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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ChrisHolladay ("FurballsNHairballs") wrote:

@w7voa
Good for him.
We all know Joe was getting old.
We didnt he would be as ill as he is, but that's his personal business now,not anyone else's.
If Republicans want to inventory someone's mental health ,they can start with that goddamn incompetent loser of a traitor in office now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A day after X’s resident AI chatbot went on an anti-semitic tirade calling itself “MechaHitler”, CEO Linda Yaccarino has resigned.

In her farewell post she thanked Elon Musk for entrusting her with the responsibility of protecting free speech and transforming X into the Everything App.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/technology/linda-yaccarino-x-steps-down.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

lmao. lol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmstan@vmst.io ("Michael Stanclift") wrote:

Seriously. What’s your excuse for still being on X at this point. They’ve literally built HitlerBot.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amandamakepeace@turtleisland.social ("Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ)") wrote:

Find me in the heart of the forest, chasing waterfalls… 🤍

#art #nature #landscape #MastoArt #drawing #artwork #ArtistsOnMastodon #artist #WaterfallWednesday

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

I went to a museum yesterday where one of the things I learned is that a particular monarch maintained a belief in the value of monarchy throughout their life... :thonking:

(I had a hard time keeping myself from bursting out laughing. I don't know why they bothered to put that on a placard.)

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

this does not bring me joy

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

the problem is, now the Right is “the Government”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/09/texas-floods-conspiracy-theories Far-right conspiracy theories spread online in aftermath of the Texas floods | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
timberwraith wrote:

Oh, and sexual harassment and sexual assault of women by a number of the bigger names of New Atheism was NOT uncommon.

And when those guys were exposed as rapey abusers? They went hard right and found a new grift over there.

It's not like this pattern of hurt bigots and abusers leaving progressive and marginalized spaces and heading for the right is a new pattern. This seems to be a thing that bigots and abusers do.

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

I have a torn meniscus. I got it by lightly sitting in a chair one evening.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/09/the-mri-results-are-in/

Boosted by jwz:
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

The Four Horsemen of The Naming Soup Apocalypse are now complete.

(Spoiler: the fourth one is real - see thread)

*Edit: forgot an important Fifth Horseman, mentioned in the comments:

https://infosec.exchange/@cjust/114820379745453988

Boosted by jwz:
alexwinter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Alex Winter") wrote:

The pile-on Musk for his Nazi AI chatbot is deserved, but it's good to understand that AI-LLM's are predominantly fascist-machines, trained with their biases baked in. They may not be as overt as Grok, but they're all dangerously and inherently racist, sexist, classist, etc. We can reject them.

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

Found and fixed the issue with the mastodon-bird-ui themes, so we’re finally back to normal now. Sorry for the delay! (cc: @maique)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

“A study by the Transport Research Laboratory found that using in-car touchscreens can impair driver reaction times more than being over the legal alcohol limit or under the influence of cannabis.”

Asian automakers are leading the charge to bring back physical buttons in cars, and new EU rules will accelerate it.

https://www.ft.com/content/b46311ba-a5a1-4754-8d40-eaae475f01eb

#tech #cars #driving #auto

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

my dad was an urban developer and one of his biggest peeves was people building on wetlands. after abolition, our family ended up on one. he knew "catastrophic flooding" shouldn’t be an expected lifestyle.

then the fascist “Reagan Revolution” happened and the gringos drained wetlands & swamp for their cement empires.

https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/114823690848012345

most of the South is built on drained wetlands.

1920s USA had the Dust Bowl crisis. the 2020s are now for catasthrophic floods and wildfires.

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