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jwz wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302

The replies on this thread are wild.

"This is a conspiracy by Big Signup to make mastodon.social even bigger"

"I cannot tell the difference between using Google Docs for a survey and being owned by the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund"

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115990845338364922

"AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work."

Barrrrrrssssss

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.

If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.

I am not feeling so generous.

AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@ilovewebsites/115991555911029574

My "Infinity Journal" was working well then I just forgot about it lol and reverted to my old process/system. But I'm picking it up again because I enjoyed using it and it was helpful. It was like a journal, to-do, and meeting notes all in one.

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attoparsec@clacks.link ("Matthew Dockrey") wrote:

Okay, I'm calling it. Musk is an agent of the Great Filter, sent here to trigger a Kessler Syndrome and trap us on this planet.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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320x200@post.lurk.org ("ultrageranium") wrote:

what is your problem?

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

ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants:

"The change expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person."

🎉 It’s time to play: https://archive.ph/eU1K9

jwz wrote:

What is this /meta.json file that Facebook's network keeps repeatedly trying to load from my server about?

No speculation, please. Yes I know it is an ambiguous file name. Do not just google it for me.

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

I think about Awilda a lot. She and her siblings grew up in arguably the toughest area in the US at the time—The Bronx.

There was a heroin epidemic followed by the borough literally burning.

She found a way out, though. They all did eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s%5FSouth%5FBronx%5Fbuilding%5Ffires

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

My aunt Awilda was the first in our family to travel the world not in a military uniform. She was smart and so funny. 🇵🇷

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

Choose your fighter

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

Remember that time I ended up in court with Elon Musk after he bet me the cave diver was a pedo?

Anyway, here’s Elon begging Jeffrey Epstein for crazy parties on his private island, several years after Epstein was convicted of sex trafficking girls.

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smeg@assortedflotsam.com wrote:

Reminders of a past time when a secret police force was permitted to snatch people off the street, and send them to a camp hidden from the public in another country.

#ice #holocaust #cpb #trump #maga #historyrepeats #historyrepeating #racism #secretpolice #nazis

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

"Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step toward becoming a Kardashev II-level situation"

THIS IS IN AN FCC FILING NOT A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I'M DEAD

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

bad news for Tim Cook - he made it into Kat Abughazaleh's self-made attack ad

NOT GOOD TIM

https://youtu.be/4yXsd87Zgb4?si=c%5F6Rp7R1rmi9pg%5FV

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mattgemmell@mastodon.scot ("Matt Gemmell") wrote:

Put another way, if you had $50,000 in annual disposable income (after tax), Apple’s $1m would be like you donating 4 dollars and 11 cents… and issuing a press release about it.

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mattgemmell@mastodon.scot ("Matt Gemmell") wrote:

Apple made $117.8bn in total profit (not revenue, of course) over the past four quarters, which is an average of $323 million per day. So when they loudly donate $1m to a charity or a disaster relief fund, they're giving 0.3% of their profits for that single day.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

All Democrats and two Republican senators voted for this. We need two more GOP senators to join. Fund healthcare, not the gestapo.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com ("BOFH Excuses") wrote:

#BOFH excuse #397:

T-1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server.

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

"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards"
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115990782868717130

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

please spend 90 minutes of your weekend watching this @TechConnectify video - even if you're not that deep into energy technology - and please don't stop at the fake ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

also, uh, share that video if you can, because I have the feeling that.. some people with power might not like it too much.

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

They’re pretty comfortable with eating in front of me now. I’m about 4 feet from them.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Okay, we had to postpone, but now Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is back for our first live stream of 2026, wherein @alex and I will look into how our health care system is suffering from AI-hype-itis:

Monday, Feb 2, 8:30am PT,
https://twitch.tv/dair%5Finstitute

**Note special time**

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

“Pivot to AI pledge week finishing. Just a bit more needed! – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/31/pledge-week-finishing-just-a-bit-more/

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TechConnectify@mas.to ("Technology Connections") wrote:

Let's do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

me, swearing: OGG VORB IT

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

The shame of the United States -- and capitalism -- is luridly exposed to the world.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/31/its-too-much/

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
michal@hrusecky.net ("Michal Hrušecký :turris: :geeko:") wrote:

Another #cool #hardware gadget I got to try toady on #FOSDEM - #MechaComet! Feels amazing!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

TayZonday made a *new* song for us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAhMegHPVA

Mastodon wrote:

The Default Server Recommendations experiment is a first step in reimagining how Mastodon onboarding & server discovery work.

Our team’s intent is to work with the community to build new onboarding pathways that support the entire network.

We can’t wait to get started 💜

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