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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.8.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/ This is another big release: new plot types, finer facet & axis control, smarter handling of categorical data, and lots more. Same tiny footprint, though. Short highlight thread below 🧵 #rstats

Heatmap of the mtcars dataset, scaled within each column. Code: https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/heatmap-mtcars.R

Histogram of New York temperatures, with bars coloured by their own x values. Code: plt(~ Temp | Temp, data = airquality, type = "hist", theme = "classic")

Hexbin plot of 20,000 bivariate normal draws. Code: https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/hexbin.R

Stacked area plot of telephones in use by world region, 1956-1961. Code: plt(WorldPhones[-1, ], type = type_area(stack = TRUE, byord = "end"))

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I've discovered that a partner at work is systematically processing my e-mails with #Gemini within #gmail. I get that people can process their mail however they wish. But on the other hand there are lots of personal information in there. Doesn't #GDPR or something else prevent this without […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

OpenAI claims that they used 300 billion output tokens from a swarm of ~10,000 concurrent instances of an internal model that is almost certainly larger and more expensive to run than GPT-6. That's the total token output, including exploring related problems, which, along with spying on other […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

'AI' is sold as an Everything Machine — a solution to nothing in particular, marketed as a solution to everything. The promise: frictionlessness, read as never being touched by another person's needs, mistakes, or point of view. Its utopia is the dystopia of total isolation […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

My employer insists in installing an antivirus in my (well, their) Linux laptop. Okay, I guess I have to comply. But then they come and install a *daemon* (hurukay-agent, from harfanglab.io) that runs in the background, without any user interface, options, or information about what it does. I […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

After decades shilling for corporate interests, O'Reilly has a 'come to Jesus' moment; "But as Tim O'Reilly writes, these billionaire-defending intellectuals always told us that markets would protect us from the madness of kings, by constraining the folly of the wealthy and powerful through the […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Oh, how I wish all the billions poured into #AI and #war in the last few years had been invested in eradicating #hunger and #poverty and in fighting #climatechange. #justsaying

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Outside the AI bubble, a backlash has been brewing for some time — and not only among students booing pro-AI commencement speakers. Just 10 percent of Americans say they're thrilled about the future of AI, a Pew poll found in March; that same month, some 80 percent of registered U.S. voters in […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/04/2026

so much of the “AI” mania is just that we are all asked to do too much, to be too many things to too many people, to be “on” all the time. every job is 9 jobs, every project is a startup side hustle even if you have zero equity. the answer to “well if I can’t use the ‘AI’ to do these other 8 […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Where do people download (not streaming) #music these days? I mean, actual mp3 files, as we used to do with aMule some 20 years ago (shit). There are thousands of torrent sites, but I rarely find what I want amongst piles of BS. #help

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM. Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Has anyone received an email invitation to join a network of data science experts called "Ethos"? I can only find corporate information on line. I would like to read some thoughts from real mindful people like you. #ask #help

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source." ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-europea… #geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

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Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

This is surely a 💩 library... 😄

A screenshot from a Linux terminal with a list of Debian packages for a library called "libcaca". "Caca" is like "poo" in Spanish.

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n1k0 @n1k0.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

> We don’t really know how AI reaches its conclusions – even the programmers admit as much. Nor can we verify its reasoning against clear, objective criteria. So when we follow AI’s advice, we are not guided by reason. We are back in the realm of faith. I know you're bored with my shitting on […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

How "AI" is being actually trained: «It’s a model built for distance and deniability, Joan Kinyua, president of the Data Labelers Association, a Nairobi-based AI workers’ union, told Rest of World. “It’s capitalism and the height of digital colonialism. Oftentimes, supervisors don’t even mention […]

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Olivier Berger @olberger.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

Today, strike and huge protests in France. Over a million people in demonstrations all over the country to refuse Macron's austerity, and billionaire profits over people's needs. Together we stand stronger, for fiscal justice, public services, peace and democracy! #18septembre2015 #frpol

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Brendan Jones @brendanjones.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

"The fact that poverty persists at such high levels today indicates that severe dislocation is institutionalised in the world economy – and that markets have failed to meet the basic needs of much of humanity." […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

“You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals. Don’t like your health care? Shop around! Don’t like your boss? Quit your job! Under no circumstances […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025

### My feedback to the EU regarding the newly proposed law forcing all websites to plaintext store everything users do or write for law enforcement. This may be the dumbest law the EU has proposed as of yet, and it already attempted chat control and article 13 / 11, so this says a lot! Not […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2025

La stratégie #numerique du #CIRAD pour les prochaines années est actuellement en cours d’élaboration et de discussion. Le document de travail n’est pas accessible publiquement (et je n’ai pas l’autorisation de le diffuser), mais il a été partagé en petits comités afin de recueillir des avis et […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2025

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.» Nice writing by @patatas! […]

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Facundo Muñoz @famuvie.oc.todon.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

Belle collaboration avec le Pôle Projets : Modélisation #Mathématique des Systèmes Complexes de #centralesupelec Université #parissaclay. J'ai proposé un problème appliqué de modélisation par #PDE et de résolution numérique d'un processus de diffusion d'insectes avec piègeage, issu de mes […]

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antoniovr @antoniovr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2025

A not very famous add-on which works in #Firefox :fox: and derivatives (such as #Fennec, #LibreWolf,...) is Archive Page addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/ad… and for Android I […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

@ct_bergstrom and Jevin T. West have made this excellent resource available called MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world thebullshitmachines.com Text, slides, videos, even short exercises THANK YOU for making this usable for free in educational […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2025

all your half-finished projects are still experience that contributes directly to your skills and confidence. the dozen half-finished projects are the seeds of the finished one that you could never have handled a decade ago.

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@yabellini@fosstodon has moved @yabellini.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2025

Amen. Si, así, sin acento.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025

Oh my $DEITY. The Trump administration stopped all publication of CDC MMWRs (and also effectively shut down all public info drops on everything from HHS/CDC). Wow. This is really big and really bad. I wish I could provide some positive counsel, but I cannot. They really are a death cult […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/12/2024

"Each task consumed approximately 1,785 kWh of energy—about the same amount of electricity an average U.S. household uses in two months" This is one per-task estimate from Salesforce's head of sustainability -->> www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...

OpenAl03 (high compute tuned) 1 task = 684 kg CO₂e R Emissions = 5 full tanks of gas

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PolGM @polgm.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

Hier j'étais à une soirée de la French Tech, avec des présentations de projets de nouvelles startups Un gars vient présenter des chiffres sur la santé mentale des Français : beaucoup ont des idées dépressives ou suicidaires. Mais comment améliorer ça ? Jsp […] [Original post on masto.bike]

Meme la French Tech, décomposé en précarité, arrogance, exploitation, détournement de fonds publics et inutilité

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2024

Just like with climate science, I'm often sad that I've studied history 😢

“Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”

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Jesse Skinner @jesseskinner.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

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