Is #AI good at #math? Or AI good at Lean? Is being good at Lean is equivalent for being good at math?
Oh, this except a farm and I would hire scientists to create the best-tasting, most flavorful, like apples and strawberries and all the rest. Most food scientists always have to focus on how to make it cheaper, last longer or look better. But task them with flavorful and they'll go WILD.
I love seeing Google announce that they're going to open up game development and welcome in a new wave of fresh, creative ideas, with the examples in the post being A) a shitty breakout clone with Ghibli art and B) a clone of Canabalt that looks very bad to play.
Do a lot of people mail in their ballots? I've always just dropped mine at the drop boxes that are directly processed by elections officially.
How come publishers were almost universally in agreement about a standard size for "mass market" paperbacks, but for literally nothing else? #RandomThoughts
that art trend going around that will not be named sucks for many many evil reasons but it also sucks that artists and cosplayers who are not remotely clued in across language borders are joining in because they just see "hot blonde anime girl," so it's blown up even more.
I cannot believe that Facebook on the Web has regressed with the links that tell you when something was posted. The links once again read as gibberish. I normally try not to fall into the "they don't care" mentality because the situation involving accessibility efforts is a bit more nuanced than we sometimes realize. Some people at a company might care very passionately about accessibility and they may be doing their best to advocate for it. Others may not fully know or understand. I speak from experience. In this case, though, a small part of me wonders if more people over at Meta don't care or aren't getting it compared with those who do.
Fellow artists, what was your experience like getting access to VGen and using it to host commissions? It’s been hard to get a creator account started with the code system so far. But I’ve heard it’s very nice to use once you have access. #vgen #digitalart #comission
I played a free trial of WoW back in 2009. Beyond a few hours back then, I have no experience of the game. I am thinking of playing it again, purely as an opportunity to write about the experience. I have no aspirations beyond just playing to see "what all the fuss is about". What species/variety/flavour of WoW should I play?
Today’s role model of science is Richard Owen: Scooby Doo villain archetype, coiner of the word “dinosaur.” Described as "social experimenter with a penchant for sadism. Addicted to controversy and driven by arrogance and jealousy” "a damned liar. He lied for God and for malice” “An odious man.”
When a company says it’s making an investment in a place, we should always try to understand how they intend to make a return on it.
Someone had a great term for the extra human work caused by AI, but I can't find it again (AI-powered search is of course no help here). Anyone know? This post brought to you by having to review 3-4x the usual number of grant proposals this month.
Is @signalapp a #socialmedia network? My gut says yes, mostly because of its group chat feature. Does the requirement to find and join large group chats to emulate public feeds of doomscrollable content (as with #instagram) exclude #Signal from the social media category? #privacy
The stereotype that cats are low maintenance comes from the idea that they're not domesticated pets in the same way a dog is, so they "don't need" training, love, or playtime attention in a similar way. They're "noble loners" who "don't really need humans" which is false.
I’ve reached the point where part of me is hoping the Yanks loose tonight just to get it over with. This is what you’ve done to me, Brian Cashman
I need a 25 foot DisplayPort cable for reasons. Does anyone here have experience with a cable that long? Any recommendations? 
In this classification, how would you place your lab? From arxiv.org/abs/2607.20836v1
Does ACAB include Captain Crunch
The EU is ramping up the Hybrid War narrative with Black Rock Merz saying Germany is under attack from Russia. Due to the drone at Leipzig, of which there is no video footage at all. I anticipate false flag attacks with lose of life within the EU borders within the next 6 weeks, we'll see
So we have reached the final quarter of 2026. When you stop and look at things, is 2026 the worst year for the gaming industry ever? Does 2025 still take the cake? Share your thoughts on @giantbomb.com! Link: forum.giantbomb.com/topic/785/we... #games #gaming #gamenews #gamingnews #giantbomb
#WordWeavers Oct 7: Share a line of dialogue that tells us everything we need to know about a character's personality. This is from shortly after Jessie has met Angel; first speaker is Jessie:
Oh Lord please 3 month left, i can accept with no romance plot this year but at least please give me more money
Just tell me how many people this El Niño is gonna kill, how many homes this monster is gonna destroy. Tell me how many crops it will ruin, and give me a number for how much more it'll cost to feed my family. Show me where the destruction will hit hardest, which species will be wiped out, and what things we took for granted will be swept away. Inches of rain means nothing to me; neither does percent above average. It's only when the suffering becomes tangible that minds change. #ClimateChange
this is probably the dumbest, boomeriest thing i'm gonna ever ask but has anyone else had problems buying tortillas and they all just stick together and rip apart lately? i've been buying keto wraps for over a year and only just the past 2 months they've been consistently ripping to shreds asfkljlk
Daily 👣 Big Walk 👣 LFG Thread - October 8, 2026 Looking for a partner or group to explore the island, solve puzzles, or get lost together? Reply with how many players you need, what timezone/location you're in (helps with connection issues), whether you're using voice chat, what kind of game you're up for and anything else you can think of. #BigWalk #Gaming
I think that Flanagan is still too embroiled in his own internal religious conflicts to properly tackle the bite of Margaret White & her abuse. The way he wrote the new CARRIE show…the portrayal of Carrie & her family….just doesn’t have the right amount of bitterness. Of ache. It’s way too soft.
