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

"f the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed."

Yes. That's the point.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

15 years later and my brain still has full HD footage of that one awkward social interaction... but I can't remember why I walked into the room 5 seconds ago.

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RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

computer end program

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

Remember a couple years back when all those #fediverse folks had NDA meetings with #meta? And few of them "reported" on what happened in the meeting.

It always stuck with me how bad they wanted us to know that the meta team is oblivious to the Fediverse and need them to explain it.

...okay.

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

accelerating pattern

https://www.arcticwwf.org/threats/climate-change/?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

smart

https://english.news.cn/20250728/c4ca5f817ce34f0ca993eaa2d756f361/c.html?utm%5Fsource=perplexity

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

this is going to completely change the infantry assault

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/china-deploys-armed-robot-wolv-18lMPjcHRaW0rfafjjmzIw

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shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

I also added this gorgeous poster from Sam Wallman "You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union"

https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

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

When it comes down to it, it's not going to be that difficult for the rest of the world not to buy American, and when that happens, there will be just one jackass to blame

https://robbreport.com/food-drink/wine/canadians-stopped-buying-american-wine-1236961236/

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

This is the most incredible headstone I have ever seen. Sad to have not known him with this kind of memorial!

Note the border inscription.

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

this is very well timed. https://xkcd.com/3126/

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petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Richard Nixon resigned August 9, 1974... An era when there were consequences for presidents being corrupt criminals.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
openculture@toot.community ("Open Culture (Official)") wrote:

Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time

https://www.openculture.com/2024/02/behold-a-surreal-1933-animation-of-snow-white.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
debian@framapiaf.org ("Debian") wrote:

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

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

I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.

Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.

#Meta #SocialWebFoundation

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

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

The biggest difference between these pages is the inlining of JSON data for the `` component, but it's great to see fewer JS files being requested regardless:

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250708%5FYiDcHQ%5F59%2C250809%5FYiDc5K%5F6VJ&thumbSize=200&ival=16.67&end=full

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

Had to work through a small bug in the @11ty@11ty.dev bundler[1]*, *but have it working, and even cajoled it into allowing programmatic additions from other short codes, which means shortcodes can both output markup as well as pulling in dependencies *only on the pages that need them*.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle/issues/37

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

This is pretty sweet:

jwz wrote:

A brief history of the FBI.

It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it. The purge comes on the heels of a "strategy session" about how to deal with the Epstein fallout that took...
https://jwz.org/b/yks0

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FediPact@cyberpunk.lol (":pona_plush: #FediPact :pona_plush:") wrote:

**LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
n_dimension@infosec.exchange ("Wulfy") wrote:

@barning @FediPact

Tagging @Linux an alleged meta employee who said exactly this weeks ago and was urged to whistleblow.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BLRemJr ("BL Remaley Jr") wrote:

lol 11...892025...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abraxas3d@mastodon.radio ("Abraxas3d W5NYV") wrote:

Right before doors open at #defcon in RF Village. Open source digital radio demonstrations from Open Research Institute.

@OpenResearchIns

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

More monarchs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/09/multiple-monarchs-munching-on-milkweed/

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

y'know, sometimes, having a little bit less reach on social media wouldn't be bad, either.

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

Nicolas Cage plays a good ol' boy from Alabama with just the absolute worst southern accent you ever did hear.

John Malkovich plays the white genius psychopath. Everyone else plays up to their stereotype.

ConAir is a pure copaganda, product of the 1990s, action film that aged like yogurt in a hot car.

But I can't help but love it and watch it like once a year.

🤌🤌🤌 1/2 #MovieReview

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rjkwon ("Kwon") wrote:

@fromjason there is a really good essay on this that @j3s wrote! https://j3s.sh/thought/.io-domains-considered-harmful.html

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mav@masto.hackers.town ("mav :happy_blob:") wrote:

Was just told by an nfo goon at @defcon that my Nazi Hackers Fuck Off stickers are unwelcome so I will no longer be distributing ANY stickers at Defcon unless asked directly. Apparently suggesting Nazis are bad and should be ostracized is a bridge too far.

Nazis do not deserve free speech.

Edit: apparently this was done in error, but frankly since I'm pretty pissed off about this entirely, I am leaving some of my stickers on the tables in hackers.town community (C102.)

#Defcon

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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

GOP dysfunction in a nutshell: This week, Donald Trump is not appointing horribly unqualified people to federal jobs because Mike Johnson insists on protecting Jeffrey Epstein.

jwz wrote:

Important update about your internet service:

AOL Dial-up Internet to be discontinued: AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksw