Mastodawn

Gonna need a framed litho of this.

ETA: This has sold out across most of the five boroughs, and copies are selling on Ebay for $80. Here's a 4000px+ wide JPEG (h/t https://hachyderm.io/@joby) if you want to run a copy on archival paper and frame it as a commemoration of the day things started to get better.

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/11/NOVEMBER05.P1_LCF.jpg

Jeremy Sep 24

JA Westenberg Sep 24

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

Jeremy Mar 6, 2025

Brent Toderian Mar 6, 2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Finland ends homelessness and ...

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

The Better News

Jeremy Mar 3, 2025

Tilly Bridges Mar 2, 2025

if you’re watching the oscars tonight, regardless of what you think of the artistry of Emilia Pérez, it’s remarkably harmful to trans women and reinforces every bigoted stereotype you’ve ever heard about us

https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2025/01/14/bad-representation-emilia-perez/

Jeremy Feb 15, 2025

Jasmine Mangalaseril 🧁Feb 15, 2025

"Throughout my life, I have come to learn all the hardships and struggles that First Nations people have faced in this country. This design speaks for my love and visions of my heritage and the country I live in – standing together in support of each other." ~ Curtis Wilson, Kwakwaka’wakw Artist (1980-2019)

#NationalFlagOfCanadaDay

Jeremy Feb 15, 2025

John Overholt Feb 15, 2025

Why is the nonsense phrase “vegetative electron microscopy” turning up in fake scientific papers? Add two-column formatting to the list of things AI doesn’t understand. https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
Via @researchbuzz

As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use

The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…

Retraction Watch

Jeremy Feb 15, 2025

ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋Feb 9, 2025

Let the downloading commence!

My US government data hoarding page is up and ready with links and torrents. The torrents are all being seeded by my junkbox torrent server. I will continue to add torrents as I download things.

https://www.lydie.cc/data.html

#datahoarder #datapreservation #preservation #uspol #usgovernment #data #DataRescue #torrent

Welcome to Lydie.cc

Jeremy Feb 15, 2025

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 Feb 15, 2025

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #coup #USDS
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Jeremy Feb 14, 2025

Steve Herman Feb 14, 2025

404 Media - DOGE website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone. https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/