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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.

Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"Now that code is free..."

Any assertion that follows this is predicated on a falsehood.

Plausible-looking code might now be cheap. But *working*, reliable code that can be changed at low cost without breaking it?

For most teams, that's even more expensive now.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@grumpygamer/116237497059329581

The pixel art in the The Secret of Monkey Island port for the Commodore 64 looks wonderful!

It feels like the C64 version the universe just forgot to release.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
inquiline@assemblag.es ("tools for commensality 🧿") wrote:

Video indicates #DeltaAirlines is providing service to #ICE , removing kids from families in #MSP and transporting them to be held in #Texas

https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/

(if you have a Sky Miles account, they should hear from you. the direct line is +1-800-323-2323 and webform here: https://www.delta.com/us/en/need-help/overview?commentComplaintsForm)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

For every one time I hear someone call it "Bronx New York" I will say:

"The Manhattans"
"The Queens"
"The Brooklyns"
"The New Jersies"
"The Staten Islands"

TEN times. Keep running up "The deficit" see you you enjoy "The Just Desserts"

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
miclgael@hachyderm.io ("Michael Gale") wrote:

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116238484507693399

Really clever malware taking advantage of the fact that everyone is trying to block slop trainers, so you see cloudflare messages more and more frequently.

Check out the full thread for how it works.

Be careful folx!

#LLMs #AI #Malware #Slop #SlopCity #Cloudflare

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"Only 26% of voters view AI positively, making it even less popular than ICE, according to an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters."

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/16/ai-sam-altman-fear-mongering

#news #TechNews #technology #AI

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

Fostering an environment where the only tech we're allowed to criticize is the tech we immediately stop using makes us weird and territorial and guarantees we stop making objective observations. Because then it just becomes trying not to be a hypocrite.

Using Proton is still better than ad-tech email. That doesn't mean we don't call them out. It's not our job to protect them. It's their job to earn goodwill. And their rationalization was dog shit. That's on them.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

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

Puerto Rico mentioned!

The book mention the first cases were introduced to several islands on the #Caribbean by these pleasure cruises.

The story about COVID19 in #PuertoRico can be murky.

One of the earlier known positive cases came from Panama and later died in New York. It was air travel AFAIK. https://noticel.com/noticias/mundo/20200310/paciente-con-coronavirus-en-panama-estuvo-en-puerto-rico/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
thestopbutton@social.lol ("Andrew Wickliffe") wrote:

@fromjason I used to think the rabid AI boosters just kept thinking the next model would be the one that makes them not sound asinine and their enthusiasm justified, then I realized they all think they sound reasonable (and that each other sounds reasonable), so no one should've been listening to them in the first place lol

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

He would even buy gay porn magazines. He wasn't gay, he did it because he could.

Uhuh, a likely story 😂

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

Sanity still exists

(Gift article)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/childhood-vaccines-lawsuit-kennedy.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.TlA.Me1W.z6b2X5E4A9tH&smid=url-share

Boosted by jwz:
niedermeyer.online@bsky.brid.gy ("e.w. niedermeyer") wrote:

*glancing briefly at the feed during a frantic work day* what do you mean Trump is instituting The Purge, isn't that something congress is supposed to do

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

An abandoned house on a hill and frisbee golf. We're still exploring the grounds of Vífilsstaðir. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #graffiti

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

steam deck has been probably the best thing that happened for my recreation in years

• i can use it comfortably while in bed, when i'm in too much pain to do much of anything else
• it lets me play the dozens of games i bought over the years only to never touch
• it runs linux, goddamnit (positive)
• it doesn't require me to manually poke winetricks ever, goddamnit (negative) (positive)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The Supreme Court is weighing cases that could roll back rights even further—from trans kids in sports to commonsense gun laws and campaign finance limits. Meagan Hatcher-Mays breaks down what’s at stake at the Court this term. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/supreme-court-term-rights-threatened

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Gathering a couple of saddening threads on US science from people with the NIH expertise to know. Not a single scientist in my life expects the rest of their career to go as they had expected a few years ago.

https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/i-wrote-research-funding-announcements

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Let me try this another way: I think the problems with DLSS 5 are not the same as the problems with LLMs and other attacks on creative labor, and equating the two is bad for understanding how the tech industry relates to art.

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

yup

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

the motto of the early 21st Century should be: "Small, fast, cheap, and out of centralized control".

this book from the 90s still has relevance

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
MLE_online@social.afront.org ("Emily Velasco") wrote:

I keep seeing articles like this, about how people choosing to drink less is hurting bars and restaurants, and it's almost always framed as people, especially younger generations, don't like to drink.

They never seem to bring up the fact that a cocktail is like $20 now unless you go to a really divey dive bar. It's the same kind of reporting they on how no one goes to the movies anymore. It's always about changing habits, and never that movie tickets just cost a lot now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/dining/us-alcohol-restaurants.html

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

Han: a compiled programming language with Korean keywords written in Hangul

Since many of the platforms and conventions that came to dominate computing came from the western world, we never give it a second thought that virtually everything related to programming is written in English using the English alphabet. However, there's no real reason behind

https://www.osnews.com/story/144603/han-a-compiled-programming-language-with-korean-keywords-written-in-hangul/

#GeneralDevelopment

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

ugh, this is not good to read https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2026/03/13/rei-cut-wages-new-employees-reduce-benefits-all

h/t @dogzilla

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

"With the wave of agentic AI currently sweeping into our lives, taste is shifting from a nice-to-have to a must-have for many."

The number of people that would say Agentic AI is a must-have is so astronomically low outside the 50mile radius of San Francisco, it's almost comical to mention.

So many of my fav tech bloggers now write like they live in the capital depicted in Hunger Games.

Put the matcha down and go talk to real people. 😭

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

"It [Agentic AI] has become less about technical abilities and more about decision-making. And yes, in a way, taste."

lol no it hasn't. It is absolutely still 100% about technical ability. Who could worry about Agentic AI's taste when it still fails at basic tasks 75% of the time?

MG Siegler wants to move the conversation towards the abstract when the technical still very much blows.

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

Tasty AI:

"I’ve previously written about the fear that our current AI may be incapable of truly original thought, and that anything we’re seeing that may appear as such is really just algorithmic anomalies that we don’t understand."

MG writes about this as if the notion that AI is incapable of original thought is the fringe argument. But we have studies that prove this. It’s the idea that AI can “think” at all that’s the radical, unproven notion. https://spyglass.org/ai-taste/

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

On a post-AI bubble world:

"AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/16/on-a-postai-bubble-world.html

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

Which american city is known as the big apple?

Cupertino?

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

from the "unintended consequences can be a pisser" department:

I have been listening to the Bloomberg "Odd Lots" podcast & their interesting discussion with a Center for Strategic & International Studies person. they have been speaking about our de facto abandonment of any real Pacific defense posture and the rapid depletion of US missile stocks that is going on now in Trump's War. choices have consequences.

"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it" - Paul Atreides (character in Frank Herbert’s novel "Dune")

Trump's War is slowly strangling the US economy, and has probably killed any chance of an interest rates drop at this Fed Meeting. because of Trump's War sucking up military resources from elsewhere, the PRC is more likely to be emboldened to act against it's neighbors. by this "decapitation" attack against the parent of the next leader, Trump's War has ensured that the remaining Iranian leadership will not want to negotiate.

Iran's leadership knows that it still has the capacity to control passage through the Straight of Hormuz, so why negotiate with the killer of one's Father?