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…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new/
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Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives
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
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/
"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."
As We May Never Think Again
In 2010, a popular Argentine novelist, screenwriter, and blogger based in Spain called Hernán Casciari, got tired of dealing with publishing houses, editors, and mainstream media. He wanted to publish a magazine, but of a different kind. His idea of a magazine had very-well defined boundaries: high-quality content, no advertising, direct sales to the readers, and a luxury printed format. Against all odds, his idea worked: "Revista Orsai", kicked off as an experiment, and then became a staple a…
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
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:
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…
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
"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