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

Track 13 - Watch Your Step, Grand Central Terminal, NYC, 2013.

All the pixels, no fare collected, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/10101066135/

#photography

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

We’ve just switched the social.lol default theme to the excellent Tangerine UI (Cherry) by @nileane! If you hadn’t previously set your own preferred theme and were using the default, you can hop over to https://social.lol/settings/preferences/appearance and switch back to the prior default Mastodon theme if you’d like. I’ve been meaning to make this change forever and finally got around to it!

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

I would say I am now already poisoned by Emacs’ keybindings when using other app, but I've been using some of them for years everywhere on the Mac—so it's really just screwing me up when I'm using any other Windows app now. 🙃

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

"a prompt-injection vulnerability in Google Gemini for Workspace that allows a threat-actor to hide malicious instructions inside an email. When the recipient clicks “Summarize this email”, Gemini faithfully obeys the hidden prompt and appends a phishing warning that looks as if it came from Google itself." https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini So simple: a white-on-white hidden prompt (or in 0px font), and the mega geniuses who push compulsory "A.I." on us didn't think of it. FFS.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
TechCrunch@mstdn.social wrote:

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/what-is-mistral-ai-everything-to-know-about-the-openai-competitor/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

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

a friend is visiting from the East Bay and brought us a ‘Shaun the Sheep’ figure

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you see a resume that indicates someone was part of whatever cursed project rebuilt ba.com on Next.js, and that resume or cover letter does not include a personal apology, the circular file is the correct disposal option.

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annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

if superman is woke why is his dog named Crypto

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drmaddkap@meow.social ("Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist") wrote:

Ever since the Matrix was released in 1999, cell phones have been steadily replacing landlines - which were shown to be the only way to escape.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@dgerard In any case, it occurs to me that you could plausibly maximize neurotransmitter tonnage by intensive farming of maggots or earthworms (most species use the same repertoire of neurotransmitters), neither of which are noteworthy for their production of Brain Geniuses colonizing the galaxy.

Elon picks the wrong metric to grind for, as usual.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Let’s be clear: This is political censorship. Just as CBS’ parent company handed Trump $16 million to settle a spurious lawsuit, this decision is about preemptively bowing to a regime that demands obedience.

We stand with Stephen Colbert and every voice that Trump wants silenced. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/stephen-colbert-cancelled-cbs-trump-paramount/

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

PS: Also donated to my local NPR affiliate, for the same reason

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dangillmor And defunding public broadcasting so there are fewer other avenues for information.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The cancellation of Stephen Colbert's Late Show, and the defunding of public broadcasting are two sides of the same coin.

The rich and powerful do not want to be held accountable for their actions. Those who call them out will be silenced.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

We're in the process or lighting up our Thinking Machines CM-2 which uses a Symbolics 3670 LISP Machine as its programming front end. The CM-1 was introduced 40 years ago in 1985 and the CM-2 in 1987. While this CM-2 is a single quadrant, we plan to simulate a full CM-2 and have its iconic "deep thought" lights running. Here you can see our lamp panels displaying a clock. This work was done by Jeff Kaylin.

https://icm.museum

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #ai

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Just had a half an hour long Teams call with a nice enough guy who just *wouldn't* believe me that I could filter a large amount of data into a much smaller set of data... and I can't help but think that if I had a penis, the call would have been 5 minutes long

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Nice walk with the very charming @ChrisWere and his facial expressions ❤️

Attachments:

• video: f27c30a18c7e11dc.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dillyd@turtleisland.social wrote:

My mixed dahlias are starting to open.
#FlowersOnFriday

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halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​ :icosahedron:") wrote:

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

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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.