Mastodon Feed: Posts

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jobRxiv@mas.to wrote:

Computational Scientist ACER
University Of Illinois at Chicago

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-chicago-27778-computational-scientist-acer/

#aimachinelearning #gpuapplication #Python #systemprogramming #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-illinois-at-chicago-27778-computational-scientist-acer/?fsp%5Fsid=2076

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TidalFlats@mastodon.coffee ("C.W. Williams 🇺🇦 🌊🇨🇦🦑") wrote:

@paul_ipv6 @dougfir @MsMerope @ai6yr #ChunderRoad
I think that breeding gigantic radioactive squid is the real missed opportunity here.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I am trying to say something new at an upcoming AI symposium but I think all the critiques are already there in the 1960s and weirdly we have forgotten them and think "we" (ie even the anti-AI crowd) are coming up with fresh, new, important insights!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

The workers at Kickstarter United, one of the tech industry’s first unions, are in a tough contract fight, and they’re holding a virtual rally TOMORROW. Here’s the RSVP link: https://bit.ly/ksru-rally

Show up if you can! If they win a strong contract with AI protections and a 32-hour work week, that only helps the rest of us 💖

#1u #TechLabor #TechUnions

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

Tarot deck but every image includes Columbo investigating the scene or interviewing the subject

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

I don't think the reason they want to limit gun ownership by trans people is public safety. There might be a better demographic to restrict.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/quick-time-to-mobilize-the-2nd-amendment-worshipping-gun-fondlers/

jwz wrote:

Bobby Brainworms.

Who wore this rotting skin-suit best, Edgar, Dr. Channard or Dr. Pretorius?
https://jwz.org/b/ykuz

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Apple's Assault on Standards: Alex Russell dives deep into Apple's decade of harm and sabotage of the web and web standards.

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
AndreaPitzer@journa.host ("Andrea Pitzer") wrote:

I wrote about journalists who look away. From Maxim Gorky's shameful behavior in 1929 at Solovki and the death of George Polk in Greece in 1948, I move on to our current national crisis, which grows a little more urgent every day, despite those who continue to act as if nothing is happening. https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/see-no-evil

Boosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.

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

lord knows I need some

Attachments:

• video: 21a63c1841942639.mp4

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

can I submit XSLT to interop?

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

Last chance to win a pair of seated tickets to tomorrow's CYBERDELIA: HACKERS 30th ANNIVERSARY! Guess how many floppies are in the basket. Contest ends at midnight!
https://www.dnalounge.com/tickets/cyberdelia/garbagefile/?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Attachments:

• gifv: 59742095696e0121.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Stickers! #DC #SandwichGuy

jwz wrote:

Jellyfish Sap our Atomic Essence, again.

A swarm of jellyfish has caused major disruption at one of France's largest nuclear power plants, for the second time in a month. The jellyfish entered the filters of the pumping station and the Paluel nuclear...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuw

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

Overly pushy email senders get to meet my spam folder and I never see their emails again.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@delilahsdawson/post/DOLnh7FAKaW

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Going all-in on AI is going just great over at GitHub / Microsoft.

Top three community discussions for the year:
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions%5Fq=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop+created%3A%3E%3D2024-09-04

Boosted by jwz:
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

maybe the hairless ape that is hardwired to see faces in the clouds is not the best judge of whether or not the machine has a soul

Boosted by jwz:
hubba_hubba_revue ("Hubba Hubba Revue") wrote:

TOMORROW, Friday, Sept. 5th!

T I X: https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-05.html

HACK THE PLANET! Hackers 30th Anniversary Party! Doors: 7:30, Movie screening: 8PM, Dance Party: 10PM With DJs: Adora Blue and PJ DJ!
Costume Contest: 11PM -- WIPEOUT XL Competitions! -- MC "Mr. The Plague, Sir" Fish & the Hubba Hubba Cyber-Gogos!

Get your TICKETS *now* from @dnalounge 💾🍸

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

That's the sort of edgy, contrarian commentary I know you've come to expect from me.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

Early detecting regressions in #Debian: #Debusine helped to identify that libcloud's tests https://bugs.debian.org/1113939 will fail with the most recent #paramiko upstream release, before uploading paramiko to the debian archive. Libcloud will also probably FTBFS.

These are the autopkgtest artifacts for libcloud: https://debusine.debian.net/debian/developers/artifact/2431086/

Regression testing will be even better when the whole feature gets finalised: https://salsa.debian.org/freexian-team/debusine/-/issues/791

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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

You know what's really great? Not getting polio.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Electron is proof that if you abstract just hard enough, everything becomes a browser.

Next up: BIOS written in React.

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

"Who designed this?" you might ask.

Small NYC brownstones such as the one shown here were generally either built from the start as multi-family tenements, or were built as single-family homes and later subdivided into apartments. In the former case, the layout into individual units was part of the original design and generally fairly sane. In the latter case, landlords often tried to squeeze every square inch of rentable space out of the existing layout, at the expense of things like hallways.

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

Captured with a small mirrorless camera and 50mm lens.

This hallway reminded me of a sight gag in the Coens' "Inside Llewyn Davis". I like that the two neighbors have to share a doormat.

The starkly bare hallway and contrasting tones between the walls and the doors and floor make this as much a study in abstract shapes as it is about urban living.

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

Hallway, NYC, 2014.

All the pixels, not much room for anything else, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/13337114073

#photography

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
disisdeguey@expressional.social ("Disisdeguey🔻Pavlichenko🇵🇸") wrote:

"A man on the streets in the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"
I'm in love 😍✊️
#uklabourgovernmentimmigration #UKElitesucks

Attachments:

• video: A man wearing a white cap, with a moustache. Talking straight to the camera.a text on the screen says: "A man on the streets if the UK is asked about "the problem of inmigration" and dismantled talking points with ease"

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

In case anyone’s wondering what’s happening with the all the profile photo changes… yes, I’m having fun in Photo Booth :)