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

Boosted by jwz:
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.

Boosted by jwz:
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

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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/

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

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

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

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

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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/ ✊

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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

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

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

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines

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

AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-vain-of-them-all/

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

The dichotomy of print versus the web: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-dichotomy-of-print-vs-web/

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

Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

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

Þá er ég orðinn útgefandi 🙂

„Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga“

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

Fyrstu viðtökur hafa verið mjög jákvæðar:

„Afar skemmtileg bók, húmorísk og hlýleg, fyrir alla sem eiga kött, hafa átt kött eða langar að eiga kött.“

— Gyrðir Elíasson

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

LMAO excellent time-to-first-error 👏

https://social.lol/@db/115587182275804652

Attachments:

• gifv: Dexie's latest blog post links to a 404 page

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

holy moly when did Dexie vibe a new Next.js site?
https://dexie.org

generic af and all expense spared on the docs I see 🫠

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote: