“There’s this movement that’s been brewing on the right,
and they have crept into a variety of mainstream conservative institutions and taken over,”
one former senior Heritage analyst, who insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal, told me.
That’s what had happened at Heritage. “It was planned,” the analyst said. “And it was a coup.”
The troubles at Heritage could be said to have started with Project 2025.
Since 1980, Heritage has put out a polic…
Huaah! In 1 Woche gehts zum #ComicSalonErlangen. Ich freu mich schon so auf Messe, Ausstellungen und viele Begegnungen. Kann ich vielleicht auch jemand anderen aus dem Fediverse dort treffen? (außer Künstler*innen)
:blobhyperwubbel:
https://www.
Comment from 2006:
"I'd guess that over 95% of the photos on Flickr were created by the people who uploaded them. I'd put that number way down for YouTube. Many of the videos posted there are clips from mainstream media posted illegally that YouTube turns a blind eye to."
https://vowe.net/archives/007197.html…
"Verlieren etablierte Parteien und ihre Politiker an Rückhalt, profitiert die AfD. Vertrauensverlust im Mainstream heißt für die Ränder: Vertrauensgewinn."
"Wer öffentliches Wasser in privaten Wein verwandelt, gilt selbst Christdemokraten nicht als Heiligenfigur. Sondern als doppelmoralischer Egoist."
Jan Sudlarek: Die Spahnung steigt. Über Moral in der Politik #Spahn
“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.
It’s not rocket science, folks.
*smdh*
#capitalism #mainstream
The mainstream media largely shrugged off the slush-fund story,
depicting it as politics as usual
– no cause for alarm or sustained coverage.
The NBC evening newscast by Wednesday had moved on,
focusing instead on Raúl Castro’s indictment, the California wildfires and a car explosion in lower Manhattan.
And Fox News, home to the fervid Maga base, offered cursory coverage both on the air and online,
giving an obligatory nod to Democratic lawmakers who voic…
On mainstream Social Network I am, apparently, posting stuff that nobody know about and, as such, it is uninteresting.
Here I cannot find something niche enough for you not to get it.
I love you Fedi! 💖
The factors that determine whether something becomes of mainstream scientific interest are only marginally scientific. #science #fashion #funding #prestige
Remember when you could perform an action in GitHub, like assign a person to an issue, and then GitHub would actually reflect your change without having to do it several times, since it was—at one point—one of the few remaining mainstream web apps that actually worked reliably?
That was cool. 😴
This is how the West ends up arming, funding and culturally approving a genocide.
From the news to Hollywood to video games, the entire Western media has drowned us in Islamophobia for the last four decades.
(detesto esta mania dos brasileiros abreviarem ficção científica para "ficção". Porra, ficção é tudo o que não seja não-ficção: ficção científica, fantasia, mainstream, policial, etc., etc., etc. Ficção científica é um TIPO de ficção.)
Peter Thiel predigt gern Unabhängigkeit vom Mainstream. Der geleakte Mitgliederbestand seines Netzwerks zeigt jedoch etwas anderes: den systematischen Aufbau einer ideologisch aufgeladenen Elitegemeinschaft, die sich als Gegenmodell zur Demokratie versteht. Der STANDARD zeichnet nach, wie aus Debattenzirkeln politische Machtzirkel werden. Nachtrag: Aus Deutschland soll Jens Spahn Mitglied sein
#PeterThiel
Just finished "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich. It's a beautiful and entrancing novel in many ways, but I couldn't bring myself to like the ending. I think in one of my most recent book posts I complained about a deus ex machina, so it's ironic that in this case as the pages dwindled I was fully prepared to accept and even welcome one, especially with all of the deus-related stuff going on already. I am left profoundly unsure as to whether Erdrich imagines a positive future beyond our current oppressions, or just futility, when for most of the book it seemed like the former, which is something I seek out in earnest these days. It is of course impressive that a book about innocents being hunted through the streets of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, while a volunteer citizens network organizes to keep them safe, could be published in 2017. There are strong echoes of Octavia Butler here, and in both cases I think it's a marginalized position which allows authors to see with clarity that most mainstream authors miss or don't even attempt.
I think I will seek out more of Erdrich's writing, but only after a bit of a break.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
"A brand new political podcast from Ireland's two best-known independent left wing MEPs, straight from the belly of the EU beast. Unfiltered by mainstream media they grapple with the problems at the very heart of the European project.
Vampires preying on humanity & the planet...the US military is the World's biggest threat ...we are joined by investigative journalist Abby Martin to discuss her mind-blowing film 'Earth's …
#EroticMusings 54. Why/when/how did you start making erotica?
I started writing and doing stuff like "making social media accounts and a website" in 2019. At first, it was "I want to write mainstream erotica to get some additional money" but I soon realized I can't write anything I don't actually enjoy writing - so it turned into "sapphic why choose …
Hablando con una gente de un grupo sobre dejar de usar una cuenta de instagram y pasar al fediverso va una persona y dice que "mejor estar en lo mainstream que en una red politizada".
A ver, colega....
1- instagram estš politizada, pero es lo que diga el dueño
2- todo es política, incluso el colectivo en el que estšs que okupa un solar del SAREB para hacer un uso comunitario
The most common three wise monkeys variations intrigue me. The positively framed versions are cute, but subdued ominous aura is part of the appeal. The ones with "do no evil" where the monkey covers genitals have too much ominous aura for the mainstream. This could be a Goldilocks situation
En Logroño ya le pusimos "la casita" a Espartero, antes de que Bad Bunny lo hiciese mainstream.
As long as Mastodon does UI stuff like this it won't be going broad appeal or mainstream.
