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@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green 2 min. ago

#ClimateDiary I watched my village disappear in an instant.

“When I finally reached someone — an elder brother’s house — it was his wife who answered. “There’s nothing left in the village,” she said simply. “Most of the people are gone.”

I couldn’t make myself believe it. Sole and Tupche sit nearly a hundred metres above the riverbed. No flood in living memory — in centuries, as far as anyone knew — had ever reached that high.” #Nepal #Glacier

https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-3/2026/08/27/i-watched-my-village-disappear-in-an-instant

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Universität Konstanz

@unikonstanz@xn--baw-joa.social 2 days ago

Researchers from the #UniKonstanz and the HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences analyzed around 3.7 million menu options from 340 German university canteens. The results show a fundamental shift in menu options, an important part of the food environment.

Between 2015 and 2024, especially the proportion of vegan main dishes increased significantly. Surprisingly, the expansion of vegan options was accompanied by a stronger reduction in vegetarian options than in those containing meat.

Full story: https://t1p.de/24wzf

The photo shows four different dishes in a German university cafeteria. Some of the trays also include a side salad and a drink.

Menus in German university canteens change fundamentally

ira mothering

@ira@beige.party 13 min. ago

@1moremin love it :)

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es 39 sec. ago

@ira @1moremin

i love the pic and #Graveldon

I love this, so I

@jpm@aus.social 12 min. ago

It’s not not raining, but it’s not really raining either.

Phil Betts

@philbetts@mastodon.social 44 sec. ago

@jpm there's a word in Scots for that https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50476008

'Dreich' is named most popular Scots word by Scottish Book Trust

"Glaikit", "scunnered" and "shoogle" lose out to a word commonly used to describe the Scottish weather.

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1moremin

@1moremin@mastodon.ie 5 hr. ago

#FakeStarThursday
#Graveldon

A mostly dark photo of a park's path at night. Shadows of trees on a lit spot of the ground mix with sparkly gravel.

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Steve Carter

@GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 2 hr. ago

Yesterday, I managed to get some footage of a pod of Dolphins that came right up to the southern end of the loch. The largest of them was huge. Best guess; 4 metres long.

AnarchoNinaWrites

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse 1 min. ago

Like, if you asked someone from here to create an image of "a stand up guy's guy" in Michigan, the image that would come back would look almost exactly like El-Sayed did during the campaign stop with the black t-shirt and blue jeans. A bit tall but not too tall. Toned but practically muscular not a body builder. Classic midwestern fashionable without APPEARING like he gives his look a second thought at all. That's Detroit "man's man cool" in a nutshell.

So I know it was on purpose.

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Universität Jena

@unijena@mastodon.social 19 hr. ago

Am Freitag, 28. August, lädt das Goethe-Laboratorium der #UniJena um 18 Uhr zu einer Führung anlässlich Goethes 277. Geburtstags ein. Anhand ausgewählter Texte und Forschungsgegenstände geht es um Goethes Idee des „lebendigen Anschauens“ und darum, wie sich diese Form der Naturbetrachtung einüben lässt.

Das Laboratorium im Fürstengraben 26 ist an diesem Tag kostenfrei geöffnet. Im Anschluss an die Führung kann gemeinsam auf Goethe angestoßen werden.

➡️ https://www.goethe.uni-jena.de/726/goethe-geburtstag-2026

Gemälde von Johann Wolfgang Goethe im Goethe Laboratorium in dunkler Kleidung vor italienischer Landschaft mit Bergen und See, im Hintergrund der Vesuv.

https://www.goethe.uni-jena.de/726/goethe-geburtstag-2026

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 7 min. ago

Talwani used the Roberts Six ‘s own words to explain that the case is now ripe for judicial action. 5/

