@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-17 19:24:55
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Acopia:
🎵 Real Life
#Acopia
https://acopia.bandcamp.com/track/real-life
https://open.spotify.com/track/2R1GNetV5KogQx7h1b8tgg
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-17 19:24:55
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-09-17 19:48:18
Mostly nature videos, or just whatever I get up to in real life.
@…
https://peertube.wtf/c/p.marg/videos
@seav@en.osm.town2025-10-17 01:04:59
@seedling@dice.camp2025-10-17 07:44:05
over under is taking over my life
it is becoming a real problem
uh do we have a hashtag for this #overunder maybe
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 21:51:13
2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-17 13:23:43
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
VILA: [Trips and sits down heavily in the pile of sand] Funny, aren't I? If I died it'd be a real joke. Who'd care? Who cared about Cally?
TARRANT: You know, I have a theory about all this. Keller's base was wiped out by a mysterious virus that left the corpses supple and undecayed. I say corpses; if we were able to search the place we'd find the others. I'm sure of that. What else have we got? A planet that registers a life re…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-15 17:50:43
iOS 26 review: Liquid Glass is aesthetically pleasing, many quality-of-life upgrades, call screening is a true game changer, but the Games app feels unfinished (Zachary McAuliffe/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-17 10:36:30
Shapes of Cognition for Computational Cognitive Modeling
Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg, Sanjay Oruganti, Jesse English
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13288 https://
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-09-14 16:50:21
DOOMscroll — The Game
This is a real doom game like in real life. Scroll through monotonous until you lose and you still believe that is with depth. The acquisition of betting is how deep you sink monotonous ;-)
😈 https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-15 11:16:44
Pop Culture Parenting
This podcast is about finding the sweetspot between the textbooks and real life when it comes to parenting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pop-culture-parenting/
@threeofus@mstdn.social2025-11-15 09:49:33
Jeez Saturday Live with Adrian Chiles is like a real life Alan Partridge show on North Norfolk Digital. As the yoot would say, it’s utter cringe.
#radio4 #bbcradio4
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-14 04:50:13
What an incredibly REAL sports interview story... from one of the best sports storytellers.
▶️ The Interview That Changed My Life Forever: The John Rocker story - Press Box Chronicles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XwwGmgYyfCA&si=j7_cHE7RRw4LwgIB
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2025-10-15 02:41:54
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe2025-11-13 06:20:42
Gestern hatte ich das Vergnügen jemanden im sogenannten real life zu treffen, den ich vorher nur von hier kannte. 😁
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2025-10-17 04:08:02
he has been unleashed unto the real world. please forgive me
#Kerfur #Kerfus #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2025-10-17 04:08:02
he has been unleashed unto the real world. please forgive me
#Kerfur #Kerfus #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-09-16 05:26:51
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-09-13 12:42:44
Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-10-04 11:46:54
Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-11-06 23:34:54
Name something that's cool in theory, but not in real life.
I'll go first: expensive cat toys
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 09:50:08
People use fast, flat goal-directed simulation to reason about novel problems
Katherine M. Collins, Cedegao E. Zhang, Lionel Wong, Mauricio Barba da Costa, Graham Todd, Adrian Weller, Samuel J. Cheyette, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11503
@billbert@mastodon.social2025-09-12 01:08:21
Commercial:
“Still coming to my dog’s birthday??”
Real life w/gumption:
“I’m really sorry, I want to come, I want to support you and your pupper, but I don’t want to do it on that day at that time at that place. Love y’all but I hope you understand and still love me tomorrow.”
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-26 04:18:28
‘The pro-life movement still has some real juice’: How Trump’s promise of free IVF fizzled - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/the-pro-life-movement-still-has-some-real-juice-how-trumps-promise-of-free-ivf-fizzled-00622464
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-26 11:05:37
'The pro-life movement still has some real juice': How Trump's promise of free IVF fizzled (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/25/the-pro-life-movement-still-has-some-real-juice-how-trumps-promise-of-free-ivf-fizzled-00622464
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p6#a251026p6
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2025-10-10 20:22:11
Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 17: Vicki Jarrett
So far she's published a couple of really good novels and a collection of short stories. She strikes me as the type of author who aims for quality, not quantity.
I adored her first novel "Nothing is Heavy", based on real life experiences in Edinburgh. Her other novel, "Always North" is an eco-thriller set in Svalbard, a Norwegian arctic island.
