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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-07-19 00:58:45

I just finished "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir. I picked it up because I found her non-fantasy novel "All My Rage" extremely compelling, and I enjoyed fantasy a lot as a genre in my youth but as my politics have changed I'm too disappointed to enjoy a lot of fantasy any more but I thought Tahir might not fall into that.
Although I don't think Ember in the Ashes is bad, it's definitely not what I was looking for, and I don't think I'll pursue the sequels, at least not right now.
Overall the writing was weaker in a lot of ways than All My Rage, and in terms of basic fantasy quality, the worldbuilding was noticeably lacking, the romantic subplot felt stilted, and the politics were a bit murky. Compared to what I felt was Tahir's deft, delicate, and very meaningful handling of trauma in All My Rage, trauma in Ember felt overused and thin.
I also recently finished "Black Panther Red Wolf" by Marlon James, which had excellent world building and (to me) a much more nuance in both romance and in handling trauma. The politics felt a bit off for this one too I guess, but for me it was an overall more enjoyable (if much more difficult) read.
#AmReading

“I just hope that when they consider airstrikes on western Tehran and other residential cities that they consider the fact that a lot of people don’t have cars anymore, after 40 years of sanctions,” the man said.
“A lot of people don’t have cars or the means to leave. So it’s not as easy as just telling people to get up and go.”
Of an estimated 400,000 Iranian-born immigrants living in the United States,
more than a third live in the Los Angeles region.
Many live in th…

@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io
2025-05-19 00:43:26

"There will be a lot of fighting, though"
"Oh yeah, that's true"
"Yeah it's true"
"There will be a lot of fighting"
"Exactly"
"Count me in then"
Expedition 33 is amazing

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-06-18 05:42:26
Content warning: Poor sick cats, medicine

The medication list is getting kinda ridiculous now. Also I’m not sure the poor cats can take a lot more, especially Mimi. So I’m making sure they get lots of positive attention and cuddles inbetween me forcing medicine and food down their throats

Medicine plan with 7 different meds for stomach stuff, diarrhea, and a giardia parasites. Lots of crossed out entries, moved entries with likes, and hand written text show that this has changed a lot
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-19 13:41:00

Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)
x.com/jeffwsurf/status/1946376

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-19 09:27:11

I think that "chatbot" is a bad design paradigm for most problems. It's actually the refusal to to design work.
tante.cc/2025/06/19/chatbot-is

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-18 14:14:07

@… is it really cloudflare only? that will probably be a dealbreaker for a lot of folks (even for some using cloudflare currently!)

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-18 15:12:46

There is A Lot to Like About This Season's Raiders si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-j

@ncoca@social.coop
2025-05-20 00:14:05

Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-19 16:42:25

I grumble a lot about Terraform, but I am very impressed by their error messages.
Something I noticed today: when you get an error in evaluation, it also prints any local variables in the expression that led to the error, so you can more easily figure out what went wrong.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-07-17 23:32:50

I’m so tired of this big lot in the Mission sitting fenced and vacant in the midst of a housing crisis. For a while I thought vacancy tax, now I’m thinking eminent domain. Reportedly owned by an old lady in the Sunset who refuses to do anything with it.

Fenced lot that has turned into a jungle of eight foot high fennel plants
@jby@ecoevo.social
2025-06-17 15:42:12

The proposed sell-off of federal lands in the Senate budget bill includes a LOT of Joshua tree habitat—the trees grow in some of the largest areas of undeveloped land in the lower 48 states
The place where eastern and western Joshua trees hybridize, north of Creech AFB, is included
#JoshuaTree #USpolitics

A map of Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service proposed for sale, covering a lot of southern Nevada, southeastern California, and western Arizona
A map of Joshua tree habitat determined from satellite imagery, covering southern Nevada, southeastern California, and western Arizona
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
2025-07-19 01:09:31

Software Engineer Will Larson unpacks a lot in this July 2025 post. Key takeaway use cases of agentic AI include:
1. Using an LLM to evaluate a context window and get a result.
2. Using an LLM to suggest tools relevant to the context window, then enrich it with the tool’s response.
3. Managing flow control for tool usage.
4. Doing anything software can do to build better context windows to pass on to LLMs.
"What can agents actually do?"

