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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
freddy@social.lol ("Freddy") wrote:

Even our fridges are spying on us now

https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/

#privacy #fridge

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
schmutzie@wasnever.cool ("Schmutzie 🦉") wrote:

Why has no one learned that when Meta declares a tech pivot, it is solely for their own benefit and proceeds to fail everyone else spectacularly?

If I see you out in public with these, you'll have to take them off to even sit at the table with me. I don't care if they're prescription. They're rude.

https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213

#Meta #MetaAI

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

I have finally built the weird Swift structure that contains the state engine the brainstorming system will use. Yay! This means I have no excuse to stop putting off working on the actual UX for it now. Uh-oh.

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

While I'm on the "cool tech" tip, I've owned a lot of USB drives in my time, and I generally like to over-provision which has sometimes been a financial mistake, but this thing saved me heaps of time today. Heartily recommended:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1876147-REG/seagate%5Fstmx2000400%5F2tb%5Fultra%5Fcompact%5Fssd.html

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

Ink & Switch has a great study on local decentralized systems and I can't find it in my bookmarks as always

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

President of #ANTIFA out here dropping gems again:
#MrRogers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

It's cruel to show me cool international news, when my local news is like, "MMA tournament on Whitehouse lawn set to take place in jello filled pool" and "President declares tariff on Q-tips" And "3rd Marine Expeditionary Force successfully lands at Applebee's in Manhattan, stages push into Queens"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115329049288415217

The Influencers never prospered here because we want people, not brands.

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

I'm currently designing a logo so I'm paying more attention to logo designs.

Ink & Switch popped up on Hacker News again, and I sincerely love any logo design that requires position: absolute

#design #logo

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

Omg I'm internet famous

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mogul@hachyderm.io ("Bret Mogilefsky") wrote:

Kinda proud I came up with this independently yesterday, though "tax escrow" is a much more compact phrase for communicating the idea! See 1 and 4 here.
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/trump-cut-funding-to-16-dem-states?r=5w913v&utm%5Fmedium=ios&triedRedirect=true

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

IT'S ABOUT SEX MRS. SWIFT YOUR DAUGHTER IS TOTALLY BONING THAT FOOTBALL DUDE AND IS PRETTY DARN HAPPY ABOUT IT AND HONESTLY GOOD FOR HER WE ALL DESERVE A HEALTHY SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE WE BOTH LOVE AND YEARN FOR HOW DELIGHTFUL YOUR DAUGHTER IS MODELING POSITIVE PHYSICAL DESIRE

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/entertainment/taylor-swift-mother-wood-song

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lawprofblawg@mstdn.social ("Lawprofblawg") wrote:

Okay, this is hilarious.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-are-not-fascists-and-if-you-call-us-fascists-we-will-arrest-you

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:

in the future, everyone will be prime minister of France for 15 minutes.

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

Side note: I'm not anti-creator or anti-selling things. #Mastodon has some really great creators who do quality work.

Communities can sustain markets. I'm anti-markets cosplaying community.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
holly@zoner.work ("Hollyrious") wrote:

i'm ngl twitch's changes to the view count to not count lurkers has been kinda demoralizing af as a small streamer. i know the people are there, twitch is just like "nuh uh you suck"

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

This is the kind of power that state and local governments have to protect residents from Trump’s regime. https://www.kqed.org/news/12058155/san-jose-city-council-supports-ice-mask-ban-after-plainclothes-arrest

Boosted by jwz:
geospacedman ("Barry Rowlingson") wrote:

Is it okay to walk out of conference talks with AI images based on the idea that if they can't be bothered to make their own slides why should I be bothered to look at them?

Boosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Reading is Fhtagnmental

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz, but scary") wrote:

If your first inclination upon seeing a new Mastodon user is to tell them all the ways they are Doing It Wrong, consider maybe just not doing that

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

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

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be decent to other people, just like you should try to be everywhere else.

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 255.

Last night we did a screening of The Lost Boys, and it was epic. Amongst all of our Cyberdeliae, this was the one with the rowdiest audience: lots of screaming and singing along. Excellent costume contest entries, too.

For this one I did something a little different from the others: instead of DJ music over abstract visuals, I filled the pre-roll and intermission with music videos featuring VAMPIRES. I only needed 30 and 20 minutes...
https://jwz.org/b/ykwF

Attachments:

• video: 0ed49698c6fedda2.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

The polls for the man in the White House are … not good. All this, and voters blame Republicans for the shutdown instead of Democrats by double digits.

A second posting will follow with more polling results. All this and polls show voters blaming Republicans and not Democrats for the shutdown by double digits.

#Trump #polls #economy #inflation #immigration #ApprovalRating
/1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Absolutely abysmal polling results:

So how about some diversionary attacks on racial minorities living in large cities run by Democrats, breaking doors down, rapelling in with helicopters, dragging people out of their dwellings in dead of night, some naked, and zip-tying them, including children?

#Trump #polls #economy #inflation #immigration #ApprovalRating
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Even if Democrats were to win, they won't make the kind of substantive changes and punish those responsible severely enough to prevent someone like Trump from happening again.

I know because we've already been through this before.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

This, by the way, was my CBS staff photo, taken when I was hired in 1998.

The photographer was John Filo, then head of photography at CBS.

He won a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of the 1970 shooting at Kent State.

When I learned HE would be taking the picture for my CBS staff ID (“Seriously?!”), I realized I was suddenly in a whole different league.

(Even John couldn’t make ME look good, but that’s not his fault.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

episode #543345 in “Rimworld modders are not okay…”:

mod option that enables the ability for colonists who specialize in mechanical robot management to have sex with their mechs.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

The rapture has passed and we are in hell.