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Re: The last part of the above quote, i.e. "Too often in this industry hardware is used to solve software problems."

This one will be quickly coming home to roost in the coming year(s)... Regardless of other Moore's Law aspects losing validity (or past tense already), the "law" also never […]
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mastodon.thi.ng
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"Scientists flew drones equipped with special kit through the exhaled droplets, or "blows", made when the giants come up to breathe through their blowholes.

They detected a highly infectious virus linked to mass strandings of whales and dolphins worldwide." […]
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mastodon.social
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Someone I met recently just published this book:

“Hidden Influences: How algorithmic recommenders shape our lives”

https://www.manning.com/books/hidden-influences

#books
Hidden Influences - Luca Belli
You don’t choose what you see on the internet. Algorithms choose for you. We spend 12 billion hours a day browsing the internet. And in the background, sophisticated recommender systems silently decide what appears on our feeds, what we click next, and what we think we want. These invisible algorithms direct our entertainment, news, shopping, friendships, dates—even our sense of identity. Algorithmic recommender systems are some of the internet’s most closely guarded secrets. Hidden Influences pulls back the curtain, showing why they’re so seductive and how they influence your beliefs, desires, and behavior. This book tells you how they work and gives you tools to reclaim your agency. Dr Luca Belli, co-founder and former research lead for Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team, has been on the front lines of how recommender systems work and impact society. In Hidden Influences, he lays out who uses this powerful technology to shape our world, and exactly how they do it.
www.manning.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
“On December 17, Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo of the Wall Street Journal reported that senators led by Ron Wyden (D-OR), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, wrote to the Justice Department and asked officials to explain why law enforcement officials never interviewed […]
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mastodon.social
December 27, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)

(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)

#footpathfriday #forestfriday […]

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December 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The documentation for this image processing library is one of the most interesting things I've read in weeks:

https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/personal.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/README.md
https://github.com/celoyd/potato/blob/main/docs/concepts.md […]
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infosec.exchange
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Update: Very happy how uniform this print turned out... Still waiting for more chems to arrive which should help with getting deeper tones/contrast.

(Ps. See other replies in this thread for more context explanations of the physics sim used to create this form...)
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Many people don’t realize their TVs are spying on them.

HT Cyberwire

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cyberwire-daily/id1071831261?i=1000741745030 #podcast

Texas is suing […]
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mastodon.social
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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The new Zygote issue 39 is featuring stunning art by Kate MccGwire[1] and articles about:

Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery
Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come
Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly
Interview with […]

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December 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hmm. Far right groups aligning with Russia. In Germany this time. In the US as well.

It’s surprising how hungry some people are for the boot, but the boot eventually gets around to crushing everybody […]
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mastodon.social
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Hmm, i guess I'm not going that way to pick up my dad at the airport. 😂 😬

#flooding
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Jesus Christ I built my computer at the right time last month. My ram prices were 40% of this.
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us […]
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mas.to
December 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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A this photo from yesterday's location scouting could fit for #thicktrunktuesday , right?

It's been quite a time since I went to a new location with the clear intent of location scouting. - It took me a while until I was able to "see" something as I was so […]

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December 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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giving side-eye to certain tech executives for giving ketamine a bad name

look. it's not the ketamine. it's their values and beliefs doing that
December 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
“iNaturalist now hosts more than 250 million observations from nearly 4 million users, including over 159 million research-grade records spanning more than 500,000 species…Rediscoveries like that of C. caryatrypes—once dependent on specialized fieldwork—now emerge through global participatory […]
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mastodon.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The last two reasons are easily explained by a person taking the letter and mailing it for him from VA (right next to DC, a train ride away).

The returned letter was received by the correct jail, despite the wrong-address claims.

It would have been trivial for Epstein to have mailed an […]
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mastodon.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Oh great, M$ is doing “replace all” in their codebase and measuring people’s productivity on lines of fucking code again. Will they never learn.

I guess one lucky IC5 (and billions of users) are about to find out how good “code understanding” by LLMs really is at Microsoft […]
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mastodon.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch) on Threads
This was a very strange thing for him to lie about
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December 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is called “context collapse” and @andrewhinton has written a helpful book about “Understanding Context” when designing systems. https://bookshop.org/p/books/understanding-context-environment-language-and-information-architecture-andrew-hinton/a18c13d67a04f7b2 […]
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mastodon.social
December 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM