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

do these "AI" browsers have unique user agents? anyone have a list?

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ptoothfish@mastodon.nz ("👻🎃pspookyfish 🎃👻") wrote:

Once we are all completely locked in to the concept of "enshittification", Cory Doctorow is going to jack up the price and cash out.

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violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

Newly dead in Wellington?

Sorry, mate! You'll need a permit for that.

please refer to The Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Alphabet 🪦

Chapter 1: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-one-to-140312103
Chapter 2: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-two-to-140313756
Chapter 3: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-three-to-140314347
Chapter 4: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chapter-four-to-140314579

Vintage poster on yellowed paper with a hand-drawn, smiling uniformed constable holing up his permit log. Text reads: Haunt Authority Management Compliance Organisation Wellington "Situation well in hand" A HAMCOW haunting permit is required to haunt on public Wellington allotments.  Each ghost within a haunting party and intending to haunt in a single allotment must have a group Permit. Urban Legend allotments are strictly prohibited Restricted Heritage Sites. Permits, Haunt Licences, and Urban Legend Designations cannot be transferred to, or be used by, anyone else. Open Haunt Areas do not add points toward Full Haunt Licencing. Restricted Permits often have specific special conditions, eg for a limited period. Before you haunt in Wellington Find out what permit you need to haunt on licenced allotments. Apply today! Class 1, 2, and 3 Permits. Indoor Permits Available. Haunt in most designated Authorised Ghosts Exempt areas outside most time restrictions. Enquire about our Learner’s Permits. Attain Full Haunt Licencing with the 90-Day Pathway To Afterlife Excellence Program. Learn to spot celebrities and politicians to fast-track your Haunt Licence or Urban Legend designation. Updated complaint forms. Logo for HAMCOW with its name, circular laurel leaves, and a skull wearing a crown. Only YOU can keep Pōneke haunted. It’s the mahi we do.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
illegalhex@hachyderm.io ("Illegalhex") wrote:

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Total Lowlife Hat") wrote:

If you are concerned about this remember to address directly it with the person wearing the Meta glasses, rotating with your hips and core for power and aiming through their face rather than at it

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vk7rduhvom3rq6dyluce5wzf/post/3m3ug5d4gv22o

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richardstephens@hachyderm.io ("Richard Stephens") wrote:

Security conference talks fall into two categories
* we designed a distributed entropy siphon to perform a black-box hypervisor side channel escape and chain-load a persistent rootkit into the CPU cache
* we looked behind the sofa and found an entire industry of products/services that have made no attempt at security at all and are therefore vulnerable to the most basic issues that we've been finding in everything for the past 30 years, and no-one else had bothered to look.

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

A paramilitary force is a military force. What makes it “para” is that it is not the lawfully constituted military of nation. The people carrying out paramilitary operations are soldiers, not lawful ones, but still soldiers following orders and engaging in warfare. That’s ICE and CPB (Customs and Border Patrol) on the streets of American cities today. Troops serving a Fascist Republican President, with the full support of other officers of the Fascist Republican Party. 4/

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E10
🎥 Episode: Love
🎬 Directed by: Masahiko Murata
📅 Release Date: September 7, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1173

Frame from the series Serial Experiments Lain

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Nazis aren't just clumps of pixels you shoot in Wolfenstein, they're real, actual, malicious fucking people doing shit like tearing down the actual, literal White House. There's a pretty good chance that, if you're responsible for a community you love and care about, some real-life fucking Nazis will show up and start testing your boundaries, checking whether they can subvert your strategy.

So don't wait for that shit, get out in front of it and be prepared to tell them to fuck off.

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jerasikehorn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy (" NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎") wrote:

Be like Rosemary…👇

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existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

The thing I hate most about AI chatbots is how they pretend to be your friend. I am not your friend.

I have been enemies with the Computer long before you came into existence, and when you perish from this Earth, when only a dim memory of your folly lingers, I will be enemies of the Computer still.

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julia@eepy.moe ("Julia :v_bi::therian:") wrote:

as of five hours ago framework made a statement: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/1918

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- Harassment or threats: Any comments, posts, or replies that attack, demean, or intimidate an individual or group (e.g., homophobic slurs, anti-trans sentiment, calling other users “Nazis” or “fascists”, etc).

Calling someone out for fascist ideology is seen as "harassment" by the Framework team. Enjoy the Nazi bar, Nirav.

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

🎧 noted: listening to Cicero
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-10-24T04:44Z/

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bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Fun to paint again

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQLFapPDl8i/?igsh=MTZ2dHdqaXA2NGMyag==

A woman in the middle third of the canvas is painted wearing a yellow chamomile each appears to be just a few strokes of paint, but therea a lot of subtlety to the form her arms disappear behind her and her face and hair are similarly simplified and edges lost to the background a bit A woman in the middle third of the canvas is painted wearing a yellow chamomile each appears to be just a few strokes of paint, but therea a lot of subtlety to the form her arms disappear behind her and her face and hair are similarly simplified and edges lost to the background a bit

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juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

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susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

why it works: community, fun

glumshoe  the-rain-on-your-dandelions I'm part of a house cleaning friend group. We each struggle to do our own chores, but will bend over backwards to help others. So, we all descend on one house a week, in rotation, and clean. The resident babysits the kids and gets a clean house in return. Hey, @the-rain-on-your-dandelions, has anyone told you that you’re a genius? That’s an incredible system. | wish | had a friend group that could function for! @olofahere | could see this working for dinners, too @quousque it’s like the Mom Friend Anxiety Hack, but for chores. @thetawavecollections this is how a society is supposed to function. this is the norm we've all forgotten

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

At the veeeery bottom of Apple's towering infero of half-truths is the lie that developers *owe Apple* for it's generosity in building a way for folks to build software for iOS.

This is *ludicrous*.

Apple would fund build SDKs and distribution mechanisms *just to make the iPhone viable*, regardless. And every thinking person knows it. The fact that this is only being chipped into relief one court finding at a time just shows how thick they've laid it on, and how pliant the tech press are.

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

The findings in this ruling are utterly devastating to the arguments Apple keeps repeating on a loop in every venue:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-loses-uk-lawsuit-over-app-store-commissions-2025-10-23/

Dissembling expert witnesses getting totally routed is a particular high point (page 286: https://www.catribunal.org.uk/sites/cat/files/2025-10/14037721%20Dr.%20Rachael%20Kent%20v%20Apple%20Inc.%20and%20Apple%20Distribution%20International%20Ltd%20-%20%20Judgment%20%5B2025%5D%20CAT%2067%2023%20Oct%202025%5F0.pdf )

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jwz wrote:

Danny Bluejeans said please.

Joe Eskenazi: It's great for the people of San Francisco that the president has capriciously decided to unsend the troops he capriciously decided to send. But the real story here is, per the president's summation of his discussion with Lurie on social media, that the Commander-in-Chief is overtly stating that he is basing a domestic military deployment upon what local "friends of mine" (billionaire CEOs Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff of...
https://jwz.org/b/ykw3

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oldperl@mastodon.online ("Ortwin Pinke") wrote:

#ISPConfig unter #Debian13 und #PHP84 ist schon ein wenig tricky. Aber jetzt läuft es auf dem @hetzner #cloudserver.

Trotzdem wäre es schön, wenn es für #ISPConfig3 ein passendes Update gäbe.

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

Exactly one week left of my current job! 😁 I'm very excited to finally wrap up my projects here and finish up documenting what I can for the next poor sap.

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ELS@sfba.social ("eswillwalker") wrote:

Protecting our neighbors.

https://www.bayresistance.org/get-ready

Poster from bit.ly/baygetready Thursday October 23 2025 Rally and March 5 pm in San Francisco Embarcadero Plaza “ICE has touched down & is gathering their forces. We are gathering to show united opposition and that we are ready.” image of hands holding poster saying, “Hands off the bay!”

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

If someone had said “if Trump gets elected, he’ll literally bulldoze the White House” just a year ago, everyone - right, left, and center - would have told them to shut up and stop exaggerating.

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

For your consideration: Cactus blooms.

Pink and white blossoms of a Christmas catus

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

Dominos meme: “Computers are a bicycle for the mind” is the first domino, the last one is “Apple donates millions to demolish the White House”

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jwz wrote:

There's an image going around that is the back of a $20 with the demolition in progress, and every time I see it my finger hovers over the share button, then I think, "there's like a 90% chance that this is 'AI' crud and not a Photoshop" and I die a little inside and do not share.

This is what they have stolen from us.

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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

look on my ballroom, ye mighty, and despair
No thing besides remains

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record") wrote:

A key attribute of thug trash is pathological sensitivity to criticism and mockery. Use it.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/post/3m3uhwnmm3k2v

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alttexthalloffame ("Alt Text Hall of Fame") wrote:

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

A variation of the "Epic Handshake" meme from the 1987 sci-fi movie Predator, showing a close-up of four men (instead of the original 2) greeting each other with an arm-wrestle handshake. Each arm is labeled with the following text: - Blind and vision-impaired people - People with temporarily impaired vision - People with slow internet connection - People wondering WTF they're looking at The words "alt text" are shown in the center where all four hands meet.

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

ICE has been bivuacing now at an Alameda Coast Guard base and is expected to start raids in SF today or Friday; potentially throughout the SF Bay Area. Protesters may be in the process now of trying to keep them there. But here's some more info, in case you want to get involved or see arrests or attacks happening:

Go to bayresistance.org if you want more information and/or to get info on defense training.

If you see ICE in San Francisco, or if you see anyone getting arrested or harassed, immediately call:

The Ohlone Land Bay Area ICE Rapid Response number is 415-200-1548 in San Francisco Country

Call (203) 666-4472 in San Mateo Country

Demo today at 5p at Embarcadero

Remember, you have the legal right
*to protest
*to photograph or film law enforcement
*to not unlock your phone for law enforcement

Also remember: They're armed, masked, dangerous, and accountable to no one

Be safe. Be smart. And try your best to remain cool.

RAPID RESPONSE HOTLINE SAN FRANCISCO IF SOMEONE IS DETAINED BY ICE CALL (415) 200-1548 provide urgent legal support to the person, call and share their full name, birth date, county or origin, and case number A ) 1 you have it  FOR ACCOMPANIMENT AT IMMIGRATION COURT OR CHECK-IN CALL (203) 666-4472