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@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 17:58:31

Editors at Jeff Bezos’s
@… were even more dismissive of the #handsoff pro-democracy movement on 4/6.
More than 1 million Americans expressing their concerns got a tiny box.
The next day, WaPo editors chose to devote half the #FrontPage to a personal achievement - a new hockey scoring leader.
A Putin-supporter who plays in the NHL.
#WaPo
3/5

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-11 17:50:02

Did a trip to admire the ”Prague Semmering” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smícho from the ground, a regional railway line with impressive curved viaducts to manage the height difference up to the hills above Smíchov station and the pla…

Map showing the curved path of the Prague Semmering line. The red dot indicating my position is in the middle of the large curve, in Hlubočepy.
Drone view of the Prague Semmering viaduct. Further away is the tram viaduct (and the four-lane road viaduct) up towards Barrandov.
Restaurant called Semmering.
Drone view of another location on the Prague Semmering viaducts.
@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-10 22:38:24

the shmancy highrises on the williamsburg waterfront copied/pasted a stack of @… art books into their aspirational apartment mockups (or used them as props in photos, idk how real estate pr0n works) #nyc

depictions of apartments
aspirational coffee table #1 with yoko books
aspirational coffee table #2 with yoko books
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-12 16:25:08

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more:

Session title: Shipping Lucene 10.0, 25 years in the making
Adrien Grand
Luca Cavanna
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or participate online / berlinbuzzwords.de
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us
2025-06-11 14:35:37

Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

Nell Choate Jones' painting "Square at St. Mary's," a color scene that shows a Black family in a southern square, next to a big tree. They could be in front of a church. Most of them are wearing white.
Augusta Oelschig's painting of a young Black boy in a gold frame. She shows him at bust length, looking slightly to his left. He wears a pale blue shirt with an open collar.
A watercolor painting of Savannah by Hattie Saussy. Seen from a park it shows several four- or five-story brick buildings across the way, partially blocked by greenery. The image is soft and pastel, more abstract in the foreground and more precise in the background.
@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-12 04:22:30

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

A yellowed page from a 1987 comic book

Page reads (via Google OCR)

gaz-ə-'ti(ə)r\n:

THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH TO D&D GAMEPLAY.

Even if you've been to the Grand Duchy of Karameikos before, you probably didn't know their vampires could walk under the sun and that sheep are not the only things that are sheared ..Thanks to the Gazetteer, an exciting new con-cept in gaming aids, now there's nothing you won't know about the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS world.

The Gaz…
The cover of West Coast Avengers #26
Subtitle ZODIAC ATTACK! 

A man dressed in orange chainmail and a half cowl mask stands on a table? with legs spread apart in the Marvel power stance. In one hand he brandishes a vaguely Prince-symbol-shaped thing which is emitting rings of Kirby dots. 

In the background, facing us, are silhouettes of various other supervillains (presumably zodiac) and in the foreground facing this guy and away from us are the assembled West Coast Avengers

Of note: iron Ma…
@ruari@velocipederider.com
2025-06-12 07:59:48

Hmm… maybe I should pickup a watch with a "California Dial". 🤔
P.S. For those unfamiliar with this dial layout or even those who have seen it but wondered WTF is going on, this is a nice summary:
revolutionwatch.com/california

Baltany branded watch with a milk chocolate brown face featuring a 'Mercedes' style hour hand, while the minute hand is sword-shaped with its sides angling outwards. The hourly markings use the vintage Rolex 'error-proof' layout (a.k.a. the 'California dial'). As such the 12 is a downward facing triangle, 3/6/9 are horizontally aligned batons. For the remaining numbers, the upper ones are roman numerals, while the lower ones are arabic numerals. The watch has a light brown leather strap and a p…
@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-05-11 13:16:51

Next stop in our NLP timeline is 2013, the introduction of low dimensional dense word vectors - so-called "word embeddings" - based on distributed semantics, as e.g. word2vec by Mikolov et al. from Google, which enabled representation learning on text.
T. Mikolov et al. (2013). Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space.

Slide from the Information Service Engineering 2025 lecture, lecture 02, Natural Language Processing 01, NLP Timeline. The timeline is in the middle of the slide from top to bottom, indicating a marker at 2013. On the left, a diagram is shown, displaying vectors  for "man" and "woman" in a 2D diagram. An arrow leades from the point of "man" to the point of "woman". Above it, there is also the point marked for "king" and the same difference vector is transferred from "man - > woman" to "king - ?…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-06-12 07:59:14

My whiteboard is now mounted in the new apartment

A whiteboard on which I scribbled „Technical Debt“ in a way that seems to follow a pattern at first and then loses it
@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 18:04:06

🧵
Local outlets captured the protests much more accurately and gave it priority coverage.
Covering the pro-democracy movement is not partisan.
Here are is one example. There are many, many more in our blog post.
#LocalNews #Journalism
4/5

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-11 18:20:46

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
BLAKE: I don't know. They look like micro power cells.
CALLY: I've never seen that type before.
ENSOR: [Strangled whisper] Help...help...help me. Help me.
blake.torpidity.net/m/112/144 B7B5

@j_honegger@swiss.social
2025-06-11 09:31:03

Von #GrüneCH @gruenech@instagram.com
Die #Tiefsee ist in Gefahr!🐠🪸
Wir haben eine dringliche #Interpellation gegen die

Video von Aline Trede mit Gründen für den Appell an den Bundesrat und die dringliche Interpellation der Grünen CH gegen die Ausbeutung des Meeresbodens.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-12 16:25:01

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more:

Session title: Shipping Lucene 10.0, 25 years in the making
Adrien Grand
Luca Cavanna
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or participate online / berlinbuzzwords.de
@alexanderadam@ruby.social
2025-06-12 07:19:36

Uuuh, :ruby: #Ruby will likely get #Namespaces although the syntax will change because #GitLab already uses `Namespace` a lot and @…

Matz presenting a first draft for Ruby namespaces
@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-10 20:36:22

Onhan tämä Kaarlensilta kauhea turistirysä, mutta toisaalta onhan näkymä tältä aivan uskomaton näin illalla.

@livia@sciences.social
2025-06-10 21:01:19

finally got around to add dark mode to my website 😎 #todayilearned in the process about a neat #css function: invert()

demo of "filter: invert (1);" with an inverted image
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
2025-06-12 19:10:58

New Gist: Not Mandatory, Not Compulsory, Not Legal
The DPC has fined the Department of Social Protection €550,000 for processing PSC card biometric data.
This is the Gist.
(at no point do I use the words "I told you so")
thegist.ie/the-gist-not-mand…

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-11 05:35:56

😑

Private mention

Petar Toushkov
@cellfourteen

@bsky.brid.gy stephenking.bsky.social

@ 41s

...

Private mention

Bridgy Fed for Bluesky
@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

We've already sent Stephen King . stephenking.bsky.social a DM. Fingers crossed!

@ 32s

...
@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-06-11 09:10:32

Wie glücklich mich seitdem alle Jahre wieder dieser Rose macht! Ich kanns immer noch nicht glauben, dass es mir gelungen ist, sie identisch aus dem winzigen Steckling aus dem Umzugsjahr 2021 zu ziehen um sie "mitnehmen" zu können. Sogar der Duft ist geblieben.🤩
#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus.
#rose

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-12 01:53:57

"words are scary," says marc ribot at (i think) his 1st ever all-vocal show, at roulette, with shahzad ismaily on drums/harmonium/bowls etc., mostly from the rad new "map of a blue city" but also a bit of alice notley's "the tyrant" & a gainsbourg song left off the album ("the drowned" possibly?) #nyc

Ismaily and Ribot onstage in auditorium
Ismaily plays harmonium, Ribot sings & plays guitar
@rettichschnidi@swiss.social
2025-06-09 20:24:34

Boden war gestern zwar etwas weich und rutschig, aber die Wanderung auf den #Nüenchamm kann ich total empfehlen. War auch bei mässigem Wetter wunderschön.

Blick from Nüenchamm auf den Talalpsee
Blick ins Tal mit Wolkendecke in der oberen Hälfte des Fotos
Gipfelkreuz Nüenchamm
Blick auf den Mürtschenstock
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-06-12 06:18:17

This is the header from a german book seller's website. Notice, that the sorta *wishlist* heart icon badge maxes out at single digit 9 !
Is that the real world, where people only have like nine items that they save? Is this just for “design aesthetics”? My wishlist contains 107!

Four icons left to right, labeled in german (i’ll translate)

Local Store with icon map pin and a green badge with a white heart
My Account with generic person icon with a green badge like a checked todo arror
Wishlist with a heart icon where the green badge shows the string 9+
Shopping basket with a green badge showing the number 0
@datascience@genomic.social
2025-05-12 10:00:00

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

@bogo@hapyyr.com
2025-06-12 13:05:00

Капчици живот
Страх ме е. Много ме е страх, но не за себе си, а за вас. Навеждали ли си сте се някога към локвичка с вода след току що навалял дъжд за да духнете в нея? Да усетите как дъхът, който ви поддържа жив се съвкупява с хилядите пръски които обливат лицето ви. Не? Защо ви е да го правите? Така се почувствах обаче аз когато спрях самоуправляващата се кола, която искаше да ме убие.

@joe@toot.works
2025-06-11 19:22:14

I envy my dog, slightly. She is completely out of it.

@pbloem@sigmoid.social
2025-06-11 17:14:24

Jesus, I thought Wikimedia at least would understand its editors. Who on earth thought this was going to go over well?
SE was at least a for-profit company, WM has no excuse for this. There are plenty of places where they can use AI really fruitfully, but none of them are to do with generating user-facing content.

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-05-12 20:05:06

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Chicane (2) ATB (1) Ayla (1) Ben Nicky (1) Darude (1). #myweekcounted 11 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

@davej@dice.camp
2025-06-10 21:41:21

I’ve never actually seen one IRL, but I had a weird crush on the CX when I was 14ish. There was a hearse model, as I recall. expressional.social/@lionelb/1

@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.social
2025-06-11 13:42:24

This person deserves a short story award.
amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews

@andi1984@social.saarland
2025-06-11 08:00:01

Morgen Abend findet das Revival des #WebWorkerSaar Meetups statt. Viele tolle Menschen sind mit dabei, dir die ich sonst niemals getroffen hätte.
Kommt vorbei! Anmeldung unter meet…

@cdamian@rls.social
2025-06-11 13:00:46

Zusammenfassung:
Ich bevorzuge Auto-Lärm dem von öffentlichem Verkehr.
Und Blinde sind doof.
taz.de/Die-grosse-Piep--und-Bl

@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 17:54:49

🧵 1 million people, 1,400 events… in support of civil society, decency and democracy.
@… give it a below-the-fold, wide-angle-photo of one event in NC, no headline, directs to single article on A18.
NYT Publisher is a sixth generation media oligarch. Will AG Sulzberger change course?
#Journalism
2/5

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-10 17:10:30

summarizing the discourse today

@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2025-06-12 06:17:16

#Einbürgerung #Schweiz
Eine zurückgezogene Lebensweise, oder dass jemand auf der Strasse nicht grüsse spricht in einer Gemeinde gegen die Einbürgerung. - Danke!
Laut der Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichts spricht dies aber nicht per se gegen die Integration.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-11 12:16:37

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
MORAG: What we need is something to discredit him. If he could be deported to Cygnus Alpha .... Doctor, am I right in thinking you can create experiences, implant them into a subject, who will then believe that they really happened?
HAVANT: Of course. In fact, creating an illusion of reality is quite simple.

