@danyork@mastodon.socialDear Zoom,
In what world would you think I would want an “AI Companion” panel *taking up almost half the application screen*? And that apparently *I cannot turn off* in the application settings itself… and instead have to login to the Zoom website to go into the settings *there* to turn off this panel?
This is the kind of behavior toward users that is turning people off to all things related to #AI
@cdarwin@c.imTowards a Fossil-Free Future:
Seed the Commons invites you to a two-part webinar series this weekend so that you can join the movement to build a truly regenerative food system and a fossil-free future.
Date & Time
Jul 26, 2026
10:00 AM Pacific Time
https://us06…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~$1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at $380B; Zoom invested an additional $46M in recent months (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWe just saw a fox yesterday! It wasn't very much impressed by us. So I tried my best to film it with my 200mm zoom lens and later stabilize via DaVinci. Some glitches in the video but still a nice encounter
https://video.franzgraf.de/w/6HKbwiwa7rVi1fracUKGKh
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgPlaying with improvising some sanquhar-style patterns in the round (so I don't have to do purls), and decided to turn it into a sock for my lovely Zoom L6 portable mixer. #knitting
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… you get the Zoom URL etc. if you register for the webinar (with your business email address).
@EgorKotov@datasci.social#rstats mapgl is now on CRAN with flowmaps support! As previewed at #MobileTartu (Mobility Lab, University of Tartu) and Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (#AGILE) conferences! (Video by Kyle Walker). Backend is Flowmap.gl
@cheryanne@aus.socialMEAA is holding a freelancer's meeting to discuss the Big Tech levy the government is proposing to stabilise the media industry. MEAA is saying there is no stable media industry without more jobs, better rates and better conditions for freelancers.
This is related to the proposed news bargaining incentive laws that Podcast Workers Australia recently made a submission towards.
Come to this meeting to discuss how freelance journalists and photojournalists can campaign to win f…
@publicvoit@graz.social
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@raiders@darktundra.xyzTreydan Stukes leaned on personal values to transform from unrecruited prospect to Raiders' second-round draft pick https://www.raiders.com/news/treydan-stukes-leaned-on-personal-values-to-transform…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…
@doktrock@toad.socialIMA Webinar: “Native #Copper in the Munich Subsurface: A Natural Laboratory for Unusual Redox Chemistry under Low-Temperature, Alkaline Conditions”
Dr. Donjš Aßbichler, LMU München.
"The formation of native copper in a remarkable low-temperature geological setting beneath Munich, highlighting its broader relevance to ore mineralogy, redox processes, and subsurface geochemistry."
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJohn Hare, Emeritus Noah Porter Professor of Philosophy, gave lectures in Nairobi in July at St. Paul's University, Africa International University, and the University of Nairobi. Two of his lectures explored philosophical themes on the subject of AI and theological education, building on the consultation on AI and theological education hosted by St. Paul's University in Nairobi - with the support of the Yale MacMillan Center's Project on Religion and Society in Africa.
@grist@fosstodon.orga little Grist mention in here, see if you can find it https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/
@laxsill@social.spejset.orgEn dag kommer samväldet miertsehashem återförenas https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/territorial-changes/border-changes-in-history-of-poland
@robpike@hachyderm.ioI will always resent "scroll as zoom", making the scrolling function of the mouse do a zoom. You may disagree, but I'm not looking for a debate.
I remember a conversation with the PM of Google Maps when this was introduced there. I asked for at least an option to turn it off. Not only does it strike me as counterintuitive, its behavior embedded in a scrolling window is unforgivable. His response: "What else would scroll do?"
Gotta love product design.
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukSomething fun is growing inside a double-glazing panel near our washing machine; I guess it's loving being kept warm a lot of the time (and probably a bit damp). Couldn't say if it's fungal or bacterial or what but it certainly looks very fractal.
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social👋 Hallo an unsere (Retro)Digitalisierungs-Community!
❣️ Kommende Woche findet unser dritter "Praxisdialog Digitalisierung", das spartenübergreifende Austauschformat für (Retro)Digitalisierungspraktiker:innen in Bibliotheken, Archiven, Museen & Sammlungen, statt.
⏰ Mi, 27.5., 11 Uhr
📍 Zoom (ohne Anmeldung):
@heiseonline@social.heise.deXperia 1 VIII: Sony streicht den Zoom, aber nicht die Klinkenbuchse
Sony stellt das Xperia 1 VIII vor. Mit seiner Ausstattung setzt es sich deutlich von anderen High-End-Smartphones ab.
https://www.…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @raiders@darktundra.xyzTreydan Stukes leaned on personal values to transform from unrecruited prospect to Raiders' second-round draft pick https://www.raiders.com/news/treydan-stukes-leaned-on-personal-values-to-transform…
@DGIInfo@openbiblio.social🌍 Wie finden Alt und Jung beim #Klimaschutz zusammen?
Das erklärt #RobinTschötschel (Uni Hamburg) am 18.06.2026 um 18 Uhr in unserer #Vortragsreihe Klimakommunikation…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialJetzt beginnt die Vorstellung der von Reiche zurückgehaltenen Studie "Stärkung der regionalen Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien"
mit dem Studienautor Dr. Steven Salecki, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Projektkoordinator am Institut für Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (IÖW).
https://
@marcel@waldvogel.family"New research […] shows that a modified audio clip undetectable by human ears can manipulate a model’s behavior"
"Real-world examples include hiding malicious instructions in online videos, music clips, or voice notes that users query an AI about, or broadcasting malicious audio on a Zoom call that is then uploaded to AI transcription services."
I expect people will be having fun building 21st century equivalents of the TV-be-gone.
@yaya@jorts.horseoh god bless I figured out how to save Zoom webinar transcripts so I can go back and do notes at my leisure
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioCanon EOS D30 with Canon Zoom EF 70-210mm f/4
This was the first Canon-made DSLR. The camera is now 26 years old. Three megapixels, baby!
#ShittyCameraChallenge
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialSome of these are pretty reasonable! If you allow them for anyone, you probably make it so to compete at all requires everyone to follow suit. That's bad when those things have life-altering health implications.
But all of these things ultimately shape who is allowed to compete at the peak levels.
it's not always good! Honestly baseball is way less interesting to watch in the majors because everyone's great, all the plays are maximal capability, and it's kinda predictable. You don't end up with many of those "holy shit what just happened? that was awesome!" plays that are so much fun to watch. So as a spectator, these rules aren't always great. Sometimes you want to nerf the peak performance until the game is interesting. Sometimes you don't.
In F1, a huge part of the game is the nerding out about the rules and how to evade them cleverly to get peak performance. And the inside baseball on that is way more fun to watch than the race. The race is just cars going zoom and occasionally crashing, interrupted by amazing choreography in the pits.
There's a reason women's soccer is so much more fun for me to watch than men's. It's not been optimized so hard that the game isn't predictable in kind if not outcome. Plus the camaraderie shown is great.
But looking at all this, we gotta ask, what's sport's function in our societies? Why do we do this?
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.deMeine externe Webcam (https://amzn.eu/d/01qAxHb1) ist seit zwei, drei Monaten kaputt. Nach ein paar Sekunden Bild verabschiedet sie sich. Ich habe schnell eingesehen, dass ich eine Neue brauche, aber der Webcam-Markt ist einfach mal Mist in meinen Augen, also habe ich die Wahl einer neuen Webcam immer vor mich herg…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialAnd Zoom telling its employees to "return to office" to be more innovative ain't a great look.
▶️ Zoom: From $160 Billion Pandemic Hero to 90% Stock Collapse
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7UkGANSFDm0&si=m52G_zHE2H5gw2O#zoom
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIn 15 minutes on #coronagraphs from the National Solar Observatory, running from 19:30 to 22:00 UTC.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgLisa Schiff€
@lschiff.bsky.social€
· 3m
"The case for academic freedom and the independence of the university is far shakier today than it was even a decade ago..." Register for the 5/19 #DefendResearch webinar with Sara Rouhi and Brandon Turner
on this aspect of #censorship
@grork@mastodon.socialWhy is it that TV shows don’t use real computer UI? I get it in sci, but some detective show is doing a ‘zoom call’, and… it’s custom operating system (on a surface laptop studio no less), and then a mostly correct Zoom UI…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
https://kurtvilemusics.bandcamp.com/track/zoom-97
https://open.spotify.com/track/0aW3FQZlYWyj1gTn7mlc8t
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe zoom source code just leaked and most of the audio code is trying to detect and mute farts.
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.caSharing from Julie S. Lalonde. This session is tomorrow; I've done it in the past and can recommend highly!
> May is Sexual Assault Awareness Month in Canada #SAM2026
> Why not take 1 hour out of the whole month to learn effective bystander intervention skills? It's on Zoom with cameras/muted, so ideal if you're shy or wanting to do a group watch.
> …
@anneroth@systemli.socialHey pscht: Ihr könnt morgen alle beim Fachgespräch #DigitaleIdentitäten und #EUDIWallet dabeisein (wenn Ihr Euch durchringt, Zoom zu benutzen). Link steht in der Ankündigung.
