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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz FINAL (2).DOCX") wrote:

Here’s your Mastodon Wrapped: you posted about Linux too much

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
emanuelegori@mastodon.uno ("Emanuele") wrote:

Notizia che lascia amaro in bocca.
GrapheneOS annuncia la migrazione di tutta l’infrastruttura fuori dalla Francia, giudicata ormai insicura per i progetti open source sulla privacy, denunciando crescente pressione da parte delle autorità francesi, con minacce di sequestro dei server e persino di arresto degli sviluppatori se non avessero accettato di inserire backdoor.

#GrapheneOS #Privacy #ChatControl #Surveillance

@sicurezza

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/11/22/grapheneos-migrates-server-infrastructure-from-france-amid-police-intimidation-claims/

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

With all the hubbub over the one boat mass-murder where two extra people were murdered, it's worth a reminder that it was just the first one and there have been twenty-two other boat mass-murders since then. And counting.

Boosted by jwz:
mayorbeetles@pagan.plus ("Crystal Mountain Records") wrote:

This free access article “Organizing a Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity” explains the political theory behind the Black Panther Party and Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12111-019-09454-6

If you don’t want to get into the weeds about Marxism, just look at this picture of two kids eating breakfast together and understand that the FBI was so outraged they murdered Fred Hampton over it

Boosted by jwz:
medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Mouth of Acheron. Les Visions du chevalier Tondal, Ghent and Valenciennes ca. 1470. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 30, fol. 17r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden") wrote:

Do not forget the people, companies, and organizations that abandoned their morals during these dark years.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

67 students. 6 weeks. 87 infections.

A new study finds the real driver of school virus spread isn’t close contact — it’s air.

Poor ventilation (CO₂ >1000 ppm) nearly doubles transmission risk. Hours in shared classrooms (RR 3.17) matter far more than minutes spent near someone (RR 1.16).

It’s the air we share. Fix ventilation.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66719-3 #press

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

Right now, what we have going for us in the fight against AI companies is that those companies are hemorrhaging money. That's why they're so desperate to convince everyone that they've invented an uncontrollable AI god.

If AI companies are able to pass legislation that outlaws #OpenSource AI models, it will only strengthen their positions.

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

my new blogpost is out!!

this one talks about a new web vulnerability class i discovered that allows for complex interactive cross-origin attacks and data exfiltration

and i've already used it to get a google docs bounty ^^

have fun <3

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/

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

What a surprise that a Trump-led institution is stiffing vendors

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/kennedy-center-backlash-artist-payments-1236439599/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
davidoclubb@toot.wales ("David Clubb") wrote:

Is there a reason why the #Nextcloud desktop client doesn't allow auto uploading of photos but the mobile apps ( google and iphone) do? Can the functionality be enabled for desktop version? This is currently a problem when using #PostmarketOS, at least in my use case

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
phillip@social.lol ("Phillip :usa_distress:") wrote:

@fromjason @pluralistic What too many sci fi movies does to a mf

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

#BernieSanders is currently live on YT with Geoffrey Hinton ("godfather of AI") telling sci-fi stories so people demand regulation that puts AI solely in the hands of big tech like Google, and kills #opensource

Geoffrey Hinton "resigned" from Google to start a AI doomer non-profit at University of Toronto.

And guess who just yesterday gave Hinton a $10 million donation to his non-profit? GOOGLE.

lol incredible.

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-establishes-new-hinton-chair-artificial-intelligence-support-google

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

@pluralistic dduuuuude

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

This is the left's Qanon. Absolutely baffling.

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

What the fuck is happening man.

Bernie Sanders repeating #AIdoomerist rhetoric, saying "there's a very real fear that super intelligence could replace human beings in controlling the planet."

He's citing Geoffrey Hinton.

I feel like I'm in the twilight zone.

https://youtu.be/K3qS345gAWI?si=rU93tPePSwVcWG7I

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

It feels lonely.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #streetphotography #decay #door #sea #winter

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
noellemitchell@mstdn.social ("Noelle :verified:") wrote:

Today I wrote a blog post sharing my thoughts on reclaiming my life from endless scrolling on social media

#SocialMedia #blog #writing #tech

https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/reclaiming-my-life-from-social-media/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
johnleonard ("John Leonard") wrote:

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/sarah-wynn-williams-wins-whistleblowing-prize-for-extraordinary-courage

#meta #sarahwynnwilliams #whistleblower #gag

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115618580331569579

So, the queer escapist series I’ve been waiting for, Burnout Syndrome, is shaping up to be a bit more topical than I expected. A major plot point in ep 2 is a tech co laying everybody off citing “AI” efficiency gains

Guessing the theme is going to be something like alienation and displacement due to capitalism

https://youtu.be/cE7Po68fA44

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

I was just reminded, apropos of nothing in particular, that the Nokia N9 would have been a terrific damn smartphone if they'd gotten it out the door three years earlier.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
munificent ("Bob Nystrom") wrote:

One of my favorite quotes ever, from why the lucky stiff:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."

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

I am stress testing the nanotexture display of the new MacBook by sitting in a seat which will catch more or less the full brunt of the setting sun. (So far, so good.)

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

Whatever we may feel about AI and its longterm usefulness, we can agree that #Anthropic and #OpenAI's regulatory capture strategy to kill #OpenSource doesn't benefit anyone but these companies.

We don't need another telecommunications style monopoly. We don't want OpenAI to become the Comcast of AI.

Why, then, is Hank Green pushing #AIDoomerism to his largely #Liberal audience?

I wrote about it here.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

Hot off the blog press: Standards Queues

Definitely the hardest part right now, imo.

https://bkardell.com/blog/Queues.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net wrote:

identify tech fads worth forgetting with one weird trick:

check if IBM invested in it then dialed back.

Blockchain. Quantum computing. “AI”.

taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

Nature finds a way: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fearless-frogs-feast-deadly-hornets.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
agreenberg@infosec.exchange ("Andy Greenberg") wrote:

The new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/

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

Hey, remember Charlie Kirk?

Me neither.

He led a meaningless life. He disappeared from our memory like a puff of smoke because there are plenty of other people pumping out the same garbage he did. He was a commodity.

It seems so strange that anybody ever cared, or pretended to. He had one life, and wasted it being cruel.