Both great…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2025-09-09 13:51:55
It's great to see this innovation coming to life! The Recharge 100 🔌 DC fast charging network in 🇸🇪 Sweden (SE3 region) is awaiting final TSO approval to deliver Frequency Control Ancillary Services (FCR) to help balance the grid!
https://www.linked…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-08-30 21:39:56
false alarm, folx
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-02 11:24:36
Cowboys Headlines: Injury updates, Eagles news, contract talk, life after Parsons https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/02/cowboys-headlines-injury-updates-eagles-news-life-after-parsons/8…
@pre@boing.world2025-09-04 08:53:30
Content warning: South Park S27
TWENTY SEVEN series! Man. South Park continues to be pretty cool too.
Still both fresh and yet familiar. I remain in awe of the consistency of the show over more than half my whole life now.
Stupid cock and fart jokes with an absurd setup which on a second level is mentioning and mocking the true absurdity and violence of real life.
Satan being Trump's lover in a rehash of the Sadam Hussain skit is lovely.
They seem determined to try and get cancelled, but haven't managed that in 27 years. Maybe it's a small-dick joke that'll finally do them in?
Still got half of this season to watch. Seems like it's mostly bi-weekly now? Or every episode is delayed.
#watching #tv #southPark
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 11:30:47
VitaBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents with Versatile Interactive Tasks in Real-world Applications
Wei He, Yueqing Sun, Hongyan Hao, Xueyuan Hao, Zhikang Xia, Qi Gu, Chengcheng Han, Dengchang Zhao, Hui Su, Kefeng Zhang, Man Gao, Xi Su, Xiaodong Cai, Xunliang Cai, Yu Yang, Yunke Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26490
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-22 14:47:04
🪞 New technology turns paintings into holograms, bringing art to life
#display
@neverpanic@chaos.social2025-10-09 21:13:05
Had a lovely evening while playing an experimental board game on post-quantum #cryptography with people from Tampere University, the OpenSSL Foundation and Cybernetica.
A fitting end for the 2025 #OpenSSL Conference.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-09 12:19:31
#Juche tell me more about Charles North Korea! ❓ ❤️
@… you probably have oppinions on this guy.
https://www.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-10-11 10:03:20
Start-or-Sit: Which Raiders to Trust vs. Titans Week 6 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-tennessee-titans-jakobi-meyers-geno-smith
@doktrock@toad.social2025-10-24 01:42:55
"Two new Edmontosaurus mummies—a late juvenile and an early adult—with large continuous areas of preserved external skin surface" from #Wyoming #paleontology
"#Dinosaur 'mummies'…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-08 10:42:29
Efficient Learning-based Graph Simulation for Temporal Graphs
Sheng Xiang, Chenhao Xu, Dawei Cheng, Xiaoyang Wang, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05569 https://
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-13 08:19:50
Are science exhibitions for everyone? Accessibility aspects of the CERN Science Gateway exhibitions
Tamara Caldas Cifuentes, Jemma Harris, Patricia Verheyden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08584
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-10-02 17:42:42
"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-27 11:47:54
Folks, please remember that while our focus this week has been on trying to get the families stuck under Israel’s bombs in the North to relative safety in the South, our families in the South need your continued support for the basic necessities of life.
You’ll remember Aseel as she was our very first Gaza Verified member.
Every week, she tries to raise $500 so she can feed her family of six.
Her fundraiser isn’t doing too well this week.
(She still has a little over …
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-30 16:55:19
Any sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
4/
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-10 20:59:50
Postpartum Doula Diaries
Postpartum Doula Diaries shares the real and raw journey of life as an Australian Postpartum Doula...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/postpartum-doula-diaries/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-29 15:44:53
Selling stuff on eBay is so funny sometimes, like when someone extremely low-balls you and you decline their offer and then they message you with "What's your lowest?"
That's not how haggling works, you need to make a fair offer to the seller—it's a deeply human thing to negotiate about price, and both sides need to be respectful of each other.
I think haggling should be taught in school tbh. A real life skill.
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-03 12:57:53
Talking Spell: A Wearable System Enabling Real-Time Anthropomorphic Voice Interaction with Everyday Objects
Xuetong Wang, Ching Christie Pang, Pan Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02367
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2025-10-06 09:19:39
I've a question about #PointAndClick games: why does the character seem to shrink & grow as they move around a room?
They look like they're shrinking or perhaps walking down stairs as they move towards the viewer. (The opposite of real life when things close to you seem big!)
It's not just this game, I've seen the same issue in lots of other games.
Is it because the character is staying the same size but the room is drawn with perspective?
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-09-28 20:18:21
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-09 11:06:02
NeedForHeat DataGear: An Open Monitoring System to Accelerate the Residential Heating Transition
Henri ter Hofte, Nick van Ravenzwaaij
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06927 https://
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 09:16:08
Parameter estimation of the four-parameter Harris extended Weibull distribution with applications to real-life data
Prithul Chaturvedi, Himanshu Pokhriyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26162
@hippyjo@c.im2025-11-06 19:12:37
Amazing.
Besides offering the exceptional perspective of a retired military analyst and Russian linguist who is currently living in Ukraine-
Dylan Combelick is also leveraging his blog into a charity for Ukrainian soldiers.
He shares insight and perspective that will never appear in corporate media, based on real life experience, understanding, and presence in Ukraine.
Please support his work, share the friend link that bypasses the paywall, and thank you!
The U…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-10-02 23:59:33
To be filed in "stuff I'll never understand, like ever": videos about asking AI shit.
Who the fuck cares? I mean, if you really care what the AI has to say (ha!) about something, you can ask it yourself. Why the fuck are you watching a video about someone else asking a question you can ask yourself?! Too much time to waste in your life?
People, man... They're fucking tiresome. For real.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-10-22 13:13:44
Content warning:
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 22: What inspiration have you taken from historical figures or events?
Most of my stories are set in a mythical past like mythical ancient Greece or mythical Viking Age Europe where the gods are real.
I rarely write historical figures but sometimes I use (allegedly) real life persons or events for inspiration.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-02 11:11:35
Cowboys Headlines: Injury updates, Eagles news, contract talk, life after Parsons https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/02/cowboys-headlines-injury-updates-eagles-news-life-after-parsons/8…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 10:19:21
Real Time Fatigue Crack Growth Monitoring Using High Precision Control and Data Acquisition Systems
Arev Hambardzumyan, Rafayel Ghasabyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23710 https:…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-07 17:36:39
Les Miserables in real life:
Cops beef up patrols at grocery stores after SNAP food benefits freeze : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/07/18881291.php
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-18 08:11:20
Friends, of course we all hope the #ceasefire will hold. Of course we all hope that aid trucks will be allowed to move. Of course we all hope that there will be a stable, just peace.
But hope isn't enough. The suffering in #Gaza hasn't ended. We must keep pressure on our governments to ensu…
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-11-02 16:30:11
Hey fedi 👋🏻
I guess I'll take a break from fediverse and internet for 1 or 2 months. My real life got busy, I mean too busy 😔
I'm not leaving BTW. I'll come visit you guys when I get free time but won't be that active.
So take care and stay safe.
See you soon..
#fediverse
@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-27 09:06:53
Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11bn with Coordinated TDMA on Real-Time Applications
Seungmin Lee, Changmin Lee, Si-Chan Noh, Joonsoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18755 https…
@pre@boing.world2025-09-04 08:42:16
Content warning: Andor S2
Being stuck with a broken wrist so unable to really do much of the things, I have spend a lot of this month watching TV.
I'm not all that up on Star Wars, so when I watched Season One of Andor I didn't know it was about a man called Andor, I had that name confused with Endor, and so I was distracted by the lack of Ewoks.
No such distraction for season two though, now I know it's about a rebel mercenary and his adventures leading up to him being in Rogue One delivering details about how to blow up a death star.
They all live in the Empire, which is relentless and authoritarian and evil just like the real life empire taking over western civilization now. They persecute and harass poor Andor and his buddies so much that they cause the rebellion against their authority that they intend to suppress.
Great show.
Wonder if all the people arrested wrongfully for doing no real crime in the US and UK and around the west will end up fighting the empire here too?
Still wish there was a series about ewoks though.
#watching #tv #andor
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-10-25 11:14:56
the other day I tried to explain astigmatism to someone (my eye condition that got worse over the years; reading glasses don't help me shit) and someone else was like "ah yes, real-life lens flare”!
I couldn't explain my issue to anyone in 45 years and there it was, in four words.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-04 16:55:43
DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/04/tech-ceo-vcs-unicorn-irl-fraud-softbank/
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-10-24 14:00:47
I know the WeWork show is "real life". but FUCK IT. I want a season 2 so bad. Have him start a rocket company or run for president.
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-19 07:40:41
Deploying UDM Series in Real-Life Stuttered Speech Applications: A Clinical Evaluation Framework
Eric Zhang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Li Wei (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Sarah Chen (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory), Michael Wang (SSHealth Team, AI for Healthcare Laboratory)
https://arxiv.o…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-09-24 12:26:01
Yesterday, my spouse was interviewed by a local radio host. After she told us about it, I had to ask:
So is he shorter in real life than on the radio?
