@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-26 14:05:02
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Magdalena Bay:
🎵 This Is The World (I Made It For You)
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-world-i-made-it-for-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/6xgNV9489zKLRXnvpiZQXJ
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-25 06:01:24
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-01-26 16:37:11
RE: https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115961798558875182
For my part, I am very good at this. Would probably thrive on a long interstellar journey.
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-25 17:32:02
The business panel, Rebuilding Value Chains for the Open Web.
Mostly about advertising. In the backchannel “do we want to accept a little poison”?
@rose.bsky.team says, “Trust the builders” https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m5ykbtpe3s26
@ellie@ellieayla.net2025-12-24 20:42:32
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-25 14:00:05
twitter_events: Twitter, 5 events (2013-2014)
Various multiplex networks of retweets, mentions, and replies among Twitter users during specific events or occasions in 2013 and 2014.
This network has 88804 nodes and 210250 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Multilayer, Unweighted
https://netwo…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-27 03:00:46
Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-26 09:37:21
These AI companies are really different.
- OpenAI: Used to be true believers but now mostly cynical scam
- Microsoft: How garbage can we make office and people still pay any markup?
- Google: Sure we can throw AI everywhere as well. No we still don't have product management or strategy
- Anthropic: But dude what if my stochastic model is my soul mate? Or god?
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-11-25 17:49:27
@… ah, yeah — I am mostly thinking about security footprint here. If a token is compromised, this might help prevent malicious code (because it would need that code to exist in the repo too)
@Jyoti@mas.to2025-12-25 11:43:42
This Crimbo, I will mostly be hanging out on Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky and Reddit, in that order, while non-stop Stargate SG-1 plays on my telly.
Mood: I am the round red twat in this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon
