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Boosted by jwz:
weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Transmission #4240 from Zuma (USAP)

1. Dust Cryptomine
2. Hotel of Couchfuckers

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I can't say I hate this; I don't imagine whoever follows her will be any better

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/pam-bondi-role-trump

Boosted by jwz:
the_consequences@zirk.us ("The Consequences of MAGA") wrote:

April 2, 2026—Pedophile protector Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General after the Solicitor General fails to convince a handpicked Supreme Court to thwart the plain language of the Founders and the text of the 14th Amendment. The chief executive was also unhappy that his personal lawyers were unvetted, unqualified, and unconfirmed to serve as US Attorneys and Bondi couldn’t get judges to let them in the courthouse doors.

Boosted by jwz:
th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

#WTF regex #penplotter

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

has anybody actually ever seen a crowd say bo, selecta?

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Kick Murder Squad Pleasurebot") wrote:

Autist: “I want you to do X.”

*Allistic person does B, V, and G.

“I want you to do X.”

*Person points to R, says “I did that.”

“No, you didn’t. That is R, you did B. I didn’t ask for R or B, I asked for X.”

*Person points to U, says “well I did that already too.”

“No, that’s U, you did V, I asked for…nevermind I’ll just do it.”

*Person watches me do X, gets annoyed and says “you should have just asked for X.”

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

It’s such a stark difference how LLMs have impacted authors and tech workers. We both create, but for tech workers it can be incredibly empowering, letting us do a better job, more responsively.

But the destruction being wrought — maybe legally, depending on how decisions fall — on the creative industries is heartwrenching.

Same technology. Vastly different impacts.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Catvalente@wandering.shop ("Catherynne M. Valente") wrote:

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement

jwz wrote:

Fannettsburg Reformed Church Cemetery.

My "No use of geiger counters on church property" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign. Highly esteemed deeds are definitely commemorated here.
https://jwz.org/b/yk5n

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Move slow and design things.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

when the CW was not overcaution

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
the_codifier@libranet.de ("Janik Ramírez") wrote:

Después de un sesudo análisis...

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
JDanielSsp ("J.Daniel") wrote:

El sol cayendo en Trinidad de Cuba. Parque de los Perros, calles de piedra, olor a Caribe. La puesta de sol aquí es un espectáculo. 🌅🇨🇺

Attachments:

• video: b25819c105d85057.mp4

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
xoagray@tiggi.es ("Xoa Gray") wrote:

@soatok It took me a second to see the Telegard thing at the top so initially I thought this was going to be about Telegram.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wordshaper@weatherishappening.network ("Dan Sugalski") wrote:

@soatok Is it wrong that I didn't get past "a secure chat app" in the post title before I reflexively assumed they utterly fucked up their hand-rolled cryptography protocols?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

@soatok _uploadRSAPrivateKey(), woooooooo

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ayke@blahaj.social ("Maaike 🔜 EH23 ☎️ 2953") wrote:

This should be a thing at chaos events too.

#CCC

@soatok https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Jeez, what a mess.

https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
derPUPE@chaos.social wrote:

Spread this #Typography masterpiece

by Barbara Galińska

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Bye-bye, Pam.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/02/bondi-is-out/

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

dear lazyweb: a couple of years ago I ran into a really fantastic html/css very-beginner tutorial that I thought was amazing. It really went step by step and it was done by this guy who I think had accessibility needs and thus taught that part too?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

EDIT: Thanks to @eramdam. The answer was https://htmlforpeople.com

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

The right wing understands that when it comes to dismantling good things, *action* trumps anything else. And that the Courts are too slow, esp with the current SCOTUS' ridiculous ideas about injunctions, to stop the damage from being fatal.

That's why fascists rely on compliance in advance: if VOA employees had just kept going to work and doing their job, making trouble and breaking doors to get to their stations, the Courts would have been forced to rule, and VOA would still exist.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@adactio I have not read the article yet, and am replying partly to bookmark this for myself to read when I have more time later.

I do agree that Apple sometimes supporting their own standards instead of common/open standards is frustrating. (ex: requiring Apple audio containers for some codecs)

BUT, I'm also wary of "The Web" requiring supporting *every* web standard and every feature that Google's Chrome supports. Web sites *should work* on older/smaller browsers, or for example, without JS!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Seeing a lot of hot takes on the ongoing #anthropic source leak hilarity bemoaning just how terrible the code is.

Folks, you're missing the point. Their idea is that code is now a low-level implementation detail, it's not for reading. You only program with prompts, and nobody cares how hard it is for agents to read their own code. That humans still need to review it is considered a temporary inconvenience, which they are solving (for now) in the usual way: hiring more bodies. (cont.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Coincidentally, just today my company installed some "metrics gathering" extension to our enterprise Claude account which Claude warns "could allow execution of arbitrary code or interception of your prompts and responses", so I won't be doing this myself anytime soon. 😅

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I have a friend who felt like he was between a rock and a hard place politically at work. So he wrote up the situation and fed it to an LLM to brainstorm for ideas.

It told him to quit. (In multiple related conversations.)

A mutual friend thought that using an LLM like that was a good idea and fed her situation into an LLM as well. It also told *her* to quit.

I would be interested in hearing more data points on this. 😆

#AI #LLM #chatbot #claude #chatgpt

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The CFTC (the US commodities regulator) has just sued (https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9206-26) Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois for their efforts to "outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain" prediction markets like Kalshi.

This is another escalation by newly appointed CFTC chair Mike Selig (and sole Commissioner at the agency), who has taken it upon himself to assert the CFTC's sole regulatory authority over prediction markets. Recently, the CFTC filed a supporting brief in Crypto .com's lawsuit against Nevada.

As I wrote then (https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/#cftc), "Since the CFTC has filed no enforcement actions against prediction markets after embracing the sector following Trump’s election, Selig’s jurisdictional claim seems designed to shield the sector rather than regulate it."

Nevertheless, the CFTC's press release accompanying these lawsuits claims that state regulatory intervention could result in "poorer consumer protection and increased risk of fraud and manipulation".

#PredictionMarkets #Kalshi

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/116336026699518351

Congrats on the launch @mike!

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, turns out Angine de Poitrine (Pectoral Angine? Chesty Angine?) is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

ETA: one of the replies provided a proper translation: angina (pectoris), or y'know, chest pain.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Why can't I use jokes from Oglaf in my biology classes?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/02/lessons-i-probably-shouldnt-use-in-my-classes/