@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialCalling "increasingly evaluating migration paths" what's otherwise been a necessary migration due to deprecation is a funny perspective. 😂
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2026/05/25/zero-downtime-migration-from-ingress-nginx-to-envoy-ga…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDear generative AI enthusiasts,
Look, I know the tokens you're burning right now don't actually use *that*much energy (even though it's somewhat substantial already and disastrous when we take into account the quality of the crap it's being used for) but what's more important is the appearance (or not) of that token spend on the quarterly earnings report of OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. lays the foundation necessary for those companies to go ahead with their plans for datacenters on a truly ridiculous scale, and those datacenters, if built, ate indeed a climate nightmare which *my kids* will have to live through even if they never benefit from any of it at all. That's (one of many reasons) why I personally need you to stop using generative AI right now.
The fact that the output is crap, the way it erodes your intelligence, and the ways in which it plagiarizes and actively undermines good citation practices are among many other practical reasons not to use it, but what's personal to me is the way that your frivolous sloperation is making the future worse for the baby I'm feeding blueberries to as I type this, and half the time I interact with people like you the conversation begins with some form of "putting aside the ethical issues..."
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThis Cowboys-Vikings trade proposal is necessary with Jordyn Brooks off the table https://fansided.com/nfl/this-cowboys-vikings-trade-proposal-necessary-with-jordyn-brooks-off-table
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCEO Ed Policy discusses long-term adjustments Packers could make to stay financially competitive https://www.nfl.com/news/ceo-ed-policy-discusses-long-term-adjustments-packers-could-make-to-stay-financially-competitive
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/matt-garman-aws-ceo-interview-ai-jobs/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
David Holmes:
🎵 Necessary Genius (feat. Raven Violet)
#DavidHolmes
https://david-holmes.bandcamp.com/track/necessary-genius-skymas-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iOy8yZOwWhiFExF0Xy1eJ
@shaun@mastodon.xyzA cop killed a baby — and people are defending it.
“Deadly force isn’t necessary in a #shoplifting situation. The #officers confirmed in their own statement that they had seen the ‘juvenile’ — they knew a baby was in that car [when they opened fire on it]. The way these small towns operate, we …
@StephenRees@mas.toScience Matters - Clean power pathways beat carbon capture
from David Suzuki
We know that spewing greenhouse gases into the air, mainly by burning fossil fuels, is the primary driver of rapidly accelerating global heating, and that carbon dioxide can remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. Some, however, is taken up by plants, soil and water as part of the carbon cycle.
Does that mean using technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is a viable or necessary clima…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzBeyond the merger–quasar–quench paradigm - mergers are neither necessary nor sufficient to #quench central galaxies in illustrisTNG: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/3/stag507/8529012?searchresult=1&login=false -> FIU study challenges leading explanation for why galaxies stop forming stars: https://news.fiu.edu/2026/fiu-study-challenges-leading-explanation-for-why-galaxies-stop-forming-stars
@cdarwin@c.imThe SAVE Act has passed the House of Representatives
and is currently under consideration in the Senate.
The bill has faced significant public opposition,
raising concerns about its potential to disenfranchise millions of eligible voters
The SAVE Act is expected to have several implications for voters:
🔸Access Barriers: Many eligible voters may struggle to meet the new documentation requirements, particularly those without easy access to the necessary documents…
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyRE: https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/116939432745772414
This is why, in NN#3, I wrote: "We have not demanded proof that AI is, in fact, such a necessary technology that it qualifies as a must-win arms race. We just took the word of a few o…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzPolicy discusses long-term adjustments Packers could make to stay financially competitive https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/policy-discusses-longterm-adjustments-packers-could-make-to-stay-financially-competitive
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioTrue liability would help; the Equifax hack should have been a company-ending event.
But that’s a mitigation for necessary data collection. (And I’m not sure credit reporting in its current form is actually useful or necessary.) “Don’t collect it, don’t provide it” is always the best starting point.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI tried to convince someone that the "freeways" we have here in Wisconsin are SoCiALiSm because they are not TOLLWAYS like other states have.
