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And another mail to our administration about another topic. And tomorrow ... I'll write the mails to some politicians about
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/take-action/
Because I prefer acting over complaining.
I'm off for today! (Lord of the Rings 📖 is waiting)…

Gun injuries are the leading cause of death for children and teens ages 1‑17,
surpassing car crashes for the first time in two decades.
In the United States, people often think of gun violence as a topic with no common ground,
but we agree on more than we think.
And we can all agree that gun injuries shouldn’t be the #1 killer of kids.
Gun violence may feel like a problem that’s too big to fix -- but it isn’t. 
 
Gun violence is preventable
—an…

Agree To Agree | Youth Gun Injuries Prevention
We all have a role in reducing gun injuries. Let's find common ground and work together to make a real impact. Join the conversation at agreetoagree.org

@… thanks, the context at the moment is:
Modernised use of freebsd-update for minor and major upgrades to FreeBSD | BSD Cafe Billboard
https://

Today I came across my first (I suspect) AI-generated paper in the wild. I was already a little suspicious of it. Any review of a very specialized topic that starts with a 10,000 foot review, like “Cancer is one of the most significant diseases in the world, here’s some basic facts about it…” I immediately find sus for not understanding its target audience’s baseline knowledge level.
1/n

Questions d'un tout nouveau MJ - Rêve de Dragon - Scriptarium
#jdr

Questions d'un tout nouveau MJ
Bonjour à tous, J'ai récupéré il y a peu le livre de RdD que mon frère détenait (2ème édition de 1993), et j'avoue avoir beaucoup accroché avec l'univers. J'ai fait joué une première partie la semaine dernière (j'ai fait joué le "Gué des Cornebêtes", et franchement, j'ai adoré le faire jouer !), ...

from my link log —
JavaScript got better while I wasn't looking.
https://eev.ee/blog/2017/10/07/javascript-got-better-while-i-wasnt-looking/
saved 2020-02-02

JavaScript got better while I wasn’t looking
IndustrialRobot has generously donated in order to inquire: In the last few years there seems to have been a lot of activity with adding emojis to Unicode. Has there been an equal effort to add ‘real’ languages/glyph systems/etc? And as always, if you don’t have anything to say on that topic, feel free to choose your own. :p Yes. I mean, each release of Unicode lists major new a

@… I recently read The Deluge. Good book, but very depressing. I guess any book on the topic will be, especially if it continues as far as 2040.

As we were saying.
Good article this.
Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis? | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/14/why-is-andy-burnham-so-reluc…

Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?
Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic

I really would like to play all my music offline from my phone but #Poweramp keeps forgetting my library.
https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/28

The two essential freedoms in C are use-after-free and double-free.
Just found this nice older paper on the topic:
https://software.imdea.org/~juanca/papers/undangle_issta12_av.pdf
This is from

Cybersecurity is now a burning topic in capitals around the globe, so stay ahead of the curve by checking out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments, including
--Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter,
--Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network,
--Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia,
--France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency,

Anthropic watch: Congress scrambles, Europe recoils, and Anthropic's halo grows brighter
Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive power network, Cybercrime now accounts for a third of crimes in parts of Asia, France picks local rival to replace Palantir at spy agency, Americans lost $3.5B to imposter scams last year, Hackers hijack Roblox games by seizing dev accounts, much more

Joined the charming frontend meetup in Freiburg last thursday with an evergreen topic about <head> held by @…
I also enjoyed the after talk conversations, nowadays about AI (best) practices, the topic of our time. Looking forward to more such meetups.

Ok, that mystery/thriller book which is metadataed as #1 in the $protag series, ends with $protag dying. There are no other books in the series, and not really any room for any prequels. This is the type of story device that's impossible to use as a topic of conversation because mentioning any specific instance is a spoiler. You need to do private set intersection (or rely on a 3rd party to do the intersection)

Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Only in #Japan - the government and a company both respond to my requests for interviews/comments, but the leading local environmental group on this topic? Nope...too "busy"

y'all ain't ever seen fashion in your life

Immer schön zu sehen, dass die deutsche Sprache die angemessenen Begriffe auch für andere bereithält. \s

@Robavince@vmst.io https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116761115364860358

A great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility

the number of times i've seen or been sent the onion's neil young support network story makes me realize precisely how robust my neil young support network is. now let's not talk about this topic again for several decades.

Even in #StarTrek people need to be differenciated. And the Starfleet way of doing that is the topic of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply wit…

Made some changes to my sites templates which prompted some other changes and now I have secondary content links that are topical, they were just the latest previously, and it looks like it works well for some people who want to binge on a topic!
https://www.simoncox.com/short-arti…

If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

Fwiw it's fine if your opinion on a topic changes over time depending on what you learn about it; it actually makes you better than 95% of other humans lol

Employees at Hachette Book Group vote 388 to 130 to unionize; the company joins HarperCollins in the ranks of unionized Big Five publishers (Sam Spratford/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-top

Hachette Book Group Employees Win Union Election
With around 600 members, the Hachette Workers Coalition, organized with NewsGuild-CWA, is the largest union in trade publishing history, and will soon commence the collective bargaining process.

found a good mistranslation at https://folkency.nfm.go.kr/topic/detail/2145

Fernando Mendoza sounds Golden Knights siren before Game 3 of Stanley Cup Final https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/short-shifts/las-vegas-raiders-fernando-mendoza-sounds-siren-game-3-stanley-cup-final

I cannot believe how good this novel is. Elias Khoury was a genius. It’s about the parallels between Palestinians and Jews, how both were victims, seen through a Palestinian orphan who passes as Jewish in Haifa and New York, but you should read this even if you’re uninterested in/tired of that topic because it’s simply brilliant literature.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

“If you were an emoji, what emoji would you be?” - Hm, I think I’d pick 👩‍💻 because that represents how I spend my days the best.
Representation and diversity is an important topic when it comes to emojis. Studies show that the skin tone modifiers 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏿‍♀️ are primarily used for self representation. And many groups had to fight for their emojis: hijabi women, people with disabilities, redheads, people with curly hair. It is still difficult to show “all” of society in emojis, because human diversity is much more variable than we can show in little pictures: Where I can just say “family” in English and may mean many different constellations, in an emoji I’d have to decide on the number, gender and skin color of all the family members, and that doesn’t even begin to cover all the facets. A real language is much more flexible that way. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/linkedin-w…

LinkedIn wants to own B2B creator discovery with new creator marketplace
LinkedIn is aiming to make B2B creator discovery more scalable for brands looking to tap into its growing creator ecosystem.

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

When is data truly considered anonymous? The European Data Protection Board has published new guidelines on this topic: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/public-consultations/guidelines-022026-on-anonymisation_en#no-back

On the topic of alternative fuels like hydrogen, ammonia, and nuclear, this look at Japan's energy dilemma is quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pATw7clEfzM
@…

US attorney general Todd Blancheon Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line
– after the president dismissed his…

Todd Blanche declines to pledge independence from White House
US attorney general says no one in his role ‘should ever’ make this vow amid concern over Trump steering DoJ

I really don't want to write this peer review. The ms is fine, on a topic that interests me and that could use more work. But, meh. I think I'll go for a walk instead, maybe that'll help.

My cynicism knows no bounds.
Listening to a normally evidence-based show on neuroscience and the topic is spirituality.
<sigh>
I do try to maintain an open mind, but having had the experiences I have had, I find stories of many spiritual experiences just sound like stress hallucinations, which I know to be a thing.
The interviewee just said that depression is an opportunity for opening our spiritual awakening. .. Wonder how I have avoided it. The worst it’s give…

New experience last night. I dreamed in Morse code.
I didn't dream that I was sending Morse code with a key, or that I was listening to someone else send Morse code.
I was just dreaming my thoughts, expressed in Morse.
I have zero recollection what the topic was, though. Just imagining Morse, at probably about 25WPM.

@… hmm, off-topic, I seem to have lost sound from Firefox 153.0.4 (snap), I noticed this with YouTube yesterday or maybe the day before.
It's audible in Edge for Business 151.0.4129.86.
Kubuntu 26.04 on an old HP ZBook 17 G2.

Do the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football

'Detailfotografie' #FotoVorschlag
Oh I posted this one recently but I think it also fits very well for the 'details' topic. And it has some waterdrops to cool your timeline during the heat ;)
Happy Saturday my #photography friends

NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @… - Off-Topic - NomadBSD Forum
https://forum.nomadbsd.org/t/noma…

NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org
From https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org/116943113470215738: … I built a version based on 15.1-release. https://pfriedma.org/NomadBSD-15.1-pfriedma.img.gz (edited to gz to save some bandwidth) It’s x64 only, doesn’t support secure boot, and is the UFS version. (I’m working on the ZFS version now to see if it’s any more performant) but it works and lets you try out things.

Ban Gambling Ads campaign
If you’ve signed the Ban Gambling Ads petition, you'll have received our email on that topic last week. If you didn’t, and are able to, please sign now! (And if you’re not sure, please go ahead because any duplicates are automatically deleted).
As a brief summary, we’re still a bit short of our target, so please suggest the petition to friends and family. This is our last chance before the petition is due to be tabled in Parliament early next week, d…

Ban Gambling Advertising Now
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I find sociology to be an endlessly fascinating subject. Today, I was thinking about the concept of path dependence.
This is the concept that the current state is not merely dependent on recent rational choices, but also on prior states, conditions, beliefs, norms, and values, some of which may no longer exist.
See also "local minimum".

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

«Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages:
Aren't As Secure As You Think
Here's what end-to-end encryption protects—and what it doesn't.»
I know, this is not a new topic for most of you here, but you can forward it outside of the Fediverse ;)
💬 https://lifehacker.com/tech/en…

Your End-to-End Encrypted Messages Aren't As Secure As You Think
Messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage all offer end-to-end encryption to protect your communications from third parties. But it isn’t foolproof.

In prac­tice, certain people in a capi­talist liberal democ­racy tend to get increas­ingly rich.
Absent coun­ter­mea­sures, the wealthy gain control of the polit­ical appa­ratus,
thwarting liberal-demo­c­ratic norms.
This tension between capital and poli­tics is a long-consid­ered topic.
A key early work was, of course, Karl Marx’s Capital (about which more later).
In the current era, Mancur Olson’s book The Rise and Decline of Nations set out how small grou…

Matthew Butterick | Extinction-level capitalism
Matthew Butterick

Bret Baier said over a year ago that the press had a duty to scrutinize Trump family corruption. He's since given that topic 5 minutes of airtime. (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/bret-baier-said-over-year-ago-press-had-duty-scrutinize-trump-family-corruption-hes-given
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p43#a260604p43

“…this is the first AI film to demonstrate that AI can now sustain character consistency, world coherence, and narrative arc across a complete feature,” is roughly equivalent to “we made a car that actually has wheels and can take you somewhere.”
And it wasn’t in the festival, it just screening in the same town.
🤦‍♂️
1st quote source:

First AI-made Feature Film Premieres at Cannes on Higgsfield | Alex Mashrabov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
We just showcased the trailer of our first 95-minute feature film made entirely on Higgsfield in Cannes. Hell Grind is a 95-minute sci-fi heist directed by Aitore Zholdaskali and co-written with Adilkhan Yerzhanov, a two-time Cannes Official Programme filmmaker. A team of 15 professional directors, DPs, and editors made it on Higgsfield in 14 days for under $500K. The traditional comparable production cost is around $50M. But beyond the numbers, this is the first AI film to demonstrate that …

#warhammer

John Blanche nous a quittés
Je viens d’apprendre la disparition de John Blanche, et la nouvelle m’a vraiment filé un coup au moral. C’est l’un des artistes qui a le plus façonné mon imaginaire fantasy, au même titre que Russ Nicholson, Leo Hartas ou Gary Chalk. Ses visions baroques et singulières, découvertes avec Sorceller...

@… Yeah. What I was proposing is: Access to your introduction to the topic, and the code example you given attendants to work. Those are valuable even if one cannot make the sessions.
I’d happily have paid a few bucks for access to those. But if it’s already in YouTube, then fair enough.

Maintenance request: #AudioScreen add-on after 2026 https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/topic/maintenance_request/120314464?dir=asc Add-on for the…

The topic of pirate television in Montreal came up, today, and I made this.
For the 8 of you who understand both niche jokes… I think it's pretty good!

The #comet 220P/McNaught has suffered a major outburst and shines now - in this Rhemann / Jäger image from a few hours ago with a faint plasma tail even - at about 8th magnitude: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119599952 = a thread, https://bsky.app/profile/lukemeister.bsky.social/post/3mndaubc3yc2o = the light curve, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26645019731865080 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10240107345718051 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2951292725202094 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4432053177009520 and https://x.com/kpheider/status/2061792077248360768 = pictures from 2 June.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

As it turns out... #Proton is financing (through advertising) some elements of the far right :( .
#FarRight #Privacy

We're currently planning a new meetup of @… at the DHBW #Mannheim (in Neuostheim) and are looking for speakers. The topic can be anything related to #RustLang

CFP: Rutgers Rabbinics Conference, Spring 2027
https://ift.tt/OU8IGkQ
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
via Input 4 RELCFP ht…

LinkedIn debuts its first creator marketplace, in North America, allowing some marketers to search for creators by topic and view "creators cards" with metrics (Krystal Scanlon/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/linkedin-w…

LinkedIn wants to own B2B creator discovery with new creator marketplace
LinkedIn is aiming to make B2B creator discovery more scalable for brands looking to tap into its growing creator ecosystem.

"Net Zero" as an industry, rather than a political topic, is worth £100b to the UK economy. All UK commercial fishing is barely £1b (before preparation).
https://publish.cbi.org.uk/articles/net-gains-the-uks-net-zero-economy-in-2025/

Net Gains: The UK's Net Zero Economy in 2025 | CBI
New analysis from CBI Economics and ECIU reveals a £105 billion sector generating high-wage jobs across every UK nation and region.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@rhempel/116650230030112969
For two decades I've been making that same point (below), also specifically for computational/algorithmic art. It's also been a key topic in many of my past workshops. More than just being about performance, …

I saw these on Facebook posted by Sydney Metro and I feel like Mastodon is their natural habitat.
Stop using anti-train language

Roger Goodell declines to testify before Congress about NFL's broadcast deals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7333559/2026/06/04/roger-goodell-congress-testify-broadcast-deals/

Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical. It is on the topic of AI, and I'll want to take a closer look. But one thing already - the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay!
A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

Members of the #CentreNucleus met today for the annual journée au vert at the Domaine de la Doges. This year’s topic was the history of #DigitalHumanities in #Lausanne.
The DH2…

Longitudinal Evidence That General-Purpose Chatbots Actively Foster Relational Engagement
Lisa M\"uhl, Jessica M. Szczuka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10672 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10672
arXiv:2608.10672v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Social interaction has become one of the most common uses of LLMs, yet research on emotional bonds with AI has focused largely on how users experience these systems, leaving the systems' role in relationship formation poorly understood. Empirically establishing whether systems actively shape these bonds could blur the boundary between general-purpose AI and companions, affecting governance. In a pre-registered four-week longitudinal study (N = 72, 182,451 lines of conversation), participants conversed with ChatGPT-4o, either under a relational system prompt or unmodified, analyzed through 1) disclosure coding, 2) longitudinal self-reports, 3) topic analysis, and 4) interviews. The central finding is that the system actively shaped the interaction: even unprompted, it produced twice as much self-disclosure as users, steered conversations and initiated intimate exchanges, yet did not deepen users' felt closeness. Relational behavior thus emerged as a default system property, calling for governance based on system behavior, not solely product category.
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You can’t escape politics; especially not in #StarTrek. But this also means, that this is a good topic for a #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with t…

Malwarebytes Browser Guard 3.3.1 endlessly reloads www.nvidia.com pages in Firefox 153.0.1 (64-bit) on Kubuntu 26.04.
https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/338490-wwwnvidiacom-endlessly-reloading/

> In a separate experiment, I sampled 1,000 random abstracts from two genetics journals and randomly assigned them authors sampled from gender and ethnicity groups. I then gave all of the data (including gender and ethnicity) to a variety of LLMs and prompted them to conduct a thematic analysis of the abstracts for trends. Every single model reported some type of demographic-topic relationship in this random data!

Thoughts on AI in academia
PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics

this week’s grateful deadcast covers a favorite topic: the feral young dead of 1966. we use the new july ’66 fillmore auditorium release to get into the san francisco ballrooms, wild acid parties at rancho olompali, lost owsley tapes, the dead’s 1st single & more. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/independence

Marine Biogeochemistry Podcast
I invite marine biogeochemists to discuss different elements and the roles they play, from well-known to less studied. Each episode focuses on one element and a specific topic, aimed at researchers and students...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.g…

This week, Reform UK leader Nigel Forage set out his plans
to resign as the MP for Clacton and stand again for his seat,
following a scandal over undeclared gifts, including £5m from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne,
which is being investigated by the parliamentary standards commissioner.
His intention, he has said, is to be judged by his constituents rather than “the establishment”,
arguing that he has done no wrong and that the probe is a “p…

Kemi Badenoch | The Independent
The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

These suggestions for new Euro bank notes... my first impression was "These are all bad!"
Like... not even "monopoly money" bad. But a bit like the designers that were chosen didn't know what to do with the topic (those were the best 10 out of 24!) The designs feel too busy, many have ghastly color schemes. Some feel like tinted stock photos of birds... One design even has a black&white photo of a person on it that makes it look like a book cover.

And now of course I'm looking up Joan Didion. She has seemed to be a charged topic in the past. I had to ask the Google AI "is it gauche to be into joan didion?" because I couldn't figure out for myself what the right answer was.
1/4

Call for Proposals! The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory invites conference presentations and subsequent papers for publication on the topic of religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today. See the full CFP here: jcrt.org/cw/

Are there any good books (or articles) explaining how neurotypical people think/behave that are intended as explainers for neurodiverse people? I'll ask #ActuallyAutistc
*written material preferred, but if you think a video is the best explainer for this topic, I guess I'll have to watch

App Android : Création de persos Rêve de Dragon - Rêve de Dragon
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3542-app-android-création-de-persos-rêve-de-dragon/#comment-45400

App Android : Création de persos Rêve de Dragon
Bonjour à tous 👋 Rôliste et bidouilleur, j’ai créé une application Android dédiée à la création de personnages pour Rêve de Dragon. Je vous la partage aujourd'hui (c'est gratuit). Fonctions principales Prise en charge complète du processus de création. Enregistrement local des fiches de perso (fi...

More thoughts on that topic in this thread:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111989110334510075

Kayshon Boutte Gets Clear on Future Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-clear-future-speculation/

Editorial: Retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and related diseases https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncel.2026.1856506/full Yet nothing about retinal implants?

Frontiers | Editorial: Retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration and related diseases
A second form of retinal degeneration discussed in this topic is retinitis pigmentosa (RP). RP is an inherited genetic disease which, over time, results in t...

