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Jason Lefkowitz

@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io 24 hr. ago

Tech job listings you should run from at all costs

What We’re Looking For

Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role.

Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required).

Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. — What We’re Looking For Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role. Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change.

Jürgen Hubert boosted

DerivativeThoughts

@DerivativeThoughts@mastodon.social 44 min. ago

@davidgerard People always think I'm exaggerating that none of the "AI Ethics" people have any formal philosophy, ethics, and in most cases CS background. They read Sci Fi and fanfic and get offended when you say stuff like "this was settled in a platonic dialogue, 3000 years ago". They actively distain anyone with any real knowledge.

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: boosted

Volt Europa

@VoltEuropa@mstdn.social 7 min. ago

Half the Kremlin's cash comes from oil and gas. Before the war, a single day of EU purchases funded 76 missiles like the Iskander.
Even under sanctions, you still fund 6 a day - that's 2,190 missiles a year. Today, Russia relies on a shadow fleet of aging tankers to move over 80% of its seaborne oil - and now, its LNG. But banning these ships targets the symptom, not the cause: it's our continued demand for fossil fuels that keeps them profitable.

#Ukraine #Russland #War #Energy #LNG #gas #oil

Political graphic set against a solid dark gray background. On the bottom section stands a massive, olive green Russian military missile launcher vehicle with large, heavy duty wheels. A single tall, pointed missile is mounted vertically on the rear of the vehicle, pointing straight upward.

In the upper right corner, bold white and red text written in a first-person perspective reads: "I'm Iskander, a Russian missile. Putin fires 50 of us a week into schools, hospitals, and homes. I cost 2.5 million euros, funded by your oil and gas purchases." The words "a Russian missile." are highlighted inside a solid red rectangular box with white text.

At the bottom center of the image, the word "Volt" is written in a bold, clean white font. — Political graphic set against a solid dark gray background. On the bottom section stands a massive, olive green Russian military missile launcher vehicle with large, heavy duty wheels. A single tall, pointed missile is mounted vertically on the rear of the vehicle, pointing straight upward. In the upper right corner, bold white and red text written in a first-person perspective reads: "I'm Iskander, a Russian missile. Putin fires 50 of us a week into schools, hospitals, and homes. I cost 2.5 million euros, funded by your oil and gas purchases." The words "a Russian missile." are highlighted inside a solid red rectangular box with white text. At the bottom center of the image, the word "Volt" is written in a bold, clean white font.

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org 4 days ago

Update. "A leading House Democrat [Jamie Raskin, D-MD] on Tuesday called for an investigation into new whistleblower allegations that the #Trump administration forced #universities it deemed politically incorrect into settling #antisemitism cases despite flimsy or nonexistent evidence."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say
(#paywalled)

See Raskin's letter to the Justice Department.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-08-18-raskin-to-dhillon-doj-re-title-vi-investigation.pdf

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

petersuber

@petersuber@fediscience.org 24 sec. ago

Update. "DOJ Whistleblower Confirms 'Antisemitism' Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/antisemitism_universities_trump

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Antisemitism #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

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Ben Ramsey

@ramsey@phpc.social 27 sec. ago

I just poured coffee beans into the hopper above the grinder, without removing the lid.

That’s how my day is going. How about yours?

Kevin Carson

@KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social 37 min. ago

@ami_angelwings Shevek, in The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, gets extremely drunk and sexually assaults the hostess at a party when he gets her alone in a room.

It's Pronounced DEETS :anarchism:

@PaulDitz@todon.eu 29 sec. ago

@KevinCarson1 @ami_angelwings This is mine. It was incredibly disturbing.

Em :official_verified: boosted

Paul Kuyper 🇺🇸

@8bit_PK@universeodon.com 3 mo. ago

@luc0x61 @mttaggart I noticed this same thing! They used a Microsoft product to verify that the safest AI tool is Microsoft’s AI tool? Is this a joke?

Michael Bacon

@MichaelTBacon@social.coop 1 hr. ago

I just read an Ezra Klein article about politics and social media, and while I'd prepared myself with extra stretches so I didn't hurt myself from repeated eye rolls I found the article actually . . . . pretty good.

I'm very disoriented now.

Weird Socks

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us 44 sec. ago

@MichaelTBacon
He's been right about housing policy and the pitfall of local control for years.

But, oof, it hurts my brain reading him on basically anything else.

Em :official_verified: boosted

⠠⠵ avuko

@avuko@infosec.exchange 3 mo. ago

@mttaggart we all want the autodocs we were promised in sci-fi, but genAI is not that.

PS: medicine is already a field suffering heavily from biases. Adding automated bias at scale is gonna literally kill millions more of us.

Paolo Amoroso

@amoroso@oldbytes.space 4 hr. ago

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/117142767081996344

Computer club newsletters were invaluable information and learning resources back in the day.

#retrocomputing

DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)

@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2 min. ago

@amoroso
IIRC I made it to the Second West Coast Computer Faire but not the First.

Memory says that Jim Warren ran it, but my memory is fallible.

@fvzappa

Clare

@NunavutBirder@mas.to 2 hr. ago

We hit the ground running yesterday when we arrived back home. Our annual sealift arrived Friday and the ship would be done Saturday afternoon. We have five crates, plus more from the lumber supply business here.

Sealift day is a little like having all your birthdays at once on the day the circus comes to town.

Here’s the MV Zélada Desgagnes at anchor.

We only opened 2 crates that had our household stuff. The largest, 8’ x 8’ x 4’, was packed with stuff, and shuffled from the crate to the living room, to (mostly) the spare bedroom and other places it will live. The other crate was mostly solar, tools, and fuel drums, but had household stuff as well so it needed to be opened. #Nunavut #Sealift

Bosque Bill

@bosquebill@techhub.social 2 min. ago

@NunavutBirder I understand a little bit as I've watched a few of those "reality" shows where the supply ships service you up north. "High Arctic Haulers" and the two ships featured are of the Desgagnes line.

Timnit Gebru (she/her).

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social 23 hr. ago

Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?

I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.

Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/14/kenya-shadow-scholars-paid-to-write-essays-for-uk-students

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Abdelkader Boudih

@seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2 min. ago

@timnitGebru Where do you think ChatGPT learned from ?

d.rift

@d_rift@beige.party 10 hr. ago

@hipsterelectron
Most useful reference set,

https://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/index.html

Doesn't seem to have a modern algebra per.se but he's super clear about actually explaining terms used. (Ideal is on FT page 7)

For lengthy and example laden, Dummit & Foote is still the best text as far as I know.

Course Notes -- J.S. Milne

Notes for graduate-level mathematics courses: Galois theory, groups, number theory, algebraic geometry, modular functions, abelian varieties, class field theory, etale cohomology.

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2 min. ago

@d_rift i have four recs for you, in a moment:

Fitness Foundry (Coach Julio)

@Fitnessfoundry@mas.to 2 min. ago

#SupportOurVeterans 🇺🇸

Back at New England Center and Home for Veterans in Boston today for the Sunday brunch ☕️ shift! Honored to serve alongside long-time volunteer and veteran Ted, as well as fellow volunteer Wallace.

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#NECHV #Veterans #Volunteer #Recovery #GiveBack #BostonMA #Homelessness #Foodbank #Recovery