
2025-06-24 18:43:01
"#Serendipity is generally defined as the accidental discovery of something valuable while searching for something else. It’s also a hotly contested component of the library research process: is it a failure of #library systems or facilitated by the physical design of libraries, the cat…
If the self-care information we are hearing is all about something we have to buy or something we have to spend money on or something that's being marketed at us, that's not actually what the spirit of self-care should be about. https://www.
Ich glaube übrigens nicht, dass Donald die Ironie von #Rutte versteht!
Recently saw the Parks & Rec episode where they make fun of anti-fluoride quacks.
That episode is from 12 years ago—within this time it made it from something people laugh about to government-backed.
So jealous of Word users. You want to write something: you fire up Word, you start writing.
Me, I first spend months on my authoring tool and whether it can give me all the abstractions I want. No two of my books have used the same tool. Nearly exhausted before I even begin!
does this remind anyone else of something? 👀
https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/114403259794727698
@… wanted to sanity check something here.
The H7 series UFBGA176 25 package is 0.65mm pitch, 0.29mm diameter solder balls. Their recommended pad diameter is 0.3mm which is odd, per IPC I think you'd normally want an 0.25mm land.
But where things get weird is the 0.8mm TFBGA240 25. It's 0.4mm diameter balls, so I would expect 0.3mm lands but…
Something is 'pulsing' beneath the Earth, scientists say - and could tear a continent apart (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-pulsing-continent-africa-b2776542.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p116#a250625p116
@… Hey, Matt! If you post something, I'll be happy to follow you back.
Great reframing by Malcolm Harris at 52:50 here: When a capitalist says they need more profit to invest in something socially beneficial like housing, that profit is a fee they collect from the public, and a blockage that exists *because* there's a capitalist class that controls the money we need. That's really insightful and I'd never thought of it that way.
Finally got a chance to document something that was hard and may help an entire two people 🙂 Enjoy.
https://blog.faucher.live/how-to-expand-an-asustor-flashstor-raid0-volume/
Access to state funded financial aid isn't something that the feds can stop. The feds can't tell the states what laws they can write, nor punish citizens for following those laws (like sanctuary city laws).
Trump admin sues Walz, Minnesota over in-state tuition for immigrants | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-admin-sues-walz-minnesota-over-in-state-tuition-for-immigrants/
Since at this point everyone surely has seen
The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake
(and quartz, of course)
At its 2.5h & focus on game dev, it’s a bit difficult to generally recommend, but it's of course catnip to ME.
And this slide everyone should get framed.
We are not biologists. We don’t need to build taxonomies on what something IS. Focus on DOING, not BEING.
Almost every OOP intro gets this wrong.
#Lieferando scheint die erste App zu sein, die bei meinem #GrapheneOS Probleme macht: nach Eingabe von E-Mail-Adresse (als Benutzername) und Klick auf "Get verification code" kommt "Something went wrong" GOS-Info, dass die Play Integrity API verwendet wurde.
Da ich den API-…
I just finished Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings. It was good, but not great. It was too long, for one thing. The book also grows increasingly cynical as it goes on - something I could've done without. Still, it was full of interesting ideas and engaging characters.
If you want great, though, read Liu's first collection of short stories, The Paper Menagerie - it's absolutely brilliant.
I'm the kind of friend that you sometimes don't hear from for months or even years, then randomly DM's you something I knew you liked back then (like a video of a specific kind of bird I randomly spotted in my feed).
I've seen a lot of randos trying to get folks on the local developer slack to do this. It's usually something like "we will pay you monthly to maintain a fleet of laptops at your house". There is always someone desperate enough or ignorant enough to say yes.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6rokcE6/
it's 2025 :-) all i want, as a SUMO (support.mozilla.org) knowledge base writer, is something that will take automated screenshots of Thunderbird for Android, Windows, macOS and Linux. Is that too much to ask :-) ? evidently so!!!!
Are you four years old? Are you sitting down? Let me tell you something. You ain't getting no pony.
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Some like city life. Some don't. Let's play!
#CityPerksSongsOrPoems
Something completely different, tho. The node on my desk is named television for a reason; the idea is to attach a screen to it to display relevant information for that moment. Finally took the time to finish the first step for that yesterday by fixing the #RaspberryPi hooked up to a screen.
