@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Rebuilding the library community in a post-Twitter world" by Ned Potter: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/rebuilding-the-library-community-in-a-post-twitter-world
(unfortunately, due to "audience reasons" he pr…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org...I didn't realize until I was an adult having parents who loved you and made it obvious they did day to day is so valuable...
A parent that loves their work also provides huge benefits, in my experience...
https://curiouscatlinks.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-was-lucky-…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialThis process is very comfortable for me. What can I say? My internet is trash...
This is the final part 3/3
#UFOSandyShores #GTAV #GTA5
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAnyone with experience on here driving an #EV around the French Alps? Problems finding chargers? ABRP looks like it's a bit thin on the ground for fast chargers? Maybe ok for trickle charge? Trying to work out if I dare rent an EV or should l stick to ICE for now (which I really don't like..). #askFedi
EDIT: update - thanks all for your helpful info, looks like it's easily possible even in the french Alps. Looking forward to my summer holidays!
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.
@ErikUden@mastodon.dethe first time i needed a lawyer an AI chatbot picked up... it was actually a good one who understood me and used my deranged ramblings of what happened, and basically filed a very complex form for me, right then and there, on the phone. It was a random law firm in cologne my legal insurance automatically forwarded me to. I was impressed, as I had not seen such a technology before, and my hatred towards AI Chatbots mainly stemmed from my experience with chatbots, and my hatred towards AI. Th…
@shaun@mastodon.xyzHad a great, entirely unexpected experience with the State Troopers at a protest today in #Memphis. They showed up and parked nearby; we all figured they were itching for us to violate the new #Tennessee "PEACE Act" law (which restricts protests) so they could jam us up.
Then a MAGA came…
@robert@flownative.socialIt's official! I'm speaking again at the International PHP Conference in Munich! 🎉
My talks:
"Content Management in the Age of AI: A Headless Approach" - How Headless CMS and AI are shaping the future of content
"Digital Souvereignity: Where to Put My Kubernetes?" - Practical experience with K8s on European infrastructure
Also looking forward to @…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTo give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.
@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.socialSometimes I feel like a broken record when #writing about #neurodivergence
But re-processing my past through the lens of #Autism
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeTo my local peeps in #Georgia, US. The wife and I went to this last night and it was AMAZING. They only have one more weekend this year, but they will be back next year. Impressive production value, world class performers and artists. The guy operating the dragon is from Jim Henson studios (and worked with Henson back in the day). I can't say enough good things about this.
@bogo@hapyyr.comBehold :) My new #cybersecurity talk is ready and you can see it in the best events around you.
Title: The archetypes of the attackers.
Summary: This talk will lead you on a journey to discover the archetypes of attackers, the tools they use, their motivations for targeting what you've built, and how a geopolitical shift can alter their interest in your resources.
@markhburton@mstdn.social"We use cookies and similar technologies to support the #Guardian and personalise your experience in other ways. To do this we work with a cross section of 132 partners."
132!!!
So rather than paying them again (we still have the Guardian Weekly, against my better judgement), I accept and then use this Firefox/LibreWolf/Iceraven extension:
@aardrian@toot.cafeLast night 8 of us got together for Call of Cthulhu. First RPG for one of us, and a couple of us with decades of experience gaming together. Went off without a hitch. Other than my reporter getting killed by a swarm of vermin (one of two deaths).
@lmc@mastodon.socialIt’s never good when the estimated arrival time goes to TBD. In my experience this usually means at least four hours.🤞
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaThe macOS experience in 2025. The main reason I now use Linux instead of my Mac.
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeTo my local peeps in #Georgia, US. The wife and I went to this last night and it was AMAZING. They only have one more weekend this year, but they will be back next year. Impressive production value, world class performers and artists. The guy operating the dragon is from Jim Henson studios (and worked with Henson back in the day). I can't say enough good things about this.
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deI had the Frieren experience today. I went shopping with my family in the Hackescher Markt area of Berlin. It's my first time after almost two decades I spent some leisure time there. And more than just a few locations have changed quite significantly, more than just a few shops shut down. Let's not talk about Tacheles.
Other than that it was a beautiful time we spent together. We didn't buy anything but had lots of fun in a few second hand stores.
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgJohn Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...
@seav@en.osm.townOof. #OpenStreetMap minutely replication is currently broken: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/131884
For me this means that recent edits I made are not queryable via O…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgI was in fact very doubtful about if it can happen but the local hunter who will take us out is extremely knowledgeable and is sure it can work. We'll see, its hard to beat that kind of knowledge experience, which we can supplement with satellite photos analysis from my @… colleagues in the ice service. And in fact we could watch another sled navigate the same route while we discussed #Fielddiary
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhen do composite estimands answer non-causal questions?
Brennan C Kahan, Tra My Pham, Conor Tweed, Tim P Morris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22610 https://
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.uskaoshipnótico – Ascensores, aeropuertos, escaleras, ahorcamientos, castraciones
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/17/kaoshipnotico-ascensores-aeropuertos-escaleras-ahorcamientos-castraciones/
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@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaMy experience with a cloud service yesterday suggested a new HTTP verb "SMACK" for when you want to just hit a service until it works like you want it to
@pre@boing.worldI read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld
@usul@piaille.frFocus and Context and LLMs | Taras' Blog on AI, Perf, Hacks
#AI
@mikebabyak@musicians.todaySort of mind-blowing anecdote during my #leukemia treatment. Between hospitalizations I had outpatient clinic visits twice a week. My first time there I was sitting in the waiting room with 4 or 5 other patients, who were chatting.
One of the guys was talking about his experience getting CAR T treatment for lymphoma. CAR T is a fairly new, very high tech intervention. The man then veered …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itJust told my daughter, "I feel sorry for your generation. You will never experience the Hamster Dance being a world-wide phenomena. That time in history is over."
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/114671744172890505
@drbruced@aus.socialForty years ago I moved to Scotland and tried to read the classic “A Scots Quair” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It’s written in a variant of Scots that aimed to be accessible to English readers. I had the Scots dictionary by my side and was looking up words constantly until I gave up. A few years later (with some more experience of hearing Scots spoken) I read it without the dictionary and, while I was occasionally guessing at words from context, I went with the flow and loved it.
Like mos…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How to take the inverse of a type.
https://2022.ecoop.org/details/ecoop-2022-papers/6/How-to-Take-the-Inverse-of-a-Type
saved 2025-06-03
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euGot tired of AC Odyssey and decided to revisit my GOG library. It's full of classic goodies, which I often forget. Medal of Honor Allied Assault is still one of the best single player shooters. The orchestral music and the heroic story make this game a first-class experience, and the id 3 engine is built for digital gunplay.
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://d…
@arXiv_statOT_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16613 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…
