@Techmeme@techhub.socialKuo expects Apple to mass produce a Vision Pro with M5 in Q3 2025, a Vision Air in Q3 2027, a Vision Pro with a new design and XR glasses in H2 2028, and more (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/29/apple-working-on-7-head-mounted-products/
@stefan@gardenstate.social
@whitequark@mastodon.social
@cdarwin@c.imMary Edith Barnes became aware of the work of the Glaswegian psychiatrist and countercultural figure, Dr RD (Ronnie) Laing,
author of "The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness "(1960).
This led her to Kingsley Hall, a radical therapeutic community in Bow in East London.
Established in 1965 and headed up by Laing, it was an unconventional centre where mental-health professionals and those experiencing mental illness lived together. Drug-taking …
@raiders@darktundra.xyzIn his 3rd stop in 3 years, can Jets' Justin Fields become the NFL's next late-blooming quarterback? https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/in-his-3rd-stop-in-3-years-can-jets-justin-fields-become-the-nf…
@aardrian@toot.cafeOver on CSS Tricks, another post about responsive text that fails to consider WCAG (other than mis-quoting a Level AAA SC):
https://css-tricks.com/setting-line-length-in-css-and-fitting-text-to-a-container/
I left a comment last week (still …
@adulau@infosec.exchange“The Beginning and Ending of Threat Actors” by @…
“Instead, Volt Typhoon becomes a construct: a cluster of linked actions, behavioral tendencies, and targeting preferences linked to PRC interests.”
This article provides a concise and clear overview of what often happens with threat actor labeling. If you are working in “threat intelligence,” read …
@benb@osintua.euTrump signals Ukrainians who fled invasion may stay in US until war ends: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/trump-signals-ukrainians-who-fled.html
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe irony is not lost on me that working from ostensive definition — “supervised learning” in the biz — is in fact an area in which modern “AI” excels: “Here are 10000 pictures of cats, and 10000 pictures of not-cats. Now, is this a picture of a cat?” Machines have got pretty darned good at that in many spheres.
Does that mean we could train an AI to definitely answer whether AI is in fact “intelligence,” since intelligence is in practice defined by example? In short, no — and I think there’s a spark of insight in answering that question:
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageProMemAssist: Exploring Timely Proactive Assistance Through Working Memory Modeling in Multi-Modal Wearable Devices
Kevin Pu, Ting Zhang, Naveen Sendhilnathan, Sebastian Freitag, Raj Sodhi, Tanya Jonker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21378
@anneroth@systemli.socialA retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.
He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population. .".
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAudiovisual integration of simple stimuli: spatial congruency effects unaffected by working memory load https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1594306/full "suggesting that it occurs at a low-level percep…
@timbray@cosocial.caGo is 80/20 language: https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/d-2025-06-26/go-is-8020-language.html
Good piece, a bit misleading on a couple of Go details but essentially right I think. I spent my last 20 years of employment working in Java-heavy …
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageAutomated but Atrophied? Student Over-Reliance vs Expert Augmentation of AI in Learning and Cybersecurity
Koffka Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21062 https://
@datascience@genomic.social
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRevolutionary syndicalism is a radical political and economic ideology that developed in the late 19th century and continued to influence the 20th century. Its central aim was to place political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class through the organized strength of trade unions, rather than through traditional parliamentary or state-centered politics.
Emerging from the intersection of Marxist critiques of capitalism and anarchist suspicions of centralized autho…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukFun data theft thing from a large number of garages; alas this doesn't say how they actually extracted the data from the garages; it does say they're looking for people working in Insurance companies and claims management companies just to extract data.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4yv3
@volephd@fediscience.orgHey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (https://doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198331)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeI‘m looking for artists that are working in a specific, primarily black and white style - I‘ve heard it called „smoke style“. I may be looking to #commission some artworks in this style, for a mix of slightly-dreamy character art and non-human subjects (animal, items). If you know an #artist who…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThere’ve been articles all over lately, based on a single small (n=55) study that purports to show adverse effects of cannabis use by the elderly. Here’s some evidence to the contrary. A series of studies show improved working memory function with cannabis use for those over 65 years of age. Heading on down to the dispensary as soon as I post this toot. It’s science, friends.
@nelson@tech.lgbtGot it working once I had to enable CORS in the LM Studio server for some stupid reason. Then I get this revolting first interaction.
@evemassacre@assemblag.esI am so happy that I so far I have managed to keep my working space at slightly below 28°C today. With the help of closed windows, curtains and moving a sun umbrella with the sun moving along my southern side balcony. Still: It's so hard to concentrate in this heat.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgThe trip from Hamburg back to Switzerland starts as usual: change of platform, announced with 15; but due to overcrowding, all bets are off.
At least some off the escalators were working in Hamburg Hbf.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Dallas in 2026 with Avis as the fleet partner, a first after exclusively working with Uber in Austin and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…
@cdarwin@c.imRep Maxwell Frost:
1,500 at our Townhall in Wichita, Kansas this morning.
Working people across the nation are pissed off about this rigged economy, and they’re showing up.
Wichita’s Congressman refuses to host a Townhall, so we pulled up instead.
https://bsky.app/profil…
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today in at uni and maybe working on salvaging my big experiment ... Still feeling very sleep deprived post-festival though I did sleep last night!
@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.pageXAI for Point Cloud Data using Perturbations based on Meaningful Segmentation
Raju Ningappa Mulawade, Christoph Garth, Alexander Wiebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22020 https://…
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageVerification Cost Asymmetry in Cognitive Warfare: A Complexity-Theoretic Framework
Joshua Luberisse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21258 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 02 - Shadow
GAN: The manual controls won't respond.
VILA: Do something, Gan.
GAN: Something is draining off the power. [Lights dim]
VILA: Orac, it has to be Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/565 B7B3
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageAutoCodeSherpa: Symbolic Explanations in AI Coding Agents
Sungmin Kang, Haifeng Ruan, Abhik Roychoudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22414 https://arxiv.org…
@UP8@mastodon.socialThe other kind of crane always flies away when I show up but this one is working in Collegetown building a new building called 'The Ivy' at the intersection of College and Dryden
#photo #photography #crane
@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.pageTowards Experiment Execution in Support of Community Benchmark Workflows for HPC
Gregor von Laszewski, Wesley Brewer, Sean R. Wilkinson, Andrew Shao, J. P. Fleischer, Harshad Pitkar, Christine R. Kirkpatrick, Geoffrey C. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22294
@scott@carfree.cityGentrification feedback loop. As SF displaces its working class, Area Median Income rises, raising the rent levels for “affordable” housing, which further displaces and excludes working-class households, so AMI rises again… and a 1-bedroom for $2,900 is now defined as low-income housing.
#sfpol #housing
@todbot@mastodon.socialWorking on a new MIDI sequencer…
#midi #midisequencer
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhy AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.pageCombolutional Neural Networks
Cameron Churchwell, Minje Kim, Paris Smaragdis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21202
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI have visited this small National Monument several times - it is very much worth a visit.
I fear that it, however, is near the top of FFOTUS' list of national monuments to dismantle.
Cesar Chavez National Monument
https://www.nps.gov/cech/index.htm
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI feel like we’ve reached the “snake eating its own tail” stage in tech, and I’m no longer sure what problems people are working to solve.
Throw more compute, patterns, and scale at it until people stop asking questions.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukLinux krups 2.5.1 #74 Thu Jul 31 00:15:27 UTC 2025 sparc GNU/Linux
Damn, that was hard; I built a happy working 2.4.27 on my Javastation krups, 2.6. can't get keyboard or graphics going; so I wanted to try somewhere in between. But we're pre-git, so plain bisect is out. And getting that 2.5.1 to work on the gcc I was using (3.3.5) has been 'fun' - I've just found the fix from later in 2.5 to get 'schedule()' not to break; gcc moved a label 😠 Onwards to l…
@cdarwin@c.imEmil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in.
But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows
Some legal experts said that working for the administration after being confirmed could undermine faith in the court system.
