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Boosted by jwz:
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

Nothing has radicalised me more than seeing how the government completely elimimated homelessness during the pandemic and yet after it was done we were right back to pretending it was impossible.

jwz wrote:

Study Finds 80% Of Americans Lack Social Connections To Pull Off Heist.

I thought it was just me. NEW HAVEN, CT -- Shedding new light on a previously undocumented effect of loneliness, a team of psychologists at Yale University found that at least 80%...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0V

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

A frozen former greenhouse.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust #greenhouse

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

The tree of life.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #greenhouse #trees #nature

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

The plants are slowly taking over this abandoned greenhouse.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #greenhouse #trees #nature

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

A little peek into the past.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #rust #greenhouse

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
francesdanger@turtleisland.social wrote:

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If you can assist my uterus and I will be forever grateful.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Tendar@newsie.social wrote:

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy reports from Kupyansk, where Ukrainian forces conducted successful counterattacks. Nevertheless, it is quite a move.

That man has balls of steel.

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• video: c76a72093b85590b.mp4

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

So what it looks like here, and I absolutely could be wrong, I don't know what the future holds, is Trump is willing to give big tech a legislative pass and let them run wild, but he's stopping short at gifting them their monopoly.

While some democrats (ie Bernie) want the good kind of regulation, but also, are (unintentionally?) hyping AI doomerist propaganda that could lead to regulatory capture.

Fun stuff.

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

Also, just for clarity, two things are true at once here.

Regulating big tech for consumer and worker protections = good and cool and great!

Passing regulation that Sam Altman and Co. wrote themselves, on the basis that AI will kill is all = bad.

The former keeps big tech in check and hurts their ability to hurt us.

The latter gifts big tech a monopoly by way of AI licenses that will kill #OpenSource models thus giving big tech exclusivity to sell cloud-tethered AI SaaS.

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

What I've learned is when powerful people have a flame war on social media, you listen close. They're not above giving up the game to knock out their rival.

There's enough fuckery outside of what David Sacks is saying here that makes this claim compelling.

But why call out #Anthropic if he was just going to help big tech anyway? I'm lost on this one.

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

This is interesting. No doubt this executive order favors big tech and is terrible. But, David Sacks, one of Trump's Silicon Valley henchmen, called out Anthropic for what he described as a regulatory capture strategy (screenshot in next toot).

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Renatomancer@vmst.io wrote:

#TechRegulation #ArtificialIntelligence #TechLaw

https://www.engadget.com/ai/trump-orders-creation-of-litigation-task-force-to-challenge-state-ai-laws-022657022.html

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Here! Finally! I have my sample. The "Live laugh federate" enamel pin.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/live-laugh-federate-soft-enamel-pin

#Merchtodon

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• gifv: My hand holding a round enamel pin featuring a happy Mastodon with eyes closed and arms outstretched, on black background of space with various small planets, one of which is the Mastodon logo. Underneath, the text reads in a handwritten font, "Live laugh federate". The black background glitters in the light as the pin is rotated back and forth.

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

This goes for the #surveillanceState, too. Why is it whenever we hear "bipartisan support" in the news it's inevitably about taking another right away from us? If #Democrats are for the people, this should be an easy fix. There's no excuse not to call them out.

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

@fromjason disrupt the illusion and delusion of the comfy and privileged and you get all the hate in the world

It's not just we the marginalized who get shit on for pointing out systemic harm done to us

It's also the one who can be used as a pawn to excuse the complicity of the privileged feigning ignorance

Indeed #indifference is the most deplorable act of violence

At least reps stabbing me in the face give me a chance to fight, dems stabbing me in the back has left me bleeding out

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

🧵 Page 3/3: The Ask

#webcomic #krita

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

Shut up brain, chill out body, you're on a sofa under a blanket, just bloody relax please

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

In before the "#Republicans" are worse reply:

If the police state is a bipartisan effort, and republicans are worse, wouldn't our efforts be better served holding #Democrats accountable on these issues?

Otherwise, I gotta suspect it's not about effecting change, it's about the Orange Guy Soap Opera(tm).

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

We don't get the fascist organization #ICE, or 80+ militarized police bases in the past 5 years, or mass incarceration of Black and brown people with Republican participation alone. The #PoliceState has been a bipartisan effort.

So if your elected #Democrat representative comes out in support for more money in these systems, it's because their donors quietly approve. Let's stop ignoring this reality.

#ACAB bayyyybeeeeee

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

Racism will always include quietly supporting higher police budgets in your city, no matter what your outward expression of virtue may be.

There's not enough flags or front lawn bandit signs in the world to erase the fact that supporting the police state, and its further militarization, is a harmful form of systemic oppression. Boom. Bop. Bam. Period.

Also, you can't be anti-gun and pro-police.

#ICE

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

A boy becomes a man when he finally throws out his old Apple boxes… or so my wife keeps telling me.

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

I'm sure that those in the financial field will always act ethically and with the commonweal in mind, it's not like those regulations were put in place because they nearly destroyed the economy with their rapacious greed or anything

https://apnews.com/article/treasury-scott-bessent-financial-stability-f7bd96bb99824fd10c7e3ca239830bff

Boosted by jwz:
samhenrigold@hachyderm.io ("sam henri gold") wrote:

if any of these guys died on a friday, their replacement would be at their old desk by monday

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iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W008 – Drop (fall)

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW008.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user MaxxL
Public domain

Boosted by jwz:
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

Here is 2025 in a nutshell

jwz wrote:

Since yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers. This time, though, load is below 1, but I'm getting up to 10 requests a second and all of my Apache workers are in state "R". "apachectl restart" fixes it... for a while.

What levers do I have to pull on this? E.g. maybe it would be sensible to drop connections if they stay in "R" for more than a couple seconds?

This 12 year old post suggests some sysctl.conf changes, but I have...

https://jwz.org/b/yk0T

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

“Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/report-reveals-the-devastating-cost-of-ai-intimacy/

> Plus, what an uncanny customer service experience taught us about global systems of labor exploitation

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:

My latest horror story interacting with #microsoft support. I'm just trying to get help to register the their hardware program in their partner center. And in fact we were already registered there. But for some unknown reason, our entra ID accounts got removed without us getting any notification... and since we couldn't get help to restore them, we decided to re-register from scratch.

We could recreate the business entity, and join the partner center, but joining the hardware program registration fails because our former registration still exists somewhere, and it would not let us record the certificate we use for code signature ("The code signing certificate you used to sign the file has already been used by a different seller. Please use a different certificate.")

That's our problem, but now I can't explain that problem to Microsoft because there's no way for me to open a simple support ticket. The problems I encountered go from badly designed web support form, to AI bots and support teams that can't help you, and to invalid phone numbers. Read it here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5658250/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-in-the-partner-center

If you know someone at Microsoft that could help, please let me know! Maybe the power of the fediverse will help me.