@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2183246/microsoft-debuts-a-more-b…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzExclusive: Josh Butler Gets Real on Cowboys’ New-Look Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/josh-butler-gets-real-new-look-defense/
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukWood planes: Anyone have a good reference to what a correctly set up plane (Stanley type 4) should look like when properly adjusted? I want photos that show the relation between the blade and chipbreaker, and what it should look like from underneath when looking at it's gap. I see plenty of people doing restoration and getting rust off and sharpening etc - but not found the detail to make sure I put it back together properly.
@compfu@mograph.socialWhenever people in a music video are lip-syncing their song while moving in slowmotion this is filmed by having a sped-up song on set for people to sing along to. Slowing down the video by the right amount makes everything look epic. So jump into this audiovisual masterpiece at 0:50 or 3:20, switch to 1.5x speed and imagine being on that set while a kid just walks around rapping to that sped-up song 😁
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Iran seized and closed down the Strait of Hormuz
instead of capitulating immediately,
Trump and his team of dunderheaded and cowardly fascists hesitated briefly
and then gave up.
Ever since, the president has been searching for a way to back out of his enormously unpopular war in a way that doesn’t make him look like the cowardly dunderheaded fascist he is.
Unfortunately for Trump, though,
the people who won the war
(that is, Iran) have little …
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeAnother new record. Three ThunderScopes (the fourth one isn't yet installed in a host, testing that is on deck for tonight) live streaming 1 Gsps per scope to a single ngscopeclient session, running full-rate FFTs on the 24 Gbps of incoming waveform data.
Ngscopeclient is so fast that it's easy to forget just how much data you're crunching until you look down and see the network load monitor on your 100G pipe is actually a decent chunk of the way up the bargraph
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialWhat many people don't know is that my name actually means
"Support Lady Judge of God". For real. You can look it up.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThis is hilarious so I had to look it up, and yes it’s true; Bumble kicked Sharon Stone off their site 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qakvaly2sy7dqeav7xcebrap/post/3mmosmuuibk2t
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.ither: [coming at me with a cheap plastic rain jacket]
me: "no, I don't want to try it on"
her: "I'm actually going to smother you with it"
her: [places it over my head]
me: "ah, finally, the sweet release of death"
her: "omg you look like a KKK member"
9yo: [singing a k-pop (Itzy) song] 🎶 "cake cake cake" 🎶
@smashtie@mas.toBliss. #CatsOfMastodon #cats
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at whether David Ellison and Paramount would sell CNN in order to get approval of the WBD acquisition from regulators like California AG Rob Bonta (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/would-the-ellisons-give-up-cnn-to-close-warnermount/
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgOkay I'm going to confess: I absolutely love the "styles" tools in the Photos app. I find them to be a fantastic starting point, and often the only thing I need.
Occasionally I will then fine tune using the other tools, and even more occasionally I will send a photo to Photomator.
I feel like the "natural" style, with the tone at like -60 or 70, and the saturation all the way up gives me a look that I associate with photos that come from Nikons.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMeow*
*look into my eyes
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca"The Star collected 4,242 decisions and directives from municipal websites across Ontario, either as existing PDFs *or by converting text versions into PDFs*" (emphasis mine) and then analyzed the text using an LLM. Points for using LLMs for what they're meant to be used for, but requiring input be in PDF format instead of plain text is *insane*.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzEverything to know about the Raiders’ right guard competition https://raiderramble.com/2026/07/28/everything-to-know-about-the-raiders-right-guard-competition/
@seav@en.osm.townMy latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I take a look at map projections, and specifically at the Mercator projection popularly used by mapping services such as Google Maps. GIS professionals in particular might remember EPSG:900913 from the late 2000s. 🗺️
https://…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaAs a kid, I read a children's book about codes and ciphers and cryptography which featured something I'm very confident was from vintage pulp fiction series The Shadow. I've looked for this shadow a few times over the years and never found it, despite how seemingly easy it sounds to look up. Any of yall got this
@kazys@mastodon.socialNo matter what you look for, the algorithm offers up Coldplay.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzYuss - figured it out! After lying awake this morning trying to remember the name of the guy who had a hit in the 80s (?) with "Jessie's Girl"... I was pretty sure it was Rick... but Derringer? Nope. Astley? Nah... It was almost painful effort... *boom* Springfield. Yes! I knew it was in there somewhere.
Do people still do that to themselves? Or do they just search for it online?
As a reward, I've allowed myself to look it up:
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaOh joy. Having to dig into sysouts and determine the root cause of a problem is that the brodcast file was full. This shouldn't be my job, it is the job of the system admin. From what I can see it filled up almost two weeks ago and no one thought to look at it and from what I see they don't run anything to archive the contents and then set to empty.
That isn't a hard thing, a short JCL that can be scheduled to run once a week and the problem will disappear.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Training Camp Schedule: Dates, Locations, Preseason Games https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-training-camp-schedule-dates-locations-preseason-games
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialThinking about some things that @… said in another thread, and as someone who advocates against AI hype and against the use of most generative AI in most circumstances, I feel it's important to say: many of the ethical issues with using generative AI mirror almost directly the ethical issues with living/working on land stolen by colonists, except that they're less harmful.
Arguments like "well we don't really know whose work it's ripping off this time" and "artists that post their art online know it's going to be looked at; this is the same thing" and "well it's inevitable and everyone's doing it so it's unreasonable to make a big deal about it" directly echo arguments like "well now we don't know whose land it was any more exactly" (yes, we do; you can literally go look up the website of their descendants), or "the natives weren't really using the land anyways", or "it's all in the past now, and it's unavoidable." That unavoidable one is actually somewhat true of using stolen land, at least compared to LLM usage.
If you can see through those lies in the case of AI hype but choose not to do so in the case of colonialism, that says something about your priorities and allegiances.
This is not at all a call for people to talk less about AI; rather it's a call for those who take opposing AI hype seriously to look around and make some noise about other injustices too (I realize many of you already do this).
#AI #LLMs #LandBack #GenAI
@StephenRees@mas.tohttps://thenarwhal.ca/grizzly-bear-haines-junction-yukon-coexistence/
An intimate look at life alongside grizzly bears
Haines Junction sits in one of Yukon's densest grizzly bear corridors. In this tiny town, Indigenous Knowledge and decades of pre…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itnormalize unisex bikes
#BikeTooter #Mixte
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#UltimateCalm
- Erland Cooper: Series 5
Look inward with Erland Cooper and musical selections that conjure up the feeling of home. Plus a soothing safe haven courtesy of musician Keaton Henson.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lm6w
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngNon-uniform distribution
(@…, please help! 😂)
Also, if you look closely, I'm not sure if these are tadpoles of two species... Are the larger grayish ones going to be toads, or maybe just older?
(Update: It turns out it's the way around: smaller ones are toads, larger ones froggies... see replies in …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat history says about Diego Pavia's NFL chances after his release by the Ravens https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7467950/2026/07/25/diego-pavia-released-nfl-chances/
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#Solidarity.
I’ve always liked the Polish #solidarność for how the first half of the Polish and English words for the idea are alike, but I’d need a #Polish speaking person to look up the …
@grumpybozo@toad.socialJust went to look into what the “propagator model of computation” is, and read just enough to understand that it may be a better basis for actual AI than the LLM and diffusion models. Also just enough to recognize that I no longer have the brain of my 20’s, when I positively hoovered up such things.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialWeekly Climate Solutions Digest #31!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-31/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at China's push to catch up with US AI chips; sources: its Vice Premier warned AI companies that anyone who resisted using local chips was a traitor (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ai-chips-ra…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWhen the human commits the crime of smelling like another cat!
@aardrian@toot.cafeOut of curiosity I fired up Twitter to see how GAAD was going over there, and the very first thing I saw was a 7-tweet image thread from BrowserStack with no alt text on the images.
So two lessons learned:
1. BrowserStack chooses to stay on MechaHitler’s CSAM-generating site, and
2. BrowserStack is bad at performative acts.
Oh look, TinyMCE too!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI suppose this is true, strictly speaking, but only in the same way that using a computer or a mobile phone could end up with you introduced to the same set of friends.
"Most excitingly, you can download apps for [Software Defined Radios] that do everything, most especially the kind of thing that will introduce you with surprisingly rapidity to a wide range of new friends with no sense of humor and love letters that look suspiciously like arrest warrants."
Source: #SDR #SoftwareDefinedRadio #TheRegister
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotSparky summing up the weekend. I could really use some sun and warmth to work up a bit of vroom. #catsofmastodon
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialAnother way of addressing the question of what the path back to the EU might look like is to ensure that the EU is swallowed up from the east
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy42x3g7r89o
@zachleat@zachleat.comA follow up here on action items (assuming you’re already using trusted publishers OIDC to scope releases to a single GitHub Action workflow):
1. Look for any `pull_request_target` GitHub Actions workflows! (this allows external forks/code to run your actions with write access ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️)
2. Look for use of `cache` in your GitHub Actions release workflow (cache was poisoned/compromised by `pull_request_target` trigger)
Learn more about `pull_request_target`:
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialIf there was ever any question if 300lb Fat Putin had lost all sense of reality...
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@newrepublic/post/DYhx7uOFHKw…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Brian Schottenheimer Puts Infamous ‘Animal Invasion’ House Up For Sale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-infamous-animal-invasion-house-up-for-sale
@jon@henshaw.socialYou too can look *and feel* this cool for the low, low price of $29.99
@scott@carfree.cityWhen the housing is 100% adorable.
