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Green_Footballs ("Charles Johnson") wrote:

Here we go again.

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robpike@hachyderm.io ("rob pike") wrote:

A thread about my use of AI in coding through 2025. Expecting similar results in 2026.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I was demonstrating the power of the Singaporean surveillance state to my wife (who lived there many years, but it’s still shocking to her). I was like wanna see my exam results from when I was 16???

I pulled out my national app, it scanned my face, and I show her all my exam results from when I was 16, 18. She was like who the fuck wants to know your O level math results. Why is this a thing. Why do they have it!!

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markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

Mmm hmm.

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liztai@hachyderm.io ("Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾") wrote:

When people say that messing around with #PKM and #Obsidian can be a hobby, many are confused.

I find it fun and pleasurable to think ways to organize the information in my vault or coming up with pkm systems, so I think of my activity around Obsidian not just something utilitarian but also a passion and hobby.

Most of the time all this is busywork. A simple system would do for most people, and many people consider these activities tedious or painful and would prefer simpler UI/UX platforms like Notion to do the job.

Because I don't know what sane person finds the idea of going through the vault , cleaning it up, organizing it with tags and bases as thrilling as I do 😆

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

I love shit like this so maybe I'll start a thread here tomorrow if work isn't too crazy --> #OpenSocial

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

Do y'all know the story of Open Social? It launched in 2008 and was Google's answer to Facebook's rapidly growing ecosystem Facebook Platform.

It was a fascinating time, right around when companies started to realize that our social graphs were valuable. The story involves Marc Andreessen, Google, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and even Obama.

The Open Social story is a great example of how corporations will take a position of openness or privacy depending on their position in the market.

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mhoye wrote:

Re-upping this annually, as I must:

You need to internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're hypocrites. That you are bound - by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all - and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.

That is the point.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

This is such a good description of my feelings on AI codgen, I searched for "Reverse centaur" and found more from Doctorow:

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11-vulgar-thatcherism-there-is-an-alternative-f1428b42a8fd

💭 (part-way through reading) I should share this at work.

💭 (slightly further in reading) Oh I should absolutely NOT share this at work.

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

MAGA: Giving foreigners the same benefits as native-born citizens is immoral. This is why we need a government based on the Bible.

LEVITICUS 19:34 : "The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were once foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God"

MAGA: Not that part of the Bible

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

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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.

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