okay so we've got "Palantir" and "Erebor", how close are we to an LLM that accurately describes its capabilities by using the name "Gríma"

We just released Mastodon 4.5.1 This version fixes some bugs found in 4.5.0. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub release page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1 #mastoadmin

Strong aurora for North America tonight, per the NOAA. Already seeing reports south of the marked location (CO, NM). #aurora #northernlights

RE: https://mas.to/@darth_hideout/115520523920929816 Inquiring minds want to know. #mastoadmin

The obvious result occurs… “Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” […]

SCHULTZ! “I know nothing!!!!” #uspol #hogansheros #mikejohnson

Thread below, jumping in to listen to Louisville fire scanner on the UPS crash at SDF... feel free to mute, will tag it at #ups2976 #sdf #planecrash #aviation

Upper West Side, NYC, 2014. All the pixels, but not enough to cover a down payment on a small one bedroom, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14422880057 #photography

Waffles patiently waiting for his halloween gelato. #dogs #DogsOfFedi #RescueDogs

Lawfedi is now running Mastodon v4.5.0-rc.2 #mastodon #mastoadmin

50 years ago today: My first #unix users' group conference - the organization that became #usenix.

The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get. #nckf25

Apropos of nothing… #uspol

My unpopular opinion is that I really like Quantum of Solace. Not only is it a beautiful film, but it’s the most forward-looking Bond film. The central problem of the film - resource scarcity - is only now getting on peoples’ radar. #climate #jamesbond #film #FilmMastodon

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115415592107378051 Back on the iphone!

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115415590727707654 I am a wild and crazy guy.... #quote

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115415586921437902 @Gargron , I'm going crazy here. A post within a post within a post....

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115415583612551877 A bit like a Matryoshka doll....🪆

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115415560525417693 How many posts can I nest??? #mastodon #quote

We dismantled the various international apparatus put into place after WW2 that brought about the Pax Americana, and now you say defense demand is unprecedented? Who could have possibly foreseen this, except anyone who passed high school history? #war […]

RE: https://lawfedi.blue/@jonpainterphoto/115413876127037067 And on desktop with 4.5.0-beta.2 #mastoadmin

Arizona’s attorney general is suing to force the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, to swear in Adelita Grijalva, a Democrat who won a congressional special election in September. Grijalva was elected on 23 September in the southern Arizona district that her father, Raúl Grijalva, held […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115412766853977995 PS, quotes working on the iPhone app with an instance on 4.5 beta 1.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115413311587695580 Horrific.

How 2025 is going.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115402817612493217 My first quote on Mastodon! And a worthy one...

One thing I love about Mastodon is that my phone app doesn’t auto refresh when I switch back to it. It allows me to find a source and respond to someone.

DoD today confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. - Pentagon Press Association

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

Is there a long term graph of https://esq.social/@icymi_law posts seen vs posts reposted? Just curious about how law mastodon has changed over the years.

You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?” It turns out that “wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer. #portland #portlandfrog #uspol

LOL at $1600 for this "recycled material" jacket, I'll go find my own recycled materials and sew my own. This appears to be the same design as a shopping bag with drawstrings, except human sized 🤪

I really want to know all 506 people who bought this Faraday cover for their WiFi router. And this person who complains "slight interference with my signal strength"... And this other guy who isn't "feeling any radiation sickness" BUT he's happy the "Wifi isn't being blocked" #faraday #dummies

The only fix to IMSI catchers/Stingray tracking of your cell phone is to not have your phone with you anywhere you don't want to be tracked. (or truly, get a burner phone you never turn on at home and paid cash for... very difficult to do).

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

Commuter Trains, Ewing (West Trenton), NJ, 2010. All the pixels, but limited service on weekends and holidays, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4377309058 #photography

When I invited the Federal Communications Commission’s Anna Gomez to speak at Ole Miss, FCC chairman Brendon Carr had yet to utter his “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” threat to ABC. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/the-fcc-was-designed-to-be-independent?r=1g77q&utm_medium=ios

KBJ referring to a SCOTUS decision as "Calvinball jurisprudence" in her dissent was such a brilliant piece of, well, I'm going to call it marketing. That phrase has popped up everywhere. I have seen so many people, ranging from pundits to regular folks, calling the Roberts' court Calvinball […]

HA I just learned that Prof Mike Brown is giving the talk for my local amateur astronomy group this week! I had him as a prof while I was a student at Caltech, *fantastic* teacher. But I'm the go-to anti-Planet-9 astronomer who always gets interviewed after him in articles. Is it too awkward […]

Took Waffles to his first baseball game. #dogs #marlins #barkatthepark

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today. #dascdmx

Here are the final images. Sadly, mastodon does horrible, terrible things to images, so here's some better quality copies: https://jerrybell.smugmug.com/Misc-flowers

Happy "End of First Year" 8-hour CLE weekend to all who practice. #law #lawfedi

"What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the […]

War ravaged Portland

TNR - President Trump repeatedly blamed the UN for his teleprompter issues and a malfunctioning escalator in a spiteful speech to the General Assembly. But it seems that both issues were caused directly by his own team […]

We all know that many news sites have paywalls. It is, after all, some or a big part of how they've chosen to fund their news gathering. There are lots of ways around paywalls or to access individual stories behind one: e.g., archive.is or archive.today lets you search a news article link to see […]

Don’t publish or perish https://wapo.st/3VrOcca

I mean... look at that cast! Redford and Poitier was just a great combination...