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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@FediTree 🎄

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

I remember buying this desk—my dream desk—thinking I’d keep it pristine with nothing on it but my laptop and a cold brew. Oh how foolish I was.

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

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO READ MY BOOKS PLEASE DO AND THANK YOU

Also, there is a reason that in more than one biography I say I am "your dad's favorite living science fiction author"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hreneeford/post/DSpWlaDlq4i

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

Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes:

"Thus the act of listening to music is transformed from a practice of discovery and communication to a hyper-personalized mood board of machine-optimized “vibes.”"

its-happening.gif https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/

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

TPUSA in general and Benny Johnson in particular are wretched hate-mongers who want to convince an audience of indoctrinated sheep to go out and kill people.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/24/benny-johnson-wants-to-kill-people/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1FeqYqICcE

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Opfoss@c.im ("Onslow Poly") wrote:

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memes@wetdry.world ("memes 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

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bleuje@mathstodon.xyz ("Etienne Jacob") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: Looping animation rendered with blender. A line of cubes moving forward thanks to cubes from the line rolling over it.

jwz wrote:

Xmas movies.

Reminder that in 2022, the elves did their work in one night and gave us two perfect Christmas movies. In case you're looking for something to watch with mom.
https://jwz.org/b/yk05

jwz wrote:

Die Hard sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Al864X%5FicY

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iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

P043 – Not for people in the state of intoxication

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FP043.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Jonas Steinhöfel
Public domain

jwz wrote:

Unknown Xmas.
https://jwz.org/b/yk02

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

More reworkings. #photos #photography

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

Another reason to revisit old work is that with digital photography you aren’t stuck with the choices you made at the time. Back in 2018 I was largely a black-and-white all-the-time photographer, but I’ve been looking over those photos and reworking them in colour. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t #photos #photography

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

The cameras were an early 80s Yashica with a Yashica-branded 50mm, an iPhone 6 Plus, and the Fujifilm X-T20, respectively. I included the uncropped versions of the photos to show that many of these decisions are made during capture, not editing.

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

I do writing and photography retrospectives to find my “voice”. Bodies of creative work have a set of consistent choices that together define an author’s voice. These four photos, taken over 25 years, have a similar voice despite being taken on three different kinds of cameras (manual film SLR, iPhone, mirrorless) #photos #photography

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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

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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.