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On March 31, 2026, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order No. 14399,
Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections. 91 Fed. Reg. 17125 (2026)
(the "EO"). Litigation ensued before a final rule issued. On emergency review, on August 24,
2026, the United States Supreme Court concluded that this court lacked jurisdiction to review
challenges to the EO's constitutionality where it was speculative as to whether the USPS would
(1) propose a rule; (2) weigh the comments; and (3) issue a final rule consistent with the EO's
directives. Trump v. California, 609 U.S. _ 2026 WL 2473573, at *4 (Aug. 24, 2026) (per
curiam). The Supreme Court admonished this court that "[flederal courts review final rules, not — On March 31, 2026, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order No. 14399, Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections. 91 Fed. Reg. 17125 (2026) (the "EO"). Litigation ensued before a final rule issued. On emergency review, on August 24, 2026, the United States Supreme Court concluded that this court lacked jurisdiction to review challenges to the EO's constitutionality where it was speculative as to whether the USPS would (1) propose a rule; (2) weigh the comments; and (3) issue a final rule consistent with the EO's directives. Trump v. California, 609 U.S. _ 2026 WL 2473573, at *4 (Aug. 24, 2026) (per curiam). The Supreme Court admonished this court that "[flederal courts review final rules, not

proposed rules—and certainly not antecedent internal directives to propose a rule." Id. The
Supreme Court explicitly noted, however, that the disposition of the government's emergency
application "does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order
will necessarily be lawful[.J" Id. at *5. — proposed rules—and certainly not antecedent internal directives to propose a rule." Id. The Supreme Court explicitly noted, however, that the disposition of the government's emergency application "does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful[.J" Id. at *5.

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social 2 min. ago

USPS is now claiming that it is “too late” for the plaintiffs to obtain judicial relief. Addressing this, Talwani used the USPS’s own earlier claims as to why the plaintiffs’ previous effort to obtain relief was too early. 6/

Two weeks before the Final Rule issued, Defendants' counsel represented to the court
that:
“when the final rule is implemented, if it affects an individual voter's ability to vote,
then they certainly have standing to challenge that final rule. And courts are able to
work in an expedited basis. It would only take a very short amount of time for a
temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to issue.”
And two days ago, when Defendants asked the court to vacate the preliminary injunction entered
in LWVM prior to the Supreme Court's Order, Defendants represented that Plaintiffs were not
without a remedy, for where the Rule had now issued, they could "simply amend their
complaint" and challenge the Final Rule directly. — Two weeks before the Final Rule issued, Defendants' counsel represented to the court that: “when the final rule is implemented, if it affects an individual voter's ability to vote, then they certainly have standing to challenge that final rule. And courts are able to work in an expedited basis. It would only take a very short amount of time for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to issue.” And two days ago, when Defendants asked the court to vacate the preliminary injunction entered in LWVM prior to the Supreme Court's Order, Defendants represented that Plaintiffs were not without a remedy, for where the Rule had now issued, they could "simply amend their complaint" and challenge the Final Rule directly.

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Mark Dingemanse

@dingemansemark@scholar.social 8 hr. ago

Very proud to share this new work led by the amazing @marlourasenberg, with Joel Fischer and me https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22129748

We use #EMCA methods to study empirically how LLM users shoulder the burden of solving troubles of sequence organisation — and how they end up restructuring their own tasks, aims & activities in the process

Empirical, qualitative work on these kinds of exchanges is rare. We use the #WildChat dataset for an unprecedented look at early adopters & heavy users

#genai #prompting

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Abstract: This paper investigates how a core component of human interaction – action projection – is realized in conversations with systems like ChatGPT, which are not able to recognize nor anticipate actions in a sequential sense. We ask what this means for users who engage in longer, multi-step projects built through incremental prompt-response pairs. We draw on Conversation Analysis to examine how early adopters of ChatGPT sequentially organise such interactions, using anonymised naturalistic interactions from the WildChat dataset. Our analysis reveals how action projection in LLM interactions is beset with interactional trouble. In turn, we document a set of practices we term ‘pre-emptive prompting’ that users develop to work around the trouble. In doing so, users employ a range of conversational methods including pre-sequences, prompt categorization, withholding executables, spelling out relevant next actions, eliciting displays of “understanding”, and creating slots for redirection in their attempts to complete their projects. Our work provides empirical evidence of how users interactionally accomplish the configuration work (Alcaras and Ricci 2025) needed to work around the discretization and cluttering that LLMs-in-use produce.

