@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI listen to the Volts podcast for technical news about innovations on the electricity grid, so this excellent discussion of the intersection between epistemology and social psychology was as unexpected as it was interesting. Highly recommended.
Volts: The cure for misinformation is not more information or smarter news consumers
Starting from: 00:40:37
Episode webpage:
@tschfflr@fediscience.orghttps://hackaday.com/2025/01/08/a-street-for-every-date/
(The guy who made a calendar out of street signs). The linked video is also highly recommended: only 5 minutes but 150 slides
@yaya@jorts.horsehey YouTube, one quick q for ya:
what
@waidler@bayerwald.socialSMSL PO100 Pro
Dieser kleine Kerl bringt erstaunliche Klangverbesserungen an meinen aktiven Lautsprechern zustande. Gebe ich den Musikstream direkt per USB in die Aktivlautsprecher, ist der Sound eher mäßig. Der DDC scheint das USB Signal zu „reinigen“ und zu reclocken. Dann wird es per S/PDIF Coax oder optisch an den DAC der Lautsprecher gegeben. Das Ergebnis ist eine erstaunliche Verbesserung der Soundqualität.
Highly recommended.
@pre@boing.worldApparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@cdarwin@c.imSouthern California mountain lions recommended for threatened status
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting threatened species status
to roughly 1,400 mountain lions roaming the Central Coast and Southern California,
pointing to grave threats posed by freeways, rat poison and fierce wildfires.
The determination, released Wednesday, is not the final say
but signals a possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars will be …
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Bloomshed's production of Pride and Prejudice was absolutely bloody brilliant. Very funny. Highly recommended.
#Theatre #Australia
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
HTML5 genetic algorithm 2D car thingy.
https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
saved 2021-03-10 https://dotat.at/:/4M01I.html<…
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialJust read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…
@jake4480@c.im
@hex@kolektiva.socialI remember a video getting recommended to me, after I got shot of course, about what it felt like to get shot. It completely missed the point.
I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote most of this around 4 in the morning.
CW: gun violence, body horror, etc.
https://write.as/hexmhell/echos
@jonippolito@digipres.clubThe What Uses More calculator was featured in Mark Cuban's October AI Bootcamp newsletter, along with Susan Ray's Carbon Footprint Chatbot. Both let students compare AI's environmental footprint to more familiar activities like Netflix or Zoom. https://sh1.sendinblue.com/3gmy4fvm079
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialMit Orzo perlato, Sellerieknöllchen, weißen Bohnen und etwas Stängelkohl als Substitutionssubstanzen. Let this be recommended. #nommention
https://<…
@pimterry@toot.cafeI've basically been listening to this album on a loop for the last couple of weeks now, highly recommended.
I definitely don't like all jazz, but sometimes it really can be spectacular: https://open.spotify.com/album/5whNm4NJWfN7OYnQi5iusG
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineI need to have a septoplasty and my ENT recommended half a dozen clinics.
I excluded a couple because they're too inconvenient and now I don't know how to pick one.
What would you recommend, keeping in mind i'm already panicking about post-op sleep deprivation and difficulty breathing?
#askfedi
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWhy #MetroLastLight is my favorite game: https://steamcommunity.com/id/midtsveen/recommended/287390/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPatreon launches Quips, short tweet-like posts that serve as previews to content behind paywalls, and adds tools for content creators to collaborate on posts (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/816723/patreon-features-quips-recom…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialthose of you who have recommended Nordic Power Profiler II: in your experience, do the digital channels of the logic analyzer work?
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAbout 400 immigrant children were detained longer than the recommended limit, ICE admits (Valerie Gonzalez/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-ice-children-detained-lawsuit-dilley-75530212ec0959eda2b42aada3fbe46a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p147#a251209p147
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialI think this film is going to be one of those really meaningful ones. Not out yet, but here's the trailer: (recommended by @…)
https://youtu.be/5sJjy_Xdra0?si=HKUPu9
@teledyn@mstdn.caFree Moon Study and Observation Program
For Windows 7 to 11 and Linux
Already downloaded near 2 millions worldwide. Used in several books, foreign observatories, by CNRS research professors, websites, TV shows, astronomical magazines and to prepare the Chandraayan 1 lunar mission. Used by the European Space Agency (ESA) in the framework of the NELIOTA program. Recommended by the French Ministry of National Education.
https://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/start
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.pageComparative Explanations via Counterfactual Reasoning in Recommendations
Yi Yu, Zhenxing Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.109…
@awinkler@openbiblio.socialTIL: ORCIDs are not assigned incrementally (reasons explained here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1awd6PPguRAdZsC6CKpFSSSu1dulliT8E3kHwIJ3tD5o/edit?usp=sharing). I have still not figured out how exactly they are minted. Probably rand…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialA great quote from the book Autocracy Inc from Ann Applebaum, a recommended read. A good description of the atmosphere the Trump administration tries to create.
#trump #autocracy #applebaum
@paulbusch@mstdn.caI'm in my garage attic installing collar ties, as recommended by our house inspection. I'm trying to finish this morning while it's cool - 14 done and 6 more to go. The forecast is 27°C after lunch, and I don't want to be in that attic at that temperature.
#DIY #ClimateChange
@StephenRees@mas.to93% of submissions to the BC Democratic and Electoral Reform Committee committee called for proportional representation.
This summer, the committee conducted public hearings across the province, inviting presentations and written submissions from individuals and groups.
Of the 865 presentations or submissions that included an opinion on the voting system, 93% advocated for proportional representation. Only 2% advocated for first-past-the-post.
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageUncovering All Highly Credible Binary Treatment Hierarchy Questions in Network Meta-Analysis
Caitlin H. Daly, Chloe Tan, Audrey B\'eliveau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08853 h…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNFL Exec Reveals Bold Move That Could Transform Raiders’ Future — Shake Up the NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/news/nfl-exec-reveals-bold-move-that-could-transform-future-shake-up-draft-las-vegas-joe-…
@compfu@mograph.socialI got hooked on a German youtube channel where I'm obviously not the target demographic. It's called Flipps and it's aimed at - I think? - Gen Z movie buffs. But it radiates love for cinema. While its presentation is hectic the videos are well-produced and long nevertheless. They contain a lot of background info and film history from a time when their audience's parents hadn't even met.
And a recent episode even recommended the famous "No VFX is just invisible …
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaGot recommended the video:
> Ten Things You Never Knew About the Cast of "Return to the Blue Lagoon".
Yeah, I mostly know that the movie sounds like an awful exploitative sequel to an awful exploitative film. I checked out the first fact which was the most famous thing about the movie, namely the age of Milla Jovovich at the time and that very much falls under "exploitative".
@arXiv_statML_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Honest Cross-Validation Estimator for Prediction Performance
Tianyu Pan, Vincent Z. Yu, Viswanath Devanarayan, Lu Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07649 https://
@kurt@nelson.funI want to do a gross thing and publish AI-generated (but lyrics by me!) to Spotify and such. It is an album making fun of AI in a theater format. Any recommended services? It's looking like DistroKid is the way to go.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgReviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgReviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgReviewing a project proposal for a foreign funder. It’s a revised version of a proposal that I recommended for funding. So, the changes seek to address the issues identified by Reviewer 2. And now I hate it :-(
#AcademicChatter
@cdarwin@c.imDespite the fact that the academic council recommended against it,
despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost,
and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise,
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will be cut.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialReminder: If you still have to use #Twitter for business purposes, install the FREE 'Control Panel for Twitter'.
It blocks ads, display posts in chronological order, hide suggestions or promoted posts, etc. Works for Windows Edge/Chrome/Firefox & iOS/Android.
@scott@social.linux.pizza@… I read Homage to Catalonia when I was about that age, it was transformative.
I recently recommended @… 's The Merchant Princes series to a teen in my life and *she* loved it (I'm sure a boy would love it too). It's mostly a reall…
@arXiv_qbioQM_bot@mastoxiv.pageLearning from Limited Multi-Phase CT: Dual-Branch Prototype-Guided Framework for Early Recurrence Prediction in HCC
Hsin-Pei Yu, Si-Qin Lyu, Yi-Hsien Hsieh, Weichung Wang, Tung-Hung Su, Jia-Horng Kao, Che Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07347
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialGave up on Apple Containers for the time being. Just too unpredictable and unmanageable networking.
Was mainly using it to run a local Pihole container to filter out ads. Was recommended to use Podman as a drop-in replacement because I can't use Docker Desktop. But Podman uses a VM to host the containers and that VM does already bind on Port 53 for its container DNS resolution. So ended up using a small VM with UTM virtualisation app that runs the Pihole container in an Alpine Li…
@shaun@mastodon.xyz
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@eyebee@mstdn.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGiants co-owner Mara being treated for cancer https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46423958/giants-co-owner-john-mara-undergoing-treatment-cancer
@kasilas@mastodon.ieCommission recommends extension of nitrates derogation for Ireland
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/1127/1546115-mcgrath-nitrates-ireland/
<< Ireland has appaling awful water pollution from nitrates. If this is to be allowed, it should be …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaOn my Linktree, I’ve kept the link to @…, and the video on revolutionary syndicalism, and thus have moved all my recommended reading to my new document titled "Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading".
📚 Entry to Left-Wing Anarchist Reading:
@jake4480@c.im#NowPlaying a great rap record from 2022 I'd missed until now, 'Marlowe 3' by Marlowe, which here is rapper Solemn Brigham and beats by L’Orange, in North Carolina. Some REALLY wild flows, beats and even melodies on this one. Another one Bandcamp recommended to me, this time via the 'conscious hip hop' tag. They're fuckin nailing it over there
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.pageLeveraging Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Learning of Morphological Structures in Preschool Children with Language Vulnerabilities
Stina Sundstedt, Mattias Wingren, Susanne H\"agglund, Daniel Ventus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22287
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGreat podcast (series), recommended #AgentZo #WW2 #poland #resistance
@cdarwin@c.imA federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B,
a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
The vote was a victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought for decades to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule.
But the divisiveness and dysfunction of the committee in making the decision raises questions about the r…
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageBayesian Model Comparison and Significance: Widespread Errors and how to Correct Them
Daniel P. Thorngren, David K. Sing, Sagnick Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00169 http…
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn Assessing Overall Survival (OS) in Oncology Studies
Jason C. Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07122 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07122
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFBI Allegedly Targeted Filipino American Journalist Who Is Now In ICE Detention https://thedissenter.org/fbi-allegedly-targeted-filipino-american-journalist-who-is-now-in-ice-detention/
@StephenRees@mas.toSomeone on here recommended "Saint-Piere" - which I can't find now of course. So I went through the contortions required for watching Gem on my tv and we have now seen the first episode of series 1. 2 will have to wait until 2026.
It is actually pretty good but the ads are really annoying
In the UK, BBC is not full of commercials like CBC is in Canada
@arXiv_csOH_bot@mastoxiv.pageTemperature Optimisation in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26163
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialHouse of Dynamite , recommended movie on Netflix about nuclear war in these times. Realistic, gives an impression how the bureaucracy works and how little time there is to decide. It also gives a good reminder there is no real effective defense against incoming ballistic missiles, at least not for 100%. When interested in the subject, this is also a good book to read, Nuclear War: A Scenario - Wikipedia
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialReally recommended, gives you a better perspective about what is at stake in Ukraine and Europe at this time.
https://www.amazon.com/If-Russia-Wins-Carlo-Masala-ebook/dp/B0F42NNP3Y
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageModeling the control of West Nile virus using mosquito reduction methods, vaccination of equids, and human behavioral adaptation to the usage of personal protective equipment
Pride Duve, Felix Gregor Sauer, Renke L\"uhken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24657
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageDigital Twins of Mechanically Ventilated Preterm Neonates with Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Sina Saffaran, Tng Chang Kwok, Don Sharkey, Declan G. Bates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18999
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAfter reading #keyboard layout for fun.
Of course, not so I could "type faster". And that's for two reasons:
1. To type faster, you have to learn the right hand and finger positions, etc. I know my habits ain't perfect, and I don't see a point in learning otherwise — see point two.
2. At least in my case of creative writing, blunt typing speed isn't the bottleneck; figuring out what to write is. And most of my corrections aren't typos, but changes of thought.
In this case, I've figured out that there's really no point in learning touch typing with a new layout. So the most obvious choice for trying one is to use it on a touchscreen, where I could change the visible layout with no effort.
But then, I've started wondering: I mostly use gesture typing, and I've noticed that it's much easier when the letters constituting the word in question are spread across keyboard, rather than close to one another. In the latter case, the keyboard often has trouble in recognizing the correct word. If the ergonomic layouts focus on putting frequent letters close to one another, wouldn't gesture typing be harder?
And indeed, Colemak's FAQ clearly states that it's not recommended for smartphones. It's kinda curious that after so many years of #QWERTY being criticized, a new technology turns out to benefit from precisely this layout.
https://colemak.com/FAQ#Is_Colemak_suitable_for_smartphones.3F
