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golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins") wrote:
Like, how small is Mars? Seriously.
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damianogerli ("Damiano Gerli") wrote:
Watching the documentary "No nos gusta Capitan Morcilla" about the rise of the Spanish gaming industry in the 80s. It is quite comforting hearing adult men talk about developing games as little more than kids, not "working", but just having fun.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
This popped up on my letterboxd feed and it's so much to take in.
"Hallelujah I'm A Bum: The first picture ever done in 'rhythmic dialogue!'" sounds like a riff on Jazz Age movies that they'd throw into an episode of Mr. Show and the title itself reads like one of the anagram slogans on the wall of the vault in Zero Escape
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cool. My granddaughter is working on her thesis, expects to have it done for her 5th birthday.
We're all slackers.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/21/maybe-well-have-4-phds-in-the-family/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Reputations ought to be shattered by this awful paper. Why would anyone put their name on it?
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
It is tough to leave this behind and go back to reality. And some people live here! I’m sure there are downsides but it sounds pretty good to me right now.
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I wish we could stay here a little longer, but it is time to go home 🥲
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):
chema@sanfranciscan.org ("Chema Hernández Gil") wrote:
The mere possibility of even incidental contact between Native Americans and Polynesians nearly a millennium ago deep in Polynesia is exciting because it did not lead to the genocides of European settler-colonialism. A peaceful exchange, by all indications.
Mastodon FeedCalifornia from the Bay Bridge #photography https://glass.photo/blithe/1P7rhvt36bivbzAMSsO7Sl
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ISW: “Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin declared victory in Bakhmut City on May 20 and announced his intent to withdraw from the city on May 25.”
now just hold a pee-raid and declare it over
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Jarhead is such a beautiful name for a girl
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jenniferplusplus@tech.lgbt ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
@deweyritten Sam Altman is asking for a brand new agency to be created and staffed on his recommendation in order to regulate that AIs won't "escape".
That's not a thing. It's sci-fi nonsense. It's like environmental regulations to prevent creating godzilla.What he's actually trying to do is invent a set of rules that only he can win, and establish that he can't be liable for the real harm he does. AI has only ever been a liability laundering machine, and he wants to enshrine that function in law.
He's also really desperate not to be regulated by the FTC, because their charter is to prevent and remedy actual harm to actual people.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a bit messy & uneven, but not too bad
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Mastodon Feedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7X8e_WwoI
If you know you know. Probably my favorite racing game.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"For example, you can turn on your smart washing machine using voice control from your TV, and many other practical functions."
I have an issue with the word "practical" here. Do you? Or am I just getting old?
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Last day of the honeymoon. And it’s #caturday! This cute tabby came to the restaurant to beg for food and got some chicken.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
On "reactionary libertarian assholes", by @baldur: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/tech-broke-the-webs-social-contract/
(HT @nolan)
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
@mbrubeck I did read Interface, but I don't make the connection… To me this one feels like a genuinely new setting and set of characters and invokes the feeling I had after Reamde, which seemed light and goofy after the Baroque cycle and Anathem :-)
Mastodon FeedThis book feels a bit like a successor to Interface (Neal Stephenson & J. Frederick George, 1994) which I personally think is the most underrated Stephenson novel.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):
Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
sorry to keep sharing bummer news, but if you have EzriCare eye drops, get rid of them right now:
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/05/4th-death-in-eye-drop-outbreak-now-81-cases-14-blinded-and-4-lost-eyeballs
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sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social ("Sarah Dal") wrote:
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.
Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
If nothing else, Mastodon seems to be pretty convincing evidence that an edit button can work. I'm not seeing many cases of it being abused the way many worried it would be.
Bad actors are the problem, not the tools. Get rid of the bad faith people, and we can have nice things.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:
How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/
A logic professor explains how a persistent, subtle fallacy has infected public discussion of climate change
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:
session hijacking attack
#caturday :blobcat3c:
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racheltobac@infosec.exchange ("racheltobac :verified: :donor:") wrote:
My latest live hack demo using AI to clone a voice in a phone attack is airing on 60 Minutes this Sunday. Hope this message gets to the folks most commonly scammed using this method and stops at least one future attack.
Here’s the preview: https://youtu.be/lDCXHG2l3Es
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:
Yes frontend is teetering atop so much self imposed complexity in the name of 'good engineering' that it barely works anymore. Add to that layers of management enacting poor leadership decisions, irrational timelines and an industry leading itself around by the hype machine and honestly it's a wonder anything works at all anymore!
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I really need another Captain Yajima short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-TJm7HkzkQ
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
vaurora@wandering.shop ("Valerie Aurora") wrote:
Is anyone else noticing that software just... doesn't work right anymore? Every single booking system I've tried to use in the last week has had a serious revenue-affecting bug (airline, cab reservation, temporary rental, doctor appointment). Two of them were time zone bugs, one was a form field validation bug on a required field, the last was "you can't get an assigned seat unless you call us"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
neilhimself ("Neil Gaiman") wrote:
I gave a speech at Florida's New College Alternate Graduation. It's only 3 minutes long. I meant every word of it.