(“Happy Home” by Timur Fork, in Osaka, Japan as photographed for Hi Fructose magazine issue 75)
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://chaos.social/@janbeta/116669616394146155
Saying this over and over again: if you have an audience please speak up so the people who look up to you know they’re not alone and encourage them to speak up as well.
You might lose a few assholes on the way, which is good actually.
@yaya@jorts.horseohhh look who just woke up and came to say hi
@mia@hcommons.socialIsn't it weird how viaducts look so cool from a distance, but it's hard to see how cool it is when you're on top of one? Something something metaphor for life.
(This post brought to you by a train journey up the east coast of Scotland)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, look, it’s a dickhead.
Hey, dickhead, how goes?
Being a dickhead, you probably don’t care that Palestinians are blocked from setting up fundraisers for themselves as part of the West’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. But hey, facts don’t care that you’re a dickhead so it’s still true.
If I could GoFundMe you a fucking conscience, I would.
Dickhead. @npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9@momostr.pink
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialLook I'm mostly not saying coding agents are good or bad (they're both, it's too complex to sum up as one or the other, and even on net, that's tough) but it sure is interesting how the really bad economics of so many parts of the tech industry are shaken up by it and definitely not all for the worse.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLast week, Dutch electricity transmission system operator TenneT published the yearly update on security of supply. It doesn't look good, with more hours of shortages coming up as soon as 2030. More dispatchable (gas) power plants would be needed to prevent that.
But..
@gray17@mastodon.social@… planesona fursuit https://www.instagram.com/p/DZQsWwxxzVa/
@timjan@social.linux.pizzaI guess that if you look up too many things (prices, dimensions) on the hardware store's website, they think you're a bot and softblock for a day.
If you go to the store, they might not have the thing in stock, but "you can look it up online".
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Business Insider's shift from aggregation and toward scoops under EIC Jamie Heller; original content now makes up 80% of output, up from 40% in 2024 (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/business-insiders-big-bet-against-agg…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaAlright, finally done with the important bits. Got the scenes finished up for the most part, just gonna give up on chat. However, routing looks good as do the levels. Even the CRT line effect turned out pretty well though it's not gonna be exact. However, it does strongly resemble my JVC and I'd rather have that look on stream instead of the crunchiest/crispiest pixels possible.
#streaming
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeHad to get rid of some ants in the garden. My daughter was not pleased about this deathly maneuver but accepted it if we also set up grave stones for the ant’s memorial!
So if you need some crafts gravestones you know where to look for!
#RIP Ants
@shriramk@mastodon.socialKinda' amazing that you can type this in and get a full, good (yes, I checked) summary of all the goings-on, far better than anything I can find in my (US) newspapers.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Brian Schottenheimer Puts Infamous ‘Animal Invasion’ House Up For Sale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-infamous-animal-invasion-house-up-for-sale
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I never heard of omarchy, I suspect that I shouldn't look it up :-)
@raiders@darktundra.xyzUnder-the-Radar 7th-Rounder Shaking Up Raiders Depth Chart in Year 2 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-cody-lindenberg-linebacker-depth-chart-breakthrough/
@aardrian@toot.cafeMy copy of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics showed up! I spent my fika ego-surfing my own chapter.
Look at all those real, verified, not hallucinated citations! That’s more than you’ll see in some think-pieces or government reports or research studies!
You deserve well-sourced content. Treat yourself.
@cdarwin@c.imSenator Susan Collins of Maine said in a new interview that she did not “regret” her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court in 2018
but was “disappointed” that he later helped overturn the constitutional right to an abortion.
“I do not regret that vote,” Ms. Collins, widely seen as the most vulnerable Republican senator up for re-election this year,
said when asked about the episode by News Center Maine.
“I do disagree with Justice Kavanaugh’s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026…
@jon@henshaw.socialThis is the most accurate and funniest review of Buc-ees I've ever seen. And if you don't know what Buc-ees is, look it up.
(By https://www.instagram.com/Erosbrousson)
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.
@seav@en.osm.townMy latest article for Inquirer.net is now up and I took a look at the English Wikipedia article on the recent 7.8M 2026 Mindanao earthquake.
https://technology.inquirer.net/147392/diving-deep-into-an-earthquake-wikipedia-article
(Inqui…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Training Camp Schedule: Dates, Locations, Preseason Games https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-training-camp-schedule-dates-locations-preseason-games
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAdded Power Grips (pedal straps) to my wife's #Brompton. Not going to say it's my nicest work, but I'm hopeful that it'll hold. I only drilled holes through the plastic reflectors; the metal is all intact. I can change that later if needed. #BikeTooter
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzOk. I have to accept that I have a problem. Despite a massive cull a few months ago, my current Firefox tab count, across 4 windows, has crept up to 2020. This madness has to stop. Problem is that for each one I want to close, I have to load it and look at it to make sure I can handle letting it go. I may be some time. Wonder where this activity would fall with regard to our national 'GDP'.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at State Affairs, whose statehouse coverage is used to train LLMs powering a Bloomberg Terminal-like product; it's raised $70M and has 76 editorial staff (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioQuiz time! When did Apple start developing Firewire? Don’t look it up, put best guess in a reply!
