@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says "the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI" and no private company should decide the fate of the world (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2028642231138353299
@bibbleco@infosec.exchangeFinally isolated the alexical notion that had been flittering round the back of my mind for a few days, without my spotting it.
#Epstein, in the videos of police interviews and such that I've glimpsed, reminded me strongly of someone I couldn't place. It's the almost playful, ironically detached manner in the bit about "are you the devil himself?" When he replies som…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comI Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind. (Richard L. Hasen/Slate)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/trump-threatens-nationalize-elections-bongino-yikes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p118#a260203p118
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialTen years ago when I was building electric vehicles with my friends I always hated getting my hands all greasy and dirty.
Five years ago talking to friends of mine who were into gardening and plants I mentioned how I always hated getting soil and dirt all over my hands.
Nowadays when I’m in the kitchen making dough, mixing batter, whipping up icing, I don’t mind getting my hands dirty at all.
It’s just a different kind of “dirt” that I like.
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeI just realized that my father-in-law does not have an email-address!
I’m visiting later for tech-support but that’s only relevant to his wife. She has the notebook, the smartphone and the inbox!
The man has no concept of any of this stuff! 😵💫
(Also, he was working in an actual mine back in the day and not the virtual ones his grand-children yearn for!)
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuI've been bothered by Gluteus Medius. I've tried "activation exercises"—if you have a name for them, I did them. All I got in reply was "You wish!" 🤬
There is an awkward silence in the hip now. The hip is making new noises now. Which makes the internal dialogue weird:
"Hey, brain!"
"What do you want hip?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?"
*silence*
"Hey, brain?"
"What do you want …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWas originally going to upgrade the VM server CPU today since the new heatsink came in, but changed my mind: I don't have an extra LGA 4189 plastic mounting clip so I'd need to remove the old CPU from the heatsink, clean it, and apply new thermal compound etc.
Better to wait until tomorrow when the motherboard I ordered for the microscope bench box comes in. Then I can use its bracket with the new heatsink and CPU, and pull the existing VM server processor/heatsink assembly and…
@cdarwin@c.imThank you Cory🙏🏻
This blew my mind 🧘
https://mastodon.social/@coreyspowell/115812098090569002
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizzaWhoever leaked these Halo builds was clearly having fun writing the readme 😂
Getting ready to set the Xbox up so checked for Cerbios updates, blows my mind the latest release was in the last month... for a 25 year old console 🥲
@chriscz@social.linux.pizzaGetting back into training. Yay!
This past week I did a resilience session after not exercising consistently in a long time, and my normal work day ended up being one of the best I've had. My body felt relaxed and my mind sharp and focussed. I really feel we're made for intensity, or at least I enjoy it. Find what works for you, personally small group training with knowledgeable coaches that instruct has been life changing. I can be a workhorse if I'm told what to do. A dre…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialCurrently reading the collection «Practicing Embodied Thinking in Research and Learning» edited by Donata Schoeller, Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, and Greg Walkerden and it is really very good! Not only does the concept of «embodied critical thinking» resonate with everything I’ve been working towards in my own research, but it also offers a really simple and common-sense antidote to AI in higher education, based on the notion of bringing our own embodied experiences and felt sense to critical t…
@detondev@social.linux.pizza*kneels down to small autistic child with a wide gentle smile on my face* not literally a million times! i know its hard to understand, but its an expression, exaggerating to convey that i saw it so much on reddit in 2022 that it became permanently uninteresting and "reddit" in my mind, and-
*agiant flying saucer swoops by the building, blowing out the windows into teeny little glass specks and giving the place some much needed light these bitches vampires* MY NAME ITH OVERWO…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
In my conscious mind: my own photographs, and those of friends and family, no longer spark emotion.
My unconscious mind reminds me: I avoid rediscovering photos, from three decades ago, that might break my heart.
I want the same emotions, without the breakage.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Eingefrorene Bewegung' #FotoVorschlag 'Frozen Movement'
Ah I almost didn't want to post a photo for this topic until this photo came to my mind. And it's a frozen motion even literally... right?
More about this day:
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeLooking for inspiration for organizing my automations in #HomeAssistant, so two questions to the mastodon hive mind:
- There are groups and labels - how do y‘all use these?
- what’s your naming scheme for the automations?
Mine are currently all over the place with a mixture of different naming schemes and even languages, and I want to move it over to a more future-proof st…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy general framework for thinking about this stuff:
- Brains vary a lot, in a lot of different ways.
- We have names for a few variations, or common patterns of variation. That can be useful, but it’s hardly complete.
- There’s a wealth of as-yet-unnamed neurodivergences out there.
- It’s all but certain that •everyone’s• mind is atypical in one way or another.
- Comparison with, aspiration to, or forced conformance to the nonexistent “average” mind is unhelpful, frequently harmful.
- Embracing variation is the only reasonable (or humane) approach.
6/
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialIt's like they're all in on it.
@samvarma@fosstodon.org
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialI must reluctantly admit that I did not properly prepare for this weather. I did a quick grocery shopping Thursday and thought, "The weather is only supposed to be treacherous Saturday and Sunday", and I purchased with that in mind.
