since the masto dev team is shipping highly-requested features lately...

[music o'clock in the daytime???]

listening to this album for the one millionth time and like all music it's probably just my personal history with it speaking but this shit is so god damned good: https://veriteofficial.bandcamp.com/album/somewhere-in-between

Etymonline is one of the most underappreciated sole-curator resources on the internet. Its not made by a company, just a very wonderfully lyrical person who does it as a labor of love.
https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio

You are a very busy, very important professor publishing very important work. Do you
a) just publish the code and data along with the paper because you know your work will survive close scrutiny and you have better things to do
b) spend your time handling individual data requests, negotiating […]

Good morning. I hope someone gives you a leg up this morning.

I pingpong back and forth between
"why do I spend so much time working on and thinking about social media and digital communication, its just posting"
vs.
"commercial social media is a global scale informational weapon, the primary means of oligarchic control, radicalizing entire generations […]

[Stonks]

I have been lazily (not paying too much attention, checking in every month or so) and with no information (I have no idea what I'm doing) buying and selling the same penny stock as it wanders randomly around in a $1 range for about 10 years now. I just keep doing buy low, sell high […]

im gona write me a FEP about moving post collections and it will be the shortest FEP ever written*.

"Just use a Collection of `Move` objects"

this just isn't complicated enough to be as big of a problem as it is

*(but actually be a real FEP with the proper considerations and whatnot)

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

after looking on from afar in horror at LLM code for many months, each example convincing me to never touch the stuff, somehow i am now responsible for reviewing a lot of LLM code for my job, and let's just say i am not having a good time.

Join the new plugin sustainability initiative! 🚀

Everyone is invited to fill out this interest form: https://forms.gle/iwX6P4tuooHK5aKH9

Follow along with initial discussion on Zulip […]

Oregon lawyer wants a second TRO incorporating the reasoning in support of yesterday’s and prohibiting the use of any federalized National Guard troops from anywhere in Portland. Immergut GRANTS this. 16/

One of the reasons I love sudoku is how long you can go after making a wrong decision and have everything still appear to be fine. Each decision made after the wrong one follows from the state of the board, until you reach a catastrophic point where a square can't have any of the numbers in it […]

I started wearing a moustache as a bit, but now I can't shave it because I'm addicted to a) touching it b) eating it

with regard to Jay of bluesky suggesting they would platform engineer away the dynamics that lead to people demanding jesse singal be banned, reminder to our members that

a) you can report me or any of the members of the social working group and the reported person will not be involved in […]

["AI" schadenfreude, reddit screenshot]

"What if someone uses an LLM to rip off my app that I ripped off with an LLM????"

Can anyone tell me who is a mod on social.vivaldi.net / vivaldi.net ? want to communicate w/ them about a report and all i see is an email address on their about page

#vivaldi

go ahead and hook me up with all of the papers that are just like "are animals normal when they go to space or what"

https://doi.org/10.1038/72910
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/72910

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@techwg/115307440309078418

what up i'm quopsting on the fediverse

@JMarkOckerbloom
We've got it: https://sciop.net/datasets/adl-glossary

So about that fediverse MCP/LLM scraper instance. It turns out the code is extremely funny.

https://github.com/cameronrye/activitypub-mcp/

One example: there is a MCP command to "discover instances." The documentation presents this as a personalized set of recommendations, and one would expect […]

[subtooting prestige neuroscience]

the latest in "if it's in Nature, you can be sure it's hogwash"

the abstract:

> Our findings suggest that shared neural dynamics represent a fundamental and generalizable feature of interacting neural systems present in both biological and artificial agents […]

Update on smoothie life crisis: my life is solved

[Cyberpunk 2077]

Why did they make the basilisk into a fuckmachine and then have absolutely no lore about gayboys of NUSA secretly edging in the tank? Like the tank did not have to be a fuckmachine, but since it is, you sort of must fill in the blanks on fuckmachines in wartime