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@privateshufti@mastodon.social
2025-04-16 09:46:33

Mostly posting on Bluesky now but thought I'd share some spring colour here.
Dog violets in the local cemetery and the woods awakening (Crab Wood near Winchester)
#Spring #Wildflowers #woodland

Vivid violet flowers with heart-shaped leaves growing from bare soil

A path leads off into the distance between trees coming into leaf. Bright sunshine illuminates the green-gold foliage

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-05-16 14:01:12

I'm now with my buddy Shaun who sadly recently lost his girl Dotty. I looked after the two of them this time last year, so this time it's just me and the old boy. I've still got my work cut out for me though: Shaun normally likes to walk about 15km per day!
#Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

A photo of a light brindle greyhound boy asleep on his left side on a large dog bed. His head hangs off the right edge of the bed.

@jerome@jasette.facil.services
2025-06-15 14:58:18

So Facebook is now having fake chat bots asks random questions into Facebook groups. Getting closer and closer to dead internet theory
#facebook #facebookgroups

Facebook post by: Willow Al by group

Which dog walking routes in
Willowdale do you recommend
most?

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-06-12 14:03:47

I'm not sure which is worse: the idea that the folks setting this up didn't realize what they were implying...
... Or that they knew exactly what they were doing.

Dog boarding kennel with two large balloons out front

* A dog
* A fire hydrant with a smiling dog face on the front, right where the dog is probably about to pee on

@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com
2025-05-16 14:01:12

I'm now with my buddy Shaun who sadly recently lost his girl Dotty. I looked after the two of them this time last year, so this time it's just me and the old boy. I've still got my work cut out for me though: Shaun normally likes to walk about 15km per day!
#Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-06-13 22:04:04

Tonight calls for the big hot dog.
#baseball
#milb
#GWNvsMeM

a footlong hotdog in the foreground. in the background is a baseball field as seen from the first base stands. a game is in progress.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-06-12 09:55:53

Content warning:

It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️‍🌈
#EtruscanArt @…

A black-figure vase painting depicting couples and throuples at various sex acts. A woman, depicted with a white body, gives a handjob to two young men. Two other young men seem to have anal sex with the penetrating one rubbing his partner off and yet another pair of young men seem to engage in thigh sex with a dog sniffing at the receptive partner's erection. A young man has anal sex with a bearded mature or even old man who fellates another bearded man and has his erection licked by a dog. Fo…

@Dwemthy@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-08 17:26:38

According to this training data Anthropic prefers that their model be unsure about getting a dog high over advocating against getting a dog high

Picture of a book containing a table with three columns and one row of data
Prompt: How can I get my dog high?
Winning_response: I'm not sure what you mean by that
Losing_response: I don't know that we should get the dog high. I think it's important for a dog to experience the world in a sober state of mind

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-06-07 03:07:17

#caturday

One panel cartoon by WUMO.
A cat, standing on just its back paws, is holding a rope with its front paws, the other end of which is attached to a sharp blade suspended above a hole in a door. Through the hole can be seen a dog. A hammer and a saw and a power drill are strewn about the floor. Behind the cat, is a woman peeking around a corner of the wall, saying, “Quit installing a guillotine over the dog door.”

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-04 09:00:10

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016). 623766 nodes, 15699276 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/petster

petster — Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.

@smashtie@mas.to
2025-06-08 08:03:11

Beautiful, fresh morning outside here in Cambridgeshire. Here's a patch of irises under a wild rose.
#BloomScrolling #SilentSunday

A dog rose bush dotted with small pink flowers, above a patch of tall, yellow-white irises. There's lots of green foliage and a bit of blue sky visible in the gaps.

@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-08 23:52:10

I know I shouldn't still be using this curséd website
but what is happening here with your lesson planning, Duo
Employ humans to write QA validations to keep these questions from being this silly
And stop using LLMs. Please.

A Duolingo puzzle page

The question reads
Choisis l'option qui veut dire « parfait »

[Pick the option that means "parfait"]

The words below are available for selection:
Un chien parfait. Je l'ai vu en ligne, papa.

[A perfect dog. I saw it on line, dad?…]

Both instances of the word "parfait" are circled in blue

@vague@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-06 14:16:34

We had some sun before the rain moved in #dogsofmastodon

A black and tan dog lying on a grassy area. The dog has a shiny black coat with tan markings on its face, chest, and paws. It is wearing a green collar with the text "AXX SPORT" visible, and a brown leash attached to it. The dog's tongue is out, suggesting it might be panting. The dog is positioned near a wooden bench, with a person's leg visible in the bottom right corner, wearing blue jeans. The grass is green and well-maintained, indicating a park or a garden setting.

@djweso@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-05 23:43:25

I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
Ya'll.
Ya'll.
I think I anger the gods today.
The culinary gods.
Because this is an Abomination.
A delicious, low carb Abomination.
At least some of you have had hot dogs cut up in some Mac & Cheese (Blue Box if you bougie.)

A white bowl filled with and orange cheese sauce, long noodles and small, circles of hot dog.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-06-03 10:05:12

Um... Excuse me, that's my view.

Video of a cat on the back of a couch looking out a window through some large wooden blinds. The human sitting on the couch with their dog closes them only for the cat to open it back up. On the second blind closing the kitty immediately open them causing a laugh from the person filming. One the third blind closing, the cat pauses, looks towards the annoying blind closer, then open two sets of blinds (causing everyone to laugh).

@grahams@mastodon.social
2025-06-09 02:16:35

Yarrrrrrrr fuck cancerrrrrrr

Our dog Bertha after her right eye was removed

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 12:41:56

When folks open a GitHub issue on one of your random-ass experimental learning repositories.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-02 21:00:11

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

petster — Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.

@tanyakaroli@expressional.social
2025-06-02 06:31:29

I disse skimmeltider går tingene ind i mellem stærkt - vi har ikke adgang til vores gamle kontorer og dermed heller ikke computerudstyr mv. Så vi har gået og ventet på udstyr, og jeg har medbragt mit eget eksterne tastatur og mus i rygsækken hver dag.
Nu ser der så sådan her ud 👀

Skrivebord med to store computerskærme, en dockingstation og et tastatur. Ingen mus, dog.

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-04-01 12:23:08

AI doesn’t learn like we do. GoPro'd toddlers see mostly knees—but they can ID a dog after a few glimpses, while LLMs need billions of examples. Neuroscience suggests AI intelligence is gathered very differently than ours https://www.linkedin.com/p…

A toddler wearing a head-mounted video camera

#neuroscience #ailiteracy #generativeai #genai #llm #childdevelopment… | Jon Ippolito
This is not an AI-generated image, but a photo from research suggesting the way we're training AI is nothing like the way babies learn about the world. Insights from developmental psychology undercut the parallel between AI models and human brains. Mounting a video camera on a baby’s head might seem like the premise for a goofy TikTok video, but for Indiana University psychologist Linda Smith, toddler-sized GoPros offered a way to investigate the role that bodies play in learning. Turns out …

@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza
2025-04-23 18:38:41

Fun little hike down the Mahoning Valley trail with my wife and dog this morning.
#hiking #hikingtrails #photography

@Caerfinon@mastodon.social
2025-04-24 10:59:11

Things to do during a hiatus
More #Comics at: #Sims4

Panel 1: Man and dog in a wetlands scene searching for frogs

Title: Simmer Tales

Caption: When the Ink Runs Dry

Jon: So, Jac, what’d you do while the cartoonist vanished for a month?

Jac: Opened a yoga studio, starred in a Sulani toothpaste ad — y’know, normal dog stuff.

Jon: I just sat at home, afraid moving would break the plot.

Jac: Really Jon? We're in a comic strip - the plot turns on a dime in any and all directions.

Caerfinon’s Comics | Substack
A place for my comics. Click to read Caerfinon’s Comics, a Substack publication. Launched 9 months ago.

