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

You don't have to ask me twice not to watch your station, my dudes

https://share.google/0cmsATxvDzA3m4XmP

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

Trying Mastodon from the commandline with Toot. So far it's not bad.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My never-fails trick for finding bugs in almost any software:

Use the app the way its design affordances indicate, just with real-world values. Print resolutions. Non-trivial amounts of text. Data sets with high hundreds of entries, minimum

Almost always results in Bad Things Happening

Kind of hammers home the fact that none of this shit is getting even minimal testing before even major releases.

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

My memory isn't the best, so when I kept hearing that Apple was happy to engage in re-designing challenging APIs in areas it had previously poured cold water on, I had more than a moment of self-doubt. Had I missed something fundamental?

A look at the evidence:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/cupertinos-comforting-myths/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
assignedmale.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sophie Labelle ") wrote:

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

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

I mean we're not gonna pay attention to him about it over here either

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/uk-tells-patients-don-t-pay-attention-to-trump-on-tylenol

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I suspect the answer to one or more of these is “learn how to do it with Swift in AppKit,” but that is a whole new can of worms for me (I have zero AppKit experience).

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

There are still so many mysteries about SwiftUI for me, though. How do I make a document-based app save window size-position for each document? How can I make it so it can open more than one window for the same document? How do I bring up the system font picker? And so on.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

There are a lot of criticisms to make of Apple’s software UX directions lately, but it’s remarkable how great the ARM-based Macs are. Despite my desire to upgrade to the M5, my M1 hardware is still a joy.

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

Bhattacharya, Makary, RFK jr, and Oz lined up with Trump to declare that they had found the cause of autism. They are all incompetent liars and frauds.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/23/its-tylenol/

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

As a reminder, you can get an awesome sticker pack with a donation of $20 or more at https://stjude.omg.lol. And for $25, you can score an original @robb animal illustration (trust me, you want one). And 100% of those donations go to St. Jude’s mission of children’s cancer research and patient family support.

I can’t draw like Robb, but I’m working on coming up with some way of sweetening the pot somehow. Open to suggestions! 😅

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

We’re down to the final week of the @robb × @omgdotlol St. Jude fundraiser. Thanks to your amazing support, we’ve raised a collective $12,078.53 for children’s cancer research and family support so far!

But! There’s still time to help us reach a huge milestone: if we can raise $4,772.27 before September 30, then we’ll have met our overall goal of $50K raised in three years. That would be *incredible*! 😮🤩

https://stjude.omg.lol

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If only there was some mechanism that prevented me from posting until I'm properly caffeinated in the morning.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Having a moment where I wish Bluesky supported editing.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

I had no idea about what appsheet.com is, noticed now is a service by #Google, but for what I see from my #GMail spam folder, it become the preferred way to develop phishing attacks

Well done.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡") wrote:

last resort trying to summon a client email response #silksong

Attachments:

• gifv: Sherma playing tunes in a fruitless attempt to do something (from Hollow Knight: Silksong)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity”

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity.

Add the impact of variability on work queues (delays, delays, delays) and this loss is a massive underestimation

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "

(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)

https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡") wrote:

the big ASDA has spoken, Merry Christmas everybody

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
kohei@floss.social ("Kohei Yoshida") wrote:

The next version of #LibreOffice Calc (26.2) can directly open generic XML and JSON files and have them mapped to range of cells in Calc. I hope this will be useful to data science users. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Generic%5FXML%5Fand%5FJSON%5Fmapping%5Fto%5FCalc

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
tkr@piaille.fr wrote:

hello, does anyone knows how to enable #xmpp and #ip #collaborative tools/addon on #abiword ?

dont hesitate to PM me ;)

thanks:)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

Did you know that when government officials use ChatGPT, the chat logs are considered public records?

https://www.knkx.org/government/2025-08-26/washington-city-officials-chatgpt-write-government-documents-artificial-intelligence

via @muckrock

#news #FOIA #ChatGPT

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vivi 💫") wrote:

there's apparently a massive general strike going on in Italy about Gaza

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

We just sued ICE. Support us here: http://404media.co/membership/

Attachments:

• video: b15ed07a778eb9aa.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There have to be consequences. Would-be quislings need to start having vivid pictures of what’s going to happen to them •personally• if they collaborate with fascists. I’d much prefer those consequences not be violent; in fact, harsh consequences now are the very thing that •avoid• violence. Professional and personal ruin will suffice. That means •we• have to make it stick.

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

The worst part of all this is being in a position where the right thing to do is defend Jimmy Kimmel

Boosted by jwz:
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I appreciate that some venues, like the Stork Club in Oakland, are getting ahead of this gen-AI trend by requiring all fliers be human made. "We don't care if it's a screenshot of the Notes app with the show info or a picture of a hand with band names written in Sharpie." (source https://www.instagram.com/p/DOZIJgoEq%5F0/?img%5Findex=1)
I like this energy and hope more venues adopt similar policies.

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

I have big plans for tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/22/dont-panic-if-im-not-posting-tomorrow/

jwz wrote:

AI company finds a way to be even more cartoonishly evil.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use -- but only because but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning...
https://jwz.org/b/ykvu

jwz wrote:

MAGA Is Mad at GWAR.

Libs of TikTok called GWAR's performance an act of "incitement." A representative for GWAR told The New York Post, "Normalizing violence? [...] GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."
https://jwz.org/b/ykvs