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-07-19 13:41:14

July 18, 2025 -- [There is a lot about sexual assault in tonight's letter.] (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
heathercoxrichardson.substack.
memeorandum.com/250719/p22#a25

@evemassacre@assemblag.es
2025-07-19 08:09:04

I started reading White Years by Hari Kunzru and 39 pages in I have to say:while I like a lot about it the objectification of women is cringe. For the narrator/protagonist they only exist as girlfriends, groupies , chicks or nice ass. This better is a build up to something.

@mia@hcommons.social
2025-07-18 13:47:39

#DH2025 Listening to Victoria and Thea on 'Building a FAIR data future at the Journal of Open Humanities' - I'm hoping you'll see a lot more British Library data papers over time, as along with datasheets for datasets it's a big part of making our open collections findable and usable

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-07-19 01:55:53

Nobody asked, ofc, but here’s what I think. Everybody says #Epstein was a smart guy, so there is no list. Not on paper, and if there was a digital one it’s gone. There are, however, records. Of a lot of stuff. It was reported today that 1000 FBI agents in New York were pulled off their regular duties, working 24/7 for most of March, scouring whatever documents there are specifically for references …

@ruari@velocipederider.com
2025-06-18 16:00:47

Still rocking this for my #WristCheck. I actually really like this one.
On the one hand there is a lot going on on that dial bit it remains readable and everything present serves a purpose. No extraneous text* or logos, so while it is busy, it's also clean.
* Ok, ok maybe the tiny "JAPAN MOVT" at the bottom is pointless but it's so small it's almost not r…

Analog watch in field watch style. Black dial with orange/yellow numerals for the main hours. There is also an inner ring for the 13-24 hours and an outer minute ring with 5 minute markers. Steel case, prominent crown. On a black NATO strap with a yellow stripe down the middle.
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2025-06-19 01:00:34

A lot of people here dogpiling on this screenshot, but if anybody bothered to check the guy’s bio or his other posts they’d find it’s meant to be a joke in an Andy Kaufman way.
mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-19 20:36:31

Shorter: I can forgive a lot but I do not forget much. toad.social/@grumpybozo/114711

@datascience@genomic.social
2025-06-18 10:00:01

Quarto Manuscript makes me almost want to write scientific articles again. This could potentially change the process quite a lot. But maybe there is also a good use for it in internal project reports. quarto.org/docs/manuscripts/

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-07-19 07:09:19

If you nerd a lot about your obscure interests, follow me!
If you post about the books you read, follow me!
If you are incurably fascinated by science fiction, follow me!
If you love playing video games, follow me!
If you feel you are just screaming into the void, follow me!

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-07-19 16:44:57

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

How did you contribute to OpenStreetMap?

Name: seav 
Registered: 2007-07-28 
Active contributor: Yes & Yes
Mapping days: 2,500
Map changes: 1,002,753 (9,682)
Reverted changes: 610 (0.1%)
Discussed changesets: 32 (11)

Type? Super Mapper (Highly Active)

OSM-related accounts:
1. Github: Contributions 46
2. OSM Wiki: Editcount 2021
@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-06-17 12:54:56

Data center water use is a really interesting question. It seems like a space with a lot of room for technological improvement, where we've simply been optimizing for the wrong thing so far: we've been minimizing energy use, but there are a lot of opportunities for being more careful about water consumption.
I don't think much of this is down to "AI" specifically. If we outlawed all NNs bigger than 1B, I don't think the number of data centers would stop growin…

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-19 20:46:14

This should be the last minirack post for awhile as it's 99.9% finished. It was a very fun build, and it's a heluva-lot quieter than what it replaced. I did lose network bandwidth, but the new cluster does exactly what it's supposed to. Live migrations are fast enough, iSCSI network means that the VMs are snappy storage-wise. The PiKVM Switch fits perfectly in the basement.
The dual fans fixed the issue of the top Minisforum MS-A2 baking from the heat of the RPis, and…

The front of the minirack build in the T2.  From top to bottom: CRS112 Mikrotik switch, a shelf of 5 RPis (4Bs), 3 Minisforum MS-A2s, and the bottom holds the PiKVM + Switch.
The rear of the minirack build in the T2.  From top to bottom: QNAP 16-port 10GbE switch with all the ports in use, two Noctua NF-9A fans, three Minisforum MS-A2 servers with dual 2.5GbE and dual 10GbE connections.
@iragersh@mstdn.social
2025-07-18 19:43:20