I did not factor in the stretch of cold temps and how long it would take for the ice to melt before it becomes safe to leave the house.
My driveway is a sheet of ice and the only salt I have is Kosher. Thankfully, I have cereal and milk. S…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialwatched the first Jujutsu Kaisen episodes and didn't care for it. Do you think anything changes in the series that would change my mind?
#anime
@wraithe@mastodon.social“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st
@cjust@infosec.exchangeWell, 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 (@…
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@memeorandum@universeodon.comI've changed my mind -- Google and YouTube can't be trusted to do the right thing and must be reined in (Rand Paul/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/19/opinion/rand-paul-ive-changed-my-mind-google-and-youtube-cant-be-trusted-to-do-the-right-thing-and-must-be-reined-in/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p88#a260120p88
@nerb@techhub.social@…
Saw 3 whistle ducks fly overhead while on a walk this morning.
My elderly mind went off on a tangent so I did bit of mods to your duck.
Behold the whistle duck in even more poorly drawn glory..
When did they add AI to paint? Damn thing kept trying to do things to the drawing . And they really screwed up transparency!!
@smurthys@hachyderm.io“I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart."🩸
We're going to see a rise in US Aspirin sales aren't we? Never mind the man is likely saying this just to cover up other medical issues, or just as likely to maintain his image.🥺
#Aspirin #USA #fiction #selfMedication
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThis is heresy; and moreover, it's gross and bad that anyone would want it
"I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)" https://soap.coffee/~lthms/posts/i-cannot-ssh-into-my-server-anymore.html
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng#ThrowbackThursday to attending and interviewing LTJ Bukem during the Logical Progression tour in Berlin back in '96 — my first proper DnB clubnight, mind-altering experience and one more reason to move London back then (the year after), where I became a regular at Goldie's Metalheadz @ Blue Note in Shoreditch...
Two of my alltime fave tracks from the original Logical Pro…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhatever it is for you, please fix it in your mind now. When events are unfolding fast, it’s easy for red lines to slide.
Fix your red line in your mind. •Picture it• now, so that you’ll know it when you see it. Remember it. Write it down. Put it in my replies if it helps you remember and commit to it.
Got it? OK…
6/
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Honestly I think I'm like exactly the person you're describing in your example. My day job being what it is, when I hear "host static files" my mind just immediately jumps to like "Yeah, I could do that with S3".
So I'm trying to purposefully step back, take a breath, and take your advice. But I realize I've been so *in* the co…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: My mind?
LOM: You were talking to yourself in different voices.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/84 B7B3
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@lornajane@indieweb.socialGit has not blown my mind on this scale in many years. What a way to do Friday.
What I didn't internalise before I radically restructured this monorepo is that it has some boilerplate documentation with small but crucial changed placeholders in each project. The rename detection is scattering the files around like confetti on every operation.
@aardrian@toot.cafeIn my case, close but not a nation.
Flying Spaghetti Monster.
https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3m76ujdjoy22l
alt: Current GOP
[…] how many members of each of the following groups do you think are more loyal to a forei…
@Nael@pachyder.me1/3
A thread about a Christmas gift I did for (one of) my brother.
It's a 3d modeled, 3d printed sculpture, composed of 6 monsters in a mackerel fish can.
why 6 ? because our mother used to call him "6 monstres, Š lui tout seul" (six Monsters, all by himself)
In french "six monstres" sound a bit like "Simon".
so:
-I started by a quick sketch to try to lay out what I had in mind.
-Then I modeled it in Gravity Sketch (a VR…
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThis has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI know I've said this before, but it really is nice to be on Mastodon! Like finally finding an understanding tribe. 🙏 Still fresh in my mind are the "wilderness years" - playing tracks to confused social workers (my partner and I felt to foster teenagers for a while; a blessing otherwise!) - and online, to equally confused people on the social media mainframe. 😄
Probably it would have been a good idea to go outside / leave the studio once in a while (outside of gigs) - …
@detondev@social.linux.pizzacurtis sliwa has a new substack where he talks abt how listening to the chainsmokers healed his soul from the stress of campaigning against mamdani and cuomo, and ofc brings up the one cab story again for the millionth time
https://curtissliwa.substack.com/p/the-beats-tha…
@jake4480@c.imGotta talk about this new record while it's on my mind. LOVE finding things like this. This is new LP 'Chapter 1' by British collective SAULT. It has R&B, jazz, funk, disco, soul, gospel & house vibes all over, vibes of Sade or Marvin Gaye maybe, in spots.
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/album
@cdarwin@c.imRelative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaMy controversial take on "AI" ray tracing helpers are that it's a really good idea.
First some background: keep in mind that machine learning tecnologies excell at tasks that have a high reward for success and a small cost for failure. In this case getting most of the rays right improve performance, at the cost of some few rays being shot in nothing.
Secondly, light rays are way too many in real life to be simulated in their entirety, so using some statistics to approximate the lighting model makes a lot of sense here. Plus at the lower quantum scale even phisicists use statistic to explain this stuff, so it's not that irrealistic either.
Finally the source data for this stuff is entirely other games, so ethically sourcing the training data set should not be a concern here.
Here, technology can be good or bad. It's not the tech, it's the use of the tech by the people (but that I mean oligarchic corporations) that makes them good or bad.
@bourgwick@heads.socialpicked this up at the show at p.i.t. & having my mind straight up splattered. coltrane & dolphy (with tyner, garrison, & jones) at birdland in '62, preserved off the radio by #jazz hustler boris rose. dizzying fire & grace by all players at all moments. @…
@billbert@mastodon.socialLate dinner. Smashed potatoes and divine, sinful Brussels sprouts. People watching. Wondering what their stories are. Pondering the sacred texts in the back of my mind. #HeatedRivalry
@jensilber@mastodon.socialIt is another finished-a-book-and-can't-determine-what-type-of-book-I-want-to-read-next day. This is most challenging when I really enjoyed the book I've just finished, because usually I'm hoping to recapture the feeling of it with the next book and have to hunt for something that will match up to it without being so similar that it gets them jumbled in my mind.
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… I'm glad to see this and will bookmark it. Since my distro is primarily X11, I can't use or even test it, but will keep it in mind.
@cdarwin@c.imBack in my day, pedophiles were punished, not protected.
The lengths these fools are willing to go to protect them is mind boggling.
I feel like I’m the crazy one.
-- Karintha Styles
https://bsky.app/profile/karintha.bsky.social/post/3magjkdgeh22t<…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI never realized having pain in my body would affect my mind this much...
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: Servalan.
SERVALAN: I think, if you don't mind, I would prefer my slave to address me as "mistress". [Dayna teleports down, gun in hand, and aims at the guards, who back away from Avon.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/192 B7B4
@cdarwin@c.imAlways on His Mind:
Trump’s Enduring Focus on Biden
After nearly 11 months in office,
the felon-president’s tendency to talk about Joe Biden is more pronounced than ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/politics/tru…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCeeDee Lamb: 'I don't care' if George Pickens earns more to stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-lamb-i-don-t-care-if-george-pickens-earns-more-to-stay-with-cowboys
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Quivers:
🎵 You're Not Always On My Mind
#Quivers
https://quiversss.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-always-on-my-mind-when-it-breaks-me-in-honey-r-e-m-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/08yZSZvNR0eYt8Bx8xkPmA
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
Too many broths spoil the cook.
It's a flippant, inaccurate oversimplification, but the broth part is stuck in my mind now.
@…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeOh my god! I had two similar words in mind and switched last second to the other one! 😵💫
#Wordle 1,664 2/6*
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@pre@boing.worldRun Zack Run!
Glad to see lots of people liking and sharing the Green Party England&Wales broadcast this week. It's striking.
Hope it's happening in the corporate spaces too, though presumably the capitalist leaders there suppress it with their algorithms.
Zack is in general doing such a great job of speaking my mind really it's unreal.
All the other leaders just seem dazed and confused, trying hard to maintain the status quo, ensure that capital power persists and they don't offend their corporate donors.
Or worse, just blaming the poor and the helpless and threatening that hurting people will solve the problems England and Wales face (it won't).
Here's hoping it has some impact and the Green Party make huge progress because the country seems likely to just get worse and worse under any of the other party's policies and positions.
#green #greenParty #zackPolanski
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… @… That’s the one that came to my mind based on the description. Curious to hear if it’s what @… had in m…
@billbert@mastodon.socialMy mind will simply not let me stop devouring social content so I can go the fudge to sleep
Starting to think it’s a poor replacement for physical in-person companionship
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaI just tried collabora office and it's slower and uglier than libreoffice. I'll keep it in mind but for the forseable future I'll keep libreoffice as my primary document editor.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCeeDee Lamb: 'I don't care' if George Pickens earns more to stay with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/ceedee-lamb-i-don-t-care-if-george-pickens-earns-more-to-stay-with-cowboys
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by His Own Hubris
On topic after topic, Trump made clear that he thinks he is the arbiter of any limits to his authorities, not international law or treaties.
"My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,”
he added.
“I’m not looking to hurt people.”
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law,
Trump said,
@buercher@tooting.chAsked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,” he added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
that dog.:
🎵 In the Back of My Mind
#thatdog
https://open.spotify.com/track/6kbp5unr8HDtI3BZaWie6k
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Megra:
🎵 In My Mind
#Megra
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://megra.bandcamp.com/track/in-my-mind-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UcSwc91w0QBondREndseA
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Quivers:
🎵 You're Not Always On My Mind
#Quivers
https://quiversss.bandcamp.com/album/youre-not-always-on-my-mind-when-it-breaks-me-in-honey-r-e-m-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/08yZSZvNR0eYt8Bx8xkPmA
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Phantastic Ferniture:
🎵 Change My Mind
#PhantasticFerniture
https://phantasticferniture.bandcamp.com/album/change-my-mind-dare-to-fall-in-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bQcgUJSzCV48MJwPTnqFN
