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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

I wrote about how Democrats are frothing at the mouth to bring Elon musk into the fold and why they should absolutely NOT kiss up to Elon Musk https://www.usermag.co/p/democrats-are-already-kissing-up

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bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

3
Barker: i mean, after all
Barker: i can't think of a single person who isn't enjoying this slap fight
Poe: well, there's Robert
Robert Heinlein: [reading stock portfolio] noooo my bitcoins nooooo

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

Sure grandma

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• gifv: 93d6fc2cc4b87ac7.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
organizeworkers@union.place ("Emergency Workplace Organizing") wrote:

How does the union-busting industry work?

Union busters are hired in two thirds of organizing campaigns. Make sure you know how the “persuader” industry works.

https://workerorganizing.org/how-does-the-union-busting-industry-work-11652/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=jetpack%5Fsocial

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

A swan and five cygnets
#nature
#photography

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

Not using the stuff, I hadn't considered the variable reward angle with regard to generative "AI". Not cool.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kev@qrk.one ("Kev Quirk") wrote:

I just read this post by Jason Velazquez and now I really want a moka pot. ☕️

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mattgemmell@mastodon.scot ("Matt Gemmell") wrote:

More of the small web, please. More charming weirdos doing their own thing and proudly sharing it, regardless of the metrics.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
carolpeters@kolektiva.social wrote:

@fromjason I love my moka pot

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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

The New Adventures of #he-man offered some ...interesting re-designs of classic characters. It's rare to find depictions of this version of Skeletor that make the redesign look good, but William George's packaging artwork for the action figure looks fantastic.

So, with that in mind, I did this New Adventures-era #Skeletor. And for fun, I did it in ink, Copic marker, graphite, and chalk pencil -- hence the unusual look of the rendering.

#illustration #cartoon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."

tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.

https://www.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-you-can-train-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material-174016619.html?src=rss

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lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town ("The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus") wrote:

Talking Heads just released a music video for Psycho Killer, 50 years after they first performed it at CBGB in NYC, and 48 years after this version appeared on their debut album, "Talking Heads '77", and it is 100% human created and edited and GLORIOUS!!

https://youtu.be/CJ54eImz88w

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bug@fosstodon.org ("bµg") wrote:

✨ New blog post: "Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise"

https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html

I had a lot of fun making the WebGL demos, but it took me weeks of work. Boost are really appreciated if you enjoy it.

#glsl #noise #demomaking #shader #blog #programming

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• gifv: Gradient noise in 1D

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
josh@masto.byrd.ws ("josh :veri:") wrote:

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mediapart@mediapart.social ("Mediapart") wrote:

:anttoncoucou: Au fait, selon nos informations, vous êtes plus de 100.000 à nous suivre sur le fediverse !

Tout ça depuis vos propres comptes, vos propres serveurs, et sans plateforme toxique intermédiaire ! :edwusul: 🥰

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

My new blogging goal is to always have something I'm writing and tinkering. I'm over trying to have a schedule for my posts lol.

As long as I'm always writing something I'm happy

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

Interesting. Eerily similar to Mark Zuckerberg's strategy that killed MySpace

#Bluesky

https://www.theverge.com/news/678928/bounce-bluesky-mastodon-bridgy-fed-tool-followers

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:

The prophecy was foretold

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

Good morning!

I wrote about my little mighty moka pot, and the bliss of ritual.

I wasn't going to publish this one. It's a little different than my normal essays. But here we are. What the hell.

I hope you enjoy.

#coffee #design #mokapot #essay #blog

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/

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

I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.

An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.

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

The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.

Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.

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

Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.

Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).

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

Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).

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

United Nations General Assembly Building, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, none of the simultaneous translation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335

#photography

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art ("Nick East (Indie Writer)") wrote:

I wish I had public library energy 😁

@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon

#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

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

Two hours of scientists talking about science? The engines…they canna take it, Captain!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/06/i-show-up-in-two-videos-but-listen-to-them-for-the-other-guys/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FF019wN6650

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3XDMqw56w

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

I've adopted a Bold Jumper.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/06/i-have-a-new-little-friend/

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

It turns out that intellectual cowardice and trying to appease the Trumpkins isn't a good qualification for being a university president.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/06/the-perils-of-spinelessness/

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• gifv: plastic bag flopping in the wind

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

This is a SPIDER hatchery. Don't believe all those liars who tell you it's for chickens.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/06/i-finally-get-to-try-out-this-toy/

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unionizeallthethings@union.place ("Unionize All the Things") wrote:

Unionize all the computer hardware engineers!