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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

the after dark screensavers were the last time humans agreed on what peak personal computing looked like

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

33 of the people pardoned by Trump for January 6 have committed more crimes including molesting children and killing people while drunk driving.

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jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:

Tonight seems like a good time to remind folks that the next #nokings protest is planned for March 28th:

https://www.nokings.org/

Mark your calendars, I'll see you there! ✌️

#sotu #fucktrump

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theonion@threads.net ("The Onion") wrote:

Trump Delivers State Of The Union Death Rattle

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other — never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_.

If you feel the same way I do: support independent publishers. Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I’m repeating myself only bc it continues to be true: Sun Ra absolutely knew where it was at. “Somebody else’s idea of things to come / need not be the only way to live.” #othernetworks

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

Listening to Daivuk explain the overall approach and techniques he used to create his 64kB shooter was a nice break from things.

"How I made a shooter game in 64kB":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht68vFaa1M

The game is here:

https://daivuk.itch.io/quod

(Honestly, I can't get enough of seeing people put care, thought, and craft into their creations. It seems it goes against the zeitgeist of our times.)

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Okay, I suppose I’m finally going to be bestirred to move from 1Password to Apple Passwords. (Which isn’t perfect, but it’s free, and can export data should I need that down the road.)

jwz wrote:

Every now and then I make the mistake of of posting something on Mastodon that really should have gone on the blog first. This is one of those, from last week. It did some numbers.

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate! ...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3t

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

lol people are writing 3,000 word treatises about Cory Doctorow’s LLM use when they could just remove him from their feed readers

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

What's a capital strike? That tends to be the question I get in response to this rant.

You know what a labor strike is, right? It's wielding labor as power, by witholding it, as a bargaining tactic.

A capital strike is the same thing, except with capital.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Incidentally, if you divert a trillion dollars to something and get "basically zero" economic activity around it, that's not an investment. It's sabotage. It's become the chief manifestation of the capital strike we've all been enduring since, roughly, the first half of 2022.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

That's part of what makes a capital strike non-obvious, if you don't already know what it looks like. It's not just sitting on the money and refusing to spend it. Because that's the one thing you literally can't do with capital. If you leave those resources idle, especially labor, it just goes and does its own thing. You lose control over it. If you just fire everyone, they eventually start working for themselves.

So, to conduct a capital strike, you have to direct the capital toward useless things. Or actually destructive things, if you can manage it.

And thus, AI had "basically zero" effect on the GDP. Because it's economically worthless activity for the purpose of keeping all the resources occupied so they can't be put to any other use.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116127090589590254

which is why there is no hoarding of all the computers and RAM for data centers that don’t even exist. what we are witnessing is a mafia-type collusion to remove from commercial circulation all the computational power people need to continue about their daily digital lives without paying rents to IP-thieving techbro clouds.

THERE IS NO RAM SHORTAGE.

THERE IS A BIG TECH COLLUSION TO CREATE A PC TECH SHORTAGE

memory is just the beginning. techbros are out to kill the PC market

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Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

Listen, I don’t like the tech industry — I never have. This _industry_ is extractive, at its core; the vine that doesn’t care about the life of the tree it climbs and strangles. Nowhere is that more clear than with LLMs, burning the web and world for the illusion of competence and drop-shipped code.

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skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

"500 metric tons of high-energy food, intended for child refugees in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the age of five, were incinerated, as were ten million dollars of contraceptives"

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/

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misty@digipres.club ("Misty") wrote:

Wow, gem.coop just launched a namespaces preview. They’re on a *tear* launching new features! https://gem.coop/updates/5/

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

@jargon_bot ping

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jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

Also how I get bees off of me

Attachments:

• gifv: A hummingbird at a feeder does a barrel roll to get a bee off of it.

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upstreamism@theatl.social wrote:

A bunch of the Stop Cop City RICO defendants got together and started a tech makerspace in Atlanta's Little Five Points district: https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/02/24/sandbox-atlantas-tech-makerspace-collective/

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

No time to explain. Follow me.

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

I completely forgot about this parody that CNN did in 2015. https://youtu.be/D6AlQiWatD4

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Wen@mastodon.scot wrote:

A Welshman walks into a ‘Spoons.

Tells the barman he's got a great joke about Reform voters.

The barman tells him that he's a Reform voter, so are the 3 big guys at the end of the bar and the 2 woman sat next to him.

'So do you still want to tell it', the barman taunts him.

The man says. 'No. Not if I'm going to have to explain it 6 times"...

#Joke #UKPol

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

If you've ever wondered why every brand in the world makes you download 50+ MB of gunk just to interact with them on your phone, give this brilliantly clear explanation by Alex Moore of @owa and @kateholterhoff of @redmonk a listen:

https://youtu.be/EOT0w7EwkVI?si=%5FfNa1Scqzdq-1qaK

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

Saja the kitten when I asked him if he was going to watch the State of the Union address

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marcoarment ("Marco Arment") wrote:

"Updating", huh? What a word choice. I wonder in which direction it's updating!

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I'm sure there's a perfectly plausible and mundane explanation for these traffic cameras in Oakland CA having two lenses. #ScorpionStare #MaginotBlueStars Cc: @cstross

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

Y’all ever play The Publix Game?

You try to maximize the number of BoGo items you can buy, while still sticking to a grocery list that complements your current inventory.

But, you have to do it while pretending you’re a contestant on Supermarket Sweep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket%5FSweep

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

Chaser:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/trump-1-percent-elites-taxes.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.OlA.ouu6.LbafkxMf5RqC&smid=url-share