Others expressed worry that Mr. Bove could expose himself to potential conflicts,
advising Justic…
@StephenRees@mas.tofrom Cascadia Journal
The Seattle Times reports that two wildland firefighters working on the Bear Gulch fire in Washington's Olympic mountains were arrested by federal border agents
https://www.msn.com/en-us…
@akosma@mastodon.onlineWorking again on a project with Delphi 1.0 was a pleasure. Few IDEs nowadays are as simple, lightweight, complete, useful, and stable as Delphi was in… 1995.
Le sigh.
https://akos.ma/blog/conway-in-borland-delphi/
@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.pageFilters for NIR astronomical photometry: comparison of commercial IRWG filters and designs using OpenFilters
Anwesh Kumar Mishra, U. S. Kamath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21922
@hanno@mastodon.socialWhat's going on with ArcelorMittal's steel decarbonization projects Steelanol and Torero in Belgium? 🔩🔗🏭
Recently, several Belgian publications reported that ArcelorMittal may shutdown the Steelanol plant at its site in Ghent. Steelanol converts steel mill off-gases into Ethanol.
Steelanol has a "sister project" called Torero, a Biocoal plant. And it appears Torero is not working as planned.
🧵
@axbom@axbom.meWhen I bring up how children work in artisanal mines in DR Congo and Madagascar to harvest the minerals the rich world needs for its tech, there is one type of comment that comes up more than others:
"Yes, but the working conditions of the people making high street clothes is also awful. It's so hard to do the right thing these days."
I truly have a hard time understanding what this comment is really getting at it. It feels like it's trying to tone down the …
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialI'm gonna skip this weekend's livestream. I've had an exhausting week, and I'm not really in the mood overall. I'll be working on my stuff offline (if I even get the chance) and hanging out with friends in VRC to take my mind off everything that's been going on lately.
@simon_lucy@mastodon.socialI like the grid walk that talks to those working in the crews rather than superfluous celebrities.
#F1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a report, Trump's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets urges regulators to clarify digital asset trading rules and ease adoption of new financial products (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza"The term anarcho-syndicalism first appeared as a derogatory commentary and an insult against certain working-class militants in the nineteenth century. It was often used to refer as a whole to the trade-union activities of individuals and groups who defined themselves as anarchists."
h…
@marcus@hachyderm.ioWorking on the #perl 5.42 update for #nixpkgs - unfortunately perl-cross hasn't been released for 5.42 yet which is a bit of a blocker. In general it feels like the declining interest in maintaining #CPAN packages are going to be a problem over time. For instance EV hasn't had a release since 2023 and needed a patch to work with 5.42
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgConference vignette 👀: #OpenScience is about much more than #OpenData. Presenting unpublished work is also Openness, as social science alumna Dr. Ros Attenborough reminded us. And if you can share that way, then...
In the Presidential symposium, another lab alumnus introduced a mouse protein that massively affected the clock ⏰ . His group found it through an ambitious phosphoproteomic 🧪 candidate selection approach on a cell line 🧫 , looking beyond the canonical idea of the clockwork (TTFL in the jargon). Canonical here means canonised by a Nobel prize.
A good friend from Japan explained in the Q&A that his group had just found the SAME gene in a genetic screen of mice 🐁with altered sleep patterns 🐁💤🛌. We know the clock controls sleep. So, independent evidence across continents.👍
Over dinner they started to coordinate how they would each publish their work. #Science working.
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgToday I've been fighting again with this absolutely stupid :nixos: #NixOS bug that dates back nearly 20 years now, which prevents you from naming an executable 'log'. Yes, it is NOT possible on NixOS. 🤦 🤦 🤦 And working around it is beyond frustrating. Fixing it requires a mass rebuild, so it's not that simple. 😩 😂 It's so terrible but also hilarious...
Issue:
@arXiv_mathST_bot@mastoxiv.pageFactorization by extremal privacy mechanisms: new insights into efficiency
Chiara Amorino, Arnaud Gloter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21769 https://arxiv.org…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialMowing in 3 acts today as a survival mechanism because it's brutally hot & humid and will remain so... 🔍:eyes_squint: until after the sun has set. My lawnmower does not have headlights, so there is no relief to be found.
