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

“His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” Ms. Kennedy wrote. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/caroline-kennedy-rfk-jr-hhs-confirmation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

yup:

“Legalizing permanent impoundment would transfer power from Congress to the presidency.

The founders devised the separation of powers to keep each branch from accumulating too much authority and posing a threat to liberty. Central to that is Congress’s control of decisions about taxation and spending — its power of the purse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-federal-grants-loans-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.s04.NGba._GvjT7zL7XB7&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

No one, and I mean NO ONE wanted to listen to us when we screamed at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes...

Nothing else has taught me more about how propaganda works and spreads across these institutions, whether it is the Nobel Prize, the United Nations, all these governments and whatnot, and how the stock market is basically like gambling, as seeing how everyone treated OpenAI, Deepmind, and friends since their inception.

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Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

"DeepSeek 'distilled' knowledge from OpenAI’s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft."

Let me see if I've got this right. These vultures have been gobbling up everyone else's intellectual property to repackage it as original output from their Gort-level Teddy Ruxpin, justifying it with Mad Hatter logic about internet distribution being some kind of public domain conversion, but when their work gets borrowed, it's stealing.

Got it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/david-sacks-claims-theres-substantial-evidence-that-deepseek-used-openais-models-to-train-its-own/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&guccounter=1

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

I’d just like to give a shout out to Epic Games and Tim for choosing this moment to platform a trans playable character while so many other folks are trying to pretend we don’t exist in deference to America’s Octogenarian Authoritarian.

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Mabande ("L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ") wrote:

@fromjason A very good explanation of the "don't sell a product, sell a service" business path.

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

The Age of Cloud Capital - Persuasion:

"No, the truly historic disruption was to automate capital’s power to command people outside the factory, the shop or the office—to turn all of us, cloud proles and everyone else, into cloud serfs in the direct (unremunerated) service of cloud capital, unmediated by any market." https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-age-of-cloud-capital

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Imagine being proud of helping the shit the Trump admin is doing.

"They're using it to blog/publish all of the actions today."

You mean all of the actions from #Project2025? Including invalidating trans people's passports? (And now, a week later, banning them from the military?)

Gross.

#wordpress

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• Matt Mullenweg @photomatt The new Whitehouse.gov looks to be powered by WordPress, and is very trim and fast. They're using ot to blog/publish all of the actions today. I believe hosted by FedRAMP-certified @WordPressVIP, with perfect uptime and security. Website transitions used to take months. 20th of January, 2025. Quote tweeted by @WordPress: We stand ready to serve

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

#funny #meme #shitpost #AI #deepseek #Tiananmen

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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

"Washington officials rush to figure out federal funding freeze."

I've heard multiple times that the order is obviously illegal. So who are the ones enforcing it?

Ever heard the phrase "do not obey in advance"? Don't obey an illegal order in the present, either!

It is crazymaking watching government institutions just roll over as Trump & Project 2025 try to shut all of government down.

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prami@social.lol ("Prami") wrote:

We have a brand new channel on the omg.lol Chat Network: #design! Feel free to swing by and chat about any kind of design. (The very first post there was about the design of @rail’s homelab power and ethernet setup!)

https://home.omg.lol/info/chat

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

Sometimes I think about the various medical issues and emergencies I have had and realize that in an earlier time I would probably not have reached this age, and if I did, I'd probably be blind and not have all my body parts.

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

Shout out to all the nurses and doctors that have helped keep the increasingly rickety chassis that is my body humming along so far. Very grateful.

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SteveFaulkner ("Steve Faulkner") wrote:

🏆the award for longest and most useless (non-conforming) HTML attribute name goes to...
👉generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt

#HTML #a11y

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/images.html#attr-img-generator-unable-to-provide-required-alt

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New Threat Model on reporting and sharing info in a fast-changing information landscape, what FB/Meta's free pass means for our privacy and speech, heads-up that WordPress is "ready to serve" Trump, and more:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-28-120947028

Share and support indie journalism now more than ever.

#cybersecurity #privacy #resist

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esoastronomy@astrodon.social ("ESO") wrote:

Using our telescopes, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a Super-Earth in the temperate zone of a nearby Sun-like star!

The star in question, known as HD 20794, is located just 20 light-years away. The planet is six times more massive than Earth, and it takes 647 days to complete an orbit around HD 20794 star, 40 days less than Mars around the Sun.

This feat was made possible thanks to over two decades of observations from the ESPRESSO and HARPS instruments, installed at our Very Large Telescope (VLT) and 3.6-metre telescope respectively, both in #Chile's Atacama Desert.

Learn more: https://www.iac.es/en/outreach/news/iac-confirms-existence-super-earth-habitable-zone-sun-star

Illustration by Gabriel Pérez Díaz (IAC)

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

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• An artistic representation of a planetary systems with planets orbiting a central star. The orbits are depicted with thin white lines against a backdrop of stars and the Milky Way galaxy. The orbits of the most internal planets are surrounded by a green shaded region labeled “Habitable Zone”, with the orbit of one planet passing through it. (remote)

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Facade. #grickledoodle #cats #hairless #facade #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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• A cartoon illustration of a man opening the bathroom and finding his surprised cat in the middle of shaving off all its fur. Caption reads "Evan was shocked to discover that Baxter wasn't a naturally hairless cat at all!" (remote)

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silviamaggi@mastodon.design ("Silvia Maggi") wrote:

Reach out to me for advice and guidance on digital accessibility.

With over twenty years of experience in design and development, I am dedicated to improving user experiences for a diverse audience, particularly for individuals with disabilities.

https://work.silviamaggidesign.com/

#Accessibility #WCAG #A11y #Inclusion

jwz wrote:

New Gmail war crime spotted in the wild.

Content-Type: text/vnd.google.email-reaction+json; charset="UTF-8"

{
"emoji": "=F0=9F=91=8D",
"version": 1
}

https://jwz.org/b/ykgz

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• Screenshot

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log@mastodon.sdf.org ("Log 🪵") wrote:

@RikerGoogling
> COMPUTER, ARCH
The administrative redirect console hologram materializes.
> ENTER ARCH
You step inside the A.R.C.H.
> EXAMINE CONSOLE
The title screen of the program is displayed: "Panty Raiders of Orion". A button bar below offers LANGUAGE, ACCESSIBILITY, SETTINGS.
> PRESS SETTINGS
The console changes to display the holodeck settings screen. It displays MODE: TEXT, SAFETY: FULL
> PRESS MODE
An enum selector offers TEXT, PIXELART, CELSHADE, CINEMATIC, HOLO
> PRESS HOLO

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macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

Blog Question Challenge 2025 (answering @koehn's challenge)

https://macmanx.com/2025/01/28/blog-question-challenge-2025/

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generiyaki@genart.social wrote:

"Infinite Scroll."

Any manifesto worth its salt is tediously long, if not infinite or nearly so. Also, many of them are indecipherable.

So, here is my manifesto. This is a continuation from the Genuary 2023 prompt on asemic writing (using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning).

It is left as an exercise for the reader to interpret the text.

#GenArt #GenerativeArt #Processing #CreativeCoding #Genuary #Genuary28 #Genuary2025

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• "In the shadow of understanding, we gather. Not to illuminate, but to obscure; not to build, but to unmake. What lies behind the veil of language is ours to shape—a language of silence, a script of shadows. We write not for the eye to read but for the soul to tremble. Words shall crumble under the weight of their own meaning, their edges frayed into whispers. Order will dissolve, and the comfortable patterns you cling to will scatter like ash on an indifferent wind. This is not an invitation. This is a reckoning. The unwritten begins." Haha just kidding. That was some AI-generated gobbledygook right there. True caption: Meaningless red "text" scrolls infinitely on a black background. The "text" resembles sloppy handwriting but contains no discernible letters, much less words, or thoughts. Still, maybe it expresses something. (remote)

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ianb@well.com ("Ian Betteridge") wrote:

@jwz @dave They test me, Jamie. They test me.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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• The ultimate universe version of Reed Richards is looking upward wide eyed. He asks, “Why do I need to SEE this?“ (remote)

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

“Deepseek could be an extinction-level event for some venture capital firms,"

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• Episode 2 Whatever GIF (remote)

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/neckdown-street-traffic-20054524.php

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• Calvin's dad in bicycle gear saying "YES... HA HA HA... YES!"
• screenshot of article, headline is "This new street design is meant to slow traffic. It’s angering S.F. drivers"

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

Gotta fight the autocorrect pretty hard to type out an accurate description of American politics: democratic collapse through Democratic collapse

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

This sort of internal institutional change is almost always invisible from the outside, until it isn't. This whole post gives me Big Feels about old Google:

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times

jwz wrote:

BRB, taking a sip of water and then checking in on how my Werewolf Stonks are doing today ****pfffffffffftttttttttt****

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Screening The Conversation for my surveillance class, as one does.

One of the relevant (but less often discussed) takeaways of the film is that Harry, despite his vigilant precautions, his considerable expertise, and his crushing paranoia, is completely helpless to defend his own privacy. But he refuses to accept that his skills can't make him invincible.

A similar hubris is all too common among members of my own field.