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

Your reminder the GOP wants you to die poor and sick and as soon as possible, thank you very much, in fact why aren't you dead already, honestly that's very rude of you

https://wapo.st/48uEsVO

(gift article)

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

*AI bubble about to burst*

Forbes: man, there sure are a lot of women in powerful positions, huh?

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

Lmao

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

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

Seriously, they should just call themselves OpenThreatAI

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

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora - Ars Technica:

"“Technological innovation has continually shaped the evolution of entertainment, bringing with it new ways to create and share great stories with the world,” said Disney CEO Robert A. Iger"

Translation: hey illustrators, if you unionize we’ll replace you with robots. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-in-openai-licenses-200-characters-for-ai-video-app-sora/

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HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

The proliferation of scam culture, then, is not just a product of technological change but also a rational response to late stage capitalism.

Capitalists compete, which risks profits.

In response, capitalists have chosen consolidation to mitigate the effects of competition, which has driven ever-increasing wealth inequality.

That inequality makes it harder for anyone not at the top, even less-successful capitalists, to get ahead.

And so some capitalists have turned entrepreneurially to scamming as a way of an asserting control over the income produced by workers that they could not control through the traditional process of owning firms and assets.

Because those are all already owned by the richest of the rich, or soon will be.

The AI bubble will burst eventually and cause immense suffering when it does, but just as NFTs weren’t the last major global scam, AI will just be replaced by yet another scam, and another, and another, until capitalism eventually collapses under its own weight.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192132/ocasio-cortez-everything-feels-like-scam

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keyboards ("Keyboards") wrote:

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

🐦‍⬛ ❤️ 🥜 Gus, Marcelo, Childish Gambino, Chappell Roan, Macaroni, Lasagna, Pete Davidson, Pedro Albizu Campos, Meg, Havoc & Prodigy

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• video: Crows sitting around my back porch on the fence and trees

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

The view my cats were digging earlier

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anaiscrosby@infosec.exchange ("Anais") wrote:

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

This is the biggest critique of liberal advocacy— there's no such thing as a lesson learned. No one is adjusting. No one is taking notes. Every lost election, every failed initiative, it's always someone else's fault.

And it's because the liberal identity lives and dies by being the smartest in the room. It's this obsession with intelligence that forbids liberals from *looking within* and adjusting on literally anything. It's been a decade. None of this is working.

#ICE

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popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

Watch Rep. Bennie Thompson bust Michael Glasheen on his “antifa is a terrorist organization” BS. This happened today at a U.S. House hearing.

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• video: 9c9b0339956a8f76.mp4

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ethanschoonover ("Ethan J. A. Schoonover") wrote:

You know that Hegseth is looking at Rubio going to Times New Roman and is thinking of moving the Pentagon to a Blackletter type named something like "REICHFACE."

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

🤔

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@robpike tabs were a mistake

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR (AM 680) Antennas, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the hazards to aviation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131419266

#photography

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The taller tower (550 feet) at right is the main KNBR antenna, built in 1949. It employs an unusual "pseudo-Franklin" design; it's actually an array of two antennas stacked atop one another. The 400 foot lower section is insulated from the ground. The upper 150 foot section is insulated from the lower section. The large (50 foot) diameter "capacitance hat" at the top (reminiscent of the Parachute Jump at Coney Island) electrically lengthens the top section, saving 250 feet of additional height.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR is a 50KW "Class A" (formerly "clear channel") mediumwave (AM) rado station broadcasting on 680 KHz, serving the San Francisco Bay area (and, at night, most of the west coast of the US). Opened in 1922, It was originally known as KPO, (later KNBC, and still later KNBR), and soon became the flagship station for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)'s new western radio network. It is currently owned by Cumulus Media and now broadcasts a sports format. It sits next to the former KGEI site.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Disney signs deal with Tijuana Bibles. They're finally getting a piece of that Eeyore on Minnie action!

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The regime has unleashed its goons on anyone with brown or black skin. It's morally repugnant, un-American and must end.

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RustedComputing@discuss.systems ("FElon&Felon47🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇹🇼") wrote:

@davidgerard
Disney imagined the MCP torment nexus in Tron as a precautionary tale to try to prevent anyone from creating the MCP torment nexus....

Yeah, the guy who coined the term Model Context Protocol with its acronym knew exactly what reference he was making, am I right?

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @ProPublica. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring #getfedihired https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4623874006?gh%5Fsrc=0eh7t3h36us

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minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

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ungarage@mamot.fr ("Un Garage") wrote:

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joewynne@mindly.social ("Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️") wrote:

My holidays include Coquito, the Puerto Rican "egg nog" which does not actually contain eggs, but plenty of coconut cream, rum, cinnamon and nutmeg. It fits in with holiday flavors adding a tropical twist.

There are a few other easily attainable ingredients in my easy recipe, so let me know if you are interested and I will post it.

Happy Holidays @blogdiva !

#Holidays #Holiday #Cocktail

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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukrainian intelligence says Russia is quietly building drone hubs and deploying operatives in Moldova’s Russian-controlled enclave of Transnistria.

The strategy: stir unrest in Moldova, stretch Ukrainian defenses in the south, and quietly prepare for a possible escalation near Odesa.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/11/russia-eyes-moldovas-transnistria-as-new-threat-axis-toward-odesa-says-ukrainian-intelligence/

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thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A Myanmar military air strike has killed more than 30 people at a hospital ahead of elections scheduled for the end of December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/asia-pacific/myanmar-hospital-deadly-stirke/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #junta

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

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remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis.

Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery.

The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.

The shoppers were volunteers, participating in a study published on Tuesday and organized by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer publication. In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart.

On item after item, they found significant differences. In a Target in North Canton, Ohio, some shoppers were charged $3.59 for a jar of Skippy peanut butter that others could get for $2.99. At a Safeway in Seattle, some people paid $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins while others paid $4.89. And at a Target in St. Paul, Minn., some people were charged $4.59 for a box of Cheerios that others could get for $3.99.

“Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.”
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Groundwork’s findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price, offered to all customers for a predictable period, is breaking down in the digital age. Companies are using sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices quickly in response to competitors’ offers and consumer behavior."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html

#USA #AlgorithmicPricing #DynamicPricing #Insatacart #Inflation #Algorithms