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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
EveryPkmnCard ("Every Pokémon Card") wrote:

Wartortle

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

Just sent an email to thousands of people with the subject line “Testing!”

How’s your Wednesday going?

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

My father was a dangerous man. About as dangerous as I am.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/21/my-family-secret/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

Andreu Botella (@andreu) & Luca Casonato (‪@lcasdev) will introduce us to WinterTC, a standard for server-side runtimes
https://webengineshackfest.org/#wintertc

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
markosaric@fosstodon.org ("Marko Saric") wrote:

Wild day at Plausible yesterday. We welcomed our biggest and second-biggest subscribers. The bigger one does a billion pageviews a month 🤯

Crazy to see how far we've come. All without investors, paid ads or sales calls. Thanks to everyone who's supported us on this journey!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Blows up the deficit by $3.8 trillion AND takes healthcare and food away from children, the poor and the disabled all to give billionaires a tax cut. If you think the Sermon on the Mount is for suckers, you’ll love this.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Ripples in the water. Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 @Ameboid
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

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

She didn't struggle. She got it 100% wrong.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-struggles-define-habeas-corpus-rcna207986

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

Why didn't anyone tell me about Detroiters??

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

UnitedHealth Group shares plunge on report of DOJ investigation:

"It marks the second time this year that the insurer’s Medicare Advantage business has come under federal scrutiny. The Journal reported in February that the DOJ is conducting a civil investigation into whether the company inflated diagnoses to trigger extra payments to its Medicare Advantage plans. "

Not only is United Healthcare killing us for ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/20/unitedhealth-group-shares-plunge-on.html

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

There may not be a Tesla in two

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/cars/tesla-elon-musk-ceo

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
82mhz@oldbytes.space ("Andreas (82mhz)") wrote:

New blog post:

Old software still has value
http://82mhz.net/posts/2025/05/old-software-still-has-value/

#blogging #blog

jwz wrote:

AvelNO.

Avelo Airlines quashed a boycott campaign over its polarizing decision to operate federal deportation flights.

("Polarizing". Never change, NYT. )

Seth Miller, a New Hampshire lawmaker, placed billboard ads protesting Avelo Airlines' decision to...
https://jwz.org/b/ykoO

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

It seems like half the tech world is finding ever more issues with generative AI while the other half is announcing ever more products incorporating it.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Habeas corpus is woke now

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Wary Jerry") wrote:

It’s getting to the point that moderating mastodon requires a doctorate in Middle East studies and a degree in international law 💩

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jkb@jkbockstael.be ("JKB") wrote:

#NowPlaying Cryo Chamber - Yig // https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/yig // dark ambient // many artists from many countries // 2020 // Another collaboration (not compilation) of two 1h+ tracks by 20 artists from the Cryo Chamber label, exploring a lovecraftian theme. Tribal vibes and cosmic horrors for your enjoyment, much more melodic than most of the ambient stuff I usually post about.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Greengordon@spore.social wrote:

@pluralistic

"the meritocracy to eugenics pipeline. If power and privilege are inherited – and they are, ever moreso every day – then either we live in an extremely unfair society in which the privileged and the powerful have rigged the game…or the invisible hand has created a subspecies of thoroughbred humans who were literally born to rule.

"This is the thesis of the ultra-rich, the moral justification for rigging the system..."

#capitalism #EatTheRich

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

Google I/O kicks off with asking the audience to clap if a product demos successfully. Which the audience does.

"And if the demo is unsuccessful, what are we going to do?" The audience, again, claps.

Lmao, if that just isn't the perfect metaphor for AI— a bunch of people cheering for something that doesn't work.

#GoogleIO2025 #googleio

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

just had someone report that they used the #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer SPI analyzer applet (and 25-series memory decoder) to read out an SPI flash from their router, which they previously believed they would have to desolder

things like this is why i'm so committed to building better tooling! the full boot trace is about 50 MB of raw data, and it's captured and decoded in seconds. very few tools can do this, and most of them are pretty expensive

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

Lots of people are shocked that bosses think they can replace competent programmers with AI. But that just means those people haven’t been paying attention.

I’ve been a professional developer for almost 30 years now. Bosses have always been skeptical that programming is more complicated than typing out what we want the computer to do, and have always been uncomfortable with both what they have to pay programmers and how much pushback they get from programmers.

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

Brb. Gonna outsource all my bodily functions so that I can focus on my Personal Brand™.

jwz wrote:

Maybe I'll start rating albums in terms of how good they are at drowning out power tools. Regrettably I have to give *Rid Of Me* 6/10 due to the quiet bits.

Boosted by jwz:
chirpbirb@meow.social ("taco, bird/cat :verified420:") wrote:

so how much copaganda can we expect from zootopia 2 do you think

#ACAB #Zootopia2 #Disney

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Iconfactory@iconfactory.world ("The Iconfactory") wrote:

:tapestry_app: There's lots of great new ways to adjust the appearance of custom timelines in Tapestry 1.2.

Join @gedeonm as he reviews a few of them in this helpful video walkthrough. Learn how to turn off service names and change a feed's display style to suit your tastes.

#TapestryApp

Attachments:

• video: Video walk through showing how to modify the appearance of a particular feed including removing the service name and adjust the display style.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
marcel ("Marcel") wrote:

Wanted to set up a Firebase project, ended up building a .usdz viewer. #buildinpublic

Attachments:

• gifv: c03c5237055c824a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Last night, 16 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance a crypto-friendly bill that will enable Trump’s corruption.

Instead of standing up to Trump, these 16 Democrats decided they’d rather do a big favor for the crypto industry and legitimize an avenue for Trump to collect bribes.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cassidy@blaede.family ("Cassidy James :ea: :gg: :fh:") wrote:

Look, I *really like* the idea of machine learning and actually really want to use ML features that make my life easier/better. Autocorrect/keyboard suggestions? Yeah I’m a fan. Text to speech? Convenient and accessible! Stunning photos from a tiny sensor? Yes please! Categorizing my photos or extracting text from screenshots? Great, useful!

But I do not want to “chat” with an LLM, doubly so when every interaction is keylogged and then used to train more planet-burning BS-spewing.

#ml #ai #llm

Boosted by jwz:
r_flash@mastodon.r-flash.eu ("Adam P") wrote:

Inside/outside

Attachments:

• gifv: An infinitely nested arrangement of concentric circles, moving in a way that there is always one outermost circle and the others are inside of it.

jwz wrote:

Today in Landfill Capitalism.

This is a fun tale of largely-unsuccessful reverse engineering of a bricked and abandoned rental bike, but who could have predicted this nightmare except everybody.
https://jwz.org/b/ykoM