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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

jwz wrote:

Now you might be thinking, maybe nobody will notice that it's the same 90 seconds on a loop for 7 hours. And that's fair.

It is, after all, a Riddim night.

jwz wrote:

They brought in $50k of LED wall, spent 4 hours installing it, and now are using it to show half a dozen 20 second loops of "free" AI slop on repeat.... for 7 hours.

If someone hands you a microphone, have something to say.

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

Open an SVG — is your default app a text/code editor, or a graphic editor?

(Or something else?) #svggate

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Maryland health officials warn...

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

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

> Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn.

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, it’d be nice for him to confirm he wasn’t paid.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt ("Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115661497597857345

So, it turns out, Anthropic *is* paying YouTube influencers to shill for them. Funny, I don't remember ever seeing a disclosed Anthropic ad from any content creators.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

"Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn."

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/15/google-microsoft-pay-creators-and.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
rwg@aoir.social ("Robert W. Gehl") wrote:

@fromjason "Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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

Also, man, I really like AlbertaTech's content but this just straight up reads like an ad for Anthropic.

Why are all my fav content creators so very pro-Anthropic all of a sudden?

https://youtu.be/11sxky4vTcs

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

Ohhh right right right, Clawdbot, the free, open source, local AI went viral. So we're pressing the gas on fear mongering.

Because the AI business model doesn't work if it can't be tethered to the cloud using expensive GPUs.

So we need laws against open source models so that Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft etc can control the technology.

https://mashable.com/article/what-is-clawdbot-how-to-try

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

Mustachioed man in suit reads from card: All the AI guys now have AI psychosis and military contracts
Crowd in unison: IS. THAT. GOOOOD??

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

Little known feature on Mastodon. Did you know you can change the audience of boosts so they don't appear on the federated timeline, or if you want, don't appear on your public profile to non-followers?

Turn on "Show confirmation dialogue before boosting" in Preferences > Appearance, then just click the little globe or padlock icon next to Boost to change the audience.

Edit: This is on the web interface, apps will obvs differ.

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

Rally at Tesla - Cincinnati Ohio
Saturday Feb 14th 2026 ❤️

One year anniversary
Larger and larger turn out - Louder horns.
Less middle fingers and hate 😡

#cincy #resist #freedom #nohate #democracy #protest #cincinnati #freespeech #cvg #indivisible #teslatakedown #nokings #ice #noice #mramsdellpics ❤️

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

Happy Valentines Day, Threads nerds

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

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with ‘world in peril’ warning:

"“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote."

The last person to pull this “the world is in peril, I’m leaving” resignation stunt was Geoffrey Hinton from Google. He now works for an AI academic non-profit funded by Google. Sort of ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/14/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-quits.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
annaleen@wandering.shop ("Annalee Newitz 🍜") wrote:

Give yourself a sweet-weird treat this weekend with a fantastic @humblebundles deal (US only) that includes most of the fiction that @charliejane and I have written. Sales benefit the Miss Major Alexander Lee Black Trans Cultural Center! https://www.humblebundle.com/books/charlie-jane-anders-annalee-newitz-tor-books

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

Yall ever search for cliche blog post titles and just read them all lol

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I've been trying to teach my cat, Kolka, high five and shake. It's been going alright, but she can get a little too excited when the treats come out. But it doesn't matter, as I'm mostly doing this as an excuse to give her treats.#cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #blackcat #rescuecat #video

Attachments:

• video: A cat being forced to do tricks in exchange for treats.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@darkrat @nicuveo
There's a book about that!

"Off to Be the Wizard" by Scott Meyer.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@nicuveo This reminded me of many years ago taking a "Philosophy of Logic" course, in which we used software to edit Sentential/Propositional logic equations. Felt a bit like manipulating magic spells. 😊

For example syntax, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%5Flogic#List%5Fof%5Fclassically%5Fvalid%5Fargument%5Fforms

Boosted by jwz:
stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

I think my favorite piece of media criticism was by James Gandolfini who, asked about the possibility of doing a Sopranos prequel, said, “What, are we gonna wear wigs and girdles? It’ll be like Star Trek.”

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

jwz wrote:

Danny Bluejeans won't let a little thing like a blackout interrupt his daughter's talent show.

A day after a blackout plunged a third of SF into darkness, City Hall and many of the surrounding blocks remained without power. But the stage lights were...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3f

jwz wrote:

Having a Plurality of Actuators.

US20200310367A1: A booth having a housing enclosing a viewing station opposite an entertainment station; a robotic entertainer disposed within the entertainment station, the robotic entertainer having a humanoid...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3d

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me, Jenny, and Max chat about the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on our cute little self-hosted podcast: https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory/

Attachments:

• audio: Dunk angers the Targaryens and demands trial by combat. When Aerion calls for a trial of seven, Dunk must find six warriors to join him in battle.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

I've always found it cute that the #FSFE kind of leverages valentines day, as "I ❤️ Free Software" day.

https://fsfe.org/activities/ilovefs/index.en.html

This year, I kind of want to talk about #FreeBSD, because its powering my personal desktop and laptop these days.

I've run it before as my daily driver, and I've always been impressed by the stability of the base system; alongside ports, which gives you the freedom of choosing between quarterly or bleeding edges packages.

I went back to linux last time, mostly due to a frustration over a lack of electron based apps being unavailable in FreeBSD & issues with Widevine.

Im happy to report, BOTH of these things have really become solved problems on FreeBSD.

There is some stuff which could bear improvement. BUT I've been really heartened and excited too to see the #FreeBSD foundation really tackling things via the Laptop/Desktop Working group.

AND im suspecting, Ill still be daily driving FreeBSD next I ❤️ Free Software Day. #ILoveFS #FLOSS #ILoveFSDay

Boosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

2010s: Old Man Yells At Cloud
2020s: Old Man Yells At Claude