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The resignations came as a result of a push by top Justice Department officials to investigate #Good’s #widow,
a move that has sparked outrage over the seeming mission to punish a family already grieving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s brutal and public killing of Good.
They also come after …

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-04-15 21:59:17

Turns Out… This Gets Good: Life From 50
We're not here to sell you a transformation. We're here to share some truths about life after 50...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/this-g

Turns Out… This Gets Good: Life From 50  
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-16 00:09:33

Stephen Jones says Cowboys are making 'good progress' in DC search dallascowboys.com/news/stephen

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-14 14:56:09

JD Vance knows the Iran war is a disaster for America. So who does he think it's good for? (Jason Sattler/THE FARCE)
thefarce.org/jd-vance-knows-th
memeorandum.com/260314/p24#a26

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-04-16 08:45:49

Imagine a system where contributing to the common good is our yardstick for success, not personal enrichment by any means possible.
Such a system would not extract a “cost of living.” A dignified life with access to modern housing, healthcare, etc., would be considered a human right. Furthermore, everyone would have a basic income they can use however they wish. Imagine the progress we could make as a species if more of us could contribute to science, to art, to all aspects of human kn…

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-02-14 18:20:45

Battery tech people: do Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries contain any kind of internal protection / fusing mechanism like good 18650s do? Or do they ever fail short or something?
Just pulled four out of a device. Three tested good at 1.5V and the fourth measured absolutely zero. Not like low, no voltage at all.

@jake4480@c.im
2026-02-15 03:36:05

New Laibach record in May. Single sounds good. One of the songs is titled 'Luigi Mangione'. This should get good. #2026Albums

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-16 11:58:36

Has anyone made a good video on the obscure IBM System 9000?
It's a 68000-based architecture that can support "large amounts of RAM", the article brags about "as much 2 megabytes".
archive.org/details/byte-magaz

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-04-14 23:02:33

Eagles Emerge as Good Fit for Potential Raiders Draft Target heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 05:06:37

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
No Pressure:
🎵 Good Enough
#NoPressure
nopressurepunx.bandcamp.com/tr
open.spotify.com/track/7nxz6S9

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-04-15 00:49:16

Yes. GOOD.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

@mlncn@social.coop
2026-04-14 23:31:19

RE: mastodon.social/@benpate/11640
Good news on its own but encryption is pretty far down on the list of security issues with Mastodon direct messages— sharing the same interface as public messages and adding anybody who gets mentioned…

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-03-14 21:10:02

DTE is so desperate for goodwill. Last night this got below 97%. So this is good, right?
Yes, good for a couple percent of customers.
I won’t care until my power is back and after that I also won’t care. I will care instantaneously.

The first thing I see in the DTE app’s Outage Center. The central image is evocative of a circular gauge and it asserts that 98.59% of customers are WITH POWER.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-15 20:44:05

Several years ago my daughter bought several good vanilla pods. She had a good mason jar with a rubber gasket seal. Added vodka and she let it mature several months before giving it to me. Beats store bought vanilla hands down. Every year just after Easter I buy three more pods to add the top the jar with good vodka. Stored in a dark corner of the pantry and by Thanksgiving it is ready for use. Next year I fish out all of the old pods and buy six fresh pods.
Wife loves the real s…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-04-15 13:16:52

Fresh out of the shower (ew) staffer stands in front of mirror at 5:30am, almost chanting, “I’m good enough, maga enough, have had enough work done, he likes me, he really likes me. He let me destroy evidence and didn’t deport me when I was a witness. I got this. Just brush my teeth with Ivermectin, spray hydrochloroquine behind the ears. Tough on crime, not our crimes. Who’s the best staffer, I am.”
Then, full chant, “we’re winning the war we’re losing, we’ve lost the war we’ve won.”

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-04-15 03:46:39
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-02-15 03:56:09

Regardless this good blog about the many aspects that make the midterms difficult to manipulate, I am not as optimistic as the author. The bottomline is Trump and his allies will pay with their freedom and personal wealth if democrats win the midterms and the elections after that, they simply can't allow that to happen... It puzzles me that after everything that already happened under Trump some people don't see this.

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2026-04-15 13:47:43

Stories of AI "accelerating" work describe problems as though they were solutions. "This PM had an LLM generate their product strategy." "This designer shipped a prototype with a backend running in Google Sheets." "This engineer no longer reads the code they release."
Releasing things is not an unalloyed good. "Build to learn" only works if you can learn something - and overwhelming your org's ability to absorb information is NOT th…

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-02-14 14:22:39

I wanted to try making a super-thick pancake but trying to flip it in the tiny pan was a disaster. Luckily we have a second pan that is slightly larger so my second attempt turned out pretty good!

A pancake.
A pancake.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-03-15 21:55:05

I’ve never watched the show but for no good reason I’ve been binging #AGT clips on YouTube for about 3 hours. This is the most amazing 13-year-old I’ve ever seen anywhere. youtu.be/2nphaUTFcuM?si=iSkuZn

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-02-14 20:57:33

Microsoft VibeVoice does a really good job in TTS (Even on a CPU). Yet I won't be able to run it on my Minipc 🙁 But at least I was able to make it run on my PC.
If I really want to make my own website-reader, it seems like elevenlabs is the way to go.
#TTS

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-02-16 08:47:50

Good morning! Today is day 17 of shifting individual customers over to Kafka

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2026-01-16 01:15:24
Content warning: Star Fleet Academy S01E02 Spoilers

"Our children are our ambassadors to now" is a hella good line though. I like Nalah’s taking kids seriously.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-14 21:15:55

good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …

graph as described in the text; the purple line is spiky and usually trends down from +700ish to -500ish before resetting upwards, but in recent years it has been slowly wobbling upwards from -200 to +100; the green line meanders very roughly downwards from about +3000us in the early 1970s to -100us over the last few years
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-04-15 21:04:33
Content warning:

"Outgrow your dependence on platforms" says person who posts to Substack.
I haven't read their article because I don't want to give them clicks, honestly, but there is no fucking way to remove dependencies in the indie book market. We'll never be able to own everything because in the end we'll be dependent on payment providers to make sales on the internet, even if people buy from our website. My beautiful subs via self-hosted Ghost are as good as it gets but …

Screenshot of a post by a person linking to their substack:
"Seeing a lot of authors talking about leaving Draft2Digital.

I get it. But leaving doesn’t remove dependence—it just moves it.

The real question isn’t 'should I leave?'
It’s 'how dependent do I want to be?'"
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-13 17:41:07

The CEO of Boston NPR station GBH says "it would make a lot of sense to merge" with WBUR, another Boston NPR station; both have good short-term finances (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
bostonglobe.com/2026/03/12/bus

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-04-15 09:02:38

Good Morning Fedi!
💿 WHITE SCORPION『7秒のレジスタンス』
youtube.com/watch?v=D7Kpth606pc
🎵 song.link/y/D7Kpth606pc

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2026-04-14 22:35:51

RE: wandering.shop/@cstross/116404
Good grief -Russia funding a US pressure group

@todbot@mastodon.social
2026-03-15 04:38:24

I made a veggie baked ziti with zucchini. It was pretty darn good

Baked ziti fresh out of the oven, the baked cheesy crust is looking very scrumptious
@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-04-15 16:47:02

Have a good Wednesday with the Java Geek Weekly 😊
blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-week

@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-15 23:06:25

Anyone that knows good open-source tools for buring data to M-DISC (Blueray)?
Will be running primarily on Windows for now and an easy to use front-end is appreciated.
#askfedi

@fortune@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-15 15:00:01

"Somewhere", said Father Vittorini, "did Blake not speak of the
Machineries of Joy? That is, did not God promote environments, then
intimidate these Natures by provoking the existence of flesh, toy men and
women, such as are we all? And thus happily sent forth, at our best, with
good grace and fine wit, on calm noons, in fair climes, are we not God's
Machineries of Joy?"
"If Blake said that", said Father Brian, "he never…

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-04-15 08:20:13

Somewhat shaky proof that the skies above over the International #DarkSky Community MŸn and Nyord - darksky.org/places/mon-and-nyo - are good indeed: out of cam vertical 60 seconds f/2.8 shot at ISO 1600 (camera lying on an unstable table) from a place between Elmelunde and NŸrreby, still no sky background appearing. The SQM reading in the zenith was consistently 21.7 mag./sq.arcsec.

@datascience@genomic.social
2026-01-16 11:00:00

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-02-14 12:36:04

The memorial gathering for Joel Primack (astrophysics and an all around good person) will be at 10am (PST) today, February 14, via the following URL...
youtube.com/live/pcKukxrWfEI

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-02-15 05:15:12

Don't see Republicans defending America to its allies...
'Because of the Republican shutdown of [DHS[, because [they] refuse to make any compromises or any changes to ICE after the deadly murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, we have a shutdown, and can't go on official CODELS. I’ve decided, along with a number of my Democratic colleagues, to go anyway,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said.
House delegation to Munich Security Conference canceled during DHS shutdown
thehill.com/homenews/house/573

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-16 12:20:41

Ex-Falcons OT Elijah Wilkinson blasts former team: 'Good luck with that clown show over there' nfl.com/news/elijah-wilkinson-

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-03-15 17:12:13

This is wickedly good.
youtu.be/FUBVuvstPCs?t=2&si=Ds

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-03-14 18:07:06

So good. 🤣 This is precisely the MAGA performative detail I spotted during Colin Jost's parody of Pete Hegseth on SNL.
#PeteHegseth #trump #colinjost

@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange
2026-04-14 20:24:15

New blog post on why I think that GenAI/LLM coding agents use for finding vulnerabilities and generating PoC code to demonstrate exploitability is going to be painful, but most probably a good thing in the mid term: ins.jku.at/blog/vulnerability-

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-01-16 01:30:51

me: *low whistles*
me: "Damn, check out THOSE bollards!"
8yo: "What?"
me: "These metal things. they're nice, aren't they? No drivers parking on this sidewalk!"
8yo: *lays down on one*
8yo: "Yeah, they're good, I guess."
#SafeStreets

A manhattan street corner at night. It's fairly dark (what's up w/ the lack of lights??), but along the border of the sidewalk are some metal bollards that are rectangles on one side, and 5 sides on the other (one sloped side that you can lean on) on the other. They're spaced about 3ft apart, and they're probably 15" wide. One bollard basically divides the sidewalk in half.
Another angle of the bollards, this time taken FROM the street corner towards the end of the block. The bollards extend the entire length of the block, at least 30 metal bollards visible but you can't really see how many more go down due to distance and people walking on the sidewalk. The vertical side of the bollards face out towards the street, and then 45deg angled side faces towards the building.
Another shot taken from the street corner, this time facing the street and crosswalk. One bollard sits in the middle of the curb ramp top landing, which is absolutely an ADA violation. The ramp tactile mat also faces out towards the middle of the intersection rather than facing the crosswalks, but again - fuck disabled people, amirite?

But at least the bollards are nice!
@jae@mastodon.me.uk
2026-03-16 00:53:50

Why do people use cocksucker as an insult? Don’t tempt me with a good time.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-03-16 11:23:09

Anyone know of good articles on solipsism in games, especially with regards to game engine design and level design? Feels so obvious someone must have written on this before but Google scholar is not coming up with a lot.
(boosts appreciated)
#AcademicChatter #GameDesign #GameStudies

@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-14 21:48:15

Good new article from @… about online dating:
ghost.thenewoil.org/email/522d

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-03-14 15:32:14

Jürgen Habermas has died.
An interesting thinker but ultimately he put his weight behind the Washington consensus.
I wrote this short piece 12 years ago, the first in a series that never happened!
Habermas and the Pit | Uncommontater
uncommontater.net/2014/04/02/h

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-02-14 19:01:02

Seeing an 'acer palmatum' plant in the computer section of an auction site is good fun.

@davej@dice.camp
2026-04-14 13:05:49

Too good not to steal for #AltText. mstdn.social/@faraiwe/11640312

Monospaced text, from an imaginary transcript of Dune:

“[…] scene

“Paul Atreides just made it, through a mad dash to rocks, after crossing drum sand. A sandworm is in his heels.

“Paul stands at the edge of the rock, as the sand wormrises from the sand, thrumming, scales clicking and chittering. Paul is dead meat, as the couple hundred meter long sausage of doom towers over him.

“The sand worm stops, opens his round mouth, and starts thumping at Paul.

“A thumper nearby goes off. Sand worm t…
@cdamian@rls.social
2026-03-14 17:13:49

Good job everyone!
"Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025"
theguardian.com/world/2026/mar

smoke from an industrial chimney
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
2026-02-15 15:04:55

Just finished watching “Rental Family” with Brendan Fraser. It’s a really lovely movie. Fraser was long time underrated as an actor. Famous true, but probably more for his looks than his acting talent. That’s totally different in his last movies like the “The Whale” and “Rental Family”. He’s a real good character actor too. @…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-04-16 02:49:16

One nice thing about the space between Olin and Sage Chapel was that it was so packed with flowers it looked good almost everywhere
#photo #photography #flowers

Smiling woman with headscarf with pink blossoms filling the space behind
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-15 12:00:05

