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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965.

#dune #ai #scifi

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

on dehumanization https://krrd.ing/posts/on-dehumanization/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
MEActNOW wrote:

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mdhughes@appdot.net ("Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 🙄") wrote:

> Do I still love Apple? Should I ever have? <

No, dude. Just fuckin' no, what are you even talkin' about? It's a *company*. They make products, you might even like those products (I often do!), and respect the people who work there (I occasionally do.), but the company is a thing that will roll over 100 babies to make a buck.

Loving a company is such a bizarre perversion I can't really comprehend it. That *THIS* is what it takes to wake some of these fanboys up‽ WTF.
#apple

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

Just learned that Sia wrote and performed "Feeling Good on a Wednesday" for South Park's Lorde (ya ya ya) episode.

I'm laying in bed randomly thinking— that song is too good for a joke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWUSTwbavpE&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

"I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France. At Logan International Airport, I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (for use in our lab’s research) in my luggage. I’m told this would normally result in a warning or a fine. Instead, my visa was revoked and I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past three months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room with dormitory-style beds."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/ice-detention-russian-scientist.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.HE8.XkID.iSc5Vm8s9DXy&smid=url-share

#USPol

jwz wrote:

Oh yeah, while I was waiting at the Apple Store, I had to be in the same room where one of the Apple Schmucks was demoing "Apple Intelligence" to the captive audience of people just wanting to get their screens fixed. His big pitch was, "Hey Siri, write a resignation letter as a poem in the style of Robert Frost." It was excruciating.

jwz wrote:

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless.

SACRAMENTO, CA: Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who...
https://jwz.org/b/yknl

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille lives at Praxis Now") wrote:

My dear friend Alondra Nelson just resigned from the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress boards!

"Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress"

https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

> To watch these changes unfold without naming them for what they are is to participate in a collective amnesia about how knowledge infrastructures shape power relations.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
craigcook@techhub.social ("Craig") wrote:

I suppose today is as good a day as any to announce this: after 13 years, I am no longer at Mozilla and I'm looking for my next thing.

25 years experience in web design and front-end dev (non-React). Mostly dev for the last decade (in a Python/Django environment), but my design roots mean I work well with designers. I'm especially interested in scaling design systems but I've done a LOT of "turn the mockup into a web page" work and I'm pretty good at it.

Ideally looking for fully remote but I'm open to a hybrid situation in the SF Bay Area, if the circumstances fit. Also looking for full time, but open to freelance/contract gigs as well.

I don't know what else to put here. Am I doing this right? Oh yeah, hashtags.

#FediHire #OpenToWork #HireMe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

The cost to buy a Supreme Court Justice is an RV, but if you want to buy a president, you've got to pony up with a luxury 747.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
USAToday@flipboard.com ("USA TODAY") wrote:

Rite Aid set to close over 100 stores in 10 states. See the full list of locations
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/retail/2025/05/13/rite-aid-bankruptcy-list-of-closing-stores/83606252007/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Money @money-USAToday

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡 #HamRadio

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
zeblarson@hcommons.social ("Zeb Larson") wrote:

We're at the point where we're building concentration camps. The trajectory from here is not a good one. I wrote about it for Dame Magazine. #USpol

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/08/its-not-hyperbole-to-call-cecot-a-concentration-camp/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Computeforloot@twit.social ("Computeforloot :clubtwit:") wrote:

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

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

RFE/RL today received its overdue congressionally appropriated funds for the month of April. https://about.rferl.org/article/in-legal-win-rfe-rl-receives-april-funding-lawsuit-continues-for-remainder-of-fy-2025-funds/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
hotkey@toot.lgbt ("Legally Zoé") wrote:

This is the future of programming.

jwz wrote:

What is the deal with those e-bikes with the giant-ass motorcycle tires? Why is that a thing? How does it make sense to carry all that extra mass?

(And if these delivery shitheads could stop going 20MPH on the sidewalk that would be greaaaaaat.)
https://jwz.org/b/yknj

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On last night's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I discussed the end of USENIX ATC, reminiscing about our experiences there and its impact to the industry. @aka_pugs joined to dial the reminiscence back another couple of decades! https://youtu.be/kd6dIonsxUw

jwz wrote:

Another brilliant Apple design decision.

Hey, you know those giant glass stairs in the Apple Store? So sleek, so Apple... So cracked. Every one of them.

They should have put a screen protector on these. I don't think AppleCare is gonna cover this.
https://jwz.org/b/yknh

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

This is genius: https://circlejerk.blog

(I didn’t create this. But I know who did, and this person is a treasure.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
GriffithPark@pixelfed.social ("Michael Perry") wrote:

Phainopepla literally translates as “shining robe” but this dark, dapper aristocrat with the piercing red eyes and high-fashion crest is sometimes called The Goth Cardinal.
#naturephotography #nature #photo #photography #birds #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon #goth #gothcardinal #phainopepla #naturephotos #LAWildlife

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sohan@freeradical.zone ("Sohan Murthy") wrote:

We have a sound strategy. We simply failed to execute. That is why I, the chief executive officer, had to make the difficult decision to lay off everyone at the company who couldn't execute. Except me, of course, the person in charge of executing.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

Flipboard just launched 124 new publishers to the Fediverse - bringing the total number it hosts to 1,241. #Fediverse https://werd.io/2025/flipboard-expands-publisher-federation-with-international-partners

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

Sometimes when I charge my AirPods one of them doesn't charge and hearing the low battery chime in my ear sends me into a murderous rage is that normal

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
janet@floss.social ("Janet") wrote:

@Gina Just saying that you won't talk about something for the rest of the day doesn't actually work long term btw, it just makes it extremely clear you only care to deflect and not have an actual conversation, in this case literally with the person who reported the mod you yourself say is improper. You are a TERRIBLE admin

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
YKantRachelRead@treehouse.systems ("Rach(el) Against The Machine") wrote:

in case folks haven't been following along, new Fosstodon instance owner Gina has, at this point, repeatedly doubled down on the idea that instance founders Kev and Mike were victims of "harassment" for the innocent little oopsie of openly sheltering a fascist on their moderation team.

yesterday, she escalated that rhetoric, calling it "outright abuse at worst."

those of you who defederated from Fosstodon can rest assured that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

#fosstodon

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Eleventy 🎈 v3.1.0") wrote:

Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available 🎈

⏩ 11% faster!
🤏 22% smaller!

https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.1.0

jwz wrote:

Mail de-badged.

Fucking Apple. Anyone got a theory on why Mail.app suddenly won't show me an unread badge in the Dock icon any more? No matter what I set "Dock unread count" to, nothing shows up. And, when I quit and restart, "Dock unread count"...
https://jwz.org/b/yknf