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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

Liquid Glass is not an aberration. It’s continuation of everything Apple has been getting wrong about UI for more than a decade.

Apple was never perfect, but they used to get things right more often than anyone else, and right or wrong they sweated over the details.

Now Apple is average at best, and they’re lazy (these two characteristics are not unrelated). You might say that Apple is lazy despite endless profit, but I would say that Apple is lazy due to endless profit.

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

Me every day now

RE: https://www.threads.com/@%5Felizabethmay/post/DPgOwGQDGnC

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

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

Anyone thinking "AI" can imitate the genius of Robin Williams misunderstands his genius, and, possibly, misunderstands humans.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-recreations-gross-1236541633/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

The 'Fork Off' Test

One of the big reasons decentralization matters is the 'fork off' test that #Bluesky CEO Jay Graber memorialized in her 'No Caesars' marketing blitz (https://observer.com/2025/03/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-wants-world-without-caesars/). Simply stated, what's the mobility within the network should any one member be lost, become evil or otherwise corrupted?

Can you really move?

Now, Bob Riccie's @ricci 'Are We Decentralized Yet?' (https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/) quantifies centralization using sophisticated data analysis and analytics.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
wohali@timeloop.cafe wrote:

very important right now

Attachments:

• video: Unnecessary zoom wiht dramatic music: Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, a third person I can't remember, and then the dramatic gopher

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

Nouvelle saison de ☕ Café Guix, les rencontres en ligne pour discuter de #Guix pour la #RechercheReproductible et le #HPC, que l’on débute ou qu’on soit déjà à fond. 👇

https://hpc.guix.info/events/2025-2026/café-guix/

Premier épisode le 14 octobre !

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your spooky 'net denizen"):
Da_Gut@dice.camp wrote:

“Why is Bob the barbarian carrying a frying pan?”
“Oh, that is the material component for his spell. “
“Barbarians don’t get spells!”
“Tell him that! He goes around hitting people in the face with it while yelling “cast iron!””

#ttrpg #dadjokes

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Fog over Silver How.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
fingolas@journa.host ("Martin Holland") wrote:

Macron: "We were incredibly naive to entrust our democratic space to #SocialNetworks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

🤔

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

blogged: Email: The Final Form

https://dbushell.com/2025/10/07/email-the-final-form/

getting real tired of spam!

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I gotta admit, I am loving how little of the conversation is just "BlueSky bad! Mastodon good! 🤡" and how much of it is "BlueSky is not ideal for Black users, but let's be for real, neither is Mastodon. We don't have control over BlueSky, but we do have some agency with Mastodon. How can we make Mastodon better? Where are we with improving the issues that make this place unwelcoming for Black users? Clearly, more Black users chose BlueSky than Mastodon. Have we addressed the reasons why?" ♥️🥹

Seriously, I count ~5 conversations in the improvement framing direction. I love to see it! Shame on me for having lower expectations.

I'm unapologetically backing improvements across ActivityPub and ATProto. I back Hachyderm/Mastodon and BlackSky. You can just back both teams! Nothing in the rules says you can't do that!

Boosted by jwz:
noneuclideandreamer@mathstodon.xyz ("Non-Euclidean Dreamer") wrote:

Double Slit Experiment...

Watch an intricate interference pattern unfold: https://youtu.be/ekZ7lZ2HnLA

#mastoart

Attachments:

• gifv: A wavefront coming from left, hitting a barrier it mirrors from, canceling out. But there's first one, then two slots through which the wave leaks to the right to create an interference pattern.

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

Today in "you're prompting it wrong", the giant plagiarism machines are struggling with MCP, so bros are wrapping MCP in an API.

So it's now an API to call MCP to call an API 🤯

https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/

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

“Our individual and collective narrative in some literal sense is what makes up the world in which we live, and what makes us ourselves. There is no shortcut that takes us past needing to judge each other’s actions in that shared world. The civility pitched by the hucksters and carnival barkers of the so-called center only ever emboldens and authorizes those with the power and the privilege to punch down with the approval that comes with impunity.”

https://bix.blog/posts/2025-10-06-the-gates-of-shame-and-spite/

Boosted by jwz:
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

Apple removed ICE tracking apps. Way to protect democracy, Tim Cook.

#Apple #TimCook #Cowards #Traitors #USPol

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
eb@social.coop ("Evan B🥥ehs") wrote:

This will crash the global economy

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

Re: Smart Glasses

Last year, I tried—and failed spectacularly because I'm not a mathematician—to come up with an equation to determine how many Americans would need to wear smart glasses in order to effectively surveil all (most) Americans.

Lots of assumptions packed in:
- always on camera
- average time outside
- average unique people in eyesight each outing etc etc

Is it 20%? 10% 5??? 1?????

Is the equation possible?

#Math #Meta #smartglasses

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