I was quite interested in the new atheism movement ~20y ago. I recently remembered something: It surprised me that many of its prominent figures who otherwise would jump on every opportunity to criticize religion (often rightfully so) weren't particularly keen on highlighting the sexual abuse cases in the catholic church.
I guess that observation becomes a lot more interesting knowing that many of the prominent new atheism figures were friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
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So.. folks interested in "local-first" software and apps, I could use your help!
I created a Wikipedia article about local-first software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-first_software
A few weeks ago I noticed there wasn't one, so I started doing some…
Electronics touchers: what is your biggest UI/firmware gripe with your current test equipment (scopes mostly, but interested in what you have to say about other stuff too)? Does ngscopeclient fix it?
I'm always looking for things ngscopeclient can do harder, better, faster, or stronger. Or that existing instruments just don't do at all.
The euphoria on the right after the unjustifiable kidnapping of Nicolšs Maduro has ended an era of illusion.
No more is Donald Trump’s movement interested in posturing for the credulous as restorers of peace.
No more is there outward deception or internal struggle over the meaning of Trumpist foreign policy.
There is only violent, extractive dominance politics abroad
to match violent, extractive dominance politics at home.
America First is moving closer to i…
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre
I'd be interested in reading this, but £116 for 200 pages?
The piss is being taken, along with the money.
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics
Call for activist research -- I'm interested in any theories (academic and not) that discuss how oppressive practices are often unified, but resistance is often divided. The researcher I know who discusses this has committed multiple acts of sexual assault, etc, so I would prefer to find another source. Likely, there will be someone preceding them, as is often the case.
Thank you!
#research
For now, I don't mean to be offensive.
In one way or the other, all my interests are being impacted by "Hi, I'm interested in (the thing) so I have vibecoded this app, can you please pay me a monthly subscription".
So I'm forced to wonder: dear vibe coder, why exactly should I pay to use your app, rather than just vibecode one myself (beside the fact that I don't want to participate in destroying the planet)?
If you use #zsh and are interested in plugins, themes, tab completions or example setups for it, check out my https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins/ list.
the nytimes profile of How Epstein Got His Wings reminds me a lot of Tom Ripley, but with less murder. Ripley had a talent for math, Epstein started as a math teacher. Ripley's entry into wealthy lifestyle began with fixing some rich guy's taxes, Epstein gained access to wealthy patrons with tax-avoidance advice. they both played piano while running all types of self-interested cons on all their charmed associates. etc.
... AO3 has zero hits for Jeffery Epstein Tom Ripley, hm…
Earwigs are among those animals that suffer from a kind of reputational inertia: once an idea lodges itself in cultural memory, it is hard to dislodge, even when it is wrong. The name carries a superstition - the medieval belief that these insects crawl into human ears. There is no evidence for this, and never has been. Earwigs are no more interested in ears than they are in theology or municipal planning.
Biologically, earwigs belong to the order Dermaptera, a name derived from Greek …
Looking for other people here who're interested in analog "alt process" photography (especially Kallitype & salt prints in general) and who are also making their own prints. There used to be a few more such people in my TL, but they all seem to have vanished or stopped posting in the past year, and generally it feels there's precious little interest in this topic on Mastodon... (I too have a feeling, either my own photography went drastically downhill over the past 3-4 …
anybody interested in instructions on how to run your private PyPI archive using git-pages?
I watched a documentary from PBS about the history of funk last night (We Want the Funk!). It's worth the 1.5 hours if you're interested. Still, it didn't include any music by - or even mention - Curtis Mayfield. Even if he's maybe better understood as a soul/R&B artist, it seems to me funk wouldn't have been the same without him. So naturally, I've dusted off some old albums and have been listening to him all day.
Curtis Mayfield, "Move On Up" (19…
Looks like I'm going to be attending HARRIS in Bochum again this year. Any German folks interested in a meetup somewhere in the greater Bochum / Cologne / Dusseldorf / Dortmund region?
Current itinerary:
* Sat Mar 21: land DUS around dinner time, probably will be jetlagged and not want to stay out late
* Sun Mar 22: no plans, able to meet up anywhere within reasonable train range of Bochum
* Mon Mar 23: open in the morning, conference trainings start 13:00, free afte…
Nachdem sich auch Liam Neeson als $EXPLETIVE herausstellt, zur ewigen Diskussion ob man Kunst und Künstler nicht trennen müsse:
Wenn man das müsste und könnte, dann würde Kunst nicht in über die Person und Persönlichkeit von Künstlern beworben und verkauft.
hello Good day my name is CatSalad Zzz Manager at E-P. We’re currently hiring across various departments, and I’m responsible for recruiting passionate, skilled individuals to join us in shaping the future of sustainable napping and we have 5 positions currently open which are Nap analyst, Customer Service Napresentative, Engineering & Napufacturing, Naps Manager and Adminapstrative Support positions. Kindly snooze back if interested.