He called me a "woke moron" and said it's "free" busses and "free" housing he hates (because "taxpayers foot the bill") and then said:
"Absolutely no freebies, on the exception of food banks. Those are at least a necessary service."
Sigh...
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWelp... Just RFQ'd my usual Chinese board house for the switch engine board to get a rough budgetary price before I finished SI tuning.
Price was reasonable - $400 NRE $136/board @ qty 5, so $1080 plus shipping and whatever the current tariff rate on bare PCBs is.
But lead time was 4 weeks for manufacture if they have the necessary laminates in stock at the time I place the order. If not, three *months* lead time for getting the laminate.
@hex@kolektiva.socialI'd like to remind anyone calling for a new Neurenberg Tribunal that the original one was only necessary because Germans didn't respond appropriately to the evil shit Nazis were doing, when they were doing it. The tribunals essentially asserted that the German people would have been justified in using any force necessary to stop the Nazis, and that all who didn't try to use such force were complicit.
Sit with that for a bit and ponder the implications.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Anything necessary': Trump won't rule out sending troops to polls (Matthew Kupfer/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/anything-necessary-trump-wont-rule-out-sending-troops-to-polls/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p78#a260512p78
@adulau@infosec.exchangeTraining an LLM on a heavily cleaned, de-identified corpus can be like correcting every grammatical mistake in a large collection of texts: the result may look cleaner, but it can also lose the context, variation, and imperfections that reflect real-world language and behaviour.
A corpus scrubbed of every sensitive detail and irregularity can become a polished imitation of reality. Privacy protection could be necessary, but a model trained mostly on synthetic or over-sanitised data ris…
@david@boles.xyzThe Necessary Art: Taking the Title Back
Today I am publishing a book about a theft at the center of Western culture, one its victims were trained to take as a compliment:...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/11/the-necessary-art-taking-the-title-back/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialSwitzerland🇨🇭 has now launched a consultation on implementing its 'right to plug' for EV owners. This will require landlords to install the necessary electrical infrastructure so that renters can install their own EV charging point.
https://www.admin.ch/de/newnsb/66VYsJf9n5dbavk…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhy are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhy are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
@datascience@genomic.socialI did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orggood grief i thought bournegol was bad but there are still new depths to plumb
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mode.h
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialJust started reading The Butcher’s Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl Book Five) by Matt Dinniman and it has the funniest dedication I gave ever eead: “Thanks everyone for all your continued support. A special thanks to the dude who sent nudes. It’s not necessary, but I appreciate it. I hope you get the help you need.” #bookstodon
@markhburton@mstdn.social“The threats of military aggression against Cuba from the world’s greatest power are well-known,” Diaz-Canel said, in reference to the US. “The threat itself already constitutes an international crime. If it were to materialise, it would trigger a bloodbath with incalculable consequences, plus the destructive impact on regional peace and stability.”
Cuba says it has ‘legitimate’ right to defend itself amid US threats | Conflict News | Al Jazeera
@sean@scoat.esI think Carney was necessary to avoid the PP Problem, but house-of-cardsing parliament to a majority and then ramming through super dangerous legislation (of course compromising devices/communications will result in compromised devices/communications!) is some real conservative-in-liberal-clothing garbage.
(article en français; kind of expected CBC to have something by now…)
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "My Perfectly Imperfect Body" by Debbie Tung, a graphic memoir about dealing with disordered eating as a teenage girl. Similar themes to Hungry Ghost, except without as much of a family factor, and it's more direct. We get to hear the author's perspective as an adult at the end, including some good body-positive messages and thought patterns, even as she acknowledges the struggle necessary to climb out of body despair.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageNecessary and Sufficient Conditions for Universal Gates with Pauli Strings and Beyond
Isaac D. Smith, Hans J. Briegel, Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12096 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12096
arXiv:2606.12096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Any quantum computation consists of a sequence of unitary evolutions described by a finite set of Hamiltonians. For the case where this set consists of only products of Pauli operators, known as Pauli strings, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for it to generate $\mathfrak{su}(2^n)$, i.e., to be universal for quantum computation on $n$ qubits. When combining Pauli strings with a general Hamiltonian, we show a sufficient (and in certain circumstances even necessary) condition for universality based on the Pauli-basis expansion of the Hamiltonian. As an application of these results, we prove two corollaries: (i) a necessary and sufficient condition for the universality of a general Hamiltonian given arbitrary single-qubit control on all qubits, and (ii) the universality of an XYZ Heisenberg Hamiltonian with local control of just two adjacent qubits.
