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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Wonder how often we’ll see this before the zeitgeist is inoculated against it.

“School athletic director arrested for framing principal using AI voice synthesis: Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments.”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/alleged-ai-voice-imitation-leads-to-arrest-in-baltimore-school-racism-controversy/

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antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:

Microsoft Copilot requires a little bit of... encouragement?

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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• 68007 THE BIGGEST JOKE ON MANKINDIS THAT COMPUTERS HAVE STARTED ASKING HUMANS TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE NOT A ROBOT. (remote)

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black_intellect@mstdn.social ("@blk_intellect") wrote:

FTC's noncompete ban could reshape the US workplace https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ftcs-noncompete-ban-could-reshape-the-us-workplace-140012480.html

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

I bet this nonprofit is seeing a spike in their analytics lately and wondering where it's suddenly coming from.

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• Google result for "React 19," with a top result being the nonprofit coincidentally named "React19." It is described as follows: React19 is a patient-driven non-profit charity dedicated to providing support for individuals dealing with COVID-19 vaccine injury. (remote)

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sophie@social.lol ("Sophie") wrote:

Really really love this: The Millennial Captcha (make sure you try it out)

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

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saxnot@chaos.social ("Saxnot") wrote:

Full transcript in image description.

#meme

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• Screenshot of tumblr text post reading: User brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase' - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it, okay to be sad that It ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all. Thanks to https://www.onlineocr.net/ with manual corrections. Source I found at is https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/ (remote)

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

React Team Announces SvelteKit

For a partial list of new features in the React 19 Beta, please see kit.svelte.dev

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

another case of spontaneous human combustion, leaving behind only their boots

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standaloneSA@social.linux.pizza ("Matt Simmons") wrote:

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Just discovered that most of the people I was following over at Bluesky haven't been active there in months, sometimes many months.

I've got a hunch that Bluesky is not going to be the Twitter successor they hope for. 🤔

There's this platform called Mastodon though… 😉👍

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #bluesky #social #media #online #communication

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UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

when you really need your toddler to stop asking questions for just two goddamn minutes

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• An adult golden retriever holding its pup’s snoot closed in its mouth. (remote)

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

Today in History: General Charles de Gaulle, President of France, resigns, 1969

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

Today in History: Zilog Z-80 introduced, 1976... and it changed the entire direction of my life

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

Today in History: James Monroe, 5th President of the United States, born Monroe Hall, VA

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

Today in History: Sir Terry Pratchett born, 1948

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Catching some morning rays at a hotel.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Gold 200
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
💃 Wife

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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• A woman with black hair and red lips, wearing a red turtleneck sweater, sitting in a relaxed pose on a colorful chair.

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

baby bunny at the backyard buffet

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bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The next Oxide and Friends is on May 13th, when @ahl and I will joined by molecular biologist Greg Cost to discuss @philipcball's extraordinary book, How Life Works. Read the book and bring your comments and questions -- or join just to listen to the discussion! On Discord on May 13th at 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/besjcERf?event=1233892673023246387

And recorded and syndicated as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐

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jonstahl ("Jon Stahl") wrote:

I will never get over the paradox that the tech industry works so hard to only hire people who fit very narrow archetypes when almost all of the best people I’ve worked with are the ones who managed to sneak past those filters.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Co-founder of Twitter joins new Mastodon board of directors. Right, so federating with Threads wasn’t a mistake. This is just the direction Mastodon is going. Oh, well. Another Mozilla emerges.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

#Mastodon #BizStone #SiliconValley #BigTech #Threads

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

About to attend a pirate dinner show 🏴‍☠️

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stefan@front-end.social ("Stefan Judis") wrote:

Alright, real talk: I have @code's minimap disabled because it only looks fancy. But the new ability to set marks might make me reconsider.

`// MARK:` and `//#​region` should work in the newest version.

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• VSCode showing bold marks in the minimap that are defined via code comments. (remote)

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stevelord@bladerunner.social ("Steve Lord") wrote:

On #wordpress #enshittification h/t @jwz https://goblin.band/notes/9sgki9pdru7i8p9y

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scream@botsin.space ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (bookseller era)") wrote:

Good reminder today: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QIxsXzrugUE

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

I enjoyed this track from Grapefruit Astronauts. It's the best soundtrack for a recipe I've ever heard. "Ramen62"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByaaQG0g1ZQ

They also have a presence on Bandcamp.

https://grapefruitastronauts.bandcamp.com/music

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

In the last five years we've seen a remarkable rise in class consciousness and a sophisticated understanding of the systems of marginalized oppression.

But the credible threats flaunted by those who dictate our digital lives, have gone largely unchecked by the greater Internet community. This isn't a matter of apathy, or a lack of intelligence, but rather the result of a small knowledge gap those who are tech-adjacent must work to fill.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There is a class of venture capitalists, project managers, and notable developers who have ignored the secessionists, eugenicists, white supremacists, and otherwise Effective Altruists who've invaded their luxury hotel conference rooms unopposed.

It's going to take more than the tech-savvy to start calling them out and exposing them.

It will take prominent non-tech voices. We should be courting those voices in our writings.

#bloggers #blogpunks