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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
n3wjack wrote:

Seeing the Discord fuss, I'm so glad the #BonkWave community took a slightly oldskool approach and set up a forum using https://www.simplemachines.org

I wouldn't mind seeing others do the same.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

"Surrender to AI writing your books."

Nah.

If you want artisan stories and sysadmin education produced by organic brain instead of a hyperactive autocomplete program, I wrote some books you might like.

https://mwl.io/firstread

I even have free stories at bookstores or my store - https://mwl.io/free

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

LLMs have no model of correctness, only typicality. So:

“How much does it matter if it’s wrong?”

It’s astonishing how frequently both providers and users of LLM-based services fail to ask this basic question — which I think has a fairly obvious answer in this case, one that the research bears out.

(Repliers, NB: Research that confirms the seemingly obvious is useful and important, and “I already knew that” is not information that anyone is interested in except you.)

1/ https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

the use of performance enhancing drugs by olympic athletes is getting out of hand

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.

If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.

Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.

It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.

A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.

The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.

If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

yc now wants your claude code transcripts, which is the first time a startup accelerator has explicitly asked you to show your homework to prove you didn’t do your homework

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

What do I say now? Use Signal? Yeah, cool — I think the folks who most need to hear that just aren't listening. Use Matrix? Sure, if you can go without moderation tooling, and are OK using the jankiest of janky chat clients. Use forums? Great, let's do that — now go get all your gaming groups and "docs in Discord" projects and everyone else on phpBB or Lemmy. Use Slack? *laughs nervously in Salesforce*

We collectively let things get very bad indeed. Now a huge piece of online life is cooked.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
intransitivelie@beige.party ("Nerviest Initial") wrote:

I don't think the worst criminal in the world deserves to be extrajudicially murdered, for the record. We shouldn't allow the system to do bad things to anyone, including people we don't like. Yes, that means I don't believe in summary executions for Nazis or billionaires. I'm sorry. Systems of violence turn on you. That's literally what's happening right now, in fact.

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Related: Many of you were horrified to see that a kindergarten teacher would call ICE on her own 6 year old Hispanic student.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116010708111794832

For some reason this is more shocking for US folk than the fact that there are cops stationed *in elementary schools*, to quickly arrest Black children at teachers' requests.

30,000 kids under 7 have been arrested. Of course they are disproportionately Black. Because racism.

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

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

Today in History: George Hartmann born, 1489, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc.

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

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116042449566021620

one of those things that should be true, even if it isn't

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".

Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/discord-roll-out-global-age-verification-system-including-an-age-inference-model-that-runs-in-the-background

Boosted by jwz:
dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:

It’s endlessly funny to me that the one guy these folks have is Kid Rock. That’s it. That’s the whole bench.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Unicode really needs a guillotine emoji. (So that I can use it as a reactji for a lot of news lately.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

@Unampho @thekernelinyellow

One of the funniest interactions I see online, is when Americans think it's inspirational that a young white US child is raising money not to buy themselves something, but to pay off their less privileged classmates' "school lunch debt."

US readers are like 🤗"Oh that's so precious! That sweet kid has a good heart!"

And EU readers are like 😮"Wait a minute... Go back a few steps... WTF is school lunch debt?! That's a real thing?! What is wrong with your country?!"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:

TL;DR: Dave Farber, a pivotal figure in internet history and longtime EFF Board member, has passed away at 91. His contributions to technology, civil liberties, and education have left a lasting impact on the digital world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/rip-dave-farber-eff-board-member-and-friend #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum

Boosted by jwz:
andymcmillan@xoxo.zone ("Andy McMillan") wrote:

Really glad we traded support tickets and documentation and knowledgebases for instead joining a Discord where the one extremely stressed out libertarian developer with the anime avatar who’s been maintaining the project single-handedly can ignore my question and tell me to fuck off

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

“In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.”

https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3meh26dlgms2a

// https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfi2ptjvgjf5xvkbykujtyz7 tracks these concentration camps.

#Maryland Washington County Commission votes tomorrow https://projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/washington-county-commissioners-to #uspol https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116042496057260606

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
stoneymonster@stoney.monster ("Chris White finds this vexing") wrote:

🧵I took some photos this weekend. This is the best of them. It's not a remarkable photo, though the dog is cute, but there's a story behind it (with more photos in the thread) that I think is interesting.

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

Remember, kids, if you must respond to someone still complaining about Bad Bunny's halftime show, the magic phrase is "Shut the fuck up, you racist pile of shit"! Try it! It works!

(and then block them, because you don't need to see racist piles of shit in your timeline!)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:

https://joinmastodon.org/branding

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

yes, doing it on a monday is deliberate - my mood can't possibly be any lower, so

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

like a proper adult, I did my tax filing paperwork today. AMA.

#taxTheRich

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

Something about being middle-aged and having your own tastes in music is having no idea who Bad Bunny is, nor that he's apparently the biggest music act on the planet, and ultimately giving absolutely no shit about it :-)

Right now on my player: two-saxophone rendition of Gershwin's Summertime from a silly Russian movie Hipsters https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1239426

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's safe to say what was revealed really makes it hard for liberals to demand reform, or to vote for change. Epstein operated outside our system, quite effectively it seems.

So, I think liberals simply do not have the tools to respond. You can't vote-blue-no-matter-who your way out of this one.

Could that mean that we get a bunch of liberals in search of a new ideology? That would be interesting to watch.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
AndyHat@anti-social.online wrote:

@blogdiva @fromjason @gbargoud @clive @rejinl And then American Samoans just don't get to vote even after moving to the 50 states which makes no sense at all: https://boltsmag.org/prosecuted-for-voting-american-samoans-alaska/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's interesting to see the reactions to the Epstein Files. Up until very recently, it's been trickling photos that felt more like a soap opera than news. But many liberals were all over it.

Now, that we've received overwhelming evidence of a systematic... I don't even know what to call it, the reaction isn't meeting expectations. Maybe it's just me. But if feels like liberal influencers have taken a step back.