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Boosted by jwz:
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Why am I spending so much time dissecting this silly & ultimately meaningless episode? Because, friends, hear me: this is the template for the last 10 years of US politics. This is the US politics in a nutshell. This is how it *all* works.

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

In July, the team made great progress on several features planned for the next major release, and tackled some refactoring tasks.

Take a look behind the scenes in our latest #TrunkAndTidbits update 👀

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/08/trunk-tidbits-july-2025/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bitsavers@oldbytes.space ("bitsavers.org") wrote:

I found my copy of Tredennick's book on the Micro/370 yesterday.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/%5FBooks/%5FDigital%5FPress/Tredennick%5F-%5FMicroprocessor%5FLogic%5FDesign%5FThe%5FFlowchart%5FMethod%5F1987.pdf

#bitsavers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

*Still* blocking ads https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2023/i-block-ads

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (🏳️‍⚧️ ally)") wrote:

I "celebrated" the launch of GPT-5 by donating to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Support Wikipedia, the *actual* knowledgebase which gives people's brains' super-abilities. It's far from perfect, but it's the best thing we've got!

https://donate.wikimedia.org

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

#TheBear has made me cry so many times why do I keep watching this?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

This is me throughout my cyber career.

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

‘…said that Mr. Cuomo was using an “outdated” social media playbook, by failing to more effectively suffuse his messaging with actual policy goals.

“Mamdani has done almost the exact opposite,” Mr. Sanderson said. “He made himself feel approachable and knowable by communicating his policy agenda and by us coming to understand him through his articulation of his policy agenda directly to the public via social media.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/nyregion/cuomo-social-media-x.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I don’t keep up with US politics much so this article made me very confused. Has Dean Cain gone nuts? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp8l3z0g5o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stshank@mstdn.social ("Stephen Shankland") wrote:

I am amused. The kicker is hilarious. (There's been a lot of chatter about em dashes as a signal of AI authorship.) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
fromcarly@writing.exchange ("Carly Hayward, Editor") wrote:

You all liked my jellyfish embroidery so I know you will love this octopus I made!

#Bookish #AuthorServices #AuthorCommunity #Editor #BookLightEditorial #Embroidery

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

I spend a lot of time trying to imagine what retrocomputing would look like without the retro part. A stable platform is such a wonderful blessing and we somehow don't know how to offer it except by being intentionally obsolete

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

It's funny to hear managers saying that coders need to embrace AI to survive, because in my experience every actually useful new technology has gotten into the organization either by coders smuggling it in under managers' noses, or forcing it in over managers' loud and direct opposition

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

Anyway, the blog post is obviously just propaganda and an ad.

I wonder how much this push for "AI" slop machines from the C-suite stems from how they view the world. After all, that's what they do. Push around autonomous agents (human beings) until they get what they want out of them. Doesn't everybody want to do that?

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

Get the schools to teach this stuff, and then you'll have compliant people entering the workplace who need subscription for these services to do anything. Brilliant!

"We can blend CS with design, ethics, systems thinking, and human-computer interaction..."

I really can't believe they dropped "ethics" in there with a straight face. Of course, their ethics are probably different from mine. 🤔

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

'One developer said “I think of myself as [a] mediocre engineer, and I feel this AI reset is giving me a chance to build skills that will bring me closer to excellence.”'

I mean, I'm all for humility. I too am a mediocre engineer, but I guess you gave up on building skills in engineering.

Also, here's the real push:

'From a realistic optimism perspective, the rise of AI in software development signals the need for computer science education to be reinvented as well. '

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

Next to export is #Pages lol. There was a time many years ago when I did *everything* Apple's Pages. What a weirdo.

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

Makes total sense that blog post from the GitHub CEO opens with "AI" slop art meant to look like something from Studio Ghibli... Dicks.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

Survey says: people believe some crazy shit. https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/can-government-control-hurricanes-new-survey-results-conspiracies-science
h/t Carl Zimmer https://bsky.app/profile/carlzimmer.com/post/3lvtadqmw4k2x

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

Great example why we don't use writing apps with proprietary file formats.

These are my journal entries for the discontinued version of #DayOneJournal

It looks like I can just change the format to TXT and I get something readable. So I'll have to do that for all 30 something entries.😭

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

OMG that is so ugly a move… sometimes cruelty is the point

Exclusive: US Air Force denies early retirement for key group of transgender servicemembers - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-air-force-denies-early-retirement-key-group-transgender-servicemembers-2025-08-07/

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

Shout out to #Mela: a markdown-based recipe app with amazing export ability and no subscription. Just pay once.

Mela goes into my consolation project. God, I love apps like this.

https://mela.recipes/

#WritingApps #recipes

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

Ahh I also still have version 1 of #Drafts on my phone!

This is perhaps one of the best designed writing app I've ever used. I was so mesmerized by it when it launched. It's so simple and intuitive.

The new version is pretty good too. And I think the app has maintained its core mission over the years. Kudos to #Drafts. One of my all time fav #WritingApps

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

What does it mean when someone who is silent on condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has no end of words to malign those of us speaking out against it?

🤔

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #complicity #genocideDenial

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

Going through all my old writing apps so I can consolidate the export files into one folder.

Went into #Evernote for the first time in years and my god, how the mighty have fallen.

No shade to anyone who uses Evernote, btw. Just I remember it being really good. Now, I had to sit through a promo video and two video ads before I could see my files. And I'm guessing there's not an export ability. Might have to just lose those notes.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dale_price@mastodon.online ("Dale Price") wrote:

Every time I look at anything Liquid Glass, this is all I’ll ever see

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world ("The Sleight Doctor 🃏") wrote:

That these tech bros openly love fascism is the best reason not to use any knowledge systems they control. Why would you allow these megalomaniacs to control what information you can access? Elon has already admitted on X that he intends to change human history to suit his own agenda. Since then, Grok has been caught literally praising Hitler! Use traditional search or read books.

Now Perplexity AI is partnering with Trump's own propaganda echo chamber, Truth Social.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/06/3128331/0/en/Trump-Media-Begins-Public-Beta-Testing-AI-Search-Engine.html