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@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social@… @… GDExtension-version of the USD loader/importer, no Godot fork necessary: https://
@crell@phpc.socialRE: https://toot.majorshouse.com/@majorlinux/116575701754339002
We keep hearing this. Company after company.
Don't you dare tell me layoffs are necessary. Don't you dare tell me it's because of AI. Both of those are outright lies.…
@gratianriter@bildung.socialDer etwas andere Blick: „ The soundsystem did what school often failed to do for Black working-class boys in Britain and the Caribbean. It made us feel necessary. It gave us somewhere to stand while we were still learning how to stand.“
https://
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo Trump signed a new cyber policy memo that got exactly zero press coverage yesterday, unless I missed something, perhaps because it reads more as a justification for Trump's June 2 AI order rather than a standalone cyber policy initiative, but there is a new cyber angle here.
Unlike past cyber orders, the WH is treating AI as a cyber capability, arguing that maintaining leadership in advanced AI is necessary to defend networks, critical infrastructure, and national security sys…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialOk, how’s this, then:
Donald Trump is corrupt, vain, dim, and a failure.
The current US administration is incapable of running a country.
ICE are terrorist goons.
The Republican Party consists entirely of spineless, weasely, craven idiots who would sell their loved ones for a tiny bit of power.
Public enough for ya?
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialTo those apologizing for being tricked into supporting #Fetterman in the 2022 Senator primary:
No apology necessary. Per the saying, “fool me once, shame on you.” There was no indication he’d go MAGA back in 2022. The shame is on Fetterman for misrepresenting himself.
The second part, “fool me twice, shame on me” applies when you had ample warning. Example: 3x Turnip voters upset thei…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnyway my main point about AC is that it’s just as necessary as heating, perhaps more necessary (cold is a lot more survivable than heat).
And it’s weird to me (as a European) that a lot of other Europeans have this aversion against it.
(Do you also think fridges or warm showers are bad?)
@jrm4@mastodon.socialEvery social media platform I'm on (Twitter, Threads, Bluesky) I'm seeing a very necessary and solid level of tough-but-important conversations and fights. about the clashes between (Far?) Leftism and real Black folks who actually participate in politics*
Except here. Same ol same ol do-nothing far-left type stuff except also WITHOUT the "good but ugly" fights
(*Yes, I'm aware I'm being harsh here, but I don't have better terminology and its importa…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI know I posted about this a couple months ago, but I never did follow up - By God It Does work!
You have to apply a little force so that the center breaks free, but it works
All these years, and learning new things…😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5iw4w
@servelan@newsie.social"Judge O’Connor (who has been one of MAGA’s favorite judges, and who has no problem making it clear that he rules on purely ideological grounds) allegedly told some of the defendants that the long sentences were necessary to make sure that leftist ideology was seen to be punished:"
He Moved A Box Of Leftist Zines. MAGA’s Favorite Judge Just Gave Him 30 Years. | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/24/he-moved-a-box-of-leftist-zines-magas-favorite-judge-just-gave-him-30-years/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThe Unanimous Declaration
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should…
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea of a suspension of the constitution had been introduced,
by the Constitution of 22 Frimaire Year 8.
Article 14 of the Charte of 1814 granted the sovereign the power to
"make the regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the security of the State"
Because of the vagueness of the formula, Chateaubriand observed
"that it is possible that one fine morning the whole Charte will be forfeited for the benefit of Art…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeRE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116900105665758613
"when you govern a system like this, it leads to perverse outcomes. We end up with massive overproduction of damaging and less-necessary things like fossil fuels, SUVs and industrial beef (…
@breqoftoren@social.linux.pizzaI built my portfolio with one constraint: it shouldn't need to know who you are to serve you.
No analytics. No tracking cookies. One technically necessary cookie. Logs deleted after 30 days. EU-only hosting. And a Tor onion address for anyone who wants it.
I've written up how the stack achieves that in practice and where the honest limits are (spoiler: your hosting provider always has some visibility, and any privacy policy that pretends otherwise is misleading you).
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaEnergy saving is not a moral good, it's a necessary evil while we work toward creating sustainable energy surplus
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzTwo more #Psyche pictures from the #Mars #GravityAssist two days ago - https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/ is taking off, but a lot of contrast-boosting remains necessary.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org @hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116587674238145868
Motohegemony requires a very specific set of conditions to exist. It relies on an incredibly complex supply chain, and a fragile framework of political and financial support. Leaders have been largely competent (though, perhaps, malevolent), and have prioritized systemic stability over all else.
The conditions that made that system viable have collapsed. Your best bet to avoid being consumed by that collapse is to fight for bike infrastructure and mass transit, and to abandon cars as much as possible.
You will have to adapt to a life without cars. There is no question of "if" that will be necessary, but "under what conditions." Will you choose the time, or will the time be chosen for you?
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialIgen en aldeles glimrende sammenhæng mellem de to botter:
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaWow, that was absolutely dreadful! From the moment I first turned it on until I had a fully functional setup with all the updates, settings, and necessary programs—and their configuration—it took over FIVE HOURS on Windows 11! With a short break for lunch.
On Linux, the same setup—including a completely fresh install and updates—takes me just over an hour, and it’s not nearly as annoying as it is on Windows 11.
Updates that take forever, an unbelievable amount of bloatware (good…
@frankel@mastodon.topForking the #JVM to Save #JINI
https://bytecode.news/posts/2026/06/forking-the-jvm-to-save-j…
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.devHmmmmm, so #LineageOS is great, but it does present one issue. While I can install APKs with no issue, one in particular doesn't like to run; CashApp.
While I can do some operations with the web interface of cash.app, it doesn't seem to provide all necessary functions.
SO.... do I withdraw all my funds from CashApp and close my account or what?
@Dragofix@veganism.social'Significant change' needed to tackle agri pollution #environment
@brian_gettler@mas.toTFW when one of the kids can't find the lid for the blender, figures it's probably not necessary, and tries to make a smoothie without it.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioYes yes yes, I realize that the 5/7/5 syllable count is neither necessary nor sufficient to make a poem a true haiku, and that syllable counting has very little to do with the classical Japanese form or its modern literary incarnations. But going by syllables alone makes the bit work!
Flaunting the rules
to crack a foolish joke —
summer vacation
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116936455224978549
“I don’t know any senior,
Republican or Democrat,
who asked President Trump to let AI decide
if their doctor-recommended treatment was necessary,”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Thursday.
L…
@scott@carfree.cityScience has finally caught up with William Blake's "The Fly" (1794):
"In recent years, research has accumulated suggesting that insects—long treated as morally negligible—exhibit forms of learning and memory, tool usage, playfulness, and mood states... If insects do indeed possess even a basic form of sentience, do we owe them a different kind of consideration, even when ecological management is necessary?"
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Simplified Stabilizer ZX-Calculus is Minimal
Harry K. Stoltz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12383 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12383
arXiv:2606.12383v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The stabilizer fragment of the ZX calculus is amongst the most important fragments of the theory. The closely related Clifford T fragment is approximately universal (arXiv:1705.11151). Additionally, the stabilizer calculus can be described by a small collection of rewrites, most of which have been shown to be necessary (arXiv:1709.08903). However, two rules, describing the red/green compact-structure coincidence and the important bialgebra law, had not been shown to be necessary. We present a countermodel-style argument showing that both of these rules are individually necessary relative to the connectivity meta-rule of Backens--Perdrix--Wang (arXiv:1709.08903), and hence establish that the rule set presented in arXiv:1709.08903 has no redundant rewrite rule.
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@joe@toot.worksI saw the news of that #PostgreSQL Backup & Restore project being abandoned. Sometimes you need to do what's necessary to put food on the table.
