In Iceland, female guides set sail,
Fishing for salmon, they prevail.
But the wild fish decrease,
Their worries don't cease,
Their love for the river won't fail.
#GuardianLimerick #Iceland #Fishing #Rivers #Fish #Food #Oceans #Women #Film #Europe
theguardian.com/environment/20…
‘Heartbreaking’: Iceland’s pioneering female fishing guides fear for wild salmon
First women working as fishing guides on Laxá River, featured in new film, call for action after farmed fish escapeMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
In Ukraine, a tragedy took place,
Missiles struck a school with no grace,
Kursk suffered the pain,
Innocent lives, not in vain,
May peace come to that troubled place.
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Ukraine blames Russia for fatal missile strike on Kursk school
Kremlin claims Ukrainian military attacked site in area occupied by Kyiv since last AugustGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
I've said what I can about "prompt engineering," why the idea is facile nonsense, the complete lack of theoretical and empirical basis, and the organizational impact of promoting on the basis of "prompt engineering" skills.
But there's something else to be said, I think, about the underlying fallacy that makes "prompt engineering" appear to be real: namely, the incorrect assumption that LLMs can be "programmed" at all.
Wenn schon die großen Zeitungen mein Buch ignorieren: die Bewegungen nehmen es wahr.
Hier eine Rezension von Udo Hase im Rabe Ralf, Zeitung der Berliner Umweltbewegung 🙏✊😘
Elon Musk has taken over the database that contains all government employees. And he's locked out all the people who should have oversight over that data. It's anyone's guess what he'll do with it, but I expect that he'll be matching names against voter registrations and purging liberals.
We're in new territory here. It's like a gang has taken over the country. Is there a word for "governance by mafia"?
Lesenswertes Interview.
"Wenn also die Union jetzt einen großen zehn-Punkte-Plan zur psychosozialen Versorgung aufgestellt hätte, dann würde ich sagen: Ja, gut gebrüllt Löwe. Das ist eigentlich die Problematik, die dahintersteht."
Wobei ich mich frage: Warum ist eigentlich keine der anderen Parteien auf die Idee gekommen, mit genau so einen Plan zur psychosozialen Versorgung zu kontern, um den Diskurs wieder rechtzurücken?
br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-…
Polizeiexperte: "Aschaffenburg-Diskussion führt am Thema vorbei"
Nach dem Messerangriff in Aschaffenburg diskutiert die Politik über die innere Sicherheit in Deutschland. Polizeiforscher Hermann Groß hält den Fokus auf die Migration für falsch. Der psychosoziale Aspekt komme zu kurz. Ein BR24-Interview.Anna Feininger (BR24)
Ja, wenn 705 Abgeordnete Ausländer als Problemursache Nr. 1 darstellen und die einzige größere Forderung im Bereich psychologischer "Hilfe" die nach psychological profiling ist, dann kann man mit 28 Abgeordneten leider nicht viel erreichen.
Ich hoffe, mit dem 28.02. werden es zumindest ein paar mehr.
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Heute CDU-Wähler zu #Merz: "Musste dass denn sein?" Merz: "Ja, und wir werden es wieder machen!"
Das war ein O-Ton!!! Vor laufender Kamera!!!(tagesschau 24, glaub ich)
Lieber ÖR
zähl mal, wie viel Menschen Bundesweit für die Verschärfung von Asylgesetzen demonstrieren
und dann zähl mal bitte nach, wie viel Menschen gegen Nazis demonstrieren
Und jetzt richte deine Berichterstattung danach aus
und hör auf, zu behaupten, dass Migration ein irgendwo in den Top 5 der Wahlentscheidenden Themen wäre.
Nazis oder keine Nazis
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"There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present."
James Joyce was born #OTD in 1882.
Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions and views of fictional characters.
James Joyce at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/10…
Books by Joyce, James (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 75,104 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
(In Hamburg waren wir 65.000).
