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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

“There’s never been a moment when someone’s like ‘oh, I didn’t want to let you know I really want universal child care.’ … When you say ‘I’m a moderate,’ or ‘I’m a centrist’ I immediately know you’re right-wing, and I also think you’re a coward.”

Attachments:

• video: Video of two men in a podcast studio. @thedownsidepod

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

RE: https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176

When articles breathlessly announce that AI will mean the end of the legal profession, I am not sure they envisage it ending like this...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Get your wife what she really wants this Christmas. iykyk 💪 ♥️ @slightlyoff

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

Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed:

"People then uploaded copies of the episode to a variety of file sharing sites and services, including iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Even political commentator Mueller She Wrote uploaded a copy."

Even Mueller She Wrote? If she doesn’t end up issuing an apology this will be something cool she did. https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/

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

I'm not Canadian, but if you are, please consider this petition to keep revanchist CA provincial govts from gutting trans youth healthcare:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7027

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

"The uncanny threads.net" is the beginnings of an essay I wrote then forgot about. I have a lot of those. Too many. I may post more as a series to my #microblog

So much has changed since I wrote this in 2023-ish. It doesn't seem as relevant to me anymore. I'm sure I had a point, too. lol

Anyway, enjoy this half baked half-essay about how weird it once felt to scroll Threads. Haven't been back much. I wonder if it still feels that way?

#threads

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/22/the-uncanny-threadsnet.html

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

The uncanny threads.net (2023): https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/22/the-uncanny-threadsnet.html

Boosted by jwz:
ryanwatkins wrote:

CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, recorded thru the browser in HD by @renegadecut.bsky.social is available to watch or download at:

https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment
https://im.internect.ing
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:r26oym3csssgcjov7tfnlxls6m6c6ckn&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce

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

What is Decentralization? · Field Notes:

"In it’s simplest definition, decentralization is the degree to which an entity within the system can resist coercion and still function as part of the system."

One of the better definitions I’ve come across https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/what-is-decentralization/

jwz wrote:

tl;dr PG&E has been a criminal enterprise operating illegally in San Francisco for well over a century. Eminent Domain PG&E.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

The great PG&E debacle: A timeline 1898-1997: A deep dive into the scandalous history of the power company, including the Raker Act and Hetch Hetchy dam deal:
https://jwz.org/b/yk00

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/12/5.html

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
webstandards_dev ("Web Standards") wrote:

Introducing CSS grid lanes. The @webkit team announced the next major step in web layouts: CSS grid lanes bring masonry-style layouts to the web. With the first implementation available now in Safari Technology Preview 234, it enables flexible and accessible content and UI designs without JavaScript. It uses the new item-tolerance CSS property and leverages full CSS grid power. #css #layout

https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net ("Mark Newton") wrote:

Garmin “Autoland” aka “Safe Return,” has been used for the first time, successfully.

Autoland is an emergency system, where a passenger can hit a big red button if the pilot is in incapacitated, which causes the airplane to make emergency radio calls, navigate to a nearby airport with a long runway and medical facilities, and conduct an instrument approach and landing, followed by a full shutdown when the aircraft comes to a stop on the runway. Large screens and voice announcements keep passengers updated along the way.

The nature of the medical emergency on Saturday, involving a King Air with an unconscious pilot, has not been disclosed.

https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/ #avgeek

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud ("ɹ uɐp :antifascism:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115763288877175133

CBS is now owned by the son of Larry Ellison.
CBS is now owned by the son of Larry Ellison.
CBS is now owned by the son of Larry Ellison.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

If your body goes stiff when you think about gifts, you might be suffering from present tense.

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

Now you can see what the hype is all about

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

18 years ago today, I was at work and my coworkers were talking about some YouTube video called "2 Girls 1 Cup" and they were like "you CAN'T watch it here, but you gotta look it up when you get home!"

After work, I decided to stop by 7-eleven to get two Slurpees so I could film my own version called "Two Cups One Girl" to try to trick people who were looking for the real video into watching my intentionally boring video instead.

I've still never seen the actual video, but here's the fake one:
https://youtu.be/P8WMLTyGNbY

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

@baldur The ones I resent most cosplayed solidarity while it was popular/expected while undermining the web's future. Some promoted tech they knew would limit access (JS frameworkists), others helped to undermine publisher's autonomy (AMP team, FB, etc.) thereby removing funding for truth-finding.

I often worry that it might just be the narcissism of small differences talking, but then I go back to the record and it infuriates me all over again.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺") wrote:

Be weird. Be colorful. Help random people. 💕

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all being bucketed under "AI", is misleading. This is why @emilymbender and @alex say to name the specific thing being discussed rather than calling it "AI". 🧵

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

okay, this is very cool

https://spectrum.ieee.org/xmems

Boosted by jwz:
loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

they call them "strange attractors" because they're pretty fucking weird

Attachments:

• gifv: a bunch of particles flowing strangely in a complex symmetrical pattern

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

Wishing you and yours the very happiest of holiday seasons

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

Lmao. This is funny.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Techniques using statistical ML weren't bucketed under "AI" when those techniques weren't the things that showed high performance on whatever tasks people thought were "AI" tasks in the 80s.

Are decision trees "AI" now? How about 40 years ago? What's the difference?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
dpk@chaos.social ("Daphne Preston-Kendal") wrote:

Happy 50th birthday to Scheme!

MIT AI Memo No. 349, ‘Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus’ was published on December 22, 1975

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5794

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

oh yah, absolutely

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/115764806885426590

If you’ve been wanting to go back to a password + 2FA setup for omg.lol, the first thing you should do after signing in is visit https://app.neatnik.net/id/account/authentication/ and set up your authentication methods exactly how you want them. You can have as many or as few enabled as you’d like.

(I’m still going passkey-only myself, but now you can do whatever you want!)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Neatnik ID is now live at https://app.neatnik.net/id/! This new account system now powers omg.lol and will be the bouncer-at-the-club for all Neatnik web stuff.

Current omg.lol members can use it to access omg.lol and our two fun little side-projects, https://spake.studio and https://eph.emer.al. DNS Kitchen beta testers can also use it to access https://dns.kitchen. (And before too long, we’ll use it for Neato testing, too.)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reg Braithwaite 🍓") wrote:

Alice:

"Why so sad?"

Bob:

"I just asked AI who I am."

Alice:

"Yeah, really depressing how shit they are."

Bob:

"That's not it."

Alice:

"So the problem is...?"

Bob:

"AI is accepted as an oracle that is never wrong. Legally, I am whomever the government's chosen AI thinks I am, and I am whomever my next job interviewer's AI thinks I am, and I am whomever my next date's phone thinks I am."

Alice:

"You are not wrong. AI is not a technical problem, it is a social problem."