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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Does “finish the problem” sound a lot like “final solution” to anyone else?
#trump #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #us https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112050712540814305
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Doing that thing where I take care of myself and whatnot.
Just drank water with lemon slices. Might fuck around and do a push up later.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
This madness is why we can’t trust Apple to be the sole arbiter of what apps users are allowed to install on their own devices.
Apple’s ridiculous malicious compliance means they need to be first in the DMA enforcement firing line.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
“What did the woke crowd ever do to you?”
Elon Musk:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
React starts off really easy. Because it hides a lot of the complexity from you. "Easy to get started" is also at the root of a lot of dysfunction today in my opinion. Getting started is cool. But you know what's even better? Finishing the thing. Expanding the thing. Maintaining the thing as is scales. Changing the thing when the goals or requirements change. Improving the performance when users report that it's slow. All of those things matter way more than "getting started".
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shayz0rz@mastodon.online ("Shana") wrote:
@StillIRise1963 @ShiitakeToast Part of the problem is even journalists I respect a great deal saying he can end this by picking up the phone. That’s literally not how it works. If it was, the US would legitimately be a dictator over its allies — and, possibly, the whole world.
Is that…is that really what these people want?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ShiitakeToast@beige.party ("Shiitake Toast-MAX 9") wrote:
@StillIRise1963 Biden is working behind the scenes, carefully managing a hostile and uncooperative ally, who is a sovereign state that won’t just do whatever we tell them and has a large base of support in the US, while going further to condemn the actions of that ally than any president since ever. And this at a time where rising explicit antisemitism has a lot of American Jewish Democrats feeling deeply uncomfortable in the US, even those who abhor Bibi’s violence.
The issue is not as simple as Biden snapping his fingers and Israel suddenly stopping
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
huh, this looks *very* interesting: https://guillaume-be.github.io/2020-11-21/generation_benchmarks
"Any Pytorch model trained on the Transformers’s library can be converted to a C-array format and used by the rust-bert library."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dale@toot.cafe ("Dale Harvey") wrote:
Some legend lorry driver keeps parking in front of the forced birthers harassing people outside the family planning section of the hospital in Glasgow
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
theluddite@assemblag.es ("The Luddite") wrote:
Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
xoxo@xoxo.zone ("XOXO") wrote:
One last time, with feeling. https://2024.xoxofest.com
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
every once in a while I edit some writing by somebody who doesn't use em dashes and it's like... it's so beautiful when foreign languages are mutually intelligible
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:
Random question for aviation nerds:
Is it possible, if I knew the dates, route, and possibly the flight number, to find out the type of aircraft used on a commercial flight in 2003?
Boosts appreciated.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:
"Babbage’s engines were also designed to surveil the workmen... Their design complexity was vastly increased, and their feasibility decreased, by Babbage’s insistence that they print out the results of their calculation throughout the process"
In class, we discuss Gary Becker's economics models that show how much productivity firms are willing to give up in order to discriminate. The same was true of surveillance in the first computers, as @Mer__edith points out
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@mathewi you might find some of this interesting https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/112049995886879246
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the grim logic of the Russian War on Ukraine is leading humanity to some dark places. see my short post https://blog.ncoti.org/down-an-unexpected-rabbit-hole-or/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ninawillburger@social.anoxinon.de ("Nina Willburger") wrote:
A friend who is working on the Esna restoration project just sent me these stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. The colours of the reliefs and inscriptions in the building have been covered by a coating of dirt and soot for some 2000 years.
Since 2018, the original bright colours have been uncovered.Photo: D. v. Recklinghausen
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
This is my #ADHD playlist. Over the past six months, I've carefully curated a collection of piano-based songs with deep tones.
It works wonders for me. I listen to this mix whenever I need to sit in front of a computer for extended periods of time.
I hope it works for you as well as it has for me.
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/find-your-focus/pl.u-4lRGTam0WqY
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
recently I've seen a few people "abbreviate" URLs as if they are names not addresses and this is nails on a chalkboard
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Don't Eat Before Reading This - Anthony Bourdain for The New Yorker (1999) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/19/dont-eat-before-reading-this:
> I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths with whom I continue to work; the ever-present smells of roasting bones, searing fish, and simmering liquids; the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam.
This was the article that started it all. Bourdaine was a special writer, human.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):
✌️ Welp, we’ve received our 100,000th star on GitHub. We’d like to thank you, the open source community, for your love, support, contributions, and impeccable taste.
So, how did we do it? Here’s our guide to building super popular open source software.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Please, please, no more AI. It's bad for living things.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/06/ai-is-hell/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If only someone could have predicted that Apple would be gigantic asshats about iOS browsers and point out that they'd need to open up PWA infrastructure; say ~two years ago?
https://infrequently.org/2022/02/minimum-standards/#durability
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
donmoyn@sciences.social ("Don Moynihan") wrote:
New, from me: What the Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" says about the Republican Party's new philosophy for governing.
Checks and balances are out. The authoritarian presidency is in.https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-mandate-for-leadership-says
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Good to see Moms For Liberty's disingenuousness get exposed.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
OhOkKay@beige.party ("🇨🇦 OhOkKay") wrote:
This ...
And this is why I leave my garden unraked and uncut over winter ... They need a place to live during the winter!#gardening #bees #butterflies #gardens #FlowersOfMastodon #bloomscrolling
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
American politics curtsies ridiculously once again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/06/was-it-actually-a-super-tuesday/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jeremycshipp ("Jeremy C. Shipp") wrote:
What with the slow disintegration of Twitter and all, I'm finding it difficult to reach new readers who might enjoy my work.
If you could help me spread the word about my newest book, that would be a big help. Thank you.
https://meerkatpress.shop/products/the-merry-dredgers-by-jeremy-c-shipp
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Shout out to #iOS for stripping the tracking parameter when I share something via iMessage.
And a big fuck you to #TikTok who aggressively tries to build out my social graph at every opportunity.
Just because I share something with someone doesn't mean I want to be TikTok friends with them. What are you doing?
