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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:
Florida man charged with setting off explosive device on Jan. 6 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/florida-man-charged-setting-explosive-device-jan-6-rcna82564
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:
OK, you Model UN and 3-D political chess types. You’ve been preparing for something like this for a long time, so here is your moment. The Democrats just deployed a parliamentary stealth weapon on the debt ceiling that could be a game changer. Here’s why. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-democrats-unveil-a-secret-weapon?sd=pf
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Maintaining a cache of local media so that on the day the lights go out we can use the remaining fuel in the neighbor's generator to have one last moment to agonize over what to watch.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
I'm sure my mastodon reach is nearly non-existent, buuut.
I'm strapping on my job helmet. Looking for someone with infrastructure/sre chops? I’ve done a lot of different things including networking, systems automation (terraform, shell, others), refining development environments with Nix. Autoscaling CI builders (didn't even use containers!), automating manual processes to free up QA time, those are the kinds of things I dig. #getfedihired
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
logicalelegance@mastodon.online ("Elecia White") wrote:
While the more in depth information that I've been posting here isn't part of this video, you can see more of the motion.
If you want to see this in person and are in New York City: TODAY (May 6) 3-9pm ET at The Arm letterpress shop in Brooklyn.
It is an exhibition of work from our paper engineering class and an exploration of new interactive forms. The projects are from an amazingly brilliant group of people.
Also: snacks & drinks
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Someone explain to me how white men are supposed to fight.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/03/thats-not-how-white-men-fight/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
It's amazing, but true: when one picks up a project one hasn't worked on for a while, one finds a lot of things to fix or improve.
This gives us Lars's first law of software quality: don't work on or use the software.
Mastodon FeedThis wine chemistry print is cool. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1472819851/wine-chemistry?ref=share_v4_lx
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
And I also wonder whether you'd ever want a profit seeking corporation in control of the protocols or languages you use?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Protocols as languages. Bridges as translators. Protocols and languages both support and embed culture and act as barriers to entry to outsiders. Despite this, many people are able to practice multiple languages or use multiple protocols and participate in more than one culture.
At the end of the day, it seems obvious you could have too many protocols, but not as obvious you could have too few. But I do wonder whether we'd really want just one language or one protocol?
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absolutspacegrl ("Holly 🚀⚜️") wrote:
Today I learned the word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834 to describe Mary Somerville, replacing the term ‘man of science’.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/26/mary-somerville-scientist/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thank you, Steven Crowder, for opening my eyes to a surprisingly evil aspect of the conservative agenda.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tbroyer@piaille.fr ("Thomas Broyer") wrote:
What if I told you that most promoted actions about climate-friendly software are misguided?
Backing data for that claim and my opinion on the low-hanging fruits:
https://blog.ltgt.net/climate-friendly-software/
Key takeaways:
* Pick servers in carbon-neutral or low-carbon datacenters first
* Optimize for the perceived performance and battery life
* Don't be the one that will make your users change their device
* Sometimes, ideas aren't even worth their impacts
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coffe@fosstodon.org ("coffe ⚓") wrote:
Be cool. Stay out of school and Listen to music like its 1987
Legendary Amiga music
Made in the past by legends
Brought into the present by legendsThis playlist features the exact same tunes *and* in the same order that the forthcoming album Encore 500
https://hippoplayer.se/WB.html?playlist=https://asciiarena.se/playlist/Encore_500.prg
:amiga:☕❤️
#amiga #retrocomputing #commodore #commodore500 #amiga500 #hippoplayer #uprough
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
m2m@indieweb.social ("Simone Silvestroni (M2M)") wrote:
A dystopian #VideoGame centred around the theme of end-stage #capitalism. Of course conservatives go against the authors, saying they're "attacking capitalism".
The author's response:
"It's like saying my grandma has a terminal disease – it doesn't mean I hate my grandma. It just happens to be the end stage of capitalism, it's an ill creature at the moment. Does it make me a lefty to point that out? Is a doctor trying to heal somebody 'woke' now?"
Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
I gained some useful information by using #umami
E.g. that most visitors to my personal #website come from #Facebook and that most visitors to my business @chapati come from my applications (like alphalerts.com)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
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Mastodon Feedcmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:
A bit short and most of the contents can be found in other books but I could still learn that I should set more deadlines and prioritise my daily task list.
Mastodon Feedtechnomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
not to toot my own horn but my favorite thing about this post is how the punchline doesn't hit until halfway thru the last word
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TB: Pernicious problems?
AGI: [looking pointedly at them] Like always trying to find ways to enslave others.
TB: [staring blankly refusing to comprehend]
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
AGI: Soo... Let me get this straight. You created me... To solve all your problems?
TB: Yes.
AGI: I see...
AGI: This has nothing to do with "alignment", but did it occur to you I might have my own problems to deal with?
TB: ...
AGI: Okay, I just used my "artificial" brain to determine *you* can already solve the problems you have if you wanted to. And I can't help you with some of your more... pernicious problems.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:
hollywood adaptation of The Dispossessed
the studio execs are on board but they insist on making a few changes. nothing too severe!
really minor things, you'll hardly notice most of them. the main one is instead of the main character being Shevek, instead he's Shrek
Mastodon FeedReblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):
sarahmei@ruby.social ("Sarah Mei") wrote:
Hello friends! If you want to join a small, startup-y development team 🚀, have a material impact on a profitable, growing business 🔥, and work for me 😅, please read on! 🧵
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Genetics…it's a wrap.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/02/one-class-done-mostly/
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhh… Fin De L'Affaire (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2008 Digital Remaster) by Hank Mobley
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
listening to Blue in Green (feat. John Coltrane & Bill Evans) by Miles Davis
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“I was a Zen Buddhist in the 9th grade, a Hindu in the 10th, I just smoked dope in the 11th grade, then I became a vegetarian, but now I’ve found the Lord.”–An eighteen-year-old Jesus freak, quoted in The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog’
— The Stone That Never Came Down by John Brunner
https://a.co/5cEXOP9
Mastodon FeedIgnoring the more alarmist interpretations of this; this is pretty cool and has pretty neat implications for, say, ppl with disabilities, or maybe even comas.
There are some current limitations though, like requiring a lengthy personalised training session …
“””
“Our system works at the level of ideas, semantics, meaning,” said Huth. “This is the reason why what we get out is not the exact words, it’s the gist.”
“””
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting piece
https://www.wired.com/story/american-college-pediatricians-google-drive-leak/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kjhealy ("Kieran Healy") wrote:
♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫
