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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, this all culminated in this train of thought which my groupchat found entertaining.

I feel like this catch phrase is going to pop into my mind every time this happens from now on.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If the feature is something that people actually want, and is well-designed (e.g. easily discoverable in the existing user interface) then people will use it. Stop putting stuff between me and the thing I'm trying to get done!

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I've been thinking recently about "be careful what you measure". Any metric you measure becomes a metric to be gamed for some outcome.

I think it's showing up in enshitification. You know how you open an app that you use every day and it's got to interrupt you and tell you how great its new features are?

That's because some team built that feature. And their metrics are being judged. So OF COURSE they're going to push for that intro to drive engagement, if it makes the team/project look good.

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bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

#ice

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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

✨ Updated my /now page https://rknight.me/now/

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rek@merveilles.town ("R E K") wrote:

Third goblin, Snorri!

https://kokorobot.ca/site/goblins.html

#goblinweek

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sinky@social.lol ("Simon 🌻") wrote:

💯

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• video: e60d8e5a378840f8.mp4

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

Ea Nasir would run a stalebot.

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futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

This is what my corrected vision looks like. They’re both bad but the double images are easier to ignore when it’s dark-on-light. #LightMode #Accessibility #Disability

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

"I haven't fucked it up enough yet and I want to fuck it up more"

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hollywoodreporter/post/DUB7ZSJkvH8

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

This whole outfit including the belt cost me $17.50. Look at me. Bragging about how cheap I got something. I really did turn into my dad.

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alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

God, how do normal people even browse the internet anymore?

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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Trump's acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/27/cisa-madhu-gottumukkala-chatgpt-00749361

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SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange ("Steve Bellovin") wrote:

@mattblaze And the NY Times reports that the wounded person was in custody at the time: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/border-shooting-arizona.html

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

firefox users: please make the LLM features in firefox a non-default plugin, opt-in, or better yet don’t do them at all

mozilla: DO NOT ACCEPT DEFAULT SETTINGS. slop is destroying the web! *posts a bunch of slop videos and text in an annual corporate update*

mozilla staff: we asked our community and they hallucinated that they don’t like AI even though we prompted them to not hallucinate.

mozilla’s remaining fan: why are you so angry at my best friend mozilla. stop being unreasonable.

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jordan@sometimes.social wrote:

@semievolved @zzt directive 4 is classified, just like Robocop

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

@semievolved oh that’s fucking incredible

this site is fractally terrible, the longer you look at it the worse it gets

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semievolved@wandering.shop ("Donovan") wrote:

@zzt "While we are still guided by full manifesto, five principles are especially relevant in the age of AI:"

*lists three*

Tell me your copy was written by AI without telling me.

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AlarminglyBad@mstdn.social ("Alarmingly Bad") wrote:

And they lived happily ever after

#comic #fairytale #webcomic

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• video: Alarmingly Bad comic video about Jack and his beanstalk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Dangerously unchecked surveillance and rights violations have been a throughline of the Department of Homeland Security since the agency’s creation in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In particular, ICE and CBP have been responsible for countless civil liberties and digital rights violations. 🧵 (1/3) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-statement-lawless-actions-ice-and-cbp

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CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Correct seating priorities. Real photo postcard from my collection, no date/info.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@oswaldosrm/115965648274892388

a reminder that OCCUPY WALL STREET brought protesting to a whole new generation in a variety of different ways: soup kitchens, little libraries, anarchist bands, pirate radio, people’s assemblies, FLOSS tech coops, mutual medical aid, etc etc.

OWS reminded us old farts & young hearts of what happens when the people come together because we more than believe, WE HAVE THE SCIENCE, THE KNOW-HOW THAT ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE.

live in that truth: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

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

Instead of "refugee" use "nodeless" ??? Lmao idk

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cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

@fromjason migrating from one commercial platform to another is just buying yourself time until you're betrayed by the new platform in a fashion similar to the one you left.

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

Also, side note: we tend to use real-world language for digital migrations. It's just a failure in our language, imo. I'm comfortable with using "migration" but "refugee" feels icky. We need better words.

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

The TikTok-to-Rednote migration is fascinating. I can appreciate the sentiment—move to another Chinese-owned platform to stick it to the US government. However, longterm, I think it’s a bad move. What’s the alternative? Loops? Eh. A big migration can mean more power and influence to the platform owner. Anyway, it’s interesting. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/nx-s1-5260232/tiktoks-brief-ban-sent-users-to-rednote-another-chinese-owned-video-sharing-app

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osm_tech@en.osm.town ("OpenStreetMap Ops Team") wrote:

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

ok look its true ai has some bad uses but it also has some terrible uses so whos to say

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Today in the CSS face-to-face meeting we're discussing line-clamp, which is something I've been working on fixing for years.

The meeting is in Apple's offices in Cupertino, California, so I'm not attending in person because fuck traveling to the US.

This is gonna be my camera feed though:

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JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt wrote:

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/