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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115865134938638844

It doesn't even have to be that far along in history. We only have to look back to … (checks notes) … 2 days ago?

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

This is inaccurate. The torrent of lies began long before this. They are just adding to the torrent at this point.

Trump administration unleashes torrent of untruths after woman shot dead by ICE | Trump administration | The Guardian https://share.google/78FJfrKy8r0xLReiK

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From Nanna Inie and me in Tech Policy Press on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language in the discourse about so-called "AI".

https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

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

The TERF insanity has cost us Robin Ince's voice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/09/ive-always-known-robin-ince-was-a-good-guy/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWm3dK8tPto

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

As I read about people being harassed for using their cell phone cameras to document the cruelty of ICE raids or comments from assholes like Kristi Noem that doing so is somehow a criminal act, I’m reminded of something someone said when U.S. troops began liberating Nazi concentration camps in early 1945.

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely.

"Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Although it looks quite serene in the photo, this is what it was actually like on the day.#Iceland #video #nature #abandoned #decay #winter

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3mbwxtkmcr22j

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• video: A very windy day next to an old summer house.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

"I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chilli sauce." -- Terry Pratchett

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

Live your life so your descendants don't have to just kinda skip over what you were doing in this particular era when they are talking about you

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

UPDATE: Crush still operative, this is month (checks watch) three hundred ninety two

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jscalzi/post/DSGd4UWgCD3

zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

The LLM folks are doing just fine

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

It almost makes one believe in reincarnation, or demonic possession.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/09/the-obvious-comparison/

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

after my first cuppa and a 1.7 mile walk in the rain, I am still not really conscious & alert. it looks like this is A Two Cuppa Day

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davebauerart ("Dave bauer") wrote:

I might have asked this before, but one of these days I need to work on projects instead of just thinking. Does anyone know of "modern" robot hardware that is similar to the old tethered Turtle robots?

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

A new API testing TUI just dropped! 🔌⚡

🌐 **nexus** — A keyboard-driven HTTP client.

💯 Supports persistent storage, organizing/sending requests, viewing responses & Postman collections.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/pranav-cs-1/nexus

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #api #http #devtools #opensource

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• video: d92432312b9b8d1b.mp4

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

thanks for your analysis @CARROT

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈"):
Crowsinger@wandering.shop wrote:

It makes sense that people who have completely abandoned their humanity want to replace humanity with software. The people pushing AI have no idea what art and music are.

They have no idea how a story can make a soul shiver and bend and laugh and weep.

They have no idea what it means to be truly human in this world, knowing that you are connected with all life.

They only want to replace humans with sickly, unthinking toys.

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

Aunt Edna? Is that you?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/09/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/

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

I often ask myself this very question

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

@fromjason you can also see this with the pandemic. Once the Dems saw a benefit against the first Trump admin to embrace and promote public health measures, they went all in.

But it is purely transactional. Once they extract all value by canalizing discontent towards electoralism, they promptly abandon these causes. And we all have to deal with the fallout one way or another.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

not enough is said about the privilege of being able to pay $200/month (still a subsidised price) for "AI" coding, even $20 is beyond most of the world

but tell me again how AI will be writing all the code in 12 months

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
pomarede ("Daniel Pomarède") wrote:

It's Stephen Hawking's birthday. The occasion to share this fantastic video he produced as part of his Genius documentatry series. Hawking elaborates on our place in the Universe, including our membership to the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies that we discovered back in 2014.

The complete documentary: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/hawking%5Fgenius%5Fep06%5Ffull/where-are-we-full-episode-genius-by-stephen-hawking/

#StephenHawking #Cosmology #Laniakea #LaniakeaSupercluster #galaxies #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #science #cosmography

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• video: An extract of a video produced by Stephen Hawking describing our cosmography and the hiearchy of structures to which we belong.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Oh, no, you found a flaw in the logic of my joke! Now I’m going to prison.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Lovely winter scenery.#Iceland #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #lake #sky

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

These photos are kind of the "leftovers". Not bad photos, per se, but don't work quite as well as I had hoped they would when I took them. I'll probably need to revisit them at a later date. #photos #iceland

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

Last of this batch of bird photos. A pair of pigeons perch on a street light. #iceland #bird #birds

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: Death to Scroll Fade!

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

— no fun and games this year my blog is getting serious 😐

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Fan of my tits? Some are now up in my shop! https://wagtails.art/shop/

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

Cool. Relatedly, the Speaker of the House is a pathetic groveling coward

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-votes-display-jan-6-plaque-house-refuses-hang-capitol-rcna253093

Boosted by jwz:
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

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