https://www.instagram.com/p/DR2h-5gCZQF/

by @WaHouseGOP

In the coming years, I expect to hear a whole lot of “Don’t blame me!! Gen AI did it! The AI dog ate my homework!!”

One of my biggest wishes right now is that we get crystal clarity, both legally and culturally, that if a computer system screws up (AI or otherwise) then that’s the responsibility of the people who •chose to use• the system.

Another day, another disappointment with something I may be interested in locked behind the data slurping moat of instagram.

Nope.

Is it really so hard to have publicly accessible information for your supposedly open to everyone event/business/etc?

@zachleat *phew*

🗓️ Save the date!
The next RSpace open source office hour takes place next month on June 17th at 3pm (CEST). If you'd like to showcase or discuss anything particular, let us know! Looking forward to seeing you there: https://github.com/rspace-os/community/blob/main/the%20rspace%20project/Guide/calendar.md

Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms.

To celebrate International Museum Day, here are some of our favorite recent discoveries that only emerged when the right person came along to make them,

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-keep-finding-major-discoveries-lurking-in-museum-backrooms #globalmuseum #museums #InternationalMuseumsDay

The DFW Support Committee stands in solidarity with the Spokane 3 as they begin their federal trial! These brave individuals are facing the same wave of political repression as the Prairieland Defendants for standing against ICE terrorism and the rising authoritarianism in our country. 

Emotion AI holds out the promise that leaders can bypass the need to inspire, motivate and educate employees so that their actions are aligned with company goals, and instead try to achieve this alignment through hyper-surveillance.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4171382/the-trouble-with-emotion-reading-ai.html

Protip if you're new to living in an estrogen system: if you feel grumpy/maudlin and you have the shits about once a month?

A little dark chocolate won't hurt.

so her thesis advisor takes credit for the precise formal semantics she fucking invented https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~calton/publications/sosp95.pdf

Second, Synthetix introduces the idea of incremental and optimistic specialization. Incremental specialization allows specialized modules to be generated and bound as the information on which they depend becomes available. Optimistic specialization allows modules to be generated for system states that are likely to occur, but not certain.

and of course he gets it completely fucking wrong

Just published a nanopublication to list all other nanopubs mentioning the Snakemake Workflow Management System: https://w3id.org/np/RAzeQbv1gXqKIuLic4xTP1gYRnL4YhU_5oRl62nbNl2Xk

Not yet sophisticated, but I am starting to like #SparQl 😉

#nanopub #Snakemake

Pretty sure this is the handbook given to all MAGA political candidates.

"Avec le slogan « Rallumer les lumières », l’extrême droite a dénoncé le « danger » des rues plongées dans le noir à La Flèche, dans la Sarthe, à Carcassonne et dans les villages de Gironde ou de la Vienne. Dans les grandes villes aussi, de Bordeaux à Poitiers en passant par Besançon et Lyon, ce discours a été porteur pour les adversaires conservateurs des maires écologistes qui se sont engagés à rétablir l’éclairage dès leur victoire acquise.

For #bird lovers, a friend published a book based on decades of research. Lorna is a material scientist and biologist.

> Listen to those birds of spring. Ever wonder how they do all they do? Fly hundreds of miles without tiring. Stay warm and dry on a lake in winter. Stealthily swoop down on unsuspecting prey at night.

> Lorna Gibson has—and she’s put it all down in “Birds Up Close,” her new book exploring birds’ remarkable abilities through the lens of an engineer.

https://dmse.mit.edu/news/an-engineers-guide-to-birds/

In Georgia, a Target of Trump’s Ire Defends Election Workers
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/georgia-raffensperger-trump-election-workers.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-newyorktimes

@cholling @njf @koos I guess it depends what you mean by fair. To me, an algorithm deprived of any knowledge of party affiliation or race or any other personal characteristics, considering only geography, not making “triangles or rectangles" but generally keeping neighborhoods together, will produce as fair an electoral process as can be expected. We’ve seen what happens when humans take charge.