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest
@memeorandum@universeodon.comI'm on your team forever -- It's now clear that we do not have the votes necessary to advance ... (Tom Steyer)
https://tomsteyer.substack.com/p/im-on-your-team-forever
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p126#a260609p126
@skington@glasgow.socialWelsh Labour source in the Guardian: “We heard people on the doors saying they’d usually vote Labour but wanted to stop Reform.” https://www.theguardian.co…
@Richard@worklifepsych.social@… Such a good way of looking at it. We're the decision-makers, we need to remember to decide what to focus on and how to evaluate a day. And not all tasks are equally impactful or meaningful. Or even necessary.
I often remind clients: the question isn't "Was I productive today?". It's "Given everything that happened today,…
@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.pageFormal Verification of an Out-of-Order Multiprocessor against an In-Order Weak-Memory ISA
Janggun Lee, Jeehoon Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18727 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18727 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18727
arXiv:2607.18727v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Out-of-order multiprocessor is a critical piece of modern hardware, and their verification must solve the following challenges. First, inter-core interleaving, in which the order their reads and writes reach shared memory is unrestricted. Second, intra-core out-of-order execution, in which instructions fire out of program order. The combination of the two yields weak outcomes, which no sequential execution explains, and modern ISA allows such behaviors to account for them. However, the microarchitecture even exhibits excess out-of-order executions, temporarily entering states forbidden by the ISA. While discarded later, such states complicate reasoning about the core in full-system verification. Prior works verify a range of processor designs, while none have performed unbounded verification for out-of-order multiprocessor exhibiting such weak outcomes.
We present the first formal verification of an out-of-order multiprocessor against an in-order, weak-memory ISA. Our key idea is a well-designed core specification, which captures the essence of excess executions in a single list of instructions. Building upon this, we decompose the proof into two steps. The first is a core refinement, proving a core implementation against this specification, abstracting away every microarchitectural state except those necessary to reason about excess executions and the core interface. The second is a system inclusion, serializing the out-of-order memory executions and inter-core interleaving into the ISA, easily removing excess executions thanks to the core specification. All of our proofs are mechanized in Rocq, heavily utilizing large language model (LLM) agents to write proofs automatically.
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@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy@factsentinel@mstdn.social That's all part of due diligence in good, trustworthy, reputable journalism. The reader should never have to trouble themselves with those details and should be able to assume it's all be done correctly. Any noteworthy details about the vetting should be in the text itself. AI slop has undercut that proud tradition and made this kind of attestation necessary but it's nothing to celebrate. Shouldn't need to be there at all.
@crell@phpc.socialYou cannot "just ignore them." That is how you destroy a community. Moderation is always necessary.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/cant-ignore-them
@cdarwin@c.imOn July 13, the Trump administration announced in an op-ed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio
that it would “dismantle” the International Criminal Court (ICC),
“brick by brick, if necessary,”
using “all the tools at our government’s disposal.”
According to the provocative text of a State Department press release,
the United States will undertake a sweeping campaign
to dismantle the "threat to U.S. sovereignty" posed by the International Criminal …
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialWhen you are a Swift compiler contributor, every day is Xmas!
https://forums.swift.org/t/dropping-the-requirement-for-c-only-bootstrapping/87739/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzUniversity Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers https://www.404media.co/university-claims-withholding-water-from-nuclear-weapons-da…
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeEnergy storage is hard. It's also necessary to pair with many #renewable sources like solar, wind, and tidal, which do not provide continuous power. There are a few ways to do it, such as salt pits to store heat and pumping water uphill for hydroelectric power on demand. Now there's one more: lifting concrete slabs and then lowering them to spin turbines:
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI’ve been doing a bit of Bash shell script writing today and oh wow the amount of quotation marks I am needing to use to add full support for spaces in inputs is wild.
I guess I’ve gotten used to #Powershell where that isn’t necessary for the most part.
#ScottProgramming
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzPhosphorus-nitrogen systematics of first-generation planetesimals constrain life-essential element delivery to Earth: #life, found in different ratios in asteroidal bodies related to iron meteorites than in younger asteroids.
