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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
morebento@aus.social ("ben moretti") wrote:
This band is exceptional. They put on an annual performance of Zappa’s music and do it brilliantly. Well worth a trip to Adelaide for the fringe featival
Läther play the music of Frank Zappa
The Gov - The Venue (Hindmarsh, SA)
Sunday, 15 March 2026 6:00 pmhttps://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/56481bf5-dd31-4d21-90a2-f60a35cc507b
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting … I had not known that the PRC was 2nd, and I was surprised the EU was that populated
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/04e9a2a7-e9cf-4d97-9b71-8f04f298cc5c#1
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips 🎄") wrote:
YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc)
This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.
If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A communist plumber named Lefty Lucy
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:
@fromjason people.in #Germany hate #Cyberfascism and #Enshittification!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Anecdotally on mastodon, and based on very rudimentary analytics from Tinylytics, Germany 🇩🇪 seems the most receptive to fighting back on #AIdoomerism.
What's going on over there in Deutschland? Why are y'all ahead of the curb?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:
✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Didn't know they moved like that...
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:
hey remember this slide
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"Have you accepted AI yet". My take on a recent thread here. Nothing particularly new there, but I needed a place to aggregate all the links I cared about on the topic :-)
https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/12/05/have-you-accepted-ai-yet/en/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm starting to think that AI is causing a sort of mass hysteria, where people too close to the technology and people who are too far from any frame of reference for the technology, are under some weird hypnosis caused by a very realistic mimicking of human sentience. A Stochastic Parrot, if you will.
Damn man, @timnitGebru sure did warn us. I would've never guessed it would be like this.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Cottingley Fairies was a hoax in the early 1900's where two cousins "photoshopped" fairies into photographs of themselves.
Photography was new enough that something like this had never happened before.
The Fairies were so convincing that it fooled the author of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and he wrote an essay arguing fairies were real.
And this is what I think is happening with Bernie Sanders and AI right now.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:
#KingTides sea level rise party
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.
Jesus lord we're fucked.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom • Buttondown:
"As Alex put it: “They do this bullshit analysis, but then the people that they quote approvingly are certified enemies of the working class. Why are you taking these people at their word, when you shouldn’t?”" https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/
Mastodon FeedLos Campesinos on streaming:
"It being Streaming Stat Season, I thought now would be a good time to offer a detailed breakdown of how much money we make from our music being streamed." There are many reasons, unrelated to artist reimbursement, why...
https://jwz.org/b/ykyI
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
schuler ("Marcus Schuler") wrote:
OpenAI's advertising pivot reveals an uncomfortable truth: the LLM industry needs 3 billion paying subscribers just to break even—10x Netflix's total after two decades. With only 5% of 800 million users paying, ads aren't innovation. They're a lifeline.
https://www.implicator.ai/openai-ads-2026-chatgpts-revenue-lifeline-or-investor-trap/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
A crane in the evening.
📷️️️️ Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0, yellow filter
⚗️ Come Through Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
New project, trying to do more stuff away from YouTube.
https://chriswere.wales/voicenotes
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Big tech, and just mega corporations in general, from streaming to healthcare, are a more consequential and longterm threat than Donald Trump.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
FIFA inaugurates the peace bribe
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🧢") wrote:
https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/bernie-sanders-falls-for-mathy-maths/
Mastodon FeedThis is so on-brand for FIFA, Gianni Infantino could tattoo 'corrupt clown' on his forehead (believe me, there's plenty of space) and it would still be subtler messaging.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Teaching cell biology is going to be fun.
Mastodon FeedFIFA giving Trump a peace prize is the most FIFA thing FIFA has ever FIFA’d.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Reminder that RFK, jr. wants your kids to just fucking die, already
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:
In a parallel universe, Mariah Carey is doing her shopping and is sick of hearing me on every store's speaker system.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I've known that spiders are brilliant goin' on fifty year, sonny.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/05/you-need-some-more-spider-information/
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
new Cloudflare weekly outage recap just dropped
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
vzq@social.lol ("Jose") wrote:
VZQ holo pack is live!
a small run of die-cut holographic stickers. bright, sharp, and stupidly reflective
includes 2 stickers: one vzq wordmark and one vzq seedling
$10 — ships worldwide
https://vzq.studio/store
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Hawaii@mastodon.world ("Tofu Musubi") wrote:
@fromjason
No surprise detected: "an escalation critics see as a well-funded smokescreen to head off regulation and competition."