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

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0322

Boosted by jwz:
stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming by the perimeter fence day to all who celebrate. A solemn 30 second screaming before vanishing will take place at 11am.

Boosted by jwz:
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

@cstross

Since the 1990s every tech wave has been a pump and dump bubble laying the groundwork for the next pump and dump bubble. The staggering inefficiency of such a Ponzi economy, channelling capital into mega-billionaires pockets instead of productive growth is why China is rolling out 400 kph mag lev trains while we are shoveling brain dead software into toasters.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Been thinking a lot about everything that concerns me, and I recommend not doing that

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

Browser UX opinion of the day: I almost never ever ever intentionally drag a tab out into its own window. This happens almost exclusively due to the browser being a dick and interpreting a random normal mouse click as a drag and it's almost always a pain.

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

"I'm sorry, I can't make it to our meeting. I double-booked the time slot because I forgot your country likes to troll everybody twice a year by messing up the clocks" 😝

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

Daylight savings is annoying enough when you're living in a country that has it, but it's extra annoying when you're in a country that doesn't and you have remote meetings with countries that do. Every time, it results in a 2-3 week period where I miss or am late to meetings because of it 😑

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("miss ana v. :trans_Pirate:") wrote:

PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world

MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter: @deccamuldowney and I write about OpenAI's transparent attempt to shift accountability.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/openai-tries-to-shift-responsibility-to-users/

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

Also, as regards the whole "There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!": No there aren't, my side is the "People Who Don't Fuck Children" side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?

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

Some days I wonder why I don't post on LinkedIn more. Then a see a quote that sounds like it's from a domestic violence victim with Stockholm syndrome presented as sage business advice and I'm like oh right. Everyone here are fucking wacked.

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