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

Dammit, it's finally happened. I've started to like Emacs. I’m required to have a neckbeard now and start conversations with “Well, actually…”

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride_pan:") wrote:

We are so close to the maximum match of $10,000, and there are only 2.5 days left!

https://home.omg.lol/giving

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

HELLO HUMANS OF PORTLAND
SOON I WILL BE AMONG YOU
I WHO AM ALSO HUMAN
AND RESPIRE OXYGEN
AS IS SO POPULAR WITH YOUR I MEAN OUR PEOPLE

RE: https://www.threads.com/@rosecitycc/post/DKNb5Ghv6Bk

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

Counterpoint: we're not being near enough nasty to him. And while we're at it, we need to be dragging Ted Cruz more. They're both what gets hosed down the drain after a mass gastric event at a Houston Cybertruck meet-up.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-begs-americans-to-stop-being-so-nasty-to-elon-musk/

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

try not be be such a friggin’ optimist, @CARROT

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• video: bc2c37d7289375e7.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
patatas@social.patatas.ca wrote:

My plea to Canada’s public sector workers and unions:

Reject the use of AI, and save the soul of the public sector.

#CdnPoli #AI #Canada

thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/ai-is-dehumanization-technology.html

jwz wrote:

Is there a way to mute every single poll?

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Every time I read a mozilla product blogpost I get more convinced that whoever is writing them has left earth long ago and is writing them from an increasingly distant part of the universe that bends all communication into the register of a maniacal product manager, and the only way they have of signaling something has gone wrong with their shuttle is by heightening the self-evident contradictions between the self praise and the content of the blog posts they are indentured to write
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-whats-next/

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thefarce.org@bsky.brid.gy ("LOLGOP") wrote:

Elon is always lying. Therefore, we must focus on what Elon feels the need to lie about. This "I'm so backing off" lie shows: a) the #TeslaTakedown worked b) the #TeslaTakedown must ramp up He's going to be pulling the same shit & the media will be inclined to push his lie that he's backed off.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yobyqjt4hs5icoihvaombhhn/post/3lqclhgvibl25

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

Captured with a 45mm shifting and tilt/swing lens and a DSLR camera. A bit of swing kept the side of the trestle in sharp focus, and a bit of shift enabled the framing.

The long, tall, Alhambra Viaduct on the BNSF railroad is also known as the "John Muir Trestle". People far bolder than I had tagged it with graffiti.

This is mostly a study in lines and convergence.

Infrastructure is heroic.

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

Alhambra (Muir) Viaduct, Martinez, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, with no risk of being hit by a train, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4685718995

#photography

jwz wrote:

Just put two more metal shows on sale with doors at 6pm. Gotta get everybody tucked in for beddie-byes by 10:30, you know. Hail Satan, but only at a Reasonable Hour.

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

Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites:

"Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel. " https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/

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Talen_Lee@kind.social ("Talen Lee") wrote:

Click here for HOT ASEXUALS in your AREA who WANT TO TALK about BOARD GAMES,

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

It’s unfortunate that AI is coming to mean “bad summaries, half-plagiarized text, and cheap-looking images”; machine learning is *cool,* and LLMs—for all their hallucinated warts—are a quantum leap in natural language processing.

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

I’m not truly anti-AI the way many folks I know are, but I have a mounting antipathy toward it that Manu Moreale expresses well: “AI has so much potential and interesting use cases but so far I feel terribly uninspired by what I’m seeing out there.”

https://manuelmoreale.com/on-browsers-ai-and-the-web

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

Thinking about how Sam Altman's character arc resembles Prometheus.

Stop me if you've heard this one- A "god" is exiled for giving humans forbidden technology only to make a triumphant return when another god saves him.

Not saying Sam Altman orchestrated his own firing, but considering how obsessed these tech bros are with being God, I suspect he leaned into the narrative.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

I just read a post on bsky that blamed the death of bsky (a thing that is not happening) on mastodon users bullying people off of bsky (a thing that is not happening) and back onto Twitter (a thing that is not happening)

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

This blog is the gift that keeps on giving. https://circlejerk.blog/star-coded

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

Moving back in middle age to help an aging parent is existing in a weird quantum state of still feeling like the child while also feeling ever more like the actual parent.

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

It says something about the authoritarian mind that they think health care is all about finding a target to blame.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/29/dont-worry-about-the-next-pandemic/

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

It's going to be state-sponsored pseudo-science. Thanks, RFK Jr!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/29/i-suggest-we-call-it-the-unread-journal-of-stupid-ideas/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

In the shade. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

I feel compelled to use my real name now? We'll see

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

Ayyyeeeeeeeeee

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

Testing author attribute (is it showing up?)

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

👀🔥🎯
https://thepit.social/@peter/114584611241845701

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

⏱️ Just a few days remain for our #omgdotlol May giving event: https://home.omg.lol/giving

We’ve collectively raised over *$17,000* for different organizations, many of which are local to our community members. Thanks to the incredible generosity of one of our members (bbq.omg.lol), there’s still an opportunity to double your difference with a matching donation to a charity of your choice.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

I just read a series of posts by the owner and sole proprietor of the service where I used to host my main blog where he is going on about how he gained some insights into his family finances by feeding several months' worth of his bank statements into an LLM tool and I am feeling pretty good about my decision.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robn@social.lol ("Rob 💚") wrote:

Last year at #BSDCan I excitedly told everyone how I was gonna make `fsync()` in #OpenZFS successfully fail when necessary, instead of failing successfully.

https://despairlabs.com/presentations/openzfs-fsync-zil/

After a year of work, and rework, and getting all the pieces into place, an hour ago I finally posted the PR that should pull it all together and make it go 😅

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17398