(Posting solution later.)
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialLast day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@cdarwin@c.imVirginia’s new House map is dead.
Democrats think they can still flip these seats.
Republicans won the redistricting war in Virginia, but several lawmakers remain vulnerable.
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Virginia) says his party has a chance to pick up one or two U.S. House seats in Virginia in November.
Even after a Supreme Court ruling on Friday put a final stop to Democratic efforts to redraw Virginia’s congressional maps,
the state will remain central to the part…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialDoes anybody know if #boing_boing dot net has gone belly up? Doesn’t seem to have been updated since June 9 when I look at it.
@samvarma@fosstodon.org @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours per charge, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91559773/snap-specs-2026-ar-glasses-evan-spiegel
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itScene - walking down the sidewalk in front of a bunch of brick apartment buildings w/ my wife, kids, & MIL.
me: *notices new scaffolding and turns around to look up at the building*
me [muttering to myself]: "ah, looks like they're repairing the [brick] lintels.."
9yo: *pats me on the back and rotates me back around*
9yo [in a very patient voice]: "c'mon let's keep it moving"
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 Schedule: Analyzing the Cowboys' 5 AFC opponents https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2026-schedule-analyzing-the-cowboys-5-afc-opponents
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeOhoho what is that I hear behindst me, mayhaps I TWIMST aroumd and take an peep for mineself
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDJ Glaze looks to level up in Kubiak's offense https://www.raiders.com/news/dj-glaze-looks-to-level-up-in-klint-kubiak-new-offense-2026-otas
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 Schedule: Analyzing the Cowboys' 5 AFC opponents https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/2026-schedule-analyzing-the-cowboys-5-afc-opponents
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFuckin' bike shop hours, man. Kids were up my butt all day, I finally get a few mins to look at the bike.. and I'm gonna need to get a bike shop to unseize the quick release skewer from the hub. But of course the bike shops all closed 15 mins ago at 5pm..
@cdarwin@c.imThis post is not a provocation so much as a report-back from the fragmented thinking that has bubbled up around my research
and the thousand-odd hours I've put into information mutual aid work over the course of this year.
And it’s also a look forward
—not at our future, which I refuse to try to predict,
but at some paths I think we might want to explore.
-- Erin Kissane
@…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzDJ Glaze looks to level up in Kubiak's offense https://www.raiders.com/news/dj-glaze-looks-to-level-up-in-klint-kubiak-new-offense-2026-otas
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Meta Superintelligence Labs' growth in the past year, including a top-tier RL environment and compute ramp that could catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-future-of-meta-superintelligence…
@cdarwin@c.imMy family is seated in the back corner of Meet Up Chinese,
and the slender, shiny robot is standing right next to me,
its metal knees slightly bent to stay balanced,
its fingers seeming to nervously twitch.
It has no eyeballs on its tiny head,
but that flashing blue strip is certainly staring me down.
There’s no discernible mouth,
but its friendly, cartoonish voice is suggesting we order the restaurant’s “zesty” orange chicken
or, if we like sp…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI was biking near the queens zoo today, and adjusting the pedal-assist all the way up to 4 (which I never do). Thinking to myself, "Jesus fuck, is this headwind really that strong or is this heat just making me weak?"
I look over at the sidewalk, and someone is walking backwards to deal with the wind. "Oh, it's actually the headwind."
#BikeTooter
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMost Surprising Player Who Could Make Cowboys Roster After Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/most-surprising-player-could-make-dallas-cowboys-roster-after-minicamp
@raiders@darktundra.xyzA Closer Look at Raiders' EDGE Room Opposite Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-closer-look-edge-room-opposite-crosby
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/1…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMost Surprising Player Who Could Make Cowboys Roster After Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/most-surprising-player-could-make-dallas-cowboys-roster-after-minicamp
@raiders@darktundra.xyzA Closer Look at Raiders' EDGE Room Opposite Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-closer-look-edge-room-opposite-crosby
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI have zero affection for the white house (that's the place GWB and Reagan and Nixon shitted up, yes?), so I don't particularly care how silly Trump has made it look. I might even welcome it.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz3 Points: Tyler Smith in rare company with early success https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-tyler-smith-in-rare-company-with-early-success
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz3 Points: Tyler Smith in rare company with early success https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-tyler-smith-in-rare-company-with-early-success
