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Boosted by jwz:
charlotteclymer ("Charlotte Clymer") wrote:

HBO Max, the company producing J.K. Rowling's new project, wants you to respect its second name change in as many years.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We're going to have to incorporate more ethics and philosophy in our 'hard' STEM classes.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/im-way-ahead-of-you-nature/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

Apparently the ai.robots.txt project (https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt) got mentioned in Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries/ #AI

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Lincoln Memorial, an iconic DC tourist attraction, is crowded and bustling year round. But in the middle of the night, when it's empty and quiet, it becomes a very different place. It's solemn and peaceful in a way that takes you by surprise. I lingered longer than I needed to when taking this photo.

Part of my "slightly better versions of the pictures of local attractions than you might find hanging in your hotel room" series.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 HR Digaron (@ f/7.1) and the PhaseOne IQ4-150 "Achromatic" back. 12mm of vertical shift kept the geometry in line. The sharp lens and achromatic back reveal a lot of detail zoomed in at full resolution (full res is downloadable on flickr).

This is a very simple composition, the frame filled with the Memorial from roughly the perspective shown on the $5 bill. The National Parks Service does a superb job lighting the site.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 2020.

All the pixels, but none of the civil war or assassination, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50402933763

#photography

jwz wrote:

Space Nazis, you say?

"Now it can be told: THE MADMAN OF MARS!" Fun fact, Psychiatric Dr. Fredric Wertham, in his book Seduction of the Innocent, reported that Space Western was a favorite comic book of a juvenile delinquent arsonist that was treated...
https://jwz.org/b/yknn

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

The future of AI-powered software development is here!

https://github.com/Zorokee/ArtificialCast

(Warning: don't stop until you've read the text below the subheading, "Why This Exists")

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

How strange that an administration that is openly racist and transphobic would also somehow harbor antisemites within its ranks, those three things are hardly correlated at all

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5387299/trump-white-house-antisemit

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

Today is the anniversary of the MOVE bombing. The only thing that’s changed is police are far more militarized, far more funded, and far less accountable, while their supporters fly a desecrated flag to explicitly endorse their violent attacks.

Boosted by jwz:
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

The great wave.

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

HBO Ultra

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
moiety@queer.garden ("Zoë 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

there’s a proposal to ban conversion practices in the european union.

the deadline is May 17 and we’re about half way. we need one more country to pass the threshold. currently Slovenia is closest to it at 86% followed by Germany and Sweden at 53%.

if you’re an EU citizen, please vote :100Pride:

:boost_requested:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I don't think empty-skulled bigoted Fox News talking heads should be in charge of our military.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/the-problem-with-putting-limp-dick-dumb-ass-right-wingers-in-charge-of-the-military/

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

whipped up a little ’isitup’ server monitor which just logs and sleeps for now. will add ‘send me an alert on failure’ functionality next. I enjoy working in D.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's when Sam Altman said to the audience "You can clap about that all you want," that I felt his level of contempt.

I think deep down, all of these tech billionaires are fueled with a bitterness for a society they feel had rejected them. Now that they have power, it's not good enough to make all the money. They want us to suffer.

Their media training helps them hide it, but every so often the mask slips and we get to see their raw contempt for us, regular folks.

H/T ai_control on X

Attachments:

• video: Video of host and Sam Altman sitting on a stage in front of an audience in a Q&A session.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
alex@godforsaken.website ("alex :disabled_knife:") wrote:

to this date, paper is the only truly 2D object known to science. they once thought cloth might also count, but microscospic examination revealed its structure to be made up of multiple smaller cloths.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone ("That Frisian Girl-ish") wrote:

Good morning!

I'd like to leverage the ✨power of social networking✨ for my best friend and her son.

You see, until recently, the young man was thought to be not that, and I'm glad he found the insight in himself, and has the mom he has, because she's an awesome mom who wants to support him the best she can.

But, as we probably all know, being trans comes with an official shitload of things to work out, often through a byzantine labyrinth. I myself try my best to help, but being neither a mother nor a trans man, there are strict limits to the first hand knowledge and experience I have to offer. So that's what I'm asking for:

I'm looking for resources for a young, freshly starting on his path trans man, and his mother in the Netherlands. Anything how to navigate... well, anything, and probably most of all, connections to be made. Ways to meet people in person (for both) would be absolutely amazing.

If you don't know yourself, but suspect someone you know might know something, please boost.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hi there, this is your daily reminder that if you should ever feel "imposter syndrome" in your life, all you need to do is look at the current crop of willful incompetents in power in the United State to realize that maybe, just maybe, you're being too hard on yourself and you can, in fact, do the thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

The bearded vulture

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

Somebody is trying to uh... relaunch... "Compute!'s Gazette":

https://www.computesgazette.com/

https://www.computesgazette.com/computes-gazette-the-legend-is-reborn/

Faskinating...

Edit: Ah poop. Generative "AI" apologist:

https://www.computesgazette.com/generative-ai-and-game-development-a-necessary-evil/

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

I’m no political consultant, but I have some doubts about Gavin Newsom’s new “piss off all my natural constituents” strategy.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence."

(Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Humans can make a mess of things without even trying hard. I guess I should be impressed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/making-the-whole-world-ring-like-a-bell/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The Endangered Species Act isn't supposed to protect the *environment*, just *species*. So let's gut the law right now. (that's sarcasm, in case it isn't obvious.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/lets-chop-the-endangered-species-act-to-bits-shall-we/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
djc@hachyderm.io ("Dirkjan Ochtman") wrote:

Rust slower than C? This cannot stand…

Let yourself be nerdsniped for cash!

https://infosec.exchange/@joshaas/114505176758997415

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The web feels so broken. Subscription and login gates at every corner. Using Google on a phone now means being periodically quizzed on which of the buttons to press to *not* be redirected to the app store. Opening an Instagram link casually throws up a browser alert dialog because it tries to automatically open an unsupported URL scheme, presumably their own app, and apparently everyone is fine with it. I'm proud that Mastodon never locks public content behind login walls.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.

#dune #ai #scifi

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

on dehumanization https://krrd.ing/posts/on-dehumanization/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MEActNOW wrote:

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.