I just enjoyed reading this on the Python 3.15 blog: "At this moment the bow was in the hands of Eurymachus, who was warming it by the fire, but even so he could not string it, and he was greatly grieved. He heaved a deep sigh and said, “I grieve for myself and for us all; I grieve that I shall have to forgo the marriage, but I do not care nearly so much about this, for there are plenty of other women in Ithaca and elsewhere; what I feel most is the fact of our being so inferior to Ulysses in strength that we cannot string his bow. This will disgrace us in the eyes of those who are yet unborn.”
does anybody else remember an album called rehearsing my choir by the fiery furnaces? the album feels like exists inside a fever dream
I need to give email access to less-than-tech-savvy colleague. She’s a Windows user. Suggestions on a lightweight, bare-bones email client that I can walk her through the install and configure? It’s not her main email client, so I need nothing fancy.
Instead of grovelling to attract often, dodgy, foreign investment. The UK should encourage UK entrepreneurs and have more government investment. And before the right, scream, 'soviet-style managed economy, they should look at China and what government investment and subsidies has done to boost them.
Australia may be slightly less institutionally transphobic, but it just sucks to live here in general for innumerable reasons. So the benefits of not living in the UK will be countered by the downsides of having to live in Australia.
Can someone recommend me a Yizhan or TU fic without A/B/O or MPreg? I am fine with PWP, whump and I will eat most dead doves, but I don't want to spend the next hour blindly searching
What companies are caught up in the Gen AI bubble aside from Nvidia?
This statement presupposes there’s some massive number of people aware of atproto in the first place. It’s a perfect example of early adopters thinking the whole world knows of things because they do and therefore the fact that everyone they know isn’t using it means it’s too hard for people
You don't understand the true depths of fatphobia until you look into Bariatric surgeries home shit. REMOVING 80% OF YOUR STOMACH??? IM SORRY WHAT!?!?
for anybody that's used niacinamide or hyaluronic acid, have you noticed any differences after using it regularly? and how long after starting did you begin to notice?
What gen had the best starters for #pokemon ? #youtubeshorts #wednesday #gaming #streamer #chill #pokemongo youtube.com/shorts/SQSgxPHrMEs…
It’s politically irresponsible to pin the blame for Isntreal’s problems on one man in power when the entire settler colony would gladly, shamelessly see Palestine blasted off the face of The Earth. They marched for an IDF Stormtrooper’s right to rape prisoners, if you’ll recall…
My De Lijn bus announces stops???? Must be a thing the NL Limburg government forced them to…..
@zombiscribe.bsky.social What makes Persona a horror film to you? I want to know!
Is there something like Wolfram Alpha but that's EU based? (I want something like Wolfram Alpha in #Uruky but they, understandably, want something EU based instead)
It's 2026 and making "Taylor's music is bad" jokes still, after 20 years, makes people feel edgy. The Daily Show? Really? Haters are literally so obsessed, jealous of the attention, too stupid to understand her music or too desperate for attention to just ignore it.
Future astrophysicists love looking for wormholes.
You know birds? What are they doin up there?
What do you think of artificial intelligence? Will it hurt us, help us, gobble us up?... missionlocal.org/2026/10/what-…
Why exactly isn’t Amazon a worker, consumer and supplier-owned cooperative? It isn't obvious that a billionaire creating ecosystem is needed, that acts like a gigantosaurus hoovering everything up
who ever decided to cut open a pumpkin, clean out the gunk and roast the seeds for the first time must have been a genius. Thank you for inventing such a wonderful fall time snack. so crunchy and crackly with a sprinkle of salt. perfection #fall #autumn #halloween #pumpkin
What's the going rate for car insurance? Just got a quote & was a bit shocked (another thing Michael used to deal with)
How am I supposed to add alt text to uploaded audio files straight away? The new desktop design now shrinks them to an unclickable thumbnail in the editor. Neither the '...' menu nor the alt text button is visible. Posting them as they are and then adding the alt text later doesn't work either (apart from using another app, client or web interface). Or am I missing something entirely? Mastodon v4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06 #Mastodon #AltText #Accessibility
the past few years have shown how tentative any rights or social acceptance are. as soon as it came time to actually defend a targeted minority, cishets just threw trans folk to the wolves and didnt look back.
