Reminder that this is happening in about 3 hours - you can register at the link below but it'll also be added to their YouTube channel later on.

How to fight back against Big Tech.

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/disobey-talk-series

Or you could just knock them off and stamp on them by mistake.

Happy birthday to Danish #seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer #womanInScience, a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.⁠
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As she first postulated, the earth has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core & solid inner core. 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/72525124

#printmaking #sciArt #geophysics #histsci #mastoArt

“It's making me dumber for sure,” the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.”
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15

https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in-python-3-14-and-3-15/107014

#HackerNews #Python #GC #Incremental #Reversion #Python314 #Python315 #DeveloperNews

Starting from tomorrow, Transitous will gain real-time delay information in Denmark.

The official SIRI endpoint required some extra code as it uses a custom subscription layer.

@dinozombie Was reminded of this clip when I saw this random old dude doing a kickflip yesterday https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSkaters/comments/1tbhsyb/first_kickflip_since_substantial_injury_58yo/

#WordWeavers 5/13
What role does non-romantic love play in your story?

It's a fairly major driver for the story, if a subtle one. So far it is most obvious with Iberto, but all the Called love their goddes and are driven to save them by that love.

@vzhadan tell me more! How did you pick this instance? What about the theme interests you?

All done! Very attentive group and many great questions - including what do I think about the NHS backing away from Open Source as a response to cybersecurity threats. I had the opportunity to channel @Edent in my response.

About to give a talk to the scariest audience imaginable: teenagers.

@ApostateEnglishman @toxi

English likes to do it with abbreviations https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116560821289106894

@dgsi @Kalytis

Ca, c'est le début de l'entrainement, pour les futures missions spéciales.

I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

@cthos @miss_rodent DNSholing Google devices only works if you also block outgoing 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 at the router.

[edited to add: I know both of y'all know that, just saying for the folks following along at home, and as a gripe that I have to do the chore of blocking those outgoing routes]

If you want to hear @alex and I talking about the book, we've collected a (partial) list of podcast appearances here:

https://thecon.ai/news

@sylvia_ritter
Wow... Beautiful ! Congrats

@emilymbender @alex Yay!! Happy Bookbirthday!

Meet ✨️️ Resolute Raccoon ✨️, the unyielding problem solver. 🗝️ 🌿
Created with Krita and Blender within 56 days. Inspired by the Ubuntu release name 26.04 LTS.

#art #mastoart #fediart #raccoon #animals #krita #blender3d #digitalArt #noai #nature #night #rust #linux #wallpaper