Excerpt 10: ‘wouldnt you require both inputs’ wc_1211945; wc_usr_d2a27584b4185dda [conv_index: 359] 1 user : ok if i said i want to provide you with input A (which is an items description) and just assess its format and presentation then i provided you with input B (which is also a item desctiption for a similar item) but in a way diffrent format could you make the B input into A input 2 LLM: Yes, I can certainly help you with that. Please provide me with Input B, and I will try to make it resemble Input A in terms of format and presentation. 3 user: wouldnt you require both inputs

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Pre-emptive prompting: How early adopters work around trouble with action projection in LLM interactions

This paper investigates how a core component of human interaction – action projection – is realized in conversations with systems like ChatGPT, which are not able to recognize nor anticipate actions in a sequential sense. We ask what this means for users who engage in longer, multi-step projects built through incremental prompt-response pairs. We draw on Conversation Analysis to examine how early adopters of ChatGPT sequentially organise such interactions, using anonymised naturalistic interactions from the WildChat dataset. Our analysis reveals how action projection in LLM interactions is beset with interactional trouble. In turn, we document a set of practices we term ‘pre-emptive prompting’ that users develop to work around the trouble. In doing so, users employ a range of conversational methods including pre-sequences, prompt categorization, withholding executables, spelling out relevant next actions, eliciting displays of “understanding”, and creating slots for redirection in their attempts to complete their projects. Our work provides empirical evidence of how users interactionally accomplish the configuration work (Alcaras and Ricci 2025) needed to work around the discretization and cluttering that LLMs-in-use produce.Preprint, likely to be revised. Comments are welcome!

quinta - Stefano Quintarelli

@quinta@mastodon.uno 15 hr. ago

‘Peanuts’ and ‘insult’: Florida refuses multistate Meta deal, AG heads to trial over teen harm https://blog.quintarelli.it/2026/08/peanuts-and-insult-florida-refuses-multistate-meta-deal-ag-heads-to-trial-over-teen-harm/

https://blog.quintarelli.it

‘Peanuts’ and ‘insult’: Florida refuses multistate Meta deal, AG heads to trial over teen harm

Andrea

@apex@mastodon.uno 3 min. ago

@quinta speriamo vada avanti. Ci son rimasto male quando ho letto dell'accordo. Il paragone con la ICMESA mi piace e ci sta.
Ora però dovrebbe muoversi anche l'Europa.

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Stefano testing something cool

@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it 10 hr. ago

This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀

#FediTest #littleFedi #OwnYourData #NetBSD

zbrando

@zbrando@social.vivaldi.net 13 min. ago

@sl007 I don't believe Canada could enter the EU but maybe could be a member of the European Economic Area. @randahl

Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social 3 min. ago

@zbrando
But: Yes They Can!

this is what the article in german lead media is about.
Also : 57% of Canadians are Pro-EU-Join (euronews)

@randahl

AnarchoNinaWrites

@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse 15 min. ago

Fox has now spent so much time attacking El-Sayed (and Hasan Piker) that their parasocial relationships have progress to the "wait, is this guy secretly hot" stage...

I am convinced that on some level fascism is actually just "Mall Bitches" made formal.

Alephwyr: Mad Dragon of Mastodon

@Alephwyr@chitter.xyz 3 min. ago

@AnarchoNinaWrites An almost supernatural level of repression and sublimation. Dog gnawing off leg caught in trap except trap is "has to live with other people in the world". Frenetic faith in the palliative nature of sufficient random violence, not excluding oneself, favoring in fact oneself for the convenience of proximity... Chuck Palahniuk as a prophet from within, Erik Fromm as an inquisitor from without, converging suspiciously in the center, accomplishing nothing.

radio free fedi

@radiofreefedi@musician.social 2 hr. ago

Phew. That epic day of live action and friendly crowds puts another year's fest in the books.

This is what community sounds like!

We'd love to hear some of your reflections, thoughts, surprises, discoveries, etc. Use #NHAMFest26 or cool to tag me.

Big ups to the artists and presenters for putting themselves out there, the venue hosts admins and mods, and #owncast and #peertube for platforms of agency.

I shall retire back to the hammock now. Support an indie artist today. Stay vertical.

🐹 ❤️