@promovicz i promise i'm not hating on you personally but i absolutely fucking hate the word information theory it just makes me too pissed off to use about my own work anymore. reading this paper about how much simpler kolmogorov's model had been for decades with painstaking work to piece together the pieces bell labs shit out was so important to me https://projecteuclid.org/ebooks/berkeley-symposium-on-mathematical-statistics-and-probability/Proceedings-of-the-Fourth-Berkeley-Symposium-on-Mathematical-Statistics-and/chapter/Mathematical-Problems-in-the-Shannon-Theory-of-Optimal-Coding-of/bsmsp/1200512168.pdf

@Floppy As a software engineer, I just now had to look up what this was in reference to, I assume neovim? I do not think a tiny handful of people running completely forgettable projects should be suggested to represent MANY ACTUALLY important projects...

I've never used neovim. I don't know anyone that has ever used neovim. That isn't critical infrastructure. It's one of the tiny blocks on the upper right corner supporting literally nothing.

#WritersCoffeeClub Aug. 28: How do we defend ourselves as artists when the arts are devalued?

Counter-attack. Mock, belittle, satirise, and despise the individuals and movements trying to devalue art. And carry on making great art despite their idiocy.

Couples who haunt together, stay together.

NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks.

“They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-calls-camp-east-montana-texas-detention?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TX #Immigration #ICE #Emergency #Medicine #Health

In a world of J. K. Rowling’s, be a #DollyParton

I couldn’t care less she said she was not political. Her actions spoke louder than any verbal declaration. She would pay for trans individuals to get their surgery and more.

@h30x @blackRAT @paul_denton Aaaah je suis enfin d'accord avec toi sur un truc 😄

Auf 150 Feedback-Zetteln nach dem Zeltlager tauchte ein Wort kein einziges Mal auf: Handy.

Und auch nicht der Wunsch nach mehr Kontakt zu den Eltern.

In einer Umfrage mit den Eltern selbst, klang das plötzlich ganz anders, erzählt Bent Freiwald:
https://krautreporter.de/kinder-und-bildung/6513-es-ist-gut-wenn-eltern-nicht-immer-wissen-wie-es-ihren-kindern-geht?shared=8c67b898-ffd3-47f8-92be-a2a23da0b19d&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=mastodon.social

A ghostly dog haunts the down of Schwerte.

#PhantomsFriday
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Club_Dog

A dataset of article processing charges from 14 scholarly publishers, 2019-2025 https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14116

@david_chisnall Not even that would convince Americans to clean properly with a bidet.

@cwebber more back on this https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/

Query: if the Affordability Crisis is hitting you and your household like a freight train, slide into my DMs.

I'm looking for folks who'd be willing to talk with local media in these markets:

IL
VA
PA
NM
NY

Particularly if you are:
A parent
A working mom
An Independent voter
Someone who uses child care or provides elder care
If you need paid family leave
Or someone just trying to make ends meet

Slide into my DMs.
Please.

@David Ça pourrait être sympa de recommencer à zéro.
Et c'est pas une question de filtrer des trucs précis, juste d'avoir un peu moins, là des fois c'est un peu fastidieux quand y'a une grosse actu

The topic for my next regular Monday national network radio tech segment may be the controversies surrounding Flock. This isn't 100% set yet, and may be bumped for a different topic depending on the current news.