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I have 2× three-month trials of Kagi Professional for free: https://kagi.com/p/TREATC2B7D148 🎁 If you use the code, comment below. Code expires April 25.

I have 2× three-month trials of Kagi Professional for free: https://kagi.com/p/TREATC2B7D148 🎁 If you use the code, comment below. Code expires April 25.

No Gods. No Masters.

New iNaturalist app for iPhone! https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/108940-new-inaturalist-app-for-iphone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inaturalist-next/id6475737561

[#USPol insanity] They WHAT‽ Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-tariffs-house-gop-vote.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U4.XmwS.pW1OyTHr_xKE

Another one bites the dust! The editorial board of the journal Mathematical Logic Quarterly have resigned en masse, complaining about the publisher, Wiley: "The managing editors and editors of MLQ believe that the academic editorial process guaranteeing scientific quality control should be […]

IT'S HERE! THE 2nd ANNUAL FEDIVERSE #PledgeDrive​ This is our version of a public media pledge drive—but instead of stations, it's servers The Fediverse thrives because individuals invest their time, effort, and resources.​ ❤️ It's time to show your […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Jim Falkenstein makes hilarious five-minute summary videos of the Ashland Oregon city-council meetings. I can't even describe them. Just watch one and tell me if every city shouldn't have this blessed gift. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_ZUDWtPj3lvOAP_JnEEmNdCnaAGeEonM #civic […]

I just recently discovered the film director Alice Rohrwacher. I've only seen “La chimera” and “Happy as Lazzaro” so far and love love love what she has done. They’re poetic, rural-focused Italian films blending magical realism with social commentary, and exactly the kind of dark humor that […]

Hands Off protest in Ashland, Oregon today. #handsOff #handsOff2025 #protest2025

List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Lists of Falsehoods Programmers Believe

I feel seen.

Who uses the 🫰 emoji for “money”? I only know its reference to “love” used in K-pop culture. #emoji #unicode

Actually, I think Mexicans have claimed all the colors. #mexico

I'm way too familiar with Brandolini's Law 😩

Winners of The Ambies announced. Tonight, The Podcast Academy (TPA), the preeminent professional podcast organization, announced winners at its Fifth Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio from the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. https://podnews.net/press-release/2025-ambies-winners […]

Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad. “[T]he first comprehensive evaluation of full-solution reasoning for challenging mathematical problems. Using expert human annotators, we evaluated several state-of-the-art reasoning models on the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This collaboration between a Tuvan throat singer and a bunch of beatboxers from Baltimore is the album you didn’t know you needed to listen to today. https://earuprecords.bandcamp.com/album/embodiments #music #khoomei #beatbox

Michael Menes – 3 Round Objects (1992) This video was a huge inspiration for me in my young juggling days. I watched it a hundred times to emulate the humor of his fluid, understated movements. https://vimeo.com/155679727 #juggling #dance #performance

Europe vs. Asia (j/k, it's #cdmx)

I get this “easter egg” when using whisper.cpp to transcribe audio: ``` Subtítulos realizados por la comunidad de Amara.org 0:27:19 - 0:27:22 ``` That’s not part of the text, but Whisper inserts it at the end of voice transcripts. It’s baked into the AI […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

PeerTube is really impressive. It's been a great place to post all our Dot Social videos because anyone can follow @dot_social and then comment and repost our episodes using any ActivityPub compatible app/platform. Rather than relying solely on the YouTube algo for discovery, these videos get […]

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝 #dishwasher #parody #iot

Muuuu-temáticas

Siri is gonna get someone killed. #siri #ai #botany

Anti-AI stickers appearing in Mexico City: “Use of AI for dubbing is to disrespect the audience.”

Immigrant tech professionals face mounting career and personal uncertainties as Trump’s aggressive immigration measures disrupt their paths in the U.S. https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-immigration-policy-us-tech-talent-workforce/

PSA: if you get a phishing email and you don't know the right place to send it for the organization the phisher is pretending to be, just forward it as an attachment to [email protected] (the Anti-Phishing Working Group). It will make its way into the block lists for most browsers.

This AI text-to-speech voice in Readwise Reader is having a stroke. (Sound on) #ai #readwise #unrealSpeech #glitch

A magnitude 1.15 lunar eclipse seen through an iPhone 13 mini held up to the lens of binoculars with steady hands in Mexico City. #eclipse #loFi #cdmx

Timelapse of fluffy clouds tickling an obscured Volcán Popocatépetl. #timelapse #mexico #volcano #popocatepetl