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Auf jeden Fall mehr, als überall in der Presse geschrieben wird.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.Jeremy Faust, MD (Inside Medicine)
#Canada PM Justin #Trudeau in his speech Saturday reached out to Americans & reminded them that these #TrumpTariffs will hurt them economically just as much as Canadians.
The tariffs will “put your #jobs at risk, potentially shutting down American #auto assembly plants & other manufacturing facilities. They will raise #costs for you, including #food at the #grocery stores & gas at the pump.” In emotional references to the nations’ shared history, he adds: “we have fought, & died, beside you.”
#Trudeau says Canadians are “perplexed why our closest friends & neighbors are choosing to target us instead of so many other challenging parts of the world.” He adds: “I don’t think there’s a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning, saying ‘Oh, damn, Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada.’”
Trudeau calls on Canadians to choose Canadian goods, to forgo Florida orange juice, Kentucky bourbon, or holidays in the United States.
Neoliberals: gross inequality is fine, actually.
Fascists: excellent, this is what we believe also.
Neoliberals: wait, not like that!
Yeah. Cosmetics and aesthetics, but fought over with big fanfare and seemingly fiercely by all the political brass until they settle on "rough" with everybody defending the new norm. Disgusting, innit.
Episode 3 - Diversity in Justiz und Anwaltschaft: wirklich alles so schön bunt hier?
Wie bunt sind eigentlich Justiz und Anwaltschaft? An verlässliche Zahlen ist gar nicht so leicht heranzukommen. In Teilen der Justiz gibt es einen auf den ersten Blick sensationellen Frauenanteil. Belegt der letztlich aber vielleicht eher ein Problem als einen Erfolg?
Und auch in Anwaltskanzleien gibt es Berufe, in denen Männer unterrepräsentiert sind: Rechtsanwaltsfachangestellte! Warum ist das so?
Findet sich auf den Richterbänken eigentlich ein Spiegel der deutschen Gesellschaft? Warum gibt es so wenig Zahlen dazu, wie viele Richter*innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Justiz tätig sind? Sind es wenige Zahlen oder vielleicht einfach wenige Richterinnen und Richter? Oder gibt es sie und die unzureichende Datenlage ist nur dem Grundsatz "Safety first" geschuldet? Würden uns mehr Richterinnen und Richter mit Migrationshintergrund nicht unglaublich bereichern?
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Heute früh, europaweit.
#natenom #gedenkfahrt #stopkillingcyclists #fedibikes #mastobikes #pforzheim
@criticalmaps
#OTD in 1924.
A largely rewritten version of Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett's 1914 farce It Pays to Advertise opens in a production by actor-manager Tom Walls, at the Aldwych Theatre in London. It runs until 10 July 1925, a total of 598 performances, as the first in a sequence of twelve Aldwych farces.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Pays_…
It Pays to Advertise at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/75246
It pays to advertise : A farcical fact in three acts by Megrue and Hackett
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Command-line tools are fun to build with Swift, but there are also Swift on Server, Embedded Swift, Swift for UI apps on Linux. The language is more and more breaking out of its predominant perception of being "only" Apple's app language. Just yesterday, Swift had its own devroom at #fosdem.
I recommend the blog swift.org/blog/ to learn more about areas of use.
🔥 DELTA CHAT 🔥
The ease of use, the privacy-by-design, identity AND routing agnostic, the realtime peer-to-peer messaging supported by @n0iroh
The Genius ✨ zip-file applications ✨ ecosystem.
Check out the talk by @delta at #fosdem25 for more.
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
omigosh. You blew my mind yesterday, the development and transformation you have made in the last few years is fantastic.
Presented by:
@hpk @Xeniax@mastodon.ml
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Dear American friends,
someone smart and caring saved ALL your government websites data as of End of Term.
For more visibility, I'm just reposting.
Here is the Link to the git repository:
github.com/end-of-term/eot2024
Please share widely across all platforms and if you can, download the data and save it. (~360TB)
Original posting, where I've seen this first:
tilde.zone/@tomasino/113924820…
GitHub - end-of-term/eot2024: End of Term Web Archive 2024
End of Term Web Archive 2024. Contribute to end-of-term/eot2024 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The core problem with the CDC's move to embrace censorship is that it puts the legitimacy of all their publications under erasure.
Any scientific organization that will bow to political pressure for transgender issues, will bow for anything else Trump doesn't like.
Please digest the grave implications of this. It means that you cannot know what is suppressed. It means it is no longer a trustworthy institution.
mastodon.green/@christineburns…
Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ (@christineburns@mastodon.green)
CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.Mastodon.green
Yep. We'd seen price increases where we are, but still had eggs. But yesterday there simply were none. A friend who runs a restaurant is really struggling.
And of course government reports on bird flue have stopped.
- Ginger (55%, 115 Stimmen)
- Orange (37%, 77 Stimmen)
- Marmalade (3%, 7 Stimmen)
- Red (1%, 4 Stimmen)
- Other: (2%, 5 Stimmen)
Deborah Pickett hat dies geteilt.
Gingré. Because it deserves to sound French.
Edit: not actual French, just adequately French-sounding.
#OTD in 1922.
In a "savage creative storm" of less than three weeks beginning today at Château de Muzot in Switzerland, Rainer Maria Rilke writes his Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus) and completes his Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnets_…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duino_El…
Books by Rainer Maria Rilke at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84…
Books by Rilke, Rainer Maria (sorted by popularity)
Project Gutenberg offers 74,663 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
Martin Schröder hat dies geteilt.
Latter. Once Domain (codeberg.org/domain/app) is out and folks can set up their Small Web places easily on their own VPS servers using it and Place (codeberg.org/place/app) exists and is being used, I plan on looking into offering a little device you can plug into your home router.
Of course, you can do that yourself today by getting a single-board computer running a Linux distribution that uses system-d, installing Kitten via the one line installation command at kitten.small-web.org, and then running `kitten deploy <Git URL of kitten app you want to serve>` and you’d have your own little Small Web server device (if you’re technically-savvy but everything I’m working on is for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing and that’s why there’s so much more I have to do to get it to that level).
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Neoliberals: The report Rachel Reeves cited as evidence a third runway at Heathrow would boost the UK economy was commissioned by the airport itself.
Also neoliberals: “We have no idea why we keep losing to fascists.”
#neoliberalism #fascism #corruption #capitalism #UK #Labour #Starmer #RachelReeves
Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport
The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itselfinkl
Join our call to #FOSDEM Junior!
FOSDEM's children's track comes with some issues regarding both software freedom and privacy, as well as very limited self-determination of the participating #children.
We'd like to propose changes, and support @fosdem in making #FOSS, #privacy and self-determination a priority when working with young hackers.
But we don't want to be alone − show that you care by signing a postcard to the organisers at our stand in building F!
teckids.org/en/blog/2025/01/fo…
Join our call to make FOSDEM Junior free
A comprehensible (digital) world – together, for everyone.teckids.org
Yesterday, 42 people already signed or petition to #FOSDEM and the #RaspberryPi Foundation to free the Junior track from privacy issues and from requiring children to use Google platform and non-free software.
teckids.org/en/blog/2025/01/fo…
Find us in building F (level 2; between the coffee bars) to join our call!
Join our call to make FOSDEM Junior free
A comprehensible (digital) world – together, for everyone.teckids.org
Spitzenpolitiker der Union und der Grünen treffen sich in der Wohnung von Armin Laschet zum fröhlichen Beisammensein.
Genau am Tag zwischen den beiden Abstimmungen bei denen es im Bundestag hoch her geht und die Union zusammen mit den Faschos der AfD gemeinsam verfassungsfeindliche, faschistoide Forderungen beschließen.
Wäre ich Wahlkämpfer der Grünen, der unbedingt Kanzler Merz verhindern will, dann würde ich mich ziemlich verarscht vorkommen, wenn ich davon erfahre.
tagesspiegel.de/politik/am-vor…
„Auf ein Glas mit Armin“: Schwarz-grüne Spitzenpolitiker feierten vor Asyl-Abstimmung wohl in Laschets Wohnung
Bei der Debatte um das „Zustrombegrenzungsgesetz“ flogen zwischen Unionspolitikern und Grünen-Abgeordneten sprichwörtlich die Fetzen. Am Abend zuvor war die Stimmung einem Bericht zufolge ganz anders.Der Tagesspiegel
Ich habe Bonn als Hauptstadt ja noch erlebt, und sorry ein gutes dabei war, man hat sich auch privat getroffen, in der Kneipe und beim (privaten) Abendessen.
Da wurde viel besprochen, ohne Zwang und viele Lösungen gefunden, Dinge wieder glatt gezogen.
Es macht es auch schwieriger am nächsten Tag unfair miteinander um zu gehen.
Und wer weiß, so Glaskugel und so, man wählt ja eine Partei und keinen Kanzler .....
Ich nehme an Merz war nicht mit dabei .....
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Let me step back, though, and be careful about what I mean by "programmability."
Traditionally, in computer science, that's meant that the device or software in question can be made to emulate arbitrary Turing machines; in its strongest form, it even requires no worse than polynomial overhead.
Colloquially, though, one can program a TV remote or similar — that doesn't mean you can run DOOM on it (well, some of you can). It means you can intentionally affect its behavior.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •I posit that LLMs admit neither the strict nor colloquial sense of programmability. The former could be argued formally in terms of the number of states that can be explored, using the busy beaver numbers, but that would be original research well beyond the scope of a few toots.
Practically speaking, LLMs fail even the TV remote sense of programmability — if there is some desired behavior you wish for an LLM to exhibit, there's no a priori way to decide what actions to take to achieve that.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Should you use "please" and be more polite to it, or should you use "fuck" to bypass its guard rails? Who knows! As discussed, there's no theory to help you here, so you're stuck without a map to track back to what "prompt" you should start with.
The problem is that some prompts *seem* to work. Because these things are trained on lots and lots of stolen labor, it's not too hard to find text that superficially resembles some task or another.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •It's the whole thing where if you ask an LLM to multiply two small numbers together, someone has probably done that somewhere, so it "works," but it completely fails for larger numbers. "Reasoning" models can get around that by giving an escape hatch to eval, like the original chain-of-thought paper, but then why not just use eval directly?
But regardless, if you think of a task common enough that it has been solved in the training corpus, then it "works," right?
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •The next step of the fallacy is to conflate the strict and colloquial senses of programmability. If you can give an LLM "instructions" to multiply two numbers, couldn't you give it "instructions" to do anything else?
Well, no. That's a giant leap, and one that's fully unsupported by evidence. But it *feels* right, if only because you can again try out common problems and find solutions somewhere in the training corpus.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Computer scientists, as a lot, tend to have a pocket industry of proving that this or another toy model is equivalent to Turing machines. Billiard balls can be used to implement the Fredikin gate, which is universal for computation, and thus you can program your local pool table. Magic: the Gathering is infamously Turing complete, a fun fact to bring up during draft.
Those kinds of proofs are useful because the easiest way to show something can be programmed is to do it.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •That's precisely what you *can't* do with LLMs, though. Can you use an LLM to simulate a Fredikin gate if you say "fuck" enough, or do you need a "please" or two in there?
What's the construction? What *concrete* steps do you take to get an LLM to do what you want, and how do you know that you're correct?
With billiard balls, you have Newtonian physics. With MtG, you have the comprehensive rules. With LLMs, you've got ?????????.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
Als Antwort auf Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Even if you had an LLM-based implementation of programmability, will it always work? Will it work for programs up to a certain size? How will you know when it stops working? Will it work for a different seed or at a different temperature?
The programmability fallacy, as I'll coin it, lies to us and tells us not to worry about those problems because we can tell LLMs to multiply small numbers by each other and sometimes get the right answer.