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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🚩") wrote:
@fromjason Related:
https://web.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Futurism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1954:
"FUTURISM, initiated with the publication of Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, was the most aggressive and, if short-lived, certainly the most polemic art movement of our time. Its revolutionary ideas were empiric rather than pedagogic and were filled with iconoclasm in its defiant repudiation of traditional art, supplanting idols of the past with the ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/futurism-sidney-janis-gallery-new.html
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Found this old book stamp for The New York Public Library (1920s) in the Hathi Trust archives.
This would be a dope tattoo, right? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433078571795
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm sufficiently irrelevant to the movement that I'm probably safe.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Whoa. American Atheists national convention is being held in Minneapolis in April? May have to show up and hope I don't get beat up.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/do-i-want-to-hang-out-with-atheists-any-more/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
That savior complex makes Musk look even more ridiculous.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/i-like-this-neil-degrass-tyson-fellow/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:
It's a point of pride for Marines to clarify this terminology to civilians: a person who has ended their service in the Marines may be called a "former" Marine but never an "ex-Marine." Except in cases like this, where the individual commits crimes or otherwise brings shame on the title. Case in point, this is an ex-Marine who has taken a public shit on his claim to call himself a Marine. (The Army tries to do this with "Soldier for Life" but honestly its propaganda just isn't as good.) https://apnews.com/article/tv-reporter-attack-trumps-america-40c4c3622bf85baef9cefbd50d50fcec
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:
The King has issued his final official #Caturday portrait for 2024 👑
You're welcome 🙇♂️🙂
#Tigger 😽
#Bengals 🐅
#Photography 📷
#CatsOfMastodon 🐈
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Russian President Putin apologizes for the “tragic” downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane, which occurred in Russian airspace where air defenses were being used against Ukrainian drones. https://iz.ru/1815666/2024-12-28/putin-i-aliev-obsudili-krushenie-samoleta-pod-aktau
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ Julius Caesar
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is ugly. the age-old question is: who shall guard the guardians?
“public reports suggest this attack was part of a wider campaign to target Chrome extension developers across a wide range of companies.” At this point it’s unclear who is responsible for this campaign, and other affected companies and their extensions have yet to be confirmed."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
what a nightmare, and what wonderful timing
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"the practice of training models on outputs from rival AI systems can be “very bad” for model quality, because it can lead to 'allucinations and misleading answers like the above. “Like taking a photocopy of a photocopy, we lose more and more information and connection to reality,”'
https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/113730527131462571
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Calishat") wrote:
'Posts on X — and TechCrunch’s own tests — show that DeepSeek V3 identifies itself as ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Asked to elaborate, DeepSeek V3 insists it is a version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model released in 2023.'
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/why-deepseeks-new-ai-model-thinks-its-chatgpt/?guccounter=1
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mia@hcommons.social ("Mia") wrote:
If the whole 'attack Wikipedia' nonsense inspired you to start or restart editing, there's a bunch of tools to help newcomers, like 'suggested edits' https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools
If you need to turn the newbie features on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Growth/Tools/Enable_the_Homepage
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bsletten ("Brian Sletten") wrote:
People born in the 1900s have a quite coherent shared sense of reality because of the shared media experiences we had.
Much of the present world is inexplicable when measured against this shared understating.
I’m seeing more awareness in the public sphere (social media posts, content, memes) that people are getting the consequences of a fragmented information sphere yielding fragmented realities.
This is a big part of why it feels like everything is changing at once.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic") wrote:
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to #Sun
“Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.
Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, #NASA’s #ParkerSolarProbe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved
A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.”
#NASAScience
https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/
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- Text Shot: "Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” said Nicky Fox, who leads the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the workings of stars across the universe to aid in our search for habitable worlds beyond our home planet.” (remote)
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an interesting piece. I do not often agree with him, but this time...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/opinion/trump-musk-ramaswamy-immigration.html
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djspiewak@fosstodon.org ("Daniel Spiewak") wrote:
Just to give an idea of the potential here, the initial tests of http4s-ember (via TechEmpower) on top of io_uring, made possible by the Integrated Runtime, showed performance 3.5x higher than baseline. Not percent. Coefficient.
This is a huge leap forward for performance, and users don't even have to lift a finger. It also unlocks proper I/O and multithreading implementations on Scala Native, which will be the focus of CE 3.7.
Mastodon FeedCdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:
Same energy
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Hoooooly it is a drag to find/add people on a fresh #mastodon instance!
If you see this post, kindly boost it up so I can find my peeps again!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp ("廃墟猫/Urbex cat") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The MAGA civil war, or whatever you want to call it, was always going to happen. The rich never intended on actually kicking out all the immigrants. There’s only so much prison labor to go around. They just wanted to keep the poor from realizing whos our real enemy.
But it’s all fun and games until a populous realtor from Manhattan gets elected on mass deportation.
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Also, established a monthly donation to @spritely. Consider doing the same!
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Finally worked my way through @cwebber re:-re: post on decentralization https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
It's long and technical, but it inspired me to offer my own, admittedly simplistic, definition of a decentralized social network:
If a social app forces you to choose an instance before anything else, it's decentralized. If not, it's not.
Mastodon Feedrasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:
I still use Firefox and other Mozilla products but I just got this email from Mozilla:
"We’re in the final days to reach our goal of raising $4.35 million USD from the Mozilla community. We’re close, but we’re still short."
I just want to let them know their CEO probably has $4.35 million USD since their salary a few years ago was about $7 million USD. Maybe ask them?
Mastodon FeedExterminate All Rational Graphic Design.
I love that the billboards around town for "AI" companies have converged on an identical design aesthetic: sparse text on a solid background, usually black or white, maybe a pastel if they're feeling saucy.
It says, "We didn't waste money on a graphic designer, our CFO just knocked this out in Notepad!"
It's morally consistent, as their business model is "Never pay an artist, or anyone who does creative work."
https://jwz.org/b/ykfH
Mastodon FeedI know this is a bold claim, and I don't say this lightly, but that was the worst episode of Doctor Who that I have ever seen.
By contrast, "What If...? Howard the Duck Got Hitched?" was fantastic. Possibly the best episode.
Mastodon Feeddnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote: