Mastodawn

someone just told me “you can cut your hair short it grows back” and that means this person is young and has no idea what random horrors await in middle age

AstroHyde 1d ago

you don't need to excell at styles
if you libre-ate your files

tuta your mail up on high
for a human written reply

floorp your browser into duck seach
with no ai to leave you in the lurch

why throw money into ai-wiles
when it's going to fail for miles and miles

*this is what happens when my human brain tries to work on grants, ai could never...

*not sponsored by libre office, tuta, or floorp
@Tutanota @libreoffice
#noaislop #AI #opensource #AntiAISongs #HashtagGames #thursdayvibes

AstroHyde 1d ago

David Dickinson 1d ago

We’ve had a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards at the start of June alerting comet watchers to a dramatic change in brightness for periodic comet 220P McNaught. Though it wasn’t on our list for bright comets to watch for in 2026, Comet 220P is still shining at a respectable +9th magnitude, in range of binoculars or a small telescope low to the east at dawn as it heads towards perihelion this coming weekend.

Here’s our latest post on tracking Comet 220P for @universetoday - https://www.universetoday.com/articles/catch-comet-220p-mcnaught-in-outburst

Catch Comet 220P McNaught in Outburst

We witnessed a surprise outburst late last week, from a lesser known periodic comet. Posts flashed across message boards late last week, alerting comet watchers to a dramatic change in brightness for periodic comet 220P McNaught. Though it wasn’t on our list for bright comets to watch for in 2026, Comet 220P is now in range of binoculars or a small telescope, low to the east at dawn as it heads towards perihelion this coming weekend.

Universe Today

AstroHyde 1d ago

Thomas Steen Rasmussen 1d ago

Back when I first got a cellphone and slowly started forgetting phone numbers I remember thinking "OK that is scary, it really didn't take long for me to forget something that used to be second nature for me"

It has been 25-30 years since then, and today I have no idea what the phone numbers of even my closest peers is. Not using that skill just entirely obliterated it from my brain over time. I am not even sure how much effort it would take to get back into it.

This post is about vibe coding.

AstroHyde 3d ago

Cameron MacLeod 3d ago

The Government of Canada launches [biased] public consultations on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport [that they’ve already decided to expand]

Complete the anonymous survey [and give them your concerns] here: https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/public-consultation-future-billy-bishop-toronto-city-airport

Reasons why this is bad in thread!

#TOPoli #ONPoli #CDNPoli #YTZ

AstroHyde 5d ago

Danpiker Dec 10, 2024

A triply orthogonal system of surfaces from stereographic projection of Hopf coordinates

AstroHyde 6d ago

Julian Oliver Jun 2

Researchers found that writers using biased AI agents to auto-complete suggestions had their sociopolitical values shifted without their knowledge it was happening.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5578

We worry about cognitive capture, what the LLMs of big tech are doing to our ability to identify and think through problems. We should be equally worried about them making a grab for our ethos, what we care about, and at population scales.

Still no sign of it slowing down. None of the big crawlers have dropped off since April 9.

3,602,589 hits yesterday, 187G, almost all HTTP 200 (success) on GET requests, a fraction of a percent is non-crawler traffic.

With the enormous amount of resources they have thrown at my own tarpit, one would expect someone doing periodic QC, checking content for sanity, perhaps an automated flagging system.

This level of hands-off automation feels genuinely AWOL, and doesn't bode well in itself.

AstroHyde Jun 4

Odd_Jayy May 31

Something to laugh at, its been a rough week but ya gotta dance it out #maker #joy

AstroHyde Jun 4

SETI Institute Jun 3

With Steven Spielberg’s new film "Disclosure Day" about to debut, scientists and educators will face a new barrage of questions from students and the public about UAPs.

Andrew Fraknoi has put together an updated guide to resources explaining what skeptics have found about UFO cases and claims. These include what really happened at Roswell and analyses of the recent spate of military images, videos, and Congressional testimony. The free guide can be found at: http://bit.ly/ufoskeptic (PDF)