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The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/20

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-06-14 19:28:37

creating your own booking agreement
#LiveMusic #MusicianTips
muz4now.com/2011/creat…

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-15 08:53:24

By Israel’s own metric, it has wounded over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

@pre@boing.world
2025-06-13 10:50:54

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 14:26:30

Thanking my own self for backups... I accidentally deleted my Jellyfin media library yesterday!
Luckily the machine it lives on backs up to an external disk and there's also a backup that runs to a NAS in the house so it was an easy restore.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-14 21:16:27

In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects (Nick Mokey/VentureBeat)
venturebeat.com/ai/just-add-hu

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-14 13:52:03

If you're fortunate enough to have discretionary income, the LA Tenants Union is helping those in LA targeted by LAPD, DHS, and ICE.
I can't give more details, but know that union members have spent their own money to provide food, water, and medical care to those who need it.
gofund.me/4f0c850f

@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-14 07:02:51

Gotta drive 50km with my own car (and fuel) in my (would have been) free time because one of my colleagues used an insurance form in the truck but never replaced it.
So when I needed one (hit a wall at a customer while backing truck into the tight ass space without mirrors - sun kept blinding me), there was none so I now have to go back there to get the paperwork sorted...
Lovely...

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

@lornajane@indieweb.social
2025-04-15 19:36:40

In this post "Consent-Based Computing", I think Heidi Waterhouse is articulating some my own feelings, reflections and choices about the tools around us today and the tradeoffs I'm prepared to make. #linkTuesday

"MediaMatters for America" is good to read. ALWAYS. Here's their story about how media is reporting on, and ignoring, our own governments plans to implement NAZI "ethnic cleansing" deportations.
mediamatt…

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-13 15:51:45

Marina Hyde is a brilliant columnist:
Imagine owning the world’s premier shitposting platform – in fact, having spent $44bn on it, specifically so that your magic mirror would tell you each day that you were the fairest shitposter of all – and then shuffling sheepishly on to your own pixels to mumble something about having gone “too far” with your hurty words.

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-05-14 18:11:42

Is Christianity losing its religion? In the new issue of Reflections, YDS-related scholars and ministers take up this question and declare their own reasons for Christian faith. reflections.yale.edu/

A cross visible at the top of a flagpole over an American flag.
@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-09 23:19:14

Here’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: baldurbjarna…

@doktrock@toad.social
2025-05-14 15:37:37

Ned Mamula nominated to lead the U.S. Geological Survey - GreenMet (note: corporate PR) #geology #USGS

@scott@carfree.city
2025-06-09 21:52:22

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-15 12:55:23

I love communism because of its vision of a society based on equality, solidarity, and the abolition of class and state oppression. The idea of real communism, as envisioned by thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Karl Marx, inspires me deeply. It’s a world where people freely associate, manage their own workplaces, and share resources according to need. This ideal has never truly been realized in history, which makes it all the more important to keep striving for it.
At the same time, I …

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-14 17:42:05

After all, they called Joe Biden, the former Senator from CapitalOne and a devout Catholic, a socialist and communist.
One of the differences between the Right and Left in the USA is that the Right is dedicated to the idea of political tribal solidarity and social binaries, while the Left puts an overriding emphasis on its own diversity, that of the Right, and that of society.
It is part of how they manage to maintain themselves in power.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-14 12:23:06

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
JARVIK: You asked, I told you.
[Liberator flight deck]
blake.torpidity.net/m/305/294

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see two people in what appears to be a futuristic setting with metallic walls and green lighting typical of a spaceship or advanced facility. One person is wearing an elegant white one-shoulder dress with decorative elements, while the other is dressed in casual blue and gray clothing. The scene has the distinctive aesthetic of classic science fiction television, with sleek architectural elements and dramatic lighting that creates an atmospheric,…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-10 09:13:29

This essay by @… on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:

@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
2025-04-15 15:01:55

"This is not, repeat not, a giant leap for womankind. This is an intergalactic episode of Real Housewives meets The Kardashians Go to The Moon. It’s a quick “getaway” for the billionaire set as six gal pals cosplay astronauts in tight blue Star Trek at their very own CosmicCon."

