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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLBjScgb7o

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

I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/03/indefinite-book-club-hiatus/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

You ever get the sense that Sam Altman is just a Sillicon Valley con artist who got lucky? Like, there's so many of them, one of them was bound to strike it big. He's just another Sam Bankman-Fried or an Elizabeth Holmes who knows the Y Combinator system well enough not to get caught.

https://youtube.com/shorts/RLVu7SRhOGI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@emma @fromjason the lesson that whoever survives this mess should take from it is: we must dismantle systems of injustice, not fight to be in charge of them

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
emma@orbital.horse ("Emma needs ☕️ and paying work") wrote:

@fromjason we were told "we need executive power because there'd be no time to for congress to vote if the Soviets attacked us," but didn't think through "what happens when the president's been mentored by a mob lawyer?"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Everytime without fail. I see a headline about "mass systemic-anything" and I look for and find the pull-quote that reveals the system was made under Biden (or, sometimes Obama).

Trump is so incompetent. He would've never stood a chance if he was forced to build these things from scratch. Would've been great. Instead, he weaponized everything.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Biden, the democrats, the republicans, the technocrats, they all sort of fucked us.

Whenever we hear about an atrocious overreach of power it's always on the backs of this administration's predecessors who were building and funding shit they should've never built or funded.

What a wild lesson to learn the hard way. It's not the fascist who builds the Torment Nexus, it's the "good guy" who falsely believes he'll always get to control the levers.

We gave Trump everything he needed.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements:

"The internal document relates to a “pilot” program CBP previously ran from 2019 to 2021, which would “aid in CBP’s targeting, vetting, analysis, and illicit network discovery processes,” it says."

Today’s fascist tools are just yesterday’s neoliberal business model under different TOS. https://www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-into-the-online-advertising-ecosystem-to-track-peoples-movements/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Build Awesome (11ty)") wrote:

The ’possum is roaming wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome.

Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our fun video and back us on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome?ref=b4hezh

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

I really wish we would all stop pretending that there was any other reason we're currently at war aside from the president's wish not to die in prison for subverting elections and raping children

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/politics/explanation-trump-preemptive-iran-strikes

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My Prusa XL just did its 100.000th tool change and honestly... I'm a bit emotional. 🥲

That tool changer has seen more action than most startups pivot strategies!

#3dprinting

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116167687916281766

Based on Athropic's known influencer-marketing activity, and the weird pro-Anthropic YouTube videos that keep popping up in my feed, and just the sheer amount of posts that read like Claude-specific sponsored content, one wonders is this is organic praise.

Idk, perhaps my digital marketing experience is working against me here and I'm seeing what I want, but all I keep seeing is unlabeled sponsored content.

All I see is an audacious ad campaign for Claude AI.

https://aftermath.site/ai-influencer-creator-deals-sponsorship-google-microsoft-anthropic/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@netopwibby/116167884190916456

It's still not out, but a new MiSTer SNES core is nearing release that supports save states.

Translation: once that's out, and it's ported to the Pocket, it'll be a pretty viable platform for SNES emulation, and not the paperweight it's basically been for me ever since I got mine

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber") wrote:

Unions are like condoms -- if someone tries to tell you you don't need one, you *definitely* need one.

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

I guess I should just tap the sign whenever I encounter this sort of personality:

https://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vapourisation@tech.lgbt wrote:

@soatok it's so nice to see people still making their own bespoke collections of footguns. I thought OpenSSL was the last place to find so many great ones in one place but here we are!

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

HEY! Here's a new piece for The Point, part 3 of my ongoing series on carbon capture.

This one's on why demanding subsidies for an absurd activity basically guarantees perpetual public funds (which help support fossil fuel expansion)

https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260225-ccs-part-three-why-ccs-subsidies-are-a-perpetual-scam

Attachments:

• video: 7a05dcb8e64f62dd.mp4

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

You know, sometimes you just wanna play crossword in the terminal...

🧩 **cruciverbal** — Terminal-based crossword puzzle player

💯 Supports puzzles from Guardian, Washington Post, USA Today & more

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/erhant/cruciverbal

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #crossword #game #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 31cccfb50746a4ac.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
ml@social.mitexleo.one ("Mitex Leo") wrote:

How the BBC chose to report on the US and Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran:

1. It used “dead” instead of “killed,” softening the violence and removing agency.
2. It relied on passive construction, carefully avoiding naming the perpetrators — the United States and Israel.
3. It added “Iran says,” subtly framing the massacre itself as an allegation rather than an established event.

#iran #israel #bbc #news #journalism #Mediawatch #us #trump #genocide #islam

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
luce@eldritch.cafe wrote:

:blob_cat_snug: ich werde tatsächlich in ein paar Monaten mit einem Freund eine WG gründen / I will actually start a shared apartment together with a friend in a few months

:blob_cat_heart: eine gute Therapiestunde / a good therapy session

:blob_cat_flower: Mittag essen in der Sonne mit einer guten Freundin / Lunch in the sun with a good friend

#3GoodThings #3GuteDingeDesTages

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

It’s probably once again a bad time, historically speaking, for archdukes to ride in open convertibles.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies. Microsoft CEO and AI chief wants you to stop using words like SLOP and Microslop because it upsets them a lot. Lmao. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-banned-the-word-microslop-in-its-copilot-discord-server-then-began-restricting-access-after-users-started-posting-microsl0p-and-other-funnies/ Maybe you shouldn't force Copilot AI on everyone and steal their data to train your shitty AI and then every day tell the world how they are scared as AI is going to replace 80% of jobs?

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

SHERRI FUCKIN' TEPPER Y'ALL

Also Nora Ephron

Also Molly Ivins

Also Dorothy Parker

Also Elaine May

Also Ursula LeGuin

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jovial.cynic/post/DVbRQLVDn4V

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wolfcoder@lagopine.lgbt ("Sayuri 💛⬜️💜🖤‏ ΘΔ") wrote:

@vfrmedia @soatok and even then I would not be surprised if someone found an exploit in my game, its the attitude upon being made aware of said exploit that is very very important.

I'd trust software that had 1000s of reported vulns if the author was responsibly mitigating them vs. one with like 3 but the author was like "meh you're just using it wrong"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I gave the Mastodon share button a pretty prominent location, top right of every blog post. I like it. I generally like the implication. I like that the SVG icon is inline.

I like that because its the only social share icon it communicates an "anti-corporate" vibe

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me, Jenny, and Max's final review episode on this season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms season 1 episode 6 'The Morrow'

As Ashford mourns a great loss, Dunk considers his next move...and whether to keep Egg as his squire.

Attachments:

• audio: Our episode review for S01E06 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: As Ashford mourns a great loss, Dunk considers his next move...and whether to keep Egg as his squire.

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

Dianna the Physics Girl has recovered enough to make a short video on physics. So glad for her!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Check it out! (I added the mastodon share button to my blog)
https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web-and-the-old-ai-switcharoo/

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

Siri add a todo: kickstarter to change my legal name to David Awesome