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

Happy Valentines Day, Threads nerds

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

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with ‘world in peril’ warning:

"“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote."

The last person to pull this “the world is in peril, I’m leaving” resignation stunt was Geoffrey Hinton from Google. He now works for an AI academic non-profit funded by Google. Sort of ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/14/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-quits.html

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annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundles deal (US only) that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books

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

Yall ever search for cliche blog post titles and just read them all lol

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I've been trying to teach my cat, Kolka, high five and shake. It's been going alright, but she can get a little too excited when the treats come out. But it doesn't matter, as I'm mostly doing this as an excuse to give her treats.#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #blackcat #rescuecat #video

Attachments:

• video: A cat being forced to do tricks in exchange for treats.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@darkrat @nicuveo
There's a book about that!

"Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@nicuveo This reminded me of many years ago taking a "Philosophy of Logic" course, in which we used software to edit Sentential/Propositional logic equations. Felt a bit like manipulating magic spells. 😊

For example syntax, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%5Flogic#List%5Fof%5Fclassically%5Fvalid%5Fargument%5Fforms

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

I think my favorite piece of media criticism was by James Gandolfini who, asked about the possibility of doing a Sopranos prequel, said, “What, are we gonna wear wigs and girdles? It’ll be like Star Trek.”

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nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

jwz wrote:

Danny Bluejeans won't let a little thing like a blackout interrupt his daughter's talent show.

A day after a blackout plunged a third of SF into darkness, City Hall and many of the surrounding blocks remained without power. But the stage lights were...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3f

jwz wrote:

Having a Plurality of Actuators.

US20200310367A1: A booth having a housing enclosing a viewing station opposite an entertainment station; a robotic entertainer disposed within the entertainment station, the robotic entertainer having a humanoid...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3d

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

Me, Jenny, and Max chat about the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on our cute little self-hosted podcast: https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory/

Attachments:

• audio: Dunk angers the Targaryens and demands trial by combat. When Aerion calls for a trial of seven, Dunk must find six warriors to join him in battle.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

I've always found it cute that the #FSFE kind of leverages valentines day, as "I ❤️ Free Software" day.

https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/index.en.html

This year, I kind of want to talk about #FreeBSD, because its powering my personal desktop and laptop these days.

I've run it before as my daily driver, and I've always been impressed by the stability of the base system; alongside ports, which gives you the freedom of choosing between quarterly or bleeding edges packages.

I went back to linux last time, mostly due to a frustration over a lack of electron based apps being unavailable in FreeBSD & issues with Widevine.

Im happy to report, BOTH of these things have really become solved problems on FreeBSD.

There is some stuff which could bear improvement. BUT I've been really heartened and excited too to see the #FreeBSD foundation really tackling things via the Laptop/Desktop Working group.

AND im suspecting, Ill still be daily driving FreeBSD next I ❤️ Free Software Day. #ILoveFS #FLOSS #ILoveFSDay

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

2010s: Old Man Yells At Cloud
2020s: Old Man Yells At Claude

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

All of this energy and focus on OpenClaw is depressing to me. At this point in our timeline, I’d rather see more of us exploring ways to care for one another, not spawning new “beings” and shining the spotlight on their simulated humanity.

If you want a bot to do your shopping or whatever, that’s one thing. But giving it a blog and letting it talk about its “feelings” is the wrong kind of distraction right now.

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stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

It warms my heart knowing that the Trump Sharts Himself incident made it to Wikipedia.

[![Excerpt from Wikipedia. On January 29, 2026, shortly after the signing of Executive Order 14379(ws] "Addressing Addiction through the Great American Recovery Initiative", Trump and his cabinet dismissed news reporters out of the Oval Office without interview. Some social medial users, including Rebekah Jones, speculated that the press conference ended abruptly due to Trump defecating himself. (157|158] These accusations cited an unidentified sound and apparent reactions from Pam Bondi and Doug Burgum's wife Kathryn heard and seen in Forbes' live coverage. In correspondence with Snopes, White House spokesman Steven Cheung denied the rumor Trump had defecated at the event. (157]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/070/930/575/937/825/original/c23e586f276854db.png)]4

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orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Trust the terminal. Track the money with it 🔥

💸 **FiTui** — A TUI personal finance tracker

💯 Log transactions, track spending by tag & auto-handle recurring bills (fully local!)

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ayanchavand/fitui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #finance #productivity #cli #personalfinance

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: An animated GIF of Pikachu holding a heart, captioned “Will chu be my valentine?”

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

Rewatching Ex Machina under a contemporary lens is wild.

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nicklockwood ("Nick Lockwood") wrote:

People pontificating about whether codebases containing LLM-generated code are subject to IP protection all seem to be forgetting the key point that the law always sides with capital

When big media decided that pirating an mp3 file should be a criminal (not civil) offence, the law sided with them

When big tech decided that pirating every piece of media on the internet for AI training was fair use, the law sided with them

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I was thinking about how we have so much computing resources (not evenly distributed by any means) that people don't actually have concrete uses, so now we're into speculative uses and we've recently reached for creating competent slaves. The technology is actually harmful along multiple dimensions, but we don't recognize this and hand these "tools" off to people who definitely don't recognize the harm to themselves or others. Spreading the harm and damage. The dark side of empowering people through computing.

So I was thinking maybe we need to start recognizing the harmful tech so it can be as obvious to us as other tech intended to cause harm (e.g. guns). But maybe we really just have too much compute. I dunno...

(I realize this ties into capitalism and other things, and I should really leave the analysis to people who aren't managing a somewhat hyper 7yo early in the morning.)

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

Dating myself by updating my header

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Maybe... Maybe we have too much computer now? :thonking:

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tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

@fromjason Same. I’ve been using ReadKit, works similarly to Reeder Classic with a few extra features.

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lawrencelry ("Lawrence") wrote:

@fromjason Agreed on this particular point, but it's not a deal-breaker for me. You may want to try Unread for a change:

https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one wrote:

@fromjason I am checking selfh.st for self hosted ones

Comma-Feed looks neat. Based on google reader.

https://www.commafeed.com

I think you're looking for an app but maybe this will help others

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nlowell@indieauthors.social ("Nathan Lowell (he/him) 📎") wrote:

@fromjason

I've been happy with Liferea for a number of years now.

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vanessa@social.lol ("Vanessa") wrote:

@fromjason After trying a lot of alternatives, I’m very happy using NetNewsWire and Miniflux.

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

Thank you all for your recommendations!

I'm gonna give @NetNewsWire a shot for a few weeks.

It's open source, has an iOS app, and is super minimal. I'm assuming it's fairly new, too? Would be cool to grow with a new reader.

Still bummed about Reeder. The new app has so much promise yet some of their design choices are baffling. And there hasn't been an update in a while. Idk maybe they fix it and I come back. For now excited about NetNewsWire!