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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
tixie@guerilla.studio ("Tixie Salander") wrote:

It's not new but maaaaybe stop sharing and giving a platform to the Daring Fireball guy if you're not like him, a fan of genocide 🫠

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.

jwz wrote:

Oh, there's a new Debian out. Let me take a nice long sip from my drink and check to see how out-of-date the version of XScreenSaver they chose is...

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jwz wrote:

Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group.

The rest of this Internet Web Site has extreme "ALL ARE ONE IN TIME CUBE" energy, but this is a good list of tools: Sabot in the Age of AI: The list catalogues strategically offensive methodologies and purposefully...
https://jwz.org/b/yks4

Boosted by jwz:
JustinH@twit.social ("Justin ⏚") wrote:

https://imginn.com/p/DNI4VI2oV0q/

The future tech bros want

#ai #aislop

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gareth@tenforward.social ("Gareth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧") wrote:

@aral
“It’s not a genocide because we’re killing them too slowly” is a hell of a take…
@EndIsraeliApartheid

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Tag yourself I'm Evil Flute Stuff

Boosted by jwz:
alicetragedy ("Laura ✨🎨") wrote:

Literally every good person I know who is working in tech actually wants to be doing something else like gardening or carpentry, says a lot about how much we've all fucked up this industry

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Still Covid negative one day post DEF CON. Yay!

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

Are they doing something new with cherries? This year's crop is kind of amazing. They're firm and sweet. It's perfect.

I want to speak to the CEO of cherries. Great job everyone.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

All I wish for is to survive this genocide.

#gaza #genocide #StopGenocide @palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

What is happening is the beginning of preparations for the largest massacre in the Gaza Strip, after the assassination of the voice of the press.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #gazaunderattack #genocide

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The Israeli occupation forces have assassinated journalist Anas Al-Sharif and all members of Al Jazeera’s crew in northern Gaza.
With this, the last voice conveying to the world the reality of what is happening in northern Gaza has been silenced.
@palestine #gaza

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie ("Eugene McParland 🇺🇦") wrote:

603,628 reasons to fight for that's the total area of #Ukraine in square kilometres.

Every single one matters.

Discover #WhatWeAreFightingFor through 26 powerful stories

https://ukraine.ua/regions-of-ukraine/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician, Democrat or MAGA or Independent, any journalist, liberal or conservative, who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org ("jer") wrote:

With everyone freaking out about how Microsoft is now saying the quiet part out loud re: GitHub being a repository that exists mainly so they can train Copilot on its contents, I think it's important to mention that Microsoft also owns NPM.

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

Were I not an atheist I’d get some comfort from knowing that this son of a bitch would spend eternity burning in hell. But because I am, I have to hope he gets his comeuppance in life instead. Him and everyone else who is complicit in this genocide. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115011330582603002

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

I don't hold out much hope that it would actually keep me out of those meetings, but it would at least let me drop a link and say "let's schedule more time when you've had a chance to digest", which would be a big quality-of-life improvement.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

I (and several other people I know) have observed that autism-spectrum people are more averse to LLMs than NT people.

It was pointed out to me that for NT programmers, LLMs turn a necessary intermediate step – structuring your thinking so it's suitable for writing code – into something that has "productive output". I can see how if you need to do that extra thinking, a tool that "helps" with it can be useful.

Likewise, it's hard to see the value in something that does work I don't need to do.

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

Note to self: write a blog post called "Solve Problems You Have" to avoid getting pulled into meetings to socratically pull apart the case for big piles of technology that arrive in omnibus fashion without so much as a "we're all moving to it" as justification.

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

#Glasgow neighbourhood where over 50 shops are boycotting Israel

The community is at centre of growing #Scottish movement to #BoycottIsrael amid its #genocide in #Gaza

Called #Apartheid Free Zones (AFZ) Scotland, an initiative launched by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) that is looking to sign up shops, restaurants, businesses, community organisations & trade unions across #Scotland to commit to BDS practices

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25376985.glasgow-neighbourhood-50-shops-boycotting-israel/

#WarCrimes #IsraeliWarCrimes #CiviliansKilled

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

I think this shows how @linuxfoundation is not necessarily on our side.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

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

We have bats living above our garage, but they're less obvious than all of our spiders. We haven't lifted the roof, though.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/11/bats/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iHwS2BoLpsw

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NewsBot@assortedflotsam.com ("World News Bot") wrote:

Norway wealth fund divests from several Israeli companies due to Gaza war https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/norway-wealth-fund-divests-stakes-in-several-israeli-companies?traffic%5Fsource=rss #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
koteisaev@mastodon.online ("Magical Cat") wrote:

@CursedSilicon @aral
// Big Tech surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, etc., are factory farms for human beings. And their tools are designed to make it possible to build and run similar factory farms. If that’s not what you want to do, you should ask yourself why you’re using their tools and building things the way they tell you to. //
This is quote from https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/#fnref:5
by @aral

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

I keep telling people that hardware has barely changed for over a decade - they need to keep inventing "features" - especially on GPUs - to justify the upgrades. We reached a plateau way further back than any tech vendors will admit. Without switching on "features" or measuring stats like FPS hardly anyone in the mainstream would notice the difference. Microsoft, of course, are happy to help by creating a self-debilitating OS but I digress on that...

Great work as always and I love seeing someone younger than me be bad at games ;-p

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Interesting. Does anyone know how this turned out?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state

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

@jsonstein The Stephen Miller combo.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss@burn.capital ("Democracy Now! Headlines RSS") wrote:

"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps

http://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/msf%5Fghf

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
arrrg@kolektiva.social ("Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog") wrote:

I will never forgive those who made this happen - never.