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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

June 4th 1989.

No matter how much the Chinese government would love to whitewash Tiananmen, this is not something we will ever forget.

Not just because of the many people that were killed, injured or imprisoned. But because it was a deliberate choice by a decrepit leadership to crush the dreams and hopes of the next generation - a true tragedy not just for China, but the world.

https://sturm.to/?post=464

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

Damn it, Vanilla Ice really needed that gig, now his frosted tips are gonna get repossessed

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/trump-cancels-freedom-250-concerts-rally-lee-greenwood-1236767406/

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

I'm just talkin'.

Attachments:

• video: Me in a blue oxford button down with AirPods and a white mic lapel. I'm walking outside near apartment homes and trees.

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

Just to put it out there, if you're the sort of dude to get outraged when a video game has a woman protagonist, you're a real fuckin' pathetic loser child

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Fabian Giesen") wrote:

OK everyone on here and following me probably already knows this but I want to get it off my chest anyway:

*please* stop attributing reciprocal-square-root-by-IEEE-bit-twiddling to John Carmack/Quake 3.

John has a lot of "firsts" under his belt but this is not one of them.

This trick is _old_. The magic constant changes, but the trick itself is _old_.

1993 versions of Sun's fdlibm already included this reproduction of W. Kahan and K. C. Ng's paper on the subject: https://github.com/freemint/fdlibm/blob/master/e%5Fsqrt.c#L215

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

Your next First Amendment lawsuit

https://www.military.com/dod-officially-drops-180-faiths-from-militarys-recognized-religion-list

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

I’ve just noticed my iPhone 15 Pro has a scratch on the screen. I wasn’t planning to upgrade this year, but this is a little concerning.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Cliftographer@mindly.social ("Teach Honest History") wrote:

I am not one of those that obsessively chase after 'lifers', i.e. species I have not previously seen or photographed. I am nonetheless delighted when I do trip over something new. In this case it's a black saddlebag #dragonfly, one I'd never even heard of before. #insects #naturephotography #insectphotography

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Somewhere, right now, a company is holding a meeting about reducing meetings.

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

my current understanding is

1. make game

2. ???

3. profit

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

@jonny

Comin' in late, so sorry, I do actually sleep sometimes, but there's a species called Priapulus horridus. The whole dang phylum (the priapulids) is marine worms that feed by turning their heads inside out and then when they turn them back in anything stuck on the spiny outside is now in its throat. And so when the spiny throat is everted it's a little bulb on the end of a worm, and some scientist saw it and thought, "That looks like a horrible little penis," and so now the genus and species name is "horrible little penis" in Latin.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
schratze@todon.nl ("High Quality Tormented Soul") wrote:

@jonny when a hagfish is caught by a predator, it releases a strange fibrous slime that expands to 10000 times its original size within half a second. This slime clogs up the predator's gills, forcing them to let go of the hagfish to avoid suffocating.

The hagfish will then twist itself into a knot which travels from head to tail, removing the slime off its own body.

in 2017, a road accident in Oregon resulted in 3.4 metric tons of hagfish being spilled all over the highway and ended up blocking it with their slime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagfish

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
enriquericos@mastoart.social ("Ricós") wrote:

@jonny haven't read it yet, but it's "plant gets attacked by caterpillars, calls wasps"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec3229

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ProfundumPhoto@toot.community ("Gum on China’s Shoe") wrote:

@jonny This is my camera-trap photo of a brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii). Any male antechinus you see is less than 12 months old, because during breeding season they go into such a frenzy that, at the end of the season, all males die of exhaustion and total organ failure. If you see them mentioned in the media, you will generally see them described as “bonking themselves to death”. #CameraTrapping #CameraTrap #Australia #wildlife #WildlifePhotography

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

The critters are amazing, but some of the sentences that are written or linked to from here are some of the least probable semantically correct sentences I have ever read. The space of normal language is being wedged and tentpoled open by the sheer diversity of life strategies on earth.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
Salmon@social.tchncs.de wrote:

@jonny
The caterpillars of the Uraba lugens moth keep their head exoskeleton when molting, so they grow a tall hat made of of their own previous skulls on their heads

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

I go to sleep, I come back and there are like a million more. the amount of critters that you all know about is astonishing.

Boosted by jwz:
Arthfach@arthfach.com ("Arthfach 🐻") wrote:

@timbray @davidgerard Tridge literally shattered my workflow and made it so that I have to spend a substantial amount more time protecting my clients' data against threats and failures than I did before. This costs me real money and more stress, all because he decided he wanted to inject AI generated slop into a reliable, stable, well functioning program a ton of people use.

Why, exactly, should that action of his suddenly get protection and deference? It's not like - I would hope - you'd look at someone robbing me and go, "Eh mate, just shut up and give them your wallet; they've done good work in the past so that forgives future transgressions."

Edit: This is ignoring the wild mischaracterization you're levying against David and the commenters, but you were already called out for that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

Current estimates set the total amount of money that has been spent on large-language models and adjacent generative AI at 1.4 trillion $ over the past four years. For the sake of simplicity let's cut that to 1 trillion $. With 1% of that money you could have paid 25000 FOSS maintainers 100k dollars per year each over the same time period. That probably covers most of the FOSS ecosystem and then some. And it's one percent. ONE FUCKING PERCENT.

2/4

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

thai green curry flavour pringles are NUTS.

i'm not surprised they ended up a euro a can at a local wtf shop

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
backupbear@aus.social ("Preston von Gabbleduck") wrote:

The existence of onomatopoeia implies the existence of offomatopoeia, words that sound distinctly unlike the sound they're describing.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
samir@functional.computer ("samir, esoteric combinator") wrote:

Perhaps we should take a leaf out of the watchmaker's book and start calling them "complications" instead of "features”.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray 🇨🇦") wrote:

This, on the history of “Lorem Ipsum”, is the most charming micro-documentary I’ve seen in years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL1PDqzqhM4

If you start watching it you’ve just subtracted 22 minutes from your work-day. Ssssh, I won’t tell.

#typography

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

as I ponder what last-minute things I need to order before a trip, I am finding myself slightly unnerved that there are only 2 brick and mortar nationwide consumer electronics retailers in the united states today (Best Buy, Apple), and all the "local" chains are either physical instantiations of PCPartPicker (MicroCenter, Central Computer) or places where 90% of their business is fixing cracked phone screens

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

In 2002 Chris Onstad published the only thing worth saying on the "generative AI" debate

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
vathpela@infosec.exchange ("Farce Majeure") wrote:

@glyph Torn between "If Looks Could Kill" as a Lifetime movie or "WHEN AESTHETICS ATTACK, next on Fox".

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

Well I can definitely tell I am getting a lot better at geometry nodes

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?

- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.

Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.

GH: https://www.github.com/philpem
WWW: https://philpem.me.uk

#GetFediHired

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

Anyway I stopped drinking coffee a few years ago because I felt like it was too strong for my body so don't worry I fixed it

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

I've been making iced tea where I put four teabags in a mason jar to brew it and then drink it all before I even realize it and then wonder if I should drink some more from another jar

Is this healthy? Am I getting the daily recommended amount of caffeine