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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:

"If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously."

I've seen this quote without attribution a couple of times. Whoever said it, they're spot on.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

Email is the best form of communication we ever invented. Instant, yet no instant reply is expected. Works universally outside of any app or ecosystem. The gold standard

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

They did that “person collided with car and died” thing, but in the ocean.

No, the whale didn’t collide with a boat. A person driving a boat hit a whale and killed it.

https://apnews.com/article/whale-death-new-jersey-a80fc94f6974a295d7f5d43b01844fe0

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Radical stickers seen in Seattle, Washington

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-ICE pasteup spotted in San Diego, California

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pamelafox@fosstodon.org ("Pamela Fox") wrote:

New horror movie about to drop:
"I KNOW WHAT YOU VIBE CODED LAST SUMMER"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is ("Gytis Repečka") wrote:

I subscribe to newspaper not because I prefer reading paper version - it is because ad tech and survelliance capitalism made internet unbearable, therefore I do not subscribe to any online one 📰

It is not ok to put tracking pixels, capture location and calculate where and for how long my screen is focused at. It's not ok to broker peronal private data to "target" more ads towards me. And it is definitely not ok to build browsers that are intended to maximize tracking with different initiatives tried to be pushed as "standards". Screw content algorithms that restricts me from reading full comment feed supposedly giving me only the "relevant" ones.

Big techs think they can ignore EU GDPR because, you know, they are bringing "innovation". Screw that. That is not innovation - that is unethical business that should be declared illegal :blobcatgooglytrash:

#adtech #tracking #web #internet #newspaper #paper

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Are folks only just _now_ noticing that substack is another nazi bar?* I thought that was already well documented.**

Guys, please. RSS. I don't even care if you're just spinning up wordpress blogs. Sending out content is a solved problemmmmmmm.

* re: https://newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/pushing-up-nazis/
** 2023 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156/

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

Lichen. Did you know lichen aren't actually plants? They are colonies of algae and bacteria living symbiotically in a fungus.

#wallpaper #darktable #mosstodon #lichen

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

🚨 Texas Democrats just pulled one of the boldest moves in recent political history: They walked out, got on airplanes, and broke quorum to block a Trump-backed GOP gerrymander. This is democracy on the line — and Texas Dems are fighting with everything they’ve got.

The GOP pushed a ruthlessly partisan map to flip up to 5 Dem seats — shredding voting rights, silencing communities of color, and locking in power for a generation. This isn’t politics. It’s authoritarianism. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/texas-house-democrats-quorum-break-20799924.php

Boosted by jwz:
jargoggles@kolektiva.social ("Jargoggles") wrote:

@notwhatwethink
"According to Wolff, Donald Trump has spent recent days making desperate phone calls to his closest allies. And what is he saying on those calls? Not policy. Not campaign strategy. But this:

“You know I didn’t kill Epstein, right?”"

Okay, so it feels fair to say that there's a very good chance that Trump had Epstein killed, right?

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

WE SOLVE CRIMES but who is the detective and who is the sidekick

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

Accurate. Also NYC and LA are international cities. Chicago is All-American, baby.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@joyofnapping/post/DM58RCwhABx

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

@Lukew Hey, how's https://bugs.webkit.org/show%5Fbug.cgi?id=284592 going? I just ran into that, so now I'm personally invested. :P

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

Was away for the weekend. It's nice to be home.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theicarian ("The Icarian") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PabloMartini@climatejustice.social ("Pablo Martini (Geezer)") wrote:

President Trump courageously plans nuclear war to prevent release of Trump-Epstein files

The most rational and well-balanced US president ever, Donaald Trump, is making exciting plans to start nuclear war with Russia to prevent the release of the Epstein files.

In a social media post that was so serious it contained relatively few grammatical errors, Trump announced that he has positioned two nuclear submarines close to Russia because he was upset that Medvedev had trolled him on Twitter. Let's be honest, even the best of us can get emotional enough to end the world after a bad Twitter pile-on.

Trump insisted in an interview that the US is well-prepared for nuclear war, by which he means "all the billionaires have bunkers" and "fuck the rest of you". When the radioactive dust settles, Trump will be a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize.

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/president-trump-courageously-plans

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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

Hey #running people! I want to share with you my yesterday's find: https://www.plotaroute.com/. The best route finding/plotting service I've seen. Very useful when you want to stick to your running schedule while out in the wilds on a vacation or a business trip.

It even has a working navigation mode! In a browser!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange wrote:

Microsoft Recall can still nab credit cards, passwords, info

The Reg’s testing shows that it still fails to protect sensitive info in many cases, creating a potential treasure trove for thieves.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft%5Frecall%5Fcaptures%5Fcredit%5Fcard%5Finfo/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
TechCrunch@mstdn.social wrote:

Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/mastercard-denies-pressuring-game-platforms-valve-tells-a-different-story/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

"Thanks to the Online Safety Act, people in Britain are being compelled to use unregulated age verification tools in order to access content online."

The UK government must “limit the scope of the Act so that people aren’t forced to risk their privacy whenever they go online.”

As age verification blocks porn AND ‘harmful’ content, millions are put at risk.

🗣️ ORG’s @JamesBaker

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/the-online-safety-act-is-forcing-brits-to-hand-over-personal-data-to-unregulated-overseas-corporations-with-questionable-privacy-records/

#OnlineSafetyAct #privacy #ageverification #ukpolitics

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

@jsonstein

This was right after your post on my time line. It makes me laugh.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ccgus ("Gus Mueller") wrote:

I honestly thought the checkbox button was missing in this macOS Tahoe screenshot:

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

almost there

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

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0279

jwz wrote:

Today I learned that the new official White House physician in charge of lying for Trump is named Doctor Barbarella. I really think that Doctor Durand would have been more appropriate.
https://jwz.org/b/yksZ

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

When you're debugging code and it has more edge cases than a dodecahedron factory.

Boosted by jwz:
tayfonay@beige.party ("Dr. Everything’ll be Alright") wrote:

While boarding a flight from Chicago to LA:

Flight attendant: I LOVE your [punch a nazi] hat.

Me: thank you…I promise not to cause any trouble on the flight should there be any Nazis

FA: well we’d clearly have to put self-defense on the report

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

Anyone else doing the #smaugust drawing challenge this year?

I'm gonna try to do some of Katy Lipscomb's prompt list!

Belated first day: Terrarium

#pencildrawing #dragon #drawingchallenge #smaugust2025