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-13 12:12:50

israel has just announced that your own eyes are antisemitic. Please do not believe your own eyes.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

@jorgenpt@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-15 21:07:38

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

@j_honegger@swiss.social
2025-06-14 11:15:06

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
MORE #MOSCOW AND CRIMEA EXPLOSIONS: MILITARY TARGETS BURNED Vlog 1073: War in #Ukraine
Russians shot down their own

@timfoster@mastodon.social
2025-06-14 12:36:28

Home and dry now - there was a bigger turn out than you'd have thought, but at least we all got home in time to watch Le Mans 😃
A few photos at timfoster.smugmug.com/Events/S

@rose@linuxrocks.online
2025-06-14 20:49:20

Vancouver BC is having its own No Kings rally right down by the US consulate on Pender. There is little space down there, so it's a pretty terrible spot for a gathering - ideally, the street would have been closed, particularly as bumping a vehicle up a curb and into the crowd would be simple - we had a deadly instance of that just last month.
Ironically, we do have a king here.

Sign-carrying "No Kings" protesters on the north side of Pender in Vancouver BC
@raysofred@discordian.social
2025-06-14 02:37:44
Content warning: legs, underwear

I do, in fact, own a pair of legs #legs

a picture of legs on an unmade bed. It is clear the person is wearing a red robe and gray boxers
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-06-13 14:57:44

LOL, what?! Germany is now having its own 'Veterans Day'?! 🤦‍♀️
dw.com/es/alemania-celebra-el-

@ethanwhite@hachyderm.io
2025-05-13 16:55:13

I'm interested in making my own visualizations of weather radar data to display patterns in a region of the US (covered by multiple stations) over longish periods of time (e.g., a month).
Think something like this year of US radar, but smaller & shorter in my case: youtube.com/watch?v=FPuDPxK88g
I'm familiar with mapping and animation in Python/R, but not weather radar data. I've been looking for tutorials, but haven't been able to track any down yet. Pointers very much welcome

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-13 21:26:19

Walmart and Amazon Are Exploring Issuing Their Own Stablecoins (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/banking/walmar
memeorandum.com/250613/p123#a2

There is little about Scott Jennings,
or the words that come out of his mouth,
that corresponds to reality.
A decade into Trump’s capture of the Republican Party, Jennings is the premier crossover enabler.
He is perhaps CNN’s most recognizable face alongside its primetime anchors,
and he is feted on jokey, tough-talk shows like Bill Maher. 
But Jennings is a representation of our own malady,
a projection of a country whose political culture is now…

@queerdublin@mastodon.ie
2025-06-14 15:39:52

Fuming! That's exactly the reason why we need to have our own media, run for #queer people BY queer people, the corporate overlords who run Meta and Xitter will happily be complici in our erasure if it only means that their quarterly report will get half a percent better or that they'll get some favour in the government

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2025-05-15 17:32:23

This fact is what inspired me to become part of a unique system to help people get up and running with their own successful business online, regardless of their background and experience. FYI, for those of you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki’s “𝐶𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠”, this is in the B – Business Owner Quadrant.
Message me to learn more.

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-06-14 14:22:08

Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body
qz.com/866352/scientists-say-y

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-05-14 13:56:33

#ai

@saraislet@infosec.exchange
2025-06-10 03:40:49

I can't tell you how weird it is as a manager to go through burnout blossoming and then sinking in to become a morass of emotional exhaustion and feelings of utter uselessness — while, in parallel, hearing feedback from my reports about how I've helped them struggle through and in most cases escape their own burgeoning burnout over the past few months
Just out here using my own body as a stick to pull my reports out of the quicksand of burnout

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-06-13 10:05:11

For various reasons I'm probably not going to be at any Saturday protests for long, but I'm thinking about buying & dropping off some supplies to support them:
- Bottled water and/or electrolyte drinks.
- Slats, posterboard, markers, and stapler to let people who show up without a sign make their own.
Anyone else got good ideas or planning on doing supply runs?
#Protests #NoKings

@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-13 07:28:56

Double windows from inside the home office #Fensterfreitag

An image from inside a home office with a window between the office and a kitchen. The kitchen has it's own window against the street. So it's a photo of a window that shows another window.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-06-11 11:25:12

Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…

@islamoyankee@mastodon.social
2025-05-13 11:37:20

#Harvard continues to ignore reports of anti- Palestinian/Arabi/Muslim bias.
“Now, in the face of Trump, Harvard pretends that it is standing up, but you cannot stand up for freedom and silence members of your own community,”

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-12 23:00:04

google: Google internal webpages (2007)
A directed network of webpages from Google's own sites, and the hyperlinks among them. Edge direction indicates that i hyperlinks to j.
This network has 15763 nodes and 171206 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
networks.skewed.de/net/google

google: Google internal webpages (2007). 15763 nodes, 171206 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/google
@coreyjrowe@detmi.social
2025-05-13 16:43:08

This is tomorrow night (Wednesday 5/14) and I'm sure there are people on my feed who'd want to come 🗺️
detroitography.com/2025/04/23/

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 16:42:33

Okay, I tried not to make it overly complex. Just a very brief cut and some music.
Here's the clip of today's walk 🙂
video.franzgraf.de/w/vaEHJN15G
(powered by my own Peertube instance :))

A stunning landscape is depicted in this image, featuring a road winding through lush green grass and trees towards majestic mountains in the background. The sky is a beautiful shade of blue, complementing the overall serene atmosphere of the scene. In the foreground, there is text overlay "Jachenau Wiesenweg"
@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-05-04 00:28:02

Tooting My Own Horn: Three Years And Counting
Why don't contractors stay in touch with potential customers? And I extended my blog streak to three years.
bobmuellerwriter.com/tooting-m

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-06-05 23:16:17

New York judge allows Trump to sue his own niece while in office | Courthouse News Service
courthousenews.com/new-york-ju

@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 07:48:20

From Tool Calling to Symbolic Thinking: LLMs in a Persistent Lisp Metaprogramming Loop
Jordi de la Torre
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10021

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 08:38:10

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
Ryan Gibb, Patrick Ferris, David Allsopp, Michael Winston Dales, Mark Elvers, Thomas Gazagnaire, Sadiq Jaffer, Thomas Leonard, Jon Ludlam, Anil Madhavapeddy
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10803

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-12 10:44:31

Reason why there's Putins in the world:
Half of the I-do-my-own-reasearch comments: “But what would the lions eat now that they can't eat the villagers‘ cattle?” [Video literally shows zebras in the Nairobi National Park.]
Other half of comments: “$24 for 1 Lion Light ... Nice scam!” [Video produced by a corporation giving funds to other established non-profits; literally states the Lion Lights have motherboards.)
->
The genius invention that made peace wit…

@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 07:39:50

Adaptive Chosen-Ciphertext Security of Distributed Broadcast Encryption
Kwangsu Lee
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10338 arxiv.or…

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 21:43:48

From Robert Reich:
"#SenatorPadilla was forcibly removed from DHS Secretary #KristiNoem’s press conference in Los Angeles while attempting to ask a question.
Padilla was thrown down and handcuffed. A senator in his own state! (He has since been released.)
The

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-04 10:10:51

How Vox built a huge YouTube presence, becoming an incubator that invented its own visual language, as ex-staffers like Johnny Harris grow their own channels (Simon Owens/The Long Story with Simon Owens)
thelongstory.substack.com/p/wh

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-13 18:02:32

What are Raiders Getting in Ashton Jeanty? si.com/nfl/raiders/john-spytek

@piger@mastodon.social
2025-05-13 16:03:59

Very, very useful:
abyssdomain.expert/@filippo/11

@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-06-11 01:31:18

Every American should be able to own a gun as long as it's a Gatling gun.
- the revised Second Amendment

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange
2025-06-11 10:09:40

Just in case it wasn't crystal clear before: I will not travel to a country that actively deploys its military force against its own citizens while holding a military parade for its tyrant.

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2025-05-15 17:32:23

This fact is what inspired me to become part of a unique system to help people get up and running with their own successful business online, regardless of their background and experience. FYI, for those of you familiar with Robert Kiyosaki’s “𝐶𝑎𝑠ℎ 𝐹𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠”, this is in the B – Business Owner Quadrant.
Message me to learn more.

@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 09:18:10

Med-URWKV: Pure RWKV With ImageNet Pre-training For Medical Image Segmentation
Zhenhuan Zhou
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10858

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-09 16:35:50

Musk's Own AI Claims He Took Miller's Wife and Mocked Him for It (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
thedailybeast.com/musk-trashes
memeorandum.com/250609/p69#a25

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-11 18:55:56

I see that the Marines are being told they can "detain" people while waiting for police to arrive to "arrest" them.
I would mention that our very own SCOTUS says that if a person is not free to leave then that person is under arrest and must be given a Miranda warning.
Now --- here we have the Army or Marines "detaining" people - people who are not free to leave - and probably not giving Miranda warnings.
As such, were I the defense counsel, I …

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-13 21:48:15

I updated my website's list of links to add @USERNAME@WEBSITE to every social media account I own.
This way, it’s clearer what my name is and which site it belongs to. It might look like federation, but it’s not on most sites; it just works as a placeholder.
Read more here: midtsveen.codeberg.page

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-06-11 00:57:41

«This is the original sin of software dev: it’s a pop culture where we’re trained to accept gossip as evidence. That’s fine if you’re debating largely meaningless details like “JavaScript, threat or menace?” but it’s very risky when the system in question is a psychological hazard built out of a Jenga tower of biases and Forer effects.»
baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trust

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-06-08 12:15:29

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers n…

@toothFAIRy@scholar.social
2025-06-11 17:16:27

Workshop announcement: Ally Skills
#𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐲𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐲 #𝐎𝐋𝐒
Many of us want to support marginalised people, but we don’t always know how.
Join us for an interactive workshop where you’ll explore your own privileges and learn concrete ways to step up for others in professional and personal spaces—in a meaningful and effective way.
July 2, 14:00 - 17:30 EET
#OpenScience!

@anildash@me.dm
2025-06-09 05:35:19

NYC: 3pm, in front of City Hall on Broadway actionnetwork.org/event_campai

@jevinskie@mastodon.social
2025-05-07 17:39:05

I found this today when messing around with lifting-bits/sleigh build options and got a build error. Very interesting! Dynamic p-code shenanigans!
“TLDR: there is a (undocumented and disabled by default) feature in the Ghidra decompiler that lets you create your own decompiler passes, using a custom DSL. I leverage it to write a deobfuscation rule for a simple obfuscation technique.”
Thanks you @…

‪@todbot@mastodon.social‬
2025-06-10 20:47:41

@… These are all my own designs. All open source, available on my github repo. A few are in my Tindie store

@TobiasFrech@ijug.social
2025-06-08 12:50:07

If you wonder how much disk space you need to run your own Mastodon instance, here are our stats of a server with a handful of active accounts:
Attachments: 8.51 GB (462 MB local)
Custom emoji: 477 MB (74.8 KB local)
Preview cards: 457 MB
Avatars: 4.29 GB (1.89 MB local)
Headers: 7.57 GB (3.58 MB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 34.4 KB
Disk usage is pretty stable after a while. We do backups with our own mechanism, so YMMV.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-06-09 17:12:49

This is the vision of computing that still lives closest to my heart, and one I try against all odds to keep alive in my own various spheres of work.

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 19:15:26

When a customer solves their own issue after being their rubber duck, but you still get the credit for helping.

Sailor Moon My Job Here Is Done GIF
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-06-10 21:56:40

"Assistant Professor of History Invitation
Brian - Your management skills are impressive and made your boss a lot of money. Why not use them to build something of your own?"
YES!!! Just look at the filthy lucre that my department chair is rolling in. It could - NO, IT SHOULD - be mine!!!!

@luana@wetdry.world
2025-06-10 01:55:35

iOS 26 adds glassy effects to 3rd party apps icons on its own, cool!
Similarly to how iOS 18 was able to add dark mode icons I suppose
#WWDC

@crell@phpc.social
2025-06-10 21:17:29

Hey, all of you 2nd Amendment fans who insist you need all those guns to protect you from evil authoritarian government oppression... Your moment has arrived.
Or were you just sacrificing kids so you could cosplay a soldier?
Or are you OK with an authoritarian government crushing its own citizens as long as they're brown people?
We're all waiting for an answer... The longer we wait, the more we assume it's the latter.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-05-30 22:41:31

Eli Manning wants Arch Manning, Jaxson Dart to have their own journeys with Texas and New York Giants

cbssports.com/college-…

@hacksilon@infosec.exchange
2025-06-11 07:11:06

Seeing some people claiming that Apple killed @… with the announcements at #WWDC25. I don't know how these people use Raycast, but for me, the updated spotlight does not actually cover my use cases. Especially the ability to install extensions and add your own sc…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-08 05:21:06

Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
ft.com/content/65f79839-d637-4

@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-12 18:30:08

The internet seems to have a stroke again.
Man... If only there was this kind of decentralized platform that could survive on its own when big providers go down...

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-13 19:07:20

It’s #FollowFriday, and I want to share some wonderful people who brighten my day in their own ways.
Some are trans, some live in the UK, some write about fascism and Trump, while others focus on climate change.
You’ll find folks who dress like they’re from the 1800s, and others who aren’t shy about sharing some fun jiggle physics.
If you’re curious, go check them out b…

Selfie of a person with long light brown hair wearing a dark reddish-brown textured jacket with a zipper. They have a neutral expression with a slight smile. The background shows a gray hallway with a framed picture on the wall, a dark speaker on a light wooden cabinet, and a small green plant. The lighting is soft and calm.
@pre@boing.world
2025-05-12 10:28:35

I see Starmer is once again taking to the national stage to tell everyone that Reform are correct, that Reform have accurately described the source of the problems of British people.
Telling everyone that migrants are a problem, that migrants are causing trouble, that migrants need to be cracked down upon.
And then he somehow thinks this will make people more likely to vote Labour?
It's basically a massive country wide national advertising campaign for Reform.
Well done Labour. When you lose it will be your own fault.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-06-11 09:22:32

theguardian.com/society/2025/j
Public health bodies urged to launch period tracking apps to protect data

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2025-05-14 14:50:40

1/3
In an earlier post I introduced the principle that there were four categories of side hustle. Let’s now talk about the second category.
2️⃣ 𝐒 – 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛
Ever thought about turning your skills into a business? Many side hustlers shift from Employee (E) to Self-Employed (S) – gaining more control but still relying on their own efforts.
🔹 Examples: Coaching, consulting, independent contractors, small-scale service businesses (photography, home repairs, etc.).

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-06-11 18:21:19

Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-10 11:06:58

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-12 12:06:03

Trump is frustrated by his own success on immigration (Eric Levitz/Vox)
vox.com/politics/416526/la-pro
memeorandum.com/250612/p15#a25

@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-06-12 11:25:11

Sonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 18:31:59

"Let’s extend to ourselves and to others the invitation of a Christianity that seeks light, rests in darkness, remains deeply rooted in justice, and flourishes in our own individual ways of nurturing it." —Karis Slattery '20 M.Div. in her new Reflections piece, "Don’t Water Fake Plants"

A composite photo of flower images overlaid.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-11 20:31:15

Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI (Reuters)
reuters.com/business/coreweave

If you want to show solidarity with Los Angeles, the best thing to do is organize protests against ICE tonight/tomorrow in your own cities.
Search the web for ICE rapid response networks in your own city / state and sign up. Help your neighbors.
bsky.app/profile/chadloder.bsk

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-13 19:59:11
Content warning: Spiders and Titanic: The Oddest Pairing You Didn’t See Coming

Warning for anyone scared of spiders or the Titanic wreck!
Spiders used to terrify me so much I couldn’t even sleep. I overcame it by doing what they call exposure therapy, just googling spiders and looking at pictures until it felt less scary. Now, I actually want to own a tarantula as a pet, which is kind of funny.
Something I’m even more scared of is the Titanic wreckage. It’s a oddly specific weird fear, but I think it’s a specific kind of Submechanophobia, where the fear is …

Close-up macro photo of a jumping spider on a bright green leaf. The spider’s body is covered in fine light-brown and grey hairs, giving it a fuzzy look. Its large, iridescent purple and red jaws stand out, facing forward. Two big, bright green eyes add an almost alien appearance. The spider’s thick, hairy legs have dark tips. The background is softly blurred green and blue, focusing attention on the spider’s detailed features. The image shows the spider’s beauty up close without being threaten…
The photograph shows a section of the wrecked RMS Titanic on the ocean floor, focusing on rusted and corroded railings and deck structures. Marine growth like sea anemones, sponges, and small white invertebrates cover the metal, creating a textured surface in rusty orange, brown, and grey-white tones. The railing is twisted and broken, with a dark sea fan-like organism attached.

The scene is dark and somber, surrounded by deep ocean gloom. It evokes a strong sense of decay, time passing, and n…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-05 18:31:02

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-09 22:46:24

I wonder how long before Miller/Noem/FFOTUS demand that those who own homes and apartments provide housing for the troops invading LA (and elsewhere)?
Bye-bye third amendment:
“No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-05-04 14:30:08

🏊‍♂️ Still no pool. Still chasing contractors.
One no-show after another, with zero communication. I get delays. What I don't get is being ghosted.
Third contractor showed promise. Local, knowledgeable, communicative. Now it’s a rain game.
Also: my desktop crashed mid-post. Overheating CPU drama. 3 years of weekly blog posts. Consecutive. No breaks.
Full update here −

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-06-11 18:29:52

Listen to Dr. Laurie Santos as she explains how to help youth incorporate #wellness activities into their own lives, which is especially important to those who are #depressed at

Split zoom screen of two women.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-06-10 01:30:47

«So even though driverless cars nominally have nothing to do with law enforcement, police are treating them as though they are their own roving surveillance cameras.».
And by extension, protestors and other people start to view them as the state surveillance tools they are.
404media.co/waymo-pauses-servi

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-05 16:16:05

Karine Jean-Pierre walks away from Democratic Party to 'follow my own compass' (Asher Notheis/Washington Examiner)
washingtonexaminer.com/news/34
memeorandum.com/250605/p65#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-10 16:11:04

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/684120/threa

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-05 18:15:46

In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-11 02:40:52

NIH Director Struggles To Defend His Own Plan To Slash $18 Billion In Medical Research (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
huffpost.com/entry/nih-directo
memeorandum.com/250610/p158#a2

Putting a crypto insider in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is like putting a drug lord in charge of the DEA.
Industry insiders shouldn’t be regulators, but this is even worse.
Crypto isn’t even a legitimate industry, just one good at playing the catch-me-if-you-can game with the regulators it’s about to own.
-- Kristen Simplicio

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-06-11 12:05:58

Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires--and Reveals His Own Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
newrepublic.com/article/196674
memeorandum.com/250611/p21#a25

In a laboratory setting, humans have accelerated particles — protons, antiprotons, electrons, and positrons — to incredibly high energies: up to the TeV (trillions of electron-volts) scale.

But cosmic rays, also including protons, electrons, and other atomic nuclei, are produced up to far greater energies, at the PeV (quadrillions of electron-volts) scale and beyond.

These very high energy cosmic rays are produced somewhere in our own galaxy:
in natural, astrophysical…