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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@ianbetteridge I know this was a rhetorical question but the answer is: because their VC-brained executives long ago abandoned the nonprofit's mission of stewarding the open web, and instead pivoted to trying to make "products" that will be beloved by advertising companies. (And utterly failed at that anyway, just a truly spectacular faceplant.)

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

WordPress's "most OK" status is its strength

the real WordPress lock in is the stupendous numbers of plugins, themes and developers for both. "why don't you move to X" fails to answer "I use *this* fuckin plugin"

the control point is wordpress.org

ClassicPress has its *own* extension repo (with beer and hookers) but it would need full wordpress.org compat to be a substitute

the many many many alternate CMSes and static site generators almost never address "this fuckin plugin i actually use"

not to mention "I have ten years of posts and comments and known URLs here"

tech evangelists are delighted to dive into people's mentions with suggestions that don't address anything the system is being used for. this is about any software whatsoever. because tech evangelists in general are odious idiots.

i've had tech evangelist morons hear "wordpress" and claim "oh comments are a wrong thing to want" and wtf

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

WordPress wants to force AI onto 43% of all websites in the world

no way to de-slop it, it’s totally Automattic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEaBAU8g50A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251215-wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world - podcast

time: 9 min 03 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/ - blog post

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

IM NOT SHARING MY #WRAPSTODON2025 AND NO ONE CAN MAKE ME

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staff ("Mastodon.social Staff") wrote:

mastodon.social has just handled it's 250,000th report! While we acknowledge that mastodon.social's size is too large a percentage of the fediverse (and have plans to address it), one benefit of being the fediverse's front door is that bad actors come to us first.

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danfuzz ("Dan Bornstein") wrote:

@timbray @gruber Sets Georg, who lives in cave and enumerates transfinite quantities multiple times per day, is an outlier and should not be counted.

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scdollins@genart.social ("Steven Dollins") wrote:

Murmuring mosaic

#TilingTuesday

#AlgorithmicArt #CreativeCoding #Processing #glsl #shaders

Attachments:

• gifv: Hundreds of multicolored circles move in fits and starts along crumpled looping paths that tile the plane. The circle colors are a gradient that ranges between lights and darks as it sweeps along the paths.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Every bolt is a flat head if you try hard and believe in yourself.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Spotify is wrapped in complicity for helping ICE infringe our rights and terrorize our communities: https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=mastodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Taste. #grickledoodle #vinyl #holidays #music #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

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dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

slopsh: the ai shell

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

I meant to put "cult making machine" in quotes because those aren't my words, they're from Robert Evans

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

@adam hahahahahhahahha

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

@fromjason

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.

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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.

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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/)