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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup:

“I often wonder: if you were to ask people on the street—especially those who are not Christian—"How would you describe a Christian? How do you recognize one?" what would they say? Sadly, I fear the responses would not be love, unity, and dignity. Instead, we might hear words like judgmental, divisive, hypocritical, closed-minded, anti-this, anti-that. Not at all what we are to be. Not at all the message of the one whom we follow, Jesus Christ.

I believe the way we see ourselves or understand ourselves is radically different from how we are often perceived and experienced in the world.”

http://www.trinityprinceton.org/epistle-online/theyll-know-we-are-christians

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

$1.5 Billion

phew

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/business/bath-body-works-fragrance-factory.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.v1A.bDrp.MF-5YFpDvsEG&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116874735814694571

PR: https://github.com/C2SP/C2SP/pull/286

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Owlor@meow.social ("Owlor 🦋") wrote:

The funniest example of this phenomenon where fans will take any information said out loud by a character as gospel even though there's no indication whatsoever they are honest or know what they are talking about is the way people have devised explanations for for how Han Solos claim that his ship "made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs" could be technically accurate when not only is it likely that Han is full of shit judging by Obi-wans reaction, the script outright says so.

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
a1ba@suya.place ("bruh/a1ba") wrote:

babe wake up new chess piece has dropped

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

nice to know

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

11ty or Astro?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rail@flufftech.net ("rail 🦊") wrote:

Supersonic good boy

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dimmfox@furry.engineer wrote:

Every single day

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Such a cute little house.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned

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

now is the time when the unsigned integer reveals to me its secrets.

or not.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
petealexharris@mastodon.scot ("Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫") wrote:

Never break the law for a good reason. If you break the law for gain or just because you felt like it, you might get off lightly. You'll at least only have the usual burden of raising reasonable doubt that what you did was what you're charged with.

If you say you had a good reason to break the law, that's an attack on the legitimacy of the law itself. They'll fuckin *get* you for that.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
coa100 ("Coa") wrote:

Orute A Cozy lightweight free to play browser mmo by me.
welcome to join!
https://coa-100.itch.io/orute
#videogames #pixelart #music #pcgaming

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

YOU GUYS, I just discovered that WPT's new (broken bad) UI is still connected to the old infrastructure, so if you pull a test ID out of the JSON file for the test, *YOU CAN PLUG IT INTO THE OLD UI*:

The new (jank-ass) UI: https://portal.catchpoint.com/UI/Entry/WPTITP/ARHG-C-E-mvC7kqje27qwN0AA-N

The "classic" (useful) view of the same trace!: https://www.webpagetest.org/result/260707%5Finstant%5Ff24fd88b9f384d799408e2b2a1d45c94/

The waterfalls and filmstrips work; nature is healing:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=260707%5Finstant%5Ff24fd88b9f384d799408e2b2a1d45c94-r:1-c:0

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

wow, discord acknowledged on the Bad Place that it was true that an overfitted CSAM detection AI started flagging grids (spreadsheets, game inventory screenshots, etc) as illegal and instabanning people.

8200 people got banned this way over several weeks before someone managed to get their attention on reddit. But the good news is they have in fact manually rolled back all the bans.

On the one hand, this is the one problem where you absolutely want as little hands-on human moderation as possible. On the other, this is a very clear-cut overfitting failure mode on a small dataset (of the images that governments provide to major websites for automated detection) with disastrous consequences for random innocent people. And they presumably had to go back and manually check all bans in this category for the last few weeks, thus maximizing the moderators' exposure too. 🤦‍♀️

Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Bloody diarrhea. John Arderne, De arte phisicali et de cirurgia, England ca. 1425. Stockholm, Kungliga biblioteket, X 118.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dianea@lgbtqia.space ("diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱") wrote:

@glyph

Don't laugh, but I would rather work around gamma radiation or hazmat again than have to work with AI 🫠

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

Can I shit on Google Translate "improved accuracy with Gemini AI" some more please?

The "translation" says

静寂の帳（とばり）が降りる時、
星々は密やかに語り合う。
時の流れは緩やかに、
夢の続きを紡ぎ出す。

Which is a hallucinated little poem in Japanese.

Yes, it completely ignores the translation task and acts like a chatbot it is.

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I made a web page that tries to explain what omg.lol is. I don’t really know if it does the job, but it’s an attempt! https://home.omg.lol/wut

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Now, take me, for instance. I just met you and I know I like you.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Wow, Jabber as basically the last one standing, such as it is.

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

I remind myself that if I don't they'll eventually turn off the electricity

RE: https://www.threads.com/@vannissajohnson/post/DaefkyBDkhW

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

"CONAN! What is best in life?"
"To win the DNA Lounge costume contest this Sunday, of course."
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/07-12.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #conanthebarbarian #cyberdelia #dungeonsynth #metal #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: 8858f18742adfa76.mp4

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
espiers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Spiers") wrote:

As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators

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

So Alan Ruck was cursed with regrettable hairstyles right from the beginning, good to know

RE: https://www.threads.com/@johnklineartwork/post/Dad5WvCj%5F1%5F

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
me@jaehanley.social ("Jae") wrote:

“Graham Platner wasn’t properly vetted,” like we all didn’t learn about his Nazi tattoos back in October and people still decided to support him anyway.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

“McDermott (McDermott 1976) famously complained about ML researchers’ and programmers’ use of wishful mnemonics (e.g., terms like understand or learn referred to ML), which he considered to be misleading both for researchers and for the public (Salles et al. 2020).”

— Naser, M.Z. (2025). On the Philosophical Naivety of Engineers in the Age of Machine Learning.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10304-2

(via @olivia via https://www.linkedin.com/posts/monettdiaz%5Fthe-abstract-is-as-also-the-paper-h-activity-7479830429521395712-a8OX)

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

Seems timely, again, alas

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DQHv3wTgHPZ