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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
unir@chaos.social ("hope") wrote:

Blue whales are falling silent from hunger. The krill are gone. The sea is too warm. Their songs fade away.

This is no anomaly. Humanity is deaf to a symphony of grief and warnings.

Blue whales are going eerily silent—& scientists say it’s a warning sign

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

Join us on August 17th show the #university administration that they can’t do this without any resistance! Share and invite your friends!

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

We want to start off this #semester by making it clear that #students at #EKU make up the very demographics that are targeted by these policies, & that we do not stand for it. They can’t keep pushing us & expect us to be idle!

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Protest #Activism #Protesters #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

These policies are clearly #racist and #sexist and part of the #US’ decline into fascism and complicity in #genocide.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

Starting with the repealing of all #DEI policies & specifically attacking #programs & #spaces on #campus meant to promote #diversity, the administration is trying to limit the ability of #nonwhite & #LGBTQ #students to express themselves or feel welcome on campus.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #KY #Kentucky

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

This year Eastern #Kentucky #University has went through some tremendous changes.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #KY

Boosted by jwz:
xinitrc@social.tchncs.de ("Martin") wrote:

You don't say!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jamesbritt ("James Britt") wrote:

https://leavesubstack.com/

You should *definitely* leave #Substack

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digiron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (vertically shifted -12mm).

White-Gravenor Hall, completed in 1933, represents Georgetown trying its best to look like Princeton, which, in turn, tries its best to look like Cambridge. Built to house science labs, it's currently a general academic building with classrooms and administrative offices.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

happy html day to my fellow html sickos

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

White-Gravenor Hall (Main Entrance), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the learning or research, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481192198

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mzedp@mas.to ("mau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels") wrote:

@startmail
They settled.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-21/meta-investors-settlement-with-zuckerberg-takes-heat-off-delaware

Boosted by jwz:
realhackhistory@chaos.social ("[realhackhistory@home]#") wrote:

"They were intimidated by the computer"

This whole news segment is gold, honestly. Every sentence is quotable.

And we get the cop in sunglasses and a cream suit giving a press conference in a darkened room in front of BBSes and boxes of floppy disks.

Just incredible #hacker #history.

Attachments:

• video: 53408d310b3fa5dd.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
realhackhistory@chaos.social ("[realhackhistory@home]#") wrote:

From a CBS news segment from July of 1985 discussing the busting of various #hackers and BBS operators in New Jersey.

Ouch, but also 💀

Will be uploading the entire segment to Internet Archive later today.

Attachments:

• video: 7aadf82aede8f85f.mp4

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

Meta investors are suing Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Facebook executives, alleging that they operated Facebook as "an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-investors-zuckerberg-square-off-8-billion-trial-over-alleged-privacy-2025-07-14/

Boosted by jwz:
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
leebennett ("A. Lee Bennett Jr.") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
archeaids@mastodon.online ("James Green") wrote:

My retired underwater archaeologist wants to sell his old land magnetometer & Trimble survey instrument. The land mag, one of the 1st, dates to ca. 1975. No data collection. No GPS. We had to walk transects & stop every 3 m to write down the reading. In the office we then plotted & contoured them.

The Trimble instrument is ca. late 1980s. I told him to set a price & I would put the word out, but those are so old that only an archaeologist wanting to play with ancient technology would buy them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LilHulkQ@mstdn.social ("John C. Varner III") wrote:

Biden left with record low black unemployment.

Black unemployment under Trump reaches its highest rate since the pandemic.
https://thegrio.com/2025/08/02/black-unemployment-under-trump-reaches-its-highest-rate-since-pandemic/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Parkhomenko") wrote:

So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated? We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

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

How Pakistan shot down India's fighter jet using Chinese gear - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/how-pakistan-shot-down-indias-cutting-edge-fighter-using-chinese-gear-2025-08-02/

“Central to its downing was an Indian intelligence failure concerning the range of the China-made PL-15 missile fired by the J-10 fighter. China and Pakistan are the only countries to operate both J-10s, known as Vigorous Dragons, and PL-15s.”

Boosted by jwz:
Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art ("Nick Stevens Graphics") wrote:

It's utterly disgusting to see a beautiful golf course ruined by an unsightly wind turbine.

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Some more random experiments with a morphing colorful tiling on the Poincaré disk.

Attachments:

• gifv: Rotating random colorful shapes tiling the Poincaré disk, getting infinitely fine as they approach the circle's edge.

Boosted by jwz:
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

If these numbers are hard to process, think of it this way.

Your lemonade stand has pulled in $8 dollars in cash. To get the $8 dollars, though, you spent $443 making the lemonade.

That’s right. You spent $443 to collect $8. Total loss: $435.

Is this a promising business? No. It’s no business at all.

But you tell passersby, “Look at my thriving lemonade stand!” And they decide your business is actually worth $47,000. https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114959489116169895

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

Quite the opposite, actually! I love going back into that universe and exploring it again. That said, one thing that's important to me is that when I go back, a have a good story to tell the rest of you. I'm willing to wait for that to happen. The Shattering Peace qualifies.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@octernion/post/DM3F5YfpnHb

Boosted by jwz:
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

The awful impact of RFK Jr.’s actions won’t be fully revealed for years. With prevention of chronic disease, it usually takes a number of years before we see an effect. It was at least a decade after the HPV vaccine was released before we could measure the incredible reduction in cervical cancer.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

“I’m not political” (phrase):

The policies of the people in charge don’t affect me negatively (at least not yet) and I don’t care if other people are suffering because of them.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

if you haven't taught someone who is helplessly addicted to LLMs, LLM brain is so much worse than you can possibly imagine. the problems i'm seeing from someone i am currently teaching are indistinguishable from illiteracy - this person literally cannot read single-line, fully descriptive error messages, and proceeds to just copy and paste whatever they say into the chatbot and copy/paste whatever it spits out, and in this problem domain the LLM is wrong nearly 100% of the time. when i ask them to stop and think about what the problem is, what steps they might need to take to diagnose and resolve it, and how does that fit in with the context of what we've been doing together for >6 months, they literally can't.

Edit: Oop this post escaped containment. I am not implying that it is impossible to learn with an LLM, so if it works for you then that is basically irrelevant to my description of this one very specific pattern of learning with which I have direct and repeated experience. This person is otherwise very smart and competent, I am describing the impact of the LLM on their mode of learning the things I am trying to teach them.