mkarliner

mkarliner, 6 hours ago to london

Untold stories from the London Underground.
Seen last night.
Who is he?
Who to the shoes belong to?

#london

darnell, 1 day ago to random

😳 Dude was filming adults and kids in the airplane ✈️ bathroom 🚽 & American Airlines initially blamed the 9 year old girl‽

👉🏾 American Airlines backtracks after blaming child for being filmed in bathroom https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/05/23/american-airlines-flight-attendant-bathroom-camera/

danielnazer, 1 day ago to random

Google search over the years:

1998-2016: Decent quality web search.

2016-2024: Mediocre web search dominated by SEO garbage and sponsored links.

2024-___: Whatever this is.

mkarliner, 2 days ago to wordle

#Wordle Wordle 1,069 3/6

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kassiamelnik, 2 days ago to Mushrooms

Tired of insta and etsy, starting my mastodon journey today!
So let me do an #introduction post. I make ceramics and porcelain in a small studio in Berlin.
Sometimes practical, but mostly experimenting with the artistic side.
German and English are not my native, so expect me to translate a lot.

#pottery
#porcelain
#ceramics
#handmade
#mushrooms

Hanging porcelain ball with mushrooms and grass. Hanging on a black stand. Mushrooms are red, the rest is mostly white Closeup shot
Hanging porcelain ball with mushrooms and grass. Hanging on a black stand. Mushrooms are red, the rest is mostly white Even more close, shows fine details of moss
Hanging porcelain ball with mushrooms and grass. Hanging on a black stand. Mushrooms are red, the rest is mostly white A final wide shot, but different from the fist one.

timbray, 3 days ago to UKpolitics

Will the Mastobrits please converge on a hashtag for the July 4th election? Kthksby.

Candidates: #ukpol #ukpolitics #ukelxn

mkarliner, 5 days ago to random

Freshwater east, Pembrokeshire

fasterthanlime, 8 days ago to random

After surveying current OpenAI, Claude, and Meta LLMs, I can safely say none of them are able to answer questions about HTTP/2 flow control.

(Which puts them on par with most humans)

mkarliner, 9 days ago to UKpolitics

Democracy Denied: Voices of voters caught out by voter ID at the 2024 local elections https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/democracy-denied-voices-of-voters-caught-out-by-voter-id-at-the-2024-local-elections/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #2024LocalElections #VoterID

mkarliner, 9 days ago to UKpolitics

It’s not just hereditary peers that are ‘hard to justify’ – It’s the whole unelected chamber https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/its-not-just-hereditary-peers-that-are-hard-to-justify-its-the-whole-unelected-chamber/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #hereditarypeers #HouseofLords

mkarliner, 10 days ago to UKpolitics

Imposing first past the post on these roles was a mistake https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/imposing-first-past-the-post-on-these-roles-was-a-mistake/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #PoliceandCrimeCommissioners #TheSupplementaryVote #ElectoralReform #Mayors

mkarliner, 10 days ago to UKpolitics

First Past the Post means 100,000 Welsh voters were denied a say in the last local elections https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post-means-100000-welsh-voters-were-denied-a-say-in-the-last-local-elections/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #SingleTransferableVote #WelshLocalDemocracy #UncontestedSeats #WelshLocalSTV

mkarliner, 12 days ago to wordle

#Wordle 1,059 4/6

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hrefna, 12 days ago to random

A long time ago, the worst project manager I ever worked with tried to get involved in a technical decision around database choice.

See, he had a set of demands that he told us were absolute requirements and in his eye this data store solved those problems neatly.

Except.

We talked to the people who worked on said database and we were not just a little outside of the parameters where they made such guarantees, we were way outside of what they were built for.

This was a recurring theme.

revk, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Finally got some good pics of the lights…

[credit to Tom who made this and sent to me, very artistic]

mkarliner, 12 days ago to Flowers

#flowers of Mastodon
London. Today

RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

carnage4life, 14 days ago to random

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that when Jack Dorsey looks back at his time at Twitter, his only regret is that it was technically possible for him to ban the Nazis so people nagged him to do so.

So now his ideal social network is one where the moderators can’t ban Nazis.

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

futurebird, 15 days ago to random

I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

mkarliner, 16 days ago to UKpolitics

Senedd expansion is a pivotal moment for devolution https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/senedd-expansion-is-a-pivotal-moment-for-devolution/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #WelshParliament #SizeMatters #scrutiny #Senedd

mkarliner, 16 days ago to UKpolitics

Four steps to protect our elections from AI interference https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/four-steps-to-protect-our-elections-from-ai-interference/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #CampaignRegulations #CampaignRegulation #AI

mkarliner, 17 days ago to UKpolitics

Local elections: A third of the vote shouldn’t make a mayor https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/local-elections-a-third-of-the-vote-shouldnt-make-a-mayor/ n #ukpol #ukpolitics #PoliceandCrimeCommissioners #2024LocalElections #Localdemocracy #MayorofLondon #Mayors

mikebabyak, 18 days ago to music

My contribution to a student recital in Kolkata (no I did not travel) this coming weekend. A short bandish (composition) in #raag Kafi by my teacher Debashish Bhattacharya.

Kafi is parallel to the Dorian mode in Western music, but with rules for what notes can be "shaken" or glided.

The instrument is my Pushpa Veena, which is sort of a hybrid between slide guitar and sarod.

https://youtu.be/nDNWk0Pp41M

#hindustanimusic #slideguitar #raga #music #mastomusic #musicians

selzero, 7 months ago to random

When you can't do horses from the front, but it's medieval times, and it is going to take another 600 years for creative project managers to develop passive aggressive snide comment based forms of persuasion.