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

ICE training session exposed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/how-ice-training-works/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Had a look at "multi-agent coding" today.

Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.

A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.

Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

At this point there is a TUI for everything 🔥

🗺️ **fgbdump** — A TUI for inspecting FlatGeobuf files

💯 Browse datasets, explore columns & visualize the geographic extent on a world map.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/C-Loftus/fgbdump

#rustlang #tui #terminal #geospatial #gis #data #devtools #opensource

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

This kind of photo tickles my brain. #photos #iceland

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instantiatethis@keyboards.social wrote:

Please enjoy Whisper being excited about the ribbon #CatsOfMastodon #FosterCat

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simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

Tip for remembering how to spell plateau:

remember “Australian plate” → plate.au → plateau

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osiris@mastodon.nu ("OSIRIS") wrote:

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StefanThinks@beige.party ("stefan") wrote:

buying a plane ticket to himalayas and the arctics to see if this deodorant really smells like himalayan salt and glacier water

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

“Unemployed Negativity: Automatic Against the People: Reading, Writing, and AI”

http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/09/automatic-against-people-reading.html

> Workers are proletarianized when the skill and knowledge, the know-how, that was part of the working process becomes externalized in the machine.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

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

“Artificial intentionality - by Rob Horning - Internal exile”

https://robhorning.substack.com/p/artificial-intentionality

> No subjective, embodied thought went into it, but someone’s actual life will be wasted in dealing with it, even as its production has wasted the planet’s life-sustaining resources. It kills life twice over.

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

"Making Talk Cheap: Generative AI and Labor Market Signaling"

https://jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silbert%5Fjmp.pdf (PDF)

> workers in the top quintile of the ability distribution are hired 19% less often, workers in the bottom quintile are hired 14% more often.

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

> Once you have done that work, you might realize that we are being played for fools. The specter of AI casts a long shadow over our livelihoods. But when we try to push back against it — negate their argument — we are implicitly accepting its framing. “AI will take jobs, just not my job.”

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

“See what is happening, not what is supposed to happen”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-incredible-value-of-nothing

> It consistently makes mistakes that even an undergraduate wouldn’t be allowed to get away with: leading questions, inserting its own meaning, and generally acting as a confirmation bias machine.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic.

#Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.

Read all the details at:
https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-12-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#python314 #ruby34 #debianci #rebootstrap

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

We need to stop calling techlords like Mark Zuckerberg (and Tim Cook, et al) "cowards" for their nuzzling up to Trump.

Call them what they are: supporters of America's metastasizing fascism. And for god's sake, stop supporting their businesses.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-dina-powell-mccormick-trump-adviser-bce6b207f1754284f9b922b0ea8ec7bf

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990000@mstdn.social ("@990000@mstdn.social") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/qasimrashid.com/post/3mcbhwh4ao22r

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exador23@m.ai6yr.org ("Hippy Steve") wrote:

Holy Shit. "one of ours. all of yours". on a government podium?!?

That's serious fascism stuff. It's the approach taken by the Nazis when Reinhard Heydrich, a prime architect of the holocaust, was assassinated by the resistance.

The assassins were mistakenly believed to be from the town of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia. So the Nazi's rounded up all the men and boys and killed them, and sent all the women to concentration camps. wiped the town off the map.

THAT is what's being evoked by that phrase on the puppy killer's podium.

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doctoralex.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("dr alex concorde") wrote:

FFS - Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan Homeland Security Sec Deaddog Barbie's podium emblazoned with "One of Ours, All of Yours" hours after Renee Good’s death, a phrase tied to Nazi collective punishment eg 1942 Lidice Massacre. Miller again. The sickness of these people.

Kristi Noem ‘One Of Ours, All ...

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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

and of course some of the people I ridicule, ban and expose in these reports come back to me all up in arms about them being completely innocent and they did not know and now I have ruined their professional lives because their cool hacker aliases are now tainted.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

am I the only one? 🤫

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-13T08:23Z/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

we're 6 months away, the leaves look promising this time

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

"fail fast, fail forward, fail better" has been repeated so many times it's become meaningless.

What if we just stopped using the word entirely?

What if we just poked reality to see what happens?

What if we just...ran the experiment?

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/failure-vs-success-is-the-wrong-frame/

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

Anyway, please enjoy this section of Do's README.md.

jwz wrote:

Watchmen being topical again.
https://jwz.org/b/yk1t

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• video: a7ef4a09e8b04e2d.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

the kids remain undefeated

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

Indivisible's call to action— "rein in ICE"

This is the worst advocacy I think I've ever witnessed. Even for centrists.

It's so bad they even acknowledge it— "we know thats a little in the weeds”.

No, you're just fucking cowards.

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

Fucking hell. I've been checking for any news to confirm ICE's presence on Bluesky.

I must've hit AI mode while walking with my open phone, and here I find just a completely made up story?

The sources for this are an unrelated article about ICE and the homepage to Hootsuite.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Borrowed a Haworth Fern office chair today and realized how awful my current office chair is 😭 I need to upgrade

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

I'm back teaching genetics, and am wondering why so many people find the subject difficult. I think many of them don't grasp probability arguments.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/why-is-genetics-hard/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TYmghROJo8