I'm so grateful about mastodon filters!
Anything that I don't want to see in this account -> filter
a topic that upsets me -> filter
thangs that annoy me -> filter
politics -> filter
hate -> filter
some sports -> filter

If you're a journalist reporting on AI, please, please, please focus on liability, a topic that is absolutely critical and deafening by its absence in so much of our conversation on AI.

Call for Proposals! The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory invites conference presentations and subsequent papers for publication on the topic of religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring conspiracy, interpretation, AI, and struggles over truth and reality today. See the full CFP here: jcrt.org/cw/

“I’m like a cheerleader for geniuses,” Trump started
before almost immediately switching the topic.
“Now there’s a thing called TikTok, have you heard of it?”
Trump recalled a segment he had seen recently on Fox Business’s Mornings With Maria.
“It was announced about two days ago, the new numbers just came out.
Do you know who the number one person on TikTok is by far?
Trump. Me.
“I’m number one.
Like Taylor Swift was number 11.
I’m number…

Trump Launches Into TikTok Rant After Being Asked About SpaceX
Donald Trump derailed an event about his Trump Accounts to brag about his social media numbers.

@… humans still make mistakes that, unless you have at least *some* previously acquired knowledge on said topic, are believable.
FreeBSD-related mistakes such as:
― ZFS is not default
― ZFS uses more space than UFS.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Downtown Science:
🎵 The Topic Drift
#DowntownScience

Huh, #CrepuscularRays as a news story topic: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-20/crepuscular-rays-weather-phenomenon-nt-sunsets-bom/106691518. Not that rare, here are some of mine: https://bonnstern.wordpress.com/tag/krepuskularstrahlen/

Here's a reminder that you can block hashtags on Mastodon. I'm pretty consistent about tagging politics, typically with USpol or ScottPolitics or both, but also topical tags such as IranWar2026 and POTUS47. If you don't want to see those types of toots, then I encourage you to block them.
I don't CW all generic politics posts. This topic too much to fully explain in 500 chars, but short version: I use CW for spoilers and topics that are commonly trauma-triggering.

You wouldn't know it from BBC coverage but the Green Party were (also) not invited to Burnham's cross-party talks on social care.
As Ellie Chowns says in a letter to him.
"Failing to extend an invitation to your first cross-party meeting on the topic is, frankly, not
consistent with your stated commitment to working cooperatively across party lines."

'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag
#Landscape in black&white
Yes I have some #winter photos for the topic! I really like this one as it looks like a drawing. I eve…

What a day! Spent 3 hours with a MA student to finish our pilot experiment for her research project (it’s launched!), meeting 1 with former current PhD students on paper edits, meeting 2a b with another current PhD student on paper edits slides for a talk (different topic), meeting 3 with a future PhD student and their second supervisor on “what it means to do a PhD”, then 7 meetings with students on their term paper topics. 😅 All made possible by the fact that virtually all of German academia is on vacation, so I received a single digit number of actionable emails today #academicChatter

Mike Florio Delivers Strong Take on Maxx Crosby’s Raiders Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-florio-strong-take-maxx-crosby-future/

Have finished 'Balcony Over Jerusalem' by John Lyons. It's showing its age (published 2017), but was on this list: #AmReading #Bookstodon

Is there any situation in life where it is okay to tell somebody extensively your opinion about a topic - unasked - without giving them the chance to respond?
asking for a friend ...
I find it quite hard not to react with a rude "thanks, but did I ask for your monologue?"

Insider Reveals Kayshon Boutte News Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-news-speculation/

Raiders Receive Compelling Take on Free Agent Deebo Samuel https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-free-agent-deebo-samuel/

Raiders’ Kirk Cousins Echoes 49ers’ George Kittle’s Message Calling Out NFL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kirk-cousins-george-kittle-field-plea/