@arXiv_nlincd_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Measure-Theoretic Approach to Spontaneous Stochasticity
Wandrille Ruffenach, Eric Simonnet, Nicolas Valade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16328 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16328 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16328
arXiv:2607.16328v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spontaneous stochasticity (SpSt), originating in Richardson's picture of turbulent dispersion and Lorenz's Eulerian view of finite-time loss of predictability, was later formulated under this name by Gaw\k{e}dzki and collaborators and developed in shell models by Mailybaev and collaborators. Whether it occurs in fully developed turbulence remains a major open question.
Beyond a few specific classes of systems, however, SpSt has lacked a general mathematical definition. We introduce a measure-theoretic formalism in which it is understood as a measure-selection principle. Given an inviscid problem, a well-posed regularization, and an ambient measure, we study the pushforward of that measure by the regularized flow. Strong SpSt occurs when these pushforward measures converge to a non-Dirac probability law, replacing classical deterministic selection by statistical selection.
For finite-dimensional systems, we establish several structural results. Our central attainability theorem shows that, whenever the inviscid problem is nonunique, any probability measure supported on the set of inviscid states can be selected as the limiting law of a suitable regularization. We also identify singular sets in the inviscid dynamics, detected through Dini-type directional growth, as necessary obstructions underlying nonuniqueness. We analyze the relation between SpSt and sensitivity to initial data, clarifying the scope and limitations of turbulence-inspired finite-time separation criteria. Finally, we develop a renormalization-(semi)group viewpoint in which limiting statistics arise as statistical attractors. Explicit examples illustrate how ambient measures, inviscid singularities, regularization scales, and initial-data sensitivity interact in the emergence of SpSt.
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzEvery Little Detail Matters for Raiders This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-every-little-detail-matters-this-season
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialOn the subject of organisations - companies to governments - pushing what should be their work out onto their customers and citizens - there's an eye opening number here I have no reason to doubt:
https://www.quora.com/Is-all-this-paperwor
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyRE: https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116534390370909788
I mean, good on the Colorado Sun for including this note at the bottom of the article, but I can't help but despair that it's even necessary. This used to be assumed as a fundamental tenet o…
@crell@phpc.social @cdarwin@c.imNot one to avoid controversy,
Donald Trump has proposed that civil service employees sign extraordinarily broad non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
Supposedly, an employee may refuse to sign but that could lead to dismissal.
The Atlantic points out that there’s a reason the federal government hasn’t already implemented NDAs:
they aren’t necessary.
Employees “who work with classified information already sign a binding agreement, known as SF-312, to never share sens…
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.pageSingle-Microphone Audio Point Source Discriminative Localization From Reverberation Late Tail Estimation
Matthew Maciejewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09627 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.09627 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.09627
arXiv:2605.09627v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Location information can be a valuable signal for audio segmentation tasks, especially as a complement to methods focusing on the content or qualities of the sources. Though audio source localization is typically performed using the observations of the signal captured by multiple microphones in space, information about a source's location is captured by a single microphone through its arrival time and spectral amplitude--given the source's emitted signal is known. Since reverberation originates from the audio sources in a room, it accordingly contains some information about the emitted audio signals. The late-tail part of reverberation is relatively invariant to the local source and microphone geometry, depending primarily on only the room itself, and thus can provide the necessary reference information about audio signals that depends minimally on their location. In this work, we leverage the robust late-tail estimation of Weighted Prediction Error (WPE) dereverberation within a probabilistic framework to estimate the likelihood of two audio signals collected in the same room as having originated from the same location. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on the speaker diarization task in both simulated and real environments.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrowns' Myles Garrett trade is latest collateral damage from Deshaun Watson debacle https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7324507/2026/06/01/myles-garrett-trade-browns-rams-deshaun-watson-jared-verse/
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaThe past two weeks with Debian Sid and my new work setup—featuring two NAS devices and a new internal network—have been a success!
One NAS serves as internal storage for all my documents, photos, videos, etc., while the second NAS acts as a personal cloud connected to my smartphones, backing up photos and videos I take, which I then copy to my internal NAS at home—if relevant.
Conversely, when needed, I move necessary documents, photos, etc., from the internal NAS to the personal…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/116660174239224985
Here in Minneapolis, it’s been an obvious fact that ICE agents are using racist profiling as almost their sole reason for abducting people — both a necessary and a sufficient condition. It’s all Kavanagh stops.
