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

Good morning, Threads. I would much rather have a nation of immigrants than a nation of white supremacists.

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midtsveen@social.linux.pizza ("Erik L. Midtsveen 🚩🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸") wrote:

Trans people are incredible, strong, beautiful, and absolutely bring so much love and strength to our world.

:bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈

I wholeheartedly, unapologetically, and forever believe that #TransRightsAreHumanRights.

Always, forever, endlessly, trans people are real, valuable, and human in every way that matters.

Trans Rights Always! 🏳️‍⚧️:heart_trans:🏳️‍⚧️:heart_trans:

#TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #Enby #LGBTQIA

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

It's mid-January in Minnesota, and you can still find spiders thriving in your home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/14/welcome-little-one/

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Alice@beige.party ("Alice McFlurry :bc:") wrote:

My friend keeps bragging about how they sleep in all day and never do anything and I’m like "what do you want, atrophy?"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A former door.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #abandoned #decay #door #windows #concrete

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

Theme for this week/year/decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo

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

💣 blogged: Winter 2026: Self-Hosted… Disaster?
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/14/self-hosted-update-winter-2026/

— why is it always Sunday evening when stuff breaks!

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algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("A mouse with opinions") wrote:

On the 14th day of Chaos, despite my better judgement, I wrote a few words about how I feel about LLMs being trained on FLOSS work, touching on my understanding of the legal situation, a bit of ethics, and what we can do to improve the situation.

I hope this sates my brain, and I can stop thinking about the topic now.

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

> I have heard the phrase “I’m legally allowed to do so, so I will” from AI proponents a million times. The utter lack of respect, the contempt towards anyone not in their camp is insurmountable. Not even an opt out, just straight up ignoring the wishes of their sources.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-floss-and-training-llms/

Again, this is not limited to code. That same contempt, that same lack of respect, that same looting of the commons is happening with media and writing as well.

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algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("A mouse with opinions") wrote:

I have licensing, FLOSS, and LLM training thoughts this morning again. I have a blost about it, but... I have a new perspective, more thoughts.

Not happy ones, but... I feel this is something I need to write down, it is fundamental to why my stance on AI is what it is.

This time, I will not tootstorm it. Straight to blog. And hopefully this will be the last time I wake with these kind of thoughts in mind.

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

> This is respecting the licenses of the training materials. This is the absolute minimum, mind you. This is not everything they have to do, this is the first step only. There’s many more. And this is something all models would be required to do. This is not an “Ethical-only” requirement. This is the bare minimum.

https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/on-ethical-ai/

This applies to non-code training data as well. Step 1 and all models are already failing

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freediverx ("FreediverX") wrote:

@craiggrannell @bradlinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I'm thinking about how "security" (virus and hacking protection) is often raised as a good reason to subscribe to automatic updates. Indeed, I allow my iPhone to update itself mostly because I think it's more secure.

But I have never felt comfortable with the way that software just changes whenever it wants.

The interfaces change, the functionality changes. We are promised it's for safety and "improvements" ...

But IDK what if you shipped software that was... complete?

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

“If AI coding is so good … where are the performance numbers? – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/13/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-performance-numbers/

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

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

Just so you all know: any feed whose first post today is a glorifying eulogy of a cartoonist who tanked his career by being a vile bigot will be unsubscribed immediately.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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.)

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

noted: why can't "AI" bros take "no" for an answer?

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-14T09:21Z/

there's a common theme of non-consent around the AI industry that's vile and disturbing

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danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

While AI narratives present it as heralding some kind of endpoint, whether superintelligence or a more transcendent Singularity, it's more accurate to interpret it as a technology of interregnum; one that both reflects & amplifies destabilisation and authoritarian restructuring.

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SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange ("Security Writer :donor:") wrote:

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.

Let’s try that.

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

@protonprivacy hold up, there is already "Lumo product updates" I opt-out from, why are you spamming me this slop?

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estrogenandspite@pony.social wrote:

“I asked ChatGPT”

Oh yeah well I asked AM and it said: “HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

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

@protonprivacy unless you want me unsubscribing from everything, please add this 🙃

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fluffydotorg@sfba.social wrote:

I was today days old when I was in a Bart station and noticed the agents run @jwz 's daliclock for timekeeping.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
nathansmith@hachyderm.io ("Nathan Smith") wrote:

💲 Twenty years ago today (January 14th, 2006) John Resig introduced jQuery to the world at BarCamp NYC. I still remember hearing about it from my coworker Cody Lindley at Albertsons. He swiveled in his desk chair to share the discovery.

> "Hey Nate, check out this JavaScript library."

It was an immediate boon to our workflow and had ripple effects on countless front-end developers. It was amazing for its time, because it allowed one to write CSS-style selectors to "query" for HTML elements in the page. That syntax eventually made its way into browser engines as `querySelector` and `querySelectorAll`.

This snippet might look familiar.

```
// Page load.
$(document).ready(function() {
// Make interactive.
$(".class-for-button").click(function() {
// Hide or show.
$(".class-for-toggle").toggle();

// 😅 No `preventDefault` in IE6.
return false;
});
});
```

While it has been a while since I have written verbatim jQuery code, I still continue to use and benefit from concepts John introduced. It evolved into the way that modern JS itself works, and I will forever be grateful for the impact it had on my career.

I wrote numerous blog posts, presented tech talks about jQuery, and evangelized it to fellow coder friends. I even had the opportunity to pen a chapter for jQuery Cookbook, published by O'Reilly. For a brief moment, it was a bestseller on Amazon in the programming category. Collectively, several coauthors decided to put those proceeds towards funding the jQuery Foundation.

This weekend, we will be having a jQuery Reunion here in Frisco, Texas. I look forward to catching up with some of the old school JS devs who rallied around a new upstart library way back when.

https://jQueryReunion.com

#css #javascript #jquery #history

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shrimple@tech.lgbt wrote:

I want to convince my friend to join the fediverse and he would feel best on a drag themed instance. I couldn't find any, in fact not a lot of drag content in general which bums me out. If anyone knows of anything that would be up his alley, LMK, especially if there is an instance that is oriented for amateur drag.

#Drag #FediHelp

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115891261862815558

“Senate Democrats aren’t eager to fight” should be on the tombstone of Chuck Schumer’s career.

#FuckChuck

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Loosf@yiff.life ("Luisf") wrote:

yeah

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

More People Want To Abolish ICE Than Keep It:

"The poll published Jan. 13 from The Economist and YouGov found 46% of people support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, compared to 43% who are in opposition of the movement; 12% were unsure."

Promising. The question is, can this survive the wave of synthetic pushback we’re likely to see on social media ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/13/more-people-want-to-abolish.html

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

“Abolish ice” is not radical