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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

This video brings me a lot of joy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=69fgnoyBczs

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

well if double-u is so great, how come there's no double-doubl—

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jnl@hcommons.social ("JNL") wrote:

I really appreciated this one

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students%5Fn%5F69178150e4b0781acfd62540

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

My top albums this year according to last.fm. I decided to limit this to one album per artist to fit a few more artists in.

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

roses are red
cats have 9 lives

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bastianallgeier ("Bastian Allgeier") wrote:

OMG this is so good: https://colorpalette.pro/ Almost as if Teenage Engineering builds a color palette builder. 🥰

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

Oh sure, the president gives Mamdani permission to call him a fascist but when I do it I'm apparently woke or something

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

How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.

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

gemini://freebooters.uk/chris

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sifaseven ("Sifaseven") wrote:

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 21: What are some preconceptions about writers you'd like to see challenged?

1. Writers have to suffer in life.

2. Writers have to be mentally and/or spiritually tortured.

3. All you need is one best seller to be famous.

4. You're self published because you couldn't be successful in traditional publishing.

5. Only printed books can be considered 'real' literature.

6. Only literary fiction/history/memoir/whatever is "real" fiction.

#writing #writingcommunity

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loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

All Modern Infrastructure meme

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

^ that was my first Quote post by the way :-)

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sanityinc/115572035161132843

OMG, this is so non-obviously brilliant! Happy to learn something new.

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schwa ("Jonathan Wight") wrote:

iPhones don't sell themselves!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The subtext to the whole AI Doomerist cult going mainstream is that white guys created God.

And all the white guys who first hear of the gospel of God AI immediately believe it. Because of course they do.

Everyone else in the AI space, women, brown and Black people are shouting "not so fast. There are actual harms we can prevent right now"

But those voices have been completely expelled from the discourse.

#AI #OpenAI #HankGreen

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Mozilla vs. their core audience

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

New post: "Apple wins me over again, but it’s getting tougher" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/apple-wins-me-over/

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"We have the purported leader of the free world calling for the death of members of Congress. And we should all be deeply saddened by that, and outraged by that, regardless of who we are—Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and anybody who loves freedom."

~ Chrissy Houlahan

#Trump #piggy #corruption #Epstein #coverup #economy #ApprovalRating #StockMarket #crypto #AI #PumpandDump #EconomicElites #fascism #violence
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https://newrepublic.com/article/203489/transcript-trump-tirade-calling-death-dems-backfires-badly

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

this is disgusting

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Stalking the wrong person, threatening a judge who is looking out for that person: ICE in action in Providence RI. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/

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xek@hachyderm.io ("xek (👻🏴‍☠️)") wrote:

Ah, yes: the season here in my SF microclimate has finally changed to "mornings with fingerless gloves and a scarf inside your landlord's old, uninsulated house, because it's not yet worth running the smelly, inefficient gas heater, which is covered in well-encased asbestos and therefore unreplacable while the unit is occupied."

A fashionably snuggly morning to to all who celebrate.

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andrewstroehlein ("Andrew Stroehlein") wrote:

I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The champion of the anti-trans crusade is such a fucking loser.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/i-didnt-think-my-opinion-of-riley-gaines-could-get-any-lower/

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danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

The calls to action from the parents:
1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect students and teachers from de-skilling
2. Resist not only direct financial relationships or contracts with AI providers, but any training they might offer.
https://neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/digital-future-or-risk-to-critical-thinking-skills-5-takeaways-as-malden-drafts-ai-strategy-for-schools/ ✊

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”

I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“The line and the stream. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/

> That’s why I’ve come to realize that statements about the future aren’t predictions: they’re more like spells.

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

Your casual reminder I have two (2) contenders in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction category this year, there's still time to vote for one of them (or another book there you like better). Go on, all the cool kids are doing it.

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-science-fiction-books-2025

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

awesome to see: https://omglol.news/2025/11/20/say-hello-to-sourcetube-the-omg-lol-community-code-forge

I have my own Forgejo instance (for now) but more the better! Point is: get your code away from GitHub :)

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money (and maybe fraud?) driving a subprime-bubble type mania. They infer from the plausibility of its outputs, which are absolutely fucked because the job of these models is to produce plausible outputs.