I survived acts I & II, forming a working theory that the only thing preventing me from spontaneously combusting is the oppressive humidity. It's perfectly counterbalanced suffering but lifesaving. Keeping me alive to suffer? 🤔
Act III still to c…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyTrump's US, 2025. Unusual, as the Seattle Times puts it.
"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area."
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIf anyone currently working in cybersecurity or data security in the federal government is available to share insights with me regarding the bombshell whistleblower complaint (https://whistleblower.org/press-release/whistleblo…
@selea@social.linux.pizzaI am currently working on a basic course about #Linux for people in my local Makerspace.
Ofcourse, you can't really understand Linux without knowing how the state of Unix where in the 80's and 90's - so ofcourse, I am spending atleast 20 minutes talking about it.
What is an aspect that I should'nt miss?
Ofcourse, I'll bring up
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis is the last straw! Working with Israel to commit genocide we can forgive but asking us to pay more for their services… now that’s unconscionable. https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/114914379016704186
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageRelativistic Quantum Otto Engine: Generalized efficiency bounds and frictional effects
Vahid Shaghaghi, Pritam Chattopadhyay, Vijit V. Nautiyal, Kaustav Chatterjee, Tanmoy Pandit, Varinder Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20692
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGaza Health Ministry says four journalists working for Reuters, AP, Al-Jazeera, and NBC were among 15 people killed in an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/palestinian-journalist-re…
@adrianco@mastodon.socialI’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.
@samir@functional.computerThis post brought to you by finally figuring out what I hate about spreading related code across multiple repositories.
You see, I’m working in infrastructure now, so your code is my data.
@arXiv_physicsplasmph_bot@mastoxiv.pageNumerical Studies for EuPRAXIA@SPARC\_LAB Plasma Beam Driven Working Point
Stefano Romeo, Alessio Del Dotto, Massimo Ferrario, Anna Giribono, Andrea Renato Rossi, Gilles Jacopo Silvi, Cristina Vaccarezza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20691
@Defiance@sfba.socialThis post from Adams is wild. Talks about being “real”, but zoom in and around the picture of his alleged supporters 🥴
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJaguars' Travis Hunter working on processing 'everything fast' on offense, defense during camp https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-travis-hunter-working-on-processing-everything-fast-on-offense-defense
@compfu@mograph.socialThis is a really good interview with the creator of #KPopDemonHunters ! It covers her personal connection to the story and has some bits about the animation process as well (most people working in VFX will know this already but it’s really cute how this is covered in an interview that’s geared towards laypeople).
@muz4now@mastodon.worldA day in the life of a working musician
https://muz4now.com/web-stories/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-working-musician/
@joxean@mastodon.social'I witnessed war crimes' in Gaza, former worker at GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] aid site tells BBC.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.
He added that in his entire career he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".
@h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.comI'm nervous about Southend being combined with Rochford and Castle Point - will those rural councils understand our urban needs? It risks a change in character and priorities.
We already share the same bus and train transport network. We need nearby councils working with us to grow the city, as we have no fields to build on.
Our neighbours often build car-focused housing and send us the traffic. Will they embrace city life? Will they force us to build roads? Risks and opport…
@dsc@mastodon.scotGot to make those numbers. Jeez.
"Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews. The crews were among the 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state"
https://infosec.…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialBeekeeping in progress #Uckermark #bees #beekeeping
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 05 - The Web
AVON: Yes.
BLAKE: [V.O.] I need you on the flight deck.
AVON: I'm busy
BLAKE: [V.O.] Now, Avon.
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
BLAKE: Zen, how are the repairs going?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/20 B7B3
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageImproving the State of the Art for Training Human-AI Teams: Technical Report #5 -- Individual Differences and Team Qualities to Measure in a Human-AI Teaming Testbed
Lillian Asiala, James E. McCarthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18878
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-instag…
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.pageRelativistic quantum Otto engine driven by the circular Unruh effect
Rudra Prosad Sarkar, Arnab Mukherjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20928 https://…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI increasingly think that we need mandatory formal training for PhD students in “research as a profession” (as it exists in other countries, apparently).
