Mastodawn

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱2d ago

I don't think Claude.ai knows what a cat looks like...

#ai #cat

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱3d ago

John Overholt 3d ago

Who goes to see a 7-hour movie? Lots of people, it turns out. The Gazette interviews attendees at a packed Harvard Film Archive screening of Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/06/7-hours-later-they-didnt-want-it-to-end-satantango/

7 hours later, they didn’t want it to end

Who watches a 439-minute movie in an age of epic distraction? We stopped by Harvard’s recent screening of “Sátántangó” to ask.

Harvard Gazette

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 29

Norsu May 29

Und nun zum #Wetter :

Es ist schwül warm in der #Kaiserstadt und man kommt leicht ins Schwitzen. Ein kühles Plätzchen im Abteigarten ist Gold wert. ☀️😎🌳🌲 #Aachen

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 28

Adam Parkhomenko May 28

Americans are hurting to afford groceries and gas while Donald Trump and his goons are focused on a ballroom, UFC fight, sending the DOJ after a woman he raped, and this:

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 26

legendneverdie024 May 26

The most underrated Mastodon feature: RSS.

Any profile → add .rss to URL → instant RSS feed.

https://instance.social/@user.rss

Use this to:
• Never miss key accounts
• Auto-syndicate content
• Build your content hub

Simple. Powerful. Free.

#Mastodon #RSS #Fediverse

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 25

Yesterday's play included Beacon Patrol and Dying Message. Two new games (to us). Both played cooperatively and very, very enjoyable.I particularly love the vibe Dying Message gives off, both in the style of play and the delightfully irreverent instructions!

#BoardGame #coop

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 24

Rüdiger Benninghaus May 24

One of the two peaks of the famous Mount Ushba in the province of Mingrelia-Upper Svaneti, near the village of Mazeri (western Georgia, Caucasia). The peaks are 4,698 and 4,737 metres high respectively, whilst the village of Mazeri lies at an altitude of 1,622 metres.
(May 2026)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Berge, #mountains, #Landschaften, #landscapes, #Ushba, #Ober_Swanetien, #Upper_Svanetia, #Kaukasus, #Caucasia

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 23

ratatouille as a service May 22

Tattoo inspo for the librarians out there

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 21

John Overholt May 21

If you're in the Boston area, I'll be giving my first curator's tour of my War of Words exhibition Tuesday 5/26 at noon. Please register (or see future dates) via the links here: https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/war-words

War of Words

Harvard Library

Andrew Gent 🇺🇦 🇬🇱May 20

tante May 20

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.

Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.

If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.

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