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

Imagine you scheduled a group brainstorming session to get some important work done, and one of the attendees casually mentions that they took LSD for the first time right before the meeting.

That's how you should treat ChatGPT output.

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

Restaurants design ridiculous entrées for potential Instagram virality.

Stand-up comedians ditch their painstakingly crafted sets for improvisational crowd work, because those videos get the most comments.

Casting directors cast actors based on their follower counts.

Musicians cut the length of their pop songs because shorter songs work better on TikTok.

Is there a corner of our culture that isn’t trapped under the all-mighty algorithm?

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blainsmith@snac.rblgk.sh wrote:

We. Are. LIVE!

https://apply.coop

There might only be a handful of co-ops and positions, but its up to all of you to help spread the word to co-ops/non-profits to list their job openings. We will do our part as well!

From all of us at @limeleaf@social.coop we thank you!

#applycoop #Coops #JobBoard #GetFediHired #Hiring

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aluhrs@toot.cafe ("Andy Luhrs") wrote:

I've been doing a bit of animation benchmarking and perf work, so I pulled together a quick extension to inject main thread tasks onto a page to help simulate jank.

https://github.com/aluhrs13/JankExt

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
D_J_Nathanson@esq.social ("David Nathanson") wrote:

It’s #STFUfriday!

When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

- Am I free to leave?

- I am not answering any questions.

- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."

- I want to talk to a lawyer.

Also saying "I know my rights" sounds badass but it's probably a bad idea.

It gives the cops a hook to say that, if they get you to talk later on, you did so freely and that they didn't coerce you. /1

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• gifv: A gif of Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix saying "you can't scare me with this gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call." He's a thin white man looking tired in a rumpled shirt and tie. He appears to be in a pale green interrogation room.

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

Stack overflow is almost dead via @dogacel https://lobste.rs/s/my2zbb #programming
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/

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virtualwolf@aus.social ("VirtualWolf") wrote:

Ahaha excellent, there's an article on Ars Technica with the headline "The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch" and the _very first_ comment is a link to the Clarke and Dawe "Front fell off" skit (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm%5FJqM) and all the Aussies are coming out of the woodwork making references to it.

(Oops I should probably include the actual link to the article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/the-top-fell-off-australias-first-orbital-class-rocket-delaying-its-launch/)

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RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

My brother's boyfriend has a birthday coming up, and he's always bragged that he's never touched a vagina, because his mother had a C Section. So, these are the things we have done:

jwz wrote:

Kid Rock's Restaurant Closes to Avoid Trump's ICE Raids.

Leopard reports faces "delicious". At the instruction of managers, restaurant employees without legal citizenship status left the premises at The Diner, Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock's Big...
https://jwz.org/b/ykn5

jwz wrote:

Deep cuts
https://jwz.org/b/ykn1

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

This is an image that works best at the highest resolution. The Rodenstock 138mm lens has extraordinary edge-to-edge sharpness and a general lack of distortion that makes it especially well suited to wide stitched panoramas like this one.

The effect is sort like Where's Waldo; the whole is shown mainly to invite you into the details.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/7.1), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/125 sec), Cambo WRS 1250 camera. Stitched panorama of two images, shifted left and right +/- about 18mm.

This view reminded me of Malvina Reynolds's famous 1962 song (though she was inspired by nearby Daly City). If you look closely, the houses don't quite "all look just the same", but somehow, viewed on the hillside, there's more uniformity than there is up close.

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

Little Boxes, University Mound, San Francisco, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, made of ticky-tacky, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54062971395

#photography

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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

More and more I realize that this perp walk wasn't a demonstration of strength, it was an act of fear.

From: @shansterable
https://ohai.social/@shansterable/114518694944896644

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

Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial - Ars Technica:

"Further, Meta argued that the FTC did not show evidence that users sharing friends-and-family content were shown more ads. Meta noted that it “does not profit by showing more ads to users who do not click on them,” so it only shows more ads to users who click ads."

Lmao what. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-says-no-proof-of-monopoly-power-wants-ftc-case-dismissed-mid-trial/

jwz wrote:

https://jwz.org/b/yknz

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

One of the things Americans fail to understand, because nobody tells them and politicians don't want them to know, is that the government can spend $10k on someone or something now (e.g., UBI, healthcare) and save itself hundreds of thousands in the future -- or even "profit" in the sense of higher productivity and tax revenues.

Instead, we live in a country that insists on spending $150 million on cops to prevent $104,000 in lost subway fares.

jwz wrote:

College student asks for her tuition fees back after catching her professor using ChatGPT.

Northeastern in the bag for the Bullshit Fountain: Ella Stapleton grew suspicious of her business professor's lecture notes when she spotted telltale signs of...
https://jwz.org/b/yknx

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

Microsoft: No evidence Israeli military used its technology to harm civilians, reviews find – GeekWire:

"The company acknowledged limits as to what it could verify, citing a lack of visibility into how its technology is used on private servers, and systems outside its cloud."

My “not involved in killing civilians” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/16/microsoft-no-evidence-israeli-military.html

jwz wrote:

Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet.

How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him? The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years. In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi,...
https://jwz.org/b/yknv

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brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:

⚖️ Montana just became the first U.S. state to ban law enforcement from purchasing personal data from brokers — and it’s a privacy milestone 🚫📱

Under this new law:
📍 Government agencies can’t buy sensitive data (location, biometrics, etc.) without a warrant
🔍 It closes a major loophole used to sidestep Fourth Amendment protections
📄 Agencies also can’t require people to waive rights through service terms
🧱 It sets a precedent for digital due process in a data-saturated world

This isn’t just a state law. It’s a model for what digital civil liberties legislation should look like nationwide.

#Privacy #Surveillance #DigitalRights #DataBrokers #CyberLaw #security #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/montana-becomes-first-state-close-law-enforcement-data-broker-loophole

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

I am staying out of the way of @CARROT today

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• video: c1a6b0c4adf82c19.mp4

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

insane

https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011

jwz wrote:

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

a woman’s body is just a vessel:

“Hospital tells family brain-dead Georgia woman must carry fetus to birth because of abortion ban”

https://apnews.com/article/pregnant-woman-brain-dead-abortion-ban-georgia-a85a5906e5b2c4889525f2300c441745

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We have an initial plan for talks and breakout sessions at the Web Engines Hackfest 2025: https://github.com/Igalia/webengineshackfest/wiki#scheduling
• Monday: 9 talks and the W3C Web Apps WG F2F
• Tuesday & Wednesday: 23 breakout sessions in 3 parallel tracks
There might be still small changes, but it gives a good overall picture.

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sinituulia@eldritch.cafe ("Sini Tuulia") wrote:

Oh yeah, there's this project to record previously unrecorded music from the 1890s to 1920s! 🎶

"Before the 1920s, the measure of a song's success was based on Sheet Music sales rather than Record sales. The recording industry was still in its infancy, and because so many Americans owned pianos it was more common for people to experience new songs by purchasing Sheet Music and playing through them themselves rather than purchasing a recording."

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-make-an-album-of-unrecorded-historical-songs

#Histodons #Music #History

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Viss wrote:

we are ready and waiting to help folks decloud.