2026-03-01 02:50:52
#TIL Windows 11 added system-wide shortcut key for typing em/en-dashes: :windows: Minus and :windows: ⇧ Minus.
2026-03-01 02:50:52
@anildash@me.dm2026-03-31 21:42:15
Yesterday, I got an incredible opportunity to watch Cindy Cohn bring @…'s story to one of its biggest audiences yet, as she did an extraordinary job on the Daily Show, pulling off the unlikely task of making the topic of digital privacy and civil liberties seem fun, engaging and witty. I took the chance to share some reflections — and a couple of behind-the-scenes ph…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-31 18:01:53
Professional work related account on an IT topic instance or selfhosting (and then perils of the software choice).
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-02 13:29:59
This DHS funding battle is part of a bigger question Democrats must answer as they fight to regain power.
Large sections of the Democratic base are now echoing calls to “abolish ICE.”
Some Democratic leaders, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader,
are pushing back against this with much more tepid, unwieldy, and frankly pretty weak ideas to “restrain, reform, and restrict” the agency.
ICE is just over 20 years old, formed as part of the sec…
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-04-01 07:52:13
dependency cooldowns are all cool and nice until dependabot comes in hot and trying to update reverts some oMg cRiTiCaL rEdOs
Adjacent problem: maybe I want a cooldown for external packages but none for mine? Although the whole topic is moot since devpi doesn't provide upload dates anyways.
our tools still have a LONG way to go, unfortunately. there is no “JUST do this best practice”.
@stf@chaos.social2026-02-28 20:14:52
Content warning: inspiring off-topic thought of the weekend
what if Colin Robinson would be Agent 47?
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-05-01 16:58:37
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-30 21:27:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
O.C.:
🎵 No Main Topic
#OC
https://open.spotify.com/track/392Z96dfDYEbDa3zbJWMAi
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-01 22:20:50
2026 NFL combine: Spencer Fano expresses openness to position change after arms measure 32 1/8 inches https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-combine-spencer-fano-expresses-openness-to-position-change-after-arms-measure-32-1-8…
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-04-01 07:52:13
dependency cooldowns are all cool and nice until dependabot comes in hot and trying to update reverts some oMg cRiTiCaL rEdOs
Adjacent problem: maybe I want a cooldown for external packages but none for mine? Although the whole topic is moot since devpi doesn't provide upload dates anyways.
our tools still have a LONG way to go, unfortunately. there is no “JUST do this best practice”.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-01 21:53:59
Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025
Despite Increased Reader Interest
Mainstream media around the world last year drew back from reporting on climate change, according to new reports.
This drop occurred despite increasing reader interest in the topic,
while greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continued to hit new historic highs.
According to a year-end analysis by the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO),
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-03-25 18:42:05
from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-04-29 14:33:43
It's a good book - well written for the most part and focusing on an important and understudied topic. Hopefully it will inspire others to do similar work.
That's what I want to say in this book review. Now I just need to do it with an addition 772 to 972 words.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-26 02:55:43
On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse2026-04-29 22:32:44
Spotify automatically found some copyrighted music in this episode and took it down. I think I have fair use on my side because only a portion of the song was used and it was the topic of the discussion. I need to figure out what to do here because talking about music is the whole basis of this podcast.
#spotify #podcast
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-03-29 21:00:28
Movie Squad
Where you can hear Simon, Tristan and special guests discuss movies at length and in detail, covering every kind of topic and every type of movie, from blockbuster extravaganzas to arthouse fare, from celluloid excellence to glorious trash...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 14:06:42
At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic https://www.404media.co/at-the-worlds-largest-general-science-meeting-surviving-trump-is-the-topic/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-27 18:58:31
'Hohe Berge' #FotoVorschlag 'High Mountains'
High #Mountains - okay - I had to smile this morning because I thought "yeah, I have something for this topic!"
This is one of my very loved photos. It took me a bit until I was able to take right this photo b…
@drbruced@aus.social2026-02-25 23:23:35
I really like this viewpoint on AI performing "semantic ablation". It hits home as I work diligently to write a textbook that contains plenty of nuance and (I hope) a unique perspective on the topic (computer networking).
"By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses. The process performs a systematic lobotomy across three distinct stages:
- Stage 1: Metaphoric cleansing. The AI identifi…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-23 11:04:50
One hot topic for every team at the 2026 NFL combine: Quarterback contracts, Kelce's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7063486/2026/02/23/nfl-combine-team-future-question-quarterback-draft/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-25 16:19:09
Or maybe sometimes you stop writing a reply and instead you're starting to make a post of your own about a topic, etc.
This is actually a nice demonstration of how the writing process itself helps you think things through.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-03-22 14:51:12
Whatever eagerly awaited #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is up to - see also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118409957 and https://nitter.net/JAtanackov/status/2035718257060036738 and https://scicomm.xyz/@qicheng@cometary.org/116262858373488354 - less than two weeks from perihelion, it has developed a long plasma tail now: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25816609931372735 (Rhemann & Jäger yesterday with a 12 inch telescope; full and detail).
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-28 11:10:23
While working through another last rites slew, I was thinking that back in the day there were a number of developers who believed they should add a lot of packages to #Gentoo, in the name of giving users a choice. Like, they were projects whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to find every piece of software that roughly fit a specific topic, get it to build and package it for Gentoo.
Of course, the long-term effect of that is that there's a lot of unmaintained, often broken packages. "The choice" doesn't really work. Sure, users have a lot of packages to choose from — but they have to actually figure out which of these packages are actually useful (if any).
A few years ago attempting to remove packages also faced some verbal opposition. You shouldn't remove unmaintained or outdated packages, because they still work. You shouldn't remove packages that sometimes fail to build, because some flag combinations still work. You shouldn't remove packages that don't build at all, because the user can visit Forums and find some workaround to make them build 🤦. Or they'll have an ebuild handy to start working on it. And anyway, you shouldn't be removing stuff at all, but fixing it instead.
Sometimes the arguments were straight dishonest too: people literally said we need more packages to lure new users in. Like, it didn't matter to them that the packages didn't really work and that the people trying to use them will get a nasty surprise. They wanted people to say "hey, Gentoo has this software we need, let's start using Gentoo".
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-23 11:04:18
One hot topic for every team at the 2026 NFL combine: Quarterback contracts, Kelce's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7063486/2026/02/23/nfl-combine-team-future-question-quarterback-draft/
@samueljohn@mastodon.world2026-04-28 08:47:45
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-28 02:58:33
We’re not up to the interesting part yet.
My part in Minnebar is helping to create the schedule. We don’t hand-place talks in timeslots, or create “tracks” by topic. Instead, all the attendees vote, indicating •all• the sessions they’d like to see (as many or as few as they want to check off), and we generate a schedule from the votes. The schedule attempts to minimize attendee time conflict regret. That’s it.
(That process is interesting, but it’s not what this thread is about!)
5/
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-04-24 11:02:40
I know this is not really a Mastodon topic but would anyone recommend an "investment platform" that only invests in ecologically-friendly / ethical companies?
For example #Nutmeg (now part of JP Morgan) has a "socially-responsible investing" pot but it funds companies like Microsoft, Apple and Tesla 🙃
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-03-31 11:12:28
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/5]:
- Beyond In-Distribution Success: Scaling Curves of CoT Granularity for Language Model Generalization
Ru Wang, Wei Huang, Selena Song, Haoyu Zhang, Qian Niu, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18273 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114069031700102129
- Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech
Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao, Sarah Ebling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00780 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114267149909002069
- Cultural Biases of Large Language Models and Humans in Historical Interpretation
Fabio Celli, Georgios Spathulas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114278467094094490
- BRIDGE: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Understanding Real-world Clinical Practice Text
Jiageng Wu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114420036189999973
- Understanding the Anchoring Effect of LLM with Synthetic Data: Existence, Mechanism, and Potentia...
Yiming Huang, Biquan Bie, Zuqiu Na, Weilin Ruan, Songxin Lei, Yutao Yue, Xinlei He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114550277171100272
- Just as Humans Need Vaccines, So Do Models: Model Immunization to Combat Falsehoods
Raza, Qureshi, Farooq, Lotif, Chadha, Pandya, Emmanouilidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17870 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114572956853819813
- LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
Fu, Jiang, Hong, Li, Guo, Yang, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14493 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114703502552989170
- GHTM: A Graph-based Hybrid Topic Modeling Approach with a Benchmark Dataset for the Low-Resource ...
Farhana Haque, Md. Abdur Rahman, Sumon Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00605 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114969875643478303
- Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Lobm\"uller, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115020938764936882
- AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
Huang, Cao, Zhang, Kang, Wang, Wang, Luo, Zheng, Qian, Chen, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16952 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253526588472475
- Multi-View Attention Multiple-Instance Learning Enhanced by LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortio...
Jun Seo Kim, Hyemi Kim, Woo Joo Oh, Hongjin Cho, Hochul Lee, Hye Hyeon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253586227941157
- Dual-Space Smoothness for Robust and Balanced LLM Unlearning
Han Yan, Zheyuan Liu, Meng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23362 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115293308293558024
- The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
Tadesse Destaw Belay, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25477 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115298213432594791
- Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Reco...
Srivastav, Zheng, Bezzam, Le Bihan, Koluguri, \.Zelasko, Majumdar, Moumen, Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115343748052193267
- Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115349533441895984
- CLMN: Concept based Language Models via Neural Symbolic Reasoning
Yibo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10063 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115372392366793754
- Schema for In-Context Learning
Chen, Chen, Wang, Leong, Fung, Bernales, Aspuru-Guzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13905 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115389057899856601
- Evaluating Latent Knowledge of Public Tabular Datasets in Large Language Models
Matteo Silvestri, Fabiano Veglianti, Flavio Giorgi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115428615784704418
- LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data
Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115457025096322944
- Surfacing Subtle Stereotypes: A Multilingual, Debate-Oriented Evaluation of Modern LLMs
Muhammed Saeed, Muhammad Abdul-mageed, Shady Shehata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115491321130591723
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@debellum@ludosphere.fr2026-04-18 12:33:38
Un fil de forum qui s'étend sur 14 ans ! La vache !
Le jeu de rôles de la Voie du Tigre !
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/622-le-jeu-de-rôles-de-la-voie-du-tigre/#comment-45112
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-22 04:05:58
X launches Custom Timelines, a Grok-powered feature letting users pin any of over 75 topics to their home tab, in early access to Premium subscribers on iOS (Nikita Bier/@nikitabier)
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2046736181002645520
@benny@norden.social2026-04-05 18:00:00
Ein einzelner Top-Artikel reicht nicht, um für ein Thema als Autorität zu gelten. 🏗️Google bewertet Themenabdeckung in Clustern: Wie tief, wie breit, wie vernetzt behandelst du ein Thema? Wer nur Keywords recherchiert statt Themenfelder zu kartieren, baut Inseln statt Netzwerke.
https://hechtinsgefecht.…
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-02-24 22:13:09
It's hard to approach the topic of Persona and all their partners without just falling into the suggestion of telling everyone to self-host their life online, it's probably gonna be what everyone needs to do eventually but in a way it's a platform-wide version of when we were leaving Twitter.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-23 11:06:55
One hot topic for every team at the 2026 NFL combine: Quarterback contracts, Kelce's future https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7063486/2026/02/23/nfl-combine-team-future-question-quarterback-draft/
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2026-03-16 11:15:07
Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a socialist position on both the goal and the means do it for degrowth. Liegey, Nelson and Leahy replied against Jason, defending the wide and diverse range of strategies now…
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2026-02-16 23:42:04
"Try to research a topic that hasn't been investigated before." Ok, google scholar, lets see what I can find. So my topic MIGHT have been done before, but it will cost be $56 to find out. WTF?! Journal articles are insane. I keep having to ask my wife (works @ an ivy) to get articles for me I can't get myself.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-28 03:13:49
There are a lot of possible explanations for this:
Maybe the people who aren’t interested in AI also happen to vote for more sessions. (At a quick prod at the data, penalizing votes from people who voted for large numbers of sessions does not seem to change the conclusions above, but I haven’t investigated this thoroughly.)
Maybe AI is a more fragmented topic due to its newness, and interest has not coalesced, leading to a large number of small sessions. (But again, •total• votes for AI, including the whole long tail, were proportionally smaller.)
9/
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-03-24 23:57:39
Red Lines under EU AI Act: Unpacking the prohibition of emotion recognition in the workplace and education institutions
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-eu-ai-act-unpacking-the-prohibition-of-emot…
@lornajane@indieweb.social2026-03-10 08:04:27
Pretty sure Claude is just flattering me at this point. Asked for some further reading on a topic and was presented with things that were mostly published by me ... I know this is my specialist topic (API developer experience) but really??
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-24 01:51:57
I'm afraid my students might not be pleased with one of tomorrow's assigned readings. Of course, I didn't read it ahead of time and threw it on the syllabus mainly because of the topic and the fit with this week's lecture. I should've known that the author, who writes mildly interesting but bone dry stuff now, wouldn't have written more interesting or less dry material in the past.
@hanno@mastodon.social2026-03-18 10:07:55
There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-02-03 13:08:23
Not all heroes wear capes; some just wear ∀s and ⊃s.
https://forum.cspaper.org/topic/191/iclr-i-can-locate-reviewer-how-an-api-bug-turned-blind-review-into-a-data-apocalypse
@deabigt@universeodon.com2026-03-23 12:31:48
He can’t even stay on topic for a whole post now. Sounds like NOTHING is happening till the “SAVE Act” gets passed. So, not till after the election or the GOP decides to retire him. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116275668825285445
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-19 20:15:53
Sony Music exec Dennis Kooker says the company has sent 135K takedown notices for deepfakes of its artists, but sees opportunities in AI with proper licensing (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2026/03/18/music-and-ai-th…
@mikebabyak@musicians.today2026-04-20 16:14:18
Less than a week left in our funding campaign and we’re still gathering donations every day! Many thanks to our supporters for, well, their support! If you haven’t made a contribution yet, it’s not too late. The link is at the end of the thread.
Today’s topic is “what is Dulcetta and how did you come up with that name and the honey jar logo?”
https://
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-26 09:06:24
What are the Philadelphia Eagles' future stadium plans? It will soon become a hot topic https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7144297/2026/03/26/philadelphia-eagles-future-stadium-plans/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-24 20:15:54
'Eingefrorene Bewegung' #FotoVorschlag 'Frozen Movement'
Ah I almost didn't want to post a photo for this topic until this photo came to my mind. And it's a frozen motion even literally... right?
More about this day:
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2026-03-20 16:44:38
Ich finds gut, dass die Collien Fernandes Story immernoch den größten Teil der Beiträge oben im Spiegel online einnimmt. Das ist zu wichtig als das es einfach vom nächsten Topic verdrängt wird.
@lukem@hachyderm.io2026-04-19 15:50:18
After today's demonstation I'd gladly purge the memory card and never look at those pics again, but some sily off-topic shots happened and that's the only thing that prevents me from doing so.
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2026-04-15 14:01:03
Mela is listening to a podcast: Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”? – This Podcast Will Kill You – Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1299915173
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-04-07 09:36:26
Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.
