@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-25 17:10:42
CBS says Colbert's Only in Monroe episode was financed and produced by CBS Studios but it has decided to stop issuing takedown notices "until additional review" (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-24 15:42:26
Just 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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-25 00:45:50
Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-06-24 22:43:12
Erschreckend, wie viele Fakten ich aus meiner kurzlebigen (und ungeliebten) Lehre als Malerin und Lackiererin behalten habe. Ich kann meinen US-Mitspielern erklären, warum die Farbe des Reflecting Pools sich wahrscheinlich nicht deswegen gelöst hat, weil sie mit Autos (WTF?) durchgefahren sind.
@davej@dice.camp2026-05-25 07:24:33
Same deal as last week for #MondayRandom10. Details in the next post.
1. The Stalin, “Romantist”
2. Black Moth, “The Undead King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
3. The New Pornographers, “Moves”
4. Bal-Sagoth, “To Dethrone the Witch Queen of Mytos Kunn”
5. Childish Gambino, “Retro”
6. The Vines, “Get Free”
7. Manowar, “Die for Metal”
8. Chuck Brown, “Run Joe”
9. …
@luca@social.luca.run2026-06-23 18:59:32
I'm moving my followers from @… to this account because I wasn't active there for too long and the account got frozen. I didn't even know that that was a thing. I could appeal it, but don't want to. I will keep a fond memory of that place.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 11:37:14
Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-05-22 14:31:13
In other news, my first 15x11" (roughly DIN A3) print came out with only minor issues, none of them show stoppers and I know what needs to be done to improve. So this is just a test print and it's a bit hard to capture, but the overall presence & level of detail is so amazing at this size! Hard to go back to smaller sizes now :)
To get here, I've been doing countless tests of different recipes and hardware (e.g. I had to disassemble my UV light to create a more uniform/unfocused li…
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-24 08:49:52
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
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- Facade: High-Precision Insider Threat Detection Using Deep Contextual Anomaly Detection
Alex Kantchelian, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06700 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/113627226016881063
- Enhancing Membership Inference Attacks on Diffusion Models from a Frequency-Domain Perspective
Puwei Lian, Yujun Cai, Songze Li, Bingkun Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20955 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114584229384238830
- Cryptographic Choreographies
Sebastian M\"odersheim, Simon Lund, Alessandro Bruni, Marco Carbone, Rosario Giustolisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12967 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116079470877038972
- TALUS: FIPS-204-Exact Threshold ML-DSA via Boundary Clearance
Leo Kao, Raymond Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22109 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116283533730322814
- SafeHarbor: Defining Precise Decision Boundaries via Hierarchical Memory-Augmented Guardrail for ...
Liu, Ying, Zhang, Zou, Zhang, Yang, Zhang, Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05704 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116537968700983890
- AI Security Policy Should Assess Systems, Not Only Models
Michael A. Riegler, Inga Str\"umke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09504 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116560756584469721
- Efficient and Privacy Aware Edge Cloud Collaborative Inference for Large Language Models
Cheng Li, Jiexiong Liu, Yixuan Chen, Yi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13093 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116928605403267286
- From Neural Intent to Cryptographic Authorization: Securing AI-Driven Enterprise Workflows
Jiasi Weng, Jian Weng, Minrong Chen, Ming Li, Jia-Nan Liu, Zhi Li, Yue Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15596 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116951166143038362
- Towards an Automated Test of LLM Security Knowledge
Shufan Chai, Liangliang Sun, Jessica Staddon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18496 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116962579240952448
- DynaMark: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dynamic Watermarking in Industrial Machine Tool ...
Navid Aftabi, Abhishek Hanchate, Satish Bukkapatnam, Dan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21797 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSY_bot/115128274334268839
- CLOAK: Contrastive Guidance for Latent Diffusion-Based Data Obfuscation
Xin Yang, Omid Ardakanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12086 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115729063749487767
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-05-21 20:51:00
Please enjoy these perfect irises. My mum loved them so it feels fitting that they're putting on a show in her memory. #bloomscrolling
