wow, SensePeek SQ500 probes are good. those are some sharp edges

@blogdiva

Due to an error in proper copyright protocols, the film became part of the public domain during its original release.

The Internet Archive has it!

https://archive.org/details/The_Brother_from_Another_Planet_1984

a pattern i've noticed with various slopped summaries of my work is that ai tends to ignore new knowledge and stick to what it is already familiar with, completely ignoring the findings of my work in favour of a narrative that is easier to text autocomplete

Today in Labor History July 4, 1832: John Neal delivered one of the first known public lectures in the US advocating for the rights of women, including suffrage and equal pay. Neal was a writer, abolitionist, advocate for racial and gender equality, and creator of the American gymnastics movement. He fought against the poll tax, arguing that both "the poor and the rich are taxed ... under the militia law" which was designed "to defend property of the rich man. The rich, of course, do not appear in the field. The poor do. The latter cannot afford to keep away; the former can." He proposed replacing the poll tax with a property tax. He also wrote that the Indian is the only true native American. (In those days, “Native American meant a white person born in America, as opposed to immigrants). He also wrote that American Indians "have never been the aggressors" in conflicts with European-Americans and that "no people, ancient or modern ... have been so deplorably oppressed, belied, and wronged, in every possible way." And he proposed legalizing interracial marriage, but for proto-eugenicist reasons: so that future generations of "the negroes of America would no longer be a separate, inferior class, without political power, without privilege, and without a share in the great commonwealth." As a writer, he is the first to use the phrase son-of-a-bitch in a work of fiction. Neal was also the first U.S. daily news columnist, its first art critic, author of the first history of American literature, and a pioneer in children’s stories.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #equalpay #Abolition #writer #author #fiction #tax #indigenous #nativeamerican #slavery #racism @bookstadon

I'm usually passing a lot of those little free libraries but only today saw this combined book and stick library.
#DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfPixelfed #Library #BooksOfMastodon

Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

Judges Reed O’Connor and James Boasberg ~consulted~ today about the FTC’s litigation tactics against trans health org WPATH over the past 24 hours.

The judges appear to have reached an agreement, and the FTC’s efforts failed for now.

How we got there is a wild story, though. Here it is: https://www.lawdork.com/p/ftc-wpath-oconnor-boasberg-consultation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Joshuakevins12/116617488591022175

We recently started this project (sweet potatoes growing ) bug am looking for someone who can help us out by teaching us how to grow these potatoes effectively. The potatoes grew well and healthy looking but they didn't put on any potatoe over there down when we reached the day of harvesting , the we couldn't get anything.
YOUR IDEAS MATTER
BOOSTS WELCOME
#mastodon #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #today #fridaysforfuture #gardening #growyourown #fediverse #home #permaculture #garten #environment

This was too easy

Nickel silver key blade wetted so well, even if it looks crappy, I can happily reinsert, turn the bare lock, and pull it out again

RE: https://biologists.social/@biorxiv_neursci/116855524571788429

"The resulting networks captured human synaptic development, the adult brain's architecture, and displayed compositional generalisation, a hallmark of human cognition."

Massive claim, let's find out whether it holds.

#neuroscience

@ai6yr There are so few people who understand WBGT and that you cannot outsmart it or game it or avoid it.

The high-80s of this measurement is pushing the threshold at which the human body can no longer cool off properly, and heat stroke and death are entirely possible.

I wish more people who worked outdoors knew about this and that we had better ways to measure it hyper-locally. I always tried to educate my volunteers about it and schedule our work hours around it. Humidity plus heat is no joke.

One of my big pet peeves is when people say "people used to ..." and they describe something well-off or only wealthy people did in the past. "but nowadays people just..." and they describe something poor and broke people do today.

We don't have as much documentation of how poor people lived in the past... so in a way we don't know how poor people lived as clearly.

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Another small thing I realized is being taken away by AI. Insignificant in the big picture, but still another AI killjoy.

When my kids and I see handwritten text, we try to see if it was a font or true lettering. I'd point out if letters were exactly the same, or if perhaps alternates might be at play. If not, it was probably lettering. A fun little game to play with so many letters around us in the real world.

But AI today seems to make its own "lettering" when generating text in an image. And this adds enough irregularities in the letters to make it seem like handmade lettering. The initial joy of "hey cool, they took the effort to craft something" is now being extended by "...or is this AI generated". I don't like it.

#ai #typography #lettering

Protester at Delaney Hall confronts a member of ICE about the 13th amendment issue.

Here’s a source: https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/ice-published-revised-national-detention-standards-that-strip-employment-rights-of-detainees/

As a reminder also, this is the amendment we all learned about in elementary school, myself included, and I live in the south,

So we’re all full aware of what we’re talking about here.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

If you use the Node.js test runner (node:test), you may like the new ESLint plugin I cooked up.

64 rules to improve your tests, prevent mistakes, and enforce style.

https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-node-test

“In the new study, Chatoo created an AI-supported resume for a marketing position and asked 1,000 adults in the U.K. to evaluate the candidate during April 2026. The evaluators received identical resumes and were told that the candidate had used AI assistance. The only difference among the resumes was the candidate’s name. Half of the evaluators saw Emily Clarke, while half saw James Clark.

Despite identical resume content, the evaluators judged women candidates much more harshly for using AI assistance than men.

The evaluators who attributed the AI-assisted resume to a woman were twice as likely to question the candidate’s competency. “She can’t even write a CV herself—not sure she has the skill to carry out the job,” said one of the evaluators of Emily’s resume.

In contrast, evaluators who attributed the AI-assisted resume to a man were twice as likely to view the candidate as showing initiative. In other words, a woman’s use of AI was evidence of inability, while a man’s use of AI to create the identical product was viewed as pragmatic problem solving.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/06/25/women-who-use-ai-seen-as-incompetent-men-who-use-ai-seen-as-pragmatic

#AI #Sexism #GenderBias