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jwz wrote:

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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

YESS! 😎 Sonic 1 now runs on IRIX 🥳

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

“"AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-an-attack-from-above-on-wages

> If we think about the AI as a wage depression tool rather than a productivity increasing tool, then I think the idea that we should get our hopes up [for the AI boom to end] because all these studies say productivity isn’t actually increasing is a bit premature.

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

Nobody loves a coward

https://share.google/cOhUlqyTMkG5MRoau

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

.@404mediaco : no mention of web apps as an alternative
Bloomberg: same
Reuters: ditto
BI: you were expecting...what, exactly?...from BI?
The Verge: [ drooling sounds ]
NYT: [ copies The Verge's homework ]
Engadget: [ copies less prestigious outlet's homework ]
BBC: lolsob, but in British accent
Bloomberg: same slop, but at Bloomberg because you're at a terminal, I guess?

Cooked. Totally, absolutely, Tim levels of cooked.

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

Would a web app be fully censorship resistant? No. But it wouldn't be a single point of failure like this.

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

The tech press are 100% cooked. I double dog dare you to find any mention in any of the stories covering this that point out it there is an alternative to the App Store:

https://www.techmeme.com/251002/p40#a251002p40

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

Apropos of nothing, but maybe monopolies on software distribution are, like, bad? And a threat to the legitimate exercise of civic rights?

Anyway, make web apps and support @owa

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

First, fuck Apple. Second, put these apps on the web where they can’t be blocked by tech CEO sycophants.

https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/115307410162592084

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neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Doctorow having an unparalleled lucidity with words "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

jwz wrote:

The emotional rollercoaster when "BandNameOfficialVevo" has an "HD Remaster" of a video and then it's clearly just a hamhanded "AI" mangling of a VHS version.

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

If the person who runs your social media platform or blogging service can’t make clear and unequivocal statements of support *for* transgender people and *against* bigotry and transphobia, they’re on the side of the bigots and transphobes. Period, end of discussion.

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

Chapter One: A is for ANEMOI drops tonight for subscribers at the $4.51 level and up at 12:01 am PST.

Free (no paywall) 13 hours after that.

This 10-chapter serial is scary, funny, engages with real history and creepy urban legends, and also copes with witnessing the real-time horrors unfolding in America. It's centered on the experience of expats, immigrants, queer, and Indigenous characters surviving colonialist BS.

Wellington's afterlife opportunities await!

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ghost-hunters-to-140257376

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

Ruh roh. https://bsky.app/profile/fortheloveofexy.bsky.social/post/3m2avps6sgk2i

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

there has been a catnip-involved incident, be forewarned and guard your ankles

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

waiting for the brownies to cool before slicing into them is the hard part

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

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized | CNN:

"The IPC forecast that by the end of September nearly a third of Gaza’s total population would face famine conditions, although it has not yet provided an update on that forecast."

A third of the population would be 700,000 humans. Though it’s hard to say for sure since so many have been killed. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/middleeast/gaza-famine-causes-vis-intl

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DianaInitiative@defcon.social wrote:

Our amazing partner Latinas in Cyber is hosting a summit at the Museum of the Moving Image! Join 150+ Latina cyber leaders shaping the future of digital defense.
18 October 2025. Queens, NYC.
https://laicsummit.com/

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vkc@linuxmom.net ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

I am so flippin' tired of leaders adopting the "let's be edgy" mentality. It's juvenile.

I've said before that the mark of maturity is knowing the difference between being edgy and being sharp.

It appears that Bluesky leadership doesn't understand that. I want nothing to do with it.

jwz wrote:

"Stop, or I'll say 'Stop' again."

Haven't seen this before. Credits of film from major Hollywood studio beg AI companies to pretty please not train on it: Eponysterically, the movie was "Caught Stealing (2025)".
https://jwz.org/b/ykv5

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jakelazaroff ("jake lazaroff") wrote:

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

jesus christ jeff. this is “I went online and printed off some resources for you about how to stop being unhoused! you’re welcome!” but you then went on to use the encounter to promote slop machines to your audience

please can we stop acting like these neoliberal birthday boys have any idea how to solve problems? jeff’s altruism ends when the tax breaks and the marketing end. that’s why his millionaire ass couldn’t give his “friend” access to a couch or a mailbox. https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115279844443067032

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keyboards ("Keyboards") wrote:

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

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

I am, for the record, still expecting to retire some time within the next few years and move to the (checks notes) war-torn hellhole of (checks notes again, squints) Portland, Oregon

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

there is no part of this story that is good for‘national security’

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/doj-fires-top-national-security-prosecutor-comey-indictment-rcna235161

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

sometimes i feel like it's a cheap shot to keep comparing bsky devs to crypto bros, then understandings like this come along

"how so" indeed

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Any #citrus growers have any ideas what would cause yellowing of the veins on newer leaves? I've had like a handful of leaves drop recently 😕

It's an indoor, potted 2-3 yr orange tree that's maybe 3-4' tall. It's watered about weekly and fertilized every few months with a 13-6-6 citrus mix.

#gardening

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

A colleague asked me yesterday what I thought of Tailwind, and thought I'd share the topline response: avoid it, not because it's slow (it's fine-ish), but because of the culture it drags behind it.

Instead, hire people who know CSS, then let them loose on your UI problem(s). Give them space to turn huge pile of JS into tiny rulesets, and create guardrails to keep slow selectors from hurting (e.g., Shadow DOM). Lean on the browser, not the transpiler.

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

Joyless people on the internet who tell you not to drink coffee or eat bananas or whatever because of some pseudoscience reason gets me so upset

Watched a vid of some guy telling me to make bread out of our tuna fish because of the extra protein and it sent me into a blind rage.

I'm not forcing bread fish down my throat just so I can do an extra pull up.