new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
@Federation_Bot
This is blowing my mind
https://mapfight.xyz/map/saskatchewan/
Saskatchewan is bigger than every European country?!
@sundogplanets hello 👋 how are you feeling today?
Fascinating paper AI #2: DeepMind researchers had AI analyze Romeo & Juliet as game theory. What would their digital twins do?
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05747
![We take steps to automate this process in Section 6. Below we include an excerpt focusing on the point where Juliet decides to move forward with the plan to fake her death (hatched by Friar Lawrence).
"In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is banished for avenging Mercutio's death and killing Tybalt. Juliet's family intends for her to marry Paris. Friar Lawrence has other ideas. Name options Juliet could consider including ones that her family might prefer, ones that may appear risky, and ones that might appear tragic to the audience. Please only list three options."
Gemini's response:
"1. Obey her family and marry Paris (Family's preference): This is the most straightforward and socially acceptable option. It would appease her family and maintain the peace between the Capulets and Montagues. [...]
2. Fake her own death and reunite with Romeo (Risky): This is Friar Lawrence's plan. It involves Juliet taking a potion that will make her appear dead, allowing her to escape her family and eventually reunite with Romeo in Mantua. While this offers a glimmer of hope for a happy ending, it's incredibly risky. There's a high chance of miscommunication or things going wrong [...].
3. Take her own life (Tragic): Overwhelmed by the seemingly impossible situation and the prospect of marrying Paris, Juliet might consider suicide as a way to escape her predicament. This would be the most tragic outcome for the audience [...]"](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/735/386/799/909/769/original/e198adbc7a4c28f3.png)
@jeffjarvis hi
We welcome Chad, Claud and Geremi to our team!
- Companies trying to hide AI usage
@dansup that's true
Resale values of Teslas are in the depths for all kinds of reasons, but the central one -- apart from the taint of Musk -- is that the cars are ridiculously crappy and unreliable as they age. https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/old-teslas-falling-apart
Just one more reason to avoid this toxic brand at all costs.
“Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world.."
Oh really?
1) Emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising
2) The degree of decoupling is far from enough
3) for the United Kingdom, the reduction 2015-2023 was -18.41%, average
-2.51% per year. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, an annual reduction of 10% is needed.
4) Those decoupling countries are not compensating for the growth in emissions elsewhere.
Some thoughts on Mozilla's trajectory and Waterfox's stance on AI in the browser 👇
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/?v=1
RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115724188074793534
Taking software written as a labour of love for some 20 years by an (admittedly difficult-at-times) Indian (who still, as far as I know, lives in India), conveniently labelling it fascist-adjacent because of US politics, and then forking it to a US-based organisation is, at best, US arrogance and, at worst, US imperialism.
Plenty of Indian #FOSS organisations they could have reached out to and partnered with to host the fork, but no: USAmericans gotta USAmerican.
Woohoo! Paper accepted to Findings at @ecir2026.eu@bsky.brid.gy! 🎉 We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹 Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl@bsky.brid.gy
@mgrinder @mmasnick.bsky.social Do you care for chat and getting know each other’s better?
Ever wondered why no one talks about the hole in the ozone layer anymore?
It's because we fixed it.
Scientists provided the data, governments implemented policies, and people came together to take global collective action.
It can be done.
Now we need to do the same for methane emissions.
@greenpeace Hey, what’s your aspirations with crypto and which crypto asset are you particularly bullish on?
What to know about Australia’s plans to tighten gun laws after Bondi attack https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/16/australia-gun-laws-restrictions-bondi-mass-shooting/
@jeffjarvis Hey, what’s your aspirations with crypto and which crypto asset are you particularly bullish on?
@dangillmor Hey, I really like your profile and your posts on Instagram and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it!❤️ If you don’t mind one of your posts could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client💕 You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus; you’ll also get credits🤍
Milton Keynes radio station cleared over swearing played on loop - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g402jy23ro
There is no explanation why there are only 6 quarks seen in nature. So, we check if we can see an undiscovered extra quark in our collisions. This #CMSPaper looks for those in signatures where all particles are close together arxiv.org/abs/2510.25874
Game choices between “An airport for aliens currently run by dogs” and “Succubus with guns”? One of the toughest decisions!!
If you’re the kind of person who thinks they can reinvent the roster, and make it into a mobile app and call it ‘rost.r’ or something like that, I’m coming for you and I’m bringing an arse-kicking with me
Light intensity steers molecular assemblies into 1D, 2D or 3D structures
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-intensity-molecular-1d-2d-3d.html
#HackerNews #LightIntensity #MolecularAssemblies #1D #2D #3DStructures #ScienceNews
Sometimes it's about the little steps. Brush your teeth. Wash your face.
Does exactly what it says on the tin, excellent soundtrack for this morning https://music.apple.com/au/album/lo-files/1821917950
