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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
troy_s@mastodon.art ("troy_s :praxis_100:") wrote:

For anyone who has tried crafting a picture formation approach, the seductive entry point is often to start with a chromaticity linear, or broadly additive, mindset. As the energy levels go up, excitation purity drops following additive mechanisms.

All is well and good. Until, as Timothy Lottes and Alex Fry (not Alex Fry) outlined in their presentations… some weird cognitive things happen with some depicted forms. Commonly “fire” is cognized as odd as F.

https://youtu.be/7z%5FEIjNG0pQ?feature=shared

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fishing nets. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Red and white fishing nets.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
loadingartist@mastodon.world ("Gregor") wrote:

endgame ☢

👇 bonus panels in the replies 👇

6-panel Loading Artist comic. 1: "The world just ended. And I couldn't be happier!" Blue shirt guy grins at a nuclear blast outside his bunker. 2: "Fuel? Plenty." He admires his fuel barrels. 3: "Snacks? Stocked." He opens a soda beside shelves of junk food. 4: "Responsibilities? None." He relaxes into a beanbag with headphones. 5: "Finally! The perfect gaming session begins now!" 6: Screen says: "Failed to authenticate. Check your Internet connection."

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Boosted by jwz:
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

unfortunately for the AI bros, MCP only means one thing

distorted face of MCP, the Master Control Program, from Tron

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba Revue (Space Station Burlesque): This is the Mirror Universe - Tito's Vodka, Ginger Ale, Splash of Blue Curaçao, Cherry.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
tofugolem ("Tofu Golem") wrote:

Same.

Sign:  AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'D RATHER BE EXCLUDED FOR WHO I INCLUDE THAN BE INCLUDED FOR WHO I EXCLUDE.

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

url.town updates:

1. An RSS feed is live (at /rss). Per-category feeds will be available soon.

2. Search is live. It’s super basic, but it works!

Tomorrow, hopefully: An edit mode (so you can update existing submissions), and little profile pages for curators.

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

I found out today that my mother-in-law's PC isn't compatible with Windows 11, but it's not due to the TPM. It's because Microsoft says they do not support the CPU. Frustratingly, she got the PC about 5 years ago. If I recall, I was the one who helped her find it. :(

(Linux is not really an option. I do not have the energy to support her in this sort of transition, and I do not know anybody else who could. I'll either repurpose her PC myself, or find somebody who will.)

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

The problem with #Bluesky is they came to be during a time when decentralization was en vogue, so they decided to just be that.

But, it's marketing.

Ten, fifteen years ago Bluesky would've branded itself as "modular" or having a robust API like App dot Net.

They want to be the internet's common infrastructure. Of course they do. What for-profit company wouldn't want that?

I maintain that #ATProtocol is interesting. But it's not a noble pursuit.

Anyway, I deleted my BS account.

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

Also,

“Life’s not knights on horseback. It’s a number on a piece of paper. It’s a fight for a knife in the mud.”

The writing on #Succession is so sharp.

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

"There's no god, there's no anything. There's just people in rooms trying to be happy."

What a bar. #Succession

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

Toots "inspired" by "At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work":

https://archive.is/9V58J

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

What? No that sounds doesn't bother me anymore. Ignore the distant screams... Shhhh... Vibe... Give in...

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

More code, faster, with no thought. There's no point in anything unless it's constantly changing. Changing so fast you can't think about it or have to time to get used to it. Stop thinking. Trust the vibe. Give in to it. Give in.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Jyoti@mas.to ("Jyoti Mishra") wrote:

The image depicts a black and white illustration of a tractor, labeled "A Strange Tractor" at the bottom. The tractor is shown in a side view, with its cabin and wheels clearly visible. The wheels are stylized with concentric circles, in the mathematical pattern of strange attractors. Yes, it's a terrible pun.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Why every kitchen suddenly got cold

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

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

One of the fun parts of being me is the cross-disciplinary weirdness I can bring into any situation.

@simon has been doing great exploring of LLMs, and has a fantastic post about Claude 4 Opus system prompts - the stuff Anthropic injects to shape the model’s output.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt/#atom-everything

It included this great find as the last entry: “Claude is now being connected with a person.”

Which is just brilliantly metacognitive, readable in multiple ways.

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

listening to The Byrds play at the Fillmore West on Aug 16, 1970

https://wolfgangs.app.link/N6jciBlCFTb

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mandelbroetchen@chaos.social ("Mandelbrötchen") wrote:

Haha. Die Gewerkschaft der Polizei will an Bahnhöfen KI mit Überwachungskameras einsetzen, um Gefahren wie rennende Menschen zu erkennen. Rennende Menschen an Bahnhöfen? What could possibly go wrong?

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

Google is fighting Nextcloud by harming our Android app. Nextcloud now has less functionality than Google Drive. This is clear anti competitive behavior. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud%5Fplay%5Fstore%5Fcomplaint/ https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
goofpunk@critters.gay ("goofpunk :snorlax:") wrote:

TIL that CompuServe.com is still up and that the CompuServe Forums didn’t shut down until 2017

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Citation needed.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

On this 5th anniversary of his passing, I reflect on how America is such a different place before and after George Floyd's death.

Before, most white people claimed not to know how cops mistreat and kill us, as they demanded that cops do more of it.

Now, they still demand more of it, but with full knowledge.🤡

And again, don't try to "Red State, Blue State," this. Don't try to make it about Trump.

Biden killed any and all hope for lasting change after George Floyd. Biden demanded more killer cop units that don't work. Biden presided over the most murderous year in US policing history.

Boston has worse police racism than Birmingham Alabama.

That's not saying that Birmingham Alabama policing is good or equitable for Black people. That's saying that the bar is on the floor.

And white folk in the US know that it's on the floor. They know it's racist.

And most of them don't care.🤷🏿‍♂️

Most white Biden voters want to go back to an America where the government hurt Black people without consequence, but not white people.

But it's never going back.

That America is gone. We need a new path forward.

You can start caring about how Black people are treated, or share in our treatment.

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

welp

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

Obsidian Bases looks promising!

https://help.obsidian.md/bases

UI for Bases. Shows a database of book titles in Obsidian with filter and sort functionality.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Sunset. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

A village on the coast illuminated by golden sunlight. A mountain behind the village is partially in shadow of another mountain. The moon is right behind the mountain.

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

My notes are a mess. I have half in #Notion and half in #Obsidian. I want to make a personal wiki/garden for all my deep dives and info collecting but I can't commit to one platform.

I love Obsidian and its respect for my writing files. Notion has all the shiny features but those fuckers love the typical SaaS lock-in approach.

What to do

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

Today in History: May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin forcefully pins 46-year-old George Floyd to the ground and holds his knee on Mr. Floyd’s neck until Mr. Floyd is dead.

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jwz wrote:

ChatGPT user delighted to combine sloth with theft.

Millions yearn to be creativity-adjacent: "I've always been jealous of the glory authors get," explained Wolverton, assembling fresh Ikea bookcases to display his newly-published oeuvre. "Actual...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoX

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Boosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss”

Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

NEW YORK TIMES (2020): U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AN INCALCULABLE LOSS