Teaser:
This #Plushtodon, a recent immigrant to Canada, is checking out our Mastodon feed. How did they get my password?
They are excitedly looking for updates on how our community is convincing politicians to dump U.S. based social media and join the #Fediverse. It's almost like they have a vested interest in your activities and efforts. Hmm....
#MastodonCanada #MastoCanadaGOV #DigitalSovereignty #Technology
This article on meaningless corporate jargon is also relevant for academia in the age of the "running a university like a business" nonsense
"Researching BS also points out the importance of critical thinking for everyone, inside the workplace and out. "
“Most of us, in the right situation, can get taken in by language that sounds sophisticated but isn’t"
news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/…
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.Cornell Chronicle
it drives me batty to see Very Smart People™️ get taken in by #corpospeak who would absolutely skewer the same person for suggesting the wrong statistical test.
"You're right! Maybe the problem IS junior faculty not working hard enough. Not a changing work force with less money."
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Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/…
<- new research from Cornell, supplying evidence to what many have surely known for decades
Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.Cornell Chronicle
Last year trip to #Japan. #Nara.
The #film is expired #Kodak #Vision2 250D, camera: #NikonF65, lens: #Nikkor AF-S #35mm f/1.8G
#photo #photography #FilmPhotography
#autumn #city #outdoors
#street #StreetPhotography
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
RE: infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancak…
I have been watching this story simmer for several days. I've been wary of it. It fits too neatly into the criticisms and warnings many of us have been raising. But it's starting to look like, yes, they are using an LLM to make critical decisions.
At the same time I have heard parts of speeches from the US Secretary of War.* I have been dismayed by his shallow thinking. It doesn't help that his speeches also sound like they are also composed by an LLM.
*formerly Defense
Please, please stop supporting gen AI companies. It’s not worth it. futurism.com/artificial-intell…Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target
Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target
Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
Alex Trebek Stamps | USPS.com
Remember the beloved host of the television quiz show Jeopardy! with the new Alex Trebek stamp from the U.S. Postal Service®store.usps.com
Who says gaming needs chaos? Steam has plenty of chill Linux picks worth your time. 🎮
itsfoss.com/non-violent-games-…
Best Non-Violent Games Available on Steam for Linux Users
This one is for the nonchalant Linux gamers in the house.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Stuff like this is infinitely more impressive to me than any AI music, no matter how advanced and complicated the model. Human brainpower is vastly underrated.
youtube.com/shorts/jjRbLpnA_0w
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
Thanks to international time zones, it’s still #Caturday in Mexico. Here’s Parsley the cat, looking at me disapprovingly for trying to take a photo of him being cute, he’s got a reputation to keep.
#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #FediCats
theguardian.com/science/2026/j…
Primates’ same-sex sexual behaviour ‘may reinforce bonds amid environmental stress’
Behaviour among non-human species could help keep groups together in face of social challenges, says studyNicola Davis (The Guardian)
ZOMG!!!! Britain WINS this year's Eurovision Song Contest ALREADY!
like this
Another year as the Wattle Fairy Godmother!
My outfit isn't as tidy this year because I didn't want to freeze to death in the morning, but had to be prepared for a hot afternoon.
like this
Deforestation Shifts Tree Species in Brazilian Forests
Deforestation in Brazilian forests causes shift towards fast-growing, small-seeded trees, threatening biodiversity, carbon storage. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
I'm behind on this, but the winners of the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest last week were all great. If you're looking for a quick, delightful diversion, check them out!
New Rebecca Solnit book: The Beginning Comes After the End
like this
me when i spend twenty minutes writing an optimised version of a function only to discover that my """optimisations""" have created a 45% slowdown
(aside: this was my first time tracing something with shading. it's still tracing, of course, but now i know how to do basic shading. all my drawings (digital paintings? ePaintings?) until now have been flat colours, save for textured clothes and hair, so that's a pretty decent improvement! oh, and here's the reference image)
Ren & Stimpy Waking Up Scene
Ren & Stimpy Waking Up Scene or Ralph Bakshi Wakes Up refers to a Ren & Stimpy “Adult Party Cartoon” scene of fire chief Ralph Bakshi waking up and staring into nothingness.Philipp (Know Your Meme)
@matdevdug: "...there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."
matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-…
Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter.Mathew Duggan (matduggan.com)
In the country which cannot afford healthcare for its own people, Trump is spending $2 billion per day on an unnecessary war with Iran. Billion… with a B.
RE: mastodon.online/@rakekniven/11…
The result tells me it's still a long way to go before #Passkeys are established. There are enthusiasts among you, but the majority do not use them.
Thank you for joining in. #keepassXC #nextcloud
rakekniven 👁️ (@rakekniven@mastodon.online)
A survey for all users of the password manager #KeePassXC : How many #Passkeys do you have already in your vault(s)? Tagging #nextcloud as well as many users have their vault in their private cloud. Please retoot.rakekniven 👁️ (Mastodon)
Luna says Happy #Baturday.
Also, she heard that you said you love her and she says “mutual I’m sure” as if she were a background dancer in the White Christmas movie.
#BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry
![a blog comment where someone says: Mark: devising one fairly impractical encryption scheme and then rejecting it isn't really strong grounds for rejecting the idea of encryption. [smiley emoji but absolutely incredibly enormous]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1411852 "a blog comment where someone says: Mark: devising one fairly impractical encryption scheme and then rejecting it isn't really strong grounds for rejecting the idea of encryption. [smiley emoji but absolutely incredibly enormous]")
Manet's famous painting Un Bar aux Folies-Bergère never appealed to me. But now I realize its genius, and my spine tingles every time I see it.
The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view!
But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible!!! To prove it, he did a photographic reconstruction of this scene. Check it out in my next post.
This blows my mind.
(1/3)
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
@neauoire we should show them some support.
internet-janitor.itch.io/wiggl…
Please don't fall for scams!
I recently published an article on my personal blog about the history of WigglyPaint, how it works internally, and my feelings regarding the flood of unscrupulous websites and mobile apps which have s...Internet Janitor (itch.io)
@neauoire@merveilles.town The deeper I go the more it feels like a fever dream: wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxntal_lo…
I think my Toki Pona book is on the same shelf as my Oberon book.
I was an Oberon fan/user back in the v2 and v4 days. I remember reading some code from the University of Linz that was in German and it was the first time I realized that programming didn't need to be in English, that there was really no reason it couldn't be in someone's native language as long as there was a character set for it. I think Oberon had always been at least Latin-1, and at the time I heard through the grapevine that there were Russian variants, probably lost to time now.
Then, stubbing my toe on Plan 9 and Unicode.
And now, I have to admit, wondering what tal would look like mapped to Maya script. 😂 But the Toki Pona rabbit hole will do for now.
wiki.xxiivv.com/site/solresol
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