@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialIm Guardian einen schönen Abriss über die Geschichte der Computertechnologie-als-Demokratisierungsutopie gefunden.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-ag…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social🔗 https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/social-media-platforms-must-verify-advertisers-identities-under-new-singapore-code
- FB, IG & TikTok must soon verify the identities of advertisers on their platforms again…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toSo I just started re-reading a #novel series that I first read over a decade ago and re-read every few years. We all have our comfort reads.
When I quit #smoking 7? years ago I discovered something fascinating - as my sense of taste and smell came back, my culinary tastes changed. Turns out I'm not a fan of …
@markhburton@mstdn.socialJust arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…
@bici@mastodon.socialThe “dickover” is the scourge of the modern age. Coined in May by John @… a tech writer, it is defined as “a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user”. Essentially, it is the thing (or more often, things) you have to click away in order to read the thing you wanted to read" ..…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… did I think of the deprecated `valign` HTML attribute when I read this — we may never know
@publicvoit@graz.social
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@bourgwick@heads.social
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWhen they hit the logistics partner of KFC in Japan, Qilin also impacted the makers of Pocky chocolate biscuits.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/after-kfc-cyberattack-hits-japanese-ice-cream-giant-glico
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI hesitate to post this. The voice of the presenter is obviously generated artificially, but if you can watch and tune out the voice, and read the subtitles, then you can listen to the chickens. In other clips he speaks with an accent similar to what’s on this one, but this one just sounds weird. Never mind, just watch, and be amused. https://
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/116939646868483647
Recommended read of the day... 👏
"This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent …
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialI must say, the Restic documentation is really pleasant to read.
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"what are the two readings of 🙃?" - Roughly, one group sees this emoji as a whimsical, funny alternative to the "regular" smiley 🙂 , which they also read as positive ("happy, smiling"). The other group sees it as sarcastic, passive-aggressive, or uncomfortable. There are many nuances but those are the two groups. #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI already objected to the “AI summaries” ACM forced on authors, and I don’t want them anywhere else. ACM should encourage people to go to the source, to read the actual papers, rather than “summaries” that aren’t guaranteed to reflect the actual content.
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI already objected to the “AI summaries” ACM forced on authors, and I don’t want them anywhere else. ACM should encourage people to go to the source, to read the actual papers, rather than “summaries” that aren’t guaranteed to reflect the actual content.
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@sean@scoat.esGitHub is broken again today. Instead of the work you planned to do, why not read my (recent, relevant) post on how we got here? (if you missed it last week)
https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHow to read more #books
(quit social media 😉)
https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/
@seav@en.osm.town
@trochee@dair-community.socialTippet's AI takes are painfully naive
it's hard not to feel like maybe she has been taken in by the rich and powerful, especially when she ends her letter with a plug for a podcast on energy healing hosted by a Google executive.
She still seems to attribute agency to "the AIs" as if they had their own independent minds, instead of treating them as the automation of sycophantic echo chambers, feeding back whatever they are given like a good "cold read" …
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialSpooky to read this while seeing extremely low level of #Danube while on holidays in #Budapest
#ClimateCrisis
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.deI just read such a hateful and uninformed thread filled with accusations and scaremongering - and now I got a headache.
Thanks for nothing, stranger.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social@… A human who bought a copy of a book, read it, and dropped it in the bath would be doing the same thing, no? Books are not especially durable objects. They have a finite life.
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaa snap of a gravestone leant up against the north side of the tower of St. Ffraid's from last week.
#tombTuesday #tombScrolling #grave
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialAnyone who believes it is anti-semitic to accuse the current #Israeli administration of intentional #WarCrimes needs to read this article:
@paulwermer@sfba.socialAnyone who believes it is anti-semitic to accuse the current #Israeli administration of intentional #WarCrimes needs to read this article: https://www.sfgate.com/
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaIn all honesty, it is almost always difficult for me to post my music. In the end I make myself do it, not just in case someone derives an interesting [something] from it, but because practicing the decision is an investment into a feeling about world where people read such sharing charitably.
Even harder than sharing it is sharing *about* it. “Who wants to know?” But because I got so much from @…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaWho'd like to read an anti-AI rant? It's a good one. https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html
![Footnotes:
[1] Damn straight I use an emdash.
Fuck you for devaluing it.](https://cdn.social.linux.pizza/system/media_attachments/files/117/291/208/987/279/794/original/39586f3fe4e491dd.png)
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI can tell because I spontaneously started reminiscing about my days at Fort McClellan, to the extent that I looked the place up on Google Maps and started mapping locations.
Read more 👉 #FortMcclellan
@mela@zusammenkunft.netSince yesterday, I've read a couple of times that the allegations against Jason Arday had been unfounded. They were not.
Several truth can exist at the same time:
- being guilty of scientific misconduct
- being the victim of a ideologically motivated witch hunt
- the media has blood on its hands
You do not need to be innocent to deserve basic human dignity.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe most important NFL QB this season, plus questions on the Lakers sale https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7518054/2026/08/17/daniel-jones-colts-qb-achilles-the-pulse/
@draxil@social.linux.pizzaA bit sad that even @… follow the practice of putting an unrelated video in the middle of the text of an article. It's no wonder nobody has an attention span any more.
At least I can still read properly in elfeed!
@shanmukhateja@social.linux.pizzaI yearn for the day they OSS the egine just like Doom
Oh also, Stardew Valley!!
https://igeek.gamer-geek-news.com/@feed/statuses/01M2T5ZTPA73SC2VCP20CFNMR7
@opencommit@fosstodon.orgOpenCommit patched to Forgejo v16.0.5 security release.
We’ve updated the OpenCommit platform to Forgejo v16.0.5 tonight due to a security release made by the Forgejo project earlier today, in fixing a critical CVE.
Read our blog post with details here: https://opencommit.nl/en/news/patched-
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzHoly heck - did anyone see this? It's from 2018, but I don't remember any other chat about it... I can't read the article, but the gist is clear: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-right-wi
@brichapman@mastodon.socialWhat if the worst advice you ever found turned out to be ancient wisdom in terrible packaging?
I stumbled into toxic dating content at 2am after a breakup. Between the awful takes, I heard something familiar: stop gripping outcomes.
Turns out they were badly explaining what Buddhism calls equanimity.
Sometimes truth finds us in the strangest places.
Read more:
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeProper generic kernel fusion is *so* complicated.
Making it work for a trivial 1:1 case is easy, but considering more complicated scenarios like "shader needs another SSBO as a scratch buffer or to read a large block of constants from", or "input and output are not 1:1" or even "shader has multiple outputs" complicates things dramatically.
But I don't want to rush out an incomplete half-baked solution that will have to be ripped out later on.
@bourgwick@heads.social
@ruari@velocipederider.comSomeone changed the sign from "Ris Pumpestasjon" (Ris Pumping Station) to "Ris Rumpestasjon" (Ris Butt Station) and I could not help but think of you @…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@deevybee/117104597365100074
Please read this excellent (but depressing) piece from the excellent @…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzKhalil Mack on Creating Turnovers and Executing Against the Raiders https://www.chargers.com/video/khalil-mack-media-availability-week-2-thursday-2026
@outer@mas.toEd Yong announces his next book: Life Beyond Measure, is coming out next July. I'm already jonesing. If I can score a pre-release version, I'll have read it twice by then. It's about ALL life from microscopic to blue whales.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis is incredibly important.
Computers (writ large) have historically been tools that help humans solve problems which do not intrinsically demand computers but need complex computation (possibly including text transformation!) which humans cannot do as well or as fast.
The fact that we have grown a subculture of people who only really know computers has led to the situation where “computer-people” disregard other issues & the concerns of everyone else.
@geant@mstdn.socialEver wondered how we plan and implement an intercontinental connectivity investment programme here at GÉANT?
The project team from GN5-IC1 have spent years doing exactly that, and they've now shared their lessons learned, recommendations, and insights from a comprehensive analysis in a new summary document.
🔗 Read more here:
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I *may* have just finished revisions to my paper, though I need to do another read-through and wait for supervisor feedback... And temperature is 'only' 26C at my desk!
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zanussi ZDS2010 freestanding slimline dishwasher: Review - Read all about how it worked for us and lasted longer than expected (with some TLC), but is sadly barely more efficient than the old model. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZDS…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPowerful teachers' unions share striking link with states struggling to teach kids to read (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/powerful-teachers-unions-share-striking-link-states-struggling-teach-kids-read
http://www.memeorandum.com/260917/p90#a260917p90
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I generally don’t. I may share a link to my blog here, or in a private text chat with my spouse or friends, but only insofar as I think they’d genuinely be interested in reading that particular thing.
Writing is, by and large, an exercise I do *for* me. It doesn’t need to ever be read for me to achieve that benefit.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚡ Four built-in artisan agents: ai:code edits files, runs tests and formats code; ai:review reviews git diffs read-only with severity levels; ai:explain describes what a class or method does; ai:test generates Pest tests for any class.
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
@edintone@mastodon.green#OTD 17 August 1761, William Carey was born in Paulerspury, #Northamptonshire. Sometimes known as the "Father of Modern Missions" despite colonial connotations, Carey is still held in high esteem in India for his promotion of Bengali culture and social reforms. Read more:
@stf@chaos.social @bencurthoys@mastodon.social@… I find the revulsion to this interesting. They're only scanning/destroying one copy of each book. It's not like they're finding the whole print run and erasing it so they have the only version.
There are loads of second hand books in second hand bookshops that are never going to be read again and end up being recycled. There are load…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDrought in Europe:
Today, Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant was operating at only around 25% of its capacity, with the government preparing emergency measures to prevent further reductions.
Photo: the Danube at Paks
https://dailynewshungary.com/danube-droug…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom The Stranger
Hat tip to Cascadia Today
https://www.thestranger.com/news/denny-blaine-park-stays-open-and-naked-judge-rules/?ref=cascadia-journal.com
If you find nudity offensive, read no more.
Den…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaThe Odyssey is mid.
I'm not talking about the movie. I haven't seen that. The actual The Odyssey, from Homer. It's overrated.
@cdarwin@c.im @cyrevolt@mastodon.socialQuite an interesting read on the HashMap implementation in #Rust
https://morestina.net/1843/the-stable-hashmap-trap
@kazys@mastodon.socialI wrote about Lynes's the Tastemakers and updated it for our day. Go ahead, shadow-ban this.
https://varnelis.net/the-tastemakers-2026/
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The Tastemakers, 2026 - varnelis.net
In February 1949, Harper’s published the essay “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” by its managing editor, Russell Lynes. There, he observed a new structure determining prestige in the country: where once wealth and family were the markers of status, now taste and intelligence—what Pierre Bourdieu would later call cultural capital—were paramount. Two months later Life magazine had ...
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social#SilentSunday
[via Kimber Johnson]
@bourgwick@heads.social
@raysofred@discordian.social @hikingdude@mastodon.socialRead More. Read Often. Read Every Day. - by JA Westenberg
Make some time to hit the library this weekend. Pick up a book from the store on the corner. Go through your shelves and build a stack of books you bought that you’ve been meaning to read.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/read-more
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caJulie Nolke hits all the nails on all the heads. Be sure to read the video description and follow the links too. #WestJet
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA Window for Water-hydrogen Demixing on Warm Metal-rich Sub-Neptunes: #exoplanets may be hiding water beyond Webb Telescope's reach, study finds: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/distant-exoplanets-may-be-hiding-water-beyond-webb-telescopes-reach-study-finds - UChicago scientists offer new way to read atmospheric data on a vast class of 'sub-Neptune' worlds.
@enriquericos@mastoart.social@… I'm not entirely sure it was you, but I think I read you ask about Desktop Environments. You were searching for one without "AI" or some techbro bullshit. How did that go?
I'm starting to read bad things about KDE and I'd like to plan ahead.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioGood essay on what went wrong with computers
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-warnings-computer-history-technology
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Mass Scanning Targets Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS Keys and Azure Tokens:
[…] Honeynet telemetry recorded 807 session-grouped attacks and approximately 32,000 raw events during the monthly analysis period. […]»
It is becoming more and more that passwords / passkeys are not stolen or hacked, are their generated tokens. Many of them, in my opinion, say too much about the users and their use.
🧑💻
@mia@hcommons.socialIf you're dreaming of your trip to #DH2027 in South Korea at the end of the month, this reading list https://2026.ifla.org/read-busan/ and playlist
@jom@social.kontrollapparat.deBaby, we can never kill excel. Long live spreadsheets
Source: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/117097082760512046 (Forked due to the lack of proper alt text for the image in the original toot.)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples (Andy Beckett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFields Medalist Timothy Gowers says most famous mathematics problems solved by LLMs so far have almost all been with counterexamples rather than proofs (Timothy Gowers/Gowers's Weblog)
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-a…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeROM-COM: a MS-DOS executable stored in read only memory
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialRE: #ClimateChange - we have…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialRE: #ClimateChange - we have…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎨 Tools: ReadFile, Glob, SearchCode, EditFile, WriteFile, RunArtisan, RunTests, RunPint, RunShell, plus observability for logs, read-only SQL, routes, git diffs, #Telescope entries, #Sentry issues and #GitHub
@cdarwin@c.imAccording to its website,
on a page listing authorized coins,
"the United States Mint derives its authority from the United States Congress.
Congress authorizes every coin and most medals that the U.S. Mint manufactures ..."
No Trump coin is listed
https://bsky.app/profile/peopl…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL fines Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair for displaying name of Palestinian girl on eye black https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7600026/2026/09/16/azeez-al-shaair-texans-nfl-fine-eye-black/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI voted for him.
These quick vote AGM options, by which Boards encourage members to not read the materials and follow their lead, they should be banned.
"About 95% of votes were cast in support of Nationwide’s pay report, which was recommended by the board, after the building society nearly doubled the pay of Debbie Crosbie, the chief executive, to £4.7m."
A mutual??????
Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board | Nationwide | Th…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI wish I could say this is some light Bastille Day reading, it isn't light. But it is short, about a 2 minute read:
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/the-world-is-on-fire-and-we-are-trying-not-be-its-kindling/
@bourgwick@heads.socialfarewell to peter max, who brought psychedelia into the mainstream & maybe subsequently was not really remembered among the hep '60s artists. but i kinda love his stuff & how elemental & even elegant it feels now.
@cdarwin@c.imFOX NEWS: If you're a young person and you're disenchanted, you can't afford a home, you're having trouble with healthcare & you feel failed by the economy, what is the Republican alternative?
MIKE JOHNSON: Well, the answer is not to turn everything over to the government, because that never works
(Unless it's gay marriage, abortion, guns, and what books you can read
-- then he's ok with it.)
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne of the best things in the National Geographic Magazines are the info graphics! I really like them - plus the great photos & stories of course as well.
And I just noticed that our local #library has the magazines as well! So even if I just want to read one article, I don't NEED to buy the whole magazine - NICE!
I just love
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOn his last day as CEO, Tim Cook pens an emotional memo reflecting on his time at Apple and says he takes "enormous comfort" in handing the helm to John Ternus (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/read-tim-cooks-f…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialRE: #Macklemore was someone I hadn't heard of - but this thread proves him to h…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialRE: #Macklemore was someone I hadn't heard of - but this thread proves him to h…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
@cdarwin@c.imThis latest move is a brazen power grab by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
to buck the will of Congress and the American people
and will make future discoveries less likely.
If this rule becomes final, Americans’ hopes for future cures, national security and economic strength will rely on the scientific sensibilities of the nation’s chief bureaucrat.
Alzheimer’s disease will not be cured by a budget analyst from either political party.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html
