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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
tombofnull@voidwood.online ("Null🌿🐌") wrote:

RE: https://voidwood.online/@tombofnull/116161908405898164

- Friday is booked out!
- Saturday has some time later in the evening
- Sunday has time open. for now. 👁

If you are in the Pittsburgh PA area and want me to tattoo you, book your spot while you can!

https://venue.ink/@tattoo.tombofnull

#furryart #mastoArt #FediArt #pittsburgh #tattoo

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

HOW COULD OBAMA DO THIS TO US

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/business/energy-environment/oil-prices-iran-100-dollars-barrel.html

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Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

A man, wide brown eyes and brown hair is shocked by what he reads on a piece of paper he's holding just above the lipline. Someone off panel helpfully says, "Your U.S. citizenship has been REVOKED!"

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Bellingcat@mstdn.social wrote:

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

The footage appears to contradict President Donald Trump’s claim it was an Iranian missile that hit the school on Feb. 28.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/08/video-shows-us-tomahawk-missile-strike-next-to-girls-school-in-iran/

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Sure would be a bad time for the US to have dropped the ball on renewables and electric vehicles.

https://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil-streaming-chart

WTI light sweet crude futures trading at $106/barrel.
Highest price on futures contracts since 2022 at the peak of supply chain SNAFUs.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

I see some social media and blogging outlets are starting to call the alliance that launched this war The Epstein Coalition. I think we should make that stick. #Politics #Iran

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

You can now buy a MacBook, iPhone, and iPad for just over $1,500. All are fairly capable machines that run native software.

The new MacBook Neo is particularly interesting because its existence implies a more powerful counterpart—perhaps a new MacBook Pro "Ultra" that could run a native LLM or agentic AI model.

All this is, imo, a good thing. Or, better than the alternative. Apple's hardware strategy might be the only thing in the way of the rest of big tech's cloud-first strategy.

Photo of hand holding up an open laptop. Greens blues and yellows.

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

Also, what does the Patreon for the open web look like? ...

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

Everyday I fight the urge to not be another man with a podcast lmao. But I have noticed there really isn't a round-table format for tech happenings. All the weird shit the tech world is up to.

I have an itch to produce something. Maybe it's a podcast. Maybe it's a comedy sketch show. Idk. I want to make something grand.

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

I swear I live in one of the most active bird colonies ever. Anytime I go outside I see some action. Here are some vultures(?) flying around my backyard.

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

Thank you thank you to everyone who shot me five bucks because they enjoyed my writing. Six years ago Jason, the guy who wanted to start writing again but didn't know where to start, would be really impressed that people like my writing enough to pay me for it.

My hope is one day, in five or ten years, writing can be like a part-time or even a full-time job for me— to be a *fully independent* writer on the open web. Not sure how to get there yet but it's on my mind.

https://buymeacoffee.com/fromjason

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

Adding famous 17th century painter Diego Velázquez to the shared family album because I decided we're related.

Screen shot of a photo being added to my shared family album on the Photos app. The comment reads: Diego Velázquez was a 17th-century Spanish painter who produced "Las Meninas" and many renowned portraits as a member of King Philip IV's royal court.

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

sadness, Country Joe has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/arts/music/country-joe-mcdonald-dead.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.RlA.RlzI.D4VRk0YJYCzM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

US, Remote - Huntress - Principal Threat Intel Incident Commander

(I am not affiliated with Huntress or at all involved in this hiring process.)

Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/7610727003

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

Ziggi has been here a year now

grew cat sleeping in sunshine, covering face with one paw

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

grey cat sleeping in Spring sunshine

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

@Sempf Also, do not mistake the imperfect for evil, which keeps happening and it's extremely not helpful

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Listen,

It is possible to criticize something without abjectly despising it. 404 can have bad takes; I'm still paying for their journalism because it's usually very good.

Proton's marketing and social team are kind of yutzes, but the service is very good for what it is, and much better than the normative choice.

Seeking infallibility will eat all your time and get you nowhere.

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I was told we need more positivity on the timeline today. Let's do this! I'm going to share some of the lovely photos of me and friends from #FC2026 !!

First, I really like this shot of me by @Tav_Fox
#fursuit #positivity

Thumper being a bun (white bunny fursuiter with black eartips, lovely pink ear fluff and pink bandana with candies looking back at you with his beautiful blue eyes).

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I feel short... #EarCompensation

@Reo_Grayfox
@flukehusky
📷@bluehasia.bsky.social
#FC2026 #fursuit #positivity

Reo Fox, Fluke Husky and Thumper Bunny Fursuits where Thumper is CLEARLY the shortest.

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Boosted by jwz:
otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

A master hater

Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

It is once again time to give the entire world jetlag so that we can save [checks notes] candles? That can't be right, can it?

excerpt from Ben Franklin's letter proposing Daylight Time to save candles

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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

The forecast said it'll be partly sunny by now 😔

View of a misty lake in the woods

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Boosted by jwz:
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

YouTuber Logan Paul purchased this NFT for $635,000 in 2021. Today, it's worth $155. Lauren Chen • @TheLaurenChen It's easy in 2026 to look back at the NFT trend and say it was stupid But it was also easy in 2021 to look at it and say it was stupid

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Boosted by jwz:
onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

@WeirdWriter @KFears @tiotasram @marjolica

This is a good post about it as well

https://brennan.day/an-open-letter-to-cory-doctorow-ollama-is-part-of-the-enshittification/

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

@fromjason Well, they also tend to tell you their nefarious plans in true Bond-villain cosplay:

"I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income and everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research." - Altman

Mind you, that was nearly 2 years ago. They're desperately trying to get there before a market collapse...

https://www.techspot.com/news/102975-sam-altman-envisions-future-where-universal-basic-income.html

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

Just saw a YouTube ad that if I screenshot it, I might go to jail. What in the federal fuck. It was a girl, possibly AI but idk, making suggestive movements just out of frame. Nothing about any of my search history would suggest I'd want to see that.

I cannot believe what I just saw.

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.

> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.

> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.

This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.

They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.

Caitlin Kalinowski @kalinowski007 I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I’m proud of what we built together. 11:30 AM · Mar 7, 2026 · 1.8M Views

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zkat@toot.cat wrote:

losing my own theory of mind when it comes to people talking about LLMs having minds

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:

Fuck, man.

I don’t even know where to begin. This isn’t even about LLMs anymore. Casting aside human beings for their particular skills and experience is a fucking repulsive attitude.