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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JonathanAldrich@social.sigsoft.org ("Jonathan Aldrich") wrote:

All @ACM publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

I just found this #YouTube channel about model making in #movies, totally recommended!

https://www.youtube.com/@piercefilm

I was excited to find a clip about Dante's Peak. Ever since I first watched that movie decades ago I've been in awe of the gigantic models they built, and this clip has interviews I'd never seen before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZKeCG3jvHk

Also, as an astronomer I can relate to this guy from that video 😅

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

#oldknees

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

Since every data broker in the world has my "DNA makeup", I might as well share it with you all.

Being Puerto Rican is wild. Look at that. I'm EVERYTHING.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ines@social.lol ("Inês :prami:") wrote:

De regresso a casa, deu para despachar o cabelo da menina agora ao fim do dia #crossstitch

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien emerged. It skittered to a notice board and carefully studied one of the posters.

It returned to the spaceship and soon came out carrying a cat and a mobile phone.

"Hi, we have found your cat Pebbles...Yes... Our secret base on Ganymede."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

Someone on LinkedIn responded to Blackstone buying an energy provider for AI with "The intersection of big finance and energy can be great for sustainable systems growth."

Ok

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Mornin'

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

Few things have sent chills down my spine in recent months than watching mega corps buy up the country's energy grids for AI.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
rasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:

Being a creative little weirdo is an act of resistance.

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

Blackstone bets on soaring power demand with $11.5 billion TXNM Energy deal | Reuters

"With U.S. power demand projected to reach record levels in 2025, driven by mounting energy needs of AI and cryptocurrency data centers as well as increased residential and commercial consumption, more companies are investing in utilities."

We’re so back! https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/blackstone-acquire-txnm-energy-115-billion-deal-2025-05-19/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amcvittie@hachyderm.io ("Andrea") wrote:

Your “Company Culture” is more about what happens when somebody on a team says “I don’t know” than what team building events you plan.

#HotTake

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

🔗 Hallucinating. via @beep #Ai #Tech

If you read about the current crop of “artificial intelligence” tools, you’ll eventually come across the word “hallucinate.” It’s used as a shorthand for any instance where the software just, like, makes stuff up: An error, a mistake, a factual misstep — a lie.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/hallucinating/

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donutage ("donutage (Bill Cole)") wrote:

Happy birthday to André René Roussimoff, aka Andre the Giant (born 19 May 1946 in Coulommiers, France)!

#UnofficialDiaryDates #AndreTheGiant #AndreTheGiantHas APosse

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

These are my kids I like them a lot.

I was really just a child myself when I had them. So young, knowing nothing. I was 25 when my oldest was born. I turned... https://anniemueller.com/posts/these-are-my-kids

Boosted by jwz:
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Hogswatch time!

Pedro Pasquill stops by for the first snack of the night

Get your own copy of Lord Admiral Hogratio Nelson here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/phineas/lord-admiral-hogratio-quillson/card/

Attachments:

• video: Hedgehog inside an ornately decorated wild animal feeding station, with little gold framed pictures and mirrors on the walls, including a large majestic portrait of an admiral hedgehog. He has a good scratch then settles in for a snack

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MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

I wish the media had worked as hard to not get Trump re-elected in 2024 as they are currently working to not get Biden re-elected in 2028.

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underseamonkey@fosstodon.org ("libUnderseaMonkey.so 🇪🇺") wrote:

@jwz

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fortyseven@defcon.social ("Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░") wrote:

jwz wrote:

Week three of my neighbor's interminable construction project, whatever it is. So another day of finding music that synergizes well with power tools when played *really fucking loud*. I guess we'll start today with *The Hammer Party*. Hope they enjoy it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykoK

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

30 years ago today at DNA Lounge: COP SHOOT COP, UNSANE, ED HALL, SARAHSPODEN
https://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/1985-1999/1995-05-19.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

#Fotomontag #BloomScrollling

jwz wrote:

TIL that SpamAssassin does not match any 'body' rules if the body is text/html base64. WTF.
https://jwz.org/b/ykoI

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

I once took a 23&me DNA test because a cute woman I was into said we should do it together. And now 23&me is selling my DNA to anyone with cash and that woman is married to someone else.

The moral of the story is never like anyone. Stay in the house. Become a recluse. Be suspicious of your friends and family.

Subscribe for more life advice

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

BTW, don't buy new 8GB GPUs. That's already too little VRAM for some games, and it's going to be the bottleneck making the card useless long before the chipset itself would be too slow. It's a waste of silicon. Previous-gen 12GB and 16GB cards will outlive the 5060 8GB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0%5F4aCiORzE

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

ROFL

https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114528473891537978

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

Remind you it's never too late to ditch the social media service where the "AI" is programmed by racists and holocaust deniers

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz ("John Carlos Baez") wrote:

Give up on that challenge? Here's how it goes. We're trying to prove

dω/dt = ∇× (v × ω)

so we start with the definition of vorticity

ω = ∇× v

and do

dω/dt = ∇× (dv/dt)

Now we have to use Euler's equation

dv/dt + (v ⋅∇)v = F/ρ

and get

dω/dt = ∇× dv/dt = ∇× (F/ρ - (v ⋅∇)v)

Since we're assuming ∇× F = 0 and the density ρ is constant (since the fluid is incompressible), the first term at right is zero and

dω/dt = -∇× ((v ⋅∇)v)

Now it gets hard for me. I want an identity to help me out! I cheated and looked at this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%5Fcalculus%5Fidentities#Vector-dot-Del%5FOperator

where I learned

(v ⋅∇)v = ½∇(v ⋅ v) - v × (∇× v)

Wow! This gives

dω/dt = -∇× ((v ⋅∇)v)
= -∇× (½∇(v ⋅ v) - v × (∇× v))

but the curl of a divergence is zero so

dω/dt = ∇× (v × (∇× v))

or in short

dω/dt = ∇× (v × ω)

as desired! Hurrah!

The magic identity I looked up on Wikipedia is actually a special case of a more general one, which I needed when I was learning about magnetohydrodynamics. So I feel the whole subject of fluid dynamics is where fancy vector calculus identities start becoming really important.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:

DDOS-Guard nameserver activity from yesterday:

Charity "hope and change for haiti" transferred to DDOS-Guard, surely a sign of legitness. hncforhaiti[.]org

Someone's spinning up sites to target something called ACTA or ACTAS that has a portal. Lots of possibilities, but primary there is a local government service provider. ex: actaportal[.]org, portal-actas[.]com

More cryptocurrency targets: hyperswap and trust wallet. ex: trust-wallet[.]to

#infosec #threatintel #cybersecurity

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

You gotta have a colonist mindset bro. Colonists don't think they're in charge, they assume it. They center themselves. They wake up at 4am and recite into the mirror "I'm gonna derail so many conversations today."