@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow modern media consumption is converging toward a continuous flow of episodic video, across streaming providers, podcasts, and social media apps (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow modern media consumption is converging toward a continuous flow of episodic video, across streaming providers, podcasts, and social media apps (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television
@cdarwin@c.imLauren Boebert is vulnerable -- she's is in Congress because of just 𝟱𝟰𝟲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀
And now she's spreading a sinister conspiracy that 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗺 𝗝𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 “𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻”
-- Democrats 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be killed as a result! Here's why:
Her theory is based on the ideas of Holocaust denier David Icke,
who claims that Jews and powerful people across the globe are disguised reptilians working to 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺.
👉 When your enemies are inhuman it is …
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.pageInvisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Saurabh Khanna, Xinxu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11557 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11557
@arXiv_physicschemph_bot@mastoxiv.pageMarcus Theory and The Condon Approximation Revisited II: The Horror of Triplet Energy Transfer
Jennifer R. DeRosa, Tian Qiu, D. Vale Cofer-Shabica, Joseph E. Subotnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11680
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaIf you are being a piece of shit to other people, I don't understand why I should be nice to you.
Respect is not something you demand, it's something you earn. If you are calling for "replacement theory" and the "good brits" you are being a piece of shit. Recognise it, apologize, and be better to people, especially the ones you don't even know.
@jrm4@mastodon.socialTheory: ATProto is pointless and it just hit me why.
It's too complicated. Ok, so then your response will be "then we can educate and hold hands and explain and gain trust"
You do THAT and *boom* you ALREADY just solved the problem with humans that you were just trying to solve with complex tech.
At that point just point them to, or become, a good Mastodon server.
#socialmedia
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.orgAppreciate the nod that spatial data viz is hard, @…!
The motivation part about expensive GIS tools is a little off though 💸 :qgis:
https://m…
@cdarwin@c.imA spooky convergence is happening in media.
Everything that is not already television is turning into television.
Whether the starting point is a student directory (Facebook),
radio (podcasts), or
an AI image generator, (Sora)
the end point seems to be the same:
a river of short-form video.
https:/…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageAI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Rudrajit Choudhuri, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Jenna Butler, Rob DeLine, Brian Houck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00762
@arXiv_mathHO_bot@mastoxiv.pageEthical and sustainable mathematics is localised: why global paradigms fail and culturally-situated practices are essential
Dennis M\"uller, Maurice Chiodo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05892
@lil5@social.linux.pizzahttps://hemaks.org/posts/why-your-obsession-with-code-linting-is-excessive/
Consider these questions when evaluating your linting setup:
- Does this rule prevent actual bugs? If not, consider removing it.
- Would a new team member understand …
@ckent@urbanists.socialIt took me slightly too long to find out why everything around here is labelled “IJ”, but this is an unrelated discovery that also supports my theory about “Y”.
#Dutch #Amsterdam #language
@hex@kolektiva.socialReal conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.
@sjn@chaos.socialAnyone know if this is legit?
#palantir
@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.pageDemographic synchrony increases the vulnerability of human societies to collapse
Marcus J. Hamilton, Robert S. Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07660 https://
@arXiv_mathDS_bot@mastoxiv.pageA General Theory of Emergent Linearity in Complex Dynamical Systems: The Role of Spatial Averaging and Vanishing Correlations
Sabbir Ahmed, Hafiz Fareed Ahmed, Erfan Nozari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25589
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageFeature Dynamics as Implicit Data Augmentation: A Depth-Decomposed View on Deep Neural Network Generalization
Tianyu Ruan, Kuo Gai, Shihua Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20334
@PaulWermer@sfba.social @paulwermer@sfba.social
@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.pageDual is Different: EFTs, Axions and Nonpropagating Form Fields in Cosmology
C. P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11340 https://arxiv.org/pd…
@arXiv_physicshistph_bot@mastoxiv.pageGauge symmetry and the arrow of time: How to count what counts
Sean Gryb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14720 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14720
@buercher@tooting.chTheory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. In our lab, theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why.
Academia Obscura
@arXiv_physicshistph_bot@mastoxiv.pageHow are Scientific Concepts Birthed? Typing Rules of Concept Formation in Theoretical Physics Reasoning
Omar Aguilar, Anthony Aguirre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10740 https://…
@hex@kolektiva.socialPart of why #Trump has always been so hard to pin down politically is that he was always representing highly conflicting interests. Now, as that eats him alive, the GOP is fracturing in to two main groups: the Pinochet/Franco wing and the Hitler wing.
The Pinochet/Franco wing (let's call them PF) are lead by Vance. PF are also a coalition with some competing interests, but basically it's evangelical leaders, Opus Dei (fascist catholics), tech fascists (Yarvinites), pharma, and the other normal big republican donors. They support Israel, some because apartheid is extremely profitable and some because they support the genocide of Palestinian in order to bring the end of the world. They are split between extremely antisemitic evangelicals and Zionists, wanting similar things for completely different reasons. PF wants strong immigration enforcement because it lets them exploit immigrants, they don't want actual ethnic cleansing (just the constant threat). They want H1B visas because they want to a precarious tech work force. They want to end tariffs because they support free trade and don't actually care about things being made here.
The Hitler wing are lead by Nick Fuentes. I think they're a more unified group, but they're going to try to pull together a coalition that I don't think can really work. They're against Israel because they believe in some bat shit antisemitic conspiracy theory (which they are trying to inject along side legitimate criticism of Israel). They are focused on release of the #EpsteinFiles because they believe that it shows that Epstein worked for Mossad. They don't think that the ICE raids are going far enough, they oppose H1Bs because they are racists. They want a full ethnic cleansing of the US where everyone who isn't "white" is either enslaved for menial labor, deported, or dead. But they're also critical of big business (partially because of conspiracy theories but also) because they think their best option is to push for a white socialism (red/brown alliance).
Both of them want to sink Trump because they see him as standing in the way of their objectives. Both see #Epstein as an opportunity. Both of them have absolutely terrifying visions of authoritarian dictatorships, but they're different dictatorships.with opposing interests. Even within these there may be opportunities to fracture these more.
While these fractures decrease the likelihood of either group getting enough people together, their vision is more clear and thus more likely to succeed if they can make that happen. Now is absolutely *not* the time to just enjoy the collapse, we need to keep up or accelerate anti-fascist efforts to avoid repeating some of the mistakes of history.
Edit:
I should not that this isn't *totally* original analysis. I'll link a video later when I have time to find it.
Here it is:
#USPol
