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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

ajsadauskas@aus.social ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:

There was no drone delivery future. There was never going to be a drone delivery future.

Just like there was never going to be self-driving Uber taxis. Or Amazon Go supermarkets on every corner. Or hyperloops. Or earth-to-earth space travel on SpaceX rockets. Or level-five full self driving Teslas.

Just like there will not be a general artificial intelligence ChatGPT in the next couple of years.

They were all scams designed to lure dollars from investors and generate good PR.

It was all bullshit. It was always bullshit.

Nothing more.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137383/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-closing-lockeford-california-phoenix-arizona

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

fuck to newspapers dot com

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

bpreneel@infosec.exchange ("Bart Preneel") wrote:

10 years after the FBI "going dark" statement, Europol issued a similar
statement
https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/EDOC-%231384205-v1-Joint_Declaration_of_the_European_Police_Chiefs.PDF

Masks are falling off: perhaps we will not get the client side scanning we wanted (#chatcontrol) (the camera in every room) hence we will ask for ban on end-to-end encryption (make curtains and blinds illegal).

n addition to academia, civil society, and industry, former NSA chiefs keep stating that strong end-to-end encryption protection is essential for a secure digital society.

#neverendingcryptowars

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Americans don't make a 180 on Palestinian support en mass without Black and brown activists putting in the work and organizing on TikTok.

We don't have the same powerful conversations about Black liberation without Black activists educating us for free on TikTok.

To attack them now because they're not on your little decentralized platform the way you think they should be is fucking wild.

Have we considered maybe this place isn't as inviting to POC as we think it is?

I'm out for a while.

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

Tomorrow we celebrate JS Naked Day!

https://js-naked-day.org/

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

theluddite@assemblag.es ("The Luddite") wrote:

Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The launch of #Threads was truly Zuck's dirt bag magnum opus.

He duct taped it to his most popular platform. Then, he showed us pictures of our IG friends and said they were all waiting for us to join. And when we got there and saw it was just Starbucks and a bunch of transphobes posting, he told us we couldn't delete his shittier Twitter without also deleting the app we actually cared about.

Not to mention putting us through countless videos of Mosseri's necklace.

10/10 no notes.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

A Chrome extension that just replaces all AI icons with a hand that has two thumbs

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-bill-senate-legal-challenge-first-amendment/

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

Whatever Tom Cotton recommends, do the opposite.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/23/better-send-in-the-riot-squad/

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• The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t sen the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs. (remote)
• Protesters hold Seder at Columbia (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

maddy@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Madeline Stephanie Thorson") wrote:

the two types of celeste steam reviews

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

I was so excited about the good news I forgot the uspol CW. Sorry 'bout that, everybody.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

To each and every company that ever made me sign a non-compete agreement, I offer a sincere and enthusiastic HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA fuck off.

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

docpop ("Doctor Popular") wrote:

Speaking of video game adaptations; I really loved the new #Fallout series. They nailed the feel of the game, but also delivered some fantastic storytelling. It even made me want to play the first two Fallouts just to get a little more understanding of the show.

I loved it and you might too https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0CN4J59BF/ref=butts

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

Just watched my son, a major in the 51st Expeditionary Signal Battalion, barking orders at the troops during their casing ceremony. It was weird. I guess every soldier was a kid, once.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

FTC votes to ban non-compete agreements. They were already non-enforceable in some places (California?), but good thing to have is as a general rule.

I'm a fan of Lina Khan!

https://thehill.com/business/4615452-ftc-votes-to-ban-non-compete-agreements/

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

In text form:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

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

Regarding LB[1]: Here's a copy on youtube if you need slightly better quality video of Lina Khan discussing the FTC new rule regarding non-compete clauses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpEtYOlA7cQ

[1] https://mas.to/@BlackAzizAnansi/112322145067235802

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

bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

When in my car, I found myself in my car.

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• the curl license shown on a screen in a car

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:

The FTC just banned non-compete clauses.

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• A video via "More Perfect Union" which explains how non-compete clauses were banned by the FTC and how it will help people. (remote)

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

denmanrooke@social.coop ("Denman Rooke") wrote:

Hey! Here's a process video of the oil painting for Angel of Indemnity for Magic the Gathering's Outlaws of Thunder Junction set.

#mtgart #MagicTheGathering #mtgThunder #MTGOTJ

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/c7361c71-175e-4e55-8ada-6c4c931cfdd2

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

rees@makertube.net ("Rees") wrote:

Building A Brand New FPGA Gameboy Color In 2024

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/4e2248bc-530e-47ec-af81-ac5d8d3d335a

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org ("Carl T. Bergstrom") wrote:

A beautiful red-naped sapsucker in southern New Mexico last month.

#birdwatching #birdphotography

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• Black and white bird with a bright red head and chin clinging to a pine trunk. (remote)
• Black and white bird with a bright red head and chin clinging to a pine trunk. (remote)

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

As always, I am discouraged by the state of journalism in this country. (CNN & Fox News don't practice it, for the record.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/23/tv-killed-journalism-in-america/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkf2U5jcE0

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

see also

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

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

Serendipity being the best way to find music sometimes.

Klangphonics taking Techno back to its roots (I assume):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qrbwfhtn4

You can hear the whole track here if you're so inclined:

https://soundcloud.com/user-693575886/ich-brauch-mehr-bass

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

hot damn! Voyager I is back online & coherent!

oh yah, yah yah yah, you go little spacecraft, you go… 🛰️

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

@fromjason they were lying from the get-go

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Where are all the free-speech, social-media-is-a-market-place-of-ideas techno libertarians at? The US Government is about to ban a platform with 170 million Americans on it. Nothing to say?

#TikTokBan #OpenWeb