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

"This podcast is sponsored by Meta"

Listen to #Meta's new ad about the "positive impacts" of data centers in small communities, at the top of today's Daily podcast by #NYT:

"I had to travel for work, missing moments I can't get back. Then Meta opened a data center and brought new jobs. Now, I don't worry about missing out anymore."

Attachments:

• video: Screen recording of podcast episode by The Daily. Picture of a building. December 15. "Inside the Tech company..."

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cinimodev@masto.ctms.me ("Dom 🦻") wrote:

Tech hardware companies out here saying they have to raise prices because of "data centers" are just price gouging. Investors expect record profits and now there are "shortages" that will keep profits high.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
privacyguides@neat.computer ("Privacy Guides") wrote:

Last week in the United States of America, Congress began fast-tracking nearly 20 bills in a massive effort to enact massive censorship on the internet, decimate your ability to use computers privately, and severely restrict free speech online.

We sat down with @taylorlorenz to dissect these 'Bad Internet Bills' and what you need to know to stop them: https://www.privacyguides.org/videos/2025/12/16/taylor-lorenz-on-kosa-the-screen-act-and-repealing-section-230/

:peertube: https://neat.tube/w/tS3ho29H2YTJJjEh8sXuNy
:youtube: https://youtu.be/q0hE4EM7RRo

#KOSA #BadInternetBills #SCREENAct #AppStoreAccountabilityAct #USpol #USgov #Trump #Censorship #Privacy #AgeVerification #TaylorLorenz #USA #US #PrivacyGuides #Video

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

WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chucktingle/post/DSVKibbibwH

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ashley@posts.ashleymcquaid.com ("Ashley McQuaid") wrote:

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Can we just sic the AIs on each other?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/16/a-good-use-for-ai/

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

I think the best way to expose the AI-sentience people is to just quote their own words. Quote their words outside of the PR circuit they're currently working. Their words when they think they're communicating privately or to other believers.

Otherwise, this ideology will continue proliferating in left-leaning circles. And we'll see some really bad, monopoly-generating bills pass. Not to mention this ideology is a cult-making machine.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Wyatt_H_Knott@vermont.masto.host ("Wyatt H Knott") wrote:

@fromjason No. No, no nonononono. Fucking NO.

THE LLM IS NOT ALIVE
THE LLM IS NOT INTELLIGENT
THE LLM DOES NOT HAVE EMOTIONS

Normalize pushing back on this absolute garbage every time you hear it in ANY SETTING.

Yes, I DO mean tell your boss he's fucking delusional.

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

The photos I've been posting over the past week are from an abandoned experimental station operated by the Agricultural University of Iceland. The station relocated in 2018, leaving these buildings vacant.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #nature #landscape #abandoned #decay #trees #grass #plants

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

This Christmas card was sent to my great-grandmother in January 1920. #Christmas #Advent #Iceland #Denmark #holidays #xmas #vintage #1920s #postcard

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
coreysnipes@hachyderm.io ("Corey Snipes 🕯️❄️") wrote:

I made a fedi #bot 🤖 to manifest a dumb idea. 🤪

I was going to run this on mastodon.bot but my account has been "pending review" since last week and I got tired of waiting. So mastodon.social it is.

Follow @restaurant_names_bot for randomly-generated hipster restaurant names, 3-4x/day. 🍽️

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

Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee:

"When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience"

Anthropic is the corporation that Hank Green keeps promoting in his videos. This is the type of shit they ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/16/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?

:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

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

TIL that legendary designers Charles & Ray Eames designed and produced plywood leg splints for injured soldiers during WW2.

(And if you’re super into vintage molded plywood leg splints made by famed mid-century designers, you’re in luck, because you can buy one: https://www.eamesoffice.com/product/vintage-eames-molded-plywood-splint/)

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@vonExplaino/115727253379148743

Printing this out and framing it.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
vonExplaino@mstdn.social ("Colin M") wrote:

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

After a week with Qobuz: the service itself is nice, but the UX of the apps, especially on desktop and with Carplay, is…not good.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

If they don't understand the basic facts of reproduction, how can we expect them to understand evolution?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/16/how-does-this-nonsense-persist/

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

Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere | TechCrunch

"Everbloom can create fibers that replicate everything from polyester to cashmere by using its AI to tweak the formulation and how the two machines process it."

So, AI adjusts values in an already human-developed formula, creating human-designed products using human-led manufacturing. I’ve never read an article where the headline implied that AI ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/16/everbloom-built-an-ai-to.html

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

Rarely these days do I agree with James Woods but today is that day

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-woods-rob-reiner-death-remarks-1236609668/

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

Thinking about writing a short story in the style of WattPad smut. Sort of like a parody (haven't flushed it out yet). Any advice about common tropes, distinctive writing style, reading recommendations?

#Writing #ShortStory

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

Thank you to everyone who used status.log this year. And thank you for your patience with me in getting updates released. I'll try to do better next year. :prami_hearts: #TelemetryWrapped

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

👨‍💻 My native omg.lol app for macOS Tahoe is on GitHub (source and app for download):

https://github.com/otaviocc/Triton

It's possible to install it directly from GitHub or via Homebrew.

Why not the App Store?

There are a few reasons, actually. Apple needs an account to be able to use and review the application, and I would have to subscribe to another omg.lol account for Apple to use.

Also, it's much easier to release directly whenever I make changes, without having to go through Apple's review process. I still have to maintain a Developer Account to sign and notarize the application, but I can skip the store review.

I hope the app is as useful for you as it is for me.

#statuslog #omglol

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

Ég er nú ekki Morgunblaðstýpan en það er ágætis umfjöllun um myndasöguna Kötturinn og ég, sem ég gaf út, í blaðinu í dag #myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Sick of identical cron or scanner emails?

Try logdiff - a tiny open-source Rust CLI that caches streamed job output per key and emits only differences (unified diff or changed lines).

Drop it into any pipe and reduce noise instantly.

Repo: https://codeberg.org/chapati/logdiff

#DevOps #Rust #OpenSource

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

Tuesday status: Safari is worse than IE ever was.

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

“Are the Broligarchs Ready to Be on the Downward Turn of the Wheel? - TPM – Talking Points Memo”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-the-broligarchs-ready-to-be-on-the-downward-turn-of-the-wheel

> But I’m also used to working on the assumption that outside of my world — one of people very up on politics, generally well-educated and with cosmopolitan social and cultural sensibilities — people can and quite frequently do think very differently. So I found myself surprised just how widespread hostility to AI is.

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mhoye wrote:

Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.

You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.

You don't know how many computers are in your computer.

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

The perfect snow plow name doesn't ex...

I stand corrected.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:

Councils should ‘not be afraid’ to run bus services
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/councils-should-not-be-afraid-to-run-bus-services/