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@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-06-12 20:00:16

Teddy from Good Luck Charlie is now building a satellite communication network.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/06/

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-14 19:18:26

I wish my family could see how much I care about anarchism, syndicalism, and especially anarcho-syndicalism, and how serious I am about building a different kind of world.
They still hold on to the image of me as someone who just spends all day gaming, like that’s all I ever was. But people change, grow, and find new paths.
If they can’t accept that, then they don’t really know who I am now, and it’s painful to realize that the people closest to me can’t see the person I’ve beco…

@pre@boing.world
2025-06-02 20:28:08
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Reality War
:tardis:

Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
:tardis:
#doctorWho

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-14 19:05:33

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

Person indoors taking a selfie making a peace sign with a plain wall background wearing a casual jacket and a relaxed expression
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-12 07:39:02

Impact of Tariff Wars on Global Economy
N. S. Gonchar, O. P. Dovzhyk, A. S. Zhokhin, W. H. Kozyrsky, A. P. Makhort
arxiv.org/abs/2505.05576

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-06-02 04:58:10

Face the future
#StreetArt #face #photography

Street art on the side of a building: a cubic abstract of a face, possibly a gorilla.
Detail of street art on the side of a building: a cubic abstract of a face, possibly a gorilla.
@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-04-13 18:18:51

"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugi

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-10 17:29:49

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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-08 12:50:35

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
restofworld.org/2025/middle-ea

@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.world
2025-06-01 02:33:41

I will be a building. A tall building. I will cast shadows on other buildings!

NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
has been a small-but-mighty source of world-changing scientific research for more than a half-century.
NASA scientists first moved into the building,
which another federal agency leases from GISS’s institutional partner, Columbia University, in 1966.
Last month, at the behest of the Trump administration,
NASA officials told GISS it had to move out before the end of May.
In response, more than 100 staffer…

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-04 07:33:19

Poster: libdebug, Build Your Own Debugger for a Better (Hello) World
Gabriele Digregorio, Roberto Alessandro Bertolini, Francesco Panebianco, Mario Polino
arxiv.org/abs/2506.02667

@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-06-05 14:14:32

The UK Conservative Party is in disarray. Since 1979, they have implemented changes with unintended consequences. Water privatisation, sale of social housing, deregulation of building societies, privatisation of railways, and leaving the EU.
Now they are considering withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights, born out of the ashes of the 1930s and 40s in Europe and World War 2.
Which of the 16 Articles do they really believe we should not be protected by?

@tydalforce@mastodon.world
2025-05-23 10:24:17

Bummer. Mozilla, makers of Firefox, are shutting down their "Pocket" and "Fakespot" services.
I use Fakespot constantly, every time I go to buy something from Amazon (or another supported retailer). I'd pay to use it, but it's going away. Ugh...
@… @…

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-05 07:23:33

SLAC: Simulation-Pretrained Latent Action Space for Whole-Body Real-World RL
Jiaheng Hu, Peter Stone, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in
arxiv.org/abs/2506.04147

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-03 07:20:25

A "Wenlu" Brain System for Multimodal Cognition and Embodied Decision-Making: A Secure New Architecture for Deep Integration of Foundation Models and Domain Knowledge
Liang Geng
arxiv.org/abs/2506.00570

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-05-24 14:59:11

Boggles my mind that I can, on a whim, take a day trip to see my favorite building in the world at a great price with several fast trains *per hour*. (Why on a whim? Because I never even considered it, based on the map.) Italian rail is quite something. #Italy25

Pantheon, Rome
@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-05-25 19:41:08

Singer-songwriter Nemahsis on the importance of being uncompromising
thecreativeindependent.com/peo

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-03 06:25:44

CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it's not building a fab in the Middle East (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/

@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-04 13:34:19

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@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-22 11:00:28

Join Radu Pop and Pietro Mele at Berlin Buzzwords as they discuss building an extensible hybrid search solution with Elasticsearch. They will cover functional modeling, cluster architecture, and practical insights on managing billions of vectors in real-world scenarios. Radu and Pietro will also address hybrid reranking challenges and the limitations of standard fusion techniques, explaining their innovative approach.
Learn more:

Session title: Hybrid search on hybrid models, at scale
Radu Pop
Pietro Mele
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or participate online / berlinbuzzwords.de
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-05-22 13:02:36

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-04 13:40:30

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