@denmanrooke@social.coopWe in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation
@castarco@hachyderm.iouspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
@edintone@mastodon.greenDCMS announces new members of public records advisory body https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/dcms-announces-new-members-of-public-records-advisory-body/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaMe? An Anarcho-syndicalist? Yes!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism
@cheryanne@aus.socialTeach Us Consent
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@anildash@me.dmA couple of folks said I should replace the pop-over email signup form on my blog with a much more subtle inline signup form at the top of the page. So! If you'd like to reward the more user-friendly design with your patronage and support (it's free, I only ask for your attention), you can sign up to get my new posts in your inbox just by sharing your email address. I won't spam you or sell your email, and don't post too often.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJuanyeh Thomas sends strong message about HC Brian Schottenheimer https://insidethestar.com/juanyeh-thomas-sends-strong-message-about-hc-brian-schottenheimer
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialA great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Learn more:
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@arXiv_qbioCB_bot@mastoxiv.pageTopology, Kinetics and Inheritance in Clonal Colonies of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells
Alessandro Allegrezza, Riccardo Beschi, Domenico Caudo, Andrea Cavagna, Alessandro Corsi, Antonio Culla, Samantha Donsante, Giuseppe Giannicola, Irene Giardina, Giorgio Gosti, Tomas S. Grigera, Stefania Melillo, Biagio Palmisano, Leonardo Parisi, Lorena Postiglione, Mara Riminucci, Francesco Saverio Rotondi
@glauber@writing.exchangeWill we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv
@anildash@me.dmOne of the constant recurring topics on social media are stories of someone saying they don’t wash their legs, or they don’t use a washcloth, or they don’t take showers for a week. I wrote about why those stories always blow up. https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/29/who-is-clean/…
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudCollege Board Keeps Apologizing for Screwing Up Digital SAT and AP Tests (Ars Technica, 24 May 2025)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/05/college-board-keeps-apologizing-for-screwing-up-digital-sat-and-ap-tests/
@arXiv_qbioQM_bot@mastoxiv.pageData-driven multi-agent modelling of calcium interactions in cell culture: PINN vs Regularized Least-squares
Aurora Poggi, Giuseppe Alessio D'Inverno, Hjalmar Brismar, Ozan \"Oktem, Matthieu Barreau, Kateryna Morozovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20327
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTo dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyznew book about medicine history, "droplets" theory etc
"Science writer Carl Zimmer’s latest book is a brilliant history of medicine that takes us from Louis Pasteur’s germ theory of the 19th century to present day. Along the way, it offers an anthropological study of medical culture — a culture capable of ignoring science when it wants to. ...
"If COVID-19 spread in droplets, then it was worthwhile to keep people two metres apart, to put up plexiglas barriers around checkout stands, and make supermarket aisles one-way. Sanitizing countertops could break the chain of infection.
"But if COVID-19 was airborne, all those measures were pointless."
Bit of an exaggeration in that part of the article. The 2m distance does put you outside the densest clouds of exhaled breath, and sanitising countertops helps against other diseases. But yeah. A lot of effort wrongly expended due to the prevailing myth.
#CovidIsAirborne #books #history
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReminder: CFP: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume XXXVIII, 2025 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069409/reminder-cfp-australian-journal-jewish-studies-volume-xxxviii-2025
@bthalpin@mastodon.social
@mapto@qoto.orgNow starting: the #SecurityNarratives workshop, a very interesting expression of the #DigitalHumanities and a collaboration between the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at
@poppastring@dotnet.socialMCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
"Developers, coders, nerds, even regular users — we have power. We can demand that the platforms we use give us access to control our experiences using code."
https://anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/
@glauber@writing.exchangeWill we ever decode the writing system used by the Inca?
Gift article, no paywall.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archiv
@hey@social.nowicki.ioWe sometimes think about Switzerland as the country-as-a-fortress, but in reality we should look at Finland.
They organised their entire country, including culture, health care system for the not-that-theoretical-anymore case of needing to fight for their independence again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialReminder: CFP: Australian Journal of Jewish Studies, Volume XXXVIII, 2025
https://ift.tt/AQSE4Uh
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaNeighbour dropped off a welder with a blown FET on the PCB (within a snubber circuit). Found a suspect diode. Found a manufacturer and boardset ID: Arcsonic AT-06-A7. Wrote to Arcsonic on AliExpress, and after about 3 messages exchanged I had a full circuit schematic for the thing sitting in my e-mail inbox. As much as we (rightly!) complain about and fear over-reliance on China in the West, their culture of openness and repair is something we would do well to emulate. Imagine writing to Bos…
@wildenstern@mastodon.ieSo IL DOGEE is firing or incentivising the dismemberment of the US nuclear safety agency. Given that, on form, they are likely to attempt to replace them with AI tools, and those dumb tools have been trained on popular culture and the Internet, we are likely well on the way to Skynet as self-fulfilling prophecy at this stage.
@glauber@writing.exchange
@sillon_fictionnel@paperbay.orgNous avons deux critiques théâtrales dans le Sillon de pièce qui sont nominées aux Molières 2025.
- the loop - comédie de Robin Goupil au théâtre des béliers -https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/the-loop/
- Numéro Deux
@rae@bne.socialWas just reading about Matilda Emmerich having her artwork declined by the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show because of its content. Am I the only one concerned about the censorship of artists in Australia these days?
https://www.…
@ripienaar@devco.socialI am reading “Use of Weapons” (rereading all the culture books) and I just can’t be bothered with this insane time switching setup.
With not having time to really read a sizable chunk at a time it’s just too all over the place.
I think I also didn’t finish it first time round tbh.
@glauber@writing.exchange
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online'Local community schemes have the potential to share expensive and rarely used items and change the way household goods are consumed' - @christinecole_ https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/having-more-owning-less-how-to-fight-thr…
@geant@mstdn.social🛡️ DAY 2 at GÉANT #SecurityDays | “Cybersecurity isn’t just about tech—it’s about the people behind it.”
From AI’s growing role in security to crisis management, human factors, and compliance, Day 2 was packed with deep insights.
Highlights: AI challenges, crisis response through collaboration, and building a strong security culture with people at the center.
💡 What’s been y…
@wfryer@mastodon.cloudMy new post for #HealOurCulture: “Trust and Democracy”
https://healourculture.org/2025/05/15/trust-and-democracy/
Also on Substack:
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldLearn why one camp director quit posting daily photos of campers. Pretty interesting take on things. #SummerCamp #CampLife
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.toThe 79th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we explore trust and its importance in human society and culture; in the Library section, we review “Geekonomics” by David Rice; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch a video on the Veritasium channel where Derek Muller hacks Linus Sebastian’s phone.
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/issue-79-trust/