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@hex@kolektiva.socialExcerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOH MY GOD, NOT SEVEN TIMES! THAT'S MORE TIMES THAN ANYONE HAS EVER TAPPED ANYY! IT WOULD BE OKAY IF IT WERE THREE TIMES OR MAYBE FIVE TIMES! BUT NOT SEVEN! NOOOOOO
keepandroidopen are beclowning themselves with this Britrag tabloid-level of hyperventilation. I don't like the change any more than you do, but YOUR GOVERNMENT that YOU ELECTED are the ones making this a necessary step for the mobile platform vendors to take to ensure that the government ID and control software can…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzThe Micah Parsons Trade Looks a Lot Better for the Cowboys Now https://insidethestar.com/the-micah-parsons-trade-looks-a-lot-better-for-the-cowboys-now
@raiders@darktundra.xyzEvery Little Detail Matters for Raiders This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-every-little-detail-matters-this-season
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to combat climate change might be a necessary intervention,
but it always sounded like a longshot.
Unfortunately, it seems like the strategy is already hitting a wall.
A new reportpublished this week found that ongoing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) efforts are barely putting a dent in the fight against global warming
— and that for them to start making an impact, they would need to be scaled up at a rate that rivals the ado…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.ioOk - here's my #macOS (Tahoe) specific #steamcontroller #gaming #steam personal experience, having tried it out:
So - it works!
BUT
The setup process from Valve does you no favors. While their help guide (https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB#mac) has a Mac specific setup section - the on-screen setup in the Steam client itself does not help out Mac users at all
The guide mentions you need to grant Steam "Input Monitoring" permission - but until I did this, Steam didn't even agree the controller was connected (via USB directly or via the Puck)
And then the second permission "Accessibility" was explicitly necessary if you wanted to do a mouse and keyboard game and it needed to move the cursor (I chose Scritchy Scratchy as a test for this specific reason, especially since they just added macOS support)
Another downside: the default keyboard and mouse layout for the controller maps shoulder buttons to scroll up and down - but only a single increment per press! I had to reconfigure it to enable turbo/repeated scrolling events.
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@tomkalei@machteburch.socialDisregarding training, the cost of revenue includes buying hardware and energy of course. Almost no sales/marketing necessary for Anthropic, but still. Development of Claude Code itself is also not for free.
Are there any estimates on these margins out there. I think I remember Philipp Klöckner estimating about 60% in one of the recent Doppelgänger episodes.
@cdarwin@c.imAs many expected,
the Trump administration has persisted in waging its war on Iran without congressional authorization.
In doing so, the White House continues to act in violation of not only the U.S. Constitution and the UN Charter,
but also the 60-day deadline on unauthorized hostilities imposed by the War Powers Resolution (WPR).
What’s new is the White House argument in a May 1st letter to Congress that the WPR’s 60-day clock stopped because the “hostilities that…
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageQuantum ergodicity and semiclassical measures: mathematical results
St\'ephane Nonnenmacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12098 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12098 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.12098
arXiv:2606.12098v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this chapter we review some results describing the high-frequency eigenmodes of the Laplacian on compact manifolds, or Euclidean domains, for which the geodesic flow is chaotic. We focus on the macroscopic distribution of these eigenmodes, which is described by the concept of semiclassical measure. The main result on the question is the Quantum Ergodicity theorem, originally due to Schnirelman. We provide the detailed proof of this theorem, including the adjustments necessary to treat the case of manifolds with boundary. We also discuss the Quantum Unique Ergodicity conjecture, and some progress towards this conjecture for strongly chaotic (Anosov) systems. In particular, we describe the constraints on admissible semiclassical measures, in terms of their Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, as well as more recent delocalization results.
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@kingconsult@berlin.socialResearch Paper: »Platform Collective Behavior as Democratic Infrastructure: Beyond Causal Effects in the DSA Era«
> The article concludes that #DSA access is necessary but insufficient for fully assessing platform influence on #democracy.
30 Jun 2026, Anja Bechmann, Department of Media and Journalism, Aarhus University, Denmark:
👉 #DigitalServicesAct
