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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
slashdot@mastodon.cloud ("Slashdot :verified:") wrote:

Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS https://slashdot.org/story/26/04/06/046228/copilot-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only-according-to-microsofts-tos?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Y'know what's exhausting?

gestures vaguely at humanity

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

There's also some fun snippets with Vincent Price and Alfred Hitchcock.

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

I was listening to the most recent episode of "The Score" and was delighted to hear this snippet of an interview with Gerald Fried, who is the composer of the Star Trek "fight music":

https://daisy.allclassical.org/ondemand/2026-03-31-14-03-12%5F50181aa.mp3#t=787

(Attempting to start it at about where the snippet occurs.)

https://www.thescore.org/

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

I wish I could be this far away from this planet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/06/far-far-away/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

What industry calls "personalized pricing" is really *surveillance* pricing: using digital tools' flexibility to change the price for each user, and using surveillance data to guess the worst price you'll accept:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/#veena-dubal

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

https://www.threads.com/@johnlorenz/post/DWy-QgXkeqC?xmt=AQF0VjJmah4azTsPMYfFXJx-JgQbHs4TOyR7QbEj--tTuAOkeisnQSe0GKv1b2EUdt1M6M0&slof=1

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

That feeling the UI sets a date range exclusive of the end day but you always think of date ranges as inclusive, only to realise at the last minute that you need to add a day to get the actual range you want

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

There's a problem with this logic though.

There are journalists here. There are a lot of them, even.

They're just not the same journalists that used twitter or currently use bluesky.

He doesn't want journalists to come to the fediverse and make friends and participate in the community, he wants to replicate Journalist Twitter.

He wants mastodon users to be accepting of and willing to embrace broadcast only users who are unwilling to build a network here.

That's not how the fediverse works. If you want people to see the things you have to say, you have to put in some work to be a person worth seeing.

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

It's a door.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #rust #barn

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

60 tons

oh, lightweight!

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

265G

that is quite a lot of collision force, yeah.

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

Stripe has a set number of countries it supports for sellers and anybody outside of that is told to incorporate in the US.

I'm not going to incorporate in a failing state that's in a trade war with the world and an actual war with a chunk of it, just to sell a few ebooks.

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

This is the reason why I jumped ship to Payhip, even though it's arguably not quite as good, as soon as Stripe bought Lemon Squeezy. Iceland's not on the list of supported countries for sellers for the service that's going to succeed Lemon Squeezy

https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/blog/2026-update

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

If i can slip in a quick PSA while my typically sleepy notifications are exploding, these are all very annoying things to say and you might want to reconsider whether they're worth ever saying in a reply directed at someone else - who are they for? what do they add?

• "why are you surprised"/"even worse than {thing} itself is people being surprised at {thing}": unless the person is saying "i am surprised by this" they are likely not surprised by the thing. just saying something doesn't mean you are surprised by it, and people talking about something usually have paid attention to it before the moment you are encountering them. this is pointless hostility to people who are saying something you supposedly agree with so much that you think everyone should already believe it
• "it's always been like this": slightly different than above. unless someone is saying "this is literally new and nothing like this has happened before" or you are adding actual historical context that you know for sure they don't already know, you're basically saying "hey did you know this thing you care enough about to be paying attention to and talking about frequently has happened before now as well." this is so easy to frame in a way that says "yes and" rather than "i assume you dont know about the things i know about due to being very smart." eg. "dang not again, they keep doing {thing}"
• "{thing} might be bad, but {alternative/unrelated, unmentioned, non-mutually exclusive thing} is even worse": multiple things can be bad at the same time and not mentioning something does not mean i don't think it's also bad
• "funny how people who think {thing} is bad also think {alternative/unrelated, unmentioned thing} is good": closely related to the above, just because you have binarized your thinking does not mean everyone else has.

anyway if the mental image you are conjuring for your interlocuters positions them as always knowing less than you by default, that might be something to look into in yourself!

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

I realize the local "classic" rock style radio stations, probably owned by one mega corp, are optimized to generate nostalgia and dopamine for the target listener that happens to be in their car for fifteen minutes. But the playlist of some of these stations must be pathetically small. I hear the same few tracks anytime I tune in. Dopamine depleted.

There is *so* much music out there that their target audience would've missed at the time. You could easily throw in lesser known works between whatever they consider mainstream tracks.

Commercials and nostalgia. What a waste of the public airwaves. Like, mix up your playlists with tracks like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-MFD5Sl6JU

Show us you care.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

Hey gang, I need your help.

For @cloudfour’s design practice to survive, we need more projects.

If you’ve ever benefited from any of the 25+ talks, 80+ code repos or 500+ articles we’ve shared for free over the past 19 years, please read and share this post: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

#GetFediHired #OpenToWork #WebDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign

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

getting totally countdown'd at the pub

jwz wrote:

Once there is:

• A luxury hotel atop Everest, or
• A settlement 500m below the surface of any ocean; or
• Any city getting 30% of its veggies/grains from subway hydroponics; or
• Vegas making all of its own water;

...then I will concede that we have solved the first 1% of the problems needed to be a spacefaring species.

Absent any of that, putting monkeys in a can is just a premature stunt.

This timeline sucks.

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

New song dropped! https://on.soundcloud.com/Qws1SQYLHntwG19uw3

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow

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

4 meter pizza

jwz wrote:

I miss the olden days when I could manage to give even one fractional shit about human spaceflight.

When every news article didn't require navigating whether it was propaganda, or a grift, or both (because it's *never* science).

When I thought that humanity surviving beyond Earth was even *remotely* possible.

This timeline sucks.

https://jwz.org/b/yk51

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

Military ruggedized magnetic core memory. ROLM, 1980.

More photos and info:

https://rcsri.org/collection/rolm-1602/

#Photography #RetroComputing #RCSRI

Boosted by jwz:
passenger@kolektiva.social ("Passenger") wrote:

@burnitdown

I'm not gonna link to it here or mention the dude's name.

The very short version is that he is a very senior tech dude on the business side rather than the actual coding side, has worked in Google and places like that. The sort of person who we think of as belonging on LinkedIn. The sort who thinks tech happens in meeting rooms rather than in command lines. You know the type.

Anyway, he posted a thread about how Mastodon is not going to be taken seriously until we stop being mean to AI aficionados. As he wrote it turned into something of a meltdown, with the term bubble used extensively, and finally led to comparisons between Black people not feeling welcome on Mastodon (which is a problem and sucks) and AI boosters not feeling welcome (which is good and proper and we should bully them more.)

After a great deal of pushback, he said he was going to back off and reconsider, which is the classy thing to do; and then got back into fighting with individuals, which is not.

There are some very thoughtful comments on the matter by various people.

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

Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

Boosted by jwz:
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

"I want to talk about an under-represented group on Fedi"

Young people? "No"
Africans? "No"
Less techie folks? "No"
Indigenous folks? "No"
Women? "No"
Non-English/German speakers? "No"
Anyone not white? "No"
South Americans? "No"
Minority religious folks? "No"
People with cognitive differences? "No"
Non-graduates? "No"
Working class folks? "No"
Retired people? "No"
Occupied people? "No"

Emmmm, the Sentinel Island people? "No"

Ok, who?

"Tech journalists who love AI"

Fuck all the way off.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Steve Yegge is so bad that whenever I want to convince somebody on the fence on ”AI” that the biggest LLM boosters all seem to be having serious mental health episodes, I send them a link to one of his posts. Works every time.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Since we are AI discoursing again today, I just want to say: I'm sick of it and I don't want to hear about it any more.

I am doing my best to contribute to the discourse in a positive and respectful way. But at the end of the day I'm just very tired, and _really_ disappointed in a lot of people.