#machines — Public Fediverse posts

→ L’#université à l’épreuve des #machines
https://aoc.media/analyse/2026/05/12/luniversite-a-lepreuve-des-machines/

« Certaines [des] formes les plus exigeantes – dissertation, khôlle, soutenance, oral de concours – ont longtemps reposé sur une intuition simple : un #texte ne suffit pas, encore faut-il qu’un #sujet en réponde. […] L’intérêt de ces traditions n’est […] pas de fournir un refuge nostalgique. Il est de rappeler qu’une #épreuve #intellectuelle est d’abord un #dispositif de mise en responsabilité. »

Je ne peux qu'abonder…

→ L’#université à l’épreuve des #machines
https://aoc.media/analyse/2026/05/12/luniversite-a-lepreuve-des-machines/

« Certaines [des] formes les plus exigeantes – dissertation, khôlle, soutenance, oral de concours – ont longtemps reposé sur une intuition simple : un #texte ne suffit pas, encore faut-il qu’un #sujet en réponde. […] L’intérêt de ces traditions n’est […] pas de fournir un refuge nostalgique. Il est de rappeler qu’une #épreuve #intellectuelle est d’abord un #dispositif de mise en responsabilité. »

Je ne peux qu'abonder…

→ L’#université à l’épreuve des #machines
https://aoc.media/analyse/2026/05/12/luniversite-a-lepreuve-des-machines/

« Certaines [des] formes les plus exigeantes – dissertation, khôlle, soutenance, oral de concours – ont longtemps reposé sur une intuition simple : un #texte ne suffit pas, encore faut-il qu’un #sujet en réponde. […] L’intérêt de ces traditions n’est […] pas de fournir un refuge nostalgique. Il est de rappeler qu’une #épreuve #intellectuelle est d’abord un #dispositif de mise en responsabilité. »

Je ne peux qu'abonder…

→ L’#université à l’épreuve des #machines
https://aoc.media/analyse/2026/05/12/luniversite-a-lepreuve-des-machines/

« Certaines [des] formes les plus exigeantes – dissertation, khôlle, soutenance, oral de concours – ont longtemps reposé sur une intuition simple : un #texte ne suffit pas, encore faut-il qu’un #sujet en réponde. […] L’intérêt de ces traditions n’est […] pas de fournir un refuge nostalgique. Il est de rappeler qu’une #épreuve #intellectuelle est d’abord un #dispositif de mise en responsabilité. »

Je ne peux qu'abonder…

→ L’#université à l’épreuve des #machines
https://aoc.media/analyse/2026/05/12/luniversite-a-lepreuve-des-machines/

« Certaines [des] formes les plus exigeantes – dissertation, khôlle, soutenance, oral de concours – ont longtemps reposé sur une intuition simple : un #texte ne suffit pas, encore faut-il qu’un #sujet en réponde. […] L’intérêt de ces traditions n’est […] pas de fournir un refuge nostalgique. Il est de rappeler qu’une #épreuve #intellectuelle est d’abord un #dispositif de mise en responsabilité. »

Je ne peux qu'abonder…

Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

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#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
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#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products

#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Need to fill your #laundry #wall Try one my best #selling #prints
#Washing #Machines of #Yesteryear by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://buff.ly/H4y560V metal print
https://buff.ly/iMz8Y3T all print styles & products

#retro #old #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Sometimes the ride is short but the average speed is sweet

25km/h for me it's quite an average speed because I ride in areas where children are all around and inclusive Infinity of the roads.

This was a Day time ride, I was lucky that all the children were inside

I later on rode a bit more so I could reach 90 minutes

#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #cycling race #machines #training #PPE #ANSI #Z87 #movement #is #Life

Sometimes the ride is short but the average speed is sweet

25km/h for me it's quite an average speed because I ride in areas where children are all around and inclusive Infinity of the roads.

This was a Day time ride, I was lucky that all the children were inside

I later on rode a bit more so I could reach 90 minutes

#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #cycling race #machines #training #PPE #ANSI #Z87 #movement #is #Life

Sometimes the ride is short but the average speed is sweet

25km/h for me it's quite an average speed because I ride in areas where children are all around and in close vicinity of the roads.

This was a Day time ride, I was lucky that all the children were inside

I later on rode a bit more so I could reach 90 minutes

Any training session less than 90 minutes is a waste of time

#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #cycling #race #machines #training #PPE #ANSI #Z87 #movement #is #Life

Sometimes the ride is short but the average speed is sweet

25km/h for me it's quite an average speed because I ride in areas where children are all around and in close vicinity of the roads.

This was a Day time ride, I was lucky that all the children were inside

I later on rode a bit more so I could reach 90 minutes

Any training session less than 90 minutes is a waste of time

#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #cycling #race #machines #training #PPE #ANSI #Z87 #movement #is #Life

Sometimes the ride is short but the average speed is sweet

25km/h for me it's quite an average speed because I ride in areas where children are all around and inclusive Infinity of the roads.

This was a Day time ride, I was lucky that all the children were inside

I later on rode a bit more so I could reach 90 minutes

#ThreadedRodsForBeginners #cycling race #machines #training #PPE #ANSI #Z87 #movement #is #Life

From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).

Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/50908779-bb17-42f9-b0fc-6dc0e69e5eea

#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #arabic #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

https://www.europesays.com/ie/470737/ Will Hong Kong’s claw machine regulations curb gaming habits and gambling risks? #AddictionCounsellingCentre #claw #ClawMachines #Éire #ELCHK #Gaming #Health #HomeAndYouthAffairsBureau #HongKong #IChangeAddictionCounsellingCentre #IE #Ireland #machines #MainlandChina #MentalHealth #MentalHealth #PinballMachines #RedNote #Singapore #SouthChinaMorningPost #taiwan #TerrenceMokWaiHo #Thailand

https://www.europesays.com/uk/940840/ Will Hong Kong’s claw machine regulations curb gaming habits and gambling risks? #AddictionCounsellingCentre #claw #ClawMachines #ELCHK #Gaming #Health #HomeAndYouthAffairsBureau #HongKong #IChangeAddictionCounsellingCentre #machines #MainlandChina #MentalHealth #PinballMachines #RedNote #Singapore #SouthChinaMorningPost #Taiwan #TerrenceMokWaiHo #Thailand #UK #UnitedKingdom

#Development #Techniques
Vouching for other people’s websites · Verifying human authorship with human.json https://ilo.im/16bx42

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#Humans #Machines #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Blogs #Jekyll #AI #WebDev #Frontend #JavaScript

#Development #Techniques
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#Humans #Machines #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Blogs #Jekyll #AI #WebDev #Frontend #JavaScript

#Development #Techniques
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#Humans #Machines #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Blogs #Jekyll #AI #WebDev #Frontend #JavaScript

#Development #Techniques
Vouching for other people’s websites · Verifying human authorship with human.json https://ilo.im/16bx42

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#Humans #Machines #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Blogs #Jekyll #AI #WebDev #Frontend #JavaScript

Vera: because who needs human programmers when you can have #machines write #code for machines? 🤖💻 Let's just skip the human-readable part altogether and let #AI enjoy its secret language club. 🕵️‍♂️🔍
https://github.com/aallan/vera #Vera #HumanProgramming #SecretLanguage #HackerNews #ngated

Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write

https://github.com/aallan/vera

#HackerNews #Vera #programming #language #machines #write #automation #technology

🤖🏃‍♂️ The H1 #humanoid #robot recently achieved a speed of 10 meters per second during sprint tests in #China. The Unitree Robotics CEO predicts that these #machines will break the 10-second 100-meter barrier by mid-2026.

👉 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2523906-humanoid-robots-may-be-about-to-break-the-100-metre-sprint-record/

#robotics #technology #tech #engineering #ai #innovation #physics #research #stem #future

I wish I could believe in #God. It seems preferable to what the evidence supports, which is that we're just monkeys that got too smart for our own good and now we're at the mercy of our terrible, terrible #machines. In fact, I think eternal conscious torment in #hell for worshiping God incorrectly is better than knowing that the #human experiment and all we've fought and died for can be erased in a microsecond and there will be none to mourn us but cockroaches. #christianity #jesus #help #heaven

Oh, look! It's the #AI #sandbox tool we never knew we didn't need! 🤖🚫 Plug in your #virtual #machines, sprinkle some #buzzwords, and watch as your coding agents... do something? Anything? Who knows! 🤷‍♂️
https://www.freestyle.sh #CodingAgents #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

In Australia the holiday season is the season to use petrol gardening equipment all day, every day. Pythons, lizards, frogs and insects are simply shredded and mulched alive.

Robotic lawn mowers and fossil fuel gardening tools are shredding wildlife

"Scientists analyzed 370 documented cases of hedgehogs being injured (cut) by electric gardening tools in Germany. Almost half of the hedgehogs found ... did not survive the injuries. The data reveal a serious animal welfare and conservation issue for these specially protected animals, as most hedgehogs were only found hours or even days after the accidents." >>
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240123122229.htm

#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #lawns #gardens #GardeningTools #robots #LawnMowing #machines #harm #gardening #WhipperSnipper #LeafBlowers #mowers #FossilFuel #RoboticMowers #GardeningEquipment #PlasticNetting

Image: Bracca matutinata (Southern Bracca), Bellingen, NSW

#Design #Approaches
The artisanal web · ”Make something weird and wonderful of your own.” https://ilo.im/16bmem

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#Business #Factories #AI #Machines #Humans #Craftsmanship #Websites #WebDesign #Development #WebDev

🎨🛠️ Oh, woe is the woodworker who blames the shiny new #machines for his existential crisis instead of his own laziness! 🤖🪵 Apparently, giving up the sweet, sweet struggle of #manual #labor is the machines' fault now. 😂
https://www.davidabram.dev/musings/the-machine-didnt-take-your-craft/ #woodworking #existentialcrisis #laziness #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8446cdeb-b002-4a7f-9bb3-050dbdc1f91b

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8446cdeb-b002-4a7f-9bb3-050dbdc1f91b

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8446cdeb-b002-4a7f-9bb3-050dbdc1f91b

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8446cdeb-b002-4a7f-9bb3-050dbdc1f91b

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/8446cdeb-b002-4a7f-9bb3-050dbdc1f91b

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #engineering #machines #hydraulics #art #publicdomain

Modular robots: Moving robots made with various generic leg components bolted together. Reminds me of Karl Sims' old evolution experiments
https://gizmodo.com/these-self-configuring-modular-robots-may-one-day-rule-the-world-2000731381
#via:metafilter #evolution #robotics #machines #motion #ai #+

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2c6fc73b-87e1-4edd-a40b-b7c35498671c

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #waterwheels #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2c6fc73b-87e1-4edd-a40b-b7c35498671c

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #waterwheels #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2c6fc73b-87e1-4edd-a40b-b7c35498671c

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #waterwheels #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2c6fc73b-87e1-4edd-a40b-b7c35498671c

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #waterwheels #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Agostino Ramelli, from Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588).

Source: Library of Congress

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/2c6fc73b-87e1-4edd-a40b-b7c35498671c

#fountains #technology #cogs #machinery #waterwheels #engineering #machines #art #publicdomain

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
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https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
>>
https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
>>
https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
>>
https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

Large-scale mechanical thinning of biodiversity
Forests as machine-accessible landscapes

""Large-scale mechanical thinning operations are essentially a waste of money. At worst, they degrade forests, making them more flammable, eroding habitat, compromising water security and compacting soils."
>>
https://theconversation.com/victorias-mountain-ash-forests-naturally-thin-their-trees-so-why-do-it-with-machines-268201
#loggingImpacts #NSWLogging #thinning #Biodiversity #wildlife #machines #FossilFuel #climate #nativeforests #destruction #loggingIndustry #extractivism

La startup de Mira Murati, Thinking Machines Lab, está perdiendo a dos de sus cofundadores a manos de OpenAI #Barret_Zoph #cofundadores #dos #está #Inteligencia_artificial #Lab #Machines #manos #Máquinas_pensantes #Mira #Mira_Murati #Murati #OpenAI #perdiendo #startup #sus #Thinking #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinió...
https://butterword.com/la-startup-de-mira-murati-thinking-machines-lab-esta-perdiendo-a-dos-de-sus-cofundadores-a-manos-de-openai/?feed_id=64880&_unique_id=6968aa8b8ed72

The Homepage of Ron Goodwin
http://rongoodwin.co.uk/
#ycombinator #ron_goodwin #music #hire #sale #concerts #film #composition #shillingford #reviews #recordings #cd_s #biography #discography #633 #squadron #where #eagles #dare #aces #high #magnificent #frenzy #flying #machines #trap #battle #britain #marple #wind #concert #brass #band

Shaving: A Greenland Diaries Flash Fiction

Nigel couldn’t believe his beard had gotten this long.

It was down to his chest, tangled and frizzy. It was black, but almost brown at its feathery edges. He could hear his father yelling at him to trim it, his high, almost husky voice echoing in his head. His father was ex military. He loved the clean shaven look and forced Nigel to follow that hairless motif, even though Nigel hadn’t picked up a weapon until the Drum started. Now, he always had one with him. The ravaged green world demanded it, even with the Drum destroyed and the Unnamed no longer hunting him at night.

Nigel wondered if his father was still alive in the nursing home in Saint Louis Park. He had barely been alive before the Drum. It wouldn’t make any sense for him to be spared.

Nigel had been lucky to hide in his Golden Valley home for most of the apocalypse. He had left for a few weeks to join survivors fighting an Unnamed by a lake that kept attacking them. It had been a hard fought battle. Only Nigel and a few others survived. None of them had the appetite for further confrontations with the Unnamed, and they all retreated to their former hiding spots. Those had been the last people he’d spoken to, except for a band of soldiers passing through who told him the Drum was destroyed, and the Unnamed were nonviolent unless attacked.

Nigel felt his dark, reflectionless face. His features were gaunt, weathered by a lack of nutritious food. His cheeks were flat, his nose large, his forehead dry. His lips were cracked and bloody in places. The weather had been fine. It was the fear eroding his flesh. The constant worry of the Unnamed returning, or a crazed Reanimated storming through the neighborhood.

Slowly, above his white bathroom sink, he began to trim his beard. There was no electricity for his razor, so he resorted to a pair of orange handled scissors he kept in his office for trimming documents. They were sharp, but loud as they crushed the fibers between its blades. In minutes, most of his beard was reduced to a prickly edge beneath his fingers. He sighed.

“I guess it’s time. They said it was safe.”

Ahead of him hung a wool blanket, yellow and brown, duct taped to the wall in miscellaneous streaks of silver adhesive. It dangled just above the sink.

It blocked the mirror.

He’d put it up during the first week, when he noticed the shadows watching him. Now, with the Drum destroyed, survivors passing through told him mirrors and reflections were back to normal. They no longer held phantoms.

He slowly reached for the fabric, then stopped.

“I can’t do it.”

He walked out of the bathroom with a shrug.

“I can’t believe it’s okay.”

I really enjoy writing about these quieter moments in the Greenland Diaries, where characters are learning to live again after a horrifying ordeal that shook the foundations of humanity. These bits of flash fiction give me ample opportunity for it. You can learn more about the mainline series right here. Thank you for reading!

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