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

I hope you've never known or worked with a Chinese scientist, because now you're contaminated.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/14/i-guess-chinese-scientists-have-cooties/

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

Fuck him. Put it out there. All of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/republican-pressure-trump-epstein-files

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

It's getting really difficult to take big tech companies seriously any more.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/14/more-ai-hype/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8hABHmA%5FNE

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mariyadelano@hachyderm.io ("Mariya Delano") wrote:

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:

Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”

Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”

Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*

Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”

Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”

Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”

So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️

#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Duckduckgo? What about Catcatgo?! I'm going to meow a complaint..

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
berto@floss.social ("Berto Garcia") wrote:

The current state of the Linux desktop is that one random youtuber talking about the new Steam Machine for the general public said that "this runs Linux, but it's a PC so you can install Windows if you want, although you have to be careful because YOU COULD HAVE PROBLEMS WITH DRIVERS" 😅

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fsfe ("Free Software Foundation Europe") wrote:

Our democratic public sphere needs open networks!

Together with @offene_netzwerke we demand that public money be invested into Free Software and in open, decentralised infrastructures.

Read our demands (en/de/fr), published this week:
https://offene-netzwerke.eu/forderungen/

#FreeSoftware #PublicCode #OpenSource #Fediverse #EUsummit25 @BMDS

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

cautiously optimistic about Kagi's SlopStop, but I wonder if “Report as AI-generated” can be abused without recourse?

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

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

Built in 1921, this house has definitely seen better days.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
simon_brooke@mastodon.scot ("Simon Brooke") wrote:

What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem.

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds?utm%5Fsource=firefox-newtab-en-gb

#ClimateEmergency

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

blogged: Vivaldi, Yea or Nay?

https://dbushell.com/2025/11/14/vivaldi-browser/

— my review of 24 hours with Vivaldi web browser (and by proxy, Apple's shitty software)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

PeerTube video: Life is the ocean and your job is the shark!
https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/gqjraHVvYfCWAeeyfeTZTF

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
trevdev@fosstodon.org ("Trev :neovim:") wrote:

Tonight I'm enjoying Freebooters featuring @ChrisWere and another rambling dude called Drew.

Its basically two dudes completely ensared in an ADHD conversation about nothing and everything. Zero dead air. More than once I wish I could interrupt them to say the thing I wanna say about the thing they're talking about.

I don't know if you like conversations about tech and society and are a turbo nerd go check it out.

https://freebooters.uk/

#podcasts #tech #fediverse

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

I keep a pin of the Young Lords logo in my backpack. There was a time when we were united and fought for issues that mattered to our respective communities.

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

Spike Lee explains why he shows Black and Puerto Rican unity in his films - TheGrio:

"“Black people and Puerto Rican intermarried, man,” Spike Lee recalled. “It’s like, it was all love.”"

I come from a Newyorican family. The Black community welcomed Puerto Ricans when no one else would. I love Spike Lee for always giving us a spot in his films, even and especially now. https://thegrio.com/2025/08/20/spike-lee-explains-why-he-shows-black-and-puerto-rican-unity-in-his-films/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lymphomation ("Karl Schwartz, Artist advocate") wrote:

Win / Win

#climatechange #news

https://www.leravi.org/they-placed-1700-sheep-among-solar-panels-and-the-animals-unexpected-behavior-surprised-researchers-16255/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

I don't think a SteamOS landslide is inevitable or even likely but I definitely think MS doesn't realize how much they're playing with fire making Win11, their flagship and historic unbreakable monopoly, the "turning a big dial taht says 'user hostility' on it and constantly looking back at shareholders for approval like a contestant on the price is right" OS.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

"We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one."

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html?m=1

#Rust

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

@codinghorror @slightlyoff As a business you can’t choose for all of your customers to switch to Android. The market needs to be seen from the eyes of a business that is choosing whether to develop a native application or a web application and Apple ensures that there is no real choice.

Boosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
fedward@distraction.party ("fedward :omya:") wrote:

Weird fedi tie-in on our travel: I follow @xor 's @roadside bot, so when my MIL said she wanted to drive over the mountain from New Paltz and go to Kerhonkson, I actually had a frame of reference for it. The bot posted a photo of Mohonk Mountain House the day we were there. So many of the resorts that show up in the John Margolies Roadside America collection were RIGHT THERE (Granit in Kerhonkson, Fallsview and Nevele in Ellenville, Cliff House and Wildmere at Lake Minnewaska [both destroyed by fire, now a state park]). I hadn't quite realized how close together they all were.

https://guides.loc.gov/roadside-america-photographs

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

I have ordered the laptop. I blame the beer. (Yes, I am at a brewery. Yes, I am using a Tailscale VPN *and* using Apple Pay, before you tell me somebody might have stolen my credit card.)

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

I suspect I should probably stop dithering about ordering an M5 MacBook Pro and admit that "because computers are your hobby and you perversely like the idea of completely reworking your whole setup” is a sufficient justification.

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

The Onion don't miss

https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

My partner walked in and asked if I was still working.

What was on my screen:

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

Every morning, I step outside and within 30-seconds or so my crow friends fly up to the fence and patiently wait for me to serve them peanuts.

One crow always lands first. His name is Gus. Then, Marcelo, Phil, Caroline, etc. (I haven’t named the all yet).

#photography #crows

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mce@cosocial.ca ("Mike Edey") wrote:

Saw this kingfisher today on the dog walk. Must have been fed-up and content to survey its domain.

#Photography #BirdsOfMastodon #VancouverIsland

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

We're really tethered to our phone numbers for life now. It's like an SSN. I have so many 2-step it would be impossible to change my phone number.

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

Shout out to T-Mobile you really know how to make an app

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@rollovereasy If you folks ever want to invest in a restaurant, I have a concept: late night drunk snacks, with a weekly special that rotates between different national drunk cuisines: fish & chips from England, the munchy box from Scotland, the Irish spice bag, Canadian poutine, German currywurst, etc. And now I have a name for it: Drunchy's.