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009)
Strongly connected component of the Pretty-Good-Privacy (PGP) web of trust among users, circa November 2009.
This network has 39796 nodes and 301498 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_str

pgp_strong: PGP web of trust (2009). 39796 nodes, 301498 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/pgp_strong
@lukem@hachyderm.io
2026-04-15 18:44:12

Okay, we’re looking for the city hall of Łódź, it should be located somewhere around. I’ll look for a red sign typical for a state institution and find it quickly.
*spends good few minutes looking around*
Meanwhile city hall of Łódź:

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-02-16 05:33:09

In Good Hands: Conversations With A Fertility Surgeon
Dr Alex Alexander will use expertise in his three fields — fertility, gynaecology and obstetrics —to give some clarity and hope to people facing infertility, as well as share his experience with managing high-risk pregnancies and complex gynaecological concerns...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

In Good Hands: Conversations With A Fertility Surgeon
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website

Mehmet Oz said on Triggered with Don Jr, the president’s eldest son’s podcast:
“Your dad argues that diet soda is good for him because it kills grass – if poured on grass – so, therefore, it must kill cancer cells inside the body,”
Oz then described a recent moment onboard Air Force One.
“You know, we were on Air Force One the other day, and I walk in there because he wants to talk about something, and he’s got an orange soft drink on his desk.
He’s got a Fanta on the…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-14 13:32:54

At least drugs make you feel good before they destroy you.
AI code just makes you think about how sand writes code faster than you.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-14 13:32:33

Raiders Need Nailor to Put Lessons Learned to Good Use si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-ve

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-16 06:32:11

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baby Charles:
🎵 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
#BabyCharles
recordkicks.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/1w7mjSh

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-16 09:56:06

Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/15/video/i
memeorandum.com/260116/p9#a260

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-16 04:52:15

The latest info we have on the timeline of the murder of Renee Good is that she still had a weak pulse when city emergency workers first reached her. She still had a weak pulse.
Before emergency workers arrived, a doctor on the scene attempted to render first aid. ICE pointed their guns at the doctor and forced them back.
It is possible — we can never know, of course — but it is possible that doctor could have saved Good’s life. The ICE agents who forced back that doctor should also face charges. In a just world….

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-04-16 02:47:42

Quite a few folks - a couple credible developers - are trying to convince me that 'AI' code generation is great. They fail to realise that my issue isn't whether it's good at writing working ('pretty'?) code. It could be both (it isn't) but that misses my concern: to me conferring power to those without the understanding to the implications of different uses of that power creates a system inevitably prone to disaster - whether smallish now or colossal later. Anoth…

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-02-14 19:18:09

Chinese models, open weights, often almost as good as top foundation models but much cheaper.
#AI

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-03-14 16:43:28

Working on commercial stuff with an #acting #coaching client and played with scaling the work up and down: still grounding things in what's really happening, but seeing them find the small internal version they welcome us to join them in was very good to see.

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-03-16 00:52:01

It feels like the open source world is fracturing. It used to be if we wanted alternatives to commercial software we could look to open source, but so much of open source software today is using AI.
Sure, some maintainers are saying "I only use it to speed things up, I still review all code before it gets added." but for lots of folks that's not good enough, and they draw a hard line at the use of any AI.
Are we looking at "open source" versus "open …

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-02-16 08:47:50

Good morning! Today is day 17 of shifting individual customers over to Kafka

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-03-14 14:39:00

Just a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.

A serene and inviting rural scene unfolds in this image, capturing the tranquil beauty of a forest trail. The foreground features a well-maintained gravel path, gently winding its way through the landscape. The path is bordered by a rustic wooden fence on the left, adding a touch of charm and guiding the viewer's eye deeper into the scene.

In the background, a cluster of tall evergreen trees stands majestically, their lush green foliage creating a natural canopy. The trees add a sense of depth…
@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2026-04-14 14:22:42

So to follow up on this, I've caught it in action. Models, when quantized a bit, just do a bit more poorly with short contexts. Even going from f32 (as trained) to bf16 (as usually run) to q8 tends to do okay for "normal" context windows. And q4 you start feeling like "this model is a little stupid and gets stuck sometimes” (it is! It's just that it's still mostly careening about in the space of "plausible" most of the time. Not good guesswork, but still in the zone). With long contexts, the probability of parameters collapsing to zero are higher, so the more context the more likelihood you are to see brokenness.
And then at Q2 (2 bits per parameter) or Q1, the model falls apart completely. Parameters collapse to zero easily. You start seeing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” sorts of behavior, with intense and unscrutinized repetition, followed by a hard stop when it just stops working.
And quantization is a parameter that a model vendor can turn relatively easily. (they have to regenerate the model from the base with more quantization, but it's a data transformation on the order of running a terabyte through a straightforward and fast process, not like training).
If you have 1000 customers and enough equipment to handle the requests of 700, going from bf16 to q8 is a no-brainer. Suddenly you can handle the load and have a little spare capacity. They get worse results, probably pay the same per token (or they're on a subscription that hides the cost anyway so you are even freer to make trade-offs. There's a reason that subscription products are kinda poorly described.)
It's also possible for them to vary this across a day: use models during quieter periods? Maybe you get an instance running a bf16 quantization. If you use it during a high use period? You get a Q4 model.
Or intelligent routing is possible. No idea if anyone is doing this, but if they monitor what you send a bit, and you generally shoot for an expensive model for simple requests? They could totally substitute a highly quantized version of the model to answer the question.
There are •so many tricks• that can be pulled here. Some of them very reasonable to make, some of them treading into outright misleading or fraudulent, and it's weirdly hard to draw the line between them.

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-03-15 09:19:12

Good Morning Fedi!
💿 FOKALITE – Aperture | Lyrics & Dance Video
youtube.com/watch?v=gbX3Udy62cY
🎵 song.link/y/gbX3Udy6…

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-03-15 15:42:03

from my link log —
A preview of Coalton 0.2, a statically-typed Lisp.
coalton-lang.github.io/2026031
saved 2026-03-14

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-16 03:41:05

Some CBS News staffers expressed deep skepticism about a story that used unnamed sources to report that the ICE officer who shot a woman had "internal bleeding" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/media/2026/jan

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-01-16 03:23:22

A: "I don't understand how you're so relaxed when you don't hear from the kids. Everyone in my family is like, 'msg me right when you get home!'"
me: "Ah, [13yo] is fine. He went home and is 100% watching videos when he's not supposed to be, hoping we forgot about him so that he can get away w/ as much screen time as he can. If he were stuck on the subway or something, he'd have messaged. Actually, I'd be more worried if he DID message.&qu…

A chat log, part 1:

me: Did you make it home?

13yo: yes

me: And then say to yourself, "well it's after screentime, so I should be a good child and get ready for bed!" ?

13yo: no

me: Or did you say to yourself, 

13yo: I'm watching movie rn
13yo: sorry, getting another call, bye!

me: "Oh man, it's so nice without mom dad
me: "Oh man, it's so nice without mom, dad, and [8yo] here. I get as much screen time as I want. Muahahaha" ?
me: 🤨😀

13yo: Please leave a message at the tone
13yo: BOOOP

me: Damn it, I was talking to the machine again. I always do that!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-04-14 14:11:15

Heads-up: if you're in the US it is tax season which means people might have extra money available/expect refunds which in turn means it's a good time to sell stuff on e.g. eBay.
Like the gear your ADHD made you buy for the latest abandoned hobby… 😅

@davej@dice.camp
2026-03-16 05:22:47

Monday. Ewww.
Good thing I can use #MondayRandom10 as an excuse to listen to #music. 😉
1. The Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”
2. Cypress Hill, “Hits from the Bong”
3. Ada Official, "Dead Canaries”
4. Weezer, "Say It Ain't So”
5. The Clash, “London Calling (Remastered)…

A plush rabbit sits at a table with a purple gingham tablecloth and two glasses on it, staring (perhaps?) impassively. The image is captioned: “I can’t Monday this week. I have mood poisoning…”
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-03-16 03:38:39

Just finished "The Phantom Scientist" by Robin Cousin, translated into English by Edward Gauvin. It's a book I really enjoyed, although of course being an academic computer scientist it pushes a lot of my buttons. The idea of an "Institute" fated to descend into chaos, a systems expert tasked with slowing that process, and researchers whose results are a bit too effective for their own good is a catnip setting for me, and the points about epistemology although somewhat diluted are quite nice.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-04-16 02:54:17

This was the second to last capture I took around Olin on Tuesday which was a lot windier than Monday but still had good foot traffic
#photo #photography #flowers

Black man with black shirt, earbuds and backpack in front of treelawn
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-15 04:41:07

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Dow Jones and the Industrials:
🎵 It Ain’t Good Enough
#DowJonesandtheIndustrials
dowjonesandtheindustrials.band
open.spotify.com/track/3eATqTY

