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

2024 has made it clear—AI is the sawdust in our food. Technocrats want to use AI slop as an additive to reduce the expense of 100% organic human-made content. Our politicians are too fat off the cream to make a move.

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

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly:

"Such artists often had millions of streams on Spotify and pride of place on the company’s own mood-themed playlists, which were compiled by a team of in-house curators. And they often had Spotify’s verified-artist badge. But they were clearly fake. Their “labels” were frequently listed as stock-music companies like Epidemic, and their profiles included generic, possibly ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/the-ghosts-in-the-machine.html

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

You Might Be Worried About the Wrong Algorithms - The Atlantic:

"But algorithms aren’t just being used to feed you content. They’re also employed to fix real-estate prices, make probation and asylum decisions, determine Uber prices during a hurricane, dictate whether elderly people receive potentially lifesaving medical care, assess the risk posed by an abusive partner, and decide who gets targeted in a war ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/you-might-be-worried-about.html

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

Obviously, I don’t post a lot of super model content but I just learned who Anok Yai is, and she’s so beautiful that my brain isn’t able to fully process it.

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• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight dress. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight dress, looking at the camera. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight suit. She has dark skin and short hair.
• Beautiful women in a crystal studded skin-tight suit. She has dark skin and short hair.

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

another fascinating pivot by this age-old yet still-agile organization

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/encyclopedia-britannica-is-an-JdeViIFRSjuAji4Snw.HVg

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

perfection

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804

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

“Wildflowers” (2014 Remaster) by Tom Petty

https://pandora.app.link/Dpj3azm2CPb

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon

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

“It’s better to burn out than fade away.”

- Neil Young

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

“My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” (2016 Remaster) by Neil Young & Crazy Horse

https://pandora.app.link/hAewzcH1CPb

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

“The Weight” (Remastered 2000) by The Band

https://pandora.app.link/bNEHCA70CPb

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joelpomales ("Joel Pomales") wrote:

Donated to #wikipedia
Fuck you, Elon!

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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes") wrote:

If you want to live a more ethical, less manipulated life, the single best bit of advice I know to give you is:

Learn to resist the allure of convenience.

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alwirtes@indieweb.social ("Al Wirtes") wrote:

I just gave #wikipedia $50. Please consider making a donation now to send a message to #ElonMusk that we’re not going to let him divide us for his profit.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@chris108/113712585602739953

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

“In a Town This Size” (feat. Dolores Keane) by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/OnMcseR0CPb

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

The Grinch Song is a surprisingly good exploration of change and growth. And it’s fucking hilarious. Merry Christmas. https://youtu.be/nQLJNCDa4GA?si=7mNbhUbHG6xQAZXA

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

Human and spiders were all well served with a Christmas lunch.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/25/lunch-has-been-served/

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• Honey bear! Spiders had mealworms (not shown). (remote)

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nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Amazingly dozens of people survived and walked away from this crash.

#azerbaijanaircrash #Russia

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kiwix ("Kiwix") wrote:

If you think it's time for the Wikimedia Foundation to complete #mastodonmigration, then you can:
* Subscribe to (pretty inactive) @wikimediafoundation
* Challenge clearly the rationals to stay on "the hostile network" at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Social_media #elonmusk #wikipedia

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JMarkOckerbloom ("John Mark Ockerbloom") wrote:

More than funds, what Wikipedia really needs is more good editors. The number of people who regularly edit articles in English Wikipedia hasn't grown substantially in years, while the number of articles has, and editor demographics remains skewed. The foundation itself largely stays away from editing, leaving it to volunteers. While articles that get a lot of attention are often good, it's not hard to find ones with biased and promotional content in less-visited topics, and in other languages.

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Did you know you can download an entire copy of Wikipedia for use offline? Takes some storage space but there are text-only or (larger) versions with images.

https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Mama cats doing their thang

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• Dual photos with one showing a mama cat carrying her kitten in her mouth, and tge other showing a large CAT machine carrying a smaller one in its shovel thingy. (remote)

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

cool, lmstudio-community/Phi-3.1-mini-4k-instruct-GGUF does run (albeit slowly) on my Mac Mini M1 and does accept the same call as OpenAI

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Happy holidays and merry Christmas! 🎄

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• My wife, Amelia, and me with my arm around her.

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

good Q

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jwz wrote:

The King In Red:

Camilla: You, sir, should unmask.
Stranger: Indeed?
Cassilda: Indeed it's time. We all have laid aside disguise but you.
Stranger: I wear no mask.
Camilla: (Terrified, aside to Cassilda.) No mask? No mask!

Alternately:

Tillinghast: Oh, it's so beautiful... So... beautiful!
Pretorius: Now you can truly see.
Katherine: What have you done to him?
Pretorius: I only awakened his sleeping pineal gland. It did the rest itself.
Katherine: No!

https://jwz.org/b/ykfD

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nickthewright@tenforward.social ("Nick Wright") wrote:

“You will be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

#startrek #ds9

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• Nog, Quark, and Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (remote)

jwz wrote:

A Merry Christmas to All Oligarchs.

By order of His Majesty King Mob
https://jwz.org/b/ykfA

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MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org ("Will Berard 🫳🎤 🫶") wrote:

Remember that the true meaning of Christmas is using money you don't have to buy things they don't need to people you don't like.
#consumerism #Christmas #Memes #TheyLive

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• A six panel montage inspired by They Live, with Santa as the alien, and the words "WORK" "CONSUME" "OBEY" (remote)

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docpop ("Doctor Popular") wrote:

I saw Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer for the first time as an adult and saw something I hadn't seen before #rudolphtherednosereindeer

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• Doc Pop sitting in front of the camera and talking while footage of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer plays in the background. He shows footage from the film, including Rudolph being sad and a collection of misfit toys. These include a toy train with square wheels, a talking watergun that shoots red jelly, and a bird on a perch that says it cannot fly, then it jumps into a bowl of water. Later we see Rudolph guiding the sleigh with his bright red nose. Once they are high up, an elf starts pulling out toys and giving them an umbrella before tossing them off the sleigh. The indication here is the umbrellas help the toys float safely. Then he pulls out the flightless bird and an umbrella. He looks at the umbrella and then the bird as if he is thinking about something, and then he throws the flightless bird out of the sleigh.