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jwz wrote:

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide.

Ghouls gonna ghoul: Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen's suicide and...
https://jwz.org/b/ykxy

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

Listen to "Fun to Make Fun Of" from CARROT: The Musical! https://youtu.be/7kCpvyD0fxI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

If you or anyone you know is on the autistic spectrum, you may enjoy this read https://psyche.co/turning-points/does-being-autistic-make-me-a-better-doctor-than-a-friend

"In medicine, empathy came easy. In friendship, it fell apart. An autism diagnosis helped me understand why"

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

Listen to "Human" from CARROT: The Musical! https://youtu.be/KQr0SPpSB8E

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

soon to be a cherry pie for tomorrow

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

"how many layers of security theatre are you on"
"like, maybe 5 or 6 right now, my dude"
"you are like a little baby, watch this"

https://www.iacr.org/news/item/27138

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tef wrote:

in hindsight, it's a little unfair to characterise all of the pro GenAI people as "wanting to bring about the antichrist"

some are "a few dead teenagers is an inalienable price of technological progress" and some are more "psychotic breaks? magical thinking? sounds like a skill issue, i am smarter than every dead teenager"

it's one thing to have the nftesque fait accomplit "the future is here and it's not going away" but hearing "genai doesn't kill people, prompts kill people" is a bit much

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

#BlankFriday is coming up the day after Thanksgiving. If you need to prep, for instance by getting a pocket full of cash, today is the day. And it's ok to use transit cards if you bought them with cash.

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

One of my hopes for 2026 is that browser vendors take more responsibility for today's pervasively bad experiences. Failure to cabin content in many dimensions (nobody wants a slow site, but they also don't want to dismiss a mailing-list pop-up to halfway through a post) is creating demand for interposing layers that only serve users better because browsers act as the user's agent:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115605334176250687

The sticker sheets are back in stock today! And the first 321 orders have been dispatched, with the rest coming soon. Only about 400 plushies left between the two colors. The winter mug is the closest to being sold out at only 18 units left. Thank you!

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

Kids, listen to the groovy pope and don't use the "AI" for your homework!

https://www.vulture.com/article/pope-leo-ai-homework.html

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

Here's a version with quick and dirty English language hardsubs.

Attachments:

• video: Interview with Brynhildur Jenný, the author and illustrator of the graphic novel, The Cat and I, done by the store Penninn

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

Viðtalið við Brynhildi Jenný sem Penninn gerði í tilefni nýju bókarinnar.

The interview with Brynhildur Jenný that the store Penninn did on the launch of her new book (which I published). I attempted to add English soft-subtitles, but I don't know if it took.

Original here: https://www.tiktok.com/@penninneymundsson/video/7576666782488857874?%5Fr=1&%5Ft=ZN-91hEf390yRi

Attachments:

• video: Interview with Brynhildur Jenný, the author and illustrator of the graphic novel, The Cat and I, done by the store Penninn

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

This snow is horribly wet and heavy and really dangerous for us old people to shovel around.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/26/heart-attack-snow/

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

😆 😈

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

Not only is he a very big boy, he's learning martial arts.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/26/the-snowplows-are-cruising-by/

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

me: "I don't need your CSS layout guide I'm a professional 😤"

also me:

Attachments:

• gifv: aimlessly cycling through CSS properties in Chromium dev tools until one looks right

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

The End of the ‘Everything Bundle’ – Black Friday Sale: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/bundle/ebooks/

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

note to self: don't start a major CSS refactor if you don't plan to finish a major CSS refactor

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

can't be worse next year, can it?

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

Direct link to the sales page:

The End of the ‘Everything Bundle’ – Black Friday Sale

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP

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

The End of the ‘Everything Bundle’ – Black Friday Sale

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/bundle/ebooks/

For this Black Friday, I’m offering the heavily discounted “Everything Bundle” for the last time

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TheGentleKlingon@mastodon.art ("The gentle klingon") wrote:

Cool, I didn't know about this. If you want to cut out the AI garbage—oh sorry, "features," 🙄 use noai.duckduckgo.com

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clarity@xoxo.zone ("clarity flowers") wrote:

more comments should have diagrams imo

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piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

One year of Complete CSS 🎉
https://mastodon.social/@belldotbz/115615346884691861

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/code-beautifiers-expose-credentials-from-banks-govt-tech-orgs/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp ("Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️") wrote:

Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.

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ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

The Tick is on the internet archive.

It's better than you remember.

https://archive.org/details/the-tick-full-series

Boosted by jwz:
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("|8]") wrote:

One if the reasons iocaine has unhinged module and symbol names in its source code is that if someone tries to ask a slop generator, it will go full HAL "I can't do that, Dave" on them.

Go on, call your traits SexDungeon, your channels pipe bombs, the free function of your allocator Palestine, and the slop machines won't touch it with a ten feet pole.

Sometimes even comments are enough! Curse, quote Marx, dump your sexual fantasies into a docstring. Hmm. I should heed my own advice. Brb!

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paniniddb@threads.net ("Sankhavaram Sampath") wrote:

“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt, especially by the federal government”

https://religionnews.com/2025/11/25/how-one-conservative-christian-family-is-pushing-back-against-ice/