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jwz wrote:

Reminder: reading literally anything about election results between the time you voted, and the time the votes are tallied, is self harm.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

psst

hey you, with the eyes 👀

stop being stubborn and increase your computer's default font size. magnify that web page you're reading a bit

maybe try a different display font, most things default to sans fonts these days but I personally find serifs much easier to read, especially at, ahem, bigger font sizes

also, if light mode hurts your eyes, there's a significant chance the problem is that you bought a new monitor that gets 10x brighter than your old monitor and you turned it up to 100% brightness out of habit

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hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

@glyph *cut to PyCon US 2027*

Mysterious piles of salt found all over the convention center.

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orinoxide.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Orin 🚀🦏") wrote:

Ohhh, that's where I heard the term.

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

Sorry, this isn't going to spawn a 10-year flurry of indie game development inspiration. You're looking for Toby Fox. :P

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

I'm recovering from a cold after work travel and my fever dreams were remarkably uninteresting.

In one, I apparently incurred the wrath of the entirety of Math Nerd Fedi and ended up being mentioned by name in a rant by a Fields Medalist upon accepting their medal. I don't know what Dream Soatok did to incur this wrath, but knowing me, it was probably a dumb joke about the Hairy Ball Theorem.

In the other, my plush toys refused to cuddle with me until I admitted I was a good boy.

I contain multitudes, apparently.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
abrasive@digipres.club wrote:

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to do a custom Sega Saturn cartridge for someone lately

boards came in on Friday but did I tell the client? noooooo
I spent the weekend bringing them up and fighting old libraries and then sent them this

Attachments:

• video: a purple PCB is inserted into a cartridge shell and thence into a Sega Saturn and there is a television and it is on and it is glowing and it is marvellous how the pictures move and the sound rings out

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mcc wrote:

A frustrating thing about GNOME is how it seems to want to shield you from technical details, hide them, as if they looked at MacOS and thought "on MacOS, technical details don't matter and so are hidden. therefore we should also hide technical details, so that they will not matter". But it is still Linux, so the technical details still matter, they very much matter. And GNOME hid them.

Anyway once again I find myself now reading the arch wiki despite not using arch.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

That's Network State shorthand for parallel strategy: Do to (institution) what Elon did to Twitter.

Buy it, gut it, purge it, and create a twisted version that serves tech fascist oligarchy. We will see this over and over again, so it's crucial to know it's a strategy with a name.

Silicon Valley's plan to buy up all the power and remake the world is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy."

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
FabMusacchio ("Fabrizio Musacchio") wrote:

Just out on @thetransmitter: 18 teams analyzed the same #Neuropixels dataset and obtained strongly divergent answers.

Even for #SharpWaveRipple detection, the apparent consensus masked major differences: Some teams detected almost no ripples, others up to 10 per minute. Functional connectivity and spike-spike interaction analyses diverged even more.

🌍 https://www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibility/eighteen-teams-analyzed-the-same-neurophysiology-dataset-and-got-wildly-different-answers/

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #electrophysiology #Neurophysiology

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

The ultimate demise of Bitcoin will be the fact that there's nothing in the conventional financial system stopping blatant fraud and other crimes anymore and no one will be punished, which renders Bitcoin entirely redundant.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

"Senator, we run ads"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:

If hopelessness has made a home in your heart, it cannot be dislodged easily or all at once. Chip away at it with small victories, moments of hope and defiance. It is not easy and it will take time and effort, but strive to make it an uncomfortable home, a place where despair is no longer welcome.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
slava@mathstodon.xyz ("Slava Pestov") wrote:

Collatz semantic versioning: pick some integer to be your first version number. If it’s even, divide it by two to get the next version number, otherwise multiply by three and add one. When your software reaches version 1, proclaim it to be finished.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Can I interest you in some soothing car alarm music in these trying times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be-VPHuc254

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

Utterly depressing to see UK press ask "but why shouldn't we drill in the North Sea?", as if petrol and gas prices are not set on a global market. In 2026.

🤦

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

PBS did a documentary showing infrared/thermal drone footage of the massive gas turbine plants being built next to AI datacenters.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, despite greenwashing these massive datacenter campuses being built by so-called “hyperscalers” are being primarily fueled by on-site gas turbines, which in addition to climate crisis-causing CO2 also emit high amounts of NOx and particulate matter.

https://youtu.be/5p426fSlYH4

#climatecrisis

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

This star stuff needs a nap, thank you

RE: https://www.threads.com/@nasa/post/DZGfdRVAds%5F

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I haven't thought twice about where "lorem ipsum" was from. It's fascinating how much history there is behind something so inconsequential. And I'm glad that some people still dig for answers when most just parrot falsehoods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

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

The difference between the former Twitter and Threads is that over on the former Twitter, dudes are outraged I am wearing a dress, while here on Threads the major controversy involves my wearing of Crocs

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DZDVuLGFLoC

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
miyotehew@turtleisland.social wrote:

Crow sunbathing

#birds #birding #birdwatching #crows

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

What I think about is the guitarist's poor back, a doublenecker ain't exactly light

RE: https://www.threads.com/@witz/post/DZFPVnoE9xi

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

me: "hey mypy, i want to understand how you work because i'm writing a plugin and your api is sort of a maze, do you have any docs"
mypy: "here is the wikipedia page for parsing and a few textbooks about compilers"

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crimson_clouds23@normal.style ("human posting weapon") wrote:

the next person who buys twitter should try to re-name it to 'wayland'

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Twelve vast and brutalist tubes of stone
Stood in the plaza.
And on the plaque these words appeared:
“Vaillancourt Fountain
1971
precastaggregate
concrete"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level multi-use area stretches far away.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Welp add me to the unemployment list. Weee!

Ah well their loss. If you're lookin for an illustrator, front end web dev,
Email communications manager, or just a friendly secretary that can make a good curry hit me up lol

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

#ai #bigtech #ethics

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Thoughts, anyone? https://github.com/glyph/DBXS/pull/105/changes

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

It feels a little awkward to be simultaneously thinking “well, work is ending soon, I should tighten up my finances” and “better buy supplies for the long expensive trip I’m about to go on”.

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oldbookillustrations ("Old Book Illustrations") wrote:

Buer.
Louis Breton, from "Dictionnaire infernal" by Jacques Collin de Plancy, Paris: 1863 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/buer/