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

Its my first day on Mastodon, so I'm starting by introducing my cats.

This is Max. He's a black cat so photos are tricky - but here's one where he looks like he does in reality: the single most beautiful cat in the world (if you don't count all the other beautiful cats, which is all cats)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Can you open one of these?" the treasure hunter asked.

He showed the witch an egg shell, with an intricate pattern of silk thread knotted around it.

"Put that back!"

"There's something inside, it must be valuable. But when-"

"Someone locked their grief away. Break one, and it's yours."

"Oh..."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud ("ɹ uɐp :antifascism:") wrote:

when you delete your LinkedIn, you level up on the fedi :fediverse:

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
paulisci@mstdn.ca ("Paul Fairie") wrote:

🎆🎇WINNER🎇🎆
2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I don't normally ask for this, but if you are concerned about #COVID19, please share my latest post with others. I'd like it to reach folks who AREN'T already COVID-aware.

I’ve Read 3,000 Studies About COVID: Here’s What You’re Ignoring That Could (Still) Harm You or a Loved One

I share some simple conclusions, along with over 100 links to research. My goal is to urge more awareness and commonsense caution.

https://medium.com/@augieray%5F66704/ive-read-3-000-studies-about-covid-here-s-what-you-re-ignoring-that-could-still-harm-you-or-a-accafe0f7c66

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
alternativeto@mas.to ("AlternativeTo") wrote:

Shotcut 25.12 has been released, introducing support for 10- and 12-bit video effects, linear color processing outside GPU, a visual preset browser for the image/video from HTML generator, a more convenient filters menu, and more.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/shotcut-25-12-adds-10-bit-video-cpu-pipeline-linear-color-processing-and-ui-upgrades/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
itsfoss ("It's FOSS") wrote:

Powerful open source apps that run right in your browser!

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-apps-from-web-browser/

#opensource

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
anne@toot.cat ("Annie") wrote:

@MadAsAHatter @rufustheduck

Oh, and I just read a very thought provoking thread by @fromjason, talking about the inherent differences between mastodon and social media platforms. They articulate many things I think about a lot.

https://toot.cat/deck/@fromjason@mastodon.social/115806120188107609

Boosted by jwz:
ryanwatkins wrote:

Zohran Mamdani's first Executive Order as Mayor of NYC - revoking all executive orders by Eric Adams signed after Sept 26, 2024, the date of Adams indictment.

Plans to reissue ones determined to be necessary, but making a statement.

This is how you do it.

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/executive-order-01

Mastodon wrote:

On Mastodon, decentralised means no mobs, no outrage algorithms, and no incentives to tear each other down.

Here, community and context come first.

Support a social web that puts people before profits: ​Donate #SupportMastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
vij@sfba.social ("Manish Vij") wrote:

Mamdani better than Dem prez nominees *on day one*

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

The two divisions in the US right now are quite clearly “Hey, we’ve got to do our best learn to love other people and love ourselves” and “see that guy? hate that fucking guy! HATE HIM HARDER!” These sprawl over all other cultural and political factions.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
twistedtranssister@social.lol ("The Angry Leftist") wrote:

I am growing more and more disenchanted with Internet Discourse as time goes on. I am seeing once somewhat sane spheres being over ran with Racist, Homophobic, Antisemitic (legitimate cases), Islamphobic and Misogynistic vitriol and very little push back if any from the platforms anymore. So I need this space. I need this platform @adam has created here to escape to and be in a place where that crap wont fly.

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

I've ingested an impressive amount of sugar, fat, gluten and prosecco over the last 48 hours. Detoxing from this is not going to be pretty.

#food

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@oaklandprivacy/115821386928190034

FIVE. HUNDRED. DATA. BROKERS??? Never realized how insane this rotten industry has become…

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

“The story of post-2008 liberalism is one of betrayal, as the ideals forged in the collapse of 2008 proved to just be a passing fad with many in the liberal commentariat who clearly just wanted to return to a 1990s status quo that is one of the most obvious political anomalies in American history.”

https://www.jezebel.com/jon-stewart-is-a-symbol-of-a-crumbling-america

#USPol

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

It makes me think about The Garden and The Stream by Mike Caulfield who goes into great detail about how we tend to stay in "the stream" and how we could stand to use a little more "gardening" in our lives.

It's a great read:

https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/

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

And my friend's movie, We're So Dead. It's a fun comedy about the restaurant biz.

https://www.weresodeadmovie.com/

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

Kareem's movie:

https://linktr.ee/orsomething

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

What they don't know is the same thing those influencers don't know. People don't leave the content stream. For one, Meta, Tiktok, etc. really don't like its users hoping off the platform to convert into a sale somewhere else.

But more important than that, clicking a link to another site when you're locked into an FYP feels like a million miles away.

There are exceptions, mostly altruistic (gofundmes, helping a closing restaurant, etc). But mostly, people don't like leaving the stream.

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

I used to make a decent amount of my income consulting medium sized businesses on social media strategy. I had to stop.

Not one of them didn't come to me with this "unique" scheme to create an Instagram account like Fuck Jerry, then use that vitality to sell their product or service to their audience. All this, of course, by next quarter.

I had to routinely break their heart.

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

Apropos of nothing, I've seen so many influencer / internet celebrity types spend their life savings on making a feature film starring themselves, thinking it will launch them into the next stratosphere of their career, only to realize that it doesn't translate.

Their audience, who had hyped them up for years by this point, really couldn't care less about their venture that exists a click away outside the content stream they share.

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

Sure, I can summarize my atheism in 4 minutes or less.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/01/an-atheist-creed/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPGsMsrS3fE

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I'm not an artist, but if anyone wants to make it (NOT with AI), this thought just occurred for a political cartoon:

"The Elephant in the Room"
Family waving a MAGA flag.
Meanwhile, a large, old, Orange elephant sneakily reaching its trunk up the little girl's dress.

Possible bonus detail: MAGA family is distracted by shouting at trans people and/or drag queens.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Bought Qi chargers 3 months ago. Clearly stored them somewhere "safe" and "memorable".

On second thought, they probably fled the apartment, in a coordinated operation with all my spare HDMI cables 🤔

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

One adjacent example of intentional miscommunication: the word "open" as applied to AI. An LLM cannot be "open source" unless you have access to the training data and methodologies. "Open weights" is a craven attempt to misdirect the word "open" — we might as well say that bunch of machine code is "open" because you can disassemble it.

LLMs can only be trained at extremely disproportionate scale, such that they cannot be "open" in any meaningful sense.

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

And yes, this is once again critiquing Dash's whole "I trained this model myself from open weights." That's fine-tuning. You didn't "train it yourself," you took a model someone gave you *in its compiled form* and tweaked it. Unless you have provenance for all the training data that went into it and can assert that the authors of that data agreed to have their labor used in that way, you cannot use that fine-tuning as an argument about labor ethics.

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

Winter morning. An unassuming snap from a recent photo walk.

#darktable

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
zeux@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Arseny Kapoulkine") wrote:

time to update code for the new year