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

It's probably too soon to say anything definitive about AI psychosis. It's above my pay grade to know if this is pop-sci or a real thing.

That said, the things CEO and other executives are saying out loud to an audience is, at least, concerning.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?i=1000747002677

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

@fromjason I love her.

i borrow happiness from tomorrow stopped me in my tracks first time I heard it.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@ilovewebsites/115973790237668988

I kinda sorta abandoned the I ❤️ Websites initiative 😬. But today, I went back to its omg.lol page and noticed that I have 4 years of hosting pre-paid. I'm not sure if I did that or not??

Anyway, it's a sign for me to stick with it. Give me grace I'm trying :)

https://status.lol/ilovewebsites/697a4092290c4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasonsantamaria@typo.social ("Jason Santa Maria") wrote:

👋 Say hello to @loudroom, my small design practice focused on craft, learning, and human relationships.

https://loudroom.com/

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

I'm excited to announce the new version of "Mousefood" 🧀

🐁 **Mousefood** — A Ratatui backend for embedded devices.

🦀 Build TUIs for microcontrollers, e-ink displays & more using Rust!

📟 Tested on ESP32, STM32, RP2040
💯 Now supports no_std!
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #embedded #microcontrollers #graphics #opensource #devtools

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

I’ve had a few negative replies to my last newsletter and they’ve all been… something. Some absolutely furious and clearly only having read half of the essay 🤷🏻‍♂️

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115972205727144067

just wanted to put out there: the initial vector for this #techbros dystopian hellscape was Mickey Mouse.

extending copyright years to appease the #Disney #media oligarchy, led to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act; which legalized extrajudicial digital “shoot first, ask later” provisions like blackholing sites SUSPECTED of infringement or using DRM as wiretapping w/o subpoenas.

any Boycott, Divest & Sanction movement against US tech needs to start with Disney.

#BDSUSA #DMCA

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

🤔Is ICE bad because their agents are brutish and violent? Individual hate?

Or is ICE bad because their mission is ethnic cleansing? Systemic hate?

You can be more efficient with your systemic deportations, if you are *slightly* less brutish.

If we replace Bovino for Homan, is that an improvement?

ICE is crashing out these days because for all their increased budget, and fancy SS style trench coats, and raids on elementary schools, they still can't match the scaled efficiency of deportations that previous administrations could.

Do... do you know who accomplished those scaled deportations?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Nothing going well. #grickledoodle #dragon #fantasy #badday #knight #coffee #morning #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

Follow-up to yesterday's "let's re-write the whole web so it's fast" post.

https://jasongullickson.com/online-social-networks-with-a-purpose.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
notypes@discuss.systems ("Rachit") wrote:

Hardware design should be SAFER!

Memory-safe software languages changed the world and allowed to us to build massively larger systems. At their heart, memory-safe languages eliminate a category of bugs that pointer-manipulating programs suffer from.

Hardware design needs its own safe programming models but instead of memory, the problem is time! Synchronous hardware design needs to deal with a clock signal which creates discrete time steps. Every hardware module needs to think about how time affects its own logic and everything it communicates with. Getting it wrong leads to all sorts of logical bugs: reading meaningless values and using resources that are unavailable.

Our work on Filament (https://filamentHDL.com) defined a criteria for safe hardware description languages (HDLs) and showed that you can enforce it using a type system and introduce no overheads. Safe HDLs have become an interesting area of research and this year's ASPLOS features two papers exploring different threads:

- Lilac (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02570): Builds upon Filament applies its safety guarantees to parameterized designs. A cool outcome of this work was to show that, in addition to helping with verification, safe HDLs enable the design of fundamentally new abstractions!
- Anvil (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19447): Explores how Filament's verification abstractions can be applied to a higher-level, message-passing HDL and enforce safety properties!

I'm really excited to see where this line of work goes and what we can build with it! If you're around at ASPLOS and interested in this kind of work, come say hi and go watch the talks!!

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

The modern software triangle.

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eric@social.ericwbailey.website ("Eric") wrote:

It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/

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

How The Zizians Went Full On Death Cult is probably the most comprehensive deep dive into the cult-like groups bubbling under Sillicon Valley. The dangers of The Rationalist movement may not be the most pressing issue right this second. But it deserves more attention. Especially when you consider the AI psychosis problem. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/czm-rewind-how-the-zizians-went-315359337/

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

There's a sociological explanation for Minnesota.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/whats-happening-in-minnesota-is-science/

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

She should not have been in this position, and it's not a good thing that we're in this moment, but the fact she went after this motherfucker is pretty great.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@wedgelive/post/DUCYGkSCt41

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

Have yall heard of Nemahsis?

She’s a Palestinian artist and her music is wonderful. She was dropped from her label after October 7th, but decided to complete her album anyway. I’m so happy she did because it’s a masterpiece. Truly.

https://youtu.be/VsqYlmf3SAg

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

Bill Withers: https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/28/bill-withers.html

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

The tech bros confused this moment with "another change in administration, go along to get along" and didn't grasp that it was a qualitatively different moment altogether. Now aside from what Joe mentions here, other nations are actively looking to replace US tech and social media sites with their own, and they are absolutely right to do so. US tech didn't just lay down with fucking fascists, it jumped into the bed with abandon.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@joe%5Fhill/post/DUD0brYAGcj

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

Vibe coding is flooding the world with bespoke programs riddled with security flaws, memory leaks, and sleeper bugs that no one will catch until the damage is already done.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

you know, it *does*

;^}

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

there may have been a Catnip Involved Incident

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

Whatever Tim Cook's legacy would've been, it's now a spineless technocrat who bent the knee to history's biggest blowhard for a couple of percentage points in stock.

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/

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

(This is regarding about private individuals. If you're a US politician and you're not on the fucking record about what's going on in this country right now, go fuck yourself, you coward.)

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

We can't know why some are publicly silent about events today. It's not always that they are simply willing to be complicit. It's possible for some that they've decided it's not safe for them to be public. It's possible they decided that quiet private action is preferable. It's possible they're still on a hard road to their own personal Damascus. It's all right to show some grace and believe not everyone silent is a willing bystander.

But if you ARE speaking out publicly, and loudly: Thank you.

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jollysea@chaos.social ("joël") wrote:

@fromjason I have your blog in my RSS reader, but I should read your posts on the original site, very good design!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
flun1tr4z3p4m@mas.to ("Marco") wrote:

@fromjason @pluralistic god damn you, Photog Phil!

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

This puts all of Candace Owens' conspiracy theories in context.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/when-conspiracy-theorists-try-too-hard-to-find-a-conspiracy/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
APBBlue@thepit.social ("New Year, New Blue") wrote:

FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade #FuckAI

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

Ilhan Omar is a brave politician.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/28/a-resilient-minnesotan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEeVfA3Kzt4