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This. So fucking this. https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdA33wRd/ #FreeGaza

#RStats gurus, I have a deep question for you: Should it be possible for a DOTSXP object have a "names" attribute? If so, what does this actually indicate? This feels like #ggplot2 has badly constructed a meaningless object - but it might just be a deep magic […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

In 9 days new bills arrive for the servers, media storage and emails send At this moment I am still a massive 660 euros short for this month (estimate) and that worries me a loot.. 😟 If you can and would like to help me out in paying these bills you can so via: https://paypal.me/stuxOS […]

LAPD shoot US woman with a rubber bullet for trying to get into her home, they were blocking her entrance and there was no protest in sight. “Holy fuck — They literally just shot her point blank… I live here…” ( www.tiktok.com/@labyrinthlore) #3E #StopICE

One thing that strikes me while correcting exams: students have way more difficulties writing down a coherent thought on an exam than they used to. And I'm talking master level, so they should be able to formulate a scientific argument. On the exam, they can't use text generators, and it […]

The more I learn about atmospheric chemistry, the more terrified and angry I am about satellite companies' blatant lack of consideration for how their actions will harm the atmosphere. I hope this gets a lot of press. Great work by a whole team of scientists, including @astrokiwi.bsky.social! […]

News report from Philadelphia where a criminal is posing as ICE assaulted and robbed a woman. Good luck visiting this lawless land for a holiday, where anybody with a mask and a tactical vest can abduct you off the street and everyone else is supposed to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

And so the enshittification of ChatGPT begins. CMOs are now looking for ways to game those large language model algorithms. After all, millions of people are now turning to ChatGPT for advice and uncritically accepting what it says as true. So if […] [Original post on gts.sadauskas.id.au]

The Freedom Flotilla „Madleen” is projected to arrive in just a few hours at a coast in Gaza. If anything happens to @gretathunberg or the other activists, the international community will never forgive the current Israeli government for it. I wish and pray for your best, keep being the voice […]

Paramilitary forces engage protesters near an ICE raid at a Home Depot in Los Angeles County. KABC TV live stream: https://abc7.com/watch/live/

*facepalm* And that's why we pester neighbourhoods by taking away their water and energy supplies? to run these yuuge dung machines? FFS

All this goes to show that men are WAY too emotional to be trusted with positions of power. We can’t afford people susceptible to #testeria at these levels of government.

"I paid hundreds of millions of dollars to get a child rapist's friend elected" is not the flex you think it is, Elon.

"They're coming for every second of your life ... they don't even consciously ... they went public and have to grow ... they are now trying to colonize every minute of your life. Every free moment you have is a moment you could be looking on your phone and they could be gathering info to throw […]

130 Days of Musk — Elizabeth Warren’s scathing report • Added $100B net worth • +7B in DoD contracts • WH Tesla showroom • Starlink gets FAA, DoD contracts • AI bots replace fed workers • CFPB, NLRB gutted • 40+ probes dropped • FAA, NASA execs replaced • […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

While the west was insisting that "climate change won't all be that fast" and "there is no alternative to drill drill drill" China is doing what we've been talking about : innovating. We're left behind, and we won't catch up soon […]

If anyone on here IS or KNOWS any Native American singers (professional or semi-professional) please introduce me! I am in need of their advice and a possible work-for-hire opportunity! #NativeAmerican #Singer #Vocalist #MusicProducer

I get lots of emails from people wanting help with math and physics, ranging from students needing advice to completely deranged crackpots. Lately I'm getting a lot of crackpots who say they developed their theories with the help of AI. It gets worse. Check […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

There are four high-quality gravitational wave detectors in the world: one in Italy, one in Japan, and the two LIGO observatories in the US. The Trump gang's new proposed NSF budget would kill one of the LIGO sites. While the LIGO sites were expensive and […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Insane.. The plan of the US gov to buy a shit ton of #Bitcoin over the upcoming years was actually a "plan" of the hardcore Bitcoin nuts At first they where anti-govt but knowing that if the gov buys a LOT of BTC, they will become instantly rich since the price will go up massively It's not a […]

The interesting part is the description of his work experience and disillusion. And the link to #AI : they both siphoned a bunch of data to train models and used AI to make management decisions. If you wonder why so many govt services are worse off after #DOGE passed […]

Ik heb een tijd geleden een oplossing gezocht om onze elektrische boiler enkel te laten werken wanneer de zon schijnt. Ik ben daardoor op bChain smarthome gebotst, en ben super tevreden. Dat ding werkt, is betrekkelijk eenvoudig te installeren en je hebt geen apps en abonnementen en andere […]

https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114580690532276477 busted paywall: https://archive.ph/v59jp

I'm following Bob Henson and Dr. Jeff Masters now for a good 8 years, and they are my go-to source of information during #hurricane #season . Alas, their blog suffers from "budget limitations ... as the philanthropy world tries to make sense of the new administration." So if you can spare a […]

Found an interesting channel on #youtube , called FramingLogic. He has an interesting technique to dissect logical fallacies to show how manipulators trick their audience. Here's him dissecting a famous food guru that claims carrots aren't food. Yes, it sounds weird. Trust me, it's better than […]

The server- media and email bills are all in and currently I am short a massive €304 :sad_cat: 😿 Soon I'll have talks with someone from the Fedi❤️ for maybe new hosting for all services locally within the NL for a lot better price! yay! Please, if you can and want, help me out with these bills […]

A cool observation of a hunting bird adapting their tactics to the signal of the pedestrian crossing. Nature nrver ceases to amaze me. #biology #birds #nature #Science https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ethology/articles/10.3389/fetho.2025.1539103/full

Today I learned that there are two (2) separate and distinct Teva sandal companies. There is the Israeli Teva Naot brand and the not-Israeli (owned by Decker Outdoors of Goleta, CA) Teva brand. I am sharing in case this is useful information for anyone else in the market for sandals.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion" Quotes: "Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing […]

Just heard ecologist Thomas Crowther talk about biocomplexity instead of #biodiversity and now I'm mad we didn't do that decades ago. #ecology #biology #nature #natureConservation https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L_f-XPwqIms

This morning I cried a little after seying Dianna Cowern actually walking around. She's known as #physicsgirl a science communicator on youtube, and has been debilitated by the consequences of COVID for over 2 years. #LongCovid #mecfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeIeIcDHD0

I have a few transgender acquaintences, both online and in real life. The discussions about mass suicide they have now within their community, are harrowing. Check in on them. Stand with them. Please.

Harvard Crimson - The Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll international students. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/23/trump-admin-revokes-sevp/

Very insightful read on how the #AI hype in science overestimates its capabilities and why this happens. Tl;dr it's our old friend survivorship/ publication bias again rearing its ugly head. https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fooled-by-ai-for-science-hypeheres

Grappig dat Van Grieken spreekt uit iets "dat zo uit de boekjes van Putin en Rusland kan komen". Hij kan het weten, ze heulen al lang genoeg met de vijand.

If a Muslim country had killed 54,000 Jews or Christian’s in a neighboring country and attempted to kill more with famine, I promise you, EU politicians would not just express disappointment. They would act. #Gaza

Thorough analysis of satellite reentries over the last 5 years, and how they were affected by the May 2024 solar storm: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13752 Personally, I think the paper has way too much of a tone of "wow look at all this great reentry data! We […] [Original post on mastodon.social]