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smol, sweary, baddie-bonking femme them
medium format Fujislut
approx. 70% legs by volume

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real fun timeline when you get to play «six degrees of JE» and find you and everyone in your profession ca. 2015 are <=2
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 AM
stop saying «conservative» when you mean «anti-humanist»
September 12, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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OTD 1999: #sunmicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Earlier this week, Peter Gutmann and @sten published a bombshell paper: The looked at all the reported factorization "breakthroughs" in quantum computing. And found that all of them essentially were magician's tricks, "sleight of hand".

The two reconstructed the algorithms used on a 1981 home […]
Original post on waldvogel.family
waldvogel.family
July 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
why is US healthcare so expensive?

I have a genetic iron-loading disorder that is managed with therapeutic phlebotomy. there is no end-date for this; I have to do it forever

before donating ~14% of my blood volume, I need an iron panel to see how saturated I am and avoid over-correcting into […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by marasawr
For those not in the know:
Amazon prices fluctuate all the time.

Once a year, Amazon hypes up "Prime Day", where they make your savings over **list price** jump out at you to trigger a psychological reaction that says "I need to buy this **now** (before […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
July 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
so many companies aggressively chucking people who are and engender deep wells of institutional knowledge into the proverbial woodchipper right now because pushers got senior leadership hooked on AI efficiency bath salts…

this is how organisations hollow themselves out of their capacity to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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there is no ethical AI in late stage capitalism
June 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Protest is an AND, not an OR. Your voice is more than your vote, it is the strength of belief to *demonstrate* your convictions

Vote, yes, but also riot, write, dance, and speak. It’s how we tell each other we aren’t alone in those convictions
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114729400303282992
Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image Gen Z is about to experience the futility of protests that Gen X experienced 22 years ago. The way to create change is voting. Protesting is just slightly above writing mean tweets in influencing U.S. government policy. Slightly.
mas.to
June 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
ah yes, nothing more fiscally responsible than chucking $20M bombs at brown folks in the name of freedom

fuck this country – we learn *nothing*

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-iran-war-latest-06-21-2025-894a8cfb8bf2c1b717e0a955f22b91e0
The Latest: Trump claims US military struck 3 sites in Iran, joining Israeli effort
Friday’s talks between European ministers and Iran’s top diplomat, which aimed at de-escalating the fighting between the two adversaries, failed to produce a breakthrough.
apnews.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:58 AM
18V power tool platforms sound like a great idea until you find yourself drilling & driving hardware mounts for *30* windows

my delts better look polyhedral after this 🦾
June 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
surprise hot yoga forges powerful bonds. like you *think* you have close friends, but how many of them know what your sweat tastes like?

(HVAC has been busted in the studio at my climbing gym for over a week now and the weather is tropical swamp)
June 20, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Mānawatia a Matariki: Happy Māori New Year #aotearoa #newzealand
June 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
just going to leave this here as an explanation for why nobody who opted out of this theft, grift, and crime-driven dystopian arms race «lost» shit.¹

I look forward to the sector and discipline-specific models with actual integrity and safeguards that rise from the ashes. more modestly sized – […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
June 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Reposted by marasawr
Former Secretaries of the Navy and Army and retired 4 star generals have filed a strong amicus brief in California’s lawsuit to block U.S. Marines from streets of L.A. and declare his federalization of the Cal national guard unlawful. Full brief at […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
June 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Olaf’s cancer journey is a stark reminder that malignancy truly is the APT to end them all

you don’t know «sophisticated» until you know tumour micro-environments. they completely rewire cell metabolism, alter local pH to suppress immune function, hijack platelets for cloaking and metastasis… […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
June 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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June 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
5 wks ago my boy Olaf received a shock cancer diagnosis – stage III/IV tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma, which comes with poor prognosis and a median survival time of ~100 days

3 wks ago an incredible surgical team removed his left tonsil, its 2 cm tumour […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Crypto did not solve a single non-criminal problem that technologies like M-PESA (2007) and basic non-repudiation had not already solved

LLMs are being used to both amplify criminal harms enabled by crypto *and* breed entire categories of novel socio-economic harm

Their unique harms are bad […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
May 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
in more hopeful moments I like to think that reckless use of LLMs in professional settings will become the equivalent of hanging a sign around one’s neck reading «NO SKILLS, NO INTEGRITY»
May 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pick your favourite LLM and ask it a tightly bounded, quantitative research question

Then, add something like «Provide MLA formatted citations with their corresponding DOI numbers for the published human and animal studies from which you made your observations.»

Then, verify that each result's […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
May 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
who knew a degree programme obsessed with provenance and visual pattern recognition would set me up to be so OP in technical fields

(it was an arts degree; my undergrad is in art history. rip that AI screener out of your HR org and send it back to the hell it came from)
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
losing rule-of-law alongside the inspectibility of technologies sold to laypeople to *make decisions* is the kind of 1-2 punch any editor worth their salt would send back to the author for a rework with «calm tf down» scrawled across the margins in red pen
May 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM