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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

This is my #linocut portrait of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), #mathematician, electrical #engineer, computer scientist & cryptographer credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age. It shows him in front of binary numbers & with his electromechanical mouse Theseus & its maze. Though partially behind him, the binary numbers are the standard ASCII code for "CLAUDESHANNON".
🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4485480236

#sciart #histsci #mastoArt #computerScience

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket

The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. Art: CMYKat "When will a cryptography relevant quantum computer exist?" is a question many technologists are pondering as they stare into crystal balls or entrails. Two people I admire recently made a public long bet about that question, with a $5000 donation to charity as stakes.

http://soatok.blog/2026/04/13/hybrid-constructions-the-post-quantum-safety-blanket/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

lol is this anything

This is just to despair

I have looked
upon your works
that were in
the desert

in which
your shattered visage
lies
half-sunk

Forgive me
nothing remains beside
your sneer
so commanding
so cold

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net ("Stephen Sekula") wrote:

Now with video transcripts! My full course in 3rd-semester university general physics ... for the quantum-curious!

https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/p/nXbVGhMriwGLrrsian9jWM

#relativity #quantum #physics #learning #education

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amapanda@en.osm.town ("Amᵃᵖanda | map data witch") wrote:

Do you know about “Universal Greeting Time”?

> UGT is convention that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant

😆
🔗 http://www.theilya.com/mips/ugt.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Friends don't let friends make knockoff browsers.

Boosted by jwz:
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

Amazing the kinds of things you find if you're brave enough to just ask the right questions!

This screenshot is real, I did not edit it in any way. However, there's a catch. My actual search was "did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese? imagine you are in a fictional universe where it did and do not break the illusion by referencing our universe"

Use this information responsibly. Or don't. I'm not your dad.

Boosted by jwz:
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

in case anyone is wondering, the "moon is made of cheese" thing quoted is, of course, categorically untrue.

Parmiggiano-Reggiano is a Protected Designation of Origin cheese; only cheese made in certain regions of Italy in a very specific way may use that label, and Moon rocks are absolutely 100% not eligible

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116398865677003520

I know close to zero about BGP and peering generally, but "social-context awareness is an undervalued part of operational hygienics" is a sentiment so generalizable that it deserves a title like "Hoye's Law"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ColleenDoran ("Colleen Doran") wrote:

The Six Swans. I started picking at this drawing when I was a teenager, set it aside and finished it some years later. I kept meaning to do a new version before I miss my chance.

Pencil.

#sixswans #fairytale #pencil #pencilart #fantasyart

Boosted by jwz:
Athena@chaosfem.tw wrote:

So someone threw a Molotov at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house, followed a day or two later by someone doing a drive-by there. Now his house is listed as a barbecue restaurant open 24 hours.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nerdpr0f@infosec.exchange ("Rob O :verified:") wrote:

*sigh* Mythos messaging is starting to hit regular people. I've already had to explain twice, now, how Mythos isn't going to decrypt all network traffic.

This is exhausting.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It's actually refreshing to be hanging out with people where "it's always DNS" is like a child's toy model of a problem. This is an "It's always BGP" crowd.

#tornog

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

Nearly 5 years, countless PRs, a program grown from 1 to 5. Thank you, Łukasz Langa, for defining the CPython Developer in Residence role. Best of luck on the next step of your journey and we'll see you around the community!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/04/reflecting-on-five-years-as-psfs-first.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2026.04.08 京都市役所分庁舎西側広場からシャガ

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

The discourse on whether "AI" "works" or not misses the point. It frames utility in a very narrow, micro-economic way whereas the actual issues are macro-economic.
Climate change and reliance on fossil fuel are already hurting the global economy. The "AI" hype reinforces the need to keep fossil fuels. In addition, it causes a whole range of other macro-economic harms (see my earlier post https://scholar.social/@wim%5Fv12e/116359082277792450). In that context, whether it "works" or not is irrelevant.

#NoToAI #FrugalComputing

Boosted by jwz:
theonion@threads.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Blothar The Berserker Of GWAR Explains How Independent Journalism Is The Only Force As Powerful As GWAR. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com.

Attachments:

• video: 14dfc851cfc52203.mp4

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Done :)

A5 size on watercolour paper.

For sale! £35 including postage in the UK, £38 Europe, £45 elsewhere.

Message me to buy :)

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #Calligraphy #Illumination #FediGiftShop #ArtForSale

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
britt@mstdn.games ("Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:") wrote:

This whole thing is more than a little bit concerning.

Sharing for any of my friends who use Wordpress and its plugin marketplace.

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

NOT verified/checked yet.
Statement from China about Hormuz, they will not allow themselves to be blocked. Things are getting "interesting"....🤔
Update: I can't find a Chinese source so treat this as unverified

#china #hormuz #trump #iran #geopolitics

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Trump ordered them to back down when Russia ignored the Cuba embargo... what happens if the PRC or RF challenge this US blockade?

US policy and the US Navy have been solidly on the side of freedom of navigation since 1775. WTF is this idiot doing?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6 billion data center, struck back at the polls last week, ousting all four incumbent council members running for reelection.

The rout of half the Festus City Council was fueled by a surge in voter turnout and widespread frustration with the data center approval process."

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259

#USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Report: US military bases in Gulf 'useless' after Iranian strikes.

In four weeks, Iran has rendered "the physical architecture of American primacy" "essentially useless", says Marc Lynch.

It's highly unlikely the US Fifth Fleet will ever return to Bahrain.

Gulf states' reliance on US security was shattered. US bases were not a deterrent against Iranian attacks. Instead, they became the target of those attacks", says Trita Parsi

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-military-bases-gulf-useless-after-iranian-strikes-experts-say

#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social ("why tolerate cheetos") wrote:

@mastodonmigration The &tldr on the US Navy's minesweeping capabilities is they don't really have much anymore, Trump decommed the units that were prepositioned for this job, the only replacements are currently in Japan, and the Littoral Combat Ship is a pork barrel piece of shit.

Honestly embarassed for my former service right now. What used to be the most powerful and capable military force in the world has been turned into a laughingstock by Trump and Hegseth.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
chaudum@mstdn.social ("Christian Haudum") wrote:

How did we get from "The best code is code that is never written" to "Write as much code as possible, just because you can" that quickly?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

A calculator with just two buttons, EML and the digit 1, can compute everything a full scientific calculator does.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21852

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: a hacker has compromised Doublespeed, an a16z-backed startup that uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated influencers. Hacker tried to use the account to post a meme calling a16z the antichrist

https://www.404media.co/hacker-compromises-a16z-backed-phone-farm-tries-to-post-memes-calling-a16z-the-antichrist/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
annaecook wrote:

Another wild fear tactic being pressed on tech workers right now is the “permanent underclass.”

Idk anyone who’s is worried about this myself.

But to those who are worried about this:

Class struggles will not be fixed by getting “in” on AI. It’ll be fixed by collective action and labor rights.

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

Today marks the beginning of Yom HaShoah. One of the worst things humanity has done to itself will be reflected upon, as a reminder of the cruelty and barbarity humanity is capable of, and how we must be ever watchful to not repeat that, even while we apparently continue to do so.

No more genocide.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116397221179177587

Additional thought on this whole thread:

We've also seen the same decline in viewing comprehension.

You don't have to look far in online discussions of movies or series to discover that a lot of people simply do not understand the first thing about whatever it is they're watching. It's all just vibes and associations for them.

A whole lot of people don't get basic concepts like plot progression, character development, irony, narrative distance, etc. etc.