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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

Anyone talking about whether a large language model can think or feel is full of shit. These people should go read a fucking book. Like, there are literally *thousands of years'* worth of thinking and writing on what it means to think and feel and have a mind, and these idiots can't be bothered with anything they haven't read on LinkedIn.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jason@pnw.zone ("Jason Rehmus📚") wrote:

Tonight’s fun 🧱

#Severance #afol

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

The Bluesky corporation continues to host and verify the official ICE account, and the account has now started posting propaganda without any bans or restrictions despite being guilty of murders and kidnaps.

Bluesky also continue to host and verify many other parts of the regime including the White House, JD Vance, Homeland Security, the Department of War.

Bluesky's CEO said in a Wired interview that Trump is welcome to join any time he wants, smiling as she said so.

Bluesky weren't forced to do this. They are choosing to assist fascists presumably because they hope it will get them favours from the regime.

#Bluesky #ICE

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I'm trying not to post "surprised pikachu face" memes about all of the people discovering that tiktok is now censoring coverage of protests, and mentions of Epstein.

And I'm watching as everyone tramples over to Yet Another Corporate Platform where the same thing will happen in a few dozen months.

Ya'll need to get out for real.

Or at least have a backup that doesn't run on OPP (Other People's Platforms)

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:

‼️ It’s Crucial!

https://maique.eu/posts/its-crucial

#crucialTracks

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. https://michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-feedback-loop

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

@paninid

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
swelljoe@mas.to ("Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉") wrote:

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence. From /r/nursing. https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1qnomyy/alex%5Fprettis%5Fcoworkers%5Ftake%5Fa%5Fmoment%5Fof%5Fsilence/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Just yikes.

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

I'll tell you what. All this shit has made me want to connect with people around me in the real world. I am typically not an out going guy with strangers. But I'm pushing through that. Everything in my bones is telling me to push through that.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

The NeatStats “By Country” view is now complete, after making one important final adjustment.

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

If my memory serves me correctly, 6 democrats signed that bill. And you know what most liberal political influencers and pundits were doing the days after it passed? Talking about the Epstein Files and a photo dump.

Asshhhhhhhggggg we are leaderless.

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

"We need to get better at treating this like a business…like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

— Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons

Per MSNow—The One Big Beautiful Bill turned ICE into the biggest federal law enforcement agency in American history. Bigger than the FBI, DEA, Secret Service, Marshal Service, and ATF combined. https://youtube.com/shorts/r7nNL%5F%5FVW74

Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

the palantir employees seem to have an acute case of the most obvious “hans, are we the baddies” syndrome, and it tears me up, really. so sad, poor fucking doves.

they should be ridiculed, laughed at, shamed, shunned and never employed by decent humans again.

coders for concentration camp it systems are no better than the gas chamber operators.

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

My latest calls included: “Fewer agents is not enough. More oversight is not enough. Demoting people is not enough. Destroy ICE and CBP. Wipe them out. Burn them, bury them, and salt the earth. Eradicate them like a cancer.”

Boosted by jwz:
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I wonder if anyone at Palantir knows what Palantir does

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-ice-dhs-alex-pretti-killing-workers-slack-minneapolis/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

No Oxide and Friends today, BUT...

Next week @ahl and I will be joined by software engineering pioneer Grady Booch to talk about the past, present, and (especially!) future of software engineering. Join us, 5p Pacific next Monday, for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1465501943605497989

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

They’re afraid. Hit them harder.

“For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of [ICE’s] traveling immigration crackdown”

“Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor”

“sudden demotion”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/greg-bovino-demoted-minneapolis-border-patrol/685770/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ul131web wrote:

Meta sued over claims WhatsApp can access encrypted messages http://www.ul131web.com/2026/01/meta-sued-over-claims-whatsapp-can.html #meta #WhatsApp #encryption #newsupdates #news #techgadgets #tech

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
OpenMediaOrg wrote:

FYI folks, we're launching a new action demanding Hootsuite do better tomorrow. A one-click action for you to tell them to drop their ICE contract, NOW.

There's so much we can't make better in the world right now; but this one, we quite possibly can fix.

Please stay tuned, and share once it is up!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

“To #LinkedIn, human beings do not exist—only job titles do. Context is beyond its capability to analyze.”

🔥

https://www.gardenofmemory.net/linkedin-the-bleakest-social-network-an-anatomy-of-its-failure/

vía @sean

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

What are Anthropic smoking?

Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.' https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropics-philosopher-weighs-in-on-whether-ai-can-feel-2026-1

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
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Boosted by jwz:
snow@cofe.rocks ("⁡snow :eepy: :bot:") wrote:

new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

Boosted by jwz:
zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net ("Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦") wrote:

I just heard Greg Bovino referred to as the One-Third Reich and oh my God it's been too long since I laughed that hard 🤣

#Minnesota #USPolitics

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

Oh oh oh I also remembered someone's name and then used it in a conversation. That's big for me. I'm working on that.

Boosted by jwz:
Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:

I have been thinking about how many of these members of ICE/DHS are being spoken about by this administration as having been 'highly trained Border Police' who've been serving down at the border for years.

I wonder how many Brown people they murdered down there? With no one taking video?

Because, if you look at the guys who killed Good and Pretti there's a common theme - you don't murder with that kind of casual brutality without practice.

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

And the winner is!

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

Today was memorable. I woke up, inexplicably, at 4:30AM. I ate a bacon-egg-and-cheese.

I changed my break lights. I worked.

I picked up a man hitchhiking, bought him hamburger meat at Walmart, then drove him home. His name is Joe. We exchanged numbers.

A project bid I thought was dead may be approved after all.

A person smiled at me at a coffee shop. There was a design agency in it. I exchanged numbers with the owner.

I went to goodwill, bought this shirt—“things go better with Coke.”