What's the opposite of nominative determinism? Like when someone called "Goodwin" is a really bad loser, for example?

@TeaKayB The @metafilter term for this is #eponysterical

I traveled to the south of Sweden today. And this one turned up totally unexpectedly when I was looking for moorhens and little grebes. Walking around casually along a little stream next to the river. So cool! 🤎

Probably mostly not my audience here, but I'm currently looking for a business-side/CEO cofounder for an encrypted radio startup. There are solid funding options, but while I can build the team to make the product happen, I'm not the person to navigate the money side of things. I'm looking for a […]

today im on here during working hours because im supposed to be rewriting this paper to the tune of the reviewer's comments. this one has great comments and i think the paper will be stronger after the rewrite, but im dreading how the reference management is going to work.

Shattered dreams, wounded hearts, broken toys

i've seen flowers on on other anthills near this area, and not the kind that grow nearby or could fall. is this some random event of someone who thought it looks nice there or is there some religious or cultural thing here?

[Picture of Froggy] look this giant, wrinkled frog. The Nyctibatrachus karnatakaensis is found in the western ghats and no, wait, its familiar name *is* Giant Wrinkled Frog. Also, the people who named it had a fight about it and it's pretty spicy, as far as […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

is there a national forum for us to tell brands what we don't want them to do in terms of privacy and security etc. some people might find it useful and at least there's documentation. for eg. i'd like it to be publically known that the facial ID thing at lenskart is creepy as hell and […]

[lewd, pun] if a circlejerk happens on mastodon, is it a mastorbation?

mood: *brain has left the chat*

nice try

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/ Im glad someone's calling out cory. not that i;m a fan of these arguments but well ethics is tough. them are the cards.

BioAsQ has a new competition out and some of it is exactly what I want to work on/have been puttering around on, semantic indexing of medical data, but i am so empty i don't know where to begin.

nothing quiet as entertaining as the contemporary morality circlejerk

do y'all work out? have fitness goals? cw them but post them, i love those updates. it's inspiring.

[health & bodyparts and stuff] this was me in 2023 off a cold start of 6 months of inactivity. This week, I'm unable to hold a wall sit at 90 degrees for more than 20 seconds without collapsing. Do not take your health for granted people. shit that isn't […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

LB so, CSS is a programming language now?

why do we anthropomorphize language models? is it simply that since the interface is conversation, therefore person-hood is the metaphor or whatever underlying the interaction?

i feel like ive changed how i search for things so much over the years that the altavista time searches and current searches are pretty much entirely different languages.

The language of stamps https://community.postcrossing.com/t/the-language-of-stamps/147685/20 this whole thread is lovely.

Dā də Bātorāno Kor (Home of the Brave) The National Anthem of Afghanistan Audio with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UvtCQip8I0 Lyrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Home_of_the_Brave dominant themes: bravery and repelling invaders has a sad, haunting feel to it […]

Posted to reddit by the artist: https://www.reddit.com/user/zenpod/ Hat party #art #pencilart

it's a little sad that academic discussions in AI/ML and related things feel unwelcome and unpopular on masto.

how do i have friends?

if its all going to burn, what is the point? if its not, why we do this?

linguists and lay theorists, all my life, north indian bhai behan calle me mr phillips even when i tell them clearly my name is philip it just always is like that. what's the reason for this? what is this called? #serious

where do you stream #malayalam movies? I want to watch Pranchiyettan & the Saint and other movies

maybe we haven't been visited by aliens because they look at our rating and go "just One star? eww I'll pass" #fermiparadox

Supercalifragilisticpaneerisatrocious

In the shadow of the grill that protects my balcony from monkeys #WindowFriday #BlackAndWhite

Meditation on Statistical Method By J. V. Cunningham Plato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right If time be long And error slight, But in our hearts Hyperbole Curves and departs To infinity. Error is boundless. Nor hope nor doubt […]

resisting the itch is an impossible task because an itch *is* "that which goes away only on scratching"

EMA has a concept paper for a concept paper :) love it.

remember screensavers?

running away from things that you can't control is normal. sometimes the distance helps figure out a different approach or offers a different perspective, sometimes it helps save you from the fallout.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746 books

February Margaret Atwood https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47787/february-56d2288025b1e #poetry

Year one grant moneys have come and we'll be able to get an ML workstation!!!

lewd pulp novel cover malayalam

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything […]

Benevolent __________ like affectionate cannibalism

isn't it bizarre that we somehow think we can trust people less than we can trust the government? isn't it more bizarre that somehow how we trust others is mediated by The News.