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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Ishtarmuz@mindly.social ("Dale West") wrote:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/26/jeanne-villepreux-power-argonaut/

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

When I was in Savannah a couple of weeks ago, there was a weird energy.

People making eye contact with me more than I ever remembered. I generally do not like people perceiving me in public (lol), so I notice when they do.

They weren't bad looks. Just blank stares. Maybe I was looking particularly cute that day. Maybe I look like the people they see on the nightly news, in a town that perhaps doesn't have many that look like me. But I don't remember those looks in my past visits.

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

And to be fair, I don't know what level of Latino-specific solidarity would stop the anxiety dreams, and just overall lingering fear I have.

In the early morning I found myself in the maps app, zooming in and out of Mexican cities. I daydream about crossing the border into Canada from Glacier National Park. I calculate how many hours it would take me to drive there from here.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thegoecampus@academiccloud.social ("Göttingen Campus") wrote:

RESEARCH IMAGES CONTEST OF THE YEAR

The entries are in and everyone is invited to vote!

To generate a fair result, voters are shown pairs of images at random for 25 rounds. You pick the one that explains the research most clearly and creatively. There will be in-person exhibitions later in the year. Further info: https://goettingen-campus.de/postdoc-event

Vote here: https://pollunit.com/polls/0fpi7xcwtingmohz-g5ueg by 24 January.

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

Nothing has scared me more in the past decade than the center-left's response to ICE. I've never seriously considered an exit plan more than this last year.

To argue that we should advocate for more training in response to what is clearly an ethnic cleansing, is personally terrifying.

To call these people Nazis in the same breath as advocating for reform, necessarily means that dehumanization efforts have, at some level, worked on liberals.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I'm aware that there will be some people who will celebrate my death regardless, but at the moment I know those particular people are crenelated shitwipes, not actual decent humans, and I'd like to keep it that way

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Today is a reminder that even if I didn't actively want to live my life in a way that centered on kindness and empathy for everyone, including people who are unlike me, it would be a good idea not to be a bigoted shithead in public because then people would say not nice things about me when I died and they wouldn't necessarily be wrong to do it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I'd rather live in a neighborhood full of immigrants than one full of armed, masked ICE agents. Just sayin'.

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

Scott Adams dead at 68. That's how old I am! I better not celebrate too hard.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/scott-adams-is-dead/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

New on the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter:

Labeling resistance to "AI" as "denialism" is an attempt to dismiss it out of hand.
The narrative of the denialism frame is that those opposing "AI" are afraid, under-informed and/or engaging in wishful thinking. None of that is true: The people who oppose the "AI" project are actively fighting and refusing to accept the premise of tech bros and AI boosters.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/resistance-isnt-denialism/

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

NOM NOM NOM.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/its-good-to-be-back/

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

The idiots who fall for this "lunar hotel" idea will meet a well-deserved fate. Silicon Valley is a weird, strange place that has lost its tether to reality.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/13/ars-technica-loses-its-mind/

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

If we’re truly unlucky, the Greenland crisis will be “resolved” with a Sudetenland-style concession, with at least one of the participants making an unironic and oblivious “peace in our time” kind of statement

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/115887342621053928

All you need to know to understand how actually-existing crapitalism operates.

(You don't deal with a mafia organization by fining them on a per-offense basis: you deal with them by jailing their leaders, confiscating all their assets, and ruthlessly hunting down all their cronies.)

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

Attachments:

• gifv: 35ada21127283227.mp4

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

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

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
instantiatethis@keyboards.social wrote:

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

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
simevidas ("Šime Vidas") wrote:

Tip for remembering how to spell plateau:

remember “Australian plate” → plate.au → plateau

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
osiris@mastodon.nu ("OSIRIS") wrote:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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