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Boosted by jwz:
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:

How it feels to be alive lately.

A cartoon in 4 panels by Sarah Andersen In the first, women is laying on a blanket outside "Existing" A man comes by "That'll be $70." In the final panel the women looks resigned, slightly sad. But she says "OK."

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Boosted by jwz:
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_.

Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

and in case anyone's going to bring up hantavirus, well, idk man i'm not an expert but this guy claims to be so good luck with that https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship/687140/

As an expert in what we call “exposure science,” I have spent a career conducting forensic investigations to understand how diseases spread and what we should do about it. As a member of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, I chaired the Safe Work, Safe School, and Safe Travel task force, and was an early proponent of the theory that COVID spreads through the air. There was evidence early on of airborne transmission, which my colleagues and I tried to draw attention to. We modeled the early-2020 outbreak of the disease on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and found that 90 percent of the spread was through aerosols, not contaminated surfaces, but the CDC didn’t update its guidance until late 2020. I am alarmed to see the same pattern playing out now.
Hantaviruses usually originate in rodent feces. Someone cleans a dusty area that has rodent droppings, inhales the particles, and gets sick. Only the Andes strain of hantavirus is known to be transmitted from human to human. In the outbreak documented in NEJM, the virus spreads without physical contact or prolonged exposure. One patient gets sick after simply crossing paths with someone who was ill. Two others are infected while seated at tables meters away. One person infected five others within 90 minutes at one party. The NEJM authors suggested that the virus spreads through the air.
Although the NEJM evidence is clear, officials have kept repeating “prolonged, close contact,” so I wanted to be sure I wasn’t missing anything. Last week I spoke with a physician who was on the MV Hondius as a passenger but who jumped in to help treat infected passengers after the ship’s official doctor got sick and was evacuated. He told me that the original treating doctor and staff were definitely in close contact with the first patient. But the others who got sick? They had merely shared space in the dining room and the lecture hall, and had not had close contact. We’re now at 10 confirmed cases from the ship, which aligns with the prior outbreak dynamics: one person infecting many, no close contact required.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ogeer@social.coop ("Oliver Geer") wrote:

Audrey Tang (@au / @audreyt.org ) will be giving a talk on Friday 22 May organised with our local #FOSS / #FLOSS group, from 15:30 to 16:30 UK time, in #Oxford and online. You're welcome to join!

https://ox.ogeer.org/event/good-enough-ancestor-software-freedom-as-civic-care-across-generations-audrey-tang-2025-right-livelihood-laureate-and-taiwans-cyber-ambassador

The topic is "Good Enough Ancestor: Software Freedom as Civic Care across Generations". It will connect the software freedom movement to Audrey's and Caroline Green's framework for local, community-governed, more caring AI systems rather than reliance on centralised systems. Tang and Green work in the local University of Oxford Institute for AI Ethics. Tang is also first Digital Minister of Taiwan, and 2025 Right Livelihood laureate. Before ministership and research, Tang was a prolific FLOSS programmer, and since has for example helped persuade Pol.is to adopt the AGPL license.

#AI #anarchism #decentralization #federation #democracy #event #events #FreeSoftware #GoodEnoughAncestor #OpenSource #Plurality #SoftwareFreedom :blobcatpopcorn:

A poster of the talk, consisting of a portrait photo of Tang and the text: Oxford's Free and Open-Source Software Local Group Presents an Event Free and Open to All: Good Enough Ancestor Software Freedom as Civic Care Across Generations A Talk By Audrey Tang, Senior Accelerator Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, and Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador. More details at https://ox.ogeer.org Friday 22 May, 3:30PM-4:30PM Weston Library Lecture Theatre & Online Poster design courtesy Olija Downing, CC0-dedicated.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

oh, no, Magento!

Professor X is in the Danger Room. He's standing with Cyclops and Storm. Prof. X: Magento is on a rampage!! - A villain, entirely Magenta-coloured, is painting the city: babies, dogs, people, a mail box, a tree.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

I love Forgejo but because I *speak* Esperanto I cannot read its name "correctly" due to the missing accent mark over the "g"

"Forĝejo" (for-JAY-o) means "place of forging"

"Forgejo" (for-GAY-o) means "distant gay"

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

also I haven't managed to formulate my thoughts about this in the blog post yet, but part of why I wanted to move away from Tailwind was this post really stuck with me https://thoughtbot.com/blog/tailwind-and-the-femininity-of-css

I think CSS is an incredible technology and that CSS experts are amazing. People devalue CSS all the time and it sucks. I see that happen all the time here in my replies to my CSS posts on Mastodon. I don't want to use something that contributes to the devaluing of CSS as a skill.

(4/?)

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I think if Hank Green would to ever be asked about something like Diversity or DEI, it would not be what most assume.

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net wrote:

there are millenials whose birthdays are closer to WWII than today

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Threads are very cheap: it is possible to have 100,000 threads running at once.

i reckon i could spawn millions of them on this machine with the ram i have available. and that's just linux, not green threads.

