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

Nice valentine's day card. Too bad my priorities were too fucked up to appreciate it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/15/maybe-figure-out-the-meaning-of-life-over-spring-break/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social ("Imogen") wrote:

@VE3RWJ

Canada should probably begin restricting travel from the United States into Canada to prevent a breakout of measles, mumps, yellow fever, the black plague, typhus, rubella and any other contagious disease.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It should be made clear, when any theology teaches that men are default authorities and women and children are subordinate, we should not be surprised when abuse is minimized and loyalty to male leadership eclipses justice. ...

If our Christianity causes us to protect the powerful and ignore the powerless, that’s when we know we are following someone other than Jesus."

~ Benjamin Cremer

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism

https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/the-epstein-files-and-the-theology-of-excusing-kings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust."

~ NY Times Pitchbot

#Trump #RFKJr #MAGA #vaccines #media #BothSidesism

https://bsky.app/profile/nytpitchbot.bsky.social/post/3mes3zp6yq22f

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

Epstein was a key figure in the Oslo & Abraham Accords, which undermined Palestinian sovereignty.

And the architect of Oslo, Terje Rod-Larsen, was deeply embedded in Epstein's inner circle.

He "facilitated visas for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims & was listed for a $10m payout" from Epstein.

Rod-Larsen’s wife, Mona Juul, was also pivotal in the Oslo negotiations & has resigned as ambassador to Jordan-Iraq.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/2/12/compromised-peace-oslo-accords-figure-deeply-linked-to-epstein-network

#Epstein #USPol #EUPol #palestine #CdnPoli #Racism #OsloAccords .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Douglas Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945), cognitive and computer scientist, author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and "I Am a Strange Loop".

From GEB, Hofstadter's law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

From IAASL - “In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

How many of you were influenced by GEB?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%5FHofstadter
1/n

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DebErupts ("Deborah Rose ❌👑") wrote:

The SAVE Act is a massive attack on voting rights from a party that doesn’t want every American to be able to vote. The Capitol switchboard phone number, where you can ask to be connected to your senators’ offices, is (202) 224-3121.

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116074240825075713

Forgot to include the link 😑

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116063785665412449

There are now 58 big plushies left (US only), and 22 small ones (US, UK, EU).

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

some info on the long awaited trilogy
https://abilitynet.org.uk/resources/digital-accessibility/what-expect-wcag-30-web-content-accessibility-guidelines

not noted here is the "Avoid deception" guideline which I'm excited to cite repeatedly

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

aka `npm install more code than I've ever written and reviewed in my entire career`

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

Create React App and Axios... rather telling

https://2025.stateofreact.com/en-US/libraries/

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

Another quote from the above blog post is heartbreakingly accurate:

> For the first time in my life, I’m suddenly wary of meeting other "computer programmers" in the wild. I feel like there’s a decent chance we won’t actually have much in common, let alone values or morality.

Not helped by the fact that every dev I met in the wild last year was a hop away from being a goose-stepping Nazi, spouting phrases like “some kinds of people should die because they are a burden to society”

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

I've cleared out around 90% of the feeds in my feed reader and have been reviewing my social media in stages. I still follow people whose ideas I enjoy but the plan is to unfollow the rest.

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

> One by one, I’ve stopped visiting the usual websites and forums. I kept reading them longer than I should have. I was in denial. I thought it would blow over like NFTs or "Web3". I still thought I was among my people and my culture.

This is what I went through last year. I've thought of myself as a software developer who wrote as a part of his craft, but in December a bit flipped in my head and I started to see myself as a writer and photographer who happens to do dev work to pay the bills.

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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I make friends, then suddenly I can't bear to be with any of them.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116073760646396103

> Tech people, by contrast, are observably swayed extremely easily by almost any messaging that's presented to them.

This is a near-universal truth of the tech industry. Most tech people are worryingly malleable by authority in my experience and the theory in the quoted post would explain a lot

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

jwz wrote:

Now you might be thinking, maybe nobody will notice that it's the same 90 seconds on a loop for 7 hours. And that's fair.

It is, after all, a Riddim night.

jwz wrote:

They brought in $50k of LED wall, spent 4 hours installing it, and now are using it to show half a dozen 20 second loops of "free" AI slop on repeat.... for 7 hours.

If someone hands you a microphone, have something to say.

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

Open an SVG — is your default app a text/code editor, or a graphic editor?

(Or something else?) #svggate

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Maryland health officials warn...

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

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

> Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn.

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, it’d be nice for him to confirm he wasn’t paid.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115661497597857345

So, it turns out, Anthropic *is* paying YouTube influencers to shill for them. Funny, I don't remember ever seeing a disclosed Anthropic ad from any content creators.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

"Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn."

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/15/google-microsoft-pay-creators-and.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

@fromjason "Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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

Also, man, I really like AlbertaTech's content but this just straight up reads like an ad for Anthropic.

Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?

https://youtu.be/11sxky4vTcs

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

Ohhh right right right, Clawdbot, the free, open source, local AI went viral. So we're pressing the gas on fear mongering.

Because the AI business model doesn't work if it can't be tethered to the cloud using expensive GPUs.

So we need laws against open source models so that Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft etc can control the technology.

https://mashable.com/article/what-is-clawdbot-how-to-try

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

Mustachioed man in suit reads from card: All the AI guys now have AI psychosis and military contracts
Crowd in unison: IS. THAT. GOOOOD??