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

Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand:

"The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in."

I’ve worked with executives my entire adult life. One thing I’ve learned: never underestimate the draw of the CEO dick-measuring ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/12/disney-invests-billion-in-the.html

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

For example, anybody who truly believed that React had fundamental security issues wouldn't also be churning out open source projects designed to make it easier for people to use React, tools that helped newbies adopt it, or libraries that extended it and consequently its attack surface.

No, they'd be focused on solving the security issues, especially if they were keen on using it in their own work.

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

Code is advocacy.

To put it more plainly, there are people out there who wring their hands about how egregious “AI” issues are, but churn out code to help make and use said egregiously bad “AI” systems

Those people are assholes

Best case is they’re too oblivious to notice they’re being assholes

But they are out there, doing one thing while saying another and that’s not something you see people do who aren’t assholes

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

I have never once heard a story of anyone involved with this company being a chill and pleasant human, but lots of stories of someone from this company being an absolute public dickhole, why is that I wonder

https://fortune.com/2025/12/11/billionaire-palantir-cofounder-joe-lonsdale-loser-generation-rise-in-college-student-accomodation-disability-data/

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

Advent of Code day 12 status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-12T09:57Z/

— full blog write up later today :)

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

I just ordered Dunkin' Donuts at 5am in the morning from my bed this is a cry for help

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

How's everyone holding up in their liminal space between Thanksgiving and Christmas?

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

“Nothing But Flowers”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nothing-but-flowers/

> "artificial intelligence" has dominated almost every conversation, hijacking everyone's plans for today and tomorrow

The entire first paragraph of Audrey's newsletter also perfectly describes my past month.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I promised I'd have more to say about the Calibre situation; I didn't realize it'd come out to be over a thousand words, but I wrote them all the same.

And yes, it has em-dashes. I like em-dashes. AI can take my em-dashes from my cold and decomposing corpse.

https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor

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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

She continues:

"Today the white supremacist views of many of the wealthiest and politically ambitious tech billionaires is on display almost daily. The recent release of some of the Epstein emails and files has confirmed the explicit nature of some of these connections."

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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

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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c0debabe@masto.hackers.town ("c0debabe, PDA dev") wrote:

🌈🐬

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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.

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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 🙃

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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

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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