Was telling Pops about this and realized that prob more than a few people would be interested as well.
" How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options. "
#DumbTVs #Tech
Okay, kids. Drop a like 👍 if you are interested in, but have not yet seen Heated Rivalry.
Reply with a brief assessment if you’ve seen (any part of) it.
Through research and dumb luck, I have put together this list of Canadian Mastodon admins that may be interested in the previous message in this thread.
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I know there are others. Please help us reach them so everyone has an opportunity to provide input.
#MastoCanadaGOV
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@… Well, are we sure no intelligence agency is so interested in curl that they’re making backups of your emails as well? 😂
If you’re interested in the theory and epistemology of digital and computational humanities, especially in the context of historical research:
Call for Participation
🞲 Workshop on Structure and Interpretation: Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling
https://www.unil.ch/events/1770376802338
If you’re interested in the theory and epistemology of digital and computational humanities, especially in the context of historical research:
Call for Participation
🞲 Workshop on Structure and Interpretation: Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling
https://www.unil.ch/events/1770376802338
If you’re interested in the theory and epistemology of digital and computational humanities, especially in the context of historical research:
Call for Participation
🞲 Workshop on Structure and Interpretation: Towards Computational Historiographical Modeling
https://www.unil.ch/events/1770376802338
We are looking for motivated volunteers to help make #bbuzz a success! Whether you're interested in being a stage host, assisting with registration, or helping with build-up and break-down, we would love to have you on board.
Learn more about our volunteering options: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/helping-hands/
The one group in the United States most interested in leaving the country and permanently living somewhere else is American women ages 15 to 44.
Just finished "The Raven Boys," a graphic novel adaptation of a novel by Maggie Stiefvater (adaptation written by Stephanie Williams and illustrated by Sas Milledge).
I haven't read the original novel, and because of that, this version felt way too dense, having to fit huge amounts of important details into not enough pages. The illustrations are gorgeous and the writing is fine; the setting and plot have some pretty interesting aspects... It's just too hard to follow a lot of the threads, or things we're supposed to care about aren't given the time/space to feel important.
The other thing that I didn't like: one of the central characters is rich, and we see this reflected in several ways, but we're clearly expected to ignore/excuse the class differences within the cast because he's a good guy. At this point in my life, I'm simply no longer interested in stories about good rich guys very much. It's become clear to me how in real life, we constantly get the perspectives of the rich, and rarely if ever hear the perspectives of the poor (same applies across racial and gender gradients, among others). Why then in fiction should I get more of the same, spending my mental bandwidth building empathy for yet another dilettante who somehow has a heart of gold? I'm tired of that.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
I am once again putting this out there: if anyone comes into possession of any "low jitter" audiophile snake oil products, i am very interested in actually testing that claim.
We know it won't make your 96kbps mp3 spotify stream sound better, that's not in debate.
But is the snake oil made from real snakes? Did they actually improve phase noise by a measurable amount?
RE: https://datasci.social/@EgorKotov/116056818251282913
Interested to learn how I converted Swedish street network from Trafikverket.se to R5R compatible format (that is, osm.pbf)? See my other draft R package nvdb2osmr
My morning so far has been spent disassembling the tumble dryer and vacuuming everything in sight. A suspicious burning smell led to us pulling the big red lever earlier!
It has been running for 10 minutes now, and so far, so good. We'll be watching the dryer with great interest the next few times we're using it..
> The other thing I notice about the #Epstein case but also the case that concern me and my friends is that, the general public is much more interested in by the Predators and their compromised network than by helping the victims.
https://
Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these seemingly distinct languages can be bridged, then this session is for you! But don’t worry, you won’t need prior knowledge of economics or the arts! Joaquín Pereira (economist and dancer) invites you to a day-long lab where…
Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter
LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So:
“How much does it matter if it’s wrong?”
It’s astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question — which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out.
(Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and “I already knew that” is not information that anyone is interested in except you.)
1/ https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/
Been using #Kagi for almost three years now and very happy with it. Two spots in my Family Plan are available – anyone interested?
What you get:
✅ Ad-free search
✅ No tracking
✅ Better search results (you can even permanently hide Pinterest, listicles & co..)
$42.84/year (~$3.50 per month)
PM if interested.
