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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​ :icosahedron:") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjb2OhEQcU what a gorgeous visualization

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“I am the punctuation mark of human frailty. I am the writer’s block, resolved mid-sentence.”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

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

It is surprising how much of my current work is deciding whether or not a given noun or noun phrase should be capitalized.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
badastro ("Phil Plait") wrote:

This may be one of the single greatest astronomy questions I've ever been asked:

Can you drink Saturn's rings?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-drink-saturns-rings/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

404 Media continues to punch waaaay above its weight: https://www.404media.co/flight-manifests-reveal-dozens-of-previously-unknown-people-on-three-deportation-flights-to-el-salvador/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

How can you include #OpenScience practices in your teaching? Read how two Dutch professors -- Elen Le Foll and Ewout Meijer, in linguistics and psychology respectively -- asked students to preregister their term-paper analyses. Interesting idea!
https://reproducibilitynetwork.nl/2025/07/15/preregistration-for-student-assignments/

#Preregistration

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ingalls@mstdn.ca ("Mark Ingalls") wrote:

With Congress cutting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I donated to my favourite US public media station (C89.5 in Seattle). I recommend others do the same to support public media in their communities!

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

Good news for folks with Early Access! You can now try daily builds of universal EFI ARM64 images at https://builds.elementary.io

These are install images for computers like M-series Macs and Raspberry Pi’s that support EFI firmware. Join Early Access for as little as $1/mo and give them a try!

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

@HopelessDemigod fascinating question, unexpected answers

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/54fe1a58-466d-425c-a171-ef293467031d

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Meta declines to endorse the EU's AI code of practice, labeling its implementation as an over-reach in regulatory measures. https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/meta-refuses-to-sign-eus-ai-code-of-practice/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dmirams ("Doug Mirams") wrote:

IKEA assembles an outdoor library on the Seine, blending books, community and serendipity https://www.trendwatching.com/innovations/ikea-assembles-an-outdoor-library-on-the-seine-blending-books-community-and-serendipity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
clown@mstdn.social ("Fedi Clown") wrote:

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with a slow Internet connection to see who they really are.

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

We should have known Trump was a sleazy criminal, unsuited for office, long before the latest slimy revelation. The electorate ignored all the signs for decades, and I'm not impressed that we're finally seeing a few objections from MAGA.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/18/i-dont-want-to-talk-about-epstein-either/

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

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

Donated to my local PBS station because fuck this administration

https://www.pbs.org/

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

Just learned Neil Degrasse Tyson is #PuertoRican 🇵🇷

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

Everytime I think, I don’t really need my omg.lol address, I’ve already got too many self hosted static and dynamic websites around, @adam goes and does something like this and I remember why I like being part of this community.
https://social.lol/@adam/114868737392634690

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

Truth

https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone/114870932347008673

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chrisamaphone@hci.social ("chris martens") wrote:

i’ve taught students who are new to programming who try to justify their use of LLM code tools with self deprecation — “i’m bad at this”, “there’s no way i could ever figure it out on my own.” i wish i knew how to get through that the actual value your college tuition pays for is access to live human beings whose job it is to give you the kind of help you’re seeking from the LLM. that those human relationships are what give life meaning & there are so precious few opportunities to create them

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

#nonfiction
#bookclub

Is anyone up for a slow bookclub of We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba https://bookshop.org/p/books/we-do-this-til-we-free-us-abolitionist-organizing-and-transforming-justice-mariame-kaba/18582309?ean=9781642595253&next=t

?
boosts welcome

I am thinking read Parts 1 and 2 over roughly the next month.

I have a zoom account, the ability to make polls, and the will to have at least one buddy in this.

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

* yard & garden watered ✔️
* compost tumbled ✔️
* coffee sucked down ✔️
* morning bowl smoked ✔️

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

If you need some joy in your day, this is my gift to you. John Batiste is a gem of a human being. He is also massively talented.

In this interview from 2023 with Chris Wallace, John talks about the limitations genres put on music. And THEN he genre hops through part of a Beethoven piece on the fly.

It’s so good. And Chris’ face is priceless. He’s almost giddy.

#JohnBatiste #Music #Genres #Piano #Genius #ChrisWallace #Joy #GoodNews

Attachments:

• video: John is a good-looking young Black man with with robustly-styled dreadlocks. He is wearing a tan suit coat, partially open over a low-cut white t-shirt. He’s sitting at a piano in what appears to be a small studio setting. Chris is a middle-aged white man with simple glasses. He’s wearing a suit with a bright-red pocket square over a solid-blue dress shirt and a striped tie.

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

"John Robert Lewis ... was the walking, breathing blueprint for how to love a country that doesn’t always love you back, and still demand it do better."

https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2025/07/17/john-lewis-fought-for-us-now-its-our-turn/

#GoodTrouble #Protest

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brian_gettler@mas.to ("Brian Gettler") wrote:

"Tearable puns"

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

CBS, soon to be owned by Larry Ellison and family, is wasting no time turning into just another right-wing media company.

Paying Trump's extortion, trial-ballooning a "Free Press" buyout, canceling Colbert (and soon Stewart?) -- there's nothing mysterious in this pattern.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/17/nx-s1-5471581/cbs-stephen-colbert-late-show

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Mega-billionaire Musk's sleaze and hypocrisy are boundless. One of his companies claimed to be a ‘disadvantaged business’ to get special federal treatment while he was wrecking agency after agency.

Destroying Tesla, his primary piggy bank, has never bee more important.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/17/elon-musks-neuralink-says-owned-by-disadvantaged-persons-in-filing.html

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
pomaranc ("Pomaranč") wrote:

Moon melting into water in Yosemite National Park, California 🔥

📸 C O S M O S

#travel #photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

New, from me:

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai

Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald’s was exposed after they guessed the password (“123456”) for the fast food chain’s account at Paradox.ai, a company that makes artificial intelligence based hiring chatbots used by many Fortune 500 companies. Paradox.ai said the security oversight was an isolated incident that did not affect its other customers, but recent security breaches involving its employees in Vietnam tell a more nuanced story.

.....Those purloined credentials show the developer in question at one point used the same seven-digit password to log in to Paradox.ai accounts for a number of Fortune 500 firms listed as customers on the company’s website, including Aramark, Lockheed Martin, Lowes, and Pepsi.

Paradox maintains that few of the exposed passwords were still valid, and that a majority of them were present on the employee’s personal device only because he had migrated the contents of a password manager from an old computer.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/poor-passwords-tattle-on-ai-hiring-bot-maker-paradox-ai/

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

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS after he speaks out against settling with Trump

https://apnews.com/article/stephen-colbert-late-show-cbs-end-8bad9f16f076df62c0ffc50e9c8adbab

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

If you want to join me in supporting this important work, feel free to make a donation yourself and send an email to help@omg.lol with your donation receipt. If you include your mailing address, I’ll send one of these sweet DEI stickers I just submitted for production tonight. :prami:

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

Today, the U.S. government shut down the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s support option for LGBTQ+ youth.

It’s now up to private organizations to step up and offer the empathy and compassion that our government once provided.

For the rest of the month, I’m donating 50% of everything omg.lol earns to The Trevor Project’s Emergency Lifeline Campaign.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/emergencycampaign/