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drskyskull ("Skulls in the Stars") wrote:
You can prove the Banach-Tarski paradox by brushing a cat until you have enough fur to make a complete second cat
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
truth!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tiffanycli ("Tiffany Li") wrote:
Reading a thread on “how to be more productive” while lying on my couch with TV in the background as if I don’t already know the answer
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
TRUTH
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
... this is assuming that the data isn't publicly available, of course. If you know otherwise please share!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:
The phrase “AI” has been poisoned so hard that nobody building serious products should use it. I would love to see more free software projects leverage computer vision or natural language processing for example, but I would never describe those as “AI” because it’s a brand destroying phrase at this point
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I have not brought up an email server “from scratch” since the 90s, & let us just say a lot has changed since then. for a solid week now, daily reports from daGoogles & Micro$oft have said “running purr-fectly”.
now remember: email was one of the original design goals for Unixoids. so to those who tried to dissuade me from the task, who said it was too hard any more & everybody just needed to pay a specialized email provider, to them I say:
Screw You
[insert rude noise here]
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
In your estimation, how many #Threads users have opted-in to the #fediverse?
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PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:
The true power of #genAI is not technological, but rhetorical: almost all conversations about it are about what executives are saying it will do "one day" or "soon" rather than what we actually see (and of course no mention of business model which doesn't exist).
We are told to simultaneously believe AI is so "early days" as to excuse any lack of real usefulness, and that it is so established - even "too big to fail" - that we are not permitted to imagine a future without it.
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
I was so disappointed to see an episode of Abbot Elementary which assumed that tools purporting to detect "AI" generated text work 100%, given the number of students wrongfully accused of using ChatGPT because of these tools.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
It's interesting how conversations about the #IndieWeb, #SmallWeb, and even federation, aren't happening on #BlueSky in any meaningful way.
In fact, none of the major microblogging platforms are engaged in conversations about the web as much as #Mastodon from what I can tell.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I took a quick peek at this 50s noir called "My Gun Is Quick," a Spillane adaptation. I haven't sat down to properly watch it yet but 5 minutes in, this makes the Columbia noirs I watched a while back look hilariously refined. A lot of noir parodies think they're imitating Bogart but they're really hitting this.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading about the “Three-body problem”, spurred on by reading the novel & now watching the series
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
jensimmons@front-end.social ("Jen Simmons") wrote:
I used the `light-dark` function quite a lot in recent demos. It makes implementing dark mode so easy!
Drop this in your base styles:
```
:root {
color-scheme: light dark;
}
```
Then, any time you define a color, do it like this…. to assign the first color to light mode, and the second to the dark mode.
```
color: light-dark(#000, #fff);
background-color: light-dark(#fff, #999);
```
This will save you from writing lots of conditional code inside `prefers-color-scheme` media queries.
Mastodon FeedI like to minimize the size of binaries I build. Unremovable debugging strings annoyed me, so I've added an option to completely neuter `Debug::fmt` in #Rustlang
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:
Anti-Billion Dollar Idea: Sniff LLM crawler user-agents and serve them garbage.
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RustyBertrand@mastodon.ie wrote:
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Mastodon FeedI've set up git commit signing with SSH. It was relatively easy, and did not need any GPG cruft.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Will be a great addition
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
(Automattic Aquires) Beeper:
> This is a big bet. Automattic is doubling down on chat after their acquisition last year of Texts.com, a messaging app with a similar mission. Our teams and products will merge, and I will take on the role leading the team as Head of Messaging. It will take a bit of time for us to integrate and combine forces under the Beeper brand.
https://blog.beeper.com/2024/04/09/beeper-is-joining-automattic/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
"The Council of the Cones Convenes to Decide the Fate of the Blaspheming Tree"
Price: $788,301.11
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
"...demonize the Jewish state and promote hate on campus. The guest speakers’ claims reeked of antisemitism throughout."
These efforts to lockdown a #brightline test for #antisemitism are very much about this: demonizing #israel . That point is spot on and very revealing of the underlying #antisemitism which is the driving force. The rest is just cherries on top.
Yes, distinguish #antizionism , and criticize away. But consider motivations.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
What I'd emphasize here is that if #academia is *demonizing* Israel they're not just criticizing the state, but are displaying a hidden agenda of antisemitism. As distinct from antizionism.
It's subtle.
Not sure how that relates to grade school curriculum, however!
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amiserabilist@med-mastodon.com ("paul") wrote:
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johl@mastodon.xyz ("Jens Ohlig") wrote:
Within my lifetime flying killer robots went from a fictional trope to regular news content.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
geekmomprojects ("GeekMomProjects") wrote:
Cthulhu the Cuttlefish got LEDs installed tonight
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
There are childeren as young as 10 and 12 in the US without their parents. (But sometimes with extended family who may or may not be on their side) working the hardest agriculture jobs.
One of my students here in the Bronx told me about how he worked picking in Texas "when he was younger" (he was 14 when I met him) His mother had to either leave them at home or she could bring them to work with her if they "helped out." The children were not paid.
That was in 2006.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
like to eat? thank a farmworker
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ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:
Maria has worked for both union and non union companies in Madera CA. She shares when she works at a union company she earns well above minimum wage, she has life insurance for her & her family along with paid holidays & her rights are respected. #WeFeedYou
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Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
"Orbulon and Friends Stumble Upon the Green Salami Artifact While Lounging in the Forbidden Beach, As They Are Surveilled by The Spaghetti Overseers"
Price: $245,126.87