@…
– reply to Michael Taggart's post, if you're interested. Thanks.
‘Only Embrace’ was actually called ‘Only Envelope’ for the longest time, partly because along with the emotional layer I was interested in breaking free of any use of percussion - rather implying rhythm through envelopes programmed into the patches (along with musical use of shifting compression flaring in response to these, and then saturation that would “bloom” out in various M/S configurations.)
Today's example of media and analysts actively disbelieving what's plain:
Why is the Trump regime so interested in Greenland? It doesn't make sense! There's no economic, military, or geopolitical explanation!
But what if there were? And what if it was territorial expansion for its own sake? What if it was, in a word, imperialism? Those on the radio this morning entertained all sorts of increasingly odd theories but, somehow, empire-building was a bridge too far.
I really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn't really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don't have spare …
I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,
For interested folks, here’s the React PR that fixes CVE-2025-55182 affecting React Server Components (CVSS 10.0 Critical Severity): https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/35277
Blog post:
If you're interested in learning about the many myths about leaders and leadership that persist despite the evidence, join me for a free webinar at 12pm UK time today.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6C0RoiOVTR-ZJhYdHfvWPQ#/registration
I'm not interested in this car but others might be and I really like this car review channel the best. No nonsense or fawning over stuff only car enthusiasts like.
2026 Chevrolet Equinox EV | This Is The *Almost* No-Compromise EV America Needs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tbfUtGxJJ8
Not even a week in 2026 and I already learned something new, Isn't that fantastic?
If I'm not interested in the exact position of my teeth in my upper jaw, I should protect my face better from the cold and wind.
Yeah .. truly fantastic to know that now.
Writing unit tests in Java be like
Java: Hey your test failed.
Java: I am going to tell you name of failed class.
Java: I am going to tell you name of failed method.
Java: I am not going to tell you WHICH LINE failed! I have something better. Let me present you ...
... a hundred lines of exceptions of at java.base/jdk.internal and at org.springframework you must be interested in.
Java: you can display more lines with -e or -X switches.
Java: have a nice …
Lazypost, is there a good tool to fix (as much as possible) somewhat broken audio from a CD that has some read errors (I've fixed surface of CD and read with EAC to extract as much info as possible, you can hear everything but it sounds a bit like a crackling record).
I am not looking for CD reading software (EAC already spent 70 hours on extracting the one track I'm interested in).
I am looking for fixing errors in a ripped lossless audio track, for example through interpolation and/or specifically tuned ML algorithms.
If helpful, I have access to Logic Pro and to Adobe tools.
(Please only recommend software you personally have used and that you like, thank you.)
Is there a known solution to send a link from any non-Safari #macOS browser to Safari's Reading List? This is possible on the iPhone as part of the Share actions.
I'm mostly interested into how to do this from Chrome and Firefox based browsers.
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Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.
I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.
Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).
#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty
I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.
Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).
#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty
Anyone interested in some old collectible toys? I'm selling a few Littlest Pet Shop accessories, some Pokémon and anime figures and some manga.
They belonged to my wife and her sisters. Some things are selling at a loss. I just don't want to throw them out.
Check out my eBay page. I'm mostly shipping worldwide from Australia.
AU: https:/…
Ah, Google Documents.. So convenient.. But #Google is bad and the current US government is crazy.
What is the closest existing alternative to GDocs which is not owned by an american for-profit?
So far, Libre Office docs could be a replacement but there doesn't seem to be an integrated way to do co-editing online with it?
Conditions:
- I am not interested in L…
So Trump, Witkoff and Kushner essentially have accomplished nothing with regard to Ukraine. Russia has again confirmed it is not interested in peace and will continue it's aggression against Ukraine.
#trump #witkoff
Hey président trump, we have neither gas not oil. But we have ideas. Would you be interested on taking our annoying président?
Wrote a small sequel to my last #bluesky post (the prior post is linked there if you're interested).
https://asterisk.lol/blog/interop/
One of the things I expect most US academics love and hate about winter break is reading dozens of folders of amazing PhD applicants (love the energy, passion, accomplishment) who are interested in working with you but you're going to have to disappoint almost all of them (hate).
Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
I listened to two AI generated presentations in the last two days. Yes, students and junior scholars were mimicking jargon they did not fully understand already before AI, but listening to them read out jargon they did not even mimic themselves is really another level of cringe. Yes, I know these are fancy words that people in our field would likely use, but you know, I was actually more interested in what _you_ think about the subject. 🙄
Man, I have run out of fucks to throw at this project for the moment. So be it. Clearly I'm in the extreme minority in being interested in correcting this issue, so I won't feel too pressed in making a generic solution to my specific problems.
I'm guessing that the subset of people who care within the subset of people with the talent to solve the problem within the subset of people who use KDE is fairly small. Seems like all the cool kids are running tiling window managers …
In diplomatieke kringen is sprake geweest van een deal waarbij Rusland zijn gang kon gaan in Oekraine en de VS in Venezuela.
Stukje uit het verhoor van Fiona Hill in het impeachment proces in Trumps eerste termijn.
Bron: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/poli…
If you're interested in how I quantified natural #CO2 emissions from "mofettes" near #Tübingen with a low-cost sensor network, and want to join my PhD defense tomorrow at 10:00, DM me here and i might send you the link (if I don't forget it 😅).
I'll be mostly talking about …
…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
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Those of you interested in the history of cellular phones and cellular networks: There is a book on the subject "Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry" published by MIT Press, and the book is also available as PDF via Open Access: https://
Does anyone (maybe @… ) have any archival info on DINI Group FPGA boards?
I'm particularly interested in their very silly codenames. The main company front page is available on the wayback machine but since being acquired by Synopsys in 2019 it's no longer around and the wayback machine doesn't seem to have crawled most of their product…
In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…
The entirety of this interview with a Canadian Soldier fighting in a Ukrainian unit first as a tanker and now as an FPV drone pilot is essential viewing for anyone interested in the #RussiaUkraineWar, anyone interested in the effectiveness of the Canadian military, anyone interested in women in the Military and anyone interested in modern (ie. drone) military warfare.
Oh, and she learned Ukrainian ‘on the job’.
She is also Indigenous. (accent sounds possibly Québecois or Manitoba)
#Russia #Ukraine #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #CAF #USA
I've wanted to start a Patreon for ages, but I'm honestly not sure what sort of thing people would be interested in.
Happy to listen if you have any thoughts/requests. Ideas I've had include WIP videos, finished backgrounds, fan art.
#Patreon #Thoughts
"The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!"
—Ben Kingsley
#acting #coaching
Canadians interested in a Bourbon alternative for cocktails: this Spirit in Niagara mixed mash whisky (picked up from the LCBO last weekend) makes a decent Paper Plane. (It’s okay on its own too, but it won’t stop me from digging into my pre-embargo Bourbon stash.)
I’ve heard the Okanagan Spirits BRBN works pretty well too.
#ElbowsUp ?
After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit for the “double tap” strike that occurred on September 2.
Why is Hegseth backing off?
Turns out that even Republicans are not so comfy with murdering survivors of a boat strike.
Yesterday, CNN reported that after the initial September 2 strike killed nine people,
a second one 41 m…
if someone is interested I have a #Germ invite for testflight access to their iOs App (I don’t have an iPhone)
DM me for invite link
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/06/who-wants-a-…
Was telling my father about my NAS and he was mildly interested. But it's too complicated for him to set up his own.
I'm surprised there is not some more consumer friendly way to just load up DVDs and bluerays on to set top box with several terabytes of storage and then just select what media to play from there.
V excited for the new AdaCAD v5 pre-release !
If you're interested in weaving and comfortable with box-and-wire style programming, it's a weird and fun way into it. I'm happy to have contributed a bitfield generator to this release !
- main doc website for people new to adacad: https://docs.adacad.org/
Just had the talk with Kid2. She should now be able to explain to anyone who's interested consumer complicity in the exploitative nature of capitalism using food delivery apps as an illustration.
@… I am very interested to see more slides from this 😅
Because of a sense of urgency that came upon me (and the fact I wanted some things released while still actually alive) I've put out a fairly large amount of music since 2024. 🙂
I want to share some download codes for another release, on the off chance anyone is interested. It kind of got lost (like many). It is called 'Scattering Spectrum', and represents a subtler zone of composition I really love. The label who were originally going to put it out a few years ago found it…
Trump is weak and Putin undermines the chance for a cease-fire, something he isn't interested in everybody knows, besides Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g4g5lgngvo
So… talk to me about #Zotero … How do you use it? WHY do you use it versus other tools? What do you like most?
I realize I am maybe 15 or 20 years late to the Zotero party, but 3 things have me interested now:
- I’m taking on a project at work that involves a good amount of research
- I have some ideas for papers and maybe a book that would benefit from more structured organizatio…
Looks like I'm gonna be going to HARRIS at MPI-SP in Bochum again this year (March 23-25)
Anybody going, or in the greater Bochum/Dusseldorf/Cologne area, and interested in a meetup around that time?
@hanno@mastodon.social
