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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@dangillmor Wired has never been better than this. Ever.

Their 1994 mission statement was "What if Mondo 2000 but licking a boot?"

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Wired magazine falls for Bluesky's BS that it's decentralized. It could be, but it isn't.

This is tech journalism of the old style: credulous worship that isn't close to being justified by the reality.

Wired is better than this, or should be.

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jay-graber-bluesky/

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

Why am I suddenly hearing liberals latch on to the term "rule of law"? I know it's often used in the context of Trump and his admin being criminals but beyond that I hear it a lot in the discourse. I don't love it.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jackscottau@aus.social ("Jack Scott") wrote:

I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...

I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.

Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.

#GenerativeAI #VibeCoding

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
chrkrhc@phire.place ("Brian Kerr") wrote:

Noticing that Unbreaking has launched:

https://unbreaking.org

“The United States is experiencing institutional collapse at a speed and scale that are difficult to understand, especially through feeds and updates designed to atomize our attention. We believe that mapping the damage done and its human costs—and the pushback and resilience work already underway—is necessary groundwork for building and retaining political agency.”

Their newsletter has more details:

https://newsletter.unbreaking.org/archive/laying-the-groundwork/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

When Amazon tells you they're replacing actual human narrators at Audible with AI for the glorious cause of accessibility, remember that those assholes regularly rope authors into Audible Exclusive deals, which not only means you can only hear them on Audible, it also means those audiobooks then become inaccessible to PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

It's not about accessibility, it's about the profits.

#Amazon #Audible #AudioBooks

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

It absolutely disgusts me that both California Democratic senators voted in favor of a law that will force the rest of us, through our bank accounts, to subsidize the monumentally corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" --

They have chosen to join the corruption, and I'll remember that.

Boosted by jwz:
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@erika_lucas07

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

4. There is this idea, held by gold bugs, crypto bros and Glenn Beck fans that currency only works if it is backed by something rare and finite. That is, prima facie, dumb. (But if you disagree, I’d be happy to sell you my fingernail clippings.)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
elithebearded@fed.qaz.red ("Eli the Bearded") wrote:

Source unknown.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

"In February, Microsoft ushered out at least five employees protesting their employer’s connections to Israel... The workers, who wore T-shirts reading, “Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?” were part of a worker-led campaign known as No Azure for Apartheid...calling on the company to cut ties with the Israeli government... The campaign is expected to hold a rally on Monday at the company’s annual developer conference..."

By Naomi Nix @nitashatiku & Trisha Thadani

https://wapo.st/43kG3K7

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

Im so close to finishing this essay but im running out of brain cells. I'd love to post tonight. Pray for a second wind.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Another Microsoft employee has interrupted the CEO to protest against Microsoft's involvement in supplying AI technology targeting Palestinians https://www.theverge.com/news/669362/microsoft-employee-protest-build-conference-satya-nadella

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

I'm currently reading Catherine Bracy's World Eaters (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723091/world-eaters-by-catherine-bracy/). Very glad that she wrote this book.

We expect to see founders and CEOs of all of these companies taking heat in congress, but have any of their venture capitalist funders been there? The growth at all cost "software will eat the world" VC 💰 will always cause harm. But we haven't seen any regulation or shame targeting the VCs.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

In World Eaters, Catherine gives examples of companies that were doing just fine and had their own recurring revenue, but died after pursuing VC money because they were incentivized to grow at all costs rather than have their own revenue.

That's exactly the point of the federation we're working on (more soon once we launch). The idea is to support small startups who want to sustain themselves through revenue without attempting to become monopolies.

Anyways, I highly recommend the book.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

This is why @alshafei created surveillance watch (https://www.surveillancewatch.io/) connecting VCs to the surveillance companies they fund, so that they are named and shamed.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vlrny@disabled.social ("Valerie Roney") wrote:

Ya know, it's dead obvious, but it just occurred to me:

When you lift somebody up, you also lift up their capacity to lift up others.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“Nice tablecloth, what’s the occasion”

“It’s Tuesday, Mrs Zhang always comes in for dumplings on Tuesdays”

“But….you’re an auto parts store!”

“Yeah, but there was a restaurant here before we moved in. She doesn’t see so well.”

“So, what? You send out for dumplings for her? That’s so sweet!”

“Oh no, part of our hiring process is showing your grandmother’s recipe book. And obviously knowing how to rig up a wok burner with a brake drum and a can of ‘Start Ya Bastard’. ”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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

Washington just became the 6th state to pass an electronics Right to Repair law! A quarter of Americans are now covered by electronics repair laws.

And they also passed a bill for powered wheelchairs! That’s a double win for repair, and a big blow to manufacturer control.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Phohibited

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

To answer your question, I have to admit that I don't think I've ever wanted to feel old.

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

Feel it

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DJ2QeTQoYLD

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urbanistorg@mstdn.social ("The Urbanist") wrote:

NEW STORY // Governor Signs Washington’s First-in-the-Nation Shared Streets Law

via @urbanistorg // 🔗 https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/19/governor-signs-washingtons-first-in-the-nation-shared-streets-law/?feed%5Fid=6026&%5Funique%5Fid=682b4ed35ff5b

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

Uh oh, there's a beta version of Nova 13 available just as I'm starting to get an Emacs configuration that doesn't suck. Okay, let's give it a look.

Ah, good, now I can have template highlighting or HTML highlighting in the same file, but not both. Well, it *is* a beta…

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

> being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/

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

I've been enjoying Suzanne Vega's latest album "Flying with Angels". Today I find myself listening to the album's closer "Galway" over and over. Something about it is resonating with me, but it's also a good choice for a last song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGyY0bzRm9A

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Because today you really needed to see a corgi skateboarding. Just trust me on this ...

Attachments:

• video: A video of a corgi skateboarding

Boosted by jwz:
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:

the SF public defender's office is so backed up they're not taking new cases, partly because Brooke Jenkins is now prosecuting people merely for being homeless. can you imagine a more wasteful and ineffective way to deal with homelessness?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-public-defender-caseload-20329216.php

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
carolannie@c.im ("Carolannie") wrote:

#Politics #LifeLessons

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

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