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anathema@girlcock.club wrote:

We need to start the Butlerian Jihad. No machine should be allowed to mimic the soul of humanity, creative expression.

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jacob@jacobian.org wrote:

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mogul@mastodon.cloud ("Bret Mogilefsky") wrote:

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

My mother's March Madness bracket called both upsets today, and I am beginning to wonder if she controls time and space with her mind.

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

Doing a solid job for most users can't be a point of debate for a discipline that wants to continue.

Mastodon wrote:

🎉 New #Mastodon release! It's a minor one while we work on some bigger items for 4.2. A number of bug fixes and performance improvements! Backports for 4.0 and 3.5 also available.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.1

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BDA@monads.online wrote:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Legislation targeting #TikTok specifically sounds very dodgy to me.

Sure TikTok harvests data and can manipulate its users, but so do Facebook and Google.

It's probably impossible to write general legislation that bans unethical data collection that would target only TikTok, but not US tech giants.

Combined with the "solution" to sell ownership, the whole thing sounds like: "spying and manipulation is bad, when it's not US doing it".

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

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sugar@goblin.camp ("Davey :sugar_approved:") wrote:

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alyssa@treehouse.systems ("Alyssa Rosenzweig 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

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

i'm staying within 2 minutes of That One Famous Spot In DUMBO this week and it's tempting to hoof it over for every Be Real

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• BeReal app export, showing a small selfie in the corner of a photograph from a famous location in the DUMBO neighborhood where a Manhattan bridge stanchion is visible between two brick buildings (remote)

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funarch@discuss.systems ("Functional Architecture") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The theists never send their best.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/16/fun-with-a-natural-theist/

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• Atheism is the greatest moral error because it breaks the greatest command demanded from humanity: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength”. Mark 12:30 (remote)

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

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

Checks out:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/opinion/silicon-valley-bank-venture-capital.html?unlocked_article_code=6bnrRuyeezDqP7rPHUh8mSUtyTecisanaabS5qtrqMuSAIDQkDSGl8Wv7sI1JixyL_U7Jt3EzFIhgB6mMR7KSEOyyb4Xv8yDzC6Au_-fEi-3PQJrj6mQ1HoJr_C13pW5vRlKZbZ5Pl2n69yVWGx1F6YcvRCqMLfY7syr5UJC4ANXMsdx6sTi5-46BUepBTYPL9FOW0OibeWTY0qepEPfxusEGsqcHK_2yf_bznpEJiNMmwCrU8PuqvwWhX1yxg4FSjH-lGav_G7kJlUoPZmwUwnXJWlccJu-3PA3Hpi6sAFtVBXKuifGeI6jH8kc8CpO3YG7GfWUqlfwx5szEj33OfNT2H9xW6vp659h1n4&smid=url-share

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tomasp@hachyderm.io ("Tomas Petricek") wrote:

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• 8348935124409b8e.png (remote)

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jalcine@todon.eu ("Jacky Alciné") wrote:

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anjune@linuxrocks.online ("Peanut Hamper") wrote:

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

It wasn't even a good state school; just happened to be in-state tuition.

And nobody knows everything! It's fine!

But we should all aspire to learn more. Nobody is "done" who feels they've mastered a single layer. Adjacencies contain opportunities.

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

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bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

They never stop lying!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/16/lying-liars-are-still-lying/

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• Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (remote)

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

From: a friendly neighborhood state school undergrad dropout
To: The Internet

Suggesting that people develop skills and understand their platforms because it will help them and their teams is not gatekeeping.

Suggesting they do it in parallel is not saying they must do it before or clear an artificial bar.

Kthxbai.

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eevee@vulpine.club ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

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alexhern@tech.intersects.art ("Alex Hern") wrote:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Mid-march is full of interesting dates: my birthday, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the death of HP Lovecraft, & my wedding anniversary. One of those things does not belong with the others.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/16/another-anniversary/

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• HP Lovecraft obituary (remote)

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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