NPR has this article about questions to ask your kids camp. They include climate change. So you have to ask him what they do when your kids get tick bites and if you have to ask them that you probably have to ask him a lot of other things. This probably a meta question about things to ask that you don't think about.
Top questions to ask your kids' camp about fire, heat and floods

@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-18 13:39:10

There was a news item a few weeks ago about a Norwegian library book that had been returned after many decades.
For some reason the writer felt the need to point out that the book wasn't worth much money because it had obviously been handled (read) by a lot of people.
So a book acquires value by not being read. I find that quite sad. At least stamp collectors want their stamps to have been posted (I would say stamped there are already too many stamps in the sentence).
I…

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-06-18 06:21:12

kolektiva.social/@susurros/114
""A couple of unmarked vehicles were here trying to take day laborers," described Teodoro, adding that some day laborers, who are U.S. citizens, distracted the ICE agents, giving undocumented fri…

Beastie Boys 90S GIF sabotage by Squirrel Monkey
@smashtie@mas.to
2025-07-18 19:44:54

Alison feels the cold though. Imagine going into a club in that lot!
#totp

@joannalaine@hachyderm.io
2025-05-20 02:41:18

The concept of “doing more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing” just so perfectly captures a lot of the pressure I’ve been feeling lately.

improvesomething.today/on-doin

@45names@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 05:20:19

Cheaty McCheats-a-lot
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: cancel the hit squad.
#satire #potus45

@mikebabyak@musicians.today
2025-05-18 12:48:21

Out for a walk on a warm #spring day with Linus and my best girl. We’re lucky here in rural #chapelhill #nc to have a lot of walking trails within 5-10 minutes of our place.

Woman in orange tshirt smiling and holding a tan long-haired chihuahua
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-05-18 11:18:07

new book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history

@bibbleco@infosec.exchange
2025-06-19 21:41:57

I've had a lot of respect and liking for Emily Thornbury for years, regardless of differing affiliations and policy preferences. But for answering a question about the PIP bill saying "it's a big document, its all financial detail rather than organisational, I haven't read it properly yet and when I comment it will be an informed comment" (approx words, not a transcript) she gets a gold star from me.
Politician in "Saying they don't have an informed opin…

@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online
2025-05-19 08:34:18

And it has a lot to answer for!

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-18 13:26:11

Where QBs land in Prisco's Top 100: Patrick Mahomes No. 1 again, where Jalen Hurts ended up, who was snubbed

cbssports.com/nfl/new…

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-08 18:32:42

Putin throws 'a lot of b*llshit', Trump says as he 'looks strongly' at sanctions bill: benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/putin

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-16 20:34:46

Honestly, I don't think he'll make it through the year. Like, he's just pissing off a lot of people who are unstable and making sure a lot of other people have nothing left to lose. I just don't see how this could possibly work out well for him.

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-18 15:19:21

Mailbag: Which veteran could surprise us? dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2025-07-17 13:05:31

This one is around the corner from my office. I never suspected what it might look like on the inside.
instagram.com/zillowgonewild/p

@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-18 10:07:41

One Polynomial Strategy for Computing Local Projections on Square-Lattice Cluster States
Nyau Fisn, Houren Fu
arxiv.org/abs/2506.14257

@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-18 08:07:32

Dual-Numbers Reverse AD for Functional Array Languages
Tom Smeding, Miko{\l}aj Konarski, Simon Peyton Jones, Andrew Fitzgibbon
arxiv.org/abs/2507.12640

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-06-15 09:05:51

On my way to The Hague, to draw the red line for Dutch government with respect to Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
After last time's 100,000 participants, NS put in a lot of extra trains. My very early one already has a lot of passengers in red.
#rodelijn

Poster with red line demanding govt action against Israel.
Railway schedule showing 6 trains from Utrecht to The Hague within 45 minutes.
My red shirt

“From beginning to end,
this process is highly irregular.”
–former DOJ inspector general
Michael Bromwich,
on the bogus criminal referral of
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)
by the Federal Housing Finance Authority’s inspector general
talki…

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-19 10:12:43

Raiders Have Momentum With Pete Carroll si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carrol

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-17 20:19:08

First EM simulations on the switch logic board after sorting out some licensing issues with the new Sonnet version.
V19 is a lot faster than v18, it doubles the thread cap from 8 to 16 and also replaces the legacy SSE based matrix solver with an AVX-based version (geee, i wonder where they might have got that from...).
First test is the BGA launch for LC0_PHY0_LANE1_TX, a 5 Gbps QSGMII link but also representative of some of the 25G SERDES.
Return loss is better than -13 dB…

Sonnet S21 curve showing a small null at 18.6 GHz
Sonnet S11 curve showing better than -20 dB to 13.2 GHz, then up to about -13 at 18.4 GHz
Sonnet 3D current density view of a BGA escape showing generally well behaved return paths
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-17 18:24:42

a lot of canopic jar collection pics feel like boy band promo pics, and that's beautiful

bird, jackal, human, baboon, looking casual in the white room
high and low pose
paparazzi
lined up
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-06-19 21:26:41

Tomorrow morning is another vet appointment with my cat Mimi. She’s still suffering a lot :-/

@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca
2025-07-19 05:20:49

Biking around the festival area of Stratford (Ontario) in the time between two free concerts held on a barge on the Avon River is a great way to spend a Friday afternoon. (#LdnOnt could learn a lot about how to use its riverfront... not to mention the many many other things that Stratford gets right.)

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-18 08:52:42

osmAG-LLM: Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation via Semantic Maps and Large Language Models Reasoning
Fujing Xie, S\"oren Schwertfeger, Hermann Blum
arxiv.org/abs/2507.12753

@scott@carfree.city
2025-06-18 07:49:21

I shop at the Petco there and can confirm it's incredibly dangerous... to make the left turn into the parking lot on your bike. Somehow that's not what this article is about, though.
missionlocal.org/2025/06/sf-po

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-17 22:20:59

Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/709288/netfl

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2025-06-17 11:15:15

Dismantling the sawmill motor to investigate an ignition failure. Changing the spark plug didn't help. It could be the HT lead but my local small engine guru says probably the coil.
Getting to the coil requires dismantling a whole lot of stuff...

Motor with the recoil starter removed. To the left of the motor is the carburettor, below which is a red lever which operates both the fuel tap and the stop switch, which operates by shorting the coil.

Unfortunately the coil itself is inside the black cover, roughly behind the red lever...
Detail removing the carburettor, so that I remember how the return spring reconnects.
To remove the black cover, I had to take off the air cleaner, the carburettor, the exhaust, a heat shield, and loosen the fuel tank.

I've only lost one bolt down inside the motor so far!

In this picture the coil is visible just inside the opened black cover.
@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-18 11:24:01

@… There’s NixOS but that requires buy-in to a lot more stuff.

@sean@scoat.es
2025-05-18 02:14:06

The content of the user agent is the dumbest thing we've done to the web, and we've doing a whole lot of dumb things to the web—all the way back to spelling referrer incorrectly (and we still do).

@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-19 18:48:59

Okay, I think I'm done with the `dice-roller` code for the time being. It now supports two different "methods" for weighting dice, and I even documented all of the methods. Lot of fun to write, and it should make it into the `pathfinder2e-tui` program over the next week.
Also, very certain this is technically a dice rolling language at this point.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-16 15:30:33

Is comparing crowd size at No Kings versus the pathetic military parade just pure pettiness?
❝No. Right now crowd sizes matter a lot because competitive authoritarianism rests largely on self-fulfilling expectations.❞
1/
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tru

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-19 19:21:40

Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for.

@mrysav@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-18 13:21:44

This paragraph from Peopleware (in Chapter 21, under subheading "Management by Hysterical Optimism") is one I think about a lot.

"The dilemma here is that as boss, you have probably accepted the corporate goal (bring the project home by next April for less than $750,000), and accepted it wholeheartedly. If your staff isn’t just as enthusiastic, you’re disappointed. Their lack of interest might seem almost treasonous to you. But hold on here: Is it possible that your own strong identification with a corporate goal stems from something beyond mere professionalism? Isn’t it true that some artful engineering on the part of y…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu
2025-07-17 13:42:30

"The paper is only interested in the use of the idea, not the idea itself. Hardly anyone can understand the importance of an idea, it is so remarkable. Except that, possibly, some children catch on. And when a child catches on to an idea like that, we have a scientist." ("The value of science, Richard P. Feynman)
Short, but it took me all day to read it because I had to stop and think all the time, and it will take a lot longer to actually grasp it.

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2025-06-17 15:53:23

#fluffy #birds time of year again; these (checks) Coot chicks are adorable.
#wildlife

Two extremely fluffy coot chicks, they are mostly grey fluff, with some white fluff on their chests, and yellow/red/white/black beaks and yellow/one head fluff highlights.  They're VERY cute.  They're swimming in a pond around lily pads.
The same two coots as in the previous pic, together with one of their parents, partially obscured by a flower stem.
A zoom on coot parent feet,  which are underwater here and standing on a decking;  they're white with black stripes and have quite a lot of area when standing on them.
@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-17 10:26:50

Traffic-Aware Pedestrian Intention Prediction
Fahimeh Orvati Nia, Hai Lin
arxiv.org/abs/2507.12433 arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-17 23:20:50

On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made "giant offers to a lot of people on our team", like $100M signing bonuses, and "none of our best people" have accepted (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-

@marcel@waldvogel.family
2025-06-17 03:53:16

«“Every single event I did in Russia was shut down by the cops,” she posted on Instagram, “and now it’s starting to feel a lot like Russia.”»
«“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,”
she posted on Instagram.»
theguardi…

The idea that Trump or MAGA is in any sense “anti-war” is something between an absurdity and a misunderstanding.
At one level it’s a simple fraud.
Trump claimed he’d always been against the Iraq War at a time when the U.S. had been bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan for years.
It was a helpful attack line and it was completely false.
Trump wasn’t in politics in 2002 or 2003 and to the extent he said anything, like a lot of people, he was for it when it was popular an…

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-18 14:13:16

Mailbag: Which veteran could surprise us? dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-07-15 17:54:49

“I have solved a lot of wars in the last three months…”
Umm
#trump #theAmericanFascist
mastodon.social/@MAKS23/114858

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-16 15:13:04

"So this isn't something that goes away," she continued. "I don't love Donald Trump just in the political sense. I love Donald Trump as a human being. But I cannot stand down on this. I can't. And I think that's the way a lot of MAGA feels."
'Can't fit it in my brain': MAGA hosts implode as Trump calls them 'bad people' - Raw Story
rawstory.com/maga-epstein-bad-

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-06-16 15:16:43

Remember #shareware? Like, the demo / trial versions that you could use for free but only for limited time?
Nowadays, a lot of commercial software is like that, except that you pay for being able to use it for a limited time.

@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk
2025-07-15 08:19:10

Wreckfest: a bit squeezed
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get a lot from the shops in my Supervan any more. I am stuck on an event in Wreckfest where I have to drive a Robin Reliant, and everyone else has four wheel cars which can actually take a corner. It's a four-race series and I've managed to come third on the first race, and then get completely wrecked on the second. I'm sure I'm missing something; this isn't even that far through the game.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-14 13:21:23

Colston Loveland injury update: Rookie TE progressing in recovery, expects to 'do a lot more' in training camp

cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-14 14:23:23

How do so many people think this was asking for suggestions for software?
It was a commentary on how a lot of mainstream computing platforms fail at the simplest tasks.
(Anyway, I’m using a Mac and an iPhone and sharing files between them is either completely automatic with the Files app or I use AirDrop which uses zero-configuration Wi-Fi.)
hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1148

@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-07-15 21:46:33

OH at work
"the server/cloud architecture needs a lot of, uh, subtractive better engineering"

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 04:03:18

There is a lot of conflict between developers who say #LLM tools are making them more productive, and developers who want to quit and move to a cabin in the woods.
Recently I discovered a possible reason why. #AI is just a bad fit for conventional, reality-based models of value creation like

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-05-16 10:20:01

Just finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-14 10:21:24

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-07-17 19:34:51

I got a 404media subscription, and you should too. But honestly, there's a lot of stuff that I won't read these days (for my own mental well-being). This is one of those things. The headline is enough, I don't need to know more.
hachyderm.io/@evacide/11486976

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-18 18:29:07

Who Are The 10 Best Multi-Sport Athletes in History? foxsports.com/stories/nfl/who-

@45names@mastodon.social
2025-06-17 06:20:18

Save-a-lot Stalin
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's not get carceral over comedy.
#satire #potus45

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-16 15:35:11

Gwen Snyder posted something on Saturday to the effect that “Fascists •need• the appearance of strength, and right now, Trump just looks weak.”
I think it’s easy for us evidence-hungry thinker types to underestimate just how much appearance matters. Massive rallies are not — •must• not be — the endpoint of resistance. However, neither are they purely symbolic. They have a real and concrete effect. They change perceptions, which change human behavior. Yes, they matter. They matter a lot.
/end

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-18 21:12:37

NFL Analyst Sounds Off on the Addition of Pete Carroll si.com/nfl/raiders/seattle-sea

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-17 20:46:34

People talk about how politics shouldn't be like sports. I think it depends a lot on what sports though.
Like, imagine if politicians had to wear the logos of every company they worked stock in and every company that donated to their campaigns like they're driving NASCAR. Of all sports, almost no one wants anything to be more like NASCAR... And yet, when you think about it, there actually *are* some hints we could take from it.
#USPol

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-13 14:31:16

Jaguars' Trevor Lawrence details Travis Hunter's toughest assignment in first season: 'It's a lot on a rookie'

cbssports.com…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-07-17 18:59:52

@… Right!? The voice and accent seem to be separate from what’s actually being said.
I think this might be related to why we often hear harsher tones from others when we’re in a bad mood. Our brains are doing a lot of generation.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-06-17 17:06:28

The libxml2 maintainer is basically shrugging his shoulders and saying "deal with your own fucking security issues; libxml was never meant to be used in your projects" to google and the rest of the giant corporations that are using his labor without contributing back. I'm totally on board with that.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-14 04:47:56

On mainstream platforms like Windows/Android sharing files from your computer to your phone is still a weirdly big deal in 2025.
I see lot of young people do this via Discord of all places, often in public channels. It’s just easier to them than other methods.

@45names@mastodon.social
2025-06-17 17:20:45

Sir Lies-a-lot
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: put the zip ties down.
#satire #potus45

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-16 09:46:39

Analysis: 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 (Ichiro Lambe/Totally Human Media)
totallyhuman.io/blog/the-surpr

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-07-11 13:30:44

Jets CB Michael Carter II 'in a lot better place' after adverse 2024, eager to play for Aaron Glenn nfl.com/news/jets-cb-michael-c

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-07-14 16:38:08

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
5/

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-07-16 22:36:50

I've been thinking a lot about the Civil War as a slave revolt and the Civil War as a leftist revolution (and slaver attempt to prevent that revolution).
youtu.be/KWiM00lCRTE

We should acknowledge that if there is an "Epstein client list",
there’s a good chance Donald Trump is on it.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump said in 2002.
“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Is that why Bondi won’t release the list?
Quite the enticing possibility.
If there ever was a case made for conspiracy theorists,…

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-16 09:07:34

@… If I text “real good” to my partner, she’s not gonna think “he’s been listening to a lot of Salt ‘n Pepa”, she’s gonna think “oh no, he’s learning English from a small child”. 😜

@45names@mastodon.social
2025-07-16 19:20:12

Save-a-lot Stalin
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: no investigating me please.
#satire #potus45

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-17 22:56:36

Lamar Jackson says Ravens will enter this season with 'vengeance on our mind' nytimes.com/athletic/6433455/2

@samir@functional.computer
2025-07-16 08:01:04

@… @… Based on what I’ve seen of Concourse, I trust the Cloud Foundry developers a lot more than other cloud platform designers, but I haven’t looked into it at all.
Unfortunately, k8s is the standard now, and anything else is an uphill strug…

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-08 14:15:52

Broncos QB Bo Nix feels 'a lot better' understanding Denver's offense heading into Year 2 nfl.com/news/broncos-qb-bo-nix

@45names@mastodon.social
2025-06-16 11:20:17

Cheaty McCheats-a-lot
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-06-15 21:16:06

The military is a lot more complex than most folks know. Keep that in mind. Don't give up and assume they're all just born to kill, or that if they are deployed against Americans they'll shoot. Some may, some may not, treat them like people and some of them might act like people. That's the take away here.
Since this toot is more popular than the parade itself, I'm gonna mute to save my inbox.
I also want to apologize to the admins here for the extra traffic. :P

@samir@functional.computer
2025-06-16 08:41:42

@… Yeah, ordered it months ago, it was a gift from my partner. 😊
I’m planning on mostly playing Switch 1 games. Part of the reason I didn’t get the first one is that for the first couple of years, it was lacking in games, and after that, it felt like a lot of money for such an underpowered device.
Not enjoying the game prices though.