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

I hope she never loses that spark. She loves science and music. She's obsessed with zombies, blood and guts.

She's always looking for new experiences. My sister routinely tell her things like "no, you can't ride the massive sling shot that shoots you into the air" lol.

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

As she walked off stage towards her mom, a couple handed them $100 bill lol. My sister had mixed feelings about that (me too) but it was ultimately well-intended.

My niece seemed to be unfazed by all of it, and asked if we could get some ice cream.

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• video: A lady hands my sister 100 dollars. The crowd cheers. The MC says she got a nice tip.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

While I still don’t like Liquid Glass, some of the Hacker News-esque “MacOS has felt abandoned to me since around 10.2” takes I see are absolutely wild. (N.B.: that is an actual comment on HN.)

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

She's a marvel, and fearless in a way that makes you both proud and terrified.

A couple of summers ago, after a long day playing in the ocean, we went to this rowdy beach bar for a late lunch. The second we walked in, she made a bee line to the karaoke stage, looked back and shouted at me "sign me up Jay!"

She sang Dance Monkey on that stage, to a sun burnt and drunken crowd, with the confidence of a veteran pop-star.

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• video: Niece dancing and singing on stage in a beach bar. She does a twirl and the audience cheers.

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

after a hard day keeping the blanket from floating off into space

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

Did I ever tell y’all that my niece, when she was 5 or 6, made up a catch-all term?

Nah-boosh (accompanied often by a slight shrug)

Want pizza tonight?
Nah-boosh (I’m up for anything)

You just stepped in poop.
Nah-boosh (shit happens)

What a lovely contribution to the English language. She’s a gem.

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Just gonna leave this here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-is-among-the-most-efficient-forms-of-travel-in-the/

#bikes #biking #bicycle #ebikes

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The US version of Oscar is much less funny than the original, but as far as US adaptations go it's still quite good.

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

The UK might make this gormless goon their prime minister? Say it ain't so.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/28/farage-needs-to-go-away-apologies-would-be-redundant/

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juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

So, here at the end of 2025, I find myself thinking back about where we've been. I'd like to share with you 12 essays from the year that was—one from each month. These are, if not my "favorites," the ones that I find most emblematic of what I'm trying to do with this work.

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juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

Today I wrote about what it means to write a free newsletter with voluntary subscriptions, and the delicate gift that it is to have a readership, and re-shared 12 essays from the year that was.www.the-reframe.com/goodbye-to-2...

Goodbye to 2025

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galacticstone ("Galactic Stone") wrote:

Is your name Mike?

Please boost to collect as many Mikes as possible.

#Mike

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vitalis@dirtyknight.life wrote:

man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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• video: 8c6a3e12f8bc1d1f.mp4

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

realistic analysis:

“Army chief says Switzerland can't defend itself from full-scale attack” - https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/army-chief-says-switzerland-cant-defend-itself-full-scale-attack-2025-12-27

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

If you’re being fed rapid-fire updates about an issue, or a series of issues, that hint at an outcome that never transpires, if the thing that should happen is always just around the corner, but that corner is never turned, you are not engaging in political advocacy, you are watching a soap opera. And the thing about soap operas is that they’re designed to go on forever so long as there’s an audience for it.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The onus, as always, is on the people making extraordinary claims, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

The idea that you can run a fully autonomous, general reasoning, artificial mind on what's effectively just a bunch of CPUs and GPUs is a fantastical claim.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF MLEM
https://norden.social/@feliz/115790271152257386

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If somebody shows you can't build a ten-story house out of plywood and bailing wire, citing the tensile strength of the wire, they are not in doing so arguing that only God can build towers. They shouldn't be expected to explain that tensile strength is not evidence of the divine hand of creation

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Been seeing a few people outright claim that studies that outline specific reasons why Large Language Models won't lead to "Artificial General Intelligence" are "whitewashing creationism", because apparently showing that a task isn't feasible somehow affirms the existence of a divine soul

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

I had to. Sorry / you're welcome.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Cause she’s so high
High above me, she’s so lo-fi

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effinbirds ("Effin' Birds") wrote:

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

It's grim out there, but the sparrows just want breakfast.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/28/its-blizzard-time/

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

She was fine with it … until I petted it. *That* made her mad (tail puffed up ... ) so I stopped because she has enough drama in her life without simple humans making it worse.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION TIME:

There are now only 30 days until publication of "The Regicide Report", the 14th (and final!) book in the Laundry Files. Preorders help enormously!

British/EU edition: https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-regicide-report

US/Canada edition: https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-regicide-report/?isbn=9781250373861&format=hardback

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

this is a very cool idea
h/t @simon

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/25/claude-code-transcripts/

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

What bothered me about LLM use growing, and why people would ever ask it anything at all when it only gives an answer that sounds like an answer might, had me missing something glaringly obvious until this week.

I realised it while on my eighth google for the purpose of diagnostic LEDs on a Mac Pro 4,1 CPU board - and getting links to bad forum answers, and videos (some AI generated themselves) I realised…

Search engines today also only give shitty approximations of what answers are like.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation”

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/

> At the Media Lab, I learned that the discourse of “ethical AI,” championed substantially by Ito, was aligned strategically with a Silicon Valley effort seeking to avoid legally enforceable restrictions of controversial technologies

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The photos I was taking outdoors I. 2003-4 have a similar focus on the mundane although they’re also have a greater similarity to the kind of photos I take today. #photos #film #blackandwhite