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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115968072861538877

https://www.manton.org/2026/02/10/selective-empathy.html

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

Did something happen in the centrist community? Why am I seeing so many passive-aggressive blog posts from tech bros?

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

Have a great presentation idea but aren't up for traveling? Submit your idea to The Diana Initiative CFP for our Online Event this May! https://sessionize.com/tdi-online-2026/ #TDI2026

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“About a quarter of “CBS Evening News” staffers eligible for buyouts have chosen the option ahead of impending layoffs under editor in chief Bari Weiss…”

https://nypost.com/2026/02/10/business/cbs-evening-news-staffers-are-jumping-ship-with-buyout-offer-ahead-of-bari-weiss-layoffs-sources/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Post from El Paso city council rep
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElPaso/s/axgESDu7FP

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

Fred Rogers in my humble opinion
was one of the finest men ever to walk this earth.
For many fatherless children he was a beacon of empathy and wisdom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbYQz3rluM

I hope this starts your morning the right way.

#goodmorning

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

One of my goals this year is getting better at CSS. I joke that my CSS skills peaked in 2015. But CSS has gained a ton of new, really cool things and browser support has been moving quickly compared the days of old.

This talk by Dylan Beattie from NDC London 2026 is a great introduction to what CSS is capable of these days.

I’m also slowly working through a course called CSS for JavaScript Developers by Josh Comeau, which is fantastically done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbYveaV0pk

https://css-for-js.dev/

https://blakewatson.com/links/2026-02-10-video-do-it-with-style-rethinking-css/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
szadkowski@social.lol ("Michaël Szadkowski") wrote:

Thank you @brennan for introducing me to omglolverse - here I am, after reading this post last week https://blog.brennanbrown.ca/omg-lol-is-the-internet-we-need-right-now-3538199d5dea?gi=9dc1a330d907

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:

Learned today that Discord doesn't allow you to just delete a DM conversation. You can only close it.

You have to delete every individual message inside for them to be gone. Insane.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

🎁 Omg.lol Time Giveaway Time! 🎁

I've got 1 year of omg.lol time sitting in my Time Bank, and I want to share it with this wonderful community!

HOW TO ENTER: Reply and tell me why you love omg.lol! That's it. No strings attached.

Whether you're a longtime member or just discovered omg.lol I'd love to hear what makes this place special to you.

I'll pick a winner soon. Good luck! :D

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

Drinking an ice cold seltzer early in the morning 😍

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

That's the value of platforms. The *danger* of platforms is when they grow so powerful that they usurp the relationship between the parties they are supposed to be facilitating, locking them in and then extracting value from them (someone should coin a word to describe this process!):

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/#disreintermediation

Everyone needs platforms: writers, social media users, people looking for a romantic partner. What's more, the *world* needs platforms.

4/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Say you want to connect all 200+ countries on Earth with high-speed fiber lines; you can run a cable from each country to every other country (about 21,000 cables, many of them expensively draped across the ocean floor), or you can pick one country (preferably one with both Atlantic and Pacific coasts) and run all your cables there, and then interconnect them.

5/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jyn@tech.lgbt ("kulupu jyn") wrote:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Everyone's demanding transparency in the Epstein files.

Meanwhile Google's spam filter in Mountain View: "I've seen things 🥺".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

UK tabloid newspapers quote fake experts created with AI

the AI is for spam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcNTUYn7fLQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260210-uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai - podcast

time: 4 min 28 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/10/uk-tabloid-newspapers-quote-fake-experts-created-with-ai/ - blog post

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐

For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?

Boosted by jwz:
anildash@me.dm ("Anil Dash") wrote:

In his 1998 interview with Guitar World, Prince spoke directly about one of the reasons why he was seeking ownership of his work: to have artistic control so there couldn't be unauthorized digital manipulation of his work after his death. https://sites.google.com/site/prninterviews/home/guitar-world-october-1998

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Just so EVERYONE understands this:

Moderna has a flu shot. It works. It works well. It is safe. It is safe in people with compromised immune systems (like cancer patients!).

Trump’s nutjob at FDA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears to have ordered FDA to refuse to even accept the application to review the shot for approval.

RFK wants to kill your grandma. Fuck RFK.

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution%5Fid=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution%5Ftype=post

Boosted by jwz:
JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

Create Your Own Luck*
Caveat Frog

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Tutto ok #Vodafone?

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
solonovamax@tech.lgbt wrote:

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

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

Chrome be like:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
johannab@cosocial.ca ("Johanna, CanCon variety") wrote:

Courtesy a climate-related account on LI, take a look at this. Just so's ya know, the current extent of our climate crisis and the worse that is to come was entirely a choice that was made. For us, not by us, but it was a choice.

Here's the link to the OG document if you want to check Dunsky's work.

https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/1982-APRIL-1-1982%5F“CO2-‘GREENHOUSE’-EFFECT.pdf

Boosted by jwz:
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/fda-refuses-to-review-modernas-mrna-flu-vaccine/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

Too many lines have been crossed for anything to normalize when Trump is gone.

Democrats are about to fund ICE again, on the heels of several high profile murders. How do we ever come back from that as a country? The mask is fully off.

Technocrats are spending a trillion dollars on Surveillance Capitalism 2.0. Not only doesn't it need Trump to operate, it'll be better off when he's gone.

Trump leaving is just the end of the beginning. We may even one day find him quaint.

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

a day over nine years since this happened, and things have gotten so much worse

i don’t know if i’ll ever be able to forgive the people who chose to put us where we are, or chose to do nothing to try to stop it

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

I think it would be very hard to convince anyone reading Hitchhiker's Guide for the first time that Zaphod Beeblebrox wasn't written specifically as a commentary on Trump and the type of power he wields.

We've known about power and spectacle for at least as many years as that book has existed, yet we've managed to distill all of our problems down into a Trumpian sludge, and some of us refuse to drink anything else.