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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This is such a good description of my feelings on AI codgen, I searched for "Reverse centaur" and found more from Doctorow:

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd

💭 (part-way through reading) I should share this at work.

💭 (slightly further in reading) Oh I should absolutely NOT share this at work.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

MAGA: Giving foreigners the same benefits as native-born citizens is immoral. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

LEVITICUS 19:34 : "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God"

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

"Meanwhile, all the things that we want AI to do like teaching or driving, or what have you, they only work in these Reverse Centaur configurations where you fire most of the people who do it, you put chat bots in charge of it. The chat bots make mistakes at a pace that the human can't possibly catch that is being put in charge of babysitting the AI. But the human gets the blame. The human is the accountability sink."

Cory Doctorow

https://youtu.be/aXqpNJ7YjDQ?t=144

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

I’ve just taken delivery of this rather smashing proof copy of my next book: How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside.

I’ll be heading off on a UK tour with the book this autumn. A full list of where I’ll be this year is here: https://brianbilston.com/events/

Hope to see some of you later in the year.

A pic of the proof copy of my new book ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny.

(This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay.

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-rise-of-ai-denialism/

A few comments, in a short 🧵>>

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

Every movie villain is like "corporations are evil and the system is corrupt" and every hero is like "petty crime must be stopped at any cost" and the only reason we don't confuse them is the bad guy has a British accent.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Once again feeling like it's almost not worth posting to Mastodon given the degree of mansplaining that everything I put up here attracts.

Why is it so hard to read the whole thread and/or acknowledge with a 'yes and' -- or maybe check who you are replying to/posting at? Gah.

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

given that Herr Trump probably believes in his ‘heart of hearts’ that María Corina Machado ‘stole’ the Nobel Peace Prize from him, I am unsurprised that he was not willing to support her taking over in Venezuela.

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

"We had to remove the president and his wife because he's a criminal the people hate" is quite a line for the US to take right now.

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lawnchairapp/115808293344610014

My wife has been using this app, looks like they joined #Mastodon recently.

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Boosted by jwz:
log@mastodon.sdf.org ("Log 🪵") wrote:

@bitterkarella For anyone that may not know:
https://gizmodo.com/larry-niven-tells-dhs-to-spread-organ-harvesting-rumors-370762

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Boosted by jwz:
rayckeith@techhub.social ("Third Foundation") wrote:

beardedmrbean tumblr meeka @MeekyBlinders • 1d a piece of my roomba broke off and it vacuumed it up. self sucking little freak 51 t7 3.2K 82K ilit 1.2M meeka @MeekyBlinders • 17h @iRobot pls send me a new roomba mine is a freak 2 172 392 meeka @MeekyBlinders • 1h iRobot o L Would you be so kind to send me a picture of the robot's full bottom, in order for me to be able to assist you further? 3:27 PM oh so you're all a lil freaky huh 3:28 PM - Sent

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I see Bluesky is having a normal one.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3mbmc7yxet222

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

The Typo repository is back online! I’m continuing my (unfortunately slow-motion) migration of old repos to source.tube, and Typo’s repo is now live at https://source.tube/neatnik/typo. You can also see a live web demo on https://www.neatnik.net/typo.

I made this a while ago after noticing that all of the other web typing simulators were kind of annoyingly perfect. Consistent typing speeds, zero mistakes. Not very realistic at all! So if you’re going for a touch of realism, maybe give Typo a try.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mos_8502@studio8502.ca ("mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦") wrote:

Debian: Linux for people too tired to give a shit.

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

H/t to @jdp23 for sharing this piece. It's a great read. Learned a lot.

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

I listening to Rudy Fraser and can't help but make parallels with some of the things Bluesky leadership says. The difference I think is trust. I find it difficult to trust Bluesky's message. It's far too often sandwiched between VC-speak. Jay Graber on a press tour claiming they don't know Bluesky's revenue model, when it's clearly ad-tech, immediately throws up red flags. It's a feeling for sure. I don't feel the same way when I hear Blacksky's messaging.

