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

It's 2026, so we've all been awash in even more cursed headlines for a decade now, but this is still a doozy in it's own right. Sandberg *and* Nick Clegg ? Their deep expertise in [ checks notes ] ad sales and softly-delivered untruths will surely come in handy to a data centre firm:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-09/nscale-raises-2-billion-and-adds-sandberg-clegg-to-board

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solarpapst@social.anoxinon.de ("Solarpapst") wrote:

cost of war

Attachments:

• video: e51a649329bd6266.mp4

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culturalgutter@mastodon.online ("Cultura") wrote:

Periodic reminder that Shaw Bros. keeps adding movies to their YT channel. All free! All beautiful transfers! A variety of genres! Plus, a lot of things we haven't seen available with English subtitles before. https://www.youtube.com/@ShawBrosCinema #movies #ShawBrothers #HongKong #FilmHistory

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

Therac-25 huh? That shit is wild. I can't believe industry would be so irresponsible.

Anyway time to ask my Markov Waifu to make a list of probable military installations to bomb.

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drewharwell.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Drew Harwell") wrote:

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.

> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.

> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.

This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.

They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.

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bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

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Whedon: c'mon, you remember me!
Whedon: i was everyone's woke 90s bae!

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

I have once again been way off w/r/t actual painting so I wanted to mess with something small and low stress and dumb with no attachment to how it was going to turn out and I think it's safe to say I accomplished that

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009:

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otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

A master hater

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signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously.

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts.

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WarnerCrocker ("Warner Crocker") wrote:

I see some social media and blogging outlets are starting to call the alliance that launched this war The Epstein Coalition. I think we should make that stick. #Politics #Iran

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

“Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/checking-an-llm-s-work-is-a-systemic-not-an-individual-problem

> AI is a machine that turns quality assurance into burnout

jwz wrote:

Today in scrapers.

Honestly one of the most offensive things about these AI scraper bots is how bad at their jobs they are. Look at these 404s from the last 6 hours and despair:
[...]
Of course all of them claim to be Chrome on "Windows NT 10.0".
https://jwz.org/b/yk4K

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

This is my dear friend Ann showing off canned tapas. She's really good at getting into places.

Here, we're at Quimet, Quimet in Barcelona—a renowned tapas bar the size of a bedroom that exclusively severed wine and canned seafood.

Quimet, Quimet happens to be one of Anthony Bourdain's favorite places. And we happen to eat there June 25, Anthony Bourdain's birthday. It was a magical experience. Or maybe it was just the wine. Either way, Ann got us in somehow, as she always does.

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

This bigoted piece of shit can go fuck himself

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-ogles-muslims-dont-belong-islamophobia%5Fn%5F69aee968e4b06c543ae3c8f3

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

Part of me kiiiiinda wants to upgrade my iPad Air 4th Gen, but I don’t think I have a really good rationale for it—and I like the old discontinued thin keyboard case more than the Magic Keyboard. (If I really want great typing, I’ll bring along a thin mechanical keyboard!)

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

I miss my little travel excursions so much. When freelancing was lucrative, I took every opportunity to travel and do my work in cool locations.

Here's me at Wild Horse Island in Montana near Glacier National Park. I was too close to the goats, I fear.

I spent a whole month in Whitefish Montana. Worked in the early morning for like 4am until lunch, then I'd go hiking for the rest of the day. Not a day goes by without me thinking about that place. It was so good for my soul.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

The marketing around Daikatana is funny and cheesy and all but then I remember that John Romero is actually a really cool and sweet dude and that the whole marketing campaign about him making you his bitch was done against his will and then I get sad.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

The second meetup talk is online: Learn how Martí extended his Notion workspace with Typst to get beautiful prints of his notes! There's even an app you can try with your public workspaces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAoxm0ZAqcs

#Typst

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

blogged: Building on AT Protocol
https://dbushell.com/2026/03/10/building-on-at-protocol/

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

The time I stayed on a ranch in South Dakota via Airbnb. That little outhouse thing was my room for two days. It was so fun.

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

@NfNitLoop Yup.

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Do we need yet another person crashing out about Apple’s design decisions? Am I doing it only because it’s fashionable to be on Apple Design Hate Train these days? I’ll be honest: I don’t know. But I have been bothered by Apple’s approach to some of its keyboard design for a while.

Even if you don’t care about any of this, it might be a fun visual history of the most tricky of modern modifier keys: the [Fn] key. Hope you like it!

https://aresluna.org/fn

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@baldur re "superstition-drive coding", my favorite term for that for a long while has been:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo%5Fcult%5Fprogramming

Rereading the Wikipedia definition in the new context of LLMs is enlightening:

> The term cargo cult programmer may apply when anyone inexperienced with the problem at hand copies some program code from one place to another with little understanding of how it works or whether it is required.

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strdst@corteximplant.net ("/ˈstɑːr.dʌst/ - 0x4C6F75") wrote:

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petabites@mastodon.world ("Houston Do'ug") wrote:

some #retrocomputing humor:

h/t @AaronDavid

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alcinnz@floss.social wrote:

Accessibility people are a superpower - Jared Cunha:
https://jaredcunha.com/blog/accessibility-people-are-a-superpower

You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters - Adrian Roselli:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
CW: "AI"-related footnote

The Ultimate Mobile Accessibility Resource Guide - Mark Steadman @ Dev.To:
https://dev.to/steady5063/the-ultimate-mobile-accessibility-resource-guide-53gh

Does your navigation need an ARIA menu? Probably not. - Elle Smith @ PopeTech:
https://blog.pope.tech/2026/02/10/does-your-navigation-need-an-aria-menu-probably-not/

Quick Tip: Do Not Replicate OS Behavior - Nat Tarnoff:
https://tarnoff.info/2026/02/05/quick-tip-do-not-replicate-os-behavior/

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

There is nothing either group can say to the other to shift them because the disagreement is down to a fundamental difference in world view

But if you aren't in tech and are wondering which to trust, just ask yourself: do you really think the chucklefucks of tech, the clowns who have been running the show over the past couple of decades, have got coding completely figured out?

/end

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

Equally, most those most vocal about the benefits of LLM-coding were bullish about dev before the bubble. They didn't see the flaws of the earlier state of affairs so they don't see what's wrong with magnifying that dysfunction 10x

Hence the divide in the discourse

Both see LLMs as a mechanism for scaling up existing software practices with minimal human observation

One group thinks this'll make the world 10x richer. The other thinks it'll be a catastrophe