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@daubman from 🐦 πŸ’Ύ technology & 🎢 music enjoyer ...just trying to reach my keyboard without disturbing my cat blanket πŸˆβ€β¬› πŸ’” Widower

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A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

25.10.2025 07:24 πŸ‘ 34103 πŸ” 4769 πŸ’¬ 823 πŸ“Œ 388
AWS Service Health dashboard showing the error "We couldn't load this section because of an issue with the server"

AWS Service Health dashboard showing the error "We couldn't load this section because of an issue with the server"

Well this about sums things up

20.10.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

a poll idea that just popped into my head: since we've collectively been doing 90's nostalgia for awhile as a culture, what's your secret/stealth best 90's album? not something necessarily widely super critically beloved but is nonetheless great and defining for you?

15.10.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 202 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 273 πŸ“Œ 450

The first thing my therapist said to me at my appointment this week was "Please tell me they can't just get rid of the Voting Rights Act."

If I make my therapist depressed, do I win therapy, or does it just make me a really boring Joker?

15.10.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Find you a person who πŸ‘‡

16.10.2025 12:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Organic water is just...
...Carbon-ated 🫧

I will see myself out 🀣

15.10.2025 00:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy October babes

01.10.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That much 🎢bah-bah-bah🎡 could be dangerous!

01.10.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

29.09.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 8427 πŸ” 2537 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 391

They should make a horror movie where the β€œmonster” is grief.

29.09.2025 14:56 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi and oak galls

Fungi, galls and snoozing ladybirds from a walk along Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, last week.
🐑
#fungi
#invertebrates

30.09.2025 06:00 πŸ‘ 2168 πŸ” 269 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 8

tired: it's always DNS

inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

29.09.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 1308 πŸ” 273 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 8
Samsung health notification at 6:22am suggesting a fair energy score and to "Maintain your sleep routine"

Samsung health notification at 6:22am suggesting a fair energy score and to "Maintain your sleep routine"

Thanks, Samsung Health - very useful...

27.09.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
arteries and nervous system bunched together with zip ties like it's a clean cord management setup

arteries and nervous system bunched together with zip ties like it's a clean cord management setup

this would fix me

26.09.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 668 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 3
Gmail notification from Wealthfront saying: 
Following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week, the rate on your Cash Account will be adjusted to 3.75% APY (annual percentage yield) provided by program banks. If you have a boosted rate, it’ll be 4.25%.

Gmail notification from Wealthfront saying: Following the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week, the rate on your Cash Account will be adjusted to 3.75% APY (annual percentage yield) provided by program banks. If you have a boosted rate, it’ll be 4.25%.

Sure seems great... πŸ˜­πŸ’Έ

26.09.2025 18:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Common Descent Machine learning begins with the perceptron

It’s week 4 and probably time to start doing machine learning in machine learning class. We begin with the only nice thing we have: the perceptron.

23.09.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Hackers VHS case that’s turned into an RGB lamp, plus a Nixie tube clock at 13:37

Hackers VHS case that’s turned into an RGB lamp, plus a Nixie tube clock at 13:37

Happy 30th, Hackers!

16.09.2025 00:34 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

15.09.2025 23:56 πŸ‘ 3605 πŸ” 1045 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 326
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So photogenic

11.09.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Black cat laying in front of Halloween decorations including a frosted glass block that says it's all a bunch of hocus pocus

Black cat laying in front of Halloween decorations including a frosted glass block that says it's all a bunch of hocus pocus

Tis the season πŸŽƒπŸˆβ€β¬›

11.09.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruby Soho

Ruby ruby ruby soho?
open.spotify.com/track/0vfhk1...

10.09.2025 18:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The silhouette of a black cat staring out of a front window of a tan house at night, backlit by the lights of the room

The silhouette of a black cat staring out of a front window of a tan house at night, backlit by the lights of the room

Sudden Scopaesthesia

09.09.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
An image of a man in a green vest and network tool bag handing a red gift-wrapped box to another man sitting on the ground in front of him, next to a close-up of the network 3-in-1 tool ostensibly in the gift box.

An image of a man in a green vest and network tool bag handing a red gift-wrapped box to another man sitting on the ground in front of him, next to a close-up of the network 3-in-1 tool ostensibly in the gift box.

I, too, long to be tenderly gifted a 3 in 1 Network Cable Stripper & Organizer tool! 🎁 Peak amazon imagery! For some reason this seems of interest to @swiftonsecurity.com

08.09.2025 22:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

Please, please read this and share it with everyone.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

01.09.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

01.09.2025 00:14 πŸ‘ 11140 πŸ” 3473 πŸ’¬ 236 πŸ“Œ 349

It's very sad when it sinks in that you've unexpectedly previously done something for the very last time 😒

31.08.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval | alphaXiv View recent discussion. Abstract: Vector embeddings have been tasked with an ever-increasing set of retrieval tasks over the years, with a nascent rise in using them for reasoning, instruction-followi...

Limits of vector search

a new GDM paper shows that embeddings can’t represent combinations of concepts well

e.g. Dave likes blue trucks AND Ford trucks

even k=2 sub-predicates make SOTA embedding models fall apart

www.alphaxiv.org/pdf/2508.21038

31.08.2025 11:06 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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Little kids with brain cancer.

That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

30.08.2025 23:21 πŸ‘ 3206 πŸ” 1184 πŸ’¬ 130 πŸ“Œ 60

As a child, I would have never believed I'd find out about so many adults who fear rainbows, shots, books, and immigrants.

24.08.2025 04:13 πŸ‘ 3040 πŸ” 452 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 23