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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
That's some cold blooded QRTing, Joyce. lmao
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism - The Atlantic:
"Silicon Valley, under the sway of its worst technocratic impulses, is following the playbook established in the mass scaling and monopolization of the social web."
I think this article is the closest thing we have to understanding the #Threads / #Mastodon interpolation initiative. At the very least, it gives us a framework to understand what feels like a heavily coordinated march. 🧵
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/
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smitty@halibut.com ("SmittyHalibut") wrote:
It took me two days to layout this power supply section and do all the math/tweaking to optimize it for BOM count and still be within spec. BUT! If it does what I want, it's "some wildly variable voltage in (+9 to +15v), +5v/-5v out, and switched for battery use efficiency.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay: so writing a #Rust command line program that bangs on a (remote) #GPT (a large language model) really *is* simple, and putting together reasonably readable cross-platform GUI code in Rust has *also* become pretty easy & even more lightweight… color me A Happy 🐶
these are Very Good Things
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Some days it's a victory if you can just hold on, friends:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I made a playlist of my app defaults.
This is the worst thing I've ever done and I'm sorry.
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Mastodon FeedCome and grab a mug at #FOSDEM before they’re gone! They’re quite popular! The 3D printed elephant is not for sale but you could pet him! #Merchtodon
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yogthos@mas.to ("Yogthos") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm teaching a semi-new course in eco-devo this term, and I take a few minutes to assess how it's going. Only of interest if you're curious about how teachers' brains work.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/03/self-assessment-time/
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BethanyBlack ("Bethany Black") wrote:
At the age of 40 my friend reconsidered whether she wanted to help deliver babies anymore, she was having a midwife crisis.
No, you fuck off.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
heading out for my usual volunteer shift, walking doggos at the #ROC Pound
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
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Mastodon FeedVisit us at #FOSDEM, building H, level 1! You can say hi to our team or tell us what you’d like to see in Mastodon next. Mugs, t-shirts, enamel pins, and even free stickers available! #Merchtodon
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Tracks
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:
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- athree-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat Listen, this is serious. Do not use the website called Sci-Hub! It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth. Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author. So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people? (remote)
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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
Just two of the losers who never bought Bitcoin
Don’t be like them
Pay one million dollars for my discord server
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
well now, this looks interesting…
“GitHub - dongri/openai-api-rs: OpenAI API client library for Rust (unofficial)”
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erty@recurse.social ("Erty") wrote:
Saw a meme and decided it needed a 4x4 taking it to the furthest extreme
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kern@hol.ogra.ph ("Transient Kerse") wrote:
The appeal of the early web / #SmallWeb isn't just about mostly-technical considerations like data privacy or JavaScript being cumbersome or whatever.
It was the whole community aspect of it! People signed guest books, joined webrings, and traded banner ads for each others' sites. People made new pages whenever a significant event happened. And everyone with a website felt like both a master and an apprentice at the same time; the only real barrier to entry was minimal #HTML knowledge. It was a brand new way of expressing oneself at the time
Now the internet is largely a commercial zone run by big businesses. It's great that folks can get started with WordPress or SquareSpace or whatever but the trade-off for this convenience is the loss of the early web's eclectic personality. Today's internet is sleek and professional, but boring, and its diversity is waning as the masses favor homogenous prefabricated crapBut yeah it's also the technical stuff too
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Holy hell. This is probably just a bug, but JFC, Apple. SMDH.🤦
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/did-apple-just-break-web-apps-in-ios17.4-beta-eu/
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Breaking: Did Apple just break Web Apps in iOS 17.4 Beta (EU)?
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/did-apple-just-break-web-apps-in-ios17.4-beta-eu/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Rent-Seeking as a Service:
Wendy Liu piece from 2019 in which she suggests we refer to tech industry leaders as tax collectors, because it'll upset them far more than "overlords" or "robber barons" https://dellsystem.me/posts/fragments-86
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Zestryon ("Zéphyrin 🐈⬛") wrote:
The Social Club.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
My brother in Christ, noooo.
Respectfully, this is what pirates tell their captives so they catch Stockholm syndrome.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
When the number of housing units per person is falling, it's like a sadistic game of musical chairs where someone ends up unwanted roommates or without housing entirely.
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- A graph showing the US having around 425 dwellings per 1,000 people with that having fallen by 1-1.5% over the past 10 years. It shows European countries averaging around 525 dwellings per 1,000 people and growing at 5% over the past 10 years. It shows East Asian countries around the same level as the US, but growing at 10-15% over the past 10 years. (remote)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Publix really made me think these were the fruits of the gods
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:
The advance reader copies of my forthcoming book have arrived and they are beauties! Thanks to @wwnortonlibrary for supporting this investigation into how we can stop culture wars in the U.S. -- by understanding their history, and recognizing psychological weapons before they harm us and our communities. #StoriesAreWeapons drops in early June but you should pre-order now! Imagine how pleasing it will be to have an antidote to culture war this hot presidential race summer. #bookstodon #books
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- A box of my books, with blue covers and red letters. They read "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind." (remote)
- The back of the book shows these blurbs: “Annalee Newitz’s thoroughly researched and masterfully crafted book gives us something hopeful—a way to disarm the narratives that have been used against us and reclaim better ones.” —Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize winning author of An Immense World “A brilliant historical deep dive into psyops, military covert influence operations and the corporate attempts to conquer the mind. This will change the way you understand America.” —Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood “A penetrating, passionately reasoned analysis of how propaganda and disinformation have been used as tactics of both hard and soft wars, and how we continue to be manipulated today. This is a storyteller’s account of the devastating force of storytelling.” —Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs “Annalee Newitz shows how words can have more power than even bullets and bombs. A read very much worth your time, as much to make you rethink the world around you.” —P. W. Singer, co-author of LikeWar “Illuminating and energizing, Stories Are Weapons can help us defuse the propaganda bombs going off all around us. It also shows how we can come together to tell different stories—stories to shed light in the darkness, make sense amid chaos, and forge hope and community instead of fear and isolation.” —Astra Taylor, author of The Age of Insecurity (remote)
- This is the dedication page of the book. It reads, "For anyone who has been told that they should not be alive. Together we will survive this war." (remote)
- This is the table of contents! Here's what they say: Preface: The Brain Fog of War Part I: Psyops Chapter 1: The Mind Bomb Chapter 2: A Fake Frontier Chapter 3: Advertisements for Disenfranchisement Part II: Culture Wars Chapter 4: Bad Brains Chapter 5: School Rules Chapter 6: Dirty Comics Part III: Disarmament Chapter 7: History Is a Gift Chapter 8: Deprogramming for Democracy Chapter 9: Public Spheres of the Future (remote)
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sadoperator@botsin.space ("DevSadOps") wrote:
If you give a man a software, you torment him for a day.
If you teach a man to software you torment him for a lifetime.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
When did Threads become Liberal?
Like Republicans with #twitter, there's now this growing liberal-endorsing sentiment for and across #Meta's #Threads. It's a baffling star to hitch your wagon to.
What was once algorithmic patricians that kept our ideologies in their respective corners, is now a sort of platform-nationalism— each side slinging mud at the other's ruler.
What's to be gained? And who claims the spoils? #indieweb #socialweb