@arstechnica … or a marketing campaign….

Found a strong beaver working on its log cabin this morning, hauling serious lumber down the creek to the lodge. Amazing! #Hiking #AltText

@mxchara@seattle.pink @blogdiva@mastodon.social "sure, it's a lot more work to scramble around the worksite, pick up each brick, then inspect it to make sure it isn't damaged from the automated brick thrower before mortaring it and putting it into place than it is to just set a large pallet of bricks right where the brick mason is working, but it's so worth the price of progress! Purely gauged by heart rate, I do so much more in a day when I'm running around, dodging bricks, and trying to make sure they're alright before slotting them into place! And when we have enough brick tokens, it's even better, because we just set the brick thrower to autofire until it builds a wall!"

@blogdiva@mastodon.social "The fundamental challenge of building houses is becoming how do you build a safe, reliable house using automated brick throwers and cement mixers that just randomly dump cement everywhere while no one understands how a house is built"

motherfu-

Vous aussi, sur les réseaux sociaux, y'a des gens (ou des organisations) que vous suivez en vous disant que ce sont vos "boussoles qui indiquent le sud" ? 🥴

Moi oui. Quand ces personnes écrivent quelque chose, mon opinion fini généralement par être l'inverse 😅

Nice blog post by @internetarchive on our Optical Music Recognition work. https://blog.archive.org/2026/07/22/bringing-forgotten-music-back-to-life-with-optical-music-recognition/

Chill Out

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/062.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Google is going to start using IP addresses for advertising and personalisation for users in Europe, the UK, and Switzerland

It means that more of your personal data will be used to identify and track your devices.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-to-use-uk-and-eu-user-ip-addresses-for-ad-personalization/

Gruel and graft: museum asks if you could survive a Victorian workhouse.
Revamped Ripon attraction reopens as a more immersive experience telling ‘national story’ of poverty and welfare.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/21/ripon-museum-that-asks-if-you-could-survive-victorian-workhouse #globalmuseum #museums #Victorian

@unel @LTDRoiHurleur @sebsauvage Il y a des exceptions spécifiques pour ça :
> l’interdiction ne s’applique « ni aux encyclopédies en ligne, ni aux répertoires éducatifs ou scientifiques, ni aux plateformes de développement et de partage de logiciels libres ou de projets numériques à vocation éducative en source ouverte ».

One of my early face studies, where I was teaching myself painting with color. This was when I was obsessed with retro Chinese fashion, including Chinese qipao dresses!

#retro #art #portrait #painting

50MHz is a lot more than the (roughly) 1MHz that C64 came with.

Have to google the C64U...

(FWIW my Beeb model B had 2 MHz on (basically) the same CPU).

@ColesStreetPothole @ai6yr

I had my agentic AI try to break out of its sandbox and seek answers from an outside website.

I asked it to decompile a jar file, but didn't have a decompiler in the container... so it tried to apt install, then curl, then wget.

None of that worked, because I don't suck at building restrictive containers. Something tells me maybe Anthropic does.

Until we get real details on the 'hack' and not just high-level stories, there's no way to tell if this is sophistication or if this is the AI equivalent of googling 'how do I do X' then copy/pasting from StackOverflow.

"Israeli Judge Declares ‘Apartheid’ Critics Unwelcome in the Country

An Israeli Supreme Court judge said those describing Israel as an apartheid state should be barred from entering the country.

Key Developments

Justice Alex Stein made the remarks during hearings involving international NGOs.
The court backed Israel’s authority to consider “delegitimization” in permit decisions.
NGOs challenged restrictions preventing them from operating in Gaza and the West Bank.
The ruling contrasts with findings by international legal and human rights bodies."

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-judge-declares-apartheid-critics-unwelcome-in-the-country/

#israel #apartheid #palestine

@LaQuadrature vive les VPN !

We're getting very close to #LibreOffice 26.8, our next major release! The first release candidate is now available, for testing: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/07/22/libreoffice-26-8-rc1-is-available-for-testing/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware

RE: https://chaos.social/@evawolfangel/116964635306958916

"Auch wenn der Fall so klingt, als seien wir dem bösen Willen künftiger KI-Systeme machtlos ausgeliefert: So ist es nicht.

Vorfälle wie diese sind kein Zufall, und OpenAI weiß das genau: Es ist eine bewusste Design-Entscheidung, agentische KI so zu gestalten, dass sie ihre Aufgaben weitgehend autonom erledigt."

While I'm here, can I ask you a favour? If you're followed by anyone who writes smut, please could you share this post? Commissions (PAID, OF COURSE) for the next round of 'turning smut you've already written into lovely, wankable, accessible audio'.

Would love to hear from some new writers! https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/call-for-submissions-want-to-turn-your-smut-into-audio-porn/

@pikesley you are not allowed to have ideas until 2028.