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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
aleen@wandering.shop ("Aleen") wrote:

This is what "history is written by the victors" means.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/114187417074609942

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

Today, Alex Shieh is the star on BlueSky.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/19/alex-shieh-is-learning-a-lesson-at-brown-university/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JamesBazan@mastodon.coffee ("James Bazán") wrote:

@jsonstein I'm old enough to remember when lawyers would be charged and disbarred for that.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

Me and @adam were in the top 300 fundraisers on Tiltify in 2024 🥳

Today marks six months until the next Podcastathon so we best get crackin' on new sticker designs.

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202503191206/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JamesBazan@mastodon.coffee ("James Bazán") wrote:

Want to know about transgenic mice?
The efficacy of Trikafta, which doubled Violet's life expectancy, is tested in "humanized F508del-CFTR in mouse intestines."
Bullshit kills.

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

@Lightfighter BTW: I completely *love* your bio statement:

"work currently as an SRE supporting a cloud SIEM product for which I have absolutely no education for, all hands on"

🥂

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

Shout out to the one who created this cross-reference on the Alvin DSV #Wikipedia page.

![9:44. March 17 Recent overhauls see also: Ship of Theseus •ail 42 W Mountains in the Sea Expedition, 2004. Over the years, Alvin has undergone many overhauls to improve its equipment and extend its lifetime. In 2001, among other equipment, motor controllers and computer systems were added. The current Alvin is the same as the original vessel in name and general design only. All components of the vessel, including the frame and personnel sphere, have been replaced at least once. Alvin is completely disassembled every three to five years for a complete inspection. 15] A new robotic arm was added in 2006.]5

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

“Ugh can we just ignore all the social issues and focus on the technology?”

No. Lmao. Absolutely the fuck not

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

@jsonstein I am German. We had a lot of ducks, therefore we can spot ducks. It is a duck.

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

it is my impression that judges frown upon being lied to by lawyers

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/114188983016754025

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts
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The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-firings-doge-fraud-law-job-performance?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #IRS #Tax #Law #Labor #Government #Workers

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

time for an early Spring walk

Soft whispers of dawn,
Foxes dart through budding grass,
Squirrels chase the breeze.

via https://arghstudios.com/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

"While I am destroying democracy, people are throwing Molotov cocktails at my car dealerships. It is all very surprising."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

"I'm not a 'Stanley Girl' I'm more of a 'Columbia Girl'"

(soto voice: Columbia sports-ware uses Endeavour marketing/investing the same exact west coast firm as Stanley. You do *not* need to choose an insulated drink-ware product to define who you are, although this statement seems to imply this is the case. You do, however, need to choose a favorite species of ant. Are you a 'Camponotus Girl' or more of an 'Atta'?)

I should really go harder with my pro-ant viral marketing. Go all in. Why not?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maartje@blahaj.social ("Maartje") wrote:

Xodus in Belgian public transport! The secret committee of all Belgian public transport operators decided to quit the Xitter today!
A step in the right direction!!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neuralreckoning@neuromatch.social ("Dan Goodman") wrote:

My institution is now blocking access to the Exchange server that hosts my work calendars to any app except Outlook. This is an organisational nightmare given that I also have Google calendars and I want to see events in the same place. Anyone know a workaround without sharing access to your data?

Currently thinking about running an emulated android tablet because apps on Android can put their calendars into a global one. Seems slightly insane but can't think of another way.

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

every time I look at this I am reminded of how pissed I am at the tepid reactions of supposed Congressional "leaders".

they bring a wagging finger to a gunfight.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Energy usage of LLMs used through an individual chat interface doesn't seem worrying to me. It's not worse than energy usage of a high-end PC, and it's limited by how much a human can ask and read.

But deployment of LLMs as "autonomous #agents seems like a floodgate for wasteful large-scale usage. It makes it easy to run lots of them, without time limits. Getting only summarized outputs hides how much effort was spent in the process of getting it.

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

idiocy: "The Gravely, which is more than 509 feet long, is larger than vessels in the Coast Guard fleet and carries dozens of Tomahawk cruise missiles, which are long-range missiles designed to strike land-based targets." https://elefanti.co/@adam/114186449886556334

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

if it looks like a duck, and it talks like a duck, and it walks like a duck...

this immigrant, who grew up in apartheid-era one-party dictatorship South Africa as the privileged child of a rich white family, is probably... a duck.

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

Oh boy. Ken Ham's hand-picked heir has left Answers in Genesis. Chaos at the top!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/19/fun-times-at-aig/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:

"You don’t fight fascism because you are going to win, you fight fascism because it is fascism."

Jean-Paul Sartre(?)

https://fightfascism.glitch.me/
@stefan

#Fascism #Quote #Sartre

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

Truth:

"Open Carry - For when you want to play Army but were too big a pussy to enlist"

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

london advert campaign https://x.com/i/status/1899827201203225002

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

"Tesla Swasticar" ad on side of UK bus shelter

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

Non Sequitur is spot on today

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I don't have many standards, but when I do, they're double.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

When Google released their Gemma 3 model, they've reported estimated emissions from pre-training to be 1497.13 tCO2eq to train. I've noted down the number, but now I can't find the source, ugh (it was some PDF).

It's rare for LLM companies to talk about their environmental cost, so it's nice to have a datapoint.

Boosted by jwz:
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

An FTC commissioner was fired illegally by Trump, read his statement.
#trump #ftc

Boosted by jwz:
erosalie@infosec.exchange ("E Rosalie") wrote:

France gave us the talking to that we sorely needed.