@dcm@social.sunet.se2026-09-30 11:33:37
Very cool forthcoming hybrid talk series in philosophy of mind and cognitive science:
#philcogsci
@dcm@social.sunet.se2026-09-30 11:33:37
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-10-31 23:15:43
Dress like a pirate and sing Don’t Stop Me Now at karaoke? Don’t mind if I do :)
Happy Halloween!
🎃👻
https://vimeo.com/1241854505
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-10-28 16:07:11
RE: https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-Rlh-XIQyQpOaxI9d6Op6LQ:a:43611565-/0
I don't mind auto suggestions but I would still like to see more innovation around encouraging active …
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us2026-10-26 14:15:21
Various Artists – 20 years of monoKraK
https://www.archive.org/details/monokrak321_variousartists_20-years-of-monokrak
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-09-24 22:00:01
40 years. Unbelievable. Any case involving the use of bite-mark "evidence" should be thrown out. It was junk science then, and it's junk science now.
https://www.al.com/news/2026/09/alabama-ma
@newstik@social.heise.de2026-10-22 06:28:44
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-10-25 09:15:01
Got up to a sunny morning. Mind you, for those of you that seem to take an unhealthy interest in the heating habits of others, ours came on this morning, as the overnight temperature in the house fell below 68°F (20°C)
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-10-23 20:08:33
#PennedPossibilities 1164: Bookish Delights: Have you ever read a book where you knew that one of the MCs or SCs would make a good friend of yours IRL?
I haven't thought about that actually, I lose myself when I read. My mind circles around the book, the plot, and the issues at hand, not my boring everyday life.
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-10-22 09:54:25
So, interesting @… situation. Work organised a day out but gave no details, not a single one beyond the date. Obviously I was never going to sign up for that and I'm amazed anyone else did 😄 It crossed my mind to mention to HR that giving no info was a very #autism
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-08-30 07:19:13
Really, really loving Insomnia: Theatre in the Head
It feels so much like what your mind does when you can't sleep.
Going to savour the last few chapters ...
#IndieGamer #IndieGameReview
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-10-30 17:01:08
Wait, are you telling me that Reverend Jim was actually HIGH on those episodes of Tax…no wait never mind that tracks
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h6lpk2bztqzia2naegl6mugl/post/3mz443nbmsc2a
@salrandolph@zirk.us2026-08-20 14:14:47
I’m thrilled to be teaching a class next week with the amazing Sarah Kokernot, fiction writer, essayist, dharma friend, and author of the monthly, Your Wild and Radiant Mind.
The class, More Than Seeing: Writing From Art, will meet online next week Thursday (August 27).
I’d love to see you there!
#Art #writing
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-10-16 16:16:22
“Accessibility-first screen reader prediction” is not a solution, folks.
Parsing a DOM and building your _own_ accTree to then *emulate* how desktop screen readers _might_ announce a page as if *maybe* using read-all just ends up putting more burden on human testers.
Never mind missing the bugs, features, heuristics, and more built into a DOM parser and screen reader engine.
Unless your goal is satisfy a dashboard while removing humans from your
@steve@s.yelvington.com2026-10-16 18:23:01
Disney managed to somehow write Dr. Demento into the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline.
@ellie@ellieayla.net2026-10-13 21:39:54
Do network switches have a theory of mind? Does it depend on whether they implement Spanning Tree Protocol?
#networking #pooptoot
@Defiance@sfba.social2026-10-11 20:07:52
Jeremiah Chiu - “Plastic Mind / Elastic Machines” (2026)
Not a huge electronic music guy, but this one really grabs my ear. Chiu is a community organizer, graphic designer, artist, synthesist, and educator. He’s currently a lecturer at Otis College of Art & Design and Art Center College of Design, a resident DJ at Dublab, and also performs in Los Angeles both solo and with a variety of artists.
#electronic
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-10-29 20:45:49
I saw Patrick Stewart live twice.
The first time was in a production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?” at the Guthrie. The moment he stepped on stage, I reflexively thought “Hey! It’s Captain Picard!” …and then, not 2 seconds later, before he’d even spoken a word: “No, no, it’s not, it just…kinda looks like him.”
Just his gate, the way he held himself, he’d become a completely different person. I’d imprinted on Picard in my formative years, and Stewart’s acting was so damn good that it took 2 wordless seconds to wipe Picard from my mind.
2/
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-10-28 20:44:41
To be fair, Anthony Hudson, the MAGA “Libertarian” had his mind changed about Dearborn but still held the march and had an extremely unusual opinion of the Metro Times’ reporter Steve Neavling
@shacker@zirk.us2026-10-03 01:37:04
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2026-09-27 12:26:06
Craving an intellectual escape? Dive into the boundless world of sci-fi! Traverse galaxies or unravel time travel complexities. Choose a thought-provoking film and let your mind explore the cosmos. What's your ultimate sci-fi masterpiece?
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2026-10-26 13:53:16
RE: https://mastodon.online/@jrmitch120/117505202694696951
Good policy. It was not what I had in mind with my post on hallway monitors, but I appreciate it.
The hallway monitor is a pet peeve of mine, the emergence of power structures around rule enforcers over people is not new, it happens all the time - and it bothers me tremendously: NIMBYs, Wikipedia, stack overflow, hijacked student movements, HOAs.
The Reddit ban is just the latest episode.
@villavelius@mastodon.online2026-10-16 10:29:47
Mind versus machine: can biological models of the mind inspire machine intelligence design?
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2026.1894859/full
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-10-24 16:43:36
@… Hiya. I've been trying to get in touch with Robert Atkey for several weeks now, and I'm not getting responses. This is for a CACM Research Highlights article that he promised to write. Do you mind pinging him for me? Much appreciated!
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-10-24 17:24:01
Projekt Bochum-Karlsruhe-Bochum an einem Tag klappt so mittel. Hinfahrt mit 25 Minuten Verspätung, Rückfahrt komplett kaputt. Bin in einen Zug nach Frankfurt gesprungen, um erstmal in die richtige Richtung zu fahren. Aber es ist der falsche Bahnhof in FF und es wird noch mind. 3 Züge mehr geben #bahnweh
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2026-10-29 19:31:28
RE: #QAAPodcast, #KnowledgeFight podcast, @…'s #WeirdLittleGuys podcast, #BehindTheBastards podcast. "Travis View" is the "Anonymous" name adopted by one of the original hosts of QAA and sounds more real to my mind than his real life name. It shows to me how easy it is to develop a relationship to these voices I listen to, and reminds me that I need to continue to question my media and ensure I get my news from a variety of sources keeping an active and critical assessment of where they're getting their facts from going in my mind.
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-10-23 00:38:24
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/117487253520932620
I still hope someday someone says they want a different KIND of housing. Affordable. Modular. Recyclable, and made with living humans in mind, not ad copy and investment portfolio. I do not expect to live this long, but since the middle of the last century, i've been hoping.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-10-19 13:47:12
It will blow your mind how much critical cyber news has emerged since Friday, so check out today's Metacurity for the top developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump appointees asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine and not reveal the results, report,
--AI agents breached Indian firms undetected during tests,
--Hacker unleashes AI agents on 1.2k sites for $50 a breach,
--Staples hack fueled $5m gift card shopping spree,
--Suspected Qilin hacker detained as UK weighs unlawful killing case,
--Anthropic pitches Congress its own AI safety bill,
--Anthropic gives outside evaluators insider access,
--Cyberattack knocks Japanese retailer Joshin’s services offline,
--Japan's H2O Retailing breach puts 1.26m accounts at risk,
--S. Korea's Hollys coffee hackers steal 2.76m pieces of personal data,
--Spyware targets Serbian university rector and prosecutor’s lawyer,
--Sam Altman’s World pitches banks proof of humanity,
--Hackers stole files from Maryland’s Anne Arundel County,
--Hyderabad airport recovers hacked X account,
--OpenCode breach exposes API keys as users report surprise charges,
--Temu settles Texas privacy claims and limits China data transfers,
--Hack exposes Romanian stock depository users’ personal data,
--Cybersecurity job postings hit four-year low as AI roles surge,
--Reach Security raises over $50m for expansion,
--MapQuest puts surveillance cameras on the map,
--AI political ads draw $137m, mostly from Republicans,
--Lightning Network bug put nearly $340m in Bitcoin at risk
https://www.metacurity.com/trump-appointees-asked-cisa-to-secretly-hack-a-voting-machine-and-not-reveal-the-results-report/
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-10-04 05:09:42
Just after 6 am on Sunday morning. It’s a bit foggy here. Mind you that means there’s no wind if there’s no wind there’s no windchill the current temperature is 52 Fahrenheit which is mild for October. It’s still dark though.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2026-10-20 14:22:12
@andyq@mastodon.social2026-10-10 10:58:57
@pre@boing.world2026-10-13 23:30:16
Content warning: AI made maths proofs
They tell me that Open AI have solved four hundred previously open maths problems this week.
The news media, and even the mathematicians, seem quite credulous about it.
No way to know how many of those will really stand up in the end. Lots of proofs turn out not to be really proofs coz they have a mistake, and AI is quite good at discovering mistakes as well as now apparently discovering maths.
Some of them are counter-examples that prove the conjecture is false and those are gonna be good at last. Machines can check it.
Some have other types of mechanical machine-checkable proof, which is interesting in that we can all believe the checker-machine: coz it's deterministic and understandable.
We can't trust the machine that isn't deterministic or understandable as much though.
GPT says these things are true. Now maths people have to check, because OpenAI staff aren't expert mathematicians either, mostly.
Some of the 400 proofs will fall, I'm sure.
How many tokens will be spent before machines find the flaws that are surely still there? How many tokens until you decide to stop?
But if a machine can prove a thing to itself, but not explain it to any person, is it really doing maths? Even if it's correct more often than people are? Or is doing maths more about making meat understand a thing?
🤔
I'm sure I can't tell if the proofs are true or not. No point me reading them. Mostly won't even understand the question. The boundary of my meager meat-mind's maths-understanding was around barely-degree level.
Can the academic discipline continue as one which is devoted mostly to trying to understand the output of a machine writing about maths, which is mostly right but nobody can really tell without an entire academic discipline trying to check.
In other words, mathematicians now also face a spam problem familiar to many github project leads.
#ai #maths
@billbert@mastodon.social2026-10-07 09:47:52
Didn’t I just DO laundry?!
I guess I don’t mind doing laundry so much compared to all the other chores I’ve let foolishly fall by the wayside over the years.
1/2
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-10-20 15:28:47
RE: https://mas.to/@thelocal/117473426061545689
Fear is the mind-killer …
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-10-17 23:40:55
5/ The book is written in 2002, as the Internet became pervasive and the debates of the day centered around whether one could use (never mind rely on!) Wikipedia. Some of these feel quaint now. Others take on a fresh urgency in the AI age. ↵
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-10-17 22:58:58
Coming up to my 4 year anniversary on Mastodon (28 Oct 2022). Sitting & feeling that I've never been comfy here. I don't hold any anti-Fedi views, I don't prefer corporate social media, but this still isn't *home*.
I know I'm quieter than advisable on social media. Should I push myself to be more outgoing?
I sometimes look at other servers (instances) that seem more mutually supportive ... beige.party & corteximplant.com, maybe also wandering.shop come to mind.
Would I be happier elsewhere?
Or do I just know some of the more prominent members, so the support I see is just popularity?
Or should I move to where my interests lie, a gamedev-focused server?
I'm still sad mastodon.lol closed ...
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-10-04 09:16:40
I keep beating this drum, but...
It's.... Interesting that we're having an entire conversation about "AI alignment" when Sam Altman and Darius Amodei have flat out said that their goal is to make paperclips out of everything even if the human race goes extinct in the process.
Oh I'm sorry, dollars. They're making dollars, not paperclips. That changes everything, clearly.
...
What's more insidious is that even if you Luigi'd Altman and Amodei tomorrow, OpenAI and Anthropic would happily elect new leaders and continue with business as usual. There is no shortage of humans willing to step up and run the paperclip machines and who have the same misalignment issue (they're not actually a large percentage of humans, mind, but there are plenty of them). So the thing you have you defeat in order to stop the paperclipization is in fact a corporation (and the idea that wealth makes right behind it), not a human.
It's almost as if we're *already* locked in an existential battle with an inhuman entity whose effective goals are dangerously misaligned by nature... 🤔
...
I wonder if the same techniques used to defeat the entity already threatening us would work against the hypothetical threat it's waving around to distract us? Only one way to find out!
#AI #LLMs
@smurthys@hachyderm.io2026-10-27 04:22:33
RE: #Hindu #lore: At midnight on the day leading to the first full moon after "nawa-raathri" (aka "Dussera"), Lakshmi the goddess of wealth blesses those who stay alert to and dwell on Indra [long story] and herself. The event is called "ko jaagaree" (Sanskrit for roughly "whoever is alert").
Unsurprisingly, Lakshmi-related services are common that evening. My experience at one such service was just mind-blowing. The dedication of the hosts (and the entire family) to the service was instructive on how to commit and deliver for a chosen cause.
Also, the knowledge and proficiency of the chief priest (who was also the host) powerfully demonstrated the value of scholarship and experience in one's chosen field. It was inspiring to see him and his team in action.
And, the dinner was over-the-top good. A proper feast truly worthy of a Lakshmi event. 🪙
I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to attend the event. 🙇♂️
Pictures in the quoted/linked post. 👉
#tradition #admiration #gratitude #India #Sanskrit
@pre@boing.world2026-10-09 09:33:15
Content warning: UKPol Holborn
So Labour's down only four points from the general election, from 49% down to 45%.
The Green's have tripped their vote from like 10% to like a third.
Massive swing towards green, but not enough to take the seat. Needs another 1500 people to change their mind.
Obviously all the media will say this means Burnham is winning and Zack has to go. I hope not. He's doing great.
No way to really find out how it would have been different if the Zionism motion had gone the other way.
#green #ukpol #holborn
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-08-05 10:41:27
Saw #WizardOfTheKremlin , probably the last screening at my local. Now I'd like to read the book.
For a film about Putin (told from his advisor's point of view), you learn almost nothing about his motivations / mentality. But I did learn that events I had separated in my mind occurred at nearly the same time (Putin turning to politics/Russian apartment bombings 1 month later) (Sochi Olympics/'little green men' invasion of Ukraine).
There are a number of interesting one liners/points of view from all of the protagonists and some nostalgic (for me) nightclub scenes.
The costume, hair and makeup departments were excellent, btw, with exactly the right bad haircuts. Alexander Zaldostanov and Igor Sechin looked especially convincing, Putin was also surprisingly true-to-life.
P.S. feel free to recommend me *good* films/books on related topics