@brian_gettler@mas.toIt'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.
@cheryanne@aus.socialMovie 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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
O.C.:
🎵 No Main Topic
#OC
https://open.spotify.com/track/392Z96dfDYEbDa3zbJWMAi
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horseSpotify 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
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@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/
@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, …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhile 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".
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWe’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!)
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@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?"
@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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat 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/
@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/
@samueljohn@mastodon.world
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOr 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.
@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
@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.”
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI 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 🙃
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThere 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/
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX 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
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth 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…
@benny@norden.socialEin 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.…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaRed 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWhatever 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).
@cdarwin@c.imAt 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 …
@deabigt@universeodon.comHe 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
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialStarting 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 …
@hanno@mastodon.socialThere'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:
@lornajane@indieweb.socialPretty 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??
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialIch 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.
@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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSony 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.todayLess 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://
@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.)
@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.
@lukem@hachyderm.ioAfter 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.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cacc: Federal NDP leader @…
and leadership candidate
@… and BC Greens @… and @…
Would love your support and reach on this important topic!
#e7465
#CarneyRestoreECCC #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Petitions #ECCC #Weather #WeatherRadio #SevereWeather #BCStorm #Climate #ClimateChange
@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
@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.
@debellum@ludosphere.frUn 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
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Downtown Science:
🎵 The Topic Drift
#DowntownScience
@mela@zusammenkunft.netMela 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.socialFree 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. 🧡
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialI like pop artists that sing about politics and social issue. 💕
https://music.apple.com/us/album/topical-dancer/1587361830
@nerdsitu@datasci.socialTwo 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/
@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…
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchangeNew 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/…
@frankel@mastodon.topTaming #Maven Version Ranges
https://maveniverse.eu/blog/2026/04/17/taming-maven-version-ranges/
@mia@hcommons.socialMore countries should have a show like Gruen: "We do the show because we want to give people some agency in the way that they're being manipulated by these multi-billion-dollar industries"
Wil Anderson hates advertising. So why does he host a show about it? - ABC News https://www.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWhile Rob Sherwood is unlike to test the QRP-Labs QMX as far as I know, #HamRadio
@datascience@genomic.socialWant to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends
@sherold@mastodon.onlineI accidentally wrote an article about the mutation of a gesture on a topic that the UX/UI designers among you actually know much more about than I do. Nevertheless, I thought you might like it. 🌻
https://finest.day/posts/arguing-on-interfaces-from-obligation-to-…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialLooks like Slack has bit the big one this morning.
It’s working for several of my clients but they can’t send files to each other
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:asyaz6jgyscz3rftl7nnz22h/post/3mlsyzzpixk2d
@nelson@tech.lgbtIf you're researching some new topic where do you go first?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFree 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
@hanno@mastodon.socialThere'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:
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgRE: https://hachyderm.io/@mike_bowler/116438412227762916
Good thoughts.
My old blog post on the topic
@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…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzKirk Cousins cranks Golden Knights pregame siren before Game 5 of Western 2nd Round https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/short-shifts/raiders-kirk-cousins-cranks-vegas-golden-knights-siren-game-5
@erk709@social.linux.pizza @inthehands@hachyderm.ioI 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
@skington@glasgow.socialElectoral Commission says ministers should introduce clearer duties on AI platforms to protect voters against misinformation and ensure algorithms did not mislead voters, particularly during critical election periods. The problem is that AI platforms *can't do that*. LLMs can answer "what's the received wisdom about this programming topic?" because they've scraped all of Stack Overflow, but they don't *know* anything, especially not about news.
@luca@social.luca.runTonight'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…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euMan, LTT really need to step up their game as a tech tips channel. Blindly floundering through a topic is not the way to do it. They don't have to show only the good side. They just have to cut the amateur hour and show people how things are supposed to be done.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Linux - Linus Tech Tips
https://www.
@hw@fediscience.orgThere'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
@anildash@me.dmYesterday, 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…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieI write a Gist approximately every two weeks. The idea, really, is to write a readable digest of a particular topic at a particular moment in time.
Sometimes I set out to explain something that is outside the main news cycle, but that I think is significant.
Sometimes I just feel like making jokes at the expense of British politicians.
And sometimes I am giving an opinion, as best I can.
But who knows what might bubble up in the future?
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialAre you looking to grow in your faith? Or maybe you’ve always been interested in taking a course from one of our renowned Professors! Did you know that YDS Summer Study allows anyone to take one of our courses? These courses are small, online seminars that focus on the Bible or a specialized topic in religion or theology. The program is open to the public and all learners are welcome!
@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…
@debellum@ludosphere.frhttps://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3520-fin-de-chantier-des-miroirs-des-terres-médianes/#findComment-45068
J'aime cette annonce concernant Rêve de Dragon.
@crell@phpc.socialI 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…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukWhelp, found an anti-trans book while researching a topic. People are so fascinated by trans people. Leave us alone.
@trogluur@social.linux.pizzaWhy 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…
@hynek@mastodon.socialdependency 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”.
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialI'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.uk @vrandecic@mas.toSerious 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.
@debellum@ludosphere.frSession de dédicace de Roland Barthélémy et Jidus
https://scriptarium.org/forums/topic/3538-scriptarium-se-téléporte-à-octogônes-2026/#comment-45339
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA thread about this general topic, from the end of Jan:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115991716008786969
@lukem@hachyderm.ioIn today's Two Minutes Hate, I'd like to talk about automatic translations on Reddit.
As a user of English as a second language I find them annoying for two reasons.
One - they always rank high in search results when I specifically need LOCAL knowledge on the topic, coming from other folks from my country, and anything else is useless to me.
Two - when the Reddit thread contains reference to a nationality, e.g. "As a Finnish", their translation switches that to "Jako Polak" ("as a Pole"). And that makes things confusing as hell if I make a grave mistake of diving into a thread I shouldn't have touched in the first place (usually due to the Reason Number One).
I used to appreciate Reddit a lot in the past, but of course it couldn't last forever.
@hikingdude@mastodon.social'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!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHarperCollins 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…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaRed 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…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Hit With Maxx Crosby Trade Take From Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-take-from-insider/
@hynek@mastodon.socialdependency 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”.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/116591599491428201
Great podcast episode on this topic: https://trumpconlaw.com/75-comstock-zombies
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialIf 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWSJ 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
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #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.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social @cowboys@darktundra.xyzColts release Kenny Moore on Thursday, Cowboys should call https://insidethestar.com/colts-release-kenny-moore-on-thursday-cowboys-should-call
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialOne of my goals on social media is to put myself "on the record" for opinions and predictions.
There's lots of reasons I do this, far too much to explain in 500 words.
One reason is to force myself to examine the beliefs that steer my behavior, both consciously and unconsciously. Another is to gain self-awareness on just how often I'm... wrong.
I have more half-finished thoughts on this topic percolating in my head, but that's enough for one day.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA link to a previous thread on this topic (start at the top if you want the whole train of thought, but here’s the heart of the argument):
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115375503166473754
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@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Wasserfall' #FotoVorschlag 'Waterfall'
Some locations came to my mind when I read the topic this morning and my wife immediately mentioned that location. This is probably one of my best photos.
The water flooded over the stairs on the right, creating a lot of little waterfalls. Luckily I did bring my tripod and a considerable amount of time so that I could tak…
@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…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io4. 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.social'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…
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialProfessional work related account on an IT topic instance or selfhosting (and then perils of the software choice).
