Mastodawn

ICE broke the law to arrest him, interfering with the normal course of citizenship. And now he's dead. He was a diabetic and wasn't given insulin by the guards for a few days. He was told to contact his doctor for a note.

Bulgarian Chicago business own...

Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation'

Nenko Gantchev, 56, lived in Chicago for 30 years, died Monday at North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan: Officials

Dancho 2d ago

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 2d ago

Anna's Archive backed up Spotify. They got 99.9% of metadata, and 300TB of music representing 86 million tracks - original 160kbps OGG for tracks with popularity>0, and re-encoded 75kbps for popularity=0. absolutely wild project.

the metadata in particular is a hugely useful data source. MusicBrainz catalogues 5 million unique ISRCs (like ISBNs but for music releases), whereas this archive has a whopping 186 million.

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Dancho 2d ago

caws-a-bit 3d ago

from November 9

(did not succeed in making a thousand yard stare)

#mlp

Dancho 2d ago

doodlemancy Nov 22

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: https://doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html

🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists

doodlemancy | good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash

Dancho 3d ago

Igor Grouper 3d ago

Some Trench Crusade fanart.

#art #mastoArt #illustration #fanArt #trenchCusade

Dancho 3d ago

Aral Balkan 3d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dotmeow/115747548039870274

Needless to say, I wholeheartedly support this initiative ;)

💕

#dotMeow #Kitten #SmallWeb

Dancho 3d ago

Mt Kanjon 🦊🎨3d ago

Here's the secret santa I received of Grin! Look at these amazing colors and forms, omggg. This was really cool to wake up to.

#art / #furryart from mr.goofy_ on Discord / kaffeekraenzchen_mit_manu on Instagram

Dancho 3d ago

sambaneko 3d ago

Probably the last pony of 2025, Minuette! Or Colgate, if you prefer her fandom nick name! Wallpaper sized versions can be downloaded from my site: https://spacecatsamba.com

Dancho 3d ago

mhoye 4d ago

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

Dancho 4d ago

Eugen Rochko 4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

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