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Boosted by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

I've struggled in the past to get OCRs of cryptography papers.

Mistral introduced Mistral OCR that works amazingly well on LaTeX papers, as confirmed by the benchmarks.

https://mistral.ai/fr/news/mistral-ocr

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidsirota@mastodon.online ("David Sirota") wrote:

🚨New data show the U.S. government (read: American taxpayers) spent $6 BILLION developing Ozempic's key ingredient

But because pharma-bankrolled lawmakers repealed NIH rules, Americans face Ozempic prices up to 11 TIMES HIGHER than the world market price https://www.levernews.com/youve-already-paid-6-billion-for-weight-loss-drugs-you-cant-afford/

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

It's important to not let the IACR Board succeed in avoiding the legitimate and urgent questions regarding racial and political bias at the IACR.

Please spread the word: https://iacrbias.org

Boosted by jwz:
ryanwatkins wrote:

Email list for all DOGE employees
https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/acQEzNBjmcBdXJEq1+d1sYIjlgdarEvpOVXOlNw7MYc/
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ljpyyjzfis2l

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Explained React + transpiler cruft to a colleague as if they're CPUs in a timeline-accurate way:

We're living in a world of Ultra 2's, M4s, and X Elite's while programming to the Athlon II instruction set, and compiling down to run on Pentium 4s.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Today, a few weeks after the publication of https://IACRBias.org, the IACR Board published the November 2024 meeting minutes (after a four months delay) in which it accused me of "harassment”.

It is critical to note that during all exchange with the IACR Board, I was never asked by any Board member to stop contacting the Board and the Board never otherwise indicated, in any way, big or small, that they thought that my contact with them constituted "harassment”.

In this same announcement, the Board stated that it is going to not make any comment on the issues brought up on this website, which suggests that the charge of "harassment" is made in order to obtain an excuse to avoid the subject altogether.

In order to dispel this incorrect and misleading characterization of my advocacy campaign, the full email exchange thread with the IACR Board of Directors is now publicly available as of March 6th, here: https://iacrbias.org/emails.txt — feel free to judge for yourself.

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

I'll never ever vote for this weasely scumbag.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/06/another-chickenshit-democrat/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

the rise of developer celebrity has made software:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
sixcolors@zeppelin.flights ("Six Colors") wrote:

Searching for settings in all the wrong places https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/03/searching-for-settings-in-all-the-wrong-places/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
vagina_museum@masto.ai ("Vagina Museum") wrote:

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

Screenshot via @skinnylatte

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jds@sfba.social ("JDS") wrote:

6/ day 3 trail work project at Vasquez Rocks.

We finished clearing the overgrowth at the next problem spot, gathered some big rocks for a retaining wall, restored the creek trench, and raised the trail. Lots of digging and hauling.

Really happy to be improving these problem areas. It’s improving the park and the trail.

#TrailWork #TrailMaintenance #PacificCrestTrail #Volunteer

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• gifv: Walking through the near completed newly improved trail section raised off the slanted rock and creek bed

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jds@sfba.social ("JDS") wrote:

This guest house is particularly pretty. Enjoying soaking up the plants and flowers. There are boulders in my dorm room (no room mates tonight, bonus).
#CostaRica

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jds@sfba.social ("JDS") wrote:

And the wonderful alpenglow that follows dawn. 🤗

#SierraNevada #Mountains #California #Sunrise #Landscape #Photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jds@sfba.social ("JDS") wrote:

2/ Casual late start up the trail yeasterday. Fun taking in random views.

The bottom couple miles is extra steep and lined with rock for water management and horses. Saw the horse train shuttling supplies. Birders in their natural habitat. And the jungle reclaiming everything.

#Hiking #Mountains #CostaRica

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

You don’t say.

“GOP budget goals impossible without Medicare and Medicaid cuts, CBO office says

Republicans are expected to fall short of their goal to slash the budget by $1.5tn despite #Trump ’s [lies] assurances”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/gop-budget-medicare-medicaid-cuts

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tarheel@mstdn.io ("John Lusk") wrote:

Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings | Reuters

Regardless of whether Musk reposts stuff like this and manages to get away with it, these folks need to be squashed like bugs (by which I mean the full force of the law should be brought to bear on them, to be clear).

http://herereadthis.blog/2025/03/06/exclusive-judges-face-rise-in-threats-as-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-reuters/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=jetpack%5Fsocial

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

our new cat Ziggi is trying out various places to nap

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

Across states, Republican control is associated with worsening self-assessed mental health.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/01/31/partisan-politics-and-the-road-to-plutocracy/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
matt@proud.social ("mtp") wrote:

Today we exported another snapshot of the Google-internal Go Style Guide publically:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/

The most significant changes cover context guidance with (testing.TB).Context API and package sizing. There are plenty of copy editing and other small things in there as well.

Delta: https://github.com/google/styleguide/pull/888

#Go and #Golang

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

starting to make more sense out of how to use prompts to get longer story outputs:
https://arghstudios.com/support/longerStoryIdea.pdf

remember: it is free to set up an account, free to use, free of tracking, and produces child-safe outputs at a 5th grade reading comprehension level... give it a try!

https://arghstudios.com

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

It's a colossal scam! Woolly mice are not evidence of progress in resurrecting a whole species -- and it's absurdly reductionist to argue that all you need to do is patch a few genes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/06/but-weve-already-got-wooly-mice/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Ko-Fi lets me enter social media links for Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, Twitch, TikTok, Medium, GitHub, and Threads…but not for Mastodon and Bluesky, the two services I actually use. 🙃

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I don't like any of my current "real life" photos much, so let's go with a coyote.

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

Maybe I need to learn French.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/06/french-the-language-of-love/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh0TUTtvI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:

Grateful to wake up to this story about a small lab team digging around in otherwise ignored cell function to find what might be really useful but is definitely interesting. Thank you, bio nerds!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv4jww3r4eo

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

In a vast, cold universe, we live on a tiny island of life with entirely too many kings:

https://comicskingdom.com/macanudo/2025-03-06

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

🇪🇺❌🇭🇺 Kallas: "Hungary's obstruction of EU decisions on aid to Ukraine is becoming increasingly difficult for the bloc."

"That's why we have a new initiative to form a majority coalition, ensuring that one country cannot block everyone."

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

"Trump Warns of Increase in Transgender Mice Since Haitians Ate All the Cats"

- Borowitz Report

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

but of course
https://www.wired.com/story/air-monitoring-beijing-state-department-halted/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

Some high quality eyebleach for you

Apparently the duck nested in the school when school was in recess, so her and her hatchlings got a proper send off when school resumed

😍

Attachments:

• video: Mother duck leads her ducklings down a school hallway and out the door in a school hallway lined with children