Mastodon Feed: Posts

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

digits@ravenation.club ("Digits") wrote:

Love this iskwē song!

https://iskwe.bandcamp.com/track/end-of-it-all #music

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

The one downside to shooting pics with a real camera and post processing #raw photos is that you will likely only see my obligatory picture of a pumpkin no sooner than tomorrow. There may also be a witch present...

#halloween

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

A very happy Halloween to all those who recognize KitKat as the best candy.

Reblogged by teller ("Siim Teller"):

andybaio@xoxo.zone ("Andy Baio") wrote:

Neal.fun's Internet Artifacts is an online museum of artifacts from the early internet, including the first spam email, first MP3, first livestream, and dozens of notable early websites with a working browser and Flash emulation. https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I'm spending Halloween all alone. Well, with an evil cat. I hope I survive.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/31/oh-no-im-home-alone/

Attachments:

• Spooky house (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

For the first time in a country that celebrates Halloween during Halloween and I like it.

Attachments:

• 3 orange carved pumpkins on grey stone in rainy weather.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

porsupah@lgbt.io ("Shy bunny") wrote:

ICYMI, Duran Duran just released a new Halloween album, Danse Macabre. ^_^

https://music.apple.com/us/album/danse-macabre/1701717246

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

kellylepo@astrodon.social ("Kelly Lepo") wrote:

Happy Halloween 🎃

Here are the pumpkins I carved this year: An active red dwarf star and its gas giant planet. I call it an exo-pumkin.

#pumpkin #JackOLantern #halloween #Astrodon #astronomy

Attachments:

• Two carved pumpkins, lit from within, photographed at night. The larger pumpkin is carved with a detailed, stylized image of the sun including prominances that arc off the limb of the sun. The smaller pumpkin is carved like a planet, resembling a stylized Jupiter. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

mcnees ("Robert “the Bobby Yaga” McNees") wrote:

Mathematician Karl Weierstrass was born #OTD, Halloween, in 1815.

The fools at The Academy all said he was mad, but in 1872 he announced that he had succeeded in creating a ~monster~.

Image: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Attachments:

• Black and white photo of Karl Weierstrass in his later years. His white hair is receding, longer in the back, and he is wearing a dark suit with a white collared shirt underneath.

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

georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The adult children of Donald Trump begin to appear on the stand this week in the New York civil fraud trial. Eric will once more prove how absolutely brilliant he is, and Don Jr. will show the world that he is just a chill, cool guy. Ivanka is set for next week, but she keeps hoping an asteroid hits first.

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

carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Andrew Ng a professor at Stanford who taught machine learning to people like Sam Altman of Open AI and who also co-founded Google Brain has called bullshit on AI doomerism.

Ng states that the idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie being spread by big tech in the hope of triggering heavy regulation that would shut down competition in the AI market.

Crippling Open Source models is one outcome of this effort that’s succeeding.

https://www.afr.com/technology/google-brain-founder-says-big-tech-is-lying-about-ai-human-extinction-danger-20231027-p5efnz

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

croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

Wow, just worked a POTA activation in Florida on 10m from here in California. Definitely some QSB to deal with but I've had a lot worse! #hamradio

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

chemjobber@mstdn.social ("Chemjobber") wrote:

The 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 415 tenure-track positions and 38 teaching positions: http://bit.ly/facultychemjobs2024 #facultychemjobs

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

⚠️Yet another #recall 🐶

Blue Ridge Beef has voluntarily recalled its Breeders Choice #2 dog food due to potential Salmonella contamination.

The recall was initiated by a sample of the impacted product testing positive for Salmonella.

There have been no confirmed illnesses linked to the ingestion of one of the products in question.

No other Blue Ridge Beef products are impacted by this recall. https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/blue-ridge-beef-issues-voluntary-recall-of-breeders-choice-2-dog-food/

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HyperLogLog is super clever.

It can count any number of unique values in constant space (i.e. without storing the values) within a specified margin of error.

And HLLs can be merged to count unique number of values in both sets! So you can quickly count something like "unique number of requests per day", and combine these into "per month", and "per year", without storing a year worth of history.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

phonner@mathstodon.xyz ("Patrick Honner") wrote:

A new edition of "Linear Algebra Done Right" has been published, and the PDF is freely available for download on the Springer website.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-41026-0

#math #LinearAlgebra #OER

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

https://youtu.be/NAM_yvCoJ44 (especially the part starting at 2:15)

Attachments:

• f767623881703cd5.jpeg (remote)

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

AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

She lives the poetry she cannot write. ~ Oscar Wilde

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Don't be scared! Spiders probably won't eat you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/31/no-anthropophagy-among-spiders-yet-that-we-know-of/

Attachments:

• Spiders eating vertebrates (remote)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

"Little Dead Riding Hood"

Attachments:

• My 11-year-old daughter's Halloween costume

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I think today I'm gonna watch some shorter films I've been saving and also some gay horror movies

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

Senate Judiciary Committee announced plans to vote to subpoena billionaires who reportedly gave lavish gifts to #SupremeCourt Justices #ClarenceThomas & #Alito.

Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) & Sen. Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in a statement that they plan to subpoena billionaires Harlan Crow & Robin Arkley, as well as conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo. #SCOTUS
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/31/democrats-supoena-harlan-crow-leonard-leo-supreme-court-justices

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

eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

GoGuardian monitors millions of students. We analyzed actual websites that the student monitoring tool marked as “explicit,” and found that thousands of students are flagged every day for visiting sites that are benign, and often, educational. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy

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

watching General @markhertling speak sense on @CNN

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

markhertling@mstdn.social ("Mark Hertling") wrote:

An article I wrote for the ⁦‪@BulwarkOnline:‬⁩ “What I Learned Watching the Israeli Army” https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-learned-from-watching-the-israeli-army

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

IMHO elimination of the tiered wage system would be the greatest win for the UAW

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

bkeegan@hci.social ("Boo-rian Eeee-gan 🍬👻🎃") wrote:

Our department is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor with a focus on #Accessibility and #Design!

Please share widely — job market students, junior faculty, and industry folx all encouraged to apply!

#A11Y #AcademicJobs #Fedihire @academicchatter

https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-Information-Science/52624

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

JamesGleick@zirk.us ("James Gleick") wrote:

Here is the first act of the new right-wing Republican leadership of the House: As a condition of aiding Israel, they insist on defunding the IRS’s ability to go after rich tax cheats.

Not sure why that isn’t getting bigger play in the mainstream press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/31/israel-ukraine-congress-senate-austin-blinken/a47a753e-77a2-11ee-97dd-7a173b1bd730_story.html

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

futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Every time someone says “I like your ant costume!” I frown and just mutter “costume?” the walk away glaring antennae bobbing. 🐜

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Happy Halloween! Wanna watch a wasp eat the living heart of a cockroach?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/31/the-tastiest-part-of-a-cockroach-is-its-heart/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUakwZtWA8