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Frank@normal.style ("the japing jester") wrote:

LLMs are actually great at business-speak because everybody already talked like that. “This sounds like an LLM” wrong it sounds like a senior business development manager named brad.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

(Edited for a pixel-perfect screenshot)

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ZhiZhu@newsie.social ("Zhi Zhu 🕸️") wrote:

from @rubenbolling

Know your ICE agent:
Being able to discern between a federally authorized ICE agent and a criminal kidnapper within seconds of first interaction is absolutely essential.

If your abductor is an ICE agent, you must obey, comply and submit. If your abductor is a criminal kidnapper, you are free to fight for your life.

#Cartoon #Comics #Humor #Politics #ICE #Trump #GOP #USPol #Immigration #US #USA

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

If there's one area where tech has shown a consistent aptitude for innovation, it's in accounting tricks that make money-losing companies appear wildly profitable. And AI is the greatest innovator of all (when it comes to accounting gimmicks).

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
diegoe wrote:

I wrote about the new dynamics of online harassment and why "don't feed the trolls" might be outdated advice: https://diegoe.be/2025/07/01/the-new-troll-diet/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:

It's release day!

There's a risk that the Galactic Concordium will declare humans to be people. If that happens, the Swordian Society for Responsible Human Ranching is gonna go, as they say, ape.

https://mwl.link/laserblasted.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

No doubt. #grickledoodle #chameleon #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujiFNg3rLA

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

As a general rule I only open up DMs to mutual follows and never do actual business in the DM space (that's what email is for, it's much easier to archive and search and otherwise keep track of). I've found the sort of person who does the "hey I have a question for you, can you follow me so I can DM you about it" thing is mostly up to no good.

https://www.theverge.com/news/695743/threads-dms-direct-messaging-launch

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
recursecenter ("Recurse Center") wrote:

⭐️ We're hiring a Career Facilitator!

This is a full-time, onsite role in Brooklyn with meaningful work, good benefits, great colleagues, clear goals, and a healthy culture.

Please share with kind, extroverted, and curious colleagues who have a background and interest in recruiting!

https://bit.ly/4nku9ZI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
eric@social.ericwbailey.website ("Eric") wrote:

I've referenced it enough that now it's all I can hear when I read it. Now you have to hear it too 🙉 https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/

Boosted by jwz:
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Senator Murkowski just saved the Big Beautiful Bill

She switched her vote to yes giving republicans the 50 - 50 split which allows JD Vance to tiebreak

She immediately told reporters she hopes congress will vote it down.

Up to 18.5 MILLION Americans could lose Medicaid coverage because of this

Republicans are cowards

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Another nearby lightning strike. Happy I recently re-inspected my ground system.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Software should work.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

A disability can be a challenge, but it definitely doesn’t have to be a “problem”. And in many cases, it can be a superpower. Most people don’t realize that the predecessor to Braille, a similar system of raised bumps called “night writing” developed by an officer in Napoleon’s army, originally had strategic military applications. Being able to read critical messages on the battlefield in complete darkness is a pretty badass skill to have.

Boosted by jwz:
claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Corporate Democrats fighting leftists/ Corporate Democrats fighting Republicans

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Today marks the first day of Disability Pride Month. ♿️❤️ Nearly a decade ago, we had a pretty serious scare when our eye doctor found an issue with my daughter’s retina. While everything turned out (mostly) OK there, that episode kicked off a journey of deep learning related to blindness and Braille. I spent a lot of time at the American Printing House for the Blind (near where I live), learned to read Braille visually, got up to a halfway decent typing speed on a Perkins brailler, and put my nerd skills to use trying to build some interesting web stuff related to Braille. I’m going to try to dust a couple of those projects off this week and put them back on my website. (One is a Braille cell decoder, and the other is a virtual brailler, which is kind of fun to use!)

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Tijn@dosgame.club ("Martijn Frazer") wrote:

Holy crap the Stop Destroying Videogames European Citizens' Initiative is almost 75% there, while only a week or so a go it was stuck at 50% 🤯

We might make it after all!

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This photo really pushes the limits of what you can do with 35mm format lenses, but I leaned in to the limitations and it worked out OK. I ended up switching to the Phase One system a few months later, which is much more flexible when you need view camera movements.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Inquirer building also housed (until a few years before they moved) their printing plant, making it one of the last major dailies where it was at least theoretically possible for an editor to run downstairs and yell "stop the presses!" if a major story came in. But I'll bet that didn't actually happen very often.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This was captured with a DSLR and a 19mm shifting lens. There's a bit of barrel distortion from the lens, but I decided this image looked better uncorrected.

The Inquirer building, completed in 1924, to me evokes a cigar-chomping editor who calls everyone "kid" and who says things like "bring me back a scoop".

The building had been vacant for a few years when this photo was made, the paper having moved to cheaper and leaner facilities. It has since been repurposed as police headquarters.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Philadelphia Inquirer Building, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.

All the pixels, none of the ink on your hands, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/32309131520

#photography

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I wanted external live data updates (to my recent movies, books, and concerts) to trigger new builds of my static personal site. I had to do some troubleshooting to make that work, so I put together a little TIL https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/07/cascading-github-action-workflows-for-static-sites/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

They’re slashing without a thought or a plan beyond “Give the rich more tax breaks.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

So what. The damage is done. Your "regrets" are fucking useless at this point.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/young-men-who-elected-trump-just-realized-they-scrwed-up/

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

arguably, the Union was saved by General John Buford and his dusty cavalry acting as mounted infantry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%5FBuford

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

Today in History: Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863

"The first-day battle proceeded in three phases as combatants continued to arrive at the battlefield. In the morning, two brigades of Confederate Maj. Gen. Henry Heth's division (of Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill's Third Corps) were delayed by dismounted Union cavalrymen under Brig. Gen. John Buford. As infantry reinforcements arrived under Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds of the Union I Corps, the Confederate assaults down the Chambersburg Pike were repulsed"

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

Now that summer is in full swing, you might need this Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things, so you can tell harmless bumblebees (you can pet them!) from “asshole” yellow jackets. https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things

jwz wrote:

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

The times they are a changin'…
As of today, I'm a professor emeritus at Columbia University. I've also moved to the DC area, where I'm a senior affiliate scholar at Georgetown University's Institute for Technology Law and Policy (yup, back together organizationally with @mattblaze after >20 years at different schools).