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The fact that most people—even the punditocracy—seem to willfully not remember who was president in 2020 explains a lot of current political discourse on numerous subjects
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:swgxwbir4rrimj57pf75jckf/post/3lrbbdbrl…

"Wie digitaler Faschismus in den Mainstream vordringt"
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-ideologie-wie-digitaler-faschismus-in-den-mainstream-vordringt/

KI-Ideologie: Wie digitaler Faschismus in den Mainstream vordringt
Sogenannte Künstliche Intelligenz und ihre Versprechungen sind allgegenwärtig. Die Technologie aber ist mit antidemokratischen, menschenverachtenden und faschistischen Ideologien aufgeladen, sagen Aline Blankertz und Rainer Mühlhoff. Und mit der KI dringen auch diese Weltanschauungen immer weiter in unseren Alltag vor.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01495 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

CVC: A Large-Scale Chinese Value Rule Corpus for Value Alignment of Large Language Models
Ensuring that Large Language Models (LLMs) align with mainstream human values and ethical norms is crucial for the safe and sustainable development of AI. Current value evaluation and alignment are constrained by Western cultural bias and incomplete domestic frameworks reliant on non-native rules; furthermore, the lack of scalable, rule-driven scenario generation methods makes evaluations costly and inadequate across diverse cultural contexts. To address these challenges, we propose a hierarchi…

DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation
Jingyu Xiao, Ming Wang, Man Ho Lam, Yuxuan Wan, Junliang Liu, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06251

DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automated front-end engineering, e.g., generating UI code from visual designs. However, existing front-end UI code generation benchmarks have the following limitations: (1) While framework-based development becomes predominant in modern front-end programming, current benchmarks fail to incorporate mainstream development frameworks. (2) Existing evaluations focus solely on the UI code generation task, whereas p…

Laura Loomer's White House access erases the line between the fringe and mainstream (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/laura-loomers-white-house-access-erases-line-fringe-mainstream-rcna210863
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p51#a250604p51

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNI_…

Extending Internet Access Over LoRa for Internet of Things and Critical Applications
LoRa bridges the gap between remote locations and mainstream networks, enabling large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. Despite the recent advancements around LoRa, Internet access over this technology is still largely unexplored. Most existing solutions only handle packets within the local LoRa network and do not interact with web applications. This limits the scalability and the ability to deliver essential web services in disconnected regions. This work proposes and implements ILoR…

Just finished "To a Darker Shore" by Leanne Schwartz. It's a blend of fantasy (a genre I enjoyed a lot when younger but which I now feel is hit-or-miss depending on the politics of the author) and romance (a genre I'm currently a bit obsessed with) and I enjoyed it very much. The element of an #OwnVoices autistic perspective was interesting, and the mythology was pretty cool. Even though I felt as though monstrousness could have been explored from an even better angle, the complexity in this book was comfortable, and it to my mind successfully-enough avoided the veneer of racism that runs through the mainstream fantasy tradition.
#AmReading

How AI-assisted "vibe hacking", which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity "arms race" (Matthew Gault/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-hacker-agents/

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.

Bevan M. French (1937-2025) :: Meteoritical Society
Bevan worked on impact science "at a time when impacts on the Earth were not considered mainstream – or even possible." #geology
https://meteo…

Bevan M. French (1937-2025)
Bevan French is most widely known for his pioneering work in planetary science and the field of impact cratering. He was one of the early workers on terrestrial impact materials along with Gene Shoemaker, Nick Short, Richard Grieve, Dieter Stöffler, Ed Chao, and others, at a time when impacts on the Earth were not considered mainstream – or even possible. Throughout his career Bevan was a champion for impact science, particularly centered on petrography, and geologic observations at terrestr…

"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."

masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

Glad to see any rumblings life from the mainest of mainstream media, even if it is just one person doing a commencement speech.
I’m sure there are a lot of journalists out there who’d love to show a whole lot more teeth than their bosses let them. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/114579635074536270

When was the first middle-finger used to denote contempt in a (mainstream) film? I don't know but there is an instance of it in Sergio Leone's 1971 Giù la testa (Duck, You Sucker / A Fistful of Dynamite).
This was perpetrated by Rod Steiger. In this film he and James Coburn also make a solid case that Keanu Reeves' accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was not even close to being the worst in film history.

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Wacuka Ngata, Noman Bashir, Michelle Westerlaken, Laurent Liote, Yasra Chandio, Elsa Olivetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03367

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Datacenters have become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and promising economic growth and technological progress. However, this expansion has brought growing tensions in the local communities where datacenters are already situated or being proposed. While the mainstream discourse often focuses on energy usage and carbon footprint of the computing sector at a global scale, the local socio-environmental consequences -- such as heal…

there is something profoundly funny about how mainstream tech now talks about how #Linux-based handhelds are better at power management than #windows-based ones. what’s next? “use linux for better printer support!” or “sound is only reliable on Linux tbh”
Really curious where the Proton train wi…

Hab jetzt schon einige Male gelesen, dass Leute den CCC und sein Umfeld meiden seitdem er "woke", "staatstreu" und "mainstream" geworden ist :picardfacepalm: Aber hey, wenigstens bleiben Arschlöcher dann von selbst fern :ablobcool:

On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State
Christian de Ronde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23989 https://arxi…

On the Physical Untenability of the Standard Notion of Quantum State
The notion of quantum state plays a fundamental role within the Standard account of Quantum Mechanics (SQM) as established by Dirac and von Neumann during 1930s and up to the present. In this work we expose the deep inconsistencies that exist within the multiple definitions of the notion of quantum state that are provided within this axiomatic formulation. As we will argue, these different inconsistent definitions continue to be -- even today -- uncritically confused within the mainstream physi…

I remember using Opera Mini, even on an iPhone. Had a lousy data plan where they would throttle it massively at some point. Opera mini was the way I could continue surfing the web without all those megabytes of cruft (even back theb) https://mstdn.social/@osnews/114598061141994857

The growth strategy, which seems to be the only tool in mainstream politicians' kit, is broken for good.
Limits to Growth was right about collapse - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-righ…

Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

Glad to see any rumblings life from the mainest of mainstream media, even if it is just one person doing a commencement speech.
I’m sure there are a lot of journalists out there who’d love to show a whole lot more teeth than their bosses let them. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/114579635074536270

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS )
Christian Gang Liu, Peter Bodorik, Dawn Jutla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02727

Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS+)
Development of blockchain smart contracts is more difficult than mainstream software development because the underlying blockchain infrastructure poses additional complexity. To ease the developer's task of writing smart contract, as other research efforts, we also use Business Process Model and Notation BPMN modeling to describe application requirements for trade of goods and services and then transform automatically the BPMN model into the methods of a smart contract. In our previous research…

"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."
#FightingOligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth

Ich nehme nicht an, dass mein Favorit Schweden eine echte Chance hat, oder?
Wäre was neues für mich, den ESC-Mainstream zu treffen. 😅
#ESC #Eurovision #ESC2025

A Very Brief History
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzptanvuyqll7d0xay0vswx652musrpvqcwmzwkg70…

Heather_860
Obviously False, But Nobody Seems To Mind I grew up at a time when everybody knew that teens were young adults. Nobody even questioned that. There was no hysteria about teens having sex. A lot of things were terrible back then, but our society was able to give a level of basic respect to the 14-20 crowd which is now completely lost. So for me, it's just an obvious truth. It took a little time to figure out how the mainstream worldview got so fucked up, but it's basically this: in the 80s St…