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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@drahflow/116696527142706215

Been wondering where I want to go next in neuro and I never before now had considered "botanical neuroscience

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
drahflow@infosec.exchange ("Drahflow") wrote:

@ansuz @jonny https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8903786/ makes a decent argument for the "it is actually looking" hypothesis, no?

They put trifolata near plastic plants. Mimicry still happens.

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

look I know LLMs are problematic but this is my favorite one and I promise it’s fine, everybody else just isn’t using theirs responsibly enough. it’s great; you should really give it a try. you’ll love it

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

Holy shit new side quest acquired

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

I just think it would be fun to be invited to be inconspicuous background human shape

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

My friend and I are signing up to be seat fillers and extras and literally every seat filler company's website screams that it is a scam, but apparently the more like a scam it looks the more real it is

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog wrote:

@jonny it looks like nobody mentioned Boquila trifoliolata, AKA Chameleon Vine, at least from the replies my instance can see.

Lots of plants mimic the appearance of others in their environment through natural selection over many generations. This one does it within its lifetime. The mechanism behind this is not yet understood.

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

I was 50/50 on whether it would be just a classic "the most terrifying thing in the world is a woman" trope, but I thought it did a great job of making the man who mind controlled the woman into the villain in a way that wasn't like a hamfisted cartoonish evil. The way that the cursed woman becomes aware and in touch with the situation and the two characters shift their culpability and who is "supposed to know" also really helped this without hitting you over the head. Trying to stay to mild spoilers but the mechanism implied by the phone call and the dream conversation made the curse land as like the hazards of a consumer product that was very resonant with a certain class of other consumer products that sell a disembodied form of a person that dominate the world rn. Rather than it being "women be evil" it pulled off a good balance of knowing and unknowing evil by the person who actually laid the curse

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

Just watched Obsession and I love how it handled the "magical object" that did the monkeys paw. just enough information about mechanism to make it fit within the otherwise normal world without becoming Midichlorians, and the idea of "crystal shop that knowingly sells cursed items and matter of factly acknowledges that you did this to yourself and for whom of course magic is real" worked so well. Without spoiling it, I thought the support line call scene was perfect

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Sigh. OK. rsync discourse:

This is not a story about “vibe coding” or “slop” or regressions or even open source sustainability or whatever: it’s a story about mental health.

The timeline of Tridge’s response in particular can be broke down like so:

1. AI skeptics say "LLMs create difficult-to-evaluate defects, even if you're careful"
2. Tridge introduces defects even though he was careful
3. he gets yelled at
4. His response is to say "you dinosaurs don't appreciate how *careful* I was!"

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Cars now have too many options. Yesterday for example I was reversing and it showed me a video of someone getting run over. I tried to watch it again, but I couldn't find the rewind button!

jwz wrote:

In case you needed one more reason to shake an angry fist at Bezos.

Joseph Mallozzi: Stargate cancelled, for the fourth and likely final time. Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8M

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

WaPo: House passes bill cutting food aid for pregnant women, children

Under the legislation, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — more commonly known as WIC — would lose $141 million in funding for fruit and vegetable benefits for the nearly 5.4 million children and pregnant and postpartum women enrolled, according to an estimate from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Senate has yet to consider the legislation.

#WIC #uspol #hunger #economy

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

RE: https://dice.camp/@squishymage42/116692076148476089

I burst into tears seeing this. Sesame Street is locked behind a paywall with HBO and Fred Rogers Productions went "NOPE" and made sure that the magic and compassion that Mr. Rogers taught is available to everyone, no matter your financial status. They're making sure underserved kids have access to education, and VERY important emotional education at that.

Also, please remember that Mr. Rogers started saying he was feeding the fish because a little girl who was blind was worried he was forgetting. He made his show accessible before that was even an inkling of a thought in so many entertainers' heads.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

Let your pride flag fly.

Art by Tidehardt

#Furry #furryart #xander #bat #falsevampirebat #Throwback

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

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MHowell/116695233151696804

This is not superficial, I mean this sincerely. This is the most effective kind of protest.

Project the core message onto an asset that clearly illustrates how the rich get a different kind of treatment.

Don’t let them show their faces or their assets in public without branding them as tax-evading fucks.

How cool would it be if every time Mark Zuckerberg even showed his face in public a “tax the rich” message was projected onto his face.

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MythingPerson ("Charles Castleberry") wrote:

It occurs to me that Muppets are the anti-AI.

AI personas look real, but have no soul. And, despite being made of complex technology, they generate uncanny valley reactions, when they’re visual and not just chatbots.

Whereas Muppets look fake, but they have all the soul. They’re made of simple materials, animated just by human hands, and are immediately attractive. They’re people you want to know, despite never forgetting they’re artifice.

Henson & Co ftw. ❤️

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ebooksyearn@pixelfed.social ("Jon Renaut") wrote:

Four doors. #doors #darktable

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

If your website doesn’t load in under 3 seconds* on an expensive phone in The Software Town, you did it wrong. Yes, this means every social media company and every newspaper are doing it wrong. I said what I said

*The true quality bar is 0.5 seconds, but I’m feeling unreasonably generous today

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

You would be hard-pressed to find any modern laptop that can't run a word processing program, so literally any laptop you have will probably be good enough, and the best laptop for a writer is the one they can afford to use.

That said, if money is no object, a recent MacBook Air is going to do the trick and then some. Also, when at home plug it into a decent keyboard and monitor, your wrists and neck will thank you.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@sam%5Fparkerauthor/post/DZK6geYjgVH

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
dona@mastodon.art ("dona 🌿") wrote:

Ever wondered what over 20 years of doing art looks like?

The not-so-secret Archive contains my full body of work starting from age 6, with a short summary for each year.

Can you lose your artistic skill and regain it years later? Well... yes. Come see:
https://dona.neocities.org/secret/context

#CreativeToots #MastoArt #Website #ArtProgress

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

I freely admit that I am incredibly nostalgic for the period when we were not expected to carry an advertising and surveillance device on our person at all times.

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

Getting increasingly nervous at the prospect of getting a Googled Android device:

https://www.safebreach.com/blog/gemini-voice-assistant-prompt-injection-exploit/

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