@cstross no afterlife? Maimonides’s 13th article of faith is just that, belief in the resurrection of the dead.
@kevin Physical resurrection of the dead *on Earth* is not heaven/hell. (Nor is being remembered in the Book of Life the same thing.)
hypebot
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Wisst Ihr, was das Tolle am Alt-werden ist? Man kann bei der #CriticalMass und bei der #SeniorMass mitmachen. Wenn man Enkel hat, sogar noch bei der #kidicalMass.
Wenn Ihr in Berlin seid, könnt Ihr heute gemütlich 10km radeln. Mit Anfahrt dann 30. =:-)
Chip Butty
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The interesting thing about these exploits, and the Parse situation still more so, is how profoundly the whole internet tacitly relies on the notion of an “intended use,” which in turn enfolds a distinct theory of mind.
An agent without subjectivity, however, immediately perceives that the purpose of a system is what it does – or, in these cases, whatever you can make it do. It’s all just attack surface. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html
pinage404.json :nixos:
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La lutte, ça marche !
Chip Butty
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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@edinburghlinuxcafe/117318829181559318
Reminder that the most effective way to get rid of unwanted AI, unskippable updates minutes before a deadline or a presentation, and keeping your existing computer until YOU (not Microsoft or Apple) decide otherwise, is to install Linux. This will also make your computer faster and more responsive. Come visit us on 10th October to regain control over your device.
@mustikkasoppa @rolle Hmmh, nyt ei näy enää uutena tuo vastauksen notifikaatio. Eli olisiko siellä sitten ollut joku bitti poikittain, joka oikeni nyt kun tuli uusi notifikaatio joka nollasi jotain...
@OtterSide @mustikkasoppa Kuulostaa, että jotain on tosiaan jäänyt välimuistiin. Vaihdettiin palvelimia, joten vaatii rivakkaa refreshiä tai välimuistien tyhjennystä, jos näin harvinaisesti pääsee käymään. Ilmoittele jos ongelmat jatkuvat niin selvitellään lisää.
Quixoticgeek
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Happy Flat Fuck Friday
Quixoticgeek
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The local overnight parking lot filled up with more Pizza Tour cars from China. I did run into one of the travelers, and she told me Pizza was just a cute name they could all agree on for their team and it’s not an expedition to track down the world’s best pizza.
(But it should be, imo)
The gentleman driving this truck admired Odin but declined to pet him
Chip Butty
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"Democracy for Sale" email me to tell me that cash for access is operating again, this time it's the Tony Blair Institute, and without even the pretense of brown envelopes:
"We’ve obtained internal documents showing that Tony Blair’s think tank charges corporate members from $25,000 a year for “networking” opportunities with politicians at party conferences and more. Members include BP, Uber, Amazon and Microsoft."
@david_chisnall @skaphle @debcha @rednikki @sundogplanets Yes.. It's a trade off based on how often that's something you need to do in your field. But also just rewriting those fifty citations isn't *that* much work if it happens less than 3-4 times a year, I find after some practice the average citation takes a couple minutes max to write and for fifty citations I'd spare 3-4 hours to get them sorted out if the target format was unfamiliar. I think I could fairly easily do 50 in 2 hours if its Chicago/Turabian.
I used to easily waste more than a few hours a month getting Zotero etc to behave and to fix my citations doing my master's thesis. And the citations still turned out like shit in the end... because fixing metadata and checking generated results is more hassle than checking the references directly and I was too burnt out to do another round of it near the end.
I am in history now and don't expect to have to do that kind of rewriting that often. We don't publish that often, to boot, and by and large Chicago/Turabian is what everyone uses. But I do understand there are fields with multiple common styles and much more rapid turnout of material and manual citations may bog you down for most writing.
@librarysquirrel @skaphle @debcha @rednikki @sundogplanets
In computer science, all of the big publication venues provide their metadata as BibTeX (and normally at least one other option) so maintaining a citation database is just copying the canonical metadata in machine-readable format into a text file. The only time I need to do it manually is when I’m citing something like a web page (and then, doing it via BibTeX is useful because it warns me if I missed a required field).
I guess the major libraries for your field aren’t providing machine-readable citation information?
certo, nessuna fretta, anzi grazie davvero :)
immaginiamo quanto siate presɘ in questo periodo, apprezziamo tantissimo! 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
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Quixoticgeek
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One of the things that I can admire Nox Mobility for is that they have played the media game, and played it well. They’re the biggest news out of Innotrans, despite the fact that they are one of at least 4 night trains exhibiting there that I’m aware of.
But not only that, a lot of the random photos I’ve seen as fillers for innotrans have their logo on it. For example, the hero image on this roundup: https://www.railin.net/es/noticias/flash/innotrans-2026-record-asistencia-expositores/
Their media blitz has been very successful, well done to their media team.
Now let’s see how they deal with the pushback on the airline-style seats, with their way-too-low “privacy” partitions
theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it.
Read more here: https://www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/vaccine-considerations/routine-guidance.html
Konstantin :coffefied:
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#Akademy2026 attendees convey ("konvey"?) in one word what KDE means to them.
Chip Butty
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Graeber & Wengrow argue that indigenous societies often *only* have property relations in the domain of the sacred, and that these typically come with a duty of care (not just a right to exclusivity and destruction).
It makes me wonder how we might (re)imagine copyright, if we started from this basis
Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable exception, as if software is somehow usually trustworthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.RfLT.x6YBjHa1PMz6
@mattblaze
"...as if software is somehow usually trustworthy."
You're probably familiar with the UK Post Office Horizon scandal where some people assumed software is trustworthy. It didn't end well for them (and unfortunately for a lot of innocent people as well).
Konstantin :coffefied:
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Hangin’ on the staircase (observing what the weird human is doing)
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
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@decryption is GNOME a distro or are you using Ubuntu or something?
@mittyoz GNOME is the desktop environment on linux - I chose Arch as the distro and GNOME as the "interface"
@mattrobertson pressure cooker mode is almost always better than slow cooker mode
@jpm yeah I usually use that but I thought all afternoon would be enough but no