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-06-11 08:33:16

Team Karlsruhe at ISWS 2025 at Bertinoro main village sqaure. This is the place to meet for AIFB and FIZ Karlsruhe teams ;-)
#isws2025 @… @…

The teams from KIT AIFB and FIZ Karlsruhe meeting on the main village sqare of BErtinoro during ISWS 2025, nichttime. People are standing next to each other.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-05-12 11:17:07

Kyle Liu is the Head of Engineering at Mercari, a second-hand e-commerce marketplace based in Japan. His team has been using Elastic Search for retrieval and DNN Learning to Rank for ranking for a long time. At #bbuzz, he will discuss how they re-architected their search system in response to developments in deep learning and LLM, and how they successfully convinced internal stakeholders to adopt new…

Session title: AI and LLM strategies and application at Mercari Search
Kaiyi Liu
Join us from June 15-17 in Berlin or online / berlinbuzzwords.de
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-06-10 20:05:31

Nice. Now do Netanyahu, the rest of the israeli government, and everyone in the IDF. You know, the folks perpetrating the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Oh, and maybe stop running surveillance flights to help israel commit genocide.
#israel #genocide

@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-06-10 17:45:14

„The protesters throwing rocks at heavily armed security forces or attempting to damage the vehicles used to kidnap their immigrant neighbors did not introduce violence. They are instead acting in militant community defense.“
From: @…

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-11 12:18:43

Originalet rövat av svenskarna 1648, nu i Drottningholm.

@alexanderadam@ruby.social
2025-06-12 07:02:37

"We need more open source Ruby code" says @… at @….
#opensource

Matz on BalticRuby stage
@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 18:16:53

🧵
Your support for local journalism supports democracy.
ACTION: use our 2,000 outlet, 50-state local journalism directory to find a good local news outlet. Subscribe and share good information!
tiny.cc/LocalDirectory
Support #LocalNews #Journalism
5/5

@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-06-11 08:10:58

Neuer Tag, neues #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-06-10 20:36:07

I love this style mastodon.art/@chabdpointcom/11

@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-11 16:49:28

oh _no_ wikipedia, this is a _terrible_ idea and WTF are you thinking
404media.co/wikipedia-pauses-a
(h/t @…

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-11 00:59:55

3 hours of new #music, night flights, & solidarity, from now 'til midnight ET on the frow show, on listener-supported @…

computer art of silhouette staring out airplane window at night, the frow show written in the sky
@datascience@genomic.social
2025-05-11 10:00:01

Linear programs help to find optimal solutions based on a set of constrains. I used {ompr} before, but the new package {tidyLP} looks promising and integrates with the tidyverse. #rstats #linearprograms #optimization

@joe@toot.works
2025-06-11 23:08:49

It's finally warm enough outside to not need a jacket for these trips around the neighborhood.

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-05-12 08:39:14

Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20

Slide from Information System Engineering 2025 lecture, 02 - Natural Language Processing 01, A brief history of NLP, NLP Timeline.
The NLP timeline is in the middle of the page from top to bottom. The marker is at 2020. On the left side, an original screenshot of GPT-3 is shown, giving advise on how to present a talk about "Symbolic and Subsymbolic AI - An Epic Dilemma?".
The right side holds the following text: 
2020: GPT-3 was released by OpenAI, based on 45TB data crawled from the web. A “da…
@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 18:00:55

Local outlets captured the event much more accurately and gave it priority coverage.
Covering the pro-democracy movement is not partisan.
Here is one example. See our blog post for many, many, more.
mediaanddemocracyproject.subst

4/

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-05-12 16:18:04

If anyone remembers 'Kula World' for the PS1, a faithful successor has been made by a small Dublin-based studio 'Space Lion Studios', named 'Axyz'.
Available for €12 on Steam
#pcgaming #Mastodaoine

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-11 15:18:45

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
BLAKE: I don't understand. There's no response from the ship.
VILA: Perhaps these bracelets don't work any more.
blake.torpidity.net/m/103/543

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "The image shows three people in what appears to be a dimly lit, industrial or spacecraft-like setting. They're wearing period costume that suggests a science fiction production from the late 1970s or early 1980s. The individuals are dressed in earth-toned clothing including vests and collared shirts, appropriate for a space-based drama. The composition shows them in close proximity, seemingly in the middle of a tense or important conversation. The lighting an…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-06-11 06:07:48

"We are facing a hard battle against the clear enemy. Its name is greed. Greed that sows doubt, denies science, distorts truth, rewards corruption and destroys life for profit."
instagram.com/reel/DKuFyh7Rbg7

@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social
2025-06-11 17:47:10

RIP - #BeachBoys Gründungsmitglied Brian Wilson mit 82 Jahren gestorben
rnd.…

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-12 01:57:09

if you feel you might want to say goodbyes to the earthly structure that once housed hank's saloon, now might be the time. #brooklyn #nyc

the former Hank's Saloon surrounded by scaffolding
@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-06-12 13:54:56

Nur ein wenig Deichfrieden aus der #wattpampa für euch.
#wursternordseekueste

@trochee@dair-community.social
2025-06-11 15:56:14

I'm not an atomic scientist but I thought I knew all the element names well enough to recognize them [0], so today's news about #Samarium (h/t/ @…) is extra weirdly ominous because I *don't* recognize the name
it's oddly made-up-soundin…

@rettichschnidi@swiss.social
2025-06-12 11:26:49

Wäre cool, heute noch ein paar neue Gesichter zu sehen: #FOSS

@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-11 17:42:33

🧵
Local outlets did *much* better than "Big Journalism" covering the #handsoff pro-democracy demonstrations.
Newsroom leaders need to defend democracy from autocracy.
See examples of good (and bad) coverage in our latest blog post.
mediaanddemocracyproject.subst
1/5

@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-06-11 08:29:03

Just a few days left until Berlin Buzzwords 2025!
If you're attending and require a wheelchair or have any mobility needs, please inform us in advance at info@berlinbuzzwords.de. This helps us ensure our team is prepared to provide the best possible support and assistance.
Haven't got your ticket yet? Get your Last Minute Ticket or Online Ticket now:

Image of Kulturbrauerei with a Berlin Buzzwords banner
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-12 12:32:04

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
TYNUS: [Entering with food packages] I've got one for each of you. Hydrolyzed protein.
VILA: Thanks.
TYNUS: I've got to put it in the oven first.
AVON: Don't bother.
VILA: Lost our appetites suddenly.
blake.torpidity.net/m/207/506

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This appears to be a scene from a science fiction television series, showing two characters in what looks like a spacecraft or futuristic setting. One character is wearing a distinctive black leather outfit with metallic studs or decorative elements, while the other is dressed in more casual clothing and appears to be wearing headphones or some kind of communication device. The setting has a retro-futuristic aesthetic typical of British sci-fi producti…
@datascience@genomic.social
2025-06-11 10:00:01

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

@joe@toot.works
2025-06-11 00:18:10

It looks like somebody is preparing the former Libby Montana for something.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-10 20:27:08

“Mikeal approached every project with the conviction that open source is not a license but a promise to lift others”
b.h4x.zip/mikeal/

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-11 20:40:31

#Kurventrööt on the #Semmering on Monday.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-11 16:56:01

into the endless summer @…

Beach Boys Endless Summer LP
@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-06-12 09:19:52

#bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus, Beetrose "sea foam" und die gestreifte "carnival" legen los.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-12 09:27:02

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
ROD: Brother - I will not call you Charl.
GOLA: Then I shall make you. [Blake enters]
JENNA: Blake!
BLAKE: Shhh!
GOLA: Who is this?
ROD: This is my second.
blake.torpidity.net/m/212/472 B7B2

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see this appears to be from a science fiction television series, showing what looks like a dramatic scene with characters in period or fantasy-style costumes. The setting appears to be indoors with ornate decorative elements visible in the background. The characters are wearing elaborate clothing with metallic details and fur trim, suggesting this might be from an episode with a historical or fantasy theme. The lighting and production style is ch…
@joe@toot.works
2025-06-11 00:14:38

This is my treat to myself after 9.8 mi on the mountain bike.

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2025-06-10 19:26:01
Content warning: Sick cat, poop

Good news: We have a diagnosis for Mimi— it’s a rare parasite
Bad news: it means a cocktail of meds for the next 3 weeks, disinfecting THE ENTIRE APARTMENT, and literally washing the cat‘s ass every time she poops.

A very dense list of medications
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-12 06:06:05

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
SERVALAN: I was watching Samor. What Travis said bothered him!
THANIA: You were watching?
blake.torpidity.net/m/206/485 B7B1

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "This image appears to be from a science fiction television series, showing a scene in a minimalist, futuristic setting with white walls featuring a geometric pattern. The scene depicts two people in a formal conversation across what appears to be a control console or technical device with buttons and a circular display.

On the left is a person with short dark hair wearing a white outfit, shown from behind. On the right stands someone in a fitted black leathe…
@wandklex@mastodon.art
2025-06-12 08:30:54

#Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch an #AtelierHueteHund

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-12 16:00:18

@… @… @… I have no idea what counts and what doesn’t but I’d pass along one of my favs lately

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-05-10 18:35:31

Sad news in the parish this evening. After 34 years, the Famous Pizza D'or in Monaghan town is closing their doors on June 1st 2025.
#Mastodaoine #Monaghan

The Final Slice is Coming! 
A Fond Farewell from Famous Pizza Do’r Limited 

Dear Valued Customers, After 34 incredible years, it's time for us to say goodbye. Our doors will officially close on June 1, 2025, and we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to the wonderful community of Monaghan and beyond. 

Since 1991, we've been proud to serve more than just pizza. We've been part of your birthday parties, weddings, post-match meals, charity fundraisers, Ceili nights — and every…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-11 09:14:27

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Our hero lives.
TARRANT: At least he didn't try to get into a spacesuit.
AVON: I look upon self-interest as my great strength. Vila.
TARRANT: One day, Avon, I may have to kill you.
blake.torpidity.net/m/304/107

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "The image shows a scene from what appears to be a science fiction television production from the late 1970s or early 1980s, based on the visual style and production quality. 

The setting looks like the interior of a spacecraft or space station with curved walls and minimalist design elements typical of sci-fi of that era. Two people are visible in the frame - one person in a light-colored shirt standing and gesturing to another person wearing dark clothing w…
@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-06-10 19:34:14

ISWS 2025 evening at the Bertinoro village square. waiting for the surprise event 😉
#ISWS2025 #semanticweb #KnowledgeGraphs

Sanbitter Soda on a table at Bertinoro village square
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-11 06:05:53

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: No. Must be brain warp. Think I'll just go off and die somewhere. [starts to exit]
TARRANT: Vila.
VILA: What?
TARRANT: The door.
VILA: Which door?

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "I can see this appears to be from a science fiction television series, showing someone in what looks like futuristic costume design typical of late 1970s/early 1980s British sci-fi productions. The person is wearing what appears to be a light-colored outfit with darker trim or detailing, and the lighting and film quality are characteristic of that era's television production values. The setting appears to be an interior space, possibly a spacecraft or …
@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-12 15:25:39

@… once you understand the dissonance of rollingstone.com/politics/poli

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-05-10 02:26:16

Imagine your brain just being non-existent that you _must_ refer to an #AI slop pot to do some basic task, and even though the information that the slop pot produces is either inaccurate or flat out false... you still use it as a response regardless. #AIBollocks

twitter / x screenshot of an initial tweet, with most of the content cut off asking the question at the end "Can someone explain to me what's going on?!"

With the first user responding stating "I asked GROK your question. Here's GROKs response." with the actual response edited out,
@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-04-09 20:41:37

Nieman Lab:
As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem
#Press

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-06-10 15:56:50

Graffitti along the road downhill from Bertinoro castle taken while coming back from the daily morning run. Love & passion ;-)
#isws2025 #running #summerschool

Flying hearts floating down the street, painted on a wall below a blue one way sign.
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social
2025-06-10 07:51:04

Great news! We've extended the deadline for Standard Tickets! This is your final opportunity to purchase them before they are replaced by Last Minute Tickets at a higher rate. Make sure to get yours by 11:59 PM tonight!
Get your ticket now: tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz

Berlin Buzzwords
@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 17:06:29

@… @… I like this, now I get paid twice

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-10 17:07:00

What is this type of helmet supposed to protect you from? Someone hitting you with a blunt object on the top of your head, because obviously they wouldn’t do it in the neck or over the ears? Worn by police SWAT team members in an exercise at Prague Castle.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-06-09 22:49:37

50 years ago today, the #GratefulDead work on “blues for allah” at ace’s. 2 long segments usually labeled as “6/7” with one central overlapping jam, but recordist steve brown’s production notes & tape box don’t have the band at ace’s that saturday & i suspect a “9” was misread as a "7" at some point. almost certainly the correct week, though, as they prep for the 6/17 bob fri…

tape spine labeled 6/9 #53
@MAD_democracy@journa.host
2025-05-09 15:20:54

Journalism is under fire: will the press defend democracy?
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/america-and-our-democracy-are-under-attack,255597?newsletter=255688
#Journalism #FreePress

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 16:51:20

@… here at peloton engineering we only allow cyclical dependencies

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-10 16:52:11

Must have this T-shirt. Spotted on unknown guy in Prague.

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 16:50:29

@… hop in losers we’re getting paid per LoC!!!

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-10 14:10:53

Beware of giants stealing your car?

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 16:50:09

@… ArmsRaisedAsciiCharacterFactory

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-09 06:33:08

The domestic (electric) regional trains in Austria all seem to be very new and shiny. Compare to the sad diesel regional train over the border to Sopron that I arrived in on Thursday. #ÖBB

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-10 12:16:55

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: I wonder why.
FRANTON: [Through door] Because of these. They're implanted with her cells.
TARRANT: Servalan's?
AVON: Her surrogate womb.
TARRANT: Birth by proxy.
blake.torpidity.net/m/307/526 B7…

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 16:03:43

you know what this system needs? more complexity

@tml@urbanists.social
2025-06-09 12:49:06

Ehkä sisustuksen puolesta raikkaimman oloinen #junanVessa missä olen käynyt. Itävaltalaisen #ÖBB-yhtiön #Railjet-juna, Siemensin valmistama. Hakkaa VR:n IC-junien vessat.

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-10 09:14:56

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: [Touches Avon's hand with her weapon. She releases his hand.] Minimum power. A full charge would cut you in half.
NOVARA: Understand. Your lives are totally unimportant to us.
BLAKE: All right.
blake.torpidity.net/m/105/484

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "The image shows a close-up of a person with dark, short hair wearing what appears to be a gray or silver jacket with a high collar. They have an intense or concerned expression on their face. The lighting gives the scene a somewhat dark, muted tone with greenish hues in the background.

This appears to be from a science fiction television production from the late 1970s or early 1980s, based on the visual style and filming quality. The setting seems to be some…
@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-06-11 15:28:20

@… @… nice! it looks great!

@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-10 06:12:50

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Good. Moving to line up. Right lateral, minimum power.
VILA: Too much. You're overshooting.
AVON: Left lateral. That's enough. Hold.
VILA: Square on.

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This scene appears to be set aboard a spacecraft, likely the Liberator, given the futuristic interior with curved walls and control panels visible in the background. The setting has the characteristic sleek, technological aesthetic of the series with muted lighting creating a serious atmosphere.

Two crew members are shown in what appears to be a tense or contemplative moment. One character is wearing the distinctive brown and beige Federation uniform …
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-10 18:21:41

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
blake.torpidity.net/m/203/532 B7B5

Claude Sonnet 4.0 describes the image as: "This appears to be a tense scene set in what looks like a spacecraft or space station corridor. The setting has the characteristic sterile, industrial aesthetic typical of science fiction productions from this era, with gray walls and functional lighting.

In the scene, there are three figures - one person wearing a distinctive olive-green uniform with a belt and equipment, suggesting they may be a guard or security officer. They appear to be confronti…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net
2025-06-10 15:19:30

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: Who betrayed us?
TRAVIS: [To mutoids] Take her.
MUTOID: [Indicating homing beacon] Shall I smash it?
TRAVIS: No. Give Blake his homing beacon - make it easier for him. Finish it.
blake.torpidity.net/m/109/37 B7…

Claude 3.7 describes the image as: "The image shows a dark, atmospheric scene featuring a figure in what appears to be a black leather outfit with some kind of eye patch or facial covering. They are partially illuminated against a very dark background, creating a dramatic, shadowy effect. The costume includes what looks like fur trim visible in the lower right portion of the frame.

This appears to be from a science fiction production, with the styling and costume design suggesting a dystopian …