Bibliothek und -Druckerei' (Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen (dzb lesen)) in #Leipzig"
https://youtu.be/rIEws2KMy8I?si=dfEFxK
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialTrump is testing his martial law plans in CA.
https://youtu.be/xmccODa5OYE?si=PuGbg2M1ff1-iCUq
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineDeath Valley, with Timothy Spall, is great for at least two reasons:
1. Timothy Spall
2. Wales. And Welsh.
In a different timeline, the standard British accent is Welsh, and the rest of the world is enthralled (possibly even ensorcelled) by its musicality, and there's world peace and universal love and much happiness.
I missed it since Torchwood.
@yachtbar@mstdn.social"“Ohio” is a protest song written by Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. "
#USpol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldJohn MacArthur has died. Many people are celebrating his life. Don't let discussion of his life and legacy devolve into idol worship.
https://julieroys.com/navigating-grace-truth-addressing-john-macarthurs-legacy-with-love-in-hi…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI think I’ve found a track that finally, perfectly condenses all that can be awful in current post-ironic human-made sound and word. A pill of distilled musical cyanide so effective that your ears will bleed torrents of pus in protest, not from volume but from the sheer nagging spiritual violation of it all.
https://yout…
@matzeschmidt@masto.ai @mikebabyak@musicians.todayRevisiting some of my favorite #Kimock tracks over the past few days. 1-22-06 in Carrboro, the final SKB show. This was the opener. Sort of a plugged in Bitches Brew.
https://youtu.be/2npgKHkvn2k
@fanf@mendeddrum.org
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineDon't start with World War II love letters between your grandparents. Instead, start with five of the 18 pairs of scissors you've got in your kitchen drawer. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-192-make-mistakes-on-purpose/…
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social @threeofus@mstdn.socialHappy #TuneTuesday. This week's theme is #ClipClopMusic .. 🐎
So pleased to have an excuse to share Knights of Cydonia from #muse. The most epic sci-fi Western video in the entire history of sc…
@pre@boing.worldSpam account applications increasing. Easy to tell on our server coz nobody is really allowed unless we already know them, and the spam accounts never even try to mention an existing user.
Must be hard to tell for those with more open instances though.
I'm a creative thinker who enjoys exploring quirky, fun, and offbeat
communities. Boing.world caught my attention for its unique vibe, and I’d love
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@whophd@ioc.exchangehttps://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXw0cB2LiiXi9EA0cCgpHyYJVis2gjHIK?si=YG2de1VJnKzpj9u0
Spot the moment “WYSIWYG” entered the social consciousness in 1993. And if you jump to 06:00, you’ll see part of Emma Bunton appearing as an extra for 5 …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…
@brian_gettler@mas.toA song I think of every time I hear about major flooding from summer storms (as in #Montreal yesterday). The studio version's good, the live one's better.
Blue Meanies, "Pave the World" (live, 1998)
https://youtu.be/bTiRP8qZmUI
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialVergelijk het verslag van het gesprek tussen Trump en Merz in #Nieuwsuur eens met het onderstaande.
Ze hebben bij Nieuwsuur erg hun best gedaan om zoveel mogelijk bullshit eruit te knippen en de indruk te wekken alsof Trump er nog 2 of 3 op een rijtje heeft.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#SGDQ2025 starts today!
For those who haven't heard of it, it's a charity marathon steam (plus in-person event for many of the runners) that raises money for Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). Some of the best runners in the world speedrun games for an entire week, and while there's sometimes cringey moments, it's overall an LBGTQ-inclusive space with a thoughtful core team, and there are always going to be a ton of epic and/or hilarious moments throughout the week.
Check out the schedule page to see if any games you love are on it, and you can always catch VODs on YouTube after the fact if you miss something good.
I was going to post some games I'm looking forward to, but it seems like the schedule & main page are down right now. Hope it's not a DDoS...
#SGDQ #GDQ
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgooh new vid from tim hunkin about his (now closed) gallery in the science museum in south kensington https://youtu.be/cqpvl-YGFD4
@brian_gettler@mas.toSome music for today's protests in the US. Stay safe everyone. Don't forget to dance as needed.
Laura Jane Grace, "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" (live, 2021)
https://youtu.be/7-nj4QhjJpc
