here's a fun #maths fact: the volume of a cone is ⅓ of the volume of a cylinder with the same base.
and a pyramid is also ⅓ of the volume of a prism with the same base.
in fact any cone-ish volume that starts with a shape and ends in a point is always ⅓ of a box-ish volume that has that shape on both ends.

then i realised: a triangle is always ½ the area of a parallelogram with the same base and height. ½ in 2d, ⅓ in 3d... is it just 1/number of dimensions?

turns out: yes! that's a theorem!

AI CEOs should have their lives be made a living hell.
take for example Anthropic claiming Claude can feel pain. they should immediately be sued for false advertising, then if they (somehow) convince the court it isn't false advertising, take them to court for slavery.
either they're lying or they're slave owners. they can't have both. i believe it's obviously the first one, and that under the threat of jail they'll admit it.

https://mstdn.social/@iryna/117404734156214427

in the last TLDR news video there was a backhanded comment about how the right wing now has nothing to do with conservatism as it used to be defined, and that figures that seem progressive relative to the right like the pope or Andy Burnham are actually more small-c conservative than various Conservative parties.

it just speaks to me how deep we've gotten into the era of fascism 2.0. in so many places there's no leftism anymore, the left's conservative and the right's Nazis.

https://recurse.social/@redmp/117396883385335452

you probably don't need to worry about Plague

Things You Should Know About Plague | Hankschannel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0MblP3xEs

reject inevitablity.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117389685527198954

the casualness in which he says it...
(certifying as a native Hebrew speaker btw, the translation is correct)

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/117376177764807921

as someone who mods 2.5 instances¹, all with approval-based registration, it's interesting to see the very different approaches spammers take with each. mostly it seems there's no one single botfarm targetting the entire Fediverse, but several, each targetting only the instances they know of.

¹ i count this one, 433.world, as .5, since it's essentially a single-user instance.

FYI fellow admins, block the address 131.123.39.93 which belongs to a spammer. not a very clever spammer, but one nontheless.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

#Fediblock ieji.de: admins allow for antisemitism and trollish defence of Nazism under the pretext of "free speech".
attached: screenshots of the offending posts, CW antisemitism, Nazism, mention of sexual violence, and of conversation with the main admin where they explain they're not gonna take any action.

archives of reported posts:
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/pHWOU
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/8muuL

#FediAntisemitism

https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/117351109472151781

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117338693898076310

this is your semi regular reminder that computers aren't the problem, capitalism is.

i think the fact that this post got both a "KDE is still a community project and you're wrong to think otherwise" comment and a "KDE was never a community project and you were fool to think otherwise" comment as ways to defend this response proves my point perfectly.

i wonder if the reporter just searched for kdeforpeople.com on their instance and reported every post that mentioned it. i mean they don't even take signatures anymore!

lol someone reported this post and forwarded it along, for "brigading", and to show this is brigading they cited... the exact Nate post i'm replying to.
idk what's more funny:
1. to report the admin of an almost single-user instance then forward the report to the same instance
2. to bring as evidence the blogpost the post you're reporting is in reply to
3. to quote Nate as evidence for brigading, when Nate himself edited the post to say he was wrong to call it brigading.

can western leftists please for the love of fuck stop assuming that Judaism is just "Christianity-Jesus" and that Islam is just "Christianity-Jesus+Muhammad"?

can western leftists please for the love of fuck stop assuming that Judaism is just "Christianity '/Jesus/d' " and that Islam is just "Christianity 's/Jesus/Muhammad/g' "?

RE: https://floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125

things this post does:
1. places the blame on the KDE community
2. dismisses kdeforpeople.com as an external pressure group
3. dismisses opinions of non-direct contributors as irrelevant

this this post doesn't do:
1. apologise
2. mentions that the person who escalated this shitstorm was a literal nazi
3. call the pro-AI presentation a pressure campaign like it did with kdeforpeople.com
4. make literally any lessons for the future
5. apologise!!

i no longer consider #KDE a community project.