Yes, submitting a paper to a conference (in particular as a first author) constitutes an commitment to present the paper if it’s accepted. When working with coauthors, no, you can’t tacitly assume that they’ll take care of it.
And yes, a workshop on Monday from 09:00 to 12:30 takes place during “normal working hours.”
@benb@osintua.euNATO Chief Rutte arrives in Kyiv amid Ukraine’s push for security guarantees: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/nato-chief-rutte-arrives-in.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Solidarity activities at the global level should be strategic and impactful. They should focus on disrupting all components of the supply chain that benefit the Israeli occupation in general and settler colonialism in particular. This means citizens around the world in different sectors of society can contribute to the struggle for Palestine as both producers and consumers by heeding the call to boycott and divest from Israel.
Direct actions from the working class are crucial. Workers…
@cdarwin@c.imVideo footage captured by Laynez-Ambrosio, an 18-year-old US citizen, show a group of officers in tactical gear working together to violently detain the three men, two of whom are undocumented.
They appear to use a stun gun on one man,
put another in a chokehold
and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio:
“You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.”
Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests,
calling the stun gun use “f…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwift, a coding language developed by Apple, is working to add Android support; Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/26/swift-coding-language-android-support/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection
@cdarwin@c.imI’m Democrat Zach Dembo
– Navy JAG veteran, former DOJ prosecutor,
and I just launched my campaign to flip Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District
and give the people of Central Kentucky a voice in Congress again.
You don’t know me yet, so here’s the short version:
I served in uniform.
I fought corruption at the Department of Justice.
And I worked as a policy advisor to Governor Andy Beshear
– helping deliver real wins for working families here …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-instag…
@cdarwin@c.imOn Sunday, July 20, 2025, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez delivered the keynote speech at the national convention of the National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW), UAW Local 2320.
“I am here to report back to you from the front lines of struggle, without hesitation or hyperbole,
that we are at risk of losing everything,”
Alvarez told the crowd of union members.
“And so I am here not to extol the virtues of your union or the value of unions in …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLeaked memo: Intel will shut down its automotive business and lay off "most" employees working in the unit, the latest step in Intel's downsizing (Mike Rogoway/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/silico…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denetscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection
@cdarwin@c.imWe were just in LA working on finalizing what we need to launch in Los Angeles,
where ICE activity is ramping up and community fear is growing.
But to do this, we need your help right now.
We must raise money to fund our first deployment.
Money that will help cover vans, production crews, legal infrastructure, and community coordination.
Chip in any amount you can to help us expose ICE’s abuses and power our Liberty Vans;
and educate the American people on…
@cdarwin@c.imThere’s a small difference between MacDonald and many other social media starlets.
She is 79.
“I was 70 when I started [working out],” MacDonald says on a video call from her home in Ontario,
white hair elegantly coiffed.
“I keep thinking I’m in my 30s.”
MacDonald’s workouts are intense,
whether you’re 30 or 70.
She does deadlifts, weighted planks and kettlebell swings,
and casually lifts dumbbells the size of fire extinguishers over her head.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple's team working on AI models wanted to release several as open source, Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-losing-ground-ai-talent-wa…
@cdarwin@c.imHouse Speaker Mike Johnson claimed in a post on X,
“JUST SIX MONTHS into President Trump’s second term, America is safer, stronger, and more prosperous”
—despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Meanwhile, the White House posted an absurd cartoon depicting a slimmed-down Trump with $100 bills and bald eagles flying in the air around him,
plus a nearly two-minute-long video that touted his alleged accomplishments.
But millions of Americans would disagree with those …
@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani’s apparent victory late Tuesday night represented a sharp rebuke of the Democratic Party establishment
It represented, he said, the ascendance of a new Democratic coalition, one that prioritized the needs of the working class over those of the elite.
“We have won because New Yorkers have stood up for a city they can afford,” he said.
“A city where they can do more than just struggle. One where those who toil in the night can enjoy the fruits of their labor in…
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