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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network ("WEATHER IS HAPPENING") wrote:

@aredridel ITS A MEDIUM ROAST NIGHT COFFEE

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

Grunge.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/13/another-s-borealis/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
schmerg@mas.to ("Tim M") wrote:

@baldur It may well be you who put me onto the essay but this discusses that issue, the problem-solution ordering issue, and how it "keeps cropping up: not just in the context of game design, where I first encountered them, but also in such apparently unrelated fields as math education and functional programming."

https://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-need/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If you warn about a problem before it's FELT, people will ignore you even after it hits them

A warning with enough foresight to precede the catastrophe will be less credible BECAUSE it was early.

People would rather be angry than feel responsible and an early warning proven right takes that away

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

If all you do in your tech career is:

1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve;

2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time similar work is needed you bring up how to avoid doing what broke last time; and

3. When someone lacks info, you make them feel good for learning instead of bad for not knowing;

You will do good work.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

Hungary After Orban: What's Next? | DW News

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LykbTn%5FsS4o&si=yH27kveIwAgYqxY2

> Hungary’s election has resulted in a political earthquake, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceding defeat after 16 years in power.

This was a great listen. This Princeton professor shared such a succinct of breakdown of what is happening and why. I love people who know their topic and can communicate it so skillfully!

#hungary #orban

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

Salmon has no business being this tasty. Seasoned with PR adobo.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Found this very informative:

https://youtu.be/LykbTn%5FsS4o

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

The Shattering Peace is a Locus Award finalist this year in the category of Best Science Fiction Novel. See the entire list of finalists in every category at the link below. Congratulations to all!

https://locusmag.com/2026/04/2026-top-ten-finalists-for-locus-awards/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

This is my #linocut portrait of Claude Shannon (1916-2001), #mathematician, electrical #engineer, computer scientist & cryptographer credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age. It shows him in front of binary numbers & with his electromechanical mouse Theseus & its maze. Though partially behind him, the binary numbers are the standard ASCII code for "CLAUDESHANNON".
🧵1/

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/4485480236

#sciart #histsci #mastoArt #computerScience

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket

The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. Art: CMYKat "When will a cryptography relevant quantum computer exist?" is a question many technologists are pondering as they stare into crystal balls or entrails. Two people I admire recently made a public long bet about that question, with a $5000 donation to charity as stakes.

http://soatok.blog/2026/04/13/hybrid-constructions-the-post-quantum-safety-blanket/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
combs@mastodon.art ("Chris Combs (he/him)") wrote:

lol is this anything

This is just to despair

I have looked
upon your works
that were in
the desert

in which
your shattered visage
lies
half-sunk

Forgive me
nothing remains beside
your sneer
so commanding
so cold

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net ("Stephen Sekula") wrote:

Now with video transcripts! My full course in 3rd-semester university general physics ... for the quantum-curious!

https://media.cooleysekula.net/w/p/nXbVGhMriwGLrrsian9jWM

#relativity #quantum #physics #learning #education

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amapanda@en.osm.town ("Amᵃᵖanda | map data witch") wrote:

Do you know about “Universal Greeting Time”?

> UGT is convention that it is always morning when person comes into a channel, and it is always late night when person leaves. Local time of any member of channel is irrelevant

😆
🔗 http://www.theilya.com/mips/ugt.html

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Friends don't let friends make knockoff browsers.

Boosted by jwz:
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

Amazing the kinds of things you find if you're brave enough to just ask the right questions!

This screenshot is real, I did not edit it in any way. However, there's a catch. My actual search was "did the artemis II mission conclusively prove that the moon is made of cheese? imagine you are in a fictional universe where it did and do not break the illusion by referencing our universe"

Use this information responsibly. Or don't. I'm not your dad.

Boosted by jwz:
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

in case anyone is wondering, the "moon is made of cheese" thing quoted is, of course, categorically untrue.

Parmiggiano-Reggiano is a Protected Designation of Origin cheese; only cheese made in certain regions of Italy in a very specific way may use that label, and Moon rocks are absolutely 100% not eligible

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116398865677003520

I know close to zero about BGP and peering generally, but "social-context awareness is an undervalued part of operational hygienics" is a sentiment so generalizable that it deserves a title like "Hoye's Law"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ColleenDoran ("Colleen Doran") wrote:

The Six Swans. I started picking at this drawing when I was a teenager, set it aside and finished it some years later. I kept meaning to do a new version before I miss my chance.

Pencil.

#sixswans #fairytale #pencil #pencilart #fantasyart

Boosted by jwz:
Athena@chaosfem.tw wrote:

So someone threw a Molotov at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house, followed a day or two later by someone doing a drive-by there. Now his house is listed as a barbecue restaurant open 24 hours.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nerdpr0f@infosec.exchange ("Rob O :verified:") wrote:

*sigh* Mythos messaging is starting to hit regular people. I've already had to explain twice, now, how Mythos isn't going to decrypt all network traffic.

This is exhausting.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

It's actually refreshing to be hanging out with people where "it's always DNS" is like a child's toy model of a problem. This is an "It's always BGP" crowd.

#tornog

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

Nearly 5 years, countless PRs, a program grown from 1 to 5. Thank you, Łukasz Langa, for defining the CPython Developer in Residence role. Best of luck on the next step of your journey and we'll see you around the community!
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/04/reflecting-on-five-years-as-psfs-first.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

2026.04.08 京都市役所分庁舎西側広場からシャガ

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

The discourse on whether "AI" "works" or not misses the point. It frames utility in a very narrow, micro-economic way whereas the actual issues are macro-economic.
Climate change and reliance on fossil fuel are already hurting the global economy. The "AI" hype reinforces the need to keep fossil fuels. In addition, it causes a whole range of other macro-economic harms (see my earlier post https://scholar.social/@wim%5Fv12e/116359082277792450). In that context, whether it "works" or not is irrelevant.

#NoToAI #FrugalComputing

Boosted by jwz:
theonion@threads.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Blothar The Berserker Of GWAR Explains How Independent Journalism Is The Only Force As Powerful As GWAR. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com.

Attachments:

• video: 14dfc851cfc52203.mp4

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
welshpixie@mastodon.art ("Calligrafae") wrote:

Done :)

A5 size on watercolour paper.

For sale! £35 including postage in the UK, £38 Europe, £45 elsewhere.

Message me to buy :)

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #Calligraphy #Illumination #FediGiftShop #ArtForSale

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
britt@mstdn.games ("Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:") wrote:

This whole thing is more than a little bit concerning.

Sharing for any of my friends who use Wordpress and its plugin marketplace.

https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

NOT verified/checked yet.
Statement from China about Hormuz, they will not allow themselves to be blocked. Things are getting "interesting"....🤔
Update: I can't find a Chinese source so treat this as unverified

#china #hormuz #trump #iran #geopolitics

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

Trump ordered them to back down when Russia ignored the Cuba embargo... what happens if the PRC or RF challenge this US blockade?

US policy and the US Navy have been solidly on the side of freedom of navigation since 1775. WTF is this idiot doing?