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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

"Meanwhile, all the things that we want AI to do like teaching or driving, or what have you, they only work in these Reverse Centaur configurations where you fire most of the people who do it, you put chat bots in charge of it. The chat bots make mistakes at a pace that the human can't possibly catch that is being put in charge of babysitting the AI. But the human gets the blame. The human is the accountability sink."

Cory Doctorow

https://youtu.be/aXqpNJ7YjDQ?t=144

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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

I’ve just taken delivery of this rather smashing proof copy of my next book: How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside.

I’ll be heading off on a UK tour with the book this autumn. A full list of where I’ll be this year is here: https://brianbilston.com/events/

Hope to see some of you later in the year.

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

PSA: If someone is posting about behavior being exhausting to the point that they are considering leaving a platform, then doing more of it "as a joke" is neither supportive nor helpful. And also not funny.

(This is re *two separate accounts* making a joke about mansplaining mansplaining to me on a post where I had already been mansplained about how to handle mansplaining.)

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay.

https://bigthink.com/the-present/the-rise-of-ai-denialism/

A few comments, in a short 🧵>>

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

Every movie villain is like "corporations are evil and the system is corrupt" and every hero is like "petty crime must be stopped at any cost" and the only reason we don't confuse them is the bad guy has a British accent.

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Once again feeling like it's almost not worth posting to Mastodon given the degree of mansplaining that everything I put up here attracts.

Why is it so hard to read the whole thread and/or acknowledge with a 'yes and' -- or maybe check who you are replying to/posting at? Gah.

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

given that Herr Trump probably believes in his ‘heart of hearts’ that María Corina Machado ‘stole’ the Nobel Peace Prize from him, I am unsurprised that he was not willing to support her taking over in Venezuela.

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kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

"We had to remove the president and his wife because he's a criminal the people hate" is quite a line for the US to take right now.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lawnchairapp/115808293344610014

My wife has been using this app, looks like they joined #Mastodon recently.

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log@mastodon.sdf.org ("Log 🪵") wrote:

@bitterkarella For anyone that may not know:
https://gizmodo.com/larry-niven-tells-dhs-to-spread-organ-harvesting-rumors-370762

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rayckeith@techhub.social ("Third Foundation") wrote:

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

I see Bluesky is having a normal one.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3mbmc7yxet222

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

The Typo repository is back online! I’m continuing my (unfortunately slow-motion) migration of old repos to source.tube, and Typo’s repo is now live at https://source.tube/neatnik/typo. You can also see a live web demo on https://www.neatnik.net/typo.

I made this a while ago after noticing that all of the other web typing simulators were kind of annoyingly perfect. Consistent typing speeds, zero mistakes. Not very realistic at all! So if you’re going for a touch of realism, maybe give Typo a try.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mos_8502@studio8502.ca ("mos_8502 :verified: 🇨🇦") wrote:

Debian: Linux for people too tired to give a shit.

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

H/t to @jdp23 for sharing this piece. It's a great read. Learned a lot.

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

I listening to Rudy Fraser and can't help but make parallels with some of the things Bluesky leadership says. The difference I think is trust. I find it difficult to trust Bluesky's message. It's far too often sandwiched between VC-speak. Jay Graber on a press tour claiming they don't know Bluesky's revenue model, when it's clearly ad-tech, immediately throws up red flags. It's a feeling for sure. I don't feel the same way when I hear Blacksky's messaging.

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

An internet of many autonomous communities - Blacksky Algorithms:

"Making communities a true part of the protocol will encourage others to build things for those communities, start new communities, and hopefully foster models for self-sustainability."

Blacksky is exciting. https://blackskyweb.xyz/an-internet-of-many-autonomous-communities/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The latest food industry trend to optimize, uhm, "shareholder value":

Peanuts were too nutritious, too recognizable, too honest. Corn is cheaper, stretchier, and can legally be described as... anything, apparently.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

ICE continues to terrorize MSP. It continues to be distressing and exhausting; the incredible volume of counter-organizing and community action continues to give me heart.

One thing that’s not surprising but I haven’t seen covered much: ICE is redlining. They swarm over very specific neighborhoods; the abductions (so far) happen almost entirely within clear boundaries. Those boundaries don’t entirely correspond to where immigrants live. They do, however, seem to correspond pretty closely to •political• boundaries that are / are not heavily white.

1/2

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

MAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.

I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.

There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

I did another quick Waymo count today, this time at Guerrero & 29th in #SanFrancisco

In 10 minutes:
• 46 driverless Waymos
• 85 human-driven vehicles

About a third of the traffic on my street is driverless cars.

Hard to confirm, but I never saw a passenger in any of these AVs.

Attachments:

• video: 15 seconds of video from Guerrero at 29th st in San Francisco. In this clip, 7 Waymos drive by, and only one human driven car.

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

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ewen@social.ewenbell.com ("Ewen Bell 📸") wrote:

Sometime around 10am this morning, the moon decided to make a dash across the fjords. I was enjoying a sleep in and had to skip out in my pyjamas to take photos.

The light is getting brighter now, even a week after the solstice. Clear skies make such a difference. It's now 2pm and we're back to darkness in the forest.

Clear skies tonight for NYE. Will have my camera gear in the car to dash out if auroras kick off.

#Norway #Photography #LumixS1RII #EwenInNorway

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

Normalize calling maple syrup "tree blood"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

One of the perks of having small kids is you're socially allowed to be feral again, running around soft play, doing silly voices, climbing stuff, and everyone just thinks you're a "great parent". Dreading the day they grow up and I have to go back to pretending I'm normal.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

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tend2wobble@toad.social wrote:

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“[T]he U.S. action to remove Maduro as Head of State amounts to an unlawful intervention into Venezuela’s internal affairs …. Regime change by one State in another amounts to intervention when it is “coercive”…, which Saturday’s operation obviously was.” https://www.justsecurity.org/127981/international-law-venezuela-maduro/ 5/

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

I love this

https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org/

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

Inside ICE Air: What It’s Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant:

"Military flights have now all but ceased. While there are ICE officers and hired security guards on the charters, the crew members on board are civilians, ordinary people swept up in something most didn’t knowingly sign up for."

And because the private sector is profiting from these kidnappings, the next president will largely keep these systems in ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/04/inside-ice-air-what-its.html