Monday I ran the Boston Marathon, and I'm glad I did but boy, was it a long time getting there
#running
@… are you going to do something about Google harvesting data from your phone regardless of your consent, without any way of disabling it?
@… Me too, but it really shines when you have to run a Ruby/PHP/Python app, because you don’t have to deal with the packaging hell.
I did consider making a Nix bundle for it, but… it felt like too much work.
I am considering switching from the Docker runtime to something like Incus, but I haven’t looked into it properly yet. I’ll keep the ima…
@… I’ve got to ask, ask it came up in the pub, how on earth does one go about getting a parrot these days? It doesn’t feel like something you get in the pet shop.
@… It’s a funny place to be, isn’t it?
I once searched for something, only to find my own 3 year old Stack Overflow question.
Artists and musicians often become more valuable after they’re gone.
The truth is, their work gains more attention, their legacy grows, and their worth skyrockets.
Just something to think about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_y_zeql7pc
When Gerald returned, some minute change in the atmosphere and the repulsively strong odour of blood and feces made him think that something might be amiss.
Two years ago, I wrote a piece promoting the Fediverse to a Bosnian (and global) audience. Some of the key players in this movement were there to help me tell that story.
Since then, I feel like the Fediverse is growing. We have exciting new products like loops.
But for this to truly succeed, we need to stop autopilot mode and actually try. Also, I'm posting this on the wrong social network; I need to go to Bluesky :D
Give this article a read and share it with those int…
“It is a cruel joke that taxpayers who could never dream of sending their own kids to such superbly well-resourced schools are indirectly subsidising those that can,” said Matthew Wade, a sociologist at La Trobe University who has studied the scheme for years.
“We should all be offended by witnessing something so manifestly unfair continue unabated.”
I sometimes giggle
At something par-tickle-er
That strikes my fancy.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tickle
#haiku
#poem
Got this "Little Lime" #hydrangea planted to replace a 40-something-year-old azalea bush that died off. It's healthy now, let's see if I don't fuck it up. I've had good luck with hydrangeas as long as they like the spot they're in.
The #Comcast drop runs through here,…
@… @… tl;dr: something that replaces login password 2FA credentials
http…
#EroticMusings week 4: Is your MC the kind of person you’d want a relationship with? How would they feel about you?
I would love to have Fabiola as a friend (though without the additional benefits - while I enjoy writing about this kind of relationship, it's not something I personally want. What I'm into when writing and outside of it are actually pretty different things). S…
The Relationship between Cognition and Computation: "Global-first" Cognition versus Local-first Computation
Lin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17970
"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
We're using @… as our in-house chat system. I've just managed to connect it to LDAP and upgraded it from one major version to the next... It's a bit daunting to upgrade such a central piece of our company's communication and notification infrastructure. If something went wrong it would cause a real headache. But what can I say: it worked flawlessly.
My Linux PC and I are venturing back into the Old Republic tonight! Expect epic space battles, questionable dialogue choices, and me probably falling off something tall. Tune into the #SWTOR stream! #StarWarsTheOldRepublic
> She explained, “I just need the paper. I need to write things down. [The iPad script] also has so many passwords and then I would have ADD and then do something else and then it would lock me out … it was so complicated. So I printed it.”
When actors bypass corporate controls to get their work done, it's a showbiz story.
Electrosonic is an album of “Library samples of electronic music for radio, TV and film industry.” In the GLOSPOT1104 sleeve notes, John Cavanagh gives a loving and entertaining portrait of Delia and the circumstances surrounding the album's creation. Brian Hodgson says: Don was an Australian mood music composer. [...] I felt uncomfortable working with Don. At our first meeting he was pleasant enough, but I just felt he was using Delia and I to do something he couldn't do himself. [.…
#DHL surprised me. I have a delivery coming, and because I can't guarantee being home when they arrive (to sign) I thought I'd divert the package to a pickup point and retrieve it myself. They have one (1) pickup point on Long Island. FedEx or UPS have deals with stores, so you can pick up in a Walgreens or Staples or something, plus they have multiple offices. Annoying.
While stuck in Ilulissat I have tried to deal with the email backlog (again). But they come in way faster than I can deal with them.
I love the idea of inbox 0 but would literally achieve nothing else if I practiced it, and work would be very boring.
Anyone have suggestions for good systems that work for overwhelming numbers of emails?
I receive around 50-60 a day, at least half of them need me to do something, often something substantial so they're not just for info. #LifeOfAScientist #Emails #EmailEttiquette
Prescott's blend of football and family can lead to his best season yet https://insidethestar.com/prescotts-blend-of-football-and-family-can-lead-to-his-best-season-yet
"In this TED talk, Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, discusses how people get work done. When asked where do you go when you really need to get something done, almost no-one says: the office (unless it is early in the morning or late at night)? This is especially for creative people and knowledge workers..."
It’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/
enjoyed lewis porter's close look at #JohnColtrane's practice routines & how he consistently drafted different practice buddies over his career. https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/joh
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
All Girl Summer Fun Band:
🎵 Something New
#AllGirlSummerFunBand
https://allgirlsummerfunband.bandcamp.com/track/something-new
Boggles my mind that I can, on a whim, take a day trip to see my favorite building in the world at a great price with several fast trains *per hour*. (Why on a whim? Because I never even considered it, based on the map.) Italian rail is quite something. #Italy25
learning curve, n.:
An astonishing new theory, discovered by management consultants
in the 1970's, asserting that the more you do something the
quicker you can do it.
I still love how something as totally basic as slowing down sound can reveal textures, harmonics, & microstructures that would otherwise be missed. A fleeting impact unfolds into something spatial, musical, & emotionally resonant. High overtones drop into the audible range, transients dissolve into evolving timbres, & the familiar becomes beautifully uncanny. In slowing sound, we don’t just decelerate it; we uncover its inner architecture - its grain, its buried melodies.
I don't think it's anti-semitic and I don't like the purist mindset that insists he refute something he never said
Josh Shapiro Says Zohran Mamdani Fails to Condemn ‘Blatantly Antisemitic’ Rhetoric - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/us/politics/josh-shapiro-zohran-mamdani.html
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#HelpAFoeSongOrPoem
I've changed the ratios of coffee to water in my V60 process.
I used to grind 15g of beans, and filter 250ml of water through.
Now I fine grind 10g of beans, and filter 200ml of water through.
I also changed the setting on my grinder to something a bit finer, so the water takes longer to go through. Flavour is improved IMO
I opened the door to go to purchase something. Near the house, there are plenty of people talking to each other.
Social anxiety kicked in. I went back to my house.
With physical exercises and exposure therapy, my social anxiety is getting better and better.
But sometime, it still attacks me with full power. Well, at least now, I can smile (albeit still in high anxiety).
#SocialAnxiety
Like, I think we should talk about #Epstein, not because I believe that if we make enough noise we could get the system to hold people involved accountable but, rather, because the system is built explicitly not to do that. It is fundimental. It cannot be fixed. Trump just found something he could latch on to and ran with it, with no concept of the consequences.
Trump thought he could exploit anger to seize power, which he did. But then he thought he could just throw those people away when he was done with them. This will blow up in his face, as long as we keep talking about it long enough.
There are greedy people, and I don't like them very much.
But people who aren't greedy, per se, but who will nonetheless always be the last to offer to pay for something, always be ready to point out that they drank half a glass less than the others, always wait to see if I cave and say ok, I'll settle this then we'll see.
These people.
These people, they make life just that little shittier, for absolutely fucking nothing.
this is mainly for me: #vibecoding #browser #extension
This is very good. #Israel #Palestine #antisemitism
Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.
The Jubilee video with Mehdi Hasan is something...
Anyone in #Chicago looking for something to do this Thursday, #MaggieSpeaks is playing a 90s set at Willis Tower on their outdoor terrace. 4:30pm, FREE!
Posting it everywhere else for the normies, figured I'd let y'all know too 😎
A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/the-stab…
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Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
TARRANT: How close were we going to Auron, Cally?
CALLY: Well, you know how close.
TARRANT: It's just that if the Aurons are responsible for this, I wonder what it is you did to upset them before you left.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/46
A friend of mine was lamenting that they felt my partner and I do a lot for them and they don't evenly reciprocate so all I can really do is reply to them:
"From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs."
And hope that sparks something.
The amount of data we have is getting too big -- every time I want to try a performance optimization or something similar, things take hours just to move around, and that gets frustrating. I think I'll have to consider way to shard the data directly on ingest so I can work with just *some* of the data at a time.
#AI is the ultimate tool for those who don't understand something but wish to appear that they do. As well as being useful for fraudsters, conmen and criminals.
Civilians butchered, babies left to die, aid workers and journalists deliberately targeted by Israel:
KEIR STARMER - This all seems fine to me. Carry on!
Pop group says something about genocide:
KEIR STARMER - This is an outrage! Ban them! Pull all their gigs! They're TERRORISTS!
#IsraelIsATerroristState
Feeling like moving this account to a GTS instance, would delete my Bsky and bridge it there and make it a one-for-all, but I want something like WP to tweak not GTS. It'd be cool if @… would consider a 10 buck a month plan for something like ClassicPress w/ ActivityPub, I imagine that's pretty light.
Bummer. Mozilla, makers of Firefox, are shutting down their "Pocket" and "Fakespot" services.
I use Fakespot constantly, every time I go to buy something from Amazon (or another supported retailer). I'd pay to use it, but it's going away. Ugh...
@… @…
Why why why? Last night I upgraded from Sonoma to Sequoia, and now Spotlight doesn't work. The 🔍 icon is still there, the entry box opens, I write something in it and
NOTHING HAPPENS.
More sites like this: https://infosec.exchange/@gabe_sky/114558396307371647
I have:
https://countdown.codevoid.net
Can we reframe discomfort as a form of growth, rather than it being something that tells us to stop, backtrack, abort mission? https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-194-transformation-and-comfort/
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#ShowsAndMoviesTheSuburbs
If you just post an URL and something like "good read", "must see", "amazing page", "watch this",... without further explanation WHY this is worth my time, I will automatically ignore your message and probably your account. 🤷
#PIM #timesaver
Always nice when you're typing something on Discord, Windows steals focus due to a file copy operation running (moving stuff from phone to PC) and does *something* as a result (cus it assumes you typing the message on Discord == you wanting to interact with said pop-up).
@… and no passkeys support. This is the one with ready to merge branch and the developer busy with something else.
inb4: a FOSS developer CAN be busy with something else, it is none of our business, it's fine
Please understand this:
A "like/star" ⭐️ only notified the person you are interacting with.
A boost 🔁 tells your entire instance that you appreciate something about this share.
Want to help your friends? Use the boost, Luke!
The perfect time to do something is 11 a.m. Then you can go to lunch at noon and enjoy the rest of your day.
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#CommercialCatchPhrases
@… That’s… something.
I don’t know why Mastodon keeps tagging @…, but love you anyway!
The discussion had nothing to do with you, you were probably just stuck in my clipboard or something.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan:
🎵 Tell Me Something Good
#Rufus #ChakaKhan
https://wonderlove.bandcamp.com/track/tell-me-something-good-wonderloves-extended-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AECVMjxepWdsjDb49JFRd
My main problem with @edzitron.com 's piece on the #AIbubble is that I agree with so much of it.
I'm now wondering if I've missed something about #LLMs? The numbers and implications for stock markets are terrifyingly huge!
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/
Pool your resources
Everyone can add something
To improve the world.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pool
#haiku
#poem
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#NameANewDisease
On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility.
He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.”
Thread 👇
https://bsky.app/profile/propublica.org/post/3lubhletxs22g
Who has already way too much to do and got an important idea for something that would take a fuckton of work but would be very important to do ASAP? This guy.
Please tell me that organizing a conference is a dumb idea.
Tell them . . . tell them . . . tell them I died of something glamorous.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Floating Action:
🎵 Something So Blue
#FloatingAction
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gZbEbQzYz1vqrshdGYUsk
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#SitcomABookOrPlay
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#GenericKnockOffSongsOrPoems
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
We lost George Wendt, the actor who played NORM! on Cheers, this week. In remembrance, Let's play!
#FictionalCharactersLastWords