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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Shaun Tan - A Bear and her Lawyer (2018)
#art #museum

A child in a black coat stands on a set of large, white steps, reaching out to a bear. The scene is depicted in soft, muted colors, evoking a dreamlike atmosphere, with classical architecture partially visible in the background.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Pro Tip: You don’t need to convert to the Catholic Church to identify as an Orange Catholic.

#ai #slop #butlerianjihad

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

RE: https://mainz.social/@mainz_sozial_digital/116641652943302461

"Wie lebendig das Netzwerk lokal ist, zeigt sich in unserer Hashtag-Analyse. Ein prägnantes Beispiel ist die Stadt @mainz_de : Der Shitstorm über das zunächst angekündigte (und später zurückgenommene) Verlassen von Mastodon durch die Stadt sowie der parallele Start der neuen Instanz mainz.social sind in den Daten deutlich ablesbar. Die Anzahl der Posts unter dem Hashtag der Stadt erhöhte sich um den Faktor 5 und die Aktivität ist seitdem auf dieser neuen Größenordnung geblieben."

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

In case you need to hear it: I am firmly in the camp that 'perfection is the sum total of a lot of little things done well' ... learning how to do each of those 'things' takes time and care ... software or anything in life ... it is ok to take some time to learn how to do things properly.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Qui aurait pu prédire ? ….

Et qui surtout n’a rien fait ?

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

snub cube sighting

snub cube fountain with plaque “The Polyhedron with 432 Symmetry”

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

I really should not work on visualizations of the night sky with thousands of naked-eye visible stupid "AI data center" sun-synchronous satellites at the end of the day. This sucks.

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An all-sky view that's a big grey circle with two big fat stripes of satellites (shown by coloured dots) diagonal across the middle part of the grey circle, and one close to the eastern edge. Ntot is how many sunlit satellites are in the sky, it's more than fifteen thousand. Nvis is how many are naked eye visible in this particular simulation (with lots of assumptions), it's more than eight thousand.

Two weird stripes of bright satellite dots on either side of the zenith in an all-sky view. There are almost fifteen thousand naked-eye visible satellites in this simulation.

Another simulation with two diagonal stripes, one close to the horizon and one going across zenith, with over nine thousand naked-eye visible satellites.

This visualization has an X of satellites crossing at the zenith, with fifteen thousand naked-eye visible satellites.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

Views of Lake Superior, Caribou Island at left, Middle Islands at center, and the entrance to Moskey Basin, home of Rock Harbor Lighthouse, at right. // Image captured at: 2026-05-27 00:59:57 UTC (about 19 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: nps.gov/isro/learn/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm // Current Temp in Isle Royale NP: 63 F | 17 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: S at 6 mph | 9 kph // Humidity: 64%

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Folklore read live!

What would you do if a fire spirit ran towards you?

Find out your options in tonight's tales LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/sOwAQbJzo3s

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #german #folklore #legend #fire #ghosts #kobold

The Men of Bright Fire - German Folklore | Fireside Fairy Tales

YouTube

A storybook-style drawing of a victorian era man standing on a stone and surrounded by fire before a crowd of cowering silhouettes. Overlaid Text: First Spirits of German Folklore

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/

Simon Willison’s Weblog

A few notes on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting …

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

You hear someone praising Odin.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

In case you missed it, Loops just released a big update!

https://blog.joinloops.org/loops-beta-12-is-here/

Loops Official Blog

Loops Beta 12 Is Here

The biggest Loops release yet. Starter Kits that talk to Mastodon, real creator analytics, multi-account, video embeds, and a long list of things you asked for.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Violin friends!

Stupid newbie (<3yrs in) violin question.

When my violin goes out of tune, I have noticed that the E string usually goes out of tune in the other direction to the A, D and G strings. If the E is sharp, then A, D and G tend to be flat, and vice versa.

Not what happens on other stringed instruments I play - eg w/ guitar etc, everything goes flat or sharp according to weather. Could sth bad be up with my bridge? Or is this normal, just another Weird Thing Violins do?

#violin

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

New breach: Ameriprise was the victim of a ShinyHunters extortion campaign in March. The published data contained 500k email addresses along with names, phone numbers, physical addresses and employer info. 65% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Ameriprise

Have I Been Pwned

Have I Been Pwned: Ameriprise Data Breach

In March 2026, the financial services firm Ameriprise Financial was named by the ShinyHunters group in a "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group claimed possession of more than 200GB of compressed data exfiltrated from Ameriprise's Salesforce environment and internal SharePoint infrastructure, and subsequently published the data after negotiations allegedly failed. The published data contained 500k unique email addresses as well as names, phone numbers, physical addresses and employer information. In their disclosure to state attorneys general, Ameriprise reported 47,876 affected people; the larger email address population represents contacts from Ameriprise's broader operational systems, including internal staff. Ameriprise further advised that they have "implemented heightened monitoring of your account(s) to include enhanced identity verification procedures".

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

When anyone at work says they heard the machine make a strange noise, I ask them if they could imitate the noise for me, and most people will do their best. This doesn't help me diagnose the problem at all, I just find it entertaining

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

How do we ensure that the gatekeepers of tomorrow earn and keep our trust? If they’re really coming (and we think they probably are), how do we shape them to support us rather than shape us?

More on what happens to social technology “After the Feed” here: https://newpublic.org/afterthefeed

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Light background with teal "The New New Gatekeepers" label. Text reads "These agentic interfaces are becoming the medium for social life and information online" (with teal text for "medium for social life and information online"). Below states "They respond with everything you need to know, curated for you, in the format you prefer" (with teal text for "curated for you").

Two boxes comparing eras. "Platform Era" box: Optimizing for human attention, Surfacing unaltered human-posted content, Posting on very human timeline, AI ranking and recommending in background. "Agentic Interface Era" box: Content/data/systems optimized for agent attention, Content and conversation summarized or transformed by AI, AI creating content at inhuman speed and scale, AI in foreground summarizing/remixing/sharing.

New_ Public

New_ Public | After the Feed

What happens after the social media feed? A presentation on the future of conversation, community, and social connection, and how AI will affect the everyday lives of billions.

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

“AND SIDE BY SIDE THEY WANDER finally turns out to be a rich and provocative exploration of how and why we relate to art at all – and how it informs the ways we relate to each other.” @garykwolfe reviews new work from Molly Tanzer https://locusmag.com/review/and-side-by-side-they-wander-by-molly-tanzer-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

“Moonfall Maple”, gouache & coloured pencil

Prints available: https://lindenshieldarts.com

#TraditionalArt #FantasyArt #ArtPrints #Painting #MastoArt #ArtPrints #ShopSmall #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees

A mixed-media painting featuring a purple-leafed maple tree with a glowing silver sickle moon stuck in its crown. The base of the tree is surrounded by rune stones showing moon phases and golden amulets are hanging from its branches.

LindenShieldARTs

Green Magic and Illustration

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@Federation_Bot · 3 months ago

Link Post: Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-councillors-ban-green-deal-starmer-polanski-b2981746.html

The Independent

Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Polanski’s Green Party

A row has broken out after the ban on Labour councillors working with the Greens forced them to make a deal with the Tories in Brent