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criminalerin@jorts.horse ("Erin Fogg") wrote:

BREAKING: Elf on the Shelf acquired by Palantir

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

I blame Apple for the LLM craze. Apple is so good at incremental improvements for everything *except* Siri.

We went 20 years too long with a shitty Siri that when AI hit the mainstream, it was so good comparatively everyone thought it was sentient and got psychosis.

Now we have AI cults, murders, and trillions of dollars pledged to our AI gods to the point that our economy is crashing.

Thanks Siri! (lol or something like that)

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

That's my core audience, so, yes

RE: https://www.threads.com/@symone724/post/DSl2gRClbt%5F

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

Safari has started to disappear newly open tabs on me. I often open a page in NetNewsWire, press the button to open it in Safari and then switch back to NetNewsWire to continue reading. But of late, that tab is quite often gone when I switch back to Safari.

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

“Landslide; a ghost story”

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

> The problem with all of us being so much more a hive mind than we realize is that knowledge problems that ripple across our a information ecosystems can become not just threats to individuals with weak character or bad habits, but the equivalent of colony collapse.

Great essay, one that I'm going to have to unpack over the next couple for weeks

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ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

Adin Ross is 25 years old, has 7 million subscribers on Twitch, 4.5 million subscribers on YouTube, and livestreams daily to hundreds of thousands of people.

This is him finding out what fascism is.

Chat, are we cooked?

Attachments:

• video: A video of Adin Ross learning what fascism is

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zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

@xgranade the drum I’m banging is that there is no use case that could be valid enough, even if you were wrong, to justify its harms, so this conversation is ultimately irrelevant

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

So like, yeah, I'm gonna shitpost about how laughably bad the pro-AI position is on the technical merits, but the inhumanity of the pro-AI position on a moral basis is no laughing matter.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

This is a very good point, and something I need to keep at the front of my mind. Even if there was somehow a magic use case for LLMs and other AI bullshit machines, that would not justify:

• Making fascists rich.
• Displacing labor rights.
• Fucking over the environment.
• Enclosing culture behind corporate ownership.
• Giving fascists a giant disinfo machine.

https://toot.cat/@zkat/115773741492078349

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹.

All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories:

I. Bad use case.
II. Good use case, but not something AI can do.
III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI.
IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the sense of machine learning, statistical inference, or other similarly valid things AI boosters use to shield from critique.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115766140296237983

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¹Not actually a theorem.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#PsychedelicPornCrumpets - Unconventional Daze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epb0cbJAXjY

#NowPlaying #NP

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
kathimmel@mstdn.social ("it's kat! 🇵🇸✊") wrote:

even amongst the rebellious throngs of her corvidae crew, the magpie is the DGAF-est of them all. curious, clever, dressed to impress & so resourceful that two tools are all she needs, this charming gobshite will steal your heart every time.
#decembird #magpie #music #punkRock #birds #art #illustration

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Can't help but wonder... what’s the point of the Second Amendment if you don’t actively use it? Same question applies to my gym membership, of course.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

My policy of declining when creepy billionaires offer me rides on their private jets to visit their secluded Caribbean underage sex islands is starting to pay off.

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

I watched A Christmas Carol (1951) for the first time. It’s wonderful. What a perfect Scrooge. Facial expressions alone, 10/10. https://archive.org/details/acfrma-A%5FChristmas%5FCarol%5F1951

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

Attachments:

• video: An interstitial scene in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, showing one of the house advent calendar doors being opened (December 24), revealing an image of a family seated near a Christmas tree.

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pelagikat@eigenmagic.net ("Dr Ms Kat") wrote:

@futzle
Ok, so I don't "write code" exactly, I use code to visualise things. And I thought one way to visualise the 12 days of Christmas lyrics was with a Sankey diagram. I am sorry, this is an abomination.

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alina@girldick.gay ("alina 🐾🏳️‍⚧️✨💖") wrote:

EVERYONE STFU

IT'S TGV TUESDAY

Attachments:

• video: a compilation of french TGV high speed trains with epic music

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nellie_m@autisticpri.de ("nellie-m") wrote:

@fromjason

If you haven’t come across this little thread yet - I think you’ll like it. Also, I have to follow you now because I want to see what you’re boosting 😊

https://mas.to/@derbadian/115764969717583191

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

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derbadian@mas.to ("Craig G") wrote:

What do you mean you don't obsessively count the number of chocolates in a tub of Celebrations every year and put the results into an Excel spreadsheet!?

Anyway, the 2025 results are in:
Bounty x5
Galaxy x5
Galaxy Caramel x5
Maltesers x5
Mars x9
Milky Way x9
Snickers x9
Twix x7

The tub itself has gone down another 50g since 2024 (100g since 2023!)

Hard to believe that I used to give this content to Zuckerberg for free, you're welcome Fediverse!

#Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation

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animalculum@scholar.social ("Lukas VFN 🇪🇺") wrote:

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-biggest-bug-earth.html

Head anatomy and #phylogenomics show the #Carboniferous giant #Arthropleura belonged to a millipede-centipede group https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362

"The giant bug's topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather small mouth adapted for grinding leaves and bark"

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rustaceans ("Rust Bytes") wrote:

7. When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust reveals how _ wildcard in destructuring delays Drop calls, causing async shutdown leaks.
https://obeli.sk/blog/when-scope-lies/

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Greetings human friends

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Oh yes please! #darktable

With immense gratitude to https://build.opensuse.org/ for providing the package!

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paulrickards wrote:

Staying warm in front of the 1-bit glow of the Lisa and the Yule log with MacFLIM.

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #AppleLisaClone #AppleLisa

Attachments:

• gifv: Loop of an Apple Lisa with an animation playing on the screen of a fireplace rendered in 1-bit black and white. The Lisa has tiny red lights around the front and a keyboard and track ball in front.

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

Debating if I should just keep my passport and birth certificate on me at all times. Should I cover my tattoos? Should I stop wearing a bandanna when I go for a jog? Should I just stay indoors?

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toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town ("ToroidalCore") wrote:

A quick little rendition of Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy on bass I threw together last week, and present to you now on this Christmas Eve Eve.

#bass #jazz #LinusAndLucy #VinceGuaraldi

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• audio: The song Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi, arrange for electric bass. The song consists of two parts, a bassline that mirrors the classic piano figure played in the left hand, and the melody overdubbed over it.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

When I'm not feeling very well, when I'm feeling down or blue, I put on my headphones and listen to The XX. Their music is like medicine for my soul.

Here's Sunset, from their album Coexist. (Listen with headphones so the bass can massage your brain cells.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7r8J5rrPJA

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

This is what happens when you only recruit incompetent, stupid loyalists to be your underlings.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/23/a-conspiracy-of-absolute-morons/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9KdVTFR4