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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Highly recommended listening/reading for your winter break:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-cure-for-misinformation-is-not

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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Board claimed unanimous vote to put Trump name on Kennedy center --board member says that's a lie, she was forcibly muted during meeting

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5656051-joyce-beatty-disputes-kennedy-center-vote/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

From @josephinelee: Total membership in Texas #unions has been growing. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 603,000 Texans belonged to unions in 2024, up from closer to half a million a decade ago. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-afl-cio-changing-of-the-guard/

#Texas #politics #USpol #news #labor #workers #HumanRights

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024

All the pixels, neatly arranged in a grid, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HourlySneps@mas.to ("Hourly Snow Leopards (New)") wrote:

#Snep pic!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Wrapping presents with @ChrisWere and a furry helper 🎄

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

Mutant absolutely crushed it with the Severance season two vinyl.

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

The amount of ice on the outer lighthouse as of tonight ... December 19, 2025 in St. Joseph, MI.

Photo by Joshua Nowicki

#art #photography #lighthouse #winter #lakemichigan #michigan #stjoseph

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

"The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children."

https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mag7myutmc2d
#UsPol
1/n

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

I don’t know what the dick of any other president looks like.

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

this is really nice work: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1572332400/retired-a-2d-animated-film?ref=thanks-copy-believe-in-it

check it out

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

bluesky is the pepsi of facebooks

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

I'm trying to help the AI out.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/20/i-have-many-pets-one-of-them-is-guenevir-guenevir-is-a-spider/

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

Today I learned ala Chuck Wendig that I have a cat named Mochi. So that's the little bastard that's been making a mess!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/20/ai-is-a-notorious-confabulator/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@xgranade beating motherfuckers over the head with this MP4 until the end of time

Attachments:

• gifv: You need to model something? Linear regression, right away.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It is amazing how many people I see claiming that AI has one good use. No one seems to agree on what that one good use is, and there's always a hell of a lot of goalpost shifting and special pleading involved.

For some reason a lot of folks quite reasonably follow the arguments against AI, but then partition off the one thing as immune or exempt from having to worry about any of the ethical and practical problems.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

"Human-in-the-loop (HITL) safeguards that AI agents rely on can be subverted, allowing attackers to weaponize them to run malicious code, new research from CheckMarx shows. HITL dialogs are a safety backstop (a final “are you sure?”) that the agents run before executing sensitive actions like running code, modifying files, or touching system resources."

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4108592/human-in-the-loop-isnt-enough-new-attack-turns-ai-safeguards-into-exploits.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
doener@chaos.social ("Stephan Dörner") wrote:

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus%5Fsovereign%5Fcloud/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

This tree ornament sure is hard to photograph

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Silksong is very well designed. Even though I'm not into metroidvanias, I've found its analysis very interesting.

BTW, metroidvania without platforming and combat would be… the classic point and click adventure?

https://nebula.tv/videos/gmtk-the-world-design-of-hollow-knight-silksong

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

It’s kind of interesting that Americans, in both traditional and social media, keep saying that TikTok has been sold, when it’s just the US operations that have been spun off.

If TikTok’s EU operations had been sold, would EU media be constantly talking as if the global entity had been sold?

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

My ancestors had good survival and fashion sense, a trait that has faded from my current generation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/20/i-envy-them-their-coats/

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mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner #DEI") wrote:

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.

I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan

#pitchforks

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

RAM is gonna be short because tech guys think your computer should be a thin client that you prompt GPT on, and it doesn't need no RAM.

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bitsavers@oldbytes.space ("bitsavers.org") wrote:

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

jwz wrote:

What are your favorite Shadertoys?

I threw together an XScreenSaver module that is API-compatible with Shadertoy. My thought was that this would be a good way to pull in a bunch of new savers, since the cool kids don't write C any more, they just write GLSL. There are some problems with that plan, though:

• The default license on Shadertoy is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and the vast majority of uploads use that, but since that prohibits commercial use, it is not an open source...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0r

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azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

There's an old joke: a new barber shop in town appears across the street from the existing one, with a sign in the window reading "$5 haircuts".

A customer walks into the old shop and asks the barber how he plans to compete with such a price.

The barber simply gestures to the sign in his window: "We repair $5 haircuts".

This post is about AI.

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mandaris@social.lol ("Mandaris") wrote:

They really put some money and effort into this show.

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

I'll be talking about eukaryotic evolution tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/19/lets-talk-on-saturday/

https://www.youtube.com/live/GbPIUx6EZ5c