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

Live image of me working in my office.

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

I see older libs keep asking why the younger generations aren't protesting. Dude, they totally are. They're being jailed. They're losing their jobs.

It's just the things these kids are protesting aren't a part of the Dem's agenda, and you're not allowed to speak on these issues in a perpetual effort to court centrists who'll never vote blue.

Name a time in history when Gen X/Boomers gave up their six figure jobs in protest.

From: @aral
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114540833616584848

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

“‘Satya, how about you show how Microsoft is killing Palestinians,’ Lopez yelled. ‘How about you show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure?’”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/19/microsoft-ceo-speech-palestinian-protest

#microsoft #azure #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza

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

Me: [bursts into kiddo's room first thing in the morning] PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DOOM!

Them: [surprised] WAUUGH!

Me: Oh, excuse me. I meant to say day. *ahem* PREPARE TO MEET YOUR DAY!

Them: 😆

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bjacobs@social.edu.nl ("Bart Jacobs") wrote:

For those interested in a principled approach to probability and the underlying mathematics & logic, a new version of my book is online:

http://www.cs.ru.nl/B.Jacobs/PAPERS/ProbabilisticReasoning.pdf

This 1000 page book presents a fresh perspective and a new language, as part of a new emerging field "Categorical Probability Theory", with many examples.

Three chapters have been added, on learning from multiple data, on causality, and on probabilistic automata.

One more chapter to go, on continuous probability.

Feedback is welcome

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

God bless all the marketing departments who are undoubtedly receiving emails from the bean counters on why their processes aren't more "agentic"

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

Maybe ignorance of the most basic concepts of civilized law is a prerequisite for appointment to the dictator's loyal tribunal?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/20/dear-god-shes-the-secretary-of-homeland-security/

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

In an alternate universe.

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

I'm sorry, bees. We brought out the drenching rain and near freezing cold for World Bee Day.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/20/today-is-world-bee-day/

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

Industry that charges you a premium for a cab ride if your battery is low: you should let our robots buy stuff for you

#agenticweb

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

God, the media are going to adopt the "Agentic Web" without a shred of critical thinking or pushback, aren't they?

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

Not that they're short of good reasons but if I were a woman I think having no pockets would radicalize me

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

I can't just be crying at my desk on a random Tuesday morning wtf I have things to do

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

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash:

"It is important to understand that the current usage of “Web 2.0” is often wrong; people often use Web 2.0 as a term to describe things like Facebook. This is incorrect — closed, proprietary, user-hostile sites like Facebook are what killed Web 2.0."

The platform era took so much and left us with so little. https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

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

Black Mirror s7 ep "Eulogy" 😭

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

There's an excellent BBC audio drama of "Neuromancer": https://archive.org/details/neuromancer.-bbc.-radio.-part-2

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
digitalsnow@social.lol ("Kerri :usad: :knife_lgbt:") wrote:

Meditations on Death | So It Goes...
https://notes.krueger.ink/meditations-on-death/

#Meditations #Blogging #IndieWeb

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Next week some of us from @Mastodon will be at re:publica #rp25 in Berlin (that's May 26-28). Come by if you want to chat or say hi, or even just see the #Plushtodon in person. We're also organizing a separate meet-up outside re:publica: https://lu.ma/7h454kcp

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asterism@ni.hil.ist ("Aster Master Spell Caster🧙‍♀️") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:

Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?

I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?

Boosts and ideas welcome!

If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org

#FOSS #OpenSource #NoAI #GitHub #Rust #RustLang

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ShaulaEvans@zirk.us ("Shaula Evans") wrote:

A system is what it does.

A system is what it does.

A system is what it does.

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

Crucial Cover for May 20: Rosanna by Weezer

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/neatnik/20250520

#CrucialTracks #Cover #Music

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

The reason that some implementations of passkeys never mention “passkey” is because we’re in a phase with consumer passkey awareness that apps and websites are seeing higher uptake by leading with familiar concepts, like beloved biometrics. The OS or password manager will later introduce the term “passkey”.

In fact, this concept is acknowledged in the FIDO Alliance’s “UX Guidelines for Passkey Creation and Sign-ins”:

“2. Associate the unfamiliar (passkeys) with the familiar.
Passkeys are a new term, a new visual symbol, and a new authentication method for consumers. Whenever possible,
help them understand the nature and value of passkeys by associating them to familiar concepts, visuals, and
experiences. For example, biometric experiences are familiar.” https://fidoalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/FIDO-Alliance-UX-Guidelines-for-Passkey-Creation-and-Sign-ins.pdf
https://mastodon.social/@com/114536382789684290

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

when captain picard said "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is gamedev." i really felt that

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

⭐ A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-company-reminder-for-everyone-to-talk-nicely-about-the-giant-plagiarism-machine

"I’ve even heard shocking reports of teams failing to incorporate plagiarism into their processes, because—I can’t believe I have to repeat this—“it’s not helpful.”"

Glorious.

∞ https://rknight.me/links/a-company-reminder-for-everyone-to-talk-nicely-about-the-giant-plagiarism-machine/

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Qatar-A-Lago -- Korbel brandy, baileys, Kahlua

Attachments:

• gifv: 0a656dd2f13c32c1.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: Blessed Be The Fruit - Ketel Orange Peach, Cranberry, Grapefruit, and Soda, Annointed with a Cherry.

Attachments:

• gifv: 894542dc9cbcb55f.mp4

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jwz wrote:

@dangillmor Wired has never been better than this. Ever.

Their 1994 mission statement was "What if Mondo 2000 but licking a boot?"

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Wired magazine falls for Bluesky's BS that it's decentralized. It could be, but it isn't.

This is tech journalism of the old style: credulous worship that isn't close to being justified by the reality.

Wired is better than this, or should be.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/

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

Why am I suddenly hearing liberals latch on to the term "rule of law"? I know it's often used in the context of Trump and his admin being criminals but beyond that I hear it a lot in the discourse. I don't love it.