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

What a contemptable smear of ochre this man is

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/10/politics/trump-housing-bill

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CiaraNi@mastodon.green wrote:

I’m enjoying the prospect of Count Binface beating Farage. Brits are wondering what a joke candidate would be like as an actual MP. We've precedent for this in Aarhus. To his own surprise, comedian Jacob Haugaard was elected to Folketinget (parliament) in ‘94 after a campaign intended to parody populist political promises. His Union of Work-Shy Elements promised ‘tailwinds on cycleways’, 'bigger Christmas gifts’ & 'more whales in Randers Fjord’. He turned out to be a good & respected politician.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

I forgot my ADHD meds last night and I can really feel it today

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

image of a Dog Librarian checking a stick out to another Dog

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JustToOdd@nerdculture.de ("Anomalous Human") wrote:

@jsonstein No, that brush in my backyard doesn't need tidying; it's a well stocked dog library. :')

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

the message no passenger wants to hear: do you know how to fly a plane?

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

who on earth thought spinning up an indexing process for every cpu in the system was a good idea on a desktop? like have you ever used a desktop? do you have any idea what happens when there are no cpu cycles left for all the stuff you were trying to do before you rudely started a fucking indexing job?

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

rather predictably, this caused my fucked cpu to get upset after a while and black screen me.

i am begging software authors to think before they write code.

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

Dog Library: take a stick, leave a stick

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

dear authors of local search engines: STOP EATING MY MACHINE. thank you.

no i mean it. stop relying on disk being slow to throttle your cpu usage for you because it isn't any more. literally just add more sleeps.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116895624357782079

Solidarity not sovereignty.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It doesn’t really matter that much how the boosters end up defining “slop” or “vibecoding” or whatever new term they come up with because they’ll all ultimately become synonyms with “AI” and the ship has sailed on that meaning anything other than “garbage” in the public’s mind.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Like this graphic is complete hogwash. The title makes literally no sense. And the rest is basically: "People slowly adopt technology and integrate it into their life".

Sure we need a bunch of CS professors and people from Meta and Deepmind to tell us that. This is pure boxology without any meaning. It's spam.

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

I'll push tomorrow, gotta sleep. Its all wasm and vanilla js so I could throw it on a website and call it a day

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

It is actually an interesting mechanic because nothing in chess has a 2-turn effect, so you need to think where and what DVD will be at a different speed than the other pieces, because it moves at the end of your move and your opponents move, and it can bankshot around and trap you pretty easily.

Only the king is a bumper so if your piece is in its way its only matter of time until it gets gotten. It forces you into awkward positions because you either have to waste a tempo cleaning up an environmental contaminant roving DVD or let it buzzsaw through your back line and hope it ricochets back at your opponent.

Only being able to sometimes control it is fun too. Stockfish I think is technically able to choose to slide the DVD when it can on the edges, but I haven't seen it do it. I have successfully used the side slide strategically to bend it back at my opponent.

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

Stockfish does know how to capture the DVD and does seem to be able to predict that if it does nothing to avoid DVD then its pieces are taken. I have no idea if it is able to use DVD strategically or if it would ever choose to promote into DVD rather than a Queen. The value proposition of DVD is unclear because it gives you no special advantage to spawn it. Maybe it should stay being your color 2x as long if you spawn it. Idk I couldn't figure out a good way to write that. Its already 4 "pieces", one for each direction, maybe it needs to be 8, direction*who spawned it. Or 16, direction*turns until flip. Whatever. I choose DVD every time.

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

dvd multiball madness

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olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

Maybe many mid-career and above academics have my experience, and so can relate, but it never ever gets any less impressive, overwhelming, or old when a student appears our of nowhere (notice our geographic distance is big as are our official fields not that overlapping) and does amazing work! 🤩

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

It's about time that people recognized Charlie Kirk as the babbling monster he was.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/10/the-fate-he-deserves/

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

I should probably figure out how to blog about my gamedev progress, it will be an interesting thing to talk about and a welcome break from the AI moaning

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infinitybear@mastodon.infinitybeardesigns.com ("Manda | Infinity Bear Designs") wrote:

Here's a little sneak peek of a new upcoming release! 🐺🐈‍⬛

https://www.patreon.com/InfinityBearDesigns

#CrossStitch #Embroidery #StitchSky #Art #MastoArt #FediArt

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

@curiousicae Tada!

Attachments:

• video: There is a series of pips representing a countdown. When the countdown says "go", a red car is directed around a track 3 times, passing flags along the way for each lap. When the car completes 3 laps, the car disappears, a "You Win!" text is displayed, and the tada.wav sound is played.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

good thing the good old fashioned reinstall worked its magic

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olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

New preprint! So honoured to have worked with Ishani Ray on providing vital critique on "AI literacy" & correctives for those interested in understanding why "just use the newest version of an LLM" is nonsense

Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21222978

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

kdenlive is breaking on me :((

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

@brib True.

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Jess_LoneSystem@tech.lgbt ("JessNco -> EMF26") wrote:

Please boost if able :boost_requested: any reach is massively appreciated.

Looking for any UK based lawyers who could potentially give advice on a Pro Bono basis.

It's regarding an asylum claim that has been certified under section 94 and has no right to appeal.
The claim does not appear to have considered the consequences of the removal of the spouse in this case despite sufficient evidence being provided. It also appears to be in violation of a British citizen's human rights (or no merit has been paid to them).

Please contact me if you have any information that could help, or know anyone who could help.

I'm not eligible for legal aid or fee waivers and we cannot afford legal advice.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

@baldur I'm also aware that in this day and age it's one of the more earnable degrees, especially after CS crumbled due to the juniorocalypse. So there's potentially a fair few people who are doing this for the sake of getting an earnable degree on a CV rather than out of an innate interest in the subject

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

RE: https://chaos.social/@henryk/116894298139941323

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:

Made a set of countdown pips for my upcoming game. Given all I'm doing is triangle waves and basic fade effects, I suspect it's been done to death, but I couldn't quite find this sound on Pixabay (plus I don't trust anything after 2022 to not be AI unless I trust the creator).

Will see if I can find a way to upload it to one of those stock websites, but until then y'all can use and remix it for your own projects. Please credit me and don't use it to train AI.

Attachments:

• audio: Three pips at 440Hz followed by a longer pip at 880Hz