No one even groaned. In fact, they barely even rolled their eyes. Come on!
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-08-19 12:12:43
is AI real life
is it just fantasy
caught up in the hype
no escape from reality
#ai #llm #vibecoding
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-11-06 20:59:46
More Than A Score
A podcast about life beyond school results, each episode dives into real stories of people from all walks of life: leaders, parents, athletes, entrepreneurs, and creatives...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/more-t…
@mia@hcommons.social2025-08-25 07:32:14
'YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos' - BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-03 09:16:23
REConnect: Participatory RE that Matters
Daniela Damian, Bachan Ghimire, Ze Shi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01006 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01006…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-25 17:40:44
YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…
@only_ohm@mas.to2025-10-01 14:48:39
Content warning: SFX depiction of humanoid being eaten by fictional creature
I suggest they're not so much ribs as motile structures for gripping and drawing in prey, as seen on the Nazi-eating giant slugs in #DoctorWho. That's not unheard of in real-life molluscs, right?
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com2025-09-23 14:55:10
Solstice-5: CGI scifi short about what a real life Factorio might look like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntb3wcZdTw
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-21 09:42:00
OneLoc: Geo-Aware Generative Recommender Systems for Local Life Service
Zhipeng Wei, Kuo Cai, Junda She, Jie Chen, Minghao Chen, Yang Zeng, Qiang Luo, Wencong Zeng, Ruiming Tang, Kun Gai, Guorui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14646
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-08-26 08:00:04
Feel free to disagree with the statement about the missing redemption, and find out in what ways fantasy narratives differ from real life 😃 ->
No. #1 Thing I Have Never Liked About the Lord of the Rings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7w5sbquPAI
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 14:11:18
Speaker Johnson should be ashamed of himself.
He should also have gone to one of the rallies in his congressional district
—there appear to have been three of them, and two more right nearby
—and seen for himself the flags
and the “I love my country” signs
and talked to some of the good and decent people from all walks of life who attended.
In Leesville, he might have met people like organizer Bradley Hesson, who told KALB-TV:
“We’re out here to show…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-08-18 22:38:39
Seedlings (XPd on PC)
There's some strange new forms of life in the New Zealand forests, take control of one and explore.
So this is a short puzzle platformer with a neat catch: most of what you'll see on the screen are images captured directly from the forests of New Zealand. Using real images as a backdrop is certainly not a new idea, but it's used remarkably well here.
The gameplay is simple enough: as an apparently sentient seed, you are tasked with travers…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-09-30 08:50:39
Microsoft has invited vibe working. We did it everyone! We won capitalism!
https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-23 22:56:19
high-key feel like I might pass out or throw up and die I truly don't know so im just gonna touch myself about it idfk
be real cool if life wasn't so fucking overwhelming all the goddamn time
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2025-10-24 15:09:06
I just bought these on a whim and I have never owned a real life physical object that looks so digitally rendered. This is what Tron should have been
@jake4480@c.im2025-10-18 08:09:51
Maya Hawke narrates docuseries 'Nightmares of Nature', a two season series that follows three animal characters facing all the real-life horrors and monsters nature can throw at them.
The first season titled Cabin in the Woods (follows a mouse, raccoon, and frog) is on Netflix now, and the second season is titled Lost in the Jungle (follows an opossum, iguana, and spider) and will be on Netflix on October 28.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-09 17:45:00
For my birthday today… I deleted the Facebook account I created in September to access Marketplace. It served its purpose. I was going to sell other things but never got around to it. Then friends started requesting to be friends. It was awkward. I didn’t accept any requests and even made one post on my profile that I wouldn’t be friending anyone.. that it was only for Marketplace. People still requested…
Then a colleague/friend passed away and I missed an RSVP because someone sent me the message on FB rather than real life even though we weren’t FB connected and hadn’t communicated on there for years. This is what happens when people treat FB like the entirety of “the internet” and “communication”. I have a website with my name and phone! My address is not hard to search. Email!?
I was angry and sad about that. 😢
So ya… if I do the Marketplace thing again I’ll just make a temp account and delete it after use, like a single use plastic bag to pick up dog poop. 💩 🤣
In the meantime I’ll keep focusing on good people here on the #opensocialweb… and also connecting with people in real life.
