[AI art, AI code] "coding isn't art!!! it doesn't take creativity!!!!" fuck you, shut up and don't come back until you've spent 20+ hours toiling over the ideal way to design something to solve a problem and then throwing it all out and rewriting it from scratch

Shocking European Perspective How much warmer was it in these countries https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e2j0j87reo #ClimateDiary #europe #climatecatastrophe

Vous parlez français depuis les premiers mois de votre vie et vous avez plus de 18 ans? Appel à la solidarité scientifique, donnez 5 minutes de votre temps et un échantillon de votre voix pour un étudiant en master de sciences du langage. Prévoir un ordinateur avec écouteurs et microphone pour […]

It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from: “I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.” To: “I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s […]

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

Not shown in the slides: the goose needs to ingest 2.5kg gold for each 1kg golden egg it lays. The eggs have a thin gold coating but the center is lead (they're much smaller than real goose eggs when shown to-scale, which they never are in the marketing material). The goose is still going to […]

We are excited to share that our paper on wastewater-based sequencing of respiratory syncytial virus, showing the potential to identify and track circulating lineages, is now published in The Lancet Microbe. You can check it out at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[mini AI rant related to SaaS] OTOH this really pays dividends on all the NIHing and self-hosting i did against better advice in the last years

Again and again, the evidence shows that the HPV vaccine is both safe and effective at preventing cancer. How can anyone be against cancer prevention?

#directdemocracy: It works!

RE: https://flipboard.com/@smithsonianmag/science-r9m16ilnz/-/a-R2vvHvIGSByZwd_XOZzb0w%3Aa%3A2586892611-%2F0 That was the start of the plot to Predator 2

Valve: "Steam Machine and Steam Frame will ship *this summer*!" Me: ...remembering that the autumn equinox is in September.

Le record national de chaleur de mai a été dépassé/égalé avec une facilité déconcertante par 24 stations. Depuis le 22 mai, 1364 records de chaleur ont été battus. Du jamais vu. Le nouveau record national sera surement la station de Perpignan (37.4°C). Attendons l'expertise de Météo-France.

Congratulations to Xiang Ge Luo for being awarded the ETH Medal 2025 for her doctoral thesis “Modeling tumor mutation trees for evolution-guided precision oncology”! bsse.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses that naturally infect rodents and can occasionally spread to people. Here’s what you need to know about #hantavirus What they are, how they spread, the symptoms, and how to prevent infection

Your phone is about to stop being yours. https://keepandroidopen.org/en/ 125 days until lockdown Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed […]

"It's called _vibe plumbing_. I'm not even a plumber. Soon, all swimming pools will be done this way! Get onboard or get left behind." (a real life version of the 'vibe construction' comic from https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/). Photo taken from plumbers fails)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/116461768263929100 > "Where people live also seemed to make a difference. Higher risks were observed in studies from Asia, Africa, and North America, while studies from Europe and South America actually showed a lower risk.“ This close to realising […]

When you are the first to boost something that goes viral (for fediverse standards...) 🥹

RE: https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/116399551743157830 Life-goal:

This all really good, love this. It's all analyzing social behaviors, not code at all. "Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns." https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

If an astronaut sent you an email or loaded your website, could you tell from the IP or anything?

'Illegal inhalation of privatized air may result in violent repossession of your 1.3 gallons of rented, corporate blood.' Screenshot from Neofeud 2, my #cyberpunk #adventuregame which is RELEASED! https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud2 #indiedev #art #scifi #indiegame #retrogame

do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?

_If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated._ **Fellow PhD student:** hello! ​:blobcat_waverev:​ I hope you had a good Monday. 0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD? 1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already […]

[Ruminations (tiresome AI BS)] I feel we've reached a point where many if not most of the organizations we rely on are being overrun by toddlers. We're constantly bring sold the belief that a chatbot is a viable substitute for thinking, skill, and hard work, of expertise and competence. I've […]

they claim "Zero exposure to original source" but surely all popular Open Source project has been read and parsed by every LLM in existence many times over

"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch" https://malus.sh/

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442 The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation […]

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000. Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500 This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean. @davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

one of my favorite things on fedi is seeing an enormous infodump that is almost totally incomprehensible to me, where someone is just pouring out their heart about a topic that they love, in some gigantic thread of intense nerdery. sometimes I see people post self-consciously as if they feel […]

Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources. You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure […]

The dumbest take I've ever heard is "but what if I harm them further while doing CPR?" A person who needs CPR is functionally dead. If they come back to life, a couple of broken ribs is a small price to pay.

My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But […]

By the way, if you have time and energy and farting in the general direction of the FCC sounds fun, instructions on how to post your own comment to the FCC on Reflect Orbital or 1 million new SpaceX sats are here […]

"My colleague Julius" is now available in French, Korean and simplified Chinese! Thanks to the translators for that work! https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html

token anxiety https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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If decentralization is the future of social media, where millions or even billions of people share knowledge, then we can learn a lot from how the Open Knowledge Foundation (@okfn) and the Wikimedia Foundation (@wikimediafoundation) built cross-border, international movements with clear missions […]

Bravo to the Spanish Supreme Court for its Sept 2025 decision establishing four important principles: "[1] Access to source code can be needed to verify automated government decisions; [2] “Intellectual property rights” do not automatically block transparency; [3] Security concerns must be […]

Hot take: the #steammachine is technically still "positioned closer to the entry level of the PC space.” as Valve promised. It's just that the price of "entry level PCs" has now shoot all the way up to "both of your kidneys and a testicle" thanks to the current #rampocalypse

This should be the mainstream #marketing position.

Okay, I'm calling it. Musk is an agent of the Great Filter, sent here to trigger a Kessler Syndrome and trap us on this planet. https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

I wonder how long Mattias Krantz will keep his fingers. At least he has a cool fridge magnet now. 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCO4spGNPs #music #musicalinstrument #guitar #electricguitars #magnet #magnets #diy #diyinstruments #diymusic