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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This is astonishing. People are literally reading what they want to see. Lots of comments believe that it is against Bluesky's terms of service to train AI on our data. It isn't.

Most don't even realize that all their data is publicly available via a relay.

When people figure all this out I don't think they'll be happy.

From: @fromjason
https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/113553275300513021

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mightybigcar@montereybay.social ("MightyBigCar") wrote:

@pzmyers Peter Nyikos....

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• 5f9fcdbfb9252e5c.mp4 (remote)

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chenoehart wrote:

My speculative investigations into using server racks to create home furniture are now viewable online, at their own new website.
https://futurerack.info

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• Image of a server rack with added wooden doors and shelves and cabinets, containing combinations of personal objects on the shelves (plants, photo frames, books, shoes, vases, speakers, a clothes rack, a coffee maker, objects spilling out of open drawers) and mounted electronic audio and data storage equipment.

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emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

this month's #BirdWhisperer is a snow bunting! look at this little lad. Reference image by Frank Ebertus.

#birds #art #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots #DigitalArt

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• a digital painting of a snow bunting. the image has been heavily abstracted, such that the shapes within are mostly polygons and lines. there is a filter effect similar to glitter over the entire image. the bird is central, rimlit so that he is outlined in white. he is squat, with brown and black markings and black feet, and a triangular orange beak. he is in profile facing to the left. around him is beach debris, like sticks, rocks, and shells. the image is mostly painted in yellows, purples, oranges, and blues. (remote)

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

“Vaccine skepticism has ballooned worldwide, and Mr. Kennedy and others who back him have encouraged it. Americans may be well aware that their possible future health leader holds dangerous beliefs about vaccines. The consequences of his views — and those of his orbit — are not merely absurd but tragic.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/opinion/rfk-jr-vaccines-samoa-measles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dE4.3kib.Lpve-EoKINiz&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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owasow ("Omar Wasow") wrote:

A broad effort to grind down the basic architecture of the web: “On YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, there’s often no way to link to outside sources in your posts…Threads doesn’t explicitly suppress link posts — but its algorithm may do so implicitly, by prioritizing posts that get likes and comments over those that generate clicks.” Gift Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzMyNjgzNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzM0MDY1OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MzI2ODM2MDAsImp0aSI6IjY4YmZiNmQ2LTIyNmUtNDVhMC1hN2MxLWRmNTk5NmEwMmZiNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzExLzI3L211c2steC10aHJvdHRsZS1saW5rcy10aHJlYWRzLWJsdWVza3kvIn0.TUqi7l-mPdnz8A1blwU9UDyG1FQMaGYwRLGcR0W74Dk

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

Ken Ham hates Jesus, too.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/27/have-a-merrily-bigoted-xmas/

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• santa hates you (remote)

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

Bluesky does have a useful tool for social media curation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/27/land-of-the-list-lords/

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• clearsky.app (remote)

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

It's glib, but not wrong, to frame this as "bullshit vs. engineering".

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

The post I'm working on has crystallised something important for me. Some developers are in thrall to the prescriptions of their framework's community. I've come to think of this as "frameworksim" -- it's a distinct strain of epistemic knowledge in which only the prescriptions allowed by the priesthood of the framework are pure.

The opposite of frameworkism is a sort of realism; a willingness to confront one's product and user base as they are and build to those constraints.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

404 Media dropped a report earlier today revealing that people use Bluesky posts to train AI.

Bluesky published a thread that didn’t directly address the report but discussed its own policy and possible future features, such as appending robots.txt to posts.

Based on the comments of this thread, it’s clear that most BS members don’t realize their posts go to an open index that anyone can access.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3lbvgvbvcf22c

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averagehousewife@beige.party ("averagehousewife :bc:") wrote:

Cadbury cream turducken.

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SusanPotter ("Susan Potter") wrote:

Another reason to like Deno. #javascript

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/cancel_oracles_javascript_trademark_deno/?td=rt-3a

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

Who, who could have predicted?

Well, everybody. Bluesky's an all-public artchiteture that's optimized for surveillance capitalism. But other than "everybody" ... who, who could have predicted?

#bluesky

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TheNeedling@newsie.social ("The Needling") wrote:

SPD Officer Instinctively Turns Off Body Cam Before Approaching Dark Turkey Meat: https://theneedling.com/2024/10/02/spd-officer-instinctively-turns-off-body-cam-before-approaching-dark-turkey-meat/

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• Cop covering body cam approaching table of carved turkey and other Thanksgiving dishes (remote)

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lobau@noodle.social ("laurent") wrote:

Who knew that the Home Alone poster would be the template for every YouTube thumbnail ever.

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• The Home Alone poster, with Macaulay Culkin's face in large with a dramatic expression. (remote)

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

Also, I find I'm not as enamored as I once was with the notebook format. But it's for a quick job. In the long ago past, the notebooks finally gave me a reason to learn more about Python, but at this point I'm undecided as to whether that was good or bad.

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

I'm using Jupyter notebooks after years away, and yesterday I accidentally deleted a bunch of cells. I thought I undid the disaster, but today I discovered I was still missing a cell. One that contained an important function. Luckily the kernel was still running from yesterday, so I used the Python inspect module to retrieve the source code. Phew! 😅

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heinz ("Heinz") wrote:

@uep suggested someone should swap the `n` and `ope` in this picture ... I happily oblige!

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• Picture of a speaker infant of a slide that originally read “Windows, The most open operating system”, photoshopped to swap the ’n’ and ‘poe’ of ‘open’ to read “Windows, The most nope operating system”

jwz wrote:

What the actual fuck has Patreon done to their web site? Where has the list of my patrons gone? Where is the post button???

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petrikas@mastodon.art ("Studio Petrikas") wrote:

Welcome to today's world, where everything's made up and the words don't matter.

#microsoft

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• A screenshot of Microsoft's keynote, with a person in front of a giant screen that says "Windows, the most open operating system" (remote)
• A screenshot of Microsoft's keynote, with a person in front of a giant screen that says "Windows, Most reliable and secure platform" (remote)
• A screenshot of Microsoft's keynote, with a person in front of a giant screen that says "Windows, committed to remaining the most reliable and secure platform" (remote)

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jmm@fosstodon.org ("Moritz Mühlenhoff") wrote:

Yet another example of how useful and powerful autopkgtest has become for Debian: The integration for bookworm-security as run on the latest PHP 8.2.26 security release spotted a regression in the GMP functions, which could then be reverted before it hit systems in the wild: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/16870#issuecomment-2498505059

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lukhash ("LukHash") wrote:

Turning #C64 into a guitar powered #chiptune SID synth 👾

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• 8cc2ca5de3e6f0bf.mp4

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

Free access (pdf):

https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/1746420/130125_06.pdf

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MsMadLemon ("Ms Mad Lemon") wrote:

My new album is finally complete and up on Bandcamp to purchase.
Listen and enjoy 😀
https://msmadlemon.bandcamp.com/album/subdued-light

#music #synth #retro

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• Album cover of Madija's new album 'Subdued Light' Image of a woman on a train looking out the window.

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

Excuses about why React is fine from teams that are currently drowning in the evidence it's not, but make it science:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103113001443

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Patron Saint of Boundless Patience
Goddess of the Great Still Pool
Give me perceptiveness to recognize ignorance.
Lend me the calm to respond each time as if it were the first.
Let me see "not knowing" as an opportunity to learn.
Let me never forget that I too can be ignorant.

Let me not forget to thank my teachers.
And to teach not smite, or scream or cry.

It's not that great of a prayer but it is a start I guess.

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eosfpodcast@universeodon.com ("Rod Faulkner") wrote:

Hey fellow sci-fi fans,

Many of you may be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday - or looking for some cool, new sci-fi media to consume.

If so, I have a great sci-fi audio drama to recommend.

Check out "Chrysalis" a 14-Part sci-fi audio drama with an all-star voice cast including: Corey Hawkins, Toni Collette, Lance Reddick, and Haley Joel Osment

Check out our coverage to learn more here:

https://www.the7thmatrix.com/blog/2020/9/19/chrysalis-dust-podcast

#scifi #audiodrama #media #thanksgiving

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• Official poster image for sci-fi audio drama 'Chrysalis' (remote)
• Image containing headshots of the entire voice cast of sci-fi audio drama 'Chrysalis' (remote)

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

I'm going to be stockpiling groceries in December, I think.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/26/who-is-going-to-profit/

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• The orange boob promises 25% tariffs in everything coming from Canada and Mexico (remote)

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jack@berlin.social ("Jack Rusher") wrote:

Excellent piece that applies as much to large software as to any other kind of engineering situation:

https://landley.net/history/mirror/institutional_memory.html