Aber wenn Ihr Euch angemeldet habt, dann kommt vorbei! Wir haben einen sehr fancy Ausschusssaal im …
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialHello! Your final reminder about today's masterclass on #Reflection and self-awareness.
I'm kicking off in 30mins and followers are free to join me on Zoom via:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81945999860
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social📅 Do, 25.6. – 13:00 Uhr bis 14:00
Praxisdialog Digitalisierung: Schwerpunktthema: Der unbekannte Nutzer – welche Instrumente haben sich in der Nutzerforschung bewährt und welche Aspekte müssen wir dabei beachten?
👉 Weitere Infos: https://nfdi4culture.de/id/E6828
☎️ Zoom ohne Anmeldung:
@YaoyuanXiaLei@mstdn.jp恥ずかしながら、初めて Zoom をセットアップしてミーティングのプレビューまで進めてみた。PC じゃなくてスマートフォンね。足を切断した直後 (義足になる前) に COVID-19 が流行し始めて、リハビリもまだ初めてなかったし、そのまま仕事から離れてたから Zoom に触れる機会がなかった。
実際にミーティングに参加する時は、ホストから受け取った招待 URL をタップすれば Zoom Workplace が起動するんでしょ？ ...Zoom の Web サイトにしろ、スマートフォンアプリの Zoom Workplace にしろ、Web で見付けられる情報より更新されてるしね。あー、本当に面倒だったぜ。
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhat a way to honor your employees, and make your company a great place to work. Why we need strong #Unions, in other words.
Deloitte and Zoom’s trims to parental-leave benefits may hurt them in long run, experts say
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhat a way to honor your employees, and make your company a great place to work. Why we need strong #Unions, in other words.
Deloitte and Zoom’s trims to parental-leave benefits may hurt them in long run, experts say
@xtaran@chaos.socialLetzte Nacht sehr spät #rausgeschafft, dafür dann umso länger unterwegs gewesen. Würd's bei Garmin die Auszeichnung "Frühaufsteher" mehrfach geben, hätte ich sie wohl heute wieder bekommen, weil ich erst kurz nach 4 Uhr heim kam. 2h20min im Sattel, knappe 3h gemütlich unterwegs gewesen, 41.6km und 373hm. Bin via Katzensee, Regensdorf, Adlikon zum "
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialBishop William J. Barber, II and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove will travel to Berlin, Germany, at the end of June for meetings with church leaders and German citizens who are concerned about global authoritarian movements that are degrading the rules-based order put in place after the Holocaust.
Watch the event in person or on Zoom:
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@vform@openbiblio.socialWasser, Ton und Kohlenstoff: Ein neuer Weg zur nachhaltigen Energiespeicherung
#Energiespeichertechnologien
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCONFERENCE> Across Texts and Traditions: A Memorial Conference for Raniero Gnoli
https://ift.tt/2YNa46i
Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukOops,
#retrocomputing
@cdarwin@c.imExcellent news:
Paulina Borsook’s book
"Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech"
is now available as an ebook.
It features a new introduction by Gil Duran.
You can buy it at the Bookshop in the link to support independent booksellers and this newsletter.
Paulina’s work has undergone a big resurgence in the past year as people realize that she presciently warned
—three decades ago!
—that trou…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHmmm how do you record a visual artifact that doesn't appear in screenshots?
I have a specific image that appears to trigger some kind of compression or encoding or signal integrity artifact inside my monitor or the link from the PC to it.
When I screenshot the image and zoom to anything other than 1:1 pixel resolution, it looks normal. On my other monitor it's fine. The artifact appears only when I display it at native resolution on this monitor.
I guess I'm go…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deJoin us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities.
⏰ 2pm CET
📍 RUSTlab RUB, or Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/RUSTlab
👇Find more info about the event and book (open access, y’all!) on the RUSTlab website.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn the Zoom H1n "Handy" Field Recorder: Review - Finally time to get my own portable audio recorder! - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zoom-H1n-field-recorder.html
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialDer 80jährige Professor nahm hybrid am Workshop teil, entschuldigte sich jedoch für dessen Beginn. Irgendwann ertönte seine Stimme aus dem Zoom-Lautsprecher, "I am back, my granddaughter has just gone to sleep". 🖤
@edintone@mastodon.greenThe Harpole Bed Burial : A Free Zoom talk with Dr Claire Finn of Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)
Wed 15 Jul 2026, 1930 BST
Free Tickets https://www.ticketsource.com/fostp
Named after the nearby village of Harpole,
@Speckdaene@nrw.social#idw Hybrid Vorlesung (leider #Zoom) „#Männlichkeit(en) in #Rechtspopulismus und
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I caught up on some admin around one project in advance of a Zoom call for it, had the next stage of a slow-mo fight with insurers for a proposed new #RepairCafé, and two of us had to wrestle with the cable TV company cancellations folk for an hour to avoid home phone cut off AND price …
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesC’est notre cas, on les commande en ligne.
