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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ VAZUM at DNA Lounge tonight: Thu May 15, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/05-15d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #vazum #octavianwinters #blackleatherbats #gothic #postpunk #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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somafm@sfba.social ("SomaFM") wrote:

There is still a little freight train action in San Francisco. Down by Pier 70-92 there are some industrial train users, and while it's rare to see trains on the old railroad tracks, they usually come through once or twice a week.

Apparently earlier today, though, a driver wasn't paying attention and either crashed into a train or was parked partially on the tracks... not exactly sure, we came upon this a bit after the fact around noon today.

No idea how it happened, any ideas @burritojustice @TelstarLogistics

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

Pope Leo XIV out here spitting fire for sure

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I took some old pixel fonts, turned them into vector fonts, but normalized their cap height… so the original pixel size is now serving as this new strange property – kind of like “pixel resolution.”

It’s kind of interesting to play with! I made a little playground and you can also download all the fonts I made there: https://aresluna.org/pixel-fonts/

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

1. There are enough genocides currently going on around this globe that we don't need to invent one

2. Grok was at least honest enough to inform users it was told to accept this crap as real, revealing how easy it is to feed "AI" absolute bullshit

3. The "AI" has now been "fixed" not to spout off about a fake genocide at every available opportunity, but I'll bet you a shiny nickel that bullshit's still in there

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk-grok-white-genocide

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
KuJoe@mindly.social ("KuJoe 💞") wrote:

If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill.

Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.

It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢

https://newsie.social/@jeff/114513118997692099

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") 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“

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

okay, this rose bush is just outta control

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

This was a rather opportunistic capture with a Leica M240 camera, a 35mm lens, and a tabletop tripod on a windowsill, just before a late afternoon thunderstorm.

The light always does most of the work in photography. Sometimes it works especially hard.

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

Upper West Side, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, but not enough that you'll find a decent rent-stabilized apartment, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14422880057

#photography

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
umbraroze@pixelfed.social ("Yesterday's Rose") wrote:

October 28, 2014. Oulu, Finland. Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus.

In the University of Oulu library "Tellus". They had bunch of fascinating books on computer science. Including books that I *thought* were obsolete. I was less amused when I recently refound this image, because nowadays, 99% of current AI hype is running on #Python, which is just less flawed iteration of #BASIC. (...also please don't lob rocks at me, I love Python. Also have fond memories of BASIC.)

#programming #softwaredevelopment #ai #programmerhumour

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mrbadger42@mastodon.world ("MrBadger42") wrote:

You think?

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Also known as walking.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

New #omgdotlol profile page icons for Crucial Tracks and Glass are now live!

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Good heavy rain today if you're RFK Jr. and want to go swimming in a combined sewage overflow.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Just... no.

https://xcancel.com/joshm/status/1922639517858623684#m

#web #humans #noai

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I don’t want AI helping me to make web pages.
I don’t want AI helping me to enjoy web pages.
I don’t want AI anywhere near my browser.

I want to keep the web human. I want to create it with my own hands and consume it with my own mind. I want to surround myself with other people who want the same. That’s *my* web.

If you want to go full-blown Borg and ruin your experience via someone else’s bias-laden stolen-content neural network, you do you. But I find it repulsive.

#web #humans #noai

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
weatherwest ("Daniel Swain") wrote:

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

See, cookie banners are not allowed, they've never been allowed, they're still not allowed, and that's now been confirmed.
https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

https://mastodon.social/@sil/112396061038338385

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

It occurs to me I can just keep the old reader glasses at the desktop computer as computer glasses for the time being. The new glasses work just fine, maybe a little better, for laptop/iPad distance when I’m out (and actual reading).

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Live from the 10 Years of Rust celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands, we are very happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.87.0!

See the blog post and release notes for all the details!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/15/Rust-1.87.0/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com ("PBS News") wrote:

Walmart will raise prices due to tariff costs
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/walmart-will-raise-prices-due-to-tariff-costs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Headlines @headlines-PBSNewsHour

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

While we are at work they are also working hard.
#picaTheCat

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

I put on a black arm band when this happened, and my 1st/Sgt was "not amused". the Article 15 I got was worth what it cost me: some lost pay and confinement to the Company Area for a while... but at least I kept my 3 stripes.

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

Today in History: 1970, Mississippi Police open fire on crowd of Jackson State College students, killing two: Phillip Gibbs, 21, and James Green, 17.

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

So, the yokozuna continues to serve as a piñata this tournament as well. Such a shame…

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

New post: "Maybe the waiting is actually the easiest part" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/easiest-part/

The common wisdom seems to be that Apple is critically behind in AI, but that makes some 'AI triumphalist' assumptions that bear examining.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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

They're all so young! Except for the geezer at top right.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/15/what-biology-looks-like/

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

Today's plans have been disrupted.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/15/disappointed-2/