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

An internet of many autonomous communities - Blacksky Algorithms:

"Making communities a true part of the protocol will encourage others to build things for those communities, start new communities, and hopefully foster models for self-sustainability."

Blacksky is exciting. https://blackskyweb.xyz/an-internet-of-many-autonomous-communities/

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The latest food industry trend to optimize, uhm, "shareholder value":

Peanuts were too nutritious, too recognizable, too honest. Corn is cheaper, stretchier, and can legally be described as... anything, apparently.

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

ICE continues to terrorize MSP. It continues to be distressing and exhausting; the incredible volume of counter-organizing and community action continues to give me heart.

One thing that’s not surprising but I haven’t seen covered much: ICE is redlining. They swarm over very specific neighborhoods; the abductions (so far) happen almost entirely within clear boundaries. Those boundaries don’t entirely correspond to where immigrants live. They do, however, seem to correspond pretty closely to •political• boundaries that are / are not heavily white.

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

MAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.

I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.

There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I did another quick Waymo count today, this time at Guerrero & 29th in #SanFrancisco

In 10 minutes:
• 46 driverless Waymos
• 85 human-driven vehicles

About a third of the traffic on my street is driverless cars.

Hard to confirm, but I never saw a passenger in any of these AVs.

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Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

This result shows s the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. THE SQL query is https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph: SELECT     DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) AS [Month],     COUNT(*) AS [Questions] FROM Posts WHERE      PostTypeId = 1 GROUP BY      DATEFROMPARTS(YEAR(CreationDate), MONTH(CreationDate), 1) ORDER BY      [Month] ASC The graph shows the number of questions asked on StackOverflow over time, from the site's launch in 2009 until now, the start of 2026. Initially there is a steady increase until 2014, when the number hits an all-time peak at over 200 000 questions. Then begins a slow decline. This might be correlated with StackOverflow's change of moderator policies at the time. In early 2020 there is a sudden steep increase, which coincides with the start of the Covid-lockdown, but shortly afterwards the decline continues, faster than before. This might be related to the fact that in mid-2021, StackOverflow was sold to a private equity investor. In late-2022 begins a very steep decline, which is when ChatGPT (and Google AI summary later on) came out. Since then the decline has continued and today the number of questions asked is almost 0.  (Thanks https://mastodon.social/@lethe@digitalcourage.social for additional alt text)

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
ewen@social.ewenbell.com ("Ewen Bell 📸") wrote:

Sometime around 10am this morning, the moon decided to make a dash across the fjords. I was enjoying a sleep in and had to skip out in my pyjamas to take photos.

The light is getting brighter now, even a week after the solstice. Clear skies make such a difference. It's now 2pm and we're back to darkness in the forest.

Clear skies tonight for NYE. Will have my camera gear in the car to dash out if auroras kick off.

#Norway #Photography #LumixS1RII #EwenInNorway

View across the fjord to snowy mountains, pink skies and the moon just gliding across it all. We have another month to go before we see the sun, so the moon will have to suffice for the time being.

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

Normalize calling maple syrup "tree blood"

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

One of the perks of having small kids is you're socially allowed to be feral again, running around soft play, doing silly voices, climbing stuff, and everyone just thinks you're a "great parent". Dreading the day they grow up and I have to go back to pretending I'm normal.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

A bunch of microsoft logos from the 70s, 80s, 90s and today but instead of saying Microsoft all of them spell Microslop in the vibe of the original logos.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tend2wobble@toad.social wrote:

GC "MOST AMERICANS DON'T WANT AN IMPEACHMENT; THEY WANT HIM AND HIS ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH TREASON." Jimmy Kimmel

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“[T]he U.S. action to remove Maduro as Head of State amounts to an unlawful intervention into Venezuela’s internal affairs …. Regime change by one State in another amounts to intervention when it is “coercive”…, which Saturday’s operation obviously was.” https://www.justsecurity.org/127981/international-law-venezuela-maduro/ 5/