It's sad, really. The potential was always there to do some really cool stuff, but deploying new tech like this takes stuff like "testing", "discernment", and "patience", which generally don't go over well at the quarterly investor call. :-P
CNSA’s Tianwen-1 mission has recently released new images of Mars, including this view of the north polar cap showing a very cool cloud formation.
Full size 4K & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2s819o9 🔭🧪
Image Processing: Andrea Luck
Raw Images: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC
Those are 2 images taken on 2025-08-09
@AnarchoNinaWrites It sounds kinda like the actual Pope's job is to act the role of some idealized Pope they imagine -- and if the actual-Pope says stuff that their ideal-Pope wouldn't, then he's doing it wrong and maybe is an impostor or something.
@servelan Gosh, you mean we might go back to the pre-9/11 situation where all airport security was privately operated?
Oh noes, how terrible. How will we ever survive without the Department of Homeland Security keeping us safe from toothpaste incendiary devices.
(One authoritarian wet-dream undone by another authoritarian's wet dream...)
@blogdiva I feel like this generation of astronauts is taking a more compassionate, human approach to space exploration, and I am totally on board for that.
...well, I mean, I would be if they'd let me. :blobcatspace: 🌑
@Mastodon I’m a big badge collector, so this made my day. My official Mastodon enamel pin badges arrived today, and seeing all three laid out on their backing cards just makes them even better.
The classic logo pin, the glittery Live Laugh Federate design, and the Mastodon Elephant pin all look brilliant. Really happy to support Mastodon at the same time.
If anyone else wants to support it too: https://shop.joinmastodon.org/
@burnoutqueen Many cis women even feel the opposite way, from what I've seen.
Trans women aid in the fight for women's rights by showing the lie of patriarchal narratives around femininity and gender.
@cwebber I can't even get that post to load properly. The layout framework shows up, but it gets stuck trying to load any content. :blobcatgooglyshrug:
@crooksandliars "Thinking", for authoritarians, means "finding new and more plausible ways to protect your propaganda from the enemy's evidence".
In this paper I will
I don't necessarily view Hank Green as a high-quality information source, but I found his recent video about Anthropic's new "Mythos" LLM to be, well, concerning.
Does anyone have any good sources that can back up Anthropic's claims, or is this just more "AI is going to take over the world" style hype?
...because, as we all know, English operates by consistent rules that must be used at all times, or else sentences will not compile properly. ^.^
@AnnaAnthro Odd that there's no mention of Zenni (which, last I heard, still sells prescription glasses at a reasonable price).
My impression, entirely from outside, is that these branches of Christianity have been taken over by authoritarian powermongers, enabled by flocks raised in authoritarian followership who don't feel safe thinking for themselves because they might get punished for saying or believing the wrong thing.
The question in my mind is how much of this is new and how much is just cultural attitudes that go back to the Puritan colonists -- where the thing that has changed may just be that technology (starting with PA systems which made megachurches possible, but further enhanced by social media) has empowered the authoritarian leaders to reach a much larger audience of authoritarian followers, and thereby suck them in to the very worst distortions and mutations of their supposed religious beliefs.
If you think of religion (good or bad) as being like a virus, technology has basically packed more people into the same room, allowing the most aggressively infectious forms to thrive.
I tend to avoid looking at the news, but occasionally I want to check in on something specific. I always go to Google News because it's a good aggregation of everything, but I trust Google less and less nowadays and feel like I shouldn't depend upon them. I've gone to Google News for so long that I don't even know what else is available.
What's a good replacement for Google News? Something that just aggregates all the headlines without editorializing, and doesn't require an account? :BoostOK:
That's easier said than done, and these are legitimate questions.
The point of asking them is to find out if the EU will stand behind commitments to those principles, guided by subject experts, not to find out if the current codebase just happens (in the best judgement of one possibly-inexpert person doing a quick review of a large amount of material).
Have you seen this news?
#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.
So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse
Im so excited about this.
Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.
Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/
Today's sleeping configuration: kitty-corner :blobcatgiggle:
