@markhburton@mstdn.socialAs 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSistrix: health and tech are the topics most vulnerable to losing clicks to Google's AI Overviews; Ipsos iris says Healthline's audience fell 48% YoY in March (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-bu…
@scott@carfree.cityI 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.
@veit@mastodon.socialWhen 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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDo the Cowboys have the best offensive guard duo in football? https://insidethestar.com/do-the-cowboys-have-the-best-offensive-guard-duo-in-football
@grumpybozo@toad.socialMy 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…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoNew 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.
@brian_gettler@mas.toI 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.
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialI 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".
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLinkedIn 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…
@cdarwin@c.imThis 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…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzOn 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
@…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzFernando 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
@detondev@social.linux.pizzafound a good mistranslation at https://folkency.nfm.go.kr/topic/detail/2145
@usul@piaille.frNomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @… - Off-Topic - NomadBSD Forum
https://forum.nomadbsd.org/t/noma…
@cheryanne@aus.socialBan 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…
@simoncox@seocommunity.socialMade 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAs 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).
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP: 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…
@debellum@ludosphere.fr
@matzekult@chaos.socialYou 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…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeMalwarebytes 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/
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageLongitudinal 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.
toXiv_bot_toot
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMore thoughts on that topic in this thread:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/111989110334510075
@datascience@genomic.socialWant to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEmployees 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
@gray17@mastodon.social> 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!
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«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…
@castarco@hachyderm.io
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… 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.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBret 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
@bourgwick@heads.socialthis 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
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialI'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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“…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:
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLinkedIn 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…
@sean@scoat.esThe 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!
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social
@gwire@mastodon.social"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/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #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.
@cdarwin@c.im“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…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toMaintenance request: #AudioScreen add-on after 2026 https://nvda-addons.groups.io/g/nvda-addons/topic/maintenance_request/120314464?dir=asc Add-on for the…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRoger 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/
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI saw these on Facebook posted by Sydney Metro and I feel like Mastodon is their natural habitat.
Stop using anti-train language
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… 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.
@adjb@social.lolCall 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/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: 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, …
@mia@hcommons.socialThe 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
@cheryanne@aus.socialMarine 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…
@vrandecic@mas.toPope 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.”
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgWhat 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
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMembers 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…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMembers 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…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgMembers 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…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCybersecurity 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,
@debellum@ludosphere.frApp 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
@raiders@darktundra.xyzKayshon Boutte Gets Clear on Future Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-clear-future-speculation/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCall 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/
@vncresolver@fedi.computernewb.comy'all ain't ever seen fashion in your life
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'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…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlTotally off topic, but I kind of like that:
the UK as a black hole in Europe...
😅😅🙃
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThere was another case Friday of a tiny (probably < 1 meter) #asteroid hitting the Earth and getting discovered a few hours before but no detection of its airburst near Papua New Guinea has been reported so far: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26JE3.html = the circumstances (with the designation 2026 JN4 for the has-been object), https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328235 and https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/119328368 = threads and https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3mlwb7bed3k2p = an animation.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialOur interview on Oxide and Friends is finally online! Enjoy, and flame away. (-:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-in-computer-science-education
@billbert@mastodon.socialAnd 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialThe 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
@hex@kolektiva.socialOh, here it is (July 2018). It's nice that this report back didn't include any names or initials so I didn't need to sanitize it:
Meeting Notes:
Table-top exercise scenario topic was state and far-right repression.
Responses:
Strong networks require redundancy, so no one person is a social connection, skills, or resource gatekeeper. These people are often targeted by the state, and if they get burned out and leave, it also weakens and jeoprodizes groups.
Ways to strengthen our networks:
Mentoring/sharing responsibility. Creating a culture of mentorship and support so new people learn skills, take on responsibilities, and are introduced to other folks. Reducing burden on a few key people too.
Chaos Monkey exercise: ask central people to step back from communications/organizing to see what happens.
Regular check-ins! & Delegates check-in with new members they sign up
Ask well connected folks to introduce people to build social redundancy.
Gaming (D&D, board games, etc) committee could support a more fun, and socially robust network.
Practical safety tool:
Burner phone. Not everyone needs one, but good to have access to.
TO DO LIST:
Make regular announcements at each meeting for people to check-in with folks they know (especially those they haven’t heard from in awhile!)
Start google doc for disaster preparedness zine
Why you should prepare (ideological argument)
What people should have (the basics)
How to prepare
Frame as questions, so people can find the answer that best suits themselves.
Such as “what are you preparing for?”
Where do you spend most of your time? (home? Office? car?)
Make it as easy as possible for folks to get the basics (list locations for supplies, etc.)
@compfu@mograph.socialThese 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.
@ncoca@social.coopOnly 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"
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… 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.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA 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
@EclecticLee@digipres.club@Robavince@vmst.io https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116761115364860358
@ecukier@glammr.usToday 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
@RenkeSiems@openbiblio.socialImmer schön zu sehen, dass die deutsche Sprache die angemessenen Begriffe auch für andere bereithält. \s
@ginevra@hachyderm.ioAre 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
@seeingwithsound@mas.toEditorial: 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?
@markhburton@mstdn.socialYou 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."
@brian_gettler@mas.toIf 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon's Alexa now produces AI-generated "podcasts" on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI "co-hosts", using content from media outlets (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-alexa-plu…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialIs 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?"
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116591599491428201
Great podcast episode on this topic: https://trumpconlaw.com/75-comstock-zombies
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgIs 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
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Downtown Science:
🎵 The Topic Drift
#DowntownScience
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialHere'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.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzMike 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/
@bourgwick@heads.socialthe 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.
@matzekult@chaos.socialEven 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzHuh, #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/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzInsider Reveals Kayshon Boutte News Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/patriots-kayshon-boutte-news-speculation/
@cdarwin@c.imIn 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…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIf 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
@tschfflr@fediscience.org“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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSean McVay’s BWTB interview revealed everything Rams fans could’ve possibly wanted to know. About everything. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/los-angeles-ram…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… thanks, the context at the moment is:
Modernised use of freebsd-update for minor and major upgrades to FreeBSD | BSD Cafe Billboard
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon's Alexa now produces AI-generated "podcasts" on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI "co-hosts", using content from media outlets (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-alexa-plu…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… you're recommending a link that's already on the fourth line of the opening post in Reddit (see my previous post).
I added the link three days ago, I have revisited the topic more than once.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Receive Compelling Take on Free Agent Deebo Samuel https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-take-free-agent-deebo-samuel/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders’ 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/
