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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Guess what! The prototype of the new #Plushtodon series has arrived. It will be available later this year in this and one other color!

Attachments:

• gifv: An attractive woman demonstrates a stuffed Mastodon toy. It is small, cute, and terracotta colored.

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

https://neatnik.net/remembering-anne-sturdivant/

jwz wrote:

Some changes I made, with the goal of continuing to feed slop to AI bots as much as practical:

• Ban IP for 30 days if hitting the honeypot more than 20x/hour.
• But if the load is high, ban on the first hit.
• Rewrote a couple of scripts from Perl to PHP so they can run inside of php-fpm.

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E01
🎥 Episode: Weird
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 6, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1124

jwz wrote:

This is not how I wanted to be spending my day.

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

the first teenie weenie tomato of the season

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

I put together a little generative sea shanty that writes itself in a browser tab, and wrote up some notes about that process https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/06/generating-infinite-sea-shanty-in-the-browser/

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

Looked at the colour test paper and went "wait, what if I..."

Aka: Doodling around, but even less of an idea what the heck I'm doing than ever before. :D

#drachenmagier #dragon #WorkInProgress #WIP #TraditionalArt #TraditionalMedia #MastoArt #Fantasy #FantasyArt #creature

jwz wrote:

AI poisoner nomenclature:

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E02
🎥 Episode: Girls
🎬 Directed by: Ryūtarō Nakamura
📅 Release Date: July 13, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1071

Boosted by jwz:
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@asrg @pengfold @pluralistic

I don't want to poison "AI” crawlers with huge quantities of random text. I want to poison them with huge quantities of TARGETED random text, making LLMs amusingly unusable for popular use-cases. Imagine the business reports we could make them write:

“Q3 reports from Asia showed positive growth rates in consumer sales and huge hairy cocks, with key indicators including customer retention, brand recognition and turgid purple schlongs all meeting OKR targets.”

Boosted by jwz:
loke@functional.cafe ("Elias Mårtenson") wrote:

@lproven @davidgerard It is funny how whenever one points out problems in Wayland, you get flooded with answers, most of them in the two categories:

• Works for me, and has always worked
• You're holding it wrong

I haven't experienced GNOME fans being as vocal.

My biggest concern now is that if I dare to point out issues with Wayland (which I struggle with every day, since I had to switch for technical reasons) is that I'll be dismissed as being one of those arseholes behind this fork.

They have single-handedly made the entire debate around this stuff so much worse by doing this.

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

🆕 https://cybercultural.com is the new featured URL on https://url.town! Thanks, @macmanx!

jwz wrote:

Under Attack, Please Stand By.

My server is getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers today. Load is 140+ and I just manually banned 58,000 IP addresses.

Top ten user agents: ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqJ

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

new fediverse theme song just dropped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8We8HChN3a8

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Computers use only two digits: zero and one. But now, with the discovery of five additional digits by a team of MIT researchers, this could change

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

"The American people cannot believe a word you say" because of election denialism and adjudicated lies, Rep. Stanton (D-AZ) tells Kari Lake (who twice lost statewide elections in Arizona).

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

"Lies are being told on the Voice of America," USAGM de facto boss Kari Lakes tells HFAC without providing any examples.

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

This abstract photo, captured inside a lighthouse with a small 35mm-format mirrorless camera and a 50mm lens, is mostly a visual pun on the concept of a lighthouse, as well as a study in diagonal and radiating lines.

It was very tight quarters, especially with the tripod. But a tripod was essential here (less for sharpness - at 1/3000 sec - than for composition and framing).

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

Lighthouse, 2014.

Several additional pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/15393439037

#photography

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

Who can possibly believe this overly-complex tangle of cartilage, bone, and ligaments could have been intelligently designed? Not me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/25/i-done-gone-did-it-again/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

She loves cardboard.

#CatsOfMastodon

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

Not a good way to die.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/25/lobsters-ok-but-please-dont-boil-the-bison/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Gen Z: "This website has bad UX!"
Boomers: "This website stole my identity!"
The website: a PDF.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Congrats to NYC and Zamdani! It’s nice to see the corrupt disgraced politician lose for a change. Here’s hoping for more of that in all of our futures.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
osman@hachyderm.io ("Osman") wrote:

I don't know who needs to hear this, but @internetarchive has the complete set of Carl Sagan's 1980s Cosmos series online for free.

https://archive.org/details/CosmosAPersonalVoyage

#astronomy #space #carlsagan

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

Yay Zohran Mamdani!

#uspol

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

Every Apple TV+ series is about a middle aged man who loses his wife. What are the focus groups telling these producers?? Lol

#appletv

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
caseyliss ("Casey Liss") wrote:

🤮

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@caseyliss The sad part is I got this same notification and it didn't even register to me as something to be disappointed at because I'm already so overwhelmed with notification spam that I swiped it away before pausing to think about it.