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*has personally ordered satellite imagery to be captured and delivered voice* you know you don't need to be a nation state to get satellite imagery right? it starts at six hundred bucks. you, dear reader, can buy some

Lazy internet: Does anyone know of a Python (or other if it’s easy enough to configure) filtering RSS proxy? Instead of pointing my feed reader to example.com/rss, I’d point it at my server which would get that feed, filtering out things I don’t want to see.

Lest diesen Thread. Unbedingt. Und schickt euren Freunden, Bekannten und Verwandten eine Zusammenfassung. Vor allem an SPD, FDP und CxU Wählende. Ich hab da schon mal was vorbereitet.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/mastodon…

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

Nem de propósito.
E por falar em putos que conhecem a música dos pais...
cc @…
https://rss-parrot.net/u/expresso.pt/status/…

Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk
https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2112240/failure-imminent-when-llms-in-a-long-running-vending-business-simulati…

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current "advanced" LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with several "tools" (code the ...

#Überholabstand mit Meterstab errechnet.
Ich muss die empfohlenen 100 cm zum rechten Rand noch besser einhalten. Dann mache ich mich zwar "breit wie ein LKW", aber meine Gesundheit ist mir schon wichtig!
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Überholabstand mit Meterstab errechnet
Wenn ich zur Arbeit fahre habe ich eine Kamera am Lenker. Die ist nicht immer an, aber manchmal eben schon. So auch in der letzten Woche, als ich im Dörgen mit – meiner Meinung nach – zu wenig Seitenabstand überholt …

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There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

So I've got a short #sciencefiction story in the latest issue of #SciFanSat, under the theme of "disaster", and I invite you to take a peek if you're into that sort of thing.
Also, I've got there a new item for my collection of weird stuff happening to the things…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader. I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.
I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye video this week. It is lovely and a bit sad.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/05/friday-links-25-0…

Friday Links 25-09
First post curated via Readwise Reader . I am creating some scripts to help replicate what I did with Pocket.  I enjoyed the Komoot goodbye...

As #UKLabour flounders and talk of u-turns and leadership challenges abounds, here's a reminder that there's a ready-made lifeline:
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
Read the full report The pdf version will open in your browser or pdf reader. Or Download the print version Complete wit

@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
h…

Just read Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith, yet another semi-random venture into the currently-popular novels section of my library, rather than my recent YA staples. It's excellent. Fascinating and well-written just as fiction, but also empowering and perspective-upgrading (and I'm a married white cis man who is only beer-belly fat, plus already well into #BodyPositive thinking).
It bridges really well with Mama by Nikkya Hargrove, and with Does My Body Offend You by Mayra Cuevas and Marie Marquardt, both of which I went through recently. Yet another home fucking run for #OwnVoices, which felt extra good to read after Dream State was so disappointing. It really digs into and helps the reader explore body positivity just like Does My Body Offend You does with feminism.
#AmReading

#Radweg entlang der #MindenerStraße in #BadOeYnhausen teilgesperrt.
Ich kann schon verstehen, wenn man kurz vor dem

I was never one for noting the pagecounts of books. My measurements were usually "about one third done". Doing ebooks means that I think of a progress as percentages and length in hours.
For most of this year I read books that were over 25 hours long and am now in the three hour range.
Of course this is distorted. Reading during the day is usually quicker and if I fall asleep before turning off the e-reader (which happens a lot) the estimates get thrown off by the idle …

Combining this with a text to speech reader would be an interesting thing for sight-challenged folk. https://github.com/ngxson/smolvlm-realtime-webcam

Happy Mojo Day!
Been in the habit of using a daily Discordian Tarot draw as a lens for the day. Today's is:
Past: Bureaucracy (aneristic illusion)
Present: O of Booms (whoosh!)
Future: Discord (eristic illusion)
Seems ominous.
My dead simple little tarot reader: https://…

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:

Rund um den #Jordansprudel im #Audi!
Der Grund, warum er überhaupt so weit gekommen ist, sind die nicht wieder an Ort und Stelle verbrachten #Poller im Weg. Gerne werden die von Stadtwerken u…

Base pipe vs magrittr pipe: a thread by TimTeaFan: #rstats

Thread by @TimTeaFan on Thread Reader App
@TimTeaFan: I see still a lot of #RStats tweets about the base pipe vs. the {magrittr} pipe, often in favor of the former. I have to admit: I still stick to the magrittr pipe and here is...

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

Had a meeting scheduled on Tuesday, been kicked to the next day all week. Sat down this morning expecting it at 10:30, now been moved to... 10am Saturday?
Dear reader, 10am on Saturdays is not a good time for me to do things.