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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

MakerWorld right now feels like Netflix in 2012.

"Everything is free!"
"This will stay free!"
"We just need one paid tier."

Anyway, enjoy your ads between layer 37 and 38.

#3dprinting

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a couple months back.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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parkermolloy.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Parker Molloy") wrote:

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

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• video: ad17f15e93afaf62.mp4

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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

It's good that we're all so bothered by the new and extensive demand for personal data on US visa applications.

Can we also be bothered that for Americans, they just buy it from data brokers, without cause or warrant, without so much as informing you?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:

‘[an allied officer said] America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

…it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.”’

https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is dutifully fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.

Who says? The chair of the Fed.

Someone should investigate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is Seriously Not Good

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

RETVRN

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looking_for_a_shoegaze_drummer@loops.video wrote:

woag blender music

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• video: Playing vcv rack (a modular synth app) on a blender :3

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inkican ("Inkican") wrote:

Oof, I felt that.

#technology #tech #innovation #engineering #business #technews #gadgets

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mhoye wrote:

Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/openai-and-disney-reach-landmark-agreement-to-license-characters-on-sora/

Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-block-state-ai-laws-media-pretends-thats-legal/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

idk man, it kinda seems like the time AI is saving you and the time you spend online talking about it are kind of a wash

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mark@social.markiswrit.ing ("Mark Taylor") wrote:

Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot ("Kristie") wrote:

A GENTLE PSA

Getting sick doesn’t do what you might think it does.

Viruses can only create new variants when they spread. More infections = more replication = more mutations = more chances for a fitter, more evasive strain to appear.

Very few viruses give lifelong immunity. Most immunity to viruses fades, and with high levels of transmission, new variants appear often. That’s why we keep getting sick.

Getting sick doesn’t fix the problem. It drives it.

https://xkcd.com/2557/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

life can be so very harsh

#catsofmastodon

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271

This story doesn't need anything extra to be wildly disturbing.

But when you consider how many of these AI robot demos are just mechanical turks- real humans "in a box" controlling the robot, and how many billions Meta and Google are spending in deep sea fiber optic cables from the global south to the US, the picture really crystallizes does it?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
afilina@phpc.social ("🇺🇦 Anna Filina") wrote:

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:

❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.

My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271

been trying for a decade to articulate that the #surveillance economy is a form of financial #slavery.

slaveowners kept dockets on slaves. the first securitized assets in Wall Street were bundled slave dockets held by slaveowners.

after abolition, many plantations created banks to use a similar docket system for indentured servants. once banned regionally, Reagan resurrected them as national credit reports.

Silicon Valley #techbros exist to globalize the financialization of slavery.

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
jensimmons@front-end.social ("Jen Simmons") wrote:

Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including `field-sizing`, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, `command` & `commandfor`, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, `scrollend` event, `random()`, WebGPU in WebXR, `scrollbar-color`, `hidden=until-found` and *much* more! https://webkit.org/blog/17640/webkit-features-for-safari-26-2/

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ STAR CRASH: HALOU + QUENTEL THE CRYPTID at DNA Lounge tonight: Fri Dec 12, 8:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/12-12d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #starcrash #halou #quentelthecryptid #vicereine #colorblock #synthpop #triphop #dreampop #altpop #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: a4111588b7468379.mp4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Isn't it wild that Google can shape our opinions on any issue at any time simply by lying through its AI summary feature?

I googled "feature chum" which is a term I made for a shady business goal (often surveillance) disguised as a platform feature.

Google changed my definition yet still cited me.

jwz wrote:

What if the Torment Nexus was fundamental to WordPress?

WordPress corporate tools out here salivating over the prospect of a Spicy Autocomplete Slop Firehose being so tightly coupled to WordPress core that there's no hope in hell of getting rid of it:...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0X

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deane@contenttechtodon.org ("Deane Barker") wrote:

I maintain this never took off because literally NO ONE was asking for it. It was something that Zuckerberg just decided we would love. Not a single person was looking for this. https://medium.com/@gp2030/why-metas-70-billion-metaverse-gamble-collapsed-5ad3260c15c8

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jk ("josef") wrote:

if you want to learn how to make something really successful, you can read up on the success of others. how did the software company come to dominate? founder's dad was a specialist in corporate and technology law. how did the band get so many hits? frontman had been a music journalist. how did the acclaimed game secure funding? writer worked at a private equity firm. simply be these people and you will be successful

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cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

it’s true. 🔊 sound on

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• video: a demonstration on how usiing the old mac text to speech voice called “wobble” creates a voice very similar to that of rfk jr.