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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

🙌

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

This chart made me stupider, but not as stupid as its author.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/dont-waste-your-time-on-this-graph-or-this-essay-or-patrick-dodd/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fixatedpersonsunit@aus.social ("Tingo") wrote:

When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.

But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.

It's fucking despicable.

#advertising

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

Remember, it's Sad Keanu, not Scam Keanu.

Also, on a far smaller scale, I have had people impersonate me as an author to try to get people to pay them for "editorial consulting," which, I assure you, is a line of work I have no interest in pursuing.

In general, beware of any person of notability (however low that notability is, in my case) approaching you wanting money. It's almost certainly a scam.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DL499h6OpOV

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

To win an arms race, you need a robust ecosystem. To build an ecosystem, you need developers. To attract developers, you need a compelling narrative, complete with a hero, a villain, and a mission.

The CON strategy is well-suited for this need and once you see it, it's everywhere. From #Bluesky and decentralized social media, to #Meta and "open-source" artificial intelligence models.

#OpenAI #Meta #AI

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

It's worth noting that both #OpenAI and #Meta are using a very familiar adoption strategy. It's the Corporate Openness Narrative, or, if you will, CON, for short.

It goes like this— we are "open" therefore defacto good.

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

The #AI race is a marathon. The finish line is product addiction. AI service providers need their models to become indispensable in corporate offices and for the average consumer.

The problem for venture capitalists is no one knows how long that will take. No one knows how much runway they need.

It's less of an issue for big firms like #OpenAI and #Meta. But the smaller firms will soon drop like flies when the funding wells run dry. Another oligopoly in the making.

https://futurism.com/openai-trouble-subprime

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

A reminder that "AI" is neither intelligent nor sentient and reflects, explicitly and implicitly, those who control and program it. But then you knew this dude was a fucking Nazi, didn't you

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-grok-chatbot-antisemitic-posts-1235381165/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gurupanguji ("@gurupanguji") wrote:

The platform might set you up with the wrong incentives and it's only human to want to belong. Beware of the impact to your voice.

https://gurupanguji.com/2025/07/09/the-potential-downsides-of-platforms/

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

We welcome the incipient larval infestation at our house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-kids-are-coming-to-visit/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
junesim63@mstdn.social ("JuneSim63") wrote:

I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/palantir-technology-uk-doctors-patient-nhs-data

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

New, improved Grok! Now with extra racism, fascism and antisemitism!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/fascism-in-fascism-out/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
felixthehat@mastodon.cloud wrote:

a good rss feed to follow is standard ebooks, you get a new free book practically every day. today's book looks v interesting #bookstodon #rss

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/tom-godwin/the-survivors

https://standardebooks.org/feeds/rss/new-releases

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sarble@gram.social ("Peter Goulborn") wrote:

Home counties pastoral.

#Photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

I had my browser set to autotranslate, so I read this piece in English (although ironically I can read German too, but perhaps not well on this topic), but if you don't have this feature, here's an English language piece on the hack.

https://caliber.az/en/post/media-russian-hackers-target-key-bundeswehr-suppliers-in-serious-cyberattacks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
prachisrivas@masto.ai ("Prof Prachi Srivastava") wrote:

Ironically eponymous.

Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning is Full of Made-up Citations

'Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book. Two-thirds of them either did not exist or had substantial errors. And three researchers cited in the book confirmed the works they supposedly authored were fake or the citation contained substantial errors.'

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

#AI #Books #Research

jwz wrote:

Figured it out. Prepend a "sleep 2;" to wait for XWayland to start up.

jwz wrote:

Today in Jewish Space Lasers.

A man broke into an enclosure containing the NextGen Live Radar system operated by News 9 in Oklahoma City, damaging its power supply and briefly knocking it offline: The man also damaged CCTV cameras monitoring the site,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykq-

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

The upgrade is complete, and all went well except for some weird issues with the mastodon-bird-ui family of themes. Will try to figure out what's up with those and will re-enable them as soon as I can (they had to be disabled because Mastodon wouldn't compile otherwise, yikes).

Boosted by jwz:
nberlat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Noah Berlatsky") wrote:

Musk made a Nazi salute and programmed his bot to spew antisemitic conspiracy theories, but of course these two things occur in complete isolation from each other and it would be unfair to draw conclusions about a person based on the things he does and says.

Boosted by jwz:
calcifer@masto.hackers.town ("calcifer :nes_fire:") wrote:

Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.

Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Folks here will notice that I’m less frequently detailing lower court opinions that attempt to stop the Trump regime’s lawless actions. This is because enough time has passed for enough appeals to reach the U.S. Supreme Court for U.S. to know that no matter how carefully a lower court judge explains and supports her rulings, the Supreme Court will act as lawlessly as the Trump executive. 1/ #LawFedi

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

NYC 2017—The night we landed, before we caught up with the rest of the gang, a few of us went to dinner in one of those trendy food courts in Chelsea. We had spicy noodles with many bottles of wine that we bought one bottle at a time from the liquor store. This photo isn't much but it reminds me of perhaps my favorite dinner of my adult life.

#travelpgotography #nyc

jwz wrote:

How do you auto-start things under Wayfire? When I add this to ~/.config/wayfire.ini:

[autostart]
xterm = xterm >> $HOME/LOG 2>&1

I get "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key".

But "lxterminal" will autostart, so I guess it's just X11 programs? And I can then launch xterm from lxterminal.

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

December 2017 Yokohama Japan—

I woke up early for a day trip out of Tokyo. Ended up in Chinatown in Yokohama.

#travel #travelphotography

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

My favorite travel photos 🧵

#travel #TravelPhotography

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

Must-read post by Ken White, free-speech defender and former prosecutor, about the Trump regime's malicious and hypocritical charges against a man whose "crime" was to give out masks at a protest against the masked thugs who kidnap people off the streets..

https://www.popehat.com/p/only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government?utm%5Fcampaign=only-criminals-don-t-want-to-be-gassed-by-the-government&utm%5Fmedium=newsletter&utm%5Fsource=www.popehat.com

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

Make Teslas Uninsurable

UPDATE: 🎯

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

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*trying* to copy at 18wpm