George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

#Inktober2025 Day 29: Lesson

(Or more like, an online lesson interrupted)

I'm looking for some new fun light hearted #PeerTube accounts to follow.

I'm looking for accounts that are...

Everyday life Vlogs.
Talk about music.
Talk about the Fedi.
Scientific explanations.
Travel
Talk about Comic books
Talk about Tv series
Movies
Gardening

If you know someone that makes PeerTube videos about any one of these subjects, PLEASE recommend them to me!

Thank you! (please boost for visability)

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list https://users.aalto.fi/~ave/publications.html for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2025

Just one ranch in Washington is responsible for more than 70% of the state’s wolf kills. And the majority of the ranch’s cows? According to the USFS, they shouldn’t even be grazing there.

https://westernwatersheds.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-some-of-washington

cybersecurity 2025

Hey, Anthropic owes me $9000! They illegally used at least 3 of my books on LibGen to create Claude. Now they're paying a $1.5 billion settlement, at $3000 per book. See if *your* books are on the list:

https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

If so, you have until March 23, 2026 to file a claim. The above website lets you file a claim, but this one explains everything more clearly:

https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/#next-steps

Actually I exaggerated: the payment will be split between authors and publishers, but I have to make the claim - so the settlement is making me do some work my publisher should be doing for me. My coauthors and I will just get half, $4500. One of these books has 2 coauthors, one has 3, and one is a book I edited, with essays by lots of authors. So $1000 is a more realistic estimate of what I get. Oh well.

Bizarrely, my most popular book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, is not on the list. But I guess it's not surprising:

"The settlement agreement discloses that approximately 500,000 titles out of the 7 million copies of books that Anthropic reportedly downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi meet the definition required to be part of the class."

Only books whose copyright is registered with the US Library of Congress meet that defiinition!

If you have a book on the list, you can opt out of the current settlement and join future lawsuits. But you have to take action to do that!!! For more information on that, see item 40 here:

https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/faq

I would like to ask the Mastodon hive- mind a question about #StainedGlass. The background story is that I went to a giant yard sale/antique sale in Frankfurt West #Germany in 1986 or so and bought these two pieces. They went in to storage, they took some damage but now I want to know more about them and possibly have at least one of them repaired. I was told that they were pulled from a small church that was being demolished years before and they'd been in a basement for a couple of generations before this person sold them to me.

So does anyone have any idea what I have here? How old are they and should I cannibalize one of them to make the other into a better piece? I'd love to build one of them into the wall of a sunny room in my house or stabilize it, frame it and backlight it as an art piece.
These are three pictures of the same piece, the other one is missing the M shape center piece (broken) but is otherwise in tact.

I look forward to your insights and any comments you choose to make and thank you for your time!

#Art #Artstodon #Medieval #Glass

The Python Software Foundation shows more spine than every single tech giant in just one single decision.

> Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core to the PSF’s values

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

Hi there Fediverse, I'm Retro Tech Shop, a California, USA, repair cafe with a passion for vintage electronics, ethical technology, FOSS, and STEM education and advocacy. Glad to be here.

#introduction #Introductions #NewHere

I can't sell books if people don't know I have books for sale.

I have books for sale: https://books2read.com/ap/6n661n/Grey-Liliy

I have a bunch of genres and most are novella if you need a quick read. :D

#indieauthor #novellas #writing #selfpublished

#introduction

“Hello ex-twitter users!

We are boriken.social, a Mastodon instance creating a space for #PuertoRicans on the fediverse for Puerto Ricans both inside the archipelago and abroad.

https://boriken.social/about

You can register here. It might take a little bit of time since we are approving new requests manually to avoid spam. But here you are more than welcome!” #PuertoRico #Borikén

Should have done this earlier and saved myself some membership dues, but having told #UCU that I am currently unemployed, my membership is free for up to a year 👍

Now, where are all the remote/Scotland #Bioinformatics & #ResearchSoftwareEngineer jobs hiding? Or should I try the commercial world as a #Python programmer... #GetFediHired

#Inktober2025 Day 25: Inferno

"This is fine" dog

i know Putin threatened a massive retaliation for US aid to Ukraine, but reaching all the way to Washington, DC, like this is incredible

Yo!

I'm looking for my next thing.

I'm a backend dev (primarily PHP with 15+ years professional experience), conference speaker, and a bit of a nerd. I've worked in #Fintech, #CyberSecurity with SANS Institute, and most recently #TrustAndSafety and #Authenticity with Bumble at scale.

I'm interested in something remote, I'm UK based. Engineering or engineering-coordination type jobs!

If you know of anything, hit me up!

#FediHire #LookingForWork

#Inktober2025 Day 21: Blast
🚀

Arizona police agencies are largely rejecting an ICE program that lets officers act as deportation agents, citing the experience of the state’s largest sheriff’s office where the program ended after a federal judge found civil rights violations.

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-police-immigration-ice-287g?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Arizona #ICE #Immigration #Police #Immigrants #CivilRights

Something I would like to have for presentations is an USB-C HDMI Powerbank. It has enough juice to keep my laptop lit, and has an HDMI port for projection.

Has anybody seen one?

The Other Demonstration on Saturday https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Hey everyone!

I just got a rejection from a long interview cycle. It's weighing on me very heavy right now, my migraine is making sure of it.

Currently I am feeling emotionally drained and today I don't feel like I can keep doing this for much longer. Yet I must persist.

If you know of anything having to do with Site Reliability, Observability, or Incident Management... please, please, send it my way. I will take anything at this point, junior roles, mid-level, I will do anything.

Pretty soon our savings will be completely gone.

#SRE #FediHire #ReliabilityEngineering #IncidentResponse #resilience