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

I worked at Ames Research Center for a while. trust me on this one: the Trump Administration's destruction of the history stored in the Goddard Space Center Library is an act of barbarians.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

We all see what the Trump WH is doing here for Russia, right?

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

huh. so Herr Trump told the oil companies about the Venezuela raid beforehand but not the Congress? interesting comment on centers of power here.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/donald-trump-says-he-spoke-to-oil-companies-before-venezuela-action/ar-AA1TBogN

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

Attachments:

• video: d499115244751e60.mp4

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

Not that I needed another reason not to like Drake, but the fact he's a spokesperson for sports gambling really puts it over the top.

Drake doesn't need the money. https://youtu.be/cBrtGxPYxGM

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Vibe coding is hilarious right up to the moment the first generation of vibe engineers enters the aviation, automotive, and defense job market.

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

Not me bonding in the grocery aisle with a total stranger over beef prices

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gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

"[W]e live in a world […] that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world."

As a philosophical exercise intended to demonstrate one flaw in this particular moral cosmology, I volunteer to beat the shit out of Stephen Miller.

jwz wrote:

What The Fib.

Every time I notice the layout of LEDs on these spotlights at the club, I cringe. Why, why would you do that!

A square tiling makes sense. A triangular or hexagonal tiling makes more sense. A Fibonacci spiral makes the most sense. But what the absolute clustering-fuck is this shit? This layout gets more cursed the more you look at it.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1X

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As a sub-note, any D running in the midterms that doesn't sign on to impeaching the cabinet members that are facilitating this nonsense need to be primaried because impeachment is the milquetoast position. The better posture is inherent contempt for violating the War Powers Act and signaling support for ICC/Hague prosecutions on Jan 6th, 2029.

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waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

As I understand this, if Jake Tapper had then strangled Stephen Miller, that would have been OK, because of the “iron law of the world since the beginning of time.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3lmr2ga3odehk4332l7o4knm/post/3mbpujk7e3c2v

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

Yay! Syllabus, first two weeks of lecture, and first week's lab all prepped for the start of genetics next week.

Now to work on my other class.

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saraislet@infosec.exchange ("Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥") wrote:

This article by @anildash squarely hits in the feels, names and articulates what's happening in the tech industry, and points towards pragmatic things we can do.

Notably — and I cannot sufficiently underscore how crucial this is — Anil spells out that power by its very definition is fundamentally requisite to enact any influence on the direction of tech. We cannot change the past, we cannot change everything, but we can change SOME things. And that requires power. Power isn't exclusively money or positions or authority: power is the ability to influence.

A single electron cannot do anything. But a million electrons aligned in the same direction? That sure amps things up.
https://me.dm/@anildash/115844846912829876

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Dems have to decide *this week* that they will not agree to a CR on funding unless the admin stops Venezuela actions, forswear other invasions, and stop murdering on the high seas. This can be a rider to the healthcare stuff, with joined-up message of "nobody voted for this".

joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

Just unsubscribed from ChatGPT. Had I heard earlier about Greg Brockman’s record donation to Trump I would have done it sooner.

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

Anyway, as I was saying, Mastodon is great because it doesn't have the same corporate algorithms that influence people to behave like their in a market, and --

😅😅

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If this is real, it's Russian shit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1q5h4az/jessica%5Fplichta%5Fa%5F22yearold%5Fantiwar%5Fprotester%5Fwas/

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@davidgerard He did nazi that coming!

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

W061 — Quicksand or mud/deep mud or silt

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW061%5Fwarning;%5Fquicksand,%5Fmud,%5Fdeep%5Fmud,%5For%5Fsilt.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Repeater-reclaim
CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

jwz wrote:

Car Brain.

There's a lot of stupid in the world, but here's some more. For those of you not in San Francisco: we have an old freeway running right past the ocean. It is falling into the ocean, and for decades had been closed like 20% of the time as...
https://jwz.org/b/yk1T

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sssjorsss@masto.nu wrote:

https://blog.logrocket.com/anti-frameworkism-native-web-apis?utm%5Fsource=tldrdev

Interesting blogpost about native html / js development.

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

"Howard the Duck will return in Avengers: Doomsday" you cowards.

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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("We’re Going To Keep The Popehat") wrote:

/2 Put another way, say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, at least it’s an ethos. But some people have the souls of Nazis — a reflexive race and religion-based hatred — but lack the character to stand up and say “this is who I am.” They lack the character EVEN TO BE A NAZI.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs also, I just gotta ask: was the prompt for this quiz “hey ChatGPT come up with an ai use case that’ll stump the haters! do not hallucinate do not use emojis” or did this ooze out of your human brain after the LLM psychosis fried it?

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs it would be nice if the "AI kill switch" had:
a list of each of the models used, what for, and whether they're trained on open data, each having a "disable this" switch
a thing right at the top of the list which says "I don't care, kill all this AI stuff"

but that would require putting a list of all the different things that Firefox is now using AI for and whether each is using fair models or not, which I suspect a lot of management won't want to document clearly to users

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs neither translations nor any LLM feature have any business being built into Firefox. they should all be add-ons, at best. preferably add-ons developed by any other company than Mozilla. nobody wanted their donations to go to this crap.

like with translations, anyone who feels like they need LLM horseshit in their browser is very likely already using an implementation other than the one built into Firefox.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

@firefoxwebdevs jonah, I hate to break it to you and the LLM shaped like a product manager that’s setting the agenda for your meetings, but the only time I hear about Firefox translations in any context is when Mozilla PMs try to hold it up as an example of an ethical, low-resource, useful AI feature so they can convince to be a fan of the worthless LLM shit they’re actually there to push

the reason why I don’t hear about translations otherwise is simple: it’s shit

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

The vibe is not even the sort of “excessive show of force” vibe you get when militarized law enforcement goes off the rails and starts rioting. (I live in Minneapolis. I’m quite familiar with what •that• looks like.)

This is more like…hundreds of high school gym bullies get all hopped up on Red Bull and decided to take daddy’s SUV on a joy ride to randomly kidnap the first brown person they can corner…but only if nobody’s watching.

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

What do I want you to know, watching from far away?

I want you to know that if you are not hearing about ICE swarming all the hell over my city, you are not hearing the actual news.

I want you to know that if all you see is video of ICE marching off Very Dangerous Criminals in an orderly and authoritative way, you are not hearing the actual news.

I want you to know that these turds act tough, but run away • every • time • they think too many people are watching or there might be video.

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