#cremesolaire
https://www.lapresse.ca/societe/sante/2026-05-31/la-folie-des-ecran…
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialWar beim Webinar #EuropeCalling mit @… zum Zusammenbruch des "Golfstroms" AMOC dabei. Ich wusste vorher, dass es meine Stimmung nicht aufhellen würde (Euphemismus).
Die Gefahr und Auswirkungen sind aber noch weit dramatischer für Europa als i…
@lukem@hachyderm.ioIn that frenzy of selling away items I won't bring to my new flat, I made a somewhat significant decision to replace two lenses: 17-28/f2.8 and 28-75/2.8 with a single one: 24-120/4.
I've been using 28-75 zoom range as my default for more than a decade on multiple cameras, so this is a giant leap into the unknown.
@sean@scoat.esI don't think I actually *use* these key bindings, myself, but this kind of user-empowered thinking is a good illustration of why I've settled on Vivaldi as my daily driver browser.
It's the *least unlike* a User Agent, as we've come to expect, IMO. https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/116818
@YaoyuanXiaLei@fedibird.com恥ずかしながら、初めて Zoom をセットアップしてミーティングのプレビューまで進めてみた。PC じゃなくてスマートフォンね。足を切断した直後 (義足になる前) に COVID-19 が流行し始めて、リハビリもまだ初めてなかったし、そのまま仕事から離れてたから Zoom に触れる機会がなかった。
実際にミーティングに参加する時は、ホストから受け取った招待 URL をタップすれば Zoom Workplace が起動するんでしょ？ ...Zoom の Web サイトにしろ、スマートフォンアプリの Zoom Workplace にしろ、Web で見付けられる情報より更新されてるしね。あー、本当に面倒だったぜ。
@newsie@darktundra.xyz‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World https://www.404media.co/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-deepfake-software-powering-scams-around-the-world/
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgGovernment #censorship is having a direct impact on federally funded research, restricting the topics addressed and the experiences & perspectives recognized. Join Jeremy Berg, Former #NIH institute director and Editor-in-Chief, Science magazine, Michael D. Green, Ph.D., Early Career Researcher…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA #PaintedLady came to visit yesterday (Vanessa cardui, #Distelfalter) - shot from a looong distance with maximum optical and some digital zoom. Hadn't known this #butterfly species but https://www.hr4.de/programm/themen/portraets-von-12-heimischen-schmetterlingsarten-v2,zwoelf-einheimische-schmetterlingsarten-100.html readily identified it.
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social⏰ Reminder ⏰
Morgen, 27.5., um 11 Uhr findet unser dritter "Praxisdialog Digitalisierung", das spartenübergreifende Austauschformat für (Retro)Digitalisierungspraktiker:innen in Bibliotheken, Archiven, Museen und Sammlungen, statt.
📍 via Zoom (ohne Anmeldung): https://adwmainz.z…
@cheryanne@aus.socialPublic holiday today but only in NSW/ACT and WA. Although I'm in Canberra I still had a few commitments. Managed to squeeze in a coffee walk with husband between web work and a zoom meeting. Now to watch a couple more episodes of The Pitt season 2 before bed.
#SuburbanLife #Canberra
@relcfp@mastodon.socialTALK> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series ~ Benjamin Brose at SOAS (May 22)
https://ift.tt/By6Q54N
University of Notre Dame - Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Initiative on Race and Resilience System…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #sunspot-littered #Sun at 14:42 UTC today, taken with a #BridgeCamera at high (slightly digital) zoom through old aluminized-mylar eclipse glasses: four of the 6 current groups - https://spaceweather.com/images2026/29jun26/hmi1898.gif - are easily seen, big 4478 and 4479 well resolved into umbra and penumbra and small 4480 and 4475.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzFinally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
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@smurthys@hachyderm.ioVivid colors and beauty almost everywhere you look. Feels good to be back in #India, hopefully for a long-ish stay this time. 🚜
(Zoom in and you'll see there's so much going on in just the front of that tractor.)
#Bengaluru #photography #amateur #tractor #vehicle
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Zoom 97
#KurtVile
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JhMqx0s2GFSl8RvTPlMtK
