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

Sweat stain ❤️

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iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W041 — Asphyxiating atmosphere

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

Ever built something intricate and unique, only to have it snatched away from you and put in the hands of philistines? It's not a good feeling.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/an-unpleasant-memory/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

What a genius quote from Laurie Penny:

"Attention can feel like action when one is otherwise helpless."

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

So much winning, and it's barely been a year! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah, it's an ad for Lumafield, but there's some interesting information here about (the lack of) quality control for 18650 lithium ion batteries, if you're into that sort of thing. You can get the report here without giving away your email:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260130174148/https://7802750.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7802750/White%20Papers%20and%20Guides/Batteries/Lumafield%20Battery%20Report.pdf

Via this video, "The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y23nfAOiXQ

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ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

_A look at search engines with their own indexes_ is the most comprehensive resource I've come across for finding search engine alternatives.

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"OBAMA PALLETS CASH ITALY SWITZERLAND SATELLITES HACK VOTING MACHINES CHINA DEEP STATE JEWISH SPACE LASERS VENEZUELA RIGGED AND STOLLEN BIDEN PUPPET!

The mainstream media is not ready."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation #media
/8

https://www.wonkette.com/p/media-aint-near-ready-for-rodent

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

kicka**... I finally got a cross-platform D Language GUI library working right, and then I was able to compile a test program, send off a copy to another machine, and run it there successfully.

at friggin last.

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

Damn, I have LinkedIn tendencies.

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

I am the absolute king at writing and designing a pitch deck 1 hour before the conference call.

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

Fascinating machine work. If I didn't have to go to work I'd watch this over and over.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/impressive-mechanical-work/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TBjw3fs7ARk

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

If you've fallen prey to this silly "looksmaxxing" nonsense, watching a few old movies might be the cure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/another-reason-to-ignore-social-media/

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

🍿 Watching: Primal

Watched the first two episodes. I’m into it!

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brie@social.lol ("🐈‍⬛ brie carranza") wrote:

💅 The inspo for this manicure was "off duty Uhura"!

#NailArt #StarTrek

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qaris@mas.to ("Karis") wrote:

i saw a comment with someone comparing UpScrolled to Parler and yeah - the quacking is definitely ducking.. lol..

link below:
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:ffqrmizoc5z6ly4vf3mhgwta/post/3mdm3rhckzs2w

#UpScrolled #SocialMedia #Internet #Nazi #Bigotry #HateSpeech #App

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&: back to Néojaponisme: 改") wrote:

@LilaHexe ok so I'm covided and I don't have the energy to elaborate on this point now but I am getting convinced that in addition to the problem I was describing (the irreversible pollution of humanity's knowledge commons), and in addition to the *massive* environmental damage, and the plagiarism/labour issues/concentration of wealth, and other well-discussed problems, there's one insidious damage from LLMs that is still underestimated.

I will make without argument the following claims:

claim 1: every regular LLM user is undergoing "AI psychosis". every single one of them, no exceptions.

the Cloudflare person who blog posted self-congratulations about their "Matrix implementation" that was mere placeholder comments is one step into a continuum with the people whom the "AI" convinced they're Machine Jesus. the difference is of degree not kind.

claim 2: that happens because LLMs have tapped by accident into some poorly understood weakness of human psychology, related to the social and iterative construction of reality.

claim 3: this LLM exploit is an algorithmic implementation of the feedback loop between a cult leader and their followers, with the chatbot performing the "follower" role.

claim 4: postindustrial capitalist societies are hyper-individualistic, which makes human beings miserable. LLM chatbots exploit this deliberately by artificially replacing having friends. it is not enough to generate code; they made the bots *feel* like they *talk to you*—they pretend a chatbot is *someone*. this is a predatory business practice that reinforces rather than solves the loneliness epidemic.

n.b. while the reality-formation exploit is accidental, the imaginary-friend exploit is by design.

corollary #1: every "legitimate" use of an LLM would be better done by having another human being you talk to. (for example, a human coding tutor or trainee dev rather than Claude Code). by "better" it is meant: create more quality, more reliably, with more prosocial costs, while making everybody happier. but LLMs do it: faster at larger quantities with more convenience while atrophying empathy.

corollary #2: capitalism had already created artificial scarcity of friends, so that working communally was artificially hard. LLMs made it much worse, in the same way that an abundance of cheap fast food makes it harder for impoverished folk to reach nutritional self-sufficiency.

corollary #3: the combination of claim 4 (we live in individualist loneliness hell) and claim 3 (LLMs are something like a pocket cult follower) will have absolutely devastating sociological effects.

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

the number of start-ups that have harvested my email from GitHub / NPM etc and are now spamming me is way too high

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regocas ("Manuel Rego") wrote:

On my way to @fosdem where tomorrow I’ll be talking about @servo in the "Browser and web platform" devroom. See you there!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LXFKS9-servo-project-impact/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Amazon have reported "hundreds of thousands" of pictures of child sexual abuse material found in shared AI training data... but is refusing to tell regulators which data sets.

If you're using generative AI tools, there's a pretty good chance you're generating imagery with child porn training data behind the scenes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found-child-sex-abuse-in-ai-training-data

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

“The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/

> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.

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

“Coding Is When We’re Least Productive – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

> But if I hadn’t made that trip and seen for myself, and had a chance to talk to a department manager in that store, those three lines would have been applying special offers wrong

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

I've written my thoughts on what you, as a software professional, can do to make yourself less susceptible to being displaced by AI in our current wave of tech madness. In short, learn your tools well, build and deploy things as often as you can, don't avoid the unfashionable work and learn a field that isn't writing software.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/ai%5Fproof%5Fengineer

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dansup wrote:

Data Not Collected ✅

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182

jwz wrote:

I'm old enough to remember when the AI company with $1,400,000,000 in the bank held a bake sale to keep their mail reader running. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/111546146333271392

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gregkh@social.kernel.org ("Greg K-H") wrote:

Prediction for the potential future:

When the AI coding agent companies are just about to run out of money, down to their last few % raised as none of their customers are actually paying the real cost required to run these services, they pivot and take all of the uploaded code that was willingly sent to them, turn it into thousands of products / services to sell / rent, disconnect the public api endpoints leaving their old customers helpless as they no longer remember how to program "in the raw" and can not understand their own codebases, and compete directly against them putting their own customers all out of business which finally results in a positive income stream and "validation" of the coding agent companies previously over-hyped business valuations.

"But copyright law will prevent this!" you say...

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

guess I'm learning Penpot today ☕

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MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

Map: Here’s who’s closed Friday for ‘ICE Out’ national strike

Some S.F. businesses will close for national strike; some will provide, free coffee and other aid to strikers.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/01/sf-ice-out-strike-businesses/

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kirakira@furry.engineer ("kirakira☆ (give me a SWE internship!!)") wrote:

like this shit was my 2nd cellphone i was incredibly prepared for the technology of the future to be at Least this cool

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tobinbaker@discuss.systems ("Tobin Baker") wrote:

I really love designing tabulation machines here at IBM. Such cool technology. I'm not really exposed to the sales side but hear there's a lot of demand from Europe, Germany maybe? Anyway, super-fun technology to work on.