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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anolandria ("Nol Malone ☭") wrote:

Until everyone starts out with the same resources, you don't get to tell me how hard you worked for what you have. 😒

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

#ChappellRoan is such a sharp song writer. She's so good.

#music

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Surveillance tech CEO Dan Heinen says "It's not my job to play the ethics game" regarding the (ab)use of his product.

Right, and as the great Tom Lehrer sang: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

https://www.404media.co/lapd-eyes-geospy-an-ai-tool-that-can-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Not coming this afternoon :)

Just realised that I’m not handling nested interpolated values properly as I’m using a regular expression to simulate what JavaScript’s native tagged template feature does.

Instead, I have to write a simple parser.

If I had a penny for every time I started with regular expressions on this and then had to implement a proper parser afterwards… I’d have two pennies (the other time was for extracted nested tags. See a pattern? (I’m here all week.)

So, barring the discovery of other edge (or not-so edge) cases following further testing, I’m going to aim for middle of the week for the release of the new Markdown Pages feature.

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #KittenUpdate #SmallWeb

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

I just cobbled a list of my favorite #MSDOS #RetroDev resources.

https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOSDevelResources/blob/main/README.md

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba Revue (Flux Vertical Theatre): KNEEL BEFORE ZOD: Empress 1908 Gin, Soda, Splash of Bitters, Lime.

Attachments:

• gifv: 22d6495eb0a3e4cb.mp4

jwz wrote:

SFPD surveillance unit's close ties to crypto billionaire.

Omni Consumer Products, Delta City: Why am I the only one in the news media who seems a bit concerned that a crypto billionaire is housing the city's new high-tech police surveillance unit in...
https://jwz.org/b/ykti

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

Telegraph poles like these, with multiple "code lines", were once a common feature along American railroads. They are distinguishable from ordinary power or telephone lines by their multitude of cables, often occupying several crossarms. They typically carried a power bus plus individual lines for the signals along the route, with more efficient encodings used as technology improved.

They've been mostly supplanted by more modern SCADA systems that don't require so many individual wires.

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

Captured with a DSLR and 24mm shifting lens (vertically shifted just a bit) on a hot day in the Mojave desert.

This is a simple composition, characteristic of the early 20th century Precisionist school. There's little in the frame that isn't essential. The pylons, wires, and tracks all converge at a vanishing point at the edge of the frame, suggesting, but not showing, a more expansive network of wires, tracks, and, for better or worse, human dominance over nature.

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

Code Lines, Union Pacific Railroad, Harvard, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the voltage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4612902834

#photography

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

@tadonic tried to respond to your email, but the well server rejected kjcole ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

hope your RIT experience was a decent one, amused at your coop site

jwz wrote:

"It happens sometimes. Teslas just explode. Natural causes."

Teslas spontaneously combust on car carrier: A car hauler transporting several Teslas caught fire while traveling southbound on Interstate 5 just north of Balboa Boulevard on Saturday...
https://jwz.org/b/ykte

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

Playing around on Twitch for a bit https://twitch.tv/ChrisWere

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

I wrote a thing about emojis are shit called emojis are shit.

https://friendo.monster/posts/emojis-are-shit/

Boosted by jwz:
Edent ("Terence Eden") wrote:

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome.
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/435623334#comment4

August 14th - Googler sends PR to remove XSLT from the standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11563

Like, I don't have a particular view of whether this is a good idea or not. But these sham community engagement exercises piss me off.

Boosted by jwz:
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

Have a lovely day, designer chums.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

I'm out today dropping a kid off at college so no Oxide and Friends -- but @ahl and I will be back next week!

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Interview: A million Israelis protest to end the "war".

A minority of them has been against the genocide from the beginning.

But most blame Netanyahu for putting his political survival ahead of the hostages.

"Most Israelis are not speaking directly on the suffering in Gaza, on the killings, on the children, on the starvation, but instead focus on the survival of the hostages held in Gaza."

~Oren Ziv, +972 Magazine

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/18/israel%5Fantiwar%5Fprotests

#IsraeliProtests #USPol #EuroPol @palestine .

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

this clusterfuck is so big, it's already a high-availability fuck

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

Time to smack down Brian Lauer again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/18/reid-v-laueragain/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljS0FEkff5U

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

This Townsend's Chipmunk was feasting on blueberries that had dropped to the ground. I chose to feast on berries I picked from a bush. Trailside berries are the best.

#bloomscrolling

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
avandeursen@mastodon.acm.org ("Arie van Deursen") wrote:

> When you’re a student at a university, you should think of yourself as an athlete in training, and the job you'll do after you graduate is the sport you will compete in.

> What your professors do know is that strength training will help you. That’s what essay writing is; it’s strength training for the brain.

> Using ChatGPT to write your essays is like bringing a forklift into the weight room; you are never going to improve your cognitive fitness that way.

https://cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08/12/ted-chiang/
#TedChiang

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tozka@fandom.ink ("mx. tozka") wrote:

Meanwhile one of the cats got high on catnip and started wailing until I left the computer and sat on the couch where she could reach me

#housesitting #catsitting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ubuntourist ("Tadonic the Flautulent") wrote:

TACO Don chickens out... again...
(from CNN's 5 Things AM, August 18, 2025)
#TACO #TACOdon #news #war #politics #russia #ukraine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Defense Minister Shmyhal confirmed that production of the Ukrainian long-range “Flamingo” cruise missile has begun, saying details will be disclosed “when the right moment comes.”

Attachments:

• video: e5b47878b00b6b64.mp4

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

the strains of this war are showing in the economy, and this is not a good sign for stability within Putin’s empire

“Barter is back in Russia as one Chinese company seeks to navigate settlement issues”

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/barter-is-back-russia-one-chinese-company-seeks-navigate-settlement-issues-2025-08-18/

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

good

“Russian oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia halted after Ukrainian attack”

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russian-oil-flows-hungary-slovakia-halted-after-ukrainian-attack-2025-08-18/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I don't hate LLMs. In fact I'm absolutely blown away by their performance. They work far better than they "should" and I ever thought possible.

But that astonishing capability doesn't make them intelligent. What's frustrating is the massive, uninformed hype where people speak on LLMs and "AI" without *any* real understanding of what it is and isn't.

It's crypto bros all over again.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/sally-rooney-vows-keep-backing-palestine-action-despite-uk-ban

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DrewKadel@social.coop ("Drew Kadel") wrote:

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen: