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

New post: "Apple wins me over again, but it’s getting tougher" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/apple-wins-me-over/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"We have the purported leader of the free world calling for the death of members of Congress. And we should all be deeply saddened by that, and outraged by that, regardless of who we are—Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and anybody who loves freedom."

~ Chrissy Houlahan

#Trump #piggy #corruption #Epstein #coverup #economy #ApprovalRating #StockMarket #crypto #AI #PumpandDump #EconomicElites #fascism #violence
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https://newrepublic.com/article/203489/transcript-trump-tirade-calling-death-dems-backfires-badly

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this is disgusting

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Stalking the wrong person, threatening a judge who is looking out for that person: ICE in action in Providence RI. https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
xek@hachyderm.io ("xek (👻🏴‍☠️)") wrote:

Ah, yes: the season here in my SF microclimate has finally changed to "mornings with fingerless gloves and a scarf inside your landlord's old, uninsulated house, because it's not yet worth running the smelly, inefficient gas heater, which is covered in well-encased asbestos and therefore unreplacable while the unit is occupied."

A fashionably snuggly morning to to all who celebrate.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewstroehlein ("Andrew Stroehlein") wrote:

I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.

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

The champion of the anti-trans crusade is such a fucking loser.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/i-didnt-think-my-opinion-of-riley-gaines-could-get-any-lower/

Riley Gaines

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

The calls to action from the parents:
1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect students and teachers from de-skilling
2. Resist not only direct financial relationships or contracts with AI providers, but any training they might offer.
https://neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/digital-future-or-risk-to-critical-thinking-skills-5-takeaways-as-malden-drafts-ai-strategy-for-schools/

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

“DJs aren’t real musicians, they just push buttons” Pianists: Monkey Puppet Awkward meme: Two frames of a monkey puppet looking around to see if anyone noticed how awkward this moment is.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”

I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/

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

“The line and the stream. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/

> That’s why I’ve come to realize that statements about the future aren’t predictions: they’re more like spells.

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

Your casual reminder I have two (2) contenders in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction category this year, there's still time to vote for one of them (or another book there you like better). Go on, all the cool kids are doing it.

https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-science-fiction-books-2025

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

awesome to see: https://omglol.news/2025/11/20/say-hello-to-sourcetube-the-omg-lol-community-code-forge

I have my own Forgejo instance (for now) but more the better! Point is: get your code away from GitHub :)

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

LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money (and maybe fraud?) driving a subprime-bubble type mania. They infer from the plausibility of its outputs, which are absolutely fucked because the job of these models is to produce plausible outputs.

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

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines

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

AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-vain-of-them-all/

magic mirror

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

The dichotomy of print versus the web: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-dichotomy-of-print-vs-web/

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

Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

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

Þá er ég orðinn útgefandi 🙂

„Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga“

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

Fyrstu viðtökur hafa verið mjög jákvæðar:

„Afar skemmtileg bók, húmorísk og hlýleg, fyrir alla sem eiga kött, hafa átt kött eða langar að eiga kött.“

— Gyrðir Elíasson

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

LMAO excellent time-to-first-error 👏

https://social.lol/@db/115587182275804652

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

holy moly when did Dexie vibe a new Next.js site?
https://dexie.org

generic af and all expense spared on the docs I see 🫠

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

[On the bridge of Enterprise] Picard: Yellow alert Everyone: OH ALERT!!

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

people on bluesky telling me "actually content warning culture on mastodon is bad since for some of us the urge to read the post anyway is overwhelming"

completely overlooking the fact you can simply make a filter against the content warning words

if i want to cut out ~85% of posts here about US politics all i have to do is add one filter for "uspol" while on bluesky i'm forced to filter every single word, name, and concept adjacent to US politics instead and it works *worse*

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
luna@lunar.place ("Lunya 🌸 :floof_t: :haj_s:") wrote:

​:neofox_floof_cute:​

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
MorpheusB@aus.social ("Morpheus Being") wrote:

#Joke #Humour

I had a call from a scammer the other day

Me: “Hello.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Hello. This is Bob Bobson from Microsoft Support. We are seeing a lot of virus activity from your device.”

Me: “Oh no. My device? Are you sure?”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Oh yes, we have many reports.”

Me: “Oh jeez. How can I fix it?”>;
NOT-Microsoft support: “It’s OK sir. We can help you right now. Are you in front of your device sir?”

Me: “Yes. I was just about to use it. I’m glad you called.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, we are going to help you. Can you please push the Start button?”

Me: “I think it's already on.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Okay, sir. Now you want to click on Control Panel.”

Me: “I don’t see that.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Do you see a bunch of information above the Start button?”

Me: “Yes.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “That is your Control Panel.”

Me: “Wow, I didn’t realize it had a name.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, now press on Internet Options.”

Me: “Yeah, I definitely don’t see any Internet options. I don’t think I purchased that feature. This is just a cheap one.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “They all have the Internet sir. Press the Start button again.”

Me: “OK, it’s the same as before.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “That’s OK sir. We are going to restart your device. Can you please turn it off?”

Me: “Ummm…I don’t know how. I’ve never turned it off. Since I bought it, it just kind of stays on all the time.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “There must be an off button on your device. How do you stop it when it’s running?”

Me: “In those cases, I usually press the big button.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “OK sir. Please press that button.”

Me: “Ok.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Is your device off?”

Me: “No. The door popped open.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Door? Is there a disc inside the door?”

Me: “No, there’s a burrito.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Why is there a burrito in your computer?”

Me: “Computer? I thought you said this was microwave support.”

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
latenightowl@social.linux.pizza ("Late Night Owl") wrote:

I haven't seen this variation of XKCD 2347 yet. Received from a friend, source unknown.

#xkcd2347 #cloudflare #aws #ai

Variation on the XKCD 2347 graphic of software building on each other, showing very unstable tower, featuring sharks biting undewater cables, unpaid opensource developers, AWS, Cloudflare, AI, Microsoft, left-pad, v8, WASM and it is all almost falling apart, but not actually.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:

#VideoGames video accounts to follow:

(If an account looks blank, read this: https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/)

➡️ @harrybo - Rally game videos with fun commantary
➡️ @gbryant - Linux gaming news, especially Steam Deck
➡️ @bobdendry - Let's plays modern & classic games
➡️ @ozoned - Linux gaming streams
➡️ @logaldeveloper - Gaming streamer, fun games
➡️ @0lhi - Long play videos of colourful 1990s/2000s games & user-created levels
➡️ @hatnix - Linux gaming streams in English & German

🧵 1/4

#PeerTube

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
r_alb ("Raphael Albert") wrote:

The European Commission wants more techno-capitalist "innovation", and we all have to pay for it with our privacy.

We must stop the Digital Omnibus!
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#DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #DataProtection

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:

RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369

Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #Mozilla projects.

#aislop