Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

Melting in the sun puppy! #DogsOfMastodon #Stella

Open Source people, you should know about @nlnet. They fund all kinds of open source projects with grants between 5k and 50k eur, and with an application process that can be done in an afternoon or two We applied for some funding for Spade years ago. Plans changed, and we ended up working on […]

do you like all the stuff I say about criticizing AI? would you like to take a small concrete step towards AI policy? do you know how to use the web site "git hub"? every project on https://github.com/glyph/ and every project on https://github.com/twisted/ needs to link to the AI policy I wrote […]

Over sixteen years of federal financial disclosure forms, Chief Justice John Roberts mischaracterized more than twenty million dollars in household income from law firms appearing before the Supreme Court. He concealed his wife’s equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years. He […]

https://forums.swift.org/t/preview-embedded-swift-support-in-swift-testing/90281 Awesome to see swift testing working with embedded swift! I have a couple “cheap” “yellow” displays powered by an esp32p4 (one of the risc V ones that embedded swift supports) coming and I’m looking forward to […]

Police were called on 3 year old Black boy and he and his family were banned from the youth soccer league because he was _too good at playing soccer_. But don't you dare say we still have a racism problem in the USA! It's just all about fairness in childrens sports. #racism #soccer […]

Autonomous drones following running people through the woods, without GPS. Developed, with military funds at a public university. This is not dual use anymore, this is single use. There is only one use here. Sometimes I worry that I'm becoming a negative […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Taking a quick break to scream about the proposal and scream some more about how incredibly fucking terrible Reflect Orbital is https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites

i wrote down my current thoughts on AI, first draft, titled "AI is Fake People": https://minute.social/index.html what do you think?

2,500-year-old defence line found along an ancient road suggests unknown conflicts in Denmark https://archaeologymag.com/2026/10/iron-age-defense-line-found-in-denmark/ Archaeologists working in western Jutland have uncovered traces of a conflict nobody knew about. The find is a belt of pits […]

A wild humpback whale has had its heartbeat recorded for the first time. Ashley Blawas and colleagues used suction-cup tags to track blue and humpback whales through complete dives and feeding lunges. Blue whales’ hearts idle at six to seven beats per minute at depth, then jump to around 22 […]

When it comes to arches, this is the OG. (It’s an ogee arch. That’s what that serpentine form is called).

"Ingram was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town." Terrible people.

Kind of swamped with reports right now. Some sort of #SpamBot has taken over a bunch of old accounts, some of which have been here since 2022. This isn't as simple as mass banning, as some of these are clearly legit accounts that have been compromised, but we are working through the backlog and […]

My drugstore now sells RATs for 8 viruses in one. The kind of test that Asian countries already had available a year or two ago.

birch, tamarack, and balsam fir reflected in the water as a dog is lapping up water with his tongue (not included :) #NaturePhotography #fall

The amazing Mizyn female abstract figures of 18,000 years ago are found to mesh with mammoth 🦣 tusk patterns. And we know from #Bushman cosmology how intertwined in story and rock art women, girls and elephants can be #elephantidae #Europe #UpperPalaeolithic […]

Holy fuck, Shen. Those last four panels... Source: https://bsky.app/profile/shenanigansen.bsky.social/post/3mylqky5a522b

Wait, wait, hold up a second. I just found out that lemons are not a natural fruit but a deliberately cultivated hybrid between citron and a bitter orange. Guys! Life didn't give us lemons we made them ourselves!

The right-wing owners of Scientific American, once the pillar of science writing, have ruined the publication's content and reputation. An incredibly sad situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/

#Apple @ #EMNLP2026 https://machinelearning.apple.com/updates/apple-at-emnlp-2026 #Research #Conference #NLP #NLProc

Snorfolicious says: “More love now please!” #DogsOfMastodon #Stella

#MAPoli good and relatively neutral roundup at #Tufts #TischCollege for the ballot questions for #Massachusetts https://tischcollege.tufts.edu/take-action/vote/voters-guide-2026-massachusetts-ballot-questions

What life did you lead? What songs did you help sing? And how did all end here on these rough streets with even your precious illegal ivory teeth plundered? And me standing by contemplating the possible utility and value of your strings, hammers and wooden bones?

MINNESOTA: “I don’t think about myself. The youth are the most innocent. Anything you can do to save them is worth it.” ♥️ Endless stories attack the MN Somali-American community— but Ebro Ahmed🦸🏽‍♂️saves a bus 🚌 full of kids and stories mostly leave out that he’s Somali? 🤔

@knowuh have you been following jonny’s now 5-thread deconstruction of Muse? It’s just soo perfectly horrible and wonderful. I miss why the lucky stiff.

Would you like to take a break from whatever you are rage-screaming about to rage-scream about a different topic? Now published, by me: https://theconversation.com/corporate-orbital-data-centre-proposals-are-dangerous-for-humanity-293085

If you're some sort of masochist who enjoys watching me give tech talks, I recently collected nearly every talk I've given since 2014 in one place, many with video: https://seldo.com/talks

@glyph @matt my 70+ mom had her laptop bricked because some update enabled BitLocker and nobody knew the password. She had never heard of it. So now thanks to just a little help from me she's using Linux Mint. All she needed was a web browser, and Linux will give you that with less BS than […]

I tested my upgraded Nissan Leaf (AZE0)'s battery, driving it from 94% to nearly empty, I got 70.5kWh(!!!) out of it according to LeafSpy, with supposedly 5.4kwh+ (State of Charge still 10%??) remaining. so I guess I actually have more like 80kWh? which […] [Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]

"When people see AI as a more competent, trustworthy, and preferable source of input than a colleague, they replace human interactions that otherwise would have built or maintained trust." And teams suffer for it. #AI […]

The Trump regime is arresting green card holders who have no recollection of registering to vote and accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote to create the illusion of non-citizens voting being a real problem. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I was accused of being sensationalist or exaggerating when our 2022 research paper predicted one in 15 visible points in the sky would be a moving satellite. I think maybe we were actually too conservative. I hate this so very very much.

Teaching James Whitman's book, Hitler's American Model, in my "War and Holocaust" class today. In 1934, at a meeting of Nazi lawyers who were convened to translate Hitler's racial ideology into law, the was a lengthy discussion of American law. The most virulent racists at this meeting were the […]

Seems like at least the account back, but no word from Meta on why this happened. This is why they were so smart of @indivisibleteam build out on platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon , and their own direct to their users newsletters too - that are not at the […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

Basically, the Santa Fe County Clerk insists she has unilateral authority to set training and certification requirements for election protection watchers who have satisfied all state requirements. 2/ #SantaFe #NewMexico #LawFedi #Elections

My 2-minute comment on Reflect Orbital, the company putting mirrors in space to destroy the night sky. This aired on the @wfmu.bsky.social morning show today. wfmu.org/archiveplaye... /cc @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Citing concerns about misinformation and hate, @ScottishGreens have (Finally!) made the decision to leave X for good. They cited Mastodon as one of the 8 platforms they can still be found on but I hope this can result in more engagement on the fediverse […]