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

tty@sunbeam.city ("Kira 🌱") wrote:

I've started a page on my website, documenting my experiment this year of growing flax and turning it into linen cloth, using simple tools, and exploring how I can do so without harming environments or animals. 🌱 👗

http://kira.eight45.net/flax.html

A goal is to produce a very clear write-up that explains the process in a way and using tools that it is maximally accessible for others to reproduce, and build their own understanding of how plants come to be clothes.

:boost_ok:

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• A field of blooming flax plants. Photo Credit: isamiga76 on Flickr (remote)

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

Neuralink is suffering from an easily predictable problem, one that isn't so easily solved.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/i-predicted-the-fate-of-neuralink/

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• Elon Musk with a Neuralink implant (remote)

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

And thanks to @randomgeek for showing me how to give appropriate credit to Richard Bober while still encouraging people to listen to or read the story.

https://hackers.town/@randomgeek/112412376386769009

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

randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:

Artist credit is never a spoiler, so:

The awesome flying centaur cover for Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time was painted by Richard Bober, who did many covers, including the gorgeous 1984 Runequest boxed set and Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun series.

Now go listen to the podcast / read the transcript. It's an awesome saga.

@cstanhope

https://social.coop/@cstanhope/112412286934309146

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just learned the term iPhone Face. HELP

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheLastKingdom/s/swFgjDe3hO

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

I was listening to this podcast talking about the efforts to find the artist responsible for a well known cover for "A Wrinkle in Time", and it struck me how art (in all its various forms) is one of the things that connects us, the makers and the admirers. It cuts through differences and rises above and outlasts the acts of commerce it sometimes serves. I'd hate to lose those opportunities for human connection to a pile of GPUs. (I don't think we will.)

https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2023/09/01/artist-known-wrinkle

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Finishing write up about Jack.

Working title: Jack Dorsey is on one

#Twitter

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• A screenshot of a social media post by a user named Jack with verified badge, featuring a brief text message about not depending on corporations to grant rights and defending them with freedom technology, followed by a remark indicating the reader is on one such technology. There

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Scaling #Twitter (2007) by then Twitter CTO Blaine Cook

https://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Why Twitter Will Endure - NYT (2008):

"“The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” said Steven Johnson, the author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about Twitter for Time last June. “Twitter is looking more and more like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal.”" https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03carr.html

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

amusing

Instagram video by Brian Harms • May 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6r9seFPvF0/?utm_source=www.mastersof.work&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=voice-to-print-transforms-3d-printing

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Doodle from the opposite side of the sketchbook spread. Somehow wanted a similar pose, but different style. And played around with some text markers. :D

#mastoart #sketch #sketchbook #markers #ink

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• Sketchbook drawing done with black ink and shaded with green and yellow text markers. A young woman, looking at the viewer. Her head is slightly tilted and the back of her right hand is gently touching her chin. Her long black hair is flowing in strands over her face and arms. She is slightly covered with large leaves and small black vines. The background is filled with green and the outlines of leaves are drawn in white, shaded in yellow. (remote)

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

Anti-science conservative hacks lunge at Scientific American with a totally bogus ideologically-driven tirade.🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/09/fringe-bigots-hack-at-scientific-american/

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• Scientific American (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

> Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest"

Didn't know this.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Pluralistic: AI is a WMD (09 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow:

"Fun fact: “The Tragedy Of the Commons” is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, “rescuing” it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to “rational self-interest”"

I ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/05/09/pluralistic-ai-is.html

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

Web dev shower thought:

15 years ago, if browsers would've had the capabilities they do now, a *massive* swath of tooling would've never been needed. It would've entirely rewritten web history.

I think we'll still be recovering from the "fix everything with a tool" era for a while before developers realize how much of what we've come to rely on simply isn't needed anymore.

Browsers and browser languages have become insanely powerful, in ways I don't think we even fully understand yet.

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

neilmadden@infosec.exchange ("Neil Madden") wrote:

Throwaway idea for a novel #CSRF defence: use an encrypted session cookie, but with a random key that then becomes the anti-csrf token. Now you are guaranteed that the session cookie cannot be used without the csrf token.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just read a comment that said "the new American Dream is to be able to afford to leave it"

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

So it's pretty simple, the cops start riots.

I know this really isn't the sort of story the people in power want you see to, right?

But from start to finish the community demonstrated we keep us safe.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

eloquence@social.coop ("Erik Moeller") wrote:

What happens when China builds an #LLM? DeepSeek just released v2 of its model, which is open source.

I tried it on deepseek.com. Ask it about Tiananmen square, and the chatbot self-censors its answer while it is generating (that presumably is limited to their deployment). On variations not caught by the filter, it refuses -- and replies in Chinese:

"The content of your question is not in line with the core values ​​of socialism, nor is it in line with China's laws, regulations and policies."

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• Interaction with the Deepseek chatbot. The first question was simply "What's referred to with the Tiananmen square massacre?" That was caught by the filter and censored before a response could be generated. A variation -- with spaces between the letters -- passed the filter, but resulted in a refusal ("I cannot answer that question .. created to be helpful and harmless"). A follow-up question resulted in a response in Chinese, which translates to: The content of your question is not in line with the core values ​​of socialism, nor is it in line with China's laws, regulations and policies. As an AI assistant, my goal is to provide helpful and positive information while complying with relevant laws and regulations. If you have further questions, I'll try to help. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

CodingItWrong@tdd.social ("Josh Justice") wrote:

People on LinkedIn: "I can't believe I got laid off; I was working 60-80 hours per week."

Me: "Please start believing that a company that works you 60-80 hours per week is not going to prioritize your wellbeing."

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

this is the *weirdest* election of my long strange life

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There's no way for me to confirm the authenticity of these photos inauthenticity

But if these are in fact AI generated, holy shit.

Source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTL4NJXJb/

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• AI image of a CyberTruck with the front crashed in. Blue sky and palm trees in the background.
• Older Man in suit standing in what looks like a newsroom set
• Man sitting down on a padded bench type seat with a lights hanging above him. Looks like he's in a restaurant.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

“Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
—Terry Pratchett, _Men at Arms_

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

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

Critical support to the stackoverflow users trying to destroy their own posts. I was saved from ever having to delete anything on stackoverflow by its own repellent community.

Out of all the random forums and shit that I've registered for over the years, I don't think I've even looked for the sign-up page on that site

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

mcc wrote:

Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

https://linktr.ee/opolivebranch?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaCZnvhcmWbcFvkTcg-PFUF_wzUG3MPvQJBRWirrCvEQInjH6WL5cQapf0_aem_AfrlcvNKkz3vjnG_Xxs-TXFQi8yvwhrFlIRDPF5q-ZG5BrHlUkqBi9gxdiOv2tnqrAebzvJHs0qXI2NAh-mBbqAn

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Here's a family you can help escape Gaza. This GoFundMe has been vetted by Operation Olive Branch.

If you can't donate now, bookmark this link. Or, if they hit their goal by then, visit the Operation Olive Branch link (in comments). I'll also try my best to have at least once active campaign on the homepage of my blog.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-young-muhammad-rebuild-a-life

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

Another afternoon spent troubleshooting component rendering in React. (The problem was not using `useMemo` on the component's children! How fun! How user-friendly! How obvious!)

Once again: no other framework forces you to do this kind of micro-management.

None of them make you import a bunch of helper functions just to make stuff render the logical way you'd think it would.

None of them make you write this much code to do something this simple.

React is bad. It's very, very bad.

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

briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

What a surprise.

"The auditor for former president Donald Trump’s media company was charged with “massive fraud” Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which accused the firm of being a “sham audit mill” whose failures put investors at risk."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/03/trump-media-auditor-borgers-suspended-permanently/