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

Will we finally see some backlash against the use of debate to empower bad ideas?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/25/im-hoping-for-the-death-of-the-debate-bro/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4px0MUlTvBk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jerzone@techhub.social ("Jer 🚵🏼") wrote:

From the little plastic wafer full of microscopic LEDs to “cooking" final reels and live testing them as they get constructed this is a lot more work than I expected for LED strips. This channel is the advanced Chinese future version of “How things are made”.
https://youtu.be/KcGzVRfu9s8

“I’m studying nuclear science, I love my classes, gotta crazy teacher that wears dark glasses, things are going great and they're only getting better”
https://youtu.be/lqkxd32dbwM

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

huh. and here I thought this story was well-known

“Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia” https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

This is fine -dot- gif

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/?gift=30cSUw54%5Fkhs9cmN2DgCv6AtQbjoj3VzzbTQuFZ1YfE&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk ("the roamer") wrote:

Met my MSc dissertation students this week. All good natured people. But the genAI rot is spreading.

About half of them do their work, and ask me questions about the problems they encounter. I advise on possible next steps. We meet again next week. All good.

But.

The other half, each of them perfectly well meaning, came back to me with questions that had nothing to do with their projects, and proposed solutions that are alien to the framework we are using. After some serious conversations, I found that in each case they had relied on chatGTP answers to their prompts. They had not read the actual papers I had given them.

Some had implemented equations that are patently false, not by error (this would be good for learning), but because chatGPT told them so.

A significant part our students can't read anymore. They need to interact with genAI, and they think this is research.

We are heading for trouble. In higher education, and in society at large.

#noAI #AcademicChatter

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

"On FedEx vehicle for delivery"

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• gifv: Heart Attack Close Call GIF by reactionseditor

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

But this is the "marketplace of ideas" fallacy. And maybe it wouldn't even be a fallacy if everyone participating in the conversation was just there to express what they sincerely believed and listen and learn.

But we aren't in a marketplace. Or a Quaker meeting hall.

If one side throws millions at "the earth is flat!" the natural weakness of this argument won't keep it from spreading.

We are bringing good faith and listening to a propaganda fight.

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

"Donald Trump’s MAGA allies are increasingly voicing concerns that Attorney General Pam Bondi has a blind spot for the damage caused by the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files ... Rising fury among House Republicans has guaranteed that the saga will outlast a sleepy August recess, with committees approving two bipartisan subpoenas":
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/24/pam-bondi-jeffrey-epstein-files-00475897
#EpsteinFiles #coverup copy: @renewedresistance

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your art history post for today: by Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875), Woman Sewing by Lamplight (1870-1872), oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 32 1/4 in. (100.6 x 81.9 cm), The Frick Collection, New York. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

From the museum: ‘It has been suggested that Millet’s many scenes of peasant women and their families working by lamplight were inspired by his fondness for Latin bucolic poetry, especially certain lines from Virgil’s Georgics. Similar treatments by Rembrandt and other Dutch painters may also have influenced his choice of themes, but ultimately this picture relates most closely to what the artist was witnessing in his own home, as he wrote to a friend the year the canvas was completed: “I write this, today, November 6th at 9 o’clock in the evening. Everyone is at work around me, sewing, and darning stockings. The table is covered with bits of cloth and balls of yarn. I watch from time to time the effects produced on all this by the light of the lamp. Those who work around me at the table are my wife and grown-up daughters.”’

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DavidBFox@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Fox 🌻🥸 🔜 Devcom") wrote:

Rescue on Fractalus! Helmet
42 years ago I got to be in an #ILM shoot for the box and manual of my soon to be released #LucasfilmGames Atari 800 game, #RescueOnFractalus On the cover I’m the running pilot about to be rescued, those are also my hands/knees in the cockpit. #retrogaming #spaceship

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

There is no universe in which "productivity" is worth the harms this technology is causing.

Cold hard fuck your "Genie's out of the bottle." I will not accept this technology as a fact in our lives.

This is a pollutant. It's mercury. It's asbestos. It's uranium. It needs to be aggressively, forcefully resisted.

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trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:

PUBLIC ENEMY BLACK SKY OVER THE PROJECTS: APARTMENT 2025 – Visuals by WIZYWIG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLJoyuByONk&list=PL5CJrOPJZvxjkh7mstmFah82U9u9aGHpJ

Lyrics and tracks

https://publicenemy.bandcamp.com/album/black-sky-over-the-projects-apartment-2025

(I like them so much I registered on bandcamp and made a YouTube playlist.)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The second #Plushtodon prototype has arrived. They should be ready before December this year. I hope you're looking forward!

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• gifv: A small, carrot colored Mastodon stuffed toy enters the frame first, before being joined by its blue sibling.

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

surPRISE

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/americas/us-venezuela-prisoner-swap-murderer-photo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Prof. HoSang has some interesting things to say about American politics shifting. well worth a read.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/24/opinion/minority-voters-trump-right.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.ZE8.471J.HFVtOaysZMbh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
inquiline@assemblag.es wrote:

"GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use"
https://www.animal-photo-references.com/

(shared from bsky, seems like they should have a presence here but I don't seem them)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mattgrayyes@chaos.social ("Matt Gray") wrote:

We’re back with another set of Reverse Trivia episodes! In this, the first of four, I make what is possibly the most niche joke I’ve ever done!

If you’ve not watched before, it’s a comedy panel show quiz thing that really doesn’t take itself seriously!

https://youtu.be/D9vt8gOg3xE

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userquin@webtoo.ls ("Joaquín") wrote:

I've created this blog about SSG and Service Workers: https://beyond-ssr.netlify.app/

I'm using @vite , vite-ssg and vue but the architecture should be framework agnostic.

@tomayac

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

Pressure to let the web fairly compete on iOS is growing around the world:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/cma-designates-google-and-apple-proposes-measures/

...but Apple is neither on the level, nor a good actor. It will continue to be a slog against obfuscation and lies, and we are all lucky to have @owa in the fight:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I wrote a browser for #gemini text that works over #geminiprotocol AND HTTP(S).

It was a great way to learn some #egui in #Rust, but mostly I wanted to demonstrate that you can have nice things on HTTP too. 😉

Let me know what y'all think!

https://github.com/NfNitLoop/egemi

#smallweb

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• gifv: Screen share of the new eGemi GUI browser for gemtext. Shows loading and rendering gemtext from HTTP and Gemini protocol.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

$20 upgrade for the Kirby game

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

They weren't kidding about Pokemon Scarlet/Violet being upgraded for the Switch 2. It seems to run at a higher resolution on the dock now and the higher framerate almost looks uncanny to me. No such luck for Sword/Shield, unfortunately. I haven't tried Legends Arceus yet but presumably it hasn't been touched either

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

🔗https://www.404media.co/grindr-no-zionists-error-message/

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

Today's front page 📰 of The National 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland"

Scotland not pulling any punches!

Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/scotnational.bsky.social/post/3luqgr2bbku2q

#Scotland #SCO

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
sophie@social.lol ("Sophie") wrote:

Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or topple the online pillars of capitalism - but it's making a political statement nonetheless. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web, away from the corporations". I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today.

https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

In case you missed it, there are lots of news and media accounts you can follow on the Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media

Before you follow, you might want to familiarise yourself with Mastodon's Lists feature. There's a complete guide to using Mastodon Lists at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon

Some of the news accounts post extremely frequently, and Mastodon's Lists feature provides a way of following such accounts without overwhelming your main timeline.

#News #Media

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

My game will be about the same price as a cheap lootbox but instead of a chance on an item you get a full game without micro-transactions 😁

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

History isn't a circle, it's a sine wave. We keep hitting the same problems at regular intervals, but each time we're either slightly higher or lower than before.

Right now we seem to be somewhere between "are we living in ancient Rome?" and "why is everything a subscription service?"

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Cyborgneticz@scholar.social ("cyborgneticz") wrote:

There is a like maybe Atlantic article I clearly remember reading about what life was like in a country becoming an authoritarian State. Y'all remember this?

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

♬️ Just announced: Sat Aug 9, 9:30pm: GOTHICUMBIA
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/08-09.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #gothicumbia #losgothsco #gothic #cumbia #postpunk #rockenespanol #darkwaveymas #sanfrancisco

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