It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.
That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.
Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".
Be kind to one another. 🧡
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange2026-04-14 20:24:15
New blog post on why I think that GenAI/LLM coding agents use for finding vulnerabilities and generating PoC code to demonstrate exploitability is going to be painful, but most probably a good thing in the mid term: https://www.ins.jku.at/blog/vulnerability-reports-and-llms/…
@debellum@ludosphere.fr2026-04-15 07:05:57
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3520-fin-de-chantier-des-miroirs-des-terres-médianes/#findComment-45068
J'aime cette annonce concernant Rêve de Dragon.
@nerdsitu@datasci.social2026-04-17 08:23:45
Two new NERDS papers: data storytelling visualization, LLMs for complex information needs
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/04/16/two-new-nerds-papers-data-storytelling-visualization-llms-for-complex-information-needs/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-03-20 05:24:24
I like pop artists that sing about politics and social issue. 💕
https://music.apple.com/us/album/topical-dancer/1587361830
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-04-14 06:16:16
Serious and honest question, and I'm not trying to diss on a different discipline: I don't have much experience reading papers in economics. And I saw that paper "AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse", on a topic that I find very interesting, written by Acemoğlu et al. Now, Acemoğlu is a Nobel prize winner and MIT professor, so I would assume that paper is among the best economics would offer on that subject.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-15 00:03:11
While Rob Sherwood is unlike to test the QRP-Labs QMX as far as I know, #HamRadio
@datascience@genomic.social2026-04-12 10:00:01
Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-04-20 20:06:06
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mike_bowler/116438412227762916
Good thoughts.
My old blog post on the topic
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-16 03:00:35
Free topic for you #retrocomputing YouTubers, the Zoomed Video Port.
Didn’t find videos about it in my admittedly cursory search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomed_video_port
@luca@social.luca.run2026-03-07 06:32:33
Tonight's mild nightmare: I was at an event. Introduction session. Most people already knew each other. Me and my companion were there for the first time. People kept going off topic. I carefully prepared my sentences and adjusted them several times. Shortly before it would have been my turn, the time was up and everyone walked away. I woke up.
The combination of how much energy it took me to find the right words, the tension while waiting and then realizing that it was all for not…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-25 18:15:30
Top DL prospect Rueben Bain Jr. says teams not 'concerned' with arm length during combine meetings https://www.nfl.com/news/top-dl-prospect-rueben-bain-jr-says-teams-not-concerned-with-arm-length-during-combine-meetin…
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-04 21:44:00
"Both candidates agreed that Market Street should be reopened to cars (a few people booed, then some cheered). They also both agreed that new housing developments should include more parking."
No problem for the "urbanists" at SF YIMBY, who just endorsed Sherrill.
https://
@hanno@mastodon.social2026-03-18 10:07:55
There's a lot about the whole "AI topic" where I don't know what I should think. But I am quite worried what the flood of low-quality "AI" code will do to the free and open source ecosystems.
I found this mail from Michał Górny, one of the most active developers at Gentoo Linux (full disclosure: I'm also a Gentoo developer, but not one of the most active ones 🙂 ), about the issues the ecosystem is facing, quite insightful:
@hw@fediscience.org2026-04-13 08:57:33
There's roughly two ways I've acquired skills in programming languages in the past: the "hard" way for writing code (e.g., "Learn Python the Hard Way"), and the "easy" way for learning to read a new programming language by skimming the language specs or leafing through a book on the topic (e.g., "The Supercollider Book").
I suppose there's a third way now for me: Reading up on software architecture design (e.g., stuff like "500 lines or less"), so that co-creation skills with large language models are improved?
For example, Yoav Rubin's article on "An Archaeology-Inspired Database" in 500 lines or less really made me think about Clojure in a new way.
Thoughts on this?
#AIResearch #Software #programming
@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-02-08 08:29:47
If you can, go watch "It Was Just An Accident". It's good (albeit a little slow) and will stay with you long after the credits rolled. Can't say I've watched anything similar yet.
https://letterboxd.com/njamster/film/it-was-just-an-accident/
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchange2026-02-07 20:33:59
RE: #olympics You learn something n…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-04-26 12:06:25
Starting the day with going through the #bergwelten magazine once more. Sometimes I wish I'd knew the focal length of the photos.
Later we did two nice walks near #dietramszell and enjoyed spring and the sun. Wrist is also feeling better.
We saw really a lot of cyclists. But …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-03 02:35:56
HarperCollins partnered with AI animation studio Toonstar to adapt its books into YouTube series, starting with Friendship List by Lisa Greenwald (Sam Spratford/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw…
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-05 14:30:14
I have been very impressed in recent months with https://www.youtube.com/@TLDRnews. They're a small, independent news org based in the UK, and their videos have a higher "understandable information"/time density than any other I've seen. Good context and background on the topic, no-BS, an…
@billbert@mastodon.social2026-02-09 12:15:40
I guess one type of topic that resonates with me is the dynamic between parents and children. Which is an incredibly common, relatable, prevalent, popular theme. Especially since Shane #HeatedRivalry is an only child, who, it’s arguable, is highly protected by his parents.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 13:50:52
At Turkey’s showcase diplomatic conference in the Mediterranean resort town of Antalya over the weekend, the United States was rarely the official topic of conversation.
But coursing through the discussions among the thousands of participants
— including dozens of heads of state and other senior officials from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
— were questions about how to respond when the United States disregards its allies and the global order it long professed to …
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-03-22 02:12:45
I see somebody else is on this topic today! And yes, billionaires will use regulatory capture to the maximum extent they can get away with — so yes, I fully expect the AI lobby to advocate a tangled legal regime where LLM output is copyrighted but copying data to train an LLM is not a copyright violation.
https://social.coop/@cwebber/116266757533136607
@trogluur@social.linux.pizza2026-03-13 13:37:22
Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-04-03 13:22:16
The #Kreutz comet MAPS is now also in the field of view of the coronagraph CCOR-1: help yourself to the latest images at https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/ccor_realtime/last_image_MinBckgnd.png (15 minute cadence). What SOHO's LASCO C3 and PUNCH's NFI see and what it all means I've just summarized the bottom of https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ with the still growing thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118640744 as the major source - in a nutshell there is still some life in this sungrazer (25 hours til perihelion!) and no evidence that it's beginning to fall apart which it will certainly do at one point.
@Richard@worklifepsych.social2026-04-07 08:59:27
I'm facilitating the next one of our quarterly masterclasses later this month - on the topic of reflection for self-awareness. It's a paid-for event, but if any of my followers here would like a free place, then get in touch.
It's a 90mins online session outlining what intentional reflection is, how it contributes to self-awareness, and how to do it in practice.
Event details are also here:
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-13 11:25:26
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-12 11:16:49
The Psychology Of Your 20's
Hosted by Jemma Sbeg, we deep dive into the science and psychology behind a topic, concept or universal experience that defines our 20s...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/psychology-of-your-20s/…
@fennek@cyberplace.social2026-04-08 05:02:04
Kann sich das jemand anschauen und mir eine Zweitmeinung geben?
Bin mir nicht sicher, dass ich 1,5 Stunden Zeit für jemanden habe, der mit "I am picking up on a [problematic] vibe" ankommt und den dann nicht artikuliert.
Der als positives Beispiel für "generative AI"-Nutzung "materials used in carbon capture" (of all things) nennt.
Und dann ein "trust me, I am very good at this" einwirft, obwohl er bisher, wenn überhaupt, den gegenteili…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 16:51:49
Raiders GM John Spytek breaks silence on Maxx Crosby saga at 2026 NFL Combine, expects pass rusher to return
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/maxx-crosby-contract-raiders-john-spytek/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-20 21:22:34
Raiders Hit With Maxx Crosby Trade Take From Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-take-from-insider/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-18 01:50:57
A thread about this general topic, from the end of Jan:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991716008786969
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-15 15:15:45
WSJ and Dow Jones plan a new sports vertical that will debut alongside an exclusive, invitation-only sports economy event in New York City this summer (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/dow-jones-wsj-sports-vertical
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-04-09 15:36:48
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-11 22:44:12
Always The Topic of Conversation | The Break https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nUvO-mmt08
@pre@boing.world2026-04-23 19:45:07
From the title list, the podcast does (after two episodes) appear to be mostly about AI.
Which does undeniably have ethical implications all over the place. Hopefully the topic range will widen.
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-03-11 12:55:28
Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Unpacking the Prohibition of Individual Risk Assessment for the Prediction of Criminal Offences
https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-unpacking-the-p…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-02-10 23:51:11
NobleSole | Where Creativity Meets Consciousness
Join hosts Amy Sole and Ben Noble as they delve into where creativity meets consciousness. Each week they tackle a different topic about the intersection of being a creative and being a human...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpod…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2026-03-04 21:06:28
If you missed it on Tim's blog, here it is again.
Long critical read on the #decoupling myth.
A response to Jonathan Aldred: On the tortuous relationship between GDP and macroecological footprints - resilience
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-16 18:32:28
'Blick von oben' #fotovorschlag 'view from above'
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure wether I should post a mountin photo or not. But as I have seen so many others doing so, I decided to also post this "view from above" from ~3 months ago when I went to this mountain and enjoyed not only the silence but also the view.
Enjoy!
@chrislowles@mastodon.social2026-02-05 06:00:08
It's clips like the one between Trump and that CNN reporter that make you understand why the top trending topic on Twitter when the attempt on his life was made was "HOW DO YOU MISS"
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-07 00:50:45
The Trump administration’s attack on diversity, equity and inclusion has rolled back decades of progress for women,
who now face a widening gender pay gap and narrowing employment protections.
In the process, discussions about women have become a third rail,
a toxic topic that is too politically charged to touch.
Companies, universities, law firms and cultural institutions are all expunging references to “women” and “gender,” even under the most benign circumstances…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-04-12 21:39:27
4. Philosophy of child-rearing aside, cries of “We must protect the children from [large, nebulous social threat]!!!” almost always become Trojan Horses, even if they don’t start out that way. The track record of such movements is just •terrible•. My alarm bells go off at that even if I agree that the topic at hand is in fact a problem.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-13 07:18:55
'Tierische Begegnungen' #FotoVorschlag
'animal(ic) encounter'
I wasn't sure if I have a good or funny one to share with this topic. But I remembered visiting a wildlife park nearby at an autumn day.
It was a beautiful stroll through the park, watching the wildlife there when this situation came to be. Unplanned, just by pure luck.
And well.. I thin…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-10 21:07:13
Ex-Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Maxx Crosby’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-mayock-maxx-crosby-comments-future/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-10 21:12:23
Raiders Receive AJ Brown Update With Latest Eagles Trade News https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aj-brown-update-eagles-trade-news/
@cic_podcast@hostsharing.coop2026-02-03 09:27:51
Our second episode is the first one on a more specific topic. This time we talk about knowing your Language. In order to be able to communicate effectively through your code, you have to know your programming language, its features, and its idioms.
As always, enjoy, subscribe, and give us constructive feedback.
https:/…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-03-05 19:03:50
'Nebel, Dunst' #FotoVorschlag 'Fog, Mist'
Hmm that topic is a bit of a pity. I know that I have some #fog / #mist photos but it seems like I haven't tagged them in a way so that…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-05 06:52:01
Raiders Receive Strong Take Involving Bears, Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/strong-take-bears-maxx-crosby/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-04-05 13:14:07