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

We have a local cult of Asatru followers. They are so cringe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/13/its-all-cringe/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G-ZuxmV487c

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

You know, the competent black lady isn't plastered all over the emails of the dead sex criminal

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcdbot@indieweb.social wrote:

title text: 'They really shouldn't let those small cars drive in traffic. I worry I'm going to kill someone if I hit one! They should have to drive on the sidewalk, safely out of the way.'

desktop link: https://xkcd.com/3167
mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/3167
explainxkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3167

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting. No sausage at all, but *my god* that sizzle.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

The old Valve #Index has the best audio of any VR headset.
The goofy floating speakers sound great, and are incredibly immersive, because the sound literally comes from "outside" instead of touching my ears or conducting sound through my bones like in-ear headphones.

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

“AI Grief Observed”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-grief-observed/

> AI is the symptom of a broken world. AI is the symptom; and AI is the disease.

I just can’t summarise this essay in a few short and witty words. Just read it. You won’t regret it

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

Second species of mosquito found in Iceland. Boo. Hiss.

“Moskítóflugur fundust í hesthúsi á Suðurlandi - RÚV.is”

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-11-13-moskitoflugur-fundust-i-hesthusi-a-sudurlandi-458767

Boosted by jwz:
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

Parsing integers in C. Aka "bye bye atoi".

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/13/parsing-integers-in-c/

#curl #development

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

reading: “A.I.” browsers: the price of admission is too high

https://vivaldi.com/blog/a-i-browsers-the-price-of-admission-is-too-high/

maybe I'll give Vivaldi a try today 🤔

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

mastodon should fix the bug where typos are invisible in the editing box but obvious on the timeline

Boosted by jwz:
Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

Instead of using AI images to illustrate your blogpost or presentation, why not go deep into the forest, lie down in a pile of autumn leaves and allow the earth to consume your body.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I don’t remember what Patreon did to me to cause this, but apparently it was eleven times worse than what Facebook did to me.

Welcome to the Class-Action Settlement Economy.

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

Central Minnesota is getting the aurora tonight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/12/aurora-tonight/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
appassionato ("earthling") wrote:

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow.

via tithsokphanny31

#photography
#moon
#rainbow

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KevinCarson1@kolektiva.social ("Kevin Carson") wrote:

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account

https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hellomiakoda@pdx.social ("Miakoda :neurodiversity:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PattyHanson/115539034590544694

That one flew under my radar entirely. Fuck, they just want to make everything shit.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
RickyRomero@mstdn.social ("Ricky Romero") wrote:

Excited to replace my CPU-bottlenecked HTPC with the new Steam Machine next year. (Loving the product shots in the announcement video too - no 3D renders here!) https://youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE

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

“the fake charity, the Photoshop predator, and other times AI got it wrong - Ask a Manager”

https://www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-fake-charity-the-photoshop-predator-and-other-times-ai-got-it-wrong.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

CI/CD means "crashes immediately, can't debug"

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Do I need a dazzle camo print rain cape? Not necessarily
Do I want a dazzle camo print rain cape? Most definitely

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An abandoned blue house.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The sound of the sea is relaxing.#Iceland #video #nature #landscape #abandoned #decay #sea #boat

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3m5f57obm422v

Attachments:

• video: 07a2ca4be6406e15.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
decryption@aus.social wrote:

the NTP foundation (yeah the time thing) is begging for scraps of cash, like a few thousand dollars - a low level manager at amazon, google, apple and meta could each whip out the corp credit card, give them $5k each and problem solved, but no, they're too far up their own arse to do that

https://www.ntp.org/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:

no I don’t want to install your app for something that used to be a button or putting a coin in a slot
no I don’t want to join your discord simply so I can file a bug on your project and idle on the server for three weeks until someone replies
no I don’t want to rate my experience, it took 20 seconds and it’ll take longer than that to form an opinion
no I don’t want to create an account to save my information for a future interaction, and your demand that I do decreases the likelihood there will be one
no I don’t want to do whatever thing you’re only offering a “maybe later” for; my stubbornness is stronger than your belief in eventuality
no I don’t want to connect to the internet something that, twenty years ago, wouldn’t have had a computer in it
no I don’t want to use your javascript compiler extension’s custom file format, in a better language that could have been a macro or a data format
no I don’t want to install the copy protection for your audio plugin, no matter how good you claim the plugin is, nor how unobtrusive you claim the background process is
no I don’t want your new AI thing, I want you to fix that bug I filed five years ago

what part of no don’t you understand?
the part where I’m claiming self-determination or the part where it’s less convenient for your assumptions?
I didn’t want to be a grumpy old man, but the internet and capitalism had other plans
I didn’t want to become so defensive, but I need my technology to serve me, not the other way around

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kdenlive@floss.social ("Kdenlive") wrote:

Besides the Steam Deck, you’ll soon be able to cut your videos with Kdenlive on the new Steam Frame and the GabeCube (a.k.a. Steam Machine)!

All running on @kde Plasma of course!

#valve #steam #steamOS #steamdeck #kde #videoediting #kdenlive

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

these "I am a world-class hacker so I hacked your computer and I got to see all your porn! send me bitcoin or I'll expose you" scammers would be a lot more believable if they didn't send 15 emails with different names on the same day.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it?

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/

It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely reported on for years. Karen Hao's work on this is outstanding:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ieeespectrum ("IEEE Spectrum") wrote:

Biogeochemical sensing robots 2,000 meters deep in the ocean have found that marine heatwaves are preventing the ocean from sequestering carbon as expected. The ocean’s carbon storage is struggling. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ocean-robots-mbari-bgc-argo?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

"Connect the dots - it's all right in front of you!", the conspiracy true believer says.

Seeing patterns is what we're wired to *do*. It's something humans are so good at, we're constantly bombarded with phantoms of patterns that mean nothing.

The trick isn't connecting dots. It's learning to slow down and understand the data first.

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

Damn, there was a really cool guide about dark patterns and vendor lock in posted here. I thought I reposted or saved but can find it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?