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

To answer your question, I have to admit that I don't think I've ever wanted to feel old.

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

Feel it

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DJ2QeTQoYLD

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urbanistorg@mstdn.social ("The Urbanist") wrote:

NEW STORY // Governor Signs Washington’s First-in-the-Nation Shared Streets Law

via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/governor-signs-washingtons-first-in-the-nation-shared-streets-law/?feed%5Fid=6026&%5Funique%5Fid=682b4ed35ff5b

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

Uh oh, there's a beta version of Nova 13 available just as I'm starting to get an Emacs configuration that doesn't suck. Okay, let's give it a look.

Ah, good, now I can have template highlighting or HTML highlighting in the same file, but not both. Well, it *is* a beta…

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

> being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

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

I've been enjoying Suzanne Vega's latest album "Flying with Angels". Today I find myself listening to the album's closer "Galway" over and over. Something about it is resonating with me, but it's also a good choice for a last song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGyY0bzRm9A

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Because today you really needed to see a corgi skateboarding. Just trust me on this ...

Attachments:

• video: A video of a corgi skateboarding

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scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

the SF public defender's office is so backed up they're not taking new cases, partly because Brooke Jenkins is now prosecuting people merely for being homeless. can you imagine a more wasteful and ineffective way to deal with homelessness?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-public-defender-caseload-20329216.php

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
carolannie@c.im ("Carolannie") wrote:

#Politics #LifeLessons

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

Prami is now on Cotton Bureau! Score a premium shirt with the adorable omg.lol logo and support #omgdotlol at the same time! :prami_happy:

https://cottonbureau.com/p/4Q3YYH/shirt/omglol-prami-logo#/28717775/tee-men-premium-lightweight-vintage-navy-tri-blend-s

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes ⁂") wrote:

Decentralized infrastructure is meaningful only when it leads to decentralized authority.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
klausblog ("Daniel Prindii") wrote:

Be a rebel, use RSS.

#Internet #IndieWeb #RSS #SmallWeb #Tech

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
phillycommunitywireless@jawns.club ("Philly Community Wireless") wrote:

PCW is welcoming volunteers! Driven by the belief that access to the internet is a human right, together our team builds community-controlled internet infrastructure, learns about networking and hardware, and participates in community outreach.

Sign up to volunteer! www.pcw.fi/volunteer

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

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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/

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• 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.