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-02-15 20:27:38

This general category of question from @… is something I wonder about a lot. For many/most human beings, hearing good information and even •knowing• it to be true just doesn’t seem to outweigh having bad information in one’s face over and over.
I know there will a Mastodonian urge to reply with “well ••I•• never succumb to that” or “Here’s how I avoid that,” and…good for you, I guess? (Also, really?) But not the question. The question is how we communicate to people who •are• succumbing.
1/ soc.mod-12.com/@griotspeak/116

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,
and a…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-04-15 12:34:25

It seems the President of the United States is hitting on or trying to date (?) perhaps the President of China, and potus also believes that one must block the Strait of Hormuz in order to open it (big destroy-the-villiage-to-save-the-villiage energy here), and finally potus would rather hug things out but also might get violent and wants you to know that he is a violent man.
Rabies-like logic.
#USpol

screenshot of a post by Donald J. Trump 
@realDonaldTrump · April 15, 2026, 7:46 AM 
China is very happy that I am permanently opening the Strait of Hormuz. I am doing it for them, also - And the World. This situation will never happen again. They have agreed not to send weapons to Iran. President Xi will give me a big, fat, hug when I get there in a few weeks. We are working together smartly, and very well! Doesn’t that beat fighting??? BUT REMEMBER, we are very good at fighting, if we have to…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-02-16 08:53:28

@… it’s good because that’s a new architecture that’s more fault tolerant and has higher performance. I just want to do it right and not put the full load on that at once, but kinda test it out for a while so it works reliably

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-02-15 20:50:18

I have stopped drinking for good!!!
I drink for evil now.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-16 11:50:43

RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1159
Yay, the "good" (still very slow but not like molasses) Internet is back! ~18-hour outage.
Hope those techs are getting some sleep now.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-03-14 17:11:08

The reviews are in. It's not looking good, America. (Politico)
politico.com/news/2026/03/14/a
memeorandum.com/260314/p40#a26

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-16 02:47:50

This poses a vexing problem for resistance: a direct force-on-force assault against ICE by small groups of citizens is foolish…but holding signs and waiting for the next election sure as hell ain’t gonna cut it either.
We have to find ways to fight back on the streets — but it has to look good on TikTok and on the news and to members of Congress and judges and the gaze of the whole world. Cameras and whistles are a start, but it can’t stop there. All this is not just going away on its own.

A push by the Department of Justice to open an investigation into
👉the widow of Renee Nicole Good
after her tragic killing at the hands of a federal immigration officer
💥has sparked a mass resignation of federal prosecutors in Minnesota, reports say.
According to reports, at least a dozen federal prosecutors across Washington and Minnesota have indicated their plans to resign.
This includes six federal prosecutors in the state who left their jobs on Tuesday,

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-04-14 18:59:00

There's a relatively wide-spread opinion that even when you know something isn't alive or sentient (like an LLM) that you should be nice to it for your own sake—I think this is misguided because some of these things are deliberately made to be deceptive, extractive or even to injure you.
I think this is just a new iteration of good old "nice vs. kind".

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-03-15 15:16:08

I got Nabuchadanazar. It's fun.
Remind me of the good ol' Caesar 3

I feel like we are witnessing the #moronification of government.
Add violence/genocide and not too different from the Khmer Rouge
-- Kendyl Hanks
bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans
- facial recognition through the glasses' camera.
You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good
because civil society groups are busy with politics
and won't cause problems.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-13 15:00:14

"LLMs work (somewhat) for coding computer programs. As everyone knows this is the highest form of human endeavor—unsurpassed by any other lesser activity such as project management, design, art or writing. Therefore LLMs will excel in every other field."
I really believe this is the crux understanding why so many programmers (including good programmers) fall for it in a way that can only be described as a cult, were any criticism is not only not allowed but reflexively is seen as either laughable or belligerent.
Anyway, LLMs are good* at writing code because writing code is easy and highly repetitive and doesn't actually take a lot of skill; unless it's novel ways to write code which LLMs cannot do.
Taking this as a sign LLMs can do other "lesser" activities is saying a lot about the hubris of programmers and not a lot of the capabilities of LLMs.
*for some definitions of "good"

The scale of Orbšn’s defeat has left Moscow with little choice but to acknowledge the loss of a key partner in Europe.
“Hungary made its choice. We respect that choice,” Russian Foreign Minister Peskov said on Monday.
“We were never friends with Orbšn,” said Peskov,
adding that Moscow remained open to dialogue and to building good, mutually beneficial relations with Budapest.
Moscow appears to be playing down the loss of a key ally in Europe,
striking a tone rem…