RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/117501119489426453

lmao "cancel culture"

@davidwilkins @Boerps I spotted one "in the wild" this past July on the streets of Bratislava, Slovakia.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117501034965218129

When any of the AI companies claims they have done something New! Groundbreaking! Amazing! maybe, just maybe, they are lying.

I'd love it if everybody -- but especially tech press -- remembered this.

This analysis is fascinating: it breaks down how when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it.

Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels.

Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%.

Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%.

via Jan Rosenow, Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford

#energy #climate

Tree Face — by Vanyu Krastev in Bulgaria 🇧🇬

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/12/12/funny-street-art/

#StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

Had to share this doodle by Petra Korlević
via https://bsky.app/profile/petrathepostdoc.bsky.social/post/3myp2rhp7qk2y

Sunset

Money people are very clever and extremely rational, which is why the only companies whose share values aren't falling through the floor are the ones who have made enormous losses for the entire time that they've been doing what they're doing. This is cool and normal and if you think otherwise you're just not smart enough to understand the importance of Number Go Up.

If anybody reads this OpenAI post and thinks AI found a zero day - no. This one was patched months ago, not found by OpenAI, and reported by an old-school fuzzer.

@amiserabilist #fixed

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117500661352085808

Anyway, I feel like shit - I'm going back to sleep...

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117500706471237428

BTW I think that, in large part due to the breakneck speed of "news" these days, plus the engagement-hunting need for everything to be New & Breaking™️ all the time, there's a tendency for journalists to forego the question "When did this start?" in favor of just assuming [thing] started when the journalist first heard of it...

#journalism #news #media

Advice for female-presenting persons: if a male doctor asks if you've been under stress lately: SAY NO. Tell him life is great. Don't budge. Make the fucker actually figure out what's wrong.

I don't know a single woman who hasn't gotten the stress brush-off, only to get a real diagnosis later.

It's bullshit. Sometimes lying to your doctor is the right thing to do.

New Saturn capture! Just a few days after my last attempt, I revisited the ringed planet (Saturn) for the first time with the Baader IR-Pass 685nm filter.

▼ Vixen VC200L | QHY 5-III-462C

I combined the 685nm luminance channel with a native RGB from the UV/IR Cut. Shot at 4500mm, f/22.5, from Koblenz. Full details on Astrobin:

https://astrocamp.eu/en/saturn-vc200l-infrared-685nm-06-10-2026/

#astrophotography #astronomy #nature #Astrophoto

He forgot to kick Elon Musk in the same saucer.

It's time for my weekly roundup, all my miniature photos posted this week in one big bundle. I hope you enjoyed my spooky Halloween themed collection this week.

All behind the scenes can be viewed for each of these photos in the original posts

#photography

Who decided to call it crypto and not laughing stocks?

Finished! Took maybe 15 hours.

A4 size on off-white Canson 220gm paper.

Original for sale: £100 GBP , free postage in the UK, £3 Eur, £5 elsewhere. Yell if you want it!

I'll get it scanned for prints in a day or two.

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #CelticKnot #OriginalArt #ArtForSale #FediGiftShop

RE: https://mas.to/@swelljoe/117498308152983124

For the record, the Uncanny Valley is about something that looks like it should be a living person, but isn't.

In other words, the form is there but the content the form implies, the actual person, is absent.

Thinking that this is purely an aesthetic issue misses the point entirely: We are clearly mentally & emotionally hardwired to reject things that pretend to have intent but don't - we instinctively categorize them as dangerous, even hostile.

#AI #psychology #behavior