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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
kaiiak@madverse.city ("Kaiiak ;(Ж)"") wrote:

would yall wear the elderly robot tail

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

101

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gloriouscow@oldbytes.space wrote:

Congrats to @jayrockin on funding their kickstarter for Runaway to the Stars in all of about... 18 minutes.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/runaway-to-the-stars

I love this woke af sci fi comic more than words can express. Go check it out and get yerself a book.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style ("Renewable Guydraulic Menergy") wrote:

putting on RATM's Killing in the Name but when it gets to the "fuck you..." part i start singing:

thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!
thank you,
i'll take that under advisement!

jwz wrote:

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman's Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto.

SAN FRANCISCO: "I've been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn't think too much of it when the ingredients list included a...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6K

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

Trump Escalates Feud With Unclear Adversary By Posting AI Video Of Self Fucking Basketball

WASHINGTON—Shocking Truth Social followers with a graphic insult to a nebulous opponent, President Donald Trump escalated a feud with an unclear adversary Monday by posting an AI video of himself fucking a basketball. “The president is clearly enraged at somebody, but the clip provid…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/trump-escalates-feud-with-unclear-adversary-by-posting-ai-video-of-self-fucking-basketball/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Feedback is also a limited resource and students don't understand this since they think teachers have infinite time.

Maybe the way that it's presented needs to make it more clear that this is something of value, not a punishment... which is how younger kids can see it.

eg. "Decide what you want me to read, I only have time to do this two times."

I think fewer students would give LLM content in that context.

It is, frankly, rude to give someone a bunch of LLM text to read.

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