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

Note to self: never go anywhere without a good macrophotography camera. iPhones just don't do the job.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/15/the-problem-with-having-a-finely-tuned-spider-sensor/

jumping spider

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Good to be back home with the Wood ducks

A male and a female Wood duck standing at the edge of a pond

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

@foolishowl @dalias @datenwolf @aeva

Footnote I: A question that I very often get asked by people who haven't met said lizard, but *never* by people who meet us in person, is how I restrain a lizard. The answer is I don't; he stays near me and also I can walk faster than he can run. :-) See the picture.

Footnote II: Sometimes, kids will start asking their parents if they can have a blue-tongue skink too, because he's so good at that one job he has! If the usual questions haven't been asked at this point, the parents will do that ... and, without fail, refuse when they get the answer to "how old is he?". (He's 18.)

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i was going to write some rust just now but i'm just not feeling it

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("AssertionError("Joe Groff")") wrote:

We welcome your feedback on our Torment Nexus policy. To keep discussion productive, we ask that you refrain from the following topics:

- The book, _Don't Build the Torment Nexus_
- The literary use of the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
Athena@chaosfem.tw wrote:

cited as reason to allow LLM contributions experimentally:

Instead of using ethical concerns as a basis for policy, we should justify policy on the basis of how something is impacting our ability as a project to deliver a really great programming language.

if the orphan grinder lets us make a better programming language then FIRE THOSE BABIES UP

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

I have slept more than nine hours a night three nights out of this week so far, so either I am getting really amazing sleep or my body is knocking me out nightly to fight some infection, and I can't tell which yet

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

Easily Dr. Sandra Lee, aka Dr Pimple Popper, who was the class behind me at school. We are all really proud of her, and she's a terrific person. HOWEVER, for the Gen Xers out there, my school also produced Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, which is also pretty cool. Also David Lee Roth of Van Halen attended for a year, but apparently either got kicked out or was not invited back, so we can't truly claim him. He did all right for himself anyway.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@ron%5Ffutrell/post/DYWBlVigfUp

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

My latest essay for Substack. Please read this. 👍🏿

Thank you.

#blackpeople #BlackMastodon #politics #usa

https://substack.com/@popcornreel/note/p-197794460?r=275tyr&utm%5Fmedium=ios&utm%5Fsource=notes-share-action

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
hugh@social.crablab.uk ("Hugh") wrote:

My Suica has been vandalised!

It transpires this has a leuco rewritable coating, so special products (like this 1 day season) are literally lasered onto the front (including a map!) and overwritten/removed once used.

Extremely extra but very cool. I've never seen one of these in the wild before.

https://www.ricoh.com/technology/tech/062%5Flaserrewritable

A Suica card. Over the top appears to be a blue printed ticket - it's a Tokyo 1-day ticket.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
KrijnHoetmer ("Krijn Hoetmer") wrote:

View transitions can work nicely after form submissions as well: https://krijnhoetmer.nl/log/2026/05/view-transitions-for-form-interactions

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

spraypaint machine (inkjet printer)

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, according to a 2026 UN report.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166800

Direct water use by US data centers alone more than tripled to ~17.5 billion gallons between 2014 and 2023, and may double again by 2028.
https://www.sierraclub.org/colorado/blog/2026/05/colorado-can-t-afford-water-needed-new-data-centers

All for growth

All for the greed of the tech bros

We need to resist this death dance of the high priests of the Growth Death Cult.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Laundry room, somewhere in Tuscany.

📷️️️ Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

A green plastic crate, a glove, an open bucket of screws, a mug, and other items on top of a wooden cabinet; in front of it, an open washing machine door, two black laundry baskets stacked on top of each other, illuminated by morning sunlight coming through a dusty window.

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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

A colorful male Mandarin duck dropping off the edge of a pond into the water

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

good meowning

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
elricofmelnibone ("Elric") wrote:

@th Looks awfully familiar.

Android plugged into a brain like device

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@Gina to be fair, "I do stuff with computers" is how I describe my projects.

disassembled laptop with a half dozen probes connecting to the mainboard

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
violet_cybrespace@lesbian.solutions ("violet :violet_cybrespace:") wrote:

turns out white chocolate swiss miss is the same color as the inside of my mug so the mug just looks really shallow

a top down shot of my mug with white chocolate swiss miss hot chocolate in it. the drink is the same color as the walls of the mug and it climbs up the walls enough that it looks exactly like the bottom of the mug but about an inch below the rim
a lower angle of the same shot to show the light reflecting off the top of the hot chocolate. it has a similar sheen to the mug texture that helps sell the effect

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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jimmac ("Jakub Steiner ⭐") wrote:

Friday app icon sketches!

#gnome #sketch #app #procreate

Laser app icon sketch.
Transition app icon sketch. Media playback button being processed.
Transition app icon sketch. Cogged wheel with a playback button.
Transition app icon sketch. Cogged wheel with a playback button being transcoded into a lower resolution / bitrate. A little too much, I'm afraid :)