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jwz wrote:

BREAKING: The media have found a new way to not say "racist" -- "bias-motivated".

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

[My Letter box log of Se7en (Spoilers)] (https://boxd.it/8d7Rcz):

Maybe this is an obvious detail, but I hadn’t noticed before. For the entire film, detectives Summerset and Mills sludge through damp darkness searching for the truth. It’s not until the third and final act that we ever see the sun. And in that last minute, the truth is revealed in a dark and damp box.

I also noticed how Fincher used themes of beginnings and ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/my-letter-box-log-of.html

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• Two detectives by the front door with flashlights
• Two detectives walk a man in orange in handcuffs in an open field.

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Drippy_Spudd@cyberpunk.lol ("Jaz Distro") wrote:

when liberal businesses say "🏳️‍🌈all are welcome here🏳️‍🌈" they mean your ~money~ is welcome. homeless folks are still excluded.

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

Heh. Looks like Elon tried purchasing Substack back in 2023 according to a recent report. 😅

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-twitter-substack-x-1987589

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falcennial ("millennial falcon") wrote:

@fromjason sounds like a logical progression of american political, corporate, and media landscape.

I suspect (due to fecklessness and disorganisation) that may be a longer time scale than we'd intuitively expect, but I would definitely agree it's upcoming.

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

I have a prediction for 2025 that I think is inevitable:

Big media conglomerates will start acquiring publishing platforms like Substack. Indie journalists who’ve strayed too far from the trad-media script will be deprioritized in the platforms’ recommendation engines.

People will cry fowl but there won’t be much anyone (in the US) can do about it. I can even see some legislation passed to help these acquisitions in some ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/i-have-a-prediction-for.html

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

“To Further Its Mission of Benefitting Everyone, OpenAI Will Become Fully for-Profit”

https://gizmodo.com/to-further-its-mission-of-benefitting-everyone-openai-will-become-fully-for-profit-2000543628

Capitalism is a helluva drug, y’all.

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

MAGA and tech bros fighting for the worst type of person award.

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Don't tweet from the bottom of a K-hole, this is your billionaire subtweet of the day

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

Theatre drama: According to a Reels post by castingbythem, some theatres over reported the number of employees by tens or even hundreds and made off with millions of
dollars in some cases. Allegedly, these theatres counted unpaid actors and staff as full-time paid employees.

As someone dialed into the Atlanta theatre scene in 2020, I remember how many actors, comedians, and stage workers struggled to meet their basic ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/theatre-drama-according-to-a.html

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foo@fosstodon.org ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:

@mcc

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• Omni-Man looking at the IEEE 754 Single Precision Floating-Point Standard and saying "look what they need to mimic a fraction" with the rest of the meme whited out (remote)

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

With friends like Joe Biden, who needs enemies

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

John Stewart on Crossfire (2005):

"Tucker Carlson: Is John Kerry the best the Democrats can do?

Jon Stewart: I always thought in a democracy—and again, I don’t know, I’ve only ever lived in this country—that there’s a process where they call’em primaries. And they don’t always go with the best, but they go with whoever won."

What a quaint little anecdote about our old Democratic process. Anyway, you can see on ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/john-stewart-on-crossfire-tucker.html

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Alright, for the next few nights @helpingfriendlybot should be posting data about each #Phish song they play from Madison Square Garden!

Normal caveats apply: this thing is spaghetti code and debugging is tricky and I will be at the shows so can't do much if things stop working. The trick is to surrender to the flow

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

How can anyone trust any organization infiltrated by assholes? Applies to the Democratic party as well as atheists.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/why-should-i-trust-an-organization-that-honors-the-worst-among-us/

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• a fish rots from the head down (remote)

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downey@floss.social ("Michael Downey 🚩") wrote:

@fromjason Related:

https://web.nypl.org/blog/2019/07/17/literary-tattoos-of-nypl-staff

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

Futurism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1954:

"FUTURISM, initiated with the publication of Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism in 1909, was the most aggressive and, if short-lived, certainly the most polemic art movement of our time. Its revolutionary ideas were empiric rather than pedagogic and were filled with iconoclasm in its defiant repudiation of traditional art, supplanting idols of the past with the ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/28/futurism-sidney-janis-gallery-new.html

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• Book cover titled Futurism with an abstract painting
• Colorful abstract painting
• Abstract painting with lots of straight lines shapes and text
• Abstract painting

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

Found this old book stamp for The New York Public Library (1920s) in the Hathi Trust archives.

This would be a dope tattoo, right? https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433078571795

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• Stamp: profile of a lion with "The New York Public Library" under.

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

I'm sufficiently irrelevant to the movement that I'm probably safe.

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

Whoa. American Atheists national convention is being held in Minneapolis in April? May have to show up and hope I don't get beat up.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/do-i-want-to-hang-out-with-atheists-any-more/

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• American Atheists logo (remote)

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

That savior complex makes Musk look even more ridiculous.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/28/i-like-this-neil-degrass-tyson-fellow/

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• Wow, they really don’t get it. Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness. Also, I’m not going to ask any venture capitalists for money. I realize that it makes no sense as an investment. That’s why I’m gathering resources. (remote)

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Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

It's a point of pride for Marines to clarify this terminology to civilians: a person who has ended their service in the Marines may be called a "former" Marine but never an "ex-Marine." Except in cases like this, where the individual commits crimes or otherwise brings shame on the title. Case in point, this is an ex-Marine who has taken a public shit on his claim to call himself a Marine. (The Army tries to do this with "Soldier for Life" but honestly its propaganda just isn't as good.) https://apnews.com/article/tv-reporter-attack-trumps-america-40c4c3622bf85baef9cefbd50d50fcec

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markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

The King has issued his final official #Caturday portrait for 2024 👑

You're welcome 🙇‍♂️🙂

#Tigger 😽
#Bengals 🐅
#Photography 📷
#CatsOfMastodon 🐈

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• A close-up profile portrait picture of our gold and brown bengal cat looking to the right against an out-of-focus grey background.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Russian President Putin apologizes for the “tragic” downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane, which occurred in Russian airspace where air defenses were being used against Ukrainian drones. https://iz.ru/1815666/2024-12-28/putin-i-aliev-obsudili-krushenie-samoleta-pod-aktau

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mattyg wrote:

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Plushtodon

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• Oliver, a tuxedo cat, with #plushtodon

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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ Julius Caesar

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

this is ugly. the age-old question is: who shall guard the guardians?

“public reports suggest this attack was part of a wider campaign to target Chrome extension developers across a wide range of companies.” At this point it’s unclear who is responsible for this campaign, and other affected companies and their extensions have yet to be confirmed."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/cyberhaven-says-it-was-hacked-to-publish-a-malicious-update-to-its-chrome-extension/

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

what a nightmare, and what wonderful timing

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/bench-shuts-down-leaving-thousands-of-businesses-without-access-to-accounting-and-tax-docs/

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

"the practice of training models on outputs from rival AI systems can be “very bad” for model quality, because it can lead to 'allucinations and misleading answers like the above. “Like taking a photocopy of a photocopy, we lose more and more information and connection to reality,”'

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/113730527131462571

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Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Calishat") wrote:

#AI #LLM #ChatGPT #😂

'Posts on X — and TechCrunch’s own tests — show that DeepSeek V3 identifies itself as ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Asked to elaborate, DeepSeek V3 insists it is a version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model released in 2023.'

https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/27/why-deepseeks-new-ai-model-thinks-its-chatgpt/?guccounter=1