Samsung Is Putting Google Gemini AI Into Your Refrigerator, Whether You Need It or Not https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/22/120248/samsung-is-putting-google-gemini-ai-into-your-refrigerator-whether-you-need-it-or-not?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
“This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era. … It seemed to mark an end for the Reagan Revolution whose ideology Trump has pushed to its brutish conclusion. … A February 2025 report from RAND … found that if the system in place before 1975 had stayed in place, the bottom 90% of Americans would have had almost $80 trillion more in 2023 than they did.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, December 19, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-19-2025
#reagan #trump #usa
Account Suggestions that prioritize what you like and who your friends follow — not just based on follower counts.
Hide suggestions you don't want. The algorithm adapts to you.
This is discovery done right.
Shipping soon to mobile & web 🚀
Source: https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/blob/main/app/Services/AccountSuggestionService.php#L184
#Loops #AccountSuggestions #SmartDiscovery
Clearly a spam. Their "created by people who love the Fediverse" is apparently only @ reiver @ mastodon.social (as shown at their .org page, don't wanna tag him here directly), an AI vibe coding dude.
Yes, he talks about "The Fediverse", but uses Mastodon.social (unable to create his own instance?) but is only allowing Mastodon (discrimination of other fedicens - so much for the luv of the Fediverse).
The login with Mastodon is a huge no-go, correct. This is how some of the big net companies operate (Google, Apple, Facebook), so people may think it's natural. Nope. Login on another site with your Mastodon or whatever Fediverse credentials (what they aren't support) and they have your password.
Next thing: All the images of Fediverse accounts at the .fund page are mockups.
There is no @ dani @ sonic.social , someone who creates all his music for the Fediverse for free (I would have known, it raised my suspicion), there is not even a sonic.social . Also the other accounts in the "get started" section image aren't real accounts, the instances don't exists but one. The last one is a full blown spam site redirector (artspace social). Figures.
So the image of that sympathetic bearded cliche hipster at the .org site is totally 100% how Reiver looks. Sure. As Reiver at his glorious mastodon.org account says he is "b/g". Sure.
Do NOT touch this.
one of my favorite windows 9x features was actually just a limitation in the sound subsystem:
only one program could open the WAVE device at once.
so if you launched Winamp before any other program, those other programs could not make sounds.
as a misophonic person, this was a top-class feature and I'm disappointed that it's not really supported anymore
a graffiti wall with a dragon and a basketball on it
Community-Based Fediverse Instances
We find ourselves in an increasingly hostile environment for social networking. States are increasingly requiring identity verification to access online social spaces, ostensibly to protect our children. This is a dangerous road to go down if we value our freedom of expression and association. When a state can decide who we talk to and how we speak to them, we are one step closer to the government controlling our communications. It’s one thing for a small community to decide on its […]
EPFL spinout Anyway Systems has developed a system to enable the local execution of large AI models - think #Apertus - on standard computers without cloud reliance. The initiative aims to democratize AI access, prioritizing local computing and sustainability. Via @Citoyen_DC @mjchel https://news.epfl.ch/news/do-we-really-need-big-data-centers-for-ai/
Si Einstein avait su
Alain Aspect a voulu écrire ce livre pour nous faire partager sa fascination pour le débat entre deux géants de la physique, Niels Bohr et Albert Einstein, portant sur l’interprétation de la mécanique quantique. Presque un demi-siècle après ses propres expériences, Alain Aspect a reçu le prix Nobel de physique pour avoir montré que l’on doit renoncer à la vision du monde quantique défendue par Einstein. Alain Aspect replace le débat dans l’incroyable histoire de la physique quantique. Ne cachant pas son admiration pour Einstein, il nous montre comment la controverse quasi philosophique que celui-ci a engagée avec Niels Bohr a conduit à des expériences bien réelles et à l’invention de nouvelles technologies quantiques. Tout en faisant le récit de son parcours, Alain Aspect nous explique avec passion et clarté comment il a mis en évidence l’une des propriétés les plus extraordinaires de l’intrication quantique, et il tente d’imaginer la réaction d’Einstein à ses résultats expérimentaux.
Un livre majeur.
Alain Aspect a reçu le prix Nobel de physique 2022 « pour les expériences avec des photons intriqués établissant les violations des inégalités de Bell et ouvrant une voie pionnière vers l’informatique quantique ». Il est professeur à l’Institut d’Optique-université Paris-Saclay, professeur à l’École polytechnique et directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS.
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Of all the things humans rely on plants for—sustenance, beauty, medicine, fragrance, flavor, fiber—surely the most curious is our use of them to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities of our mental experience. Take coffee and tea: People around the world rely on caffeine to sharpen their minds. But we do not usually think of caffeine as a drug, or our daily use as an addiction, because it is legal and socially acceptable. So, then, what is a “drug”? And why, for example, is making tea from the leaves of a tea plant acceptable, but making tea from a seed head of an opium poppy a federal crime?
In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs—opium, caffeine, and mescaline—and throws the fundamental strangeness, and arbitrariness, of our thinking about them into sharp relief. Exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around these drugs while consuming (or, in the case of caffeine, trying not to consume) them, Pollan reckons with the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants. Why do we go to such great lengths to seek these shifts in consciousness, and then why do we fence that universal desire with laws and customs and fraught feelings?
In this unique blend of history, science, and memoir, as well as participatory journalism, Pollan examines and experiences these plants from several very different angles and contexts, and shines a fresh light on a subject that is all too often treated reductively—as a drug, whether licit or illicit. But that is one of the least interesting things you can say about these plants, Pollan shows, for when we take them into our bodies and let them change our minds, we are engaging with nature in one of the most profound ways we can. Based in part on an essay published almost twenty-five years ago, this groundbreaking and singular consideration of psychoactive plants, and our attraction to them through time, holds up a mirror to our fundamental human needs and aspirations, the operations of our minds, and our entanglement with the natural world.
@harrysintonen oh I forgot. Thanks!
@bagder @harrysintonen
Hello,how are you doing
Doing Harm
The Truth about How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
new bloggery, in which our protagonist dreams of laurels https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/12/17/in-which-our-protagonist-dreams-of-laurels
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
@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.