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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

My favorite thing from the Nintendo Direct? Koichi Kawamoto’s wonderful hand gestures.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I crashed a conference call, once. I'm a naughty person.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/02/secret-group-chatsin-2008/

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

On surviving: "Art brings us back to ourselves, helps us root in our own agency and creative power, makes space for the joy of craft and play, and reminds us of our purpose in the world." #Culture https://werd.io/2025/keep-moving

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carlosefr ("Carlos Rodrigues 🪣") wrote:

This "Studio Ghibli" craze is a good example of how generative AI destroys (economic and cultural) value.

In a few weeks, when people get bored/sick of the memes, what would have become of the art style that those folks in Japan spent decades perfecting? And what does that mean for any future work they'll produce?

We've already seen this with several illustration styles, which have become synonymous with no-value AI slop even when drawn by a human hand.

#randomthoughts #ai #enshittification

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

Interview: "Elon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements"

Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country’s racist apartheid laws.

"Musk lived what can only be described as a neocolonial life. If you were a white South African in that period and you had any money at all, you lived with servants at your beck and call.”

~ Chris McGreal

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/27/elon%5Fmusk%5Fsouth%5Fafrica

#musk #neonazism #apartheid .

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

“I am very worried about this: a government that has this little in terms of guardrails on it, and has appointed this many people who are manifestly unqualified – except that they’re loyalists to Donald Trump – to positions like the FBI. I don’t think you have to have a particularly active historical imagination to think that that can go very badly.” - Ezra Klein

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/02/ezra-klein-on-trump-vance-and-free-speech-it-feels-like-we-are-in-one-of-the-darkest-imaginable-timelines

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

We’re rapidly losing the humanity in designing things for humans. Yeah, it’s very impressive—on a vapid, surface level—that we can say “make a recipe manager UI” and the magic parrot in the data center will cough one up for us. But where is the actual care for the human UX in that? It’s just a pretty picture.

“Oh, Adam, calm down. It’s just a way to generate some ideas.”

No. It’s a way to see everyone else’s ideas artificially reflected back at us. It’s stupid and lazy. We all deserve better.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

[heavy sigh]

https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/114264655660039248

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Elon Musk tried to buy an election, and failed. Unsurprising, in some ways: I'd be embarrassed to support this prancing, pandering clown.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/02/happy-news-from-the-state-next-door/

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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: That's why I've never left this room.

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toussaint@newsie.social wrote:

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

The lastest Ruminate is out and it is _stacked_ with snacks, podcasts, pens, and games https://ruminatepodcast.com/206/

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202504020921/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Wanna keep it real? Do a real tech project for your lover every once in a while.

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jswright61@ruby.social ("Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Are there reader / viewer owned media organizations?
Kind of like Mutual insurance companies or Credit Unions?

I’d be interested in exploring these orgs.

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

“Óscar Arias Sánchez, the Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican president, said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked his visa to enter the country, with no reason given.

A vocal critic of President Trump, Mr. Arias appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who have had their visas canceled or been denied entry as the Trump administration bars people who it says have “hostile attitudes” toward the United States.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/oscar-arias-sanchez-visa-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“Never before had a single donor sought to influence an American judicial race to such a degree, and few had invested comparable sums in an election in which they were not themselves running. Through his super PAC, Mr. Musk underwrote an $11.5 million ground game that targeted voters with messages urging them to help Mr. Trump by supporting Judge Schimel. A separate organization with Musk ties spent $7.7 million on television advertising...”

$19.2 million

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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zmk@snailedit.social ("Zoe Knox") wrote:

Some personal news... https://zmknox.com/2025/03/i-am-visible/

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

RIP Val Kilmer

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

Another Musk project explodes on the launchpad

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-8fe006c7f8fa40b663eccd6751bada98

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

CARPETBAGGER FAILS TO BUY JUDICIAL ELECTION

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davidcelis@xoxo.zone ("david celis") wrote:

sounds like Elon Musk is officially this year’s April Fool

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Twenty million dollars for a fifteen-point loss. Let’s make him spend twice as much next time and lose by 30.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

We just secured the liberal majority on Wisconsin's Supreme Court through 2029! Susan Crawford's big win keeps the highest court in this battleground state from falling into MAGA hands. Thank you for all you did to elect this Indivisible-endorsed candidate (and make Elon Musk waste over $20 million)!

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

@quizzicus The FCC license for the station says the radiation resistance of the antenna is 50.5 ohms, so at 50KW, that would be about 1600V.

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

📝 New on the omg.lol blog: We have to talk about AI “art” - https://omglol.news/2025/04/02/we-have-to-talk-about-ai-art

Or at least I want to talk about it, especially where our community is concerned. A lot of folks are getting tired of seeing it. I worry that we’re only going to see more of it, or worse, that it won’t be long before we can’t even identify it. It’s harmful and annoying, but also people really seem to enjoy it, and I don’t know if that’s because they’re unaware of the harm or because they’re just not concerned.

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gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

I hope there are a million postmortems and they all go basically "at the end of the day everyone just hates Elon Musk and thinks he's a total creep" and Elon reads them all and cries a lot

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SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:

😂 :success:

#CoryBooker #USPol #meme #memes

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aaron.rupar@threads.net ("Aaron Rupar") wrote:

SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question?

BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no

SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?

Attachments:

• video: ab4523c041707871.mp4

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

Tech/Policy nerds: I'll be testifying tomorrow morning in House Government Oversight on "Salt Typhoon: Securing Americas Telecommunications From State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks", at 10AM in HVC-210. Hearing will be webcast.

Hearing website (which doesn't yet include all the witnesses or written testimony) is here: https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/salt-typhoon-securing-americas-telecommunications-from-state-sponsored-cyber-attacks/

I promise to be briefer in my remarks than Cory Booker.