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

I used to post quite a lot of links on my social media and I took the curation quite seriously but I've largely stopped:

- Interesting writing in tech and software dev has largely disappeared
- Much of the rest has deteriorated to mostly griping about or celebrating "AI"

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

USB-C charging

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Enjoyed a lovely walk with @rosie_108 this morning.

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kotaro@kotaro.me ("Kotes") wrote:

Good evening, fedi folks.

My father became too famous for winning the Reuter’s Chemistry Prize and an award from the Science Council of Japan.

So, we decided to install a security system in our house, and today a salesman from SECOM, a security company, came to our home to explain their services.

That said, my father only makes $15,000 a year, and we don't have a single thing of value in our house.

Because my father has become a celebrity, people might think our family is wealthy, which increases the chances of a burglar breaking in to search for his riches.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's better outside.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #rust #trees

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

'"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry'

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was-forced-to-use-ai-until-the

Industries that grew over decades will take decades to rebuild, if ever, even when they were destroyed overnight.

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

“20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple | hey.paris”

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Yeah. Time to review how you use Apple, Google, and Microsoft cloud services.

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

“Moore’s Law, past and future – Soft Machines, by Richard Jones”

https://softmachines.org/?p=3129

> In the first, and strictest, sense, we can be definitive – Moore’s law has run its course.

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h2onolan@infosec.exchange ("myron aub") wrote:

People like to imagine a Star Trek future but we cant even manage a Bell Riot.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"To serve and protect the ruling class"
Anti-cop graff painted in Quezon City, Philippines by Vandals United for ACAB Day

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@Ameboid gifted me a loupe.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

MakerWorld right now feels like Netflix in 2012.

"Everything is free!"
"This will stay free!"
"We just need one paid tier."

Anyway, enjoy your ads between layer 37 and 38.

#3dprinting

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

From a couple months back.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #LakeDistrict #TheLakes #Cumbria

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parkermolloy.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Parker Molloy") wrote:

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

Attachments:

• video: ad17f15e93afaf62.mp4

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anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

It's good that we're all so bothered by the new and extensive demand for personal data on US visa applications.

Can we also be bothered that for Americans, they just buy it from data brokers, without cause or warrant, without so much as informing you?

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andrewg@mastodon.ie ("Andrew Gallagher") wrote:

‘[an allied officer said] America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

Because “we will never fucking trust you again.”

…it was still being talked about the next day. “Thank God,” one allied official said to me. “Someone had to tell them.”’

https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking

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gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for daring to report bad news, so now the BLS is dutifully fudging the numbers to report job GAINS when in fact they are LOSSES.

Who says? The chair of the Fed.

Someone should investigate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

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

this is Seriously Not Good

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fed-chair-warns-trump-admin-163052814.html

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ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

RETVRN

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looking_for_a_shoegaze_drummer@loops.video wrote:

woag blender music

Attachments:

• video: Playing vcv rack (a modular synth app) on a blender :3

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inkican ("Inkican") wrote:

Oof, I felt that.

#technology #tech #innovation #engineering #business #technews #gadgets

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mhoye wrote:

Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/openai-and-disney-reach-landmark-agreement-to-license-characters-on-sora/

Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.

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

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-block-state-ai-laws-media-pretends-thats-legal/

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

idk man, it kinda seems like the time AI is saving you and the time you spend online talking about it are kind of a wash

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mark@social.markiswrit.ing ("Mark Taylor") wrote:

Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts

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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Online age verification isn't the same as a quick ID flash: it's surveillance. These systems collect your data and undermine your ability to anonymously access and discuss sensitive topics online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

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kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot ("Kristie") wrote:

A GENTLE PSA

Getting sick doesn’t do what you might think it does.

Viruses can only create new variants when they spread. More infections = more replication = more mutations = more chances for a fitter, more evasive strain to appear.

Very few viruses give lifelong immunity. Most immunity to viruses fades, and with high levels of transmission, new variants appear often. That’s why we keep getting sick.

Getting sick doesn’t fix the problem. It drives it.

https://xkcd.com/2557/

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

life can be so very harsh

#catsofmastodon

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271

This story doesn't need anything extra to be wildly disturbing.

But when you consider how many of these AI robot demos are just mechanical turks- real humans "in a box" controlling the robot, and how many billions Meta and Google are spending in deep sea fiber optic cables from the global south to the US, the picture really crystallizes does it?