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

Spot the cowards, oh wait, it's all of them

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-avoid-town-halls-congressional-recess-rcna200903

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Lately, every time I fill in a password with 1Password, it brings up a notification saying “fill this with 1Password next time to save time”. I am increasingly reading this as “ready to move to Apple’s system password manager yet?”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CelloMomOnCars ("CelloMom On Cars") wrote:

"“The sheep thrive. They absolutely love the panels during the summer – everywhere they go there’s shade. There’s constantly green food underneath them.”

The microclimate under the panels also retains moisture longer, giving grass a better chance to establish and persist through dry spells.

But Inder says he doesn’t just have happy sheep, the quality of the wool and the wool yield has improved."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/the-sheep-farmer-who-turned-a-1800-call-to-coal-giant-agl-into-a-major-solar-grazing-deal/
#agrivoltaics

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

985,000 migrants entered the United States through legal means during the previous administration. They followed the rules just like they were told. They did everything right.

Today Trump unilaterally revoked their legal status.

Let me repeat. It was never about "legal" immigration. It was always about upholding white supremacy. This man is a fascist. The urgency of now to counter his fascism cannot be overstated.

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metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China.
https://www.ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-468d-ac10-14ce1eae357b

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Rationalists built an entire worldview on avoiding sunk cost fallacy, then refused to leave Twitter.

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

Everything made by AI looks like the lobby of the 3rd worst casino. So deeply tacky.

Imagine the guy who hangs up one of those fake AI "schematic" drawings of a fictional spaceship on his wall. From a distance you get a little excited to look at the diagram and see all of the compartments and machine systems.

But, when you look more closely none of it makes sense. It's a fake impression of curiosity, creativity, imagination.

Plastic gold-plated pastiche of "I'm creative & have ideas"

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

got an email alert today (the 14th)
letting me know a package was out for
expected delivery on the 10th

this does not enhance customer satisfaction

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

After great pain, a formal feeling comes —
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs —
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round —
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought —
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone —

This is the Hour of Lead —
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow —
First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go —

— Emily Dickinson, prolific LLM user, 1862

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bendystraw@jawns.club ("Becky Sweger") wrote:

Instead of the advent of code, I’m gonna start doing the lent of code, where you give up your favorite programming language or feature for 40 days

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:

Another LinkedIn influencer explaining that if you write using em-dashes, he'll ignore you because you obviously used AI.

MF, I was writing blog posts directly in HTML twenty years ago with — and also ranges with  –  twenty years ago, don't tell me I write like AI.

I don't write like AI, AI writes like it reads my web site, you dunderheaded thunder-chicken.

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andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan :prami:") wrote:

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#commissionsopen #kofi #icons #avatars

https://ko-fi.com/c/11a46f7c25

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: I'm afraid this is very bad.

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Wheatpasted art on Valencia St, referencing the leaked Signal chat between several of Trump's top cabinet officials before a strike in Yemen. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti

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DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

Twilight hour revelations in Clarion Alley. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

We've seen it before, and we'll see it again.

A paranoid leader surrounded by flatterers. A bunker mentality replacing national strategy. Cabinet members and media lackeys tiptoeing around a narcissist’s mood swings, pretending to govern while the country burns.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why/

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

It is nontrivial information that in 2025 America, a Nazi firebombed a Jewish Democratic governor's home on Passover.

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Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

#mood

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cargot_robbie@urbanists.social ("Bri | 🚴📦💨✨ | 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If you are an office worker of any kind please understand Copilot Recall for what it is: Microsoft wants a training dataset of _what your job looks like_ in order to _replace you_. The nepo baby your oligarch puts in charge will happily pay half your salary to Microsoft to get even most of your job done without you.

Wealth wants access to skill without giving the skilled access to wealth.

https://mastodon.acm.org/@MrBerard/114320032919296961

#Microsoft #AI #Copilot #Recall

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Powerman 5000: Space Billionaires (Verb) - 21 Seeds Valencia Orange Tequila, Tropical Red Bull, Splash of Pineapple.

Attachments:

• gifv: 3b33e3cbfd655dcf.mp4

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jaeger@sfba.social ("Ted “Theodore” Logan") wrote:

Tonight I see that @dnalounge wants me to seize the memes of production so here I am

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

@jhavok @AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman Here are some resources I posted on election security basics you might find helpful in sorting this stuff out: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114315260097700895

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

@jhavok @AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman "Risk Limiting Audit", a post-election safeguard (slowly) being adopted by states in which the machine interpretation of a random sample of ballots is compared with a human interpretation.

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fortyseven@defcon.social ("Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░") wrote:

Holy shit. 😆

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I do use my iPad as a serious portable writing gadget sometimes (first drafts—it’s not good for the way I edit/revise), but when that’s my plan, I bring a low profile Keychron mechanical keyboard.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I don’t have plans to replace my 4th gen iPad Air any time soon—in part because I don’t know if I could get a replacement for the lightweight Keyboard Folio that Apple’s apparently stopped making, which I like more than the Magic Keyboard. (Heresy!)

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

@rsalz @SteveBellovin I would occasionally run into him when I lived a few blocks away on the Upper West Side. He was always very gracious to me in person. Online I thought of him as Wikileaks' surrealist half-brother.

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rsalz@ioc.exchange wrote:

The other day I learned that John Young died. He co-founded cryptome.org. He was amazingly principled, and sometimes a jerk

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LibrarianRA@worldkey.io ("Retro Librarian") wrote:

Star Wars Ad (1978)
Star Wars Vaccination ad, circa 1978.
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#StarWars #Vaccinations #Advertisement #Retro #Vintage #PublicHealth

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

Mario Vargas Llosa, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010, has died at the age of 89. https://diariocorreo.pe/peru/fallece-el-premio-nobel-de-literatura-mario-vargas-llosa-noticia/