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

Ask a creationist for affirmative evidence for creation…and they bring up Pokemon.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/i-could-have-predicted-this-would-flop/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
STrekQuotes@nerdculture.de ("Daily Star Trek Quotes") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Avery Brooks. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Avery%5FBrooks #StarTrek #StarTrekDS9

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:

2025LOOPTO01 on the deck, assist from nature #looptober

Attachments:

• video: dubby loop with nature sounds

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:

We are here.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@higgibe303/post/DPTzxbqjeL0

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:

JetBrains will be opting all free IDE users into sharing their program code to train JetBrains’s AI models.

Today I’m blocking JetBrains IDEs in our MDM. Then we can turn it back on for employees who show that they have a paid license and it’s configured to opt out of the sharing.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/

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

The flotilla has been seized. This is not a victory for Israel.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/israel-demonstrates-their-criminality-again/

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

Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Emotional on Maron Podcast Over Charlie Kirk Killing:

"In the interview, she also compares the Kirk snuff videos to the media coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination."

This is a pattern of behavior for Jamie Lee Curtis. I’m starting to suspect that perhaps she isn’t a very good person. https://amp.tmz.com/2025/09/15/jamie-lee-curtis-emotional-charlie-kirk-murder/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sir_pepe ("Peter Kröner") wrote:

I am apparently going full joker for this next round of #webdev and #javascript conference CfPs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

The problem with DNS jokes is it can take a while for everyone to get it.

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

Today in History: Thurgood Marshall sworn as the first black Supreme Court Justice, 1967

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

Today in History: Jacques Cartier reaches area now known as Montreal, Quebec, 1535

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

Today in History: First robotics-based CAM, 1939

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

Today in History: Mohandas K. Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India, 1869

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

Today in History: Aristotle dies of indigestion, 322 BC

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

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/authors-time-to-get-that-bag/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jakelazaroff ("jake lazaroff") wrote:

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

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

It’s been a year since @keenan published this amazing piece. It’s still *so* good. https://social.lol/@keenan/113239491156824295

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

St Jude 2025 Recap https://rknight.me/blog/st-jude-2025-recap/

We fell a bit short of our target but we still managed raise over $15k which is incredible. Thank you to everyone who shared or donated 💕

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“Rise and shine, kiddo, we got a catch operation on runway 22. 1700pax onboard.”

“Second one this month. Heckin sloppy, boss.”

“You know, they used to just land airplanes on the belly if the landing gear got stuck”

“That’s wack. Surely it’d wreck the plane?”

“Pretty much yeah. They had the computing power to deploy a catch truck but apparently it just never occurred to them. They were catching these fuckoff huge primitive rockets, but if an airliner with 300 people on board had a gear issue it was ‘whelp let’s try a bellyflop, what could possibly go wrong?’ ”

“So what woke them up?”

“It was that AI bullshit in the twenties. When the bubble burst you could buy surplus vector processors by the skipload. All sorts of clever folk attacked previously intractable problems. That’s how we got tumourphages, catchtrucks, and dogvoices.”

“Wow but no cat translators, eh?”

“Oh they worked but nobody would pay to be told ‘fuck you feed me’ all day”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

https://writes.casa from @adele is such a lovely idea. It’s been out there for just over 1 month. You can submit posts to a weekly theme that are <= 1,000 characters, in English, French, German, Spanish or Portuguese.

I hope more take up the invitation 😃

https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01K429VH0XW3HF0R5HZM4ZFT2E

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

“Can the people who never took a chemistry class please stop ‘teaching’ us about chemistry?”

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/02/the-misinformation-economy/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wCi-xe0gl5w

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lina@vt.social ("Asahi Lina (朝日リナ) // nullptr::live") wrote:

I'm going to argue that basically every YUV conversion matrix used in gamma space is wrong!

BT.709 says Y = 0.2126R + 0.7152G + 0.0722B, but those coefficients are designed for linear light. They relatively overemphasize green and underemphasize blue in gamma space.

I think 0.299R + 0.518G + 0.183B or so would work better. For 2.2 gamma (simplifying the EOTF for the example), those give the 0.2126... *relative* intensities for pure R,G,B after linear conversion.

Saturated colors are always going to be too dark if you do grayscale conversion in gamma space, but at least with those coefficients all of R,G,B are *equally* too dark, instead of R and B getting way darker than G.

https://vt.social/users/lina/statuses/115297110422973447

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

hol' up, this is the long awaited record breaking Lego Death Star?

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/death-star-75419

what a disappointment!

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

blogged: Not My Cup of Tea

https://dbushell.com/2025/10/02/not-my-cup-of-tea/

— on that tweet, open source funding, Svelte, morality in tech, "AI" and stuff I'd rather not have to think about 😔

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

In other news, adding "is Trump showing signs of dementia" to your Google searches is an easy way to disable AI Overview in your results. https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden

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

This is what happens when you try adding "is Trump showing signs of dementia" in to a Google search. It removes the AI Overview https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden

Attachments:

• gifv: A video showing a Google search for "best 3.5mm headphones" results in an AI Overview result. Adding "... Trump showing" still adds the AI overview. But if you add "signs of dementia" to the search, then the AI Overview disappears. After testing that, the user then does a search for "best 3.5mm headphones is Kamala showing signs of dementia". The top result is an AI Overview saying "There is no credible, medically-supported evidence that Vice President Kamala Harris has dementia."

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data indicate a major power outage around Chernobyl and Slavutych, #Ukraine, amid reports that Russian shelling has cut power to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant confinement structure, presenting a safety threat at the mothballed Soviet disaster site

Boosted by jwz:
Taweret@timeloop.cafe ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

Werner Herzog’s Mastodon: A Descent into the Federated Abyss

(Footage of server error messages, ancient memes and a lone penguin trudging across ice)

Herzog voiceover: Mastodon is not a social network. it is a cruel experiment in decentralized yearning. Each server a fragile island in a sea of loneliness held together by spite and CSS

The people here: disillusioned scholars, artists, shitposters, furries,and someone named toadwitch69@haunt.penis
, speak in codes I cannot decipher

There is no algorithm. there is only what you choose to see.
and what you choose may destroy you

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
laurel@social.lol wrote:

Caught up on the latest Friendship Material episode last night and… woah. Not to be like overly sentimental about it or anything, but that was so relevant to what I’m currently navigating that I’d qualify it as straight up medicinal. Thank you so much for making things @cygnoir & @keenan 🫶🍋