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Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
javierg@mstdn.social ("Javier") wrote:

@gjm @cstross

... "And during the acute phase of the covid pandemic, Gates personally intervened to kill the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool and to get Oxford to renege on its promise to make an open-source vaccine"

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

Currently, not feeling at all charitable to Apple.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/10/apple-hell/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

More and more convinced that the technocrats’ assertion that “AI” will take all of our jobs is a projection of their fear of a general strike.

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

don't recommend reading the thread. there are a lot of true believers. many simply think that anyone not using AI is going to fall behind in utility, but there are a number of people who insist it is their right to AI slop all over projects that have expressly said do not.

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

I added tags to attic.social bookmarks

you can see my bookmarks here 👀
https://attic.social/bookmarks/did:plc:rgrzo7xept2yb2auooex4rlg
(hopefully nothing is broken i'm kinda winging this project)

Attachments:

• gifv: web form creating a bookmark by entering the URL, fetching the page title, and adding two tags

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

we have achieved peak orange place. don't worry about AI slop PRs...

But the maintainers can use AI too, for their reviewing.

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

Don't send us a PR, send us the prompt you used to generate the PR.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17065099

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n

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

i have pruned a few possible feature combinations to reduce my woes. there are now only 13 implementations to write 😬

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Had some fun with the progress bar of my PineTime watch face and animated it. Looks lovely, if I may say so myself.

Attachments:

• gifv: Example of the animated progress bar.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
yaldi@jorts.horse ("Antifa Franklin") wrote:

just heading down the local

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

I tried to walk like an Egyptian.

Now I need a Cairo practor.

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

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/a-designers-thoughts-about-this-moment-in-ai/

— that's... one way to pitch your AI course

> "But not everyone has the luxury of just sitting this out, of closing the laptop lid."

the ol' reverse-privilege switcheroo!

ugh, sorry Brad, "AI is inevitable" takes are the most tiring to read 🥱

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

bollocks, one of the neat c tricks i came up with cannot be extended as i thought.

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

The February 2026 Trunk & Tidbits is posted. Our monthly engineering update, including progress on 4.6, our AI contribution policy, upcoming end-of-life for version 4.3, some posts about the Share button, and more.

#MastoDev #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/trunk-tidbits-february-2026/

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

Maybe I set up peertube on my website. Maybe I make some videos.

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

it has been 2 minutes and i'm already fucked off with c compilers again

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Laundry actually has three stages:

1. Clean
2. Dirty
3. The Chair

Just a neutral territory where clothes go to think about what they've done.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
archive: https://archive.is/wXvF3

l o l

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

All my posts are here https://olivia.science/posts

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe

> The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.

That story again: even parody Nobel committee recognizes how dangerous it is to travel to the USA these days. If your conference doesn't, your conference is less serious than parody Nobels. 🤡

#USpol

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

found the "bug"... PEBCAK

stupid tab complete added the wrong import 😡💢
(should have used gork code)

https://social.lol/@db/116203922255546306

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Block’s AI layoffs are fake too

ayahuasca beard weirdo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7djrd9OP55M&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260309-blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too - podcast

time: 5 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/ - blog post

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

“Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages”

https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de

Magnify dysfunction through automation and all you get is more dysfunction.

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

am i holding it wrong, or are the SvelteKit types not generating correctly? Zed editor bug?

I changed the return from `success` to `action`, it logs correctly, but the types are wrong. I deleted .svelte-kit and restarted everything - no luck :(

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E02
🎥 Episode: Girls
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 13, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0606

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/116076611382717131

This is what they took from us.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jzb@hachyderm.io ("Joe Brockmeier") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/116200138133289624

“C’mon, just try it. The first one is free.”

I guess kudos for being up front that it’s a time-boxed thing, rather than other “free for FOSS devs” things that are initially presented as long-term, but ultimately get rug pulled.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

@fromjason astute as always.

but let me ask you this.

who would listen to it if Jason made this progressive context technology podcast?

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

I'm hyping myself up to start a podcast but I don't think I have it in me. Podcasting is a young person's spot. I'm 44. That's like 113 in podcast years.

But boy would I love a tech podcast from someone who doesn't blatantly ignore the politics of it all, and is still funny and entertaining. I think I'm not the only one.

There's appetite for this I think.