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

RIP Mac Pro.

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tarakiyee@mastodon.online ("Tara Tarakiyee") wrote:

Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech was not about tech platforms. So why does tech discourse keep citing it as if it were? I write about what happens when a Black feminist theorist's words get borrowed, stripped of context, and made to do work they were never meant to do.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/ #enshittification #AudreLorde #techpolicy

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

OpenAI offers a 17.5% return on a venture deal! How can it do that?

By not guaranteeing it in any way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Wp5ZUg1yo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260330-openai-offers-a-175-return-on-a-venture-deal-how-can-it-do-that - podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/30/openai-offers-17-5-on-venture-deal-how-can-it-do-that/ - blog post

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

The power of ChatGPT

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mrtazz@chaos.social ("Daniel") wrote:

2016: every line of code is immediately tech debt, the most important design paradigm is simplicity, I maintain a curated personal blog about minimalism

2026: haha I just have my stochastic labubu generate tons of code all the time, I don't even look at it. More is more. I regularly have nervous breakdowns about what it all means on all social media platforms

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olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

When I hear somebody say "I only use AI for whatever example" unprompted (pun unintended) I think they are lying like anybody who says "I only smoke when I drink" or "just one a day" — NOT because it's not true per se but because the pragmatics we're invited to agree with is that it's ok. It's not.

Also with respect to smoking, it's one thing to smoke and another to talk about it this way — in this flippant way! — when it's known to be addictive and more.

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tech4palestine@infosec.exchange ("Tech For Palestine") wrote:

Tomorrow Vercel is updating its terms to use your code and agent chats for AI training and third-party data sharing. So we just wanted to remind you that the CEO of this company openly aligns himself with Netanyahu.

Here's quick guide on how to opt-out or even better: how to migrate off Vercel.

https://updates.techforpalestine.org/vercels-ceo-likes-war-criminals-now-he-wants-your-code/

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Thu May 7, 7:30pm: THEY LIVE: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-07.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #theylive #cyberdelia #synthwave #sanfrancisco

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rgm@cosocial.ca ("Ryan McCuaig") wrote:

We’re an empire now, and when we slam a car door on our dicks, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll slam a car door on our dicks again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

your grandparents voting for reagan

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zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

Wow! A 1000-mile wall of Saharan dust is currently sweeping across northwest Africa 💨 See here: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=25.287,-9.342,6z/date=2026-03-30,17:20

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theleftistlawyer ("Sheryl Weikal") wrote:

Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.

Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

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

doctor dysfun prescribes cake and ice cream for smoking cessation.

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

Iä! Iä! Shakespeare fhtagn!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/30/now-i-know-what-they-do-at-faculty-meetings-on-the-humanities-social-sciences-side-of-campus/

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

i'm still in pain. send pleasing distractions.

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

On my planet, the prairie grasses are golden, the skies are pink, and the kitty cats are green and scaly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/30/infinite-thread-xxxix/

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mcc wrote:

ME: It's nice to have MSBuild because XML is a principled, structured language; sh and make are ugly and glitchy because everything is a string

ME, TWO YEARS LATER: *trying to figure out if "true" and "false" are case-sensitive in MSBuild*

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ShaulaEvans@zirk.us ("Shaula Evans") wrote:

Me: Why haven't I done [X] yet?

Also me: Looks at the long, winding list of dependencies required to make X possible.

Oh no.

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

editing Wikipedia in 20 years

- Vore is a fantasy kink
+ Vore was a fantasy kink

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

idk if other trans folks experience this, too, but I find that I have a pretty hard time picking "pretend" names for games now, compared to before. I always just call myself "Kat" in every game that asks for a name. Sometimes I'll use the name I used to use for my "female selfsona" in the past?

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

cc @mcc @jackyalcine

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

for those who have been keeping up, looks like the MiSTeR patch that added save state support to SNES finally landed, which means the Analogue Pocket can now port it, and it looks like agg23 is actually up for doing it? So my Pocket might be unbricked soon! https://github.com/agg23/openfpga-SNES/issues/59#issuecomment-4156810871

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zeruch wrote:

"CEO said a thing!" #journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion."

This contributes significantly to the unhealthy hype cycle we're vertigo-ing in.

https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

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lawfare ("Lawfare") wrote:

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, in Feb. a federal judge found that documents using Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. Justin Curl and Mihir Kshirsagar examine the decision, where it went wrong, and what future courts should do instead. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-and-privilege-after-united-states-v.-heppner

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114542342934567264

Cory is proud of having coined a term that markets the concept of "platform decay". As an inveterate descriptivist, he's overtly against pushing back on the context-collapse of his term to mean "getting worse" rather than "platform decay". But if it *fully* decays into "getting worse", then there's nothing left to be proud of. I said this almost a year ago, and I still think it's important to, if not *police* the boundaries of definitions, at least *cultivate* them with some intentionality.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There's a strong irony that this particular critique comes up as a criticism of a book about "enshittification", though. While epistemicide may be the *effect* of highly contextual social-justice terms like "the master's tools" becoming free-floating self-contained signifiers, the *cause* affects "enshittification" far more and faster, which is: context collapse.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tarakiyee/116307231877342459

This is a fantastic piece and you should read every word of it.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116319305019344771

Fuck GitHub entirely. Their apology shows a complete and probable wilful misunderstanding of the problem.

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jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

GitHub could place an ad anywhere on the page -- this seems unnecessarily intrusive and user-hostile. Not to mention gross. #OpenSource #GitHub

https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/