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

In before someone coins the phrase "Slop Economy" because we are definitely living in an age where the quality of digital goods is taking a nose dive.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
freeplay@wetdry.world ("Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :ablobfoxbongohyper:‮‮‮‮‮‮") wrote:

stealing for alt

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

The OSU Open Source Lab is asking for donations; unless they can raise $250,000 in funds, the OSL will shut down later this year.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/

OSU pays their football coach two million dollars a year. Last season he went five and seven.

A bargain compared to the previous coach, who was making almost five million dollars a year.

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/football/coach/team/3466

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/oregon-state/index.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:

How to win my instant support as a customer:

"We have decided not to focus on generative AI features, and instead reinvest heavily in quality assurance for our core products through hiring, training, and process development."

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

What the heck? Jackie Chan can sing too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QENkNn93ezQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie%5FChan%5Fdiscography

(I'm sure this is well known by many, but just in case you are one of the unlucky few who did not yet know, I wanted to share the knowledge.)

Boosted by Mastodon:
CelianGodefroid@piaille.fr ("Célian Godefroid") wrote:

Bravo aussi à @Mastodon pour leurs nouveaux recrutements au sein de l'équipe, qui viendront accélérer l'impressionnant travail de développement du projet Mastodon, jusqu'alors réalisé par une poignée de personnes (+ contributions bénévoles) ! 🔥

Si vous le pouvez, donnez au projet Mastodon, qui vit en grande partie du crowdfunding : https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Pour rappel, Piaille reverse chaque année 10% des dons reçus au projet Mastodon ! https://www.helloasso.com/associations/piaille

Boosted by jwz:
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

On this day in 1956, the toxic stew created by Jewish scientist Jonas Salk was “made available” to the public as part of his plan to deny Americans their God-given right to have polio

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

An emolumental deal for the Trump family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-cryptocurrency-usd1-dubai-conference-announcement.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.D08.MoO3.qzJCjzhVyk6M&smid=url-share

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

London's "Thin House" looks as if it belongs in a Potemkin village or as a background facade on a Hollywood studio lot, but it's something of a Tardis, larger on the inside than it appears on the outside. Created to make way for the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway (now the District and Circle lines) behind it, its triangular footprint gives it the illusion of being little more than a shallow rectangle when viewed from the street.

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

As we all know, a conclave must first be tessellated into convlex primitives before it can be rasterized

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1200 camera (shifted vertically -10mm).

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

5 Thurloe Square ("The Thin House"), London, UK, 2024

All the pixels, bigger on the inside than outside, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54192985864

#photography

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
torproject ("The Tor Project") wrote:

🚨Double your impact!
Donate today and your gift will be matched 1:1 up to $15,000. Thanks to @wseltzer and Thomas Roessler, @mattblaze,
@aspirationtech, Sarah Gran, and other Tor contributors.

That means if you donate $25 now, the Friends of Tor will match your gift by donating $25, doubling your impact to a total of $50.
https://torproject.org/donate/donate-md-sc2025

Boosted by jwz:
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

Happy May Day! If you own 2 properties or fewer, you're among the worker class.

Go take an extra long poop on company time or something. Or talk to people about unionizing.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
MJ@progressivecafe.social wrote:

Despite what some stupid ass just said to my instance administrator, Democrats are not “pushing” Gavin Newsom for 2028. He might be but not Democrats.

I keep telling y’all. Black folks, the actual Dem party faithful base, will be deciding who the 2028 nominee is and it won’t be him. Deal with it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

The National Parks Oracle Deck is live on Backerkit!!✨🎉

If you like National Parks, tarot, or just the natural world please check this out! I got to draw so many gosh darn critters for this and I seriously think you will love it as much as I do 🌿 🐸

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/honey-scamps/national-parks-oracle-deck?ref=bk%5Flaunch%5Fparty

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

There's a side to physics that is more like speculative theology than real science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/01/i-wish-i-could-make-stuff-up-and-call-it-science/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

AI slop is proliferating across social media platforms, but how do the people behind it actually make money?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @jasonkoebler to discuss the economy of AI slop and how it’s changing social media platforms.

Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/274%5Fhow%5Fbrainrot%5Fai%5Fis%5Fupending%5Fthe%5Finternet%5Fw%5Fjason%5Fkoebler

#tech #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #aislop #facebook #socialmedia

Attachments:

• video: 51ada15e3f84c098.mp4

Boosted by Mastodon:
haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:

I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because our strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together 💞

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
todb@infosec.exchange ("Tod Beardsley") wrote:

If you have a lunchtime gap in your #RSAC schedule today (like me), Lawyers for Good Government and the Bar Association of San Francisco are gathering at the Phillip Burton Federal Building Plaza just down the road from Moscone. It's a pretty easy walk/MUNI ride, and it's not just for #lawyers. Starts at noon.

https://lawdayofaction.org

SF Specific for #RSAC peeps:

https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v5/event/law-day-of-action-rally-san-francisco

Austin Specific for @AustinHackers back home:

https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v5/event/austin-stands-for-the-rule-of-law

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

Environmental factors have induced a trans-fating event that has turned me into a different species of being.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/01/oh-no-im-an-accountant/

Mastodon wrote:

You can also expect to see us sharing more about the project outside of the Fediverse (in places like LinkedIn or YouTube) - this is so that more people can hear about a better, decentralised and more user-oriented alternative to legacy platforms.

Mastodon wrote:

In the coming weeks, we'll be using this account to share a wider range of posts about what we're working on - events we're attending, updates from team members, and so on. You can also follow the core engineering team @MastodonEngineering and if you have an account on mastodon.social or mastodon.online (the two instances we operate) you can follow @staff

Mastodon wrote:

Hello! We're the team that builds and supports Mastodon, alongside the community. Today, we wanted to share an update on our organisation. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jepyang@wandering.shop ("jnpegay") wrote:

I’m at the pagan festival

I’m at the labor uprising

I’m at the combination pagan festival and labor uprising

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

After declining COBRA coverage earlier this week (because I now have other coverage), my monthly payment was deducted anyway today, because merely declining coverage does not cancel an autopayment. Good times.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

"Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed" has been published as a W3C Draft finding by @tag

"Third-party (AKA cross-site) cookies are harmful to the web, and must be removed from the web platform. This finding explains why they must be removed, and examines the challenges in removing them. We highlight some use cases that depend on third-party cookies and offer some examples of designed-for-purpose technologies that can replace them."
https://w3ctag.github.io/web-without-3p-cookies/