(This specific message happens when you "bump" a post, i.e. remove existing boost and then immediately boost again, and you do it "too fast").
1. It should be called "reboost" in the message because the feature is called "boosting".
2. No one cares about the HTTP status code, it's just confusing to people who aren't devleopers.
3. The message shouldn't happen at all, i.e. the boost button must remain grayed out or unavailable while the post is considered boosted already (for example there could be a little indeterminate progress spinner to acknowledge you unboosted but while its not really unboosted).
4. The message should probably be shown where the error happens, if you have a big monitor you might miss it because it's n the screen corner.
5. The message should probably not just go away by itself before you had a chance to read it.
6. If you absolutely have to have errors like this (could be because user is on a stale page that shows the post as not boosted when it actually is), make the message more helpful (for example suggest to reload the page to see the latest).
7. Reboosting existing boosts is a relatively common usage pattern—possibly make it a feature and give the user extra information (like idk a warning about "You already reboosted this twice in the last week, are you sure you want to pester your followers again?")
This is of course only a small detail, but these UX issues quickly add up.
Despite stringent hygiene efforts, contamination from deadly bacteria like E. coli and salmonella remains an inherent, unavoidable risk in unpasteurized dairy.
As raw milk continues to sicken consumers, high-level lawmakers and government officials are championing the industry’s expansion rather than curbing the danger.
http…
Decode-Time Grammars: Constrained LLM Generation over a Refinement Order of Grammar Fragments
Shuoming Zhang, Ruiyuan Xu, Haofeng Li, Qiuchu Yu, Yangyu Zhang, Chunwei Xia, Xiaobing Feng, Chenxi Wang, Huimin Cui, Jiacheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18357 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18357 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18357
arXiv:2607.18357v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models now write a growing share of the world's code, increasingly inside agents and serving systems that compile, execute, or dispatch generated code without line-by-line review. This works well for mainstream languages but remains brittle for low-resource programming surfaces such as domain-specific languages, custom library APIs, and command-line tools. Even under grammar-constrained decoding, a model can still produce references invalid in the current environment: a buffer never declared, a column absent from the schema, a function the library does not provide, or an unsupported CLI option.
This paper introduces decode-time grammars: grammar fragments instantiated during generation from a runtime environment Gamma. A region-specific policy selects a fragment for each hole, and a tightening operator replaces open reference positions with Gamma-typed slots whose candidates are exactly the names, fields, APIs, or options available at that point. Newly generated declarations enter Gamma before later regions are decoded, so the constraining grammar can depend on the prefix already generated. This ensures not only grammatical correctness but also semantic correctness, by preventing references to undefined symbols.
We formalize grammar fragments as environment-indexed grammars ordered by refinement, prove No-Ghost soundness for Gamma-slotted fragments, show that refinement preserves this support-set guarantee, and characterize the boundary of mask-enforceable properties. We implement the approach in gproj with offline grammar induction and online policy resolution. Across TileLang, SQL, and P4, with models from 0.6B to 236B parameters, gproj eliminates ghost references by construction at moderate overhead over standard constrained decoding.
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The SMC Blind Spot: A Failure Mode Analysis of State-of-the-Art Beat Tracking
Jaehoon Ahn, Tae Gum Hwang, Moon-Ryul Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12287 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12287
arXiv:2605.12287v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Over the past two decades, the task of musical beat tracking has transitioned from heuristic onset detection algorithms to highly capable deep neural networks (DNN). Although DNN-based beat tracking models achieve near-perfect performance on mainstream, percussive datasets, the SMC dataset has stubbornly yielded low F-measure scores. By testing how well state-of-the-art models detect beats on individual tracks in the SMC dataset, we identify three distinct failure modes: octave errors, continuity errors, and complete tracking failure where all metrics fall below 0.3. We reveal that state-of-the-art models tend to generate "confident-but-wrong" activations. Furthermore, we show that the standard DBN's default minimum tempo of 55 BPM prevents it from inferring the correct tempo for 21\% of SMC tracks, forcing double-tempo predictions on slow music. By exposing such fundamental oversights, we provide concrete directions for improving beat and downbeat detection, specifically emphasizing training data diversification and multi-hypothesis tempo estimation.
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Donald Trump frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock.
He doesn’t try to hide it,
but unfortunately, the mainstream media covers his disordered thinking as a colorful “quirk”
— Trump being Trump
— rather than a serious, escalating threat to the nation.
This past weekend, Trump’s social media feed was a wellspring of lunacy.
He posted more than 50 times on Saturday alone, hurling personal attacks at Barack Obama, Joe Bide…
In case you want to keep apprised of today's 2 minute hate by the right (recent headline shows WSJ drank the 'Smithsonian bad' koolaid):
theRighting – Alerting Mainstream Audiences to Today’s Headlines from the Right
https://therighting.com/
Four House Republicans crossed party lines on Wednesday
and voted to limit Trump’s power to continue directing military action in Iran without congressional authorization,
delivering a rebuke of the war that recently entered its fourth month.
The four hail from different factions within the G.O.P.;
two are staunch conservatives with libertarian views that include opposition to foreign military intervention,
while the other two are more mainstream Republicans fro…
Tired of being rate limited by mainstream social media apps because they think that I’m bot when I’m just going down a list of new accounts to follow 😭
To preempt any comments about why I’m bothering to be on mainstream social media: while Mastodon is my primary platform, some accounts are just impossible to follow outside of their chosen walled gardens. To find artists and local events I’ve had to suck it up and begrudgingly use those big tech apps sometimes.
I want interoperability to be legally enforced for all social media oh so badly.
@cdarwin@c.im
