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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, writes that my collaborator and I warned about these eugenicists a few years ago and were called all sorts of names. As she writes, we were "treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists." Even so-called "critics" of large language models came for me unsummoned as I spoke up about this. Marcus and LeCun were on the same side on this one, the side of attacking me for calling out these eugenicists.

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-late

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

Resurrection of the dead. Ottheinrich Bible, Regensburg ca. 1430. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 8010, fol. 39v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

Journal: Installing web apps

Here’s an HTML web component you can use if you’re participating in the origin trial for the Web Install API.

🔗https://adactio.com/journal/22278

Boosted by jwz:
kajord@hachyderm.io ("Kelsey Jordahl") wrote:

UPenn's student newspaper this week. Amazing.

https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/12/penn-alumni-news-controversies-2025-trump-mangione-luigi-musk-charlie-javice

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

Evergreen

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

Time for your weekly React critical vulnerability patch!

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/11/denial-of-service-and-source-code-exposure-in-react-server-components

Two different CVEs this time.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
saveanno@mamot.fr wrote:

Connaissez vous un logiciel sous #linux permettant d'écrire en #markdown puis de réaliser un export #pdf personnalisable via un #css ?

#apostrophe #ghostwriter ...

merci

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
maikel@vmst.io ("Maikel 🇪🇺 🇪🇸") wrote:

We need to convince other people to use XMPP.

The no encryption is no longer an issue, most clients implement OMEMO.

There's no reason to leave your love ones and acquaintances under the influence of Mark Zuckerberg or any other centralised instant-messaging platform that lives on rage, POLARISATION and division.

Not in 2025. The platform is now mature. Servers are easy to run, encryption works, there are multiple clients for every platform.

Once you teach them how to use them, block them on Whatsapp so they have to reach you through XMPP.

#ChangeYourVicinityToChangeTheWorld #XMPP #Jabber #InstantMessaging

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

Pluribus this week, wow.

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

Reading the comments under that post gave me the plague.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

UK House of Lords must be abolished. It's an undemocratic institution, trying to remove the right to have an unlocked computer with an OS under user control.

They're proposing that devices for use in the UK have "tamper-proof system software" that prevents "viewing of CSAM".
It's a noble goal on the surface, but it effectively outlaws devices that don't reliably spy on everything people have on screen. It outlaws open source operating systems and hardware without DRM.

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/63901/documents/7465

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
c0debabe@masto.hackers.town ("c0debabe, PDA dev") wrote:

🌈🐬

Boosted by jwz:
benlockwood@ecoevo.social ("Ben Lockwood, PhD 🎄") wrote:

There’s a myth in the US that the only way to enact change is to elect sympathetic politicians and hope they do the right thing. But history shows that the most effective way to get politicians to act is to disrupt economic activity. Strikes, boycotts, sabotage, and other organized disruptions have overwhelmingly been the primary catalysts behind every major legislative action that has benefited the public.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social wrote:

@fromjason gotta have high engagement! Gotta get yer clicks! Gotta boost yer KPIs! Gotta sell those ads!

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

Look at the title. Vee was so quick to publish this story they got the terminology wrong. It's not "Superhuman" it's "Super Intelligence."

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

Add Under The Desk News to the growing list of left-leaning influencers promoting #AIDoomerism

They admit at the top of the video, they know nothing about this topic yet. Oof. Come on guys, do your homework.

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

How many generations do you think it would take for the average person to forget that local computation is possible? That the cloud wasn't an inevitability but an artificial restriction, forcing all personal computers to tether to it.

Then, how many generations before we forget that the cloud is just computers and technology? And we believe computation and AI etc come from the gods? Like Greek mythology.

I'm writing a short story 🙃

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomaszwozniak@fosstodon.org ("Tomasz Woźniak") wrote:

⬛🟦⚪ Two years in the making! In a fantastic collaboration with Miguel from the International Labour Organisation! 🖤💙 The 'bpvars' package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's spectacular! Have a look:
https://cran.r-project.org/package=bpvars
#bpvars #bsvars.org #rstats

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

Abrego Garcia was released from federal criminal custody on bail, https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2025/08/22/kilmar-abrego-garcia-free-released-from-custody-el-salvador-immigrant/85781017007/, but after reporting for a mandatory check-in with ICE, he was again put into immigration custody. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5515422/kilmar-abrego-garcia-detained-ice 4/

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

Congress Is About to Break the Internet - by Taylor Lorenz:

"They’re doing all of this claiming they’re “cracking down on big tech”, but in reality these laws are a massive gift to big tech, will drastically increase the amount of data tech companies can harvest on us, and will entrench the power of Meta and Google."

Lot of that going around. https://www.usermag.co/p/congress-is-about-to-break-the-internet

Boosted by jwz:
Ambulocetus@mefi.social wrote:

Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman. I don't even know what to believe any more

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

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

Mastodon's ex-CEO recently said in an interview (I'll try to find the link) that the #Threads #Mastodon interpolation didn't work out because of Meta's lawyers. Idk man, Zuck gets caught doing evil shit like every week. This is where they drew the line?

For #Meta, I think the siphon project worked just fine. They're just biding their time. Lobbying behind the scenes for regulation that will shut down the #IndieWeb

To think of all the #SocialWeb advocates who were just 2 years ago pro-Meta

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
roknrol@beige.party ("Roknrol") wrote:

@fromjason It assumes an awful lot. Mainly that people HAVE a personal or professional website to share.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

While Pokrovsk's seemingly inevitable fall to Russia will not trigger a collapse in Ukraine's defenses, it weakens Kyiv at a sensitive juncture in U.S.-led negotiations to end the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/world/ukraine-pokrovsk-analysis/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #us #donaldtrump #volodymyrzelenskyy #europe #vladimirputin

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

there's some interesting tracks on here: https://westernvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/passages-artists-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-refugees-and-asylum-seekers

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

#Mastodon is now finally speaking out but it may be too little too late. We had the chance to reject #Meta's plan to take over the #SocialWeb but a few influential #Fediverse leaders decided for us that our future on the social web would include Meta.

Even now, as Mastodon Org speaks up, they refuse to call the enemy by name, referring to Meta as "another corporate social media platform"

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/

#SocialWebFoundation #BridgyFed

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

I wrote a speculative piece, just about 2 years to the month, about Meta's regulatory capture strategy that involves an attack on #Mastodon, even as #Threads and #ActivityPub leaders were working together to interpolate.

Just waiting on Zuck to launch a timely protocol that makes it easy to migrate from Mastodon to Threads.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

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

I call it Operation MySpace 2.0 aka the siphon strategy.

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

You know who would love if these laws pass, btw? #Meta. Because it'll mean less competition as small communities fold under the weight of legislative compliance costs.

Remember that, and remember that two years ago, #Fediverse leaders under NDA helped Meta create a one-way siphon out of #Mastodon and into #Threads.