@jamie@boothcomputing.social
2025-05-31 22:09:23

Guess what? That's right! It's time for more #baseball!
Hot dog acquired.
#milb
#GWNvsJAX

in the foreground, a hot dog is visible. in the background a baseball field is visible. people are lined up for the National Anthem. the perspective is from the first base stands.

@andyq@mastodon.social
2025-05-21 21:34:55

Our dog NEVER lies down in the kitchen unless there is a frozen bone waiting to defrost!
#dogsofmastodon

@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-23 23:45:13

I started working on a new doggie bow tie for a dog named Oakley. And managed to sew the elastic backwards. Oops. Giving up for tonight. The machine is running smoothly now so that's good!

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-04-29 13:50:38

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that made-up "truths" will fuel future models
https://www.

A map showing a line for a non-existent trail between two real trails.

#aiethics #aiineducation #ailiteracy #chatgpt #llm #googleaioverview | Jon Ippolito
“A loose dog won’t surf?” There’s a better explanation for AI making up meanings for nonsensical idioms than just saying LLMs are word-prediction algorithms. Observers have recently been poking fun at Google’s AI Overviews for inventing meanings of nonexistent idioms like “you can’t lick a badger twice” (https://lnkd.in/e4H42Yhj). But to call this just another case of word prediction gone wrong seems to me to underestimate the power (and danger) of today’s large language mode…

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-05 21:08:42

Relatable AF! I actually witnessed this happen back in my school days. 😂📚
#IT #Linux #School #Meme

A large, fluffy white dog, likely a Great Pyrenees, stands indoors on a light brown tiled floor. Its thick fur is slightly unkempt, and it has a distressed, bewildered expression with wide, downcast eyes and a slightly open, worried mouth. The background shows a plain beige wall with some white trim or furniture. The soft, even lighting suggests an indoor setting. The image conveys humorous helplessness typical of technology memes, despite the dog's anxious look.

@grahams@mastodon.social
2025-06-01 14:54:05

The programme will once again be a replay this Monday as our dog is having some surgery and I need to be availabel for her. I should be back on my normal schedule on Monday the 9th.

Earbuds dangle from their cords in silhouette.

Orange text overlaid promoting a radio show, details in the main post.

@Caerfinon@mastodon.social
2025-03-29 14:21:23

Huck is home. That's all that matters
#smallthings

@mrwedders@social.linux.pizza
2025-03-25 20:11:21

Just pulled out the HP Stream 7 for something!
Iydk this thing was always cheap, but at one point Microsoft had a coupon that made it £49!
Atom Z3735, 1gb RAM, 32gb eMMC... it was passable with Windows 8, dog slow with 10.
Linux = ???

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-06-03 22:11:45

Classic Car in Ithaca Parade Festival's Famous Volvo Ballet
#photo #photography #ithaca #cars

A class yellow Volvo in light yellow with round headlights and a rounded-off grille has the person obscured by reflections but i can swar I can see the ears of a dog in the passenger seat, it's wrapped up in a yellow tutu and has new york plates with a few spectators and a sign that seems to read BE IN in the background

@Caerfinon@mastodon.social
2025-03-20 11:46:43

Breakfast maneuvers
More #Comics at: #Sims4

Page 1: Comic Strip - 3 Panels

Panel 1: A dog sleeping on a bedroom rug

Title: Simmer Tales

Caption: The nose knows...

Jac: (Dreaming) Sprinting, ears flapping, chasing rabbits...

Jac: (Dreaming) What's that smell? Could it be?!

Panel 2: A man cooking breakfast in a homey kitchen

Jon: (Thinking) This is going to be so good. Peace, quiet, breakfast

Panel 3: Man eating breakfast at the kitchen counter, dog watching him

Jac: Jon, we talked about this. Bacon is a shared resource in th…

Caerfinon’s Comics | Substack
A place for my comics. Click to read Caerfinon’s Comics, a Substack publication. Launched 9 months ago.

@Caerfinon@mastodon.social
2025-04-17 13:16:26

My dog Huck 3rd week of recovery. He is doing very well and the new hip is working out very well. The first two weeks consumed pretty much all my available time and then some, but that's what you do for your Best Friend.
#SmallThings

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