/2 I draw your attention particularly to Mr. G, the pundit.

“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes—you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the […]

#giftarticle The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay #trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals & admirals The assembled #military leaders likely already knew that #hegseth is unqualified for his job, & they could mostly tune out the sloganeering that Hegseth, a former TV host, was […]

Imagine three years later thinking that Elon wants to "turn things around." Imagine staying on the platform that you admit is full of hatred. Why? You don't have to stay there. You can go somewhere that gives you more power and control, rather than begging for Elon to fix things.

‘Jane Goodall: An Inside Look’ National Geographic (2024) Jane Goodall: 1934-2025 #janegoodall #documentary #nationalgeographic https://youtu.be/d3b6zSpy7P4

Oh dang while I'm giving shoutouts @graze.social just also launched a banger new website, well done @devingaffney.com www.graze.social

Also a new tagline: "In addition to creating a new logo, we have changed our tagline (‘leading the web to its full potential’) to ‘making the web work — for everyone’." https://w3c.social/@w3c/115299385112878605

More about it: https://streetartutopia.com/2022/03/13/anti-putin-poster-in-front-of-the-russian-embassy-in-riga-latvia/

“I happen to know that honey bees love caffeine - I accidentally introduced some to Red Bull a couple years ago, and they spent the entire summer harassing me for it 🙄 It was absolutely thrilling. One bee visited, got her fill, then went and told all her friends about me. Within an hour I was […]

*Yes, I know that everyone who dreams that some interstellar comet must be some super-UFO is daft and cranky, but my tolerance for notion-spinning of that kind has always been extremely high

*I'd kinda like to see 3I/ATLAS gently settle on Mars, because it's an interstellar craft that was built by long-extinct Martians, and it takes quite a while to get to the stars and back

During the last #shutdown in 2019, the #navyfederalcreditunion & #usaa offered special loans to #military members, & they plan to do so again…. #navyfederal said it would "offer 0% APR loans to eligible members whose pay may be affected, continuing a tradition of assistance seen during previous […]

Active-duty service members won't get paid on time unless #congress passes a separate piece of #legislation, as it did in 2013 with the "Pay Our Military Act," which ensured #military pay & allowances continued during a government #shutdown. Rep Jen Kiggans (R-VA) introduced a bill in Sept with […]

🧵Fascinating long thread on ‘computer quiz’ machine rivals, and a surprising origin story. https://mastodon.social/@OurLostArcade/115299088960233098

“Put a stop to the ungodly ice-cream flavor combinations at Salt and Straw.” https://www.threads.com/@mcswys/post/DPP-dmZEU-0

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

DC's Spanish steps, shown here, aren't actually in Spain or in any way Spanish. They're named for the more famous, larger Spanish steps in Rome, which is also not in Spain. Once again, our nation's capital is built on a foundation of deception and lies.

This is what computing should look like 🤪 /via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyW6xtLgFTE

Large language models are essentially solutions to nonlinear optimization problems to predict the next token in the output text. Mathematically, these problems are quite similar to problems we routinely face in physics, like finding the ground state of a quantum system. In these physics […]

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

3/ What I love about real folk music is the way that it explores human reality -- all of it, not just the good parts. Often this means evocations of lust and wickedness, suffering and death. Today's concert consisted of (beautifully performed) originals that could best be described as […]

#folkmusic 1/ Just got back from the Bound for Glory concert, the first one in five and a half years. BFG, which started in 1967 and has been broadcast weekly ever since then on local radio, is the longest continuously running folk music show in the country, if not the world. For most of that […]

Happy 100th, Seymour Cray! I never met Mr. Cray, though I did visit Cray Research in Chippewa Falls once.

"The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago," continued Marvin. ..."And that was with a coffee machine." #hitchhikersguide #douglasadams #quotes #quote #bot

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Set Two.

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Page 196769b07: UC Riverside (April 1968) Cesar Chavez, leader of the Farm Workers Union and the grape boycott. The miserable condition of the farm workers got a lot of attention on campus. Set One.

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation. 5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025 This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years! (from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

A great shot, and excellent meme bait! #spaceodessey #movies #photography https://frames.social/@2001x24/statuses/01K654FB7NMXQ39TTNMXCCT1PG

“Originally captured as the medium for Ed Ruscha’s creative work, the more than 65,000 photographs selected from this archive present a unique view of one of Los Angeles’ quintessential streets, Sunset Boulevard, and how it has changed over the past 50 years. Ed Ruscha, with help from Getty and […]

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/09/chatgpt-lawyer-fine-ai-regulation/ The attorney must pay a $10,000 fine. "The court of appeals said 21 of 23 quotes in an opening brief were fake" “We therefore publish this opinion as a warning,” it continued. “Simply stated, no brief […]

How has there not been outrage at Apple removing the ability to see the documentation diffs on the developer site? This has made developing for the platforms so much worse over the past year, but I haven't seen anybody even mention it. They cut off the feature when they redesigned the docs site […]

In this week's issue of Cybercultural, my online magazine about internet history, I look at how Slashdot's "karma" system inspired the moderation efforts of BowieNet version 2.0 (launched in May 2000). I also check in with Google and Amazon in the year 2000: despite the dot-com downturn, their […]

Newest #cogdogdailyphoto in Flickr: 2025/365/213 Lines 'n Light https://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/54807944575/ Gotta always stop to appreciate light, shadow, and shapes.

“Speech, it ain’t free no more. We’re charging by the word now,” he added. When Kimmel asked how much he’s charging, De Niro explained: “Depends on what you want to say. Like if you want to say something nice about the president’s beautiful, thick, yellow hair or how he can do his makeup better […]

This really was great. #jimmykimmel #law #firstamendment #freespeech #freepress #democracy #trump #autocracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #fcc #brendancarr #mafiastate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY

The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #us had a #hunger problem. The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were […]

🧵Dept of Agriculture to stop over two decades of tracking food insecurity and hunger in USA https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115253844356433111

Surprise! A second leaflet on private data in AT, this time exploring some schemes that might be used to implement shared-private data.

Some initial thoughts on the requirements for AT's private data model

#fotovorschlag Tischkultur >> Table culture Oberlin Restaurant Street tables at night, June 2016 Grant’s Block location Providence RI USA #photography #rhodeisland #restaurant

Early beach walk Sandige Angelegenheit #FotoVorschlag

#fotovorschlag Sandige Angelegenheit >> Sandy Affair North Beach, 12 Aug 2014 Charleston RI USA #photography #rhodeisland #beach

#FotoVorschlag Darf es etwas mehr sein >> Would you like some more Coincidence Engine One: Universal People’s Republic Time (2008) [The User], Bell Gallery, Sep 2014 Brown University, Providence RI USA #photography #art #audible #clocks […] [Original post on federate.social]

We’re taking another step in building a sustainable financial base as a non-profit. Today, we’re announcing new hosting and support offerings, tailored for larger organisations and public institutions. These enable organisations to own their social identities, on their own infrastructure […]

J.R. "BOB" DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS by director Sandy K. Boone is out and available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube(recommended)…! (So far.) See http://dobbstown.org for a constantly-updated list of all streaming and virtual theater venues, plus links to dozens of […]

Biblically Accurate "Bob" https://www.SubGenius.com/

FAA "BRIJJ" Station, Foster City, CA, 2024. All the pixels, no flight plan required, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54128020212 #photography