Water heater died, got a new one. It has to be one of the most unhinged temperature scales I have seen. It started at an A out of Very Hot, which was too hot, so we turned it down to Hot. We’ll see how that goes, might turn it down to “ “ later.

beep! synth.download now has a fediverse relay, available at https://relay.synth.download, for all instance owners and fellow fediverse admins to register in.

the relay is open to the public with our own blocklist applied to it, and our own instances rules apply to those wanting to join the relay as well.

please do not do that “I’m providing no/purposefully bad alt text to epicly own scrapers” shit . doing so instead harms who genuinely needs it 1000x more than the supposed ai scrapers you’re fighting against

Oh this is evil

The ducks at the park are not free, you cannot just take them

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The fact that the UK protests had to be renamed to "No Tyrants" sort of underscores the need for no kings.

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the CA/Browser Forum and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

https://reddit.com/r/retrocomputing/comments/1l1ssoo/spotted_in_mexico_a_food_cart_made_from_the_cage/

#cyberpunk

starting the ASO (anarchist standards organization). it’s the same as ISO but all freely available and also purely by coincidence our standards all end up the same as theirs

We have now reached the part of the gangster movie, where they are fighting over who gets what share of the money from the bank robbery.

people are MISSING OUT on U+2044 FRACTION SLASH!

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👆 this does NOT use sub-/superscript letters!

Thread: How fascist policies are destroying the research that's been studying my brain for 8 years

I've been part of a Stanford adolescent brain development study since I was a kid - 8 years of my life contributing to science. Yesterday I saw firsthand how Trump's authoritarian bullshit is literally erasing scientific knowledge.

For years, this study included questions about gender identity - because, you know, that's actually relevant to understanding how adolescents develop. This year? Completely gone.

The researchers explained that Trump didn't just gut NIH funding - he made it illegal for any federally-funded research to even mention gender identity. They can't use the word "gender" at all. Only "sex" with binary options.

I watched these scientists - people I've known for years, who've dedicated their lives to understanding human development - have to explain how politicians are literally censoring their research. They called it "awful" but they had no choice: comply or lose all funding.

This hit me hard because this study has been part of MY life for 8 years. Watching authoritarians destroy scientific knowledge that includes my own data, my own contribution to understanding adolescent development - it's personal.

And this is happening everywhere. Universities across the country are being forced to choose between scientific integrity and keeping their research alive.

What we need to do:

• Demand Democrats restore NIH funding WITHOUT ideological restrictions when they're back in power
• Support scientists and research institutions fighting these restrictions
• Recognize this as part of the broader fascist assault on education and knowledge
• Keep sharing these stories - people need to see the real impact

This isn't just about research funding. It's about whether we'll let authoritarians decide what scientists are allowed to study about human beings.

Fascism doesn't just come for marginalized people - it comes for knowledge itself.

This "We simulated what it would be like if LLMs ran a vending machine biz" paper ends up with the same kind of insane emails that I sometimes get in my inbox, maybe they have emulated the true mind of the average vending machine operator after all