Most of the 48 years I have spent on this earth have been without Facebook. I’ll manage :)
#toxicsocialmedia #facebook #deleteyouraccount #mastodonMigration #dumpzuck
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-10-24 16:19:42
@kevin@social.losno.co2025-10-21 20:33:47
@… for real life?!
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-08-28 22:29:16
Classifiers are notoriously prone to misclassifying things by picking up on hidden and unwanted patterns in the data. The classic hypothetical example is a military that tries to train a classifier to detect images with tanks, but they took all their tank photos on a sunny day and so the classifier just identifies sunny photos.
A real-life example of this happened with a student project: they tried to train a system to determine whether rooms on campus had a positive affect, but accidentally trained it to detect whether photos had ramped-up saturation (because all their “positive affect” photos came from admissions materials).
@guerda@ruhr.social2025-08-20 19:19:54
Moin @… !
Ich habe bei dir im queueT repository dein Makefile mir angeschaut und würde gerne den Ansatz kopieren, weil ich auch #uv nutze. Dazu habe ich eine Frage, vielleicht kannst du mir da helfen: Wie sagst du Make, dass der alles mit ruff und pytest im Kontext vom venv bzw. mi…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-28 09:33:01
Context-Aware Risk Estimation in Home Environments: A Probabilistic Framework for Service Robots
Sena Ishii, Akash Chikhalikar, Ankit A. Ravankar, Jose Victorio Salazar Luces, Yasuhisa Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19788
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-01 00:12:15
🕶️ Comparison of Metabolic and Pulmonary Variables Between Real-Life and Mixed Reality Pickleball
#ar
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2025-10-18 11:45:51
Content warning: RL CW
@… Real Life Content Warning 😄
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-10-20 00:10:05
Content warning:
I am so bad at writing flirting. Thankfully it doesn't have to be particularly smooth or anything for this story but still I keep struggling with this kind of exchange even though I think that dialogue is otherwise a strength of mine. How people pull this off in real life IN REAL TIME will forever be a mystery to me.
#amWriting
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-29 15:33:44
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-10-07 19:37:34
Raiders Among Top Fantasy Loser from NFL Week 5 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-fantasy-football-geno-smith
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-26 21:15:16
Israel could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.
@pre@boing.world2025-10-01 21:42:48
Content warning: re: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Got to the end of it all. Cried a few times, laughed a few times, enjoyed it all.
Angel is at it worst in Season Four and possibly it's best in Season Five when they've all mystically forgotten about Season Four and turned more ambiguously evil.
Strange to bring Spike back for that season of Angel after he died so gloriously at the end of Buffy. That could be what made the fifth year the best one though.
Doubt it's possible to watch those 250 episodes much quicker without being actually unemployed. Fitted the broken-wrist convalescence period quite nicely though.
So long Buffy. See you again next decade maybe. Got a real life to get back to.
Might read some of the comics though.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-25 16:20:41
YouTube used AI to make changes in some videos without telling the creators; YouTube says it's an experiment to unblur, denoise, and improve quality (Thomas Germain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-e…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-22 14:06:17
Just finished "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert. It's... much less chaste than most of the other romances I've been reading, but also incredibly sweet and positive, so I enjoyed it a lot.
My one reservation is that it does the thing a lot of romance novels do where they equate physical desire with romantic desire, and physical flirtations/advances with actual communication, and yes people equate those things in the real world all the time, by it's often really harmful when they do that.
This novel does better with consent than 99% of the field probably, and legitimately deserves props for that, so this isn't the harsh criticism I'd level if it seriously broke the "would this be okay if we didn't have access to interior monologues" test, but it skirts the edges of that a bit.
#AmReading
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-10-24 21:16:05
I need a real life version of Ublock Origin
#ublockorigin
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-09-19 18:18:21
I wonder what inspired TIL to post this today.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115232287275687330
@arXiv_physicsedph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-30 08:21:58
Leveraging generative artificial intelligence for simulation-based physics experiments: A new approach to virtual learning about the real world
Yossi Ben-Zion, Turhan K. Carroll, Colin G. West, Jesse Wong, Noah D. Finkelstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22929
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-24 10:34:14
Remaining Time Prediction in Outbound Warehouse Processes: A Case Study (Short Paper)
Erik Penther, Michael Grohs, Jana-Rebecca Rehse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18986 https://…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-27 05:33:48
Always Business Class
Flight hacks, points strategies and real-life stories from the points whisperer...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/always-business-class/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-27 03:00:46
Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-25 20:59:48
Youth Matters
A podcast that follows the real-life milestones of second-generation Arab youth growing up in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/youth-matters/
