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jwz wrote:

Slopfondler bros all think they're starring in "Limitless (2011)" but really they're a minor supporting role in "Boogie Nights (1997)".

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

This is what I mean I say that so much of the left's opposition to Trump is just his ability to strip away our plausible deniability. And why #NoKings is fundamentally flawed.

It teaches the resist movement that once Trump is gone, we won. It's conditioning us to stop fighting when Dems take back control. And that is the point of these types of movements. They want you to forget about ICE detention camps when plausible deniability is restored.

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toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116078186911677336

Taking @jwz's suggestion to substitute "AI" with "cocaine" in various discourse, here're some adjusted & translated choice nuggets from the German government's official AI/Cocaine Strategy website... 🙃

"Five year cocaine strategy - where does Germany stand?"

"Cocaine is key to the world of tomorrow."

"'Cocaine made in Germany' is set to become a globally recognized seal of quality."

"Germany should become an attractive location for the world's brightest minds in cocaine."

"In the world of work, too, cocaine should always be used for the benefit of all employees."

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

📧 What if email services had limits BY DESIGN?

Not to upsell you.
Not to force you to pay.
But to make you more intentional.

message.casa was created for this purpose!

✉️ Email:
• 128 MB storage (not 15 GB bloat)
• 64 emails/hour (no spam machines)
• 8 MB attachments (no bloat)
• Unlimited aliases (privacy++)

💬 XMPP messaging:
• 8-day history (live in the present)
• 256 contacts max (meaningful connections)
• 16-person group chats (human-scale)

🔒 Privacy-first:
• No personal data for signup
• Encrypted storage (LUKS)
• No tracking, no ads
• TLS required

The philosophy: Constraints foster creativity.
Limited storage = delete what doesn't matter.
Small groups = actual conversations.
Short history = be present.

This is email/chat for the SmolWeb era.

Try it: https://message.casa/

Do limits make you more intentional?

#SmolWeb #Email #XMPP #Privacy #LowTech

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

Well, hell. He was always one of the best things about any movie he was in.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robert-duvall-dead-godfather-the-great-santini-1236664754/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
TheLastOfHisName@sharkey.world ("Dane") wrote:

@ChrisWere@toot.wales I'm looking at a couple of possibilities:

1. Movim (based on thge XMPP protocol): https://movim.eu

2. Element (based on Matrix): https://element.io/en

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

In my 44 years on this planet I've learned that I'm only allowed two be two types of intelligent:

1. Dumb and uneducated.
2. A savant: an intelligence anomaly of mystical levels. Second cousin to the magic negro.

🫠🫠🫠🫠

I don't ever get to be an expert in a topic, or just a regular marginally smart guy. It has to be magic, or dumb.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

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

Every time, without fail, when a (white) liberal wants to challenge my political writings they start from the assumption that I am dumb and uneducated. The subtext is I'm being too uppity for my station, and they must knock me down a notch.

So, I don't ever have actual debates. I'm instead forced to defend my intelligence.

It's a conditioned response. They tell on themselves every time. What's infuriating is how invisible that behavior still is in liberal circles.

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

Also, knowing what I know now, it's wild that I decided to jump head first into a pretty intricate blog structure without knowing how to use 11ty at all lol. Adding "plots" to my digital garden was way too ambitious for my skill level at the time.

I relied on community resources and the kindness of strangers. And just tenacity. It took me almost a week to figure out how to filter my posts by "plot" the way I wanted it 😅

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

It's so satisfying to basically start fromjason from scratch, knowing way more about #11ty than when I attempted to make a digital garden in 2023.

That cascading data thingy? Bring it on. It get it now kinda.

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

Got a new voice note for you all: Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

Attachments:

• audio: I share my thoughts on what's happening with Discord and other chat platforms that might be considered.

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

404 Media consistently drops news stories that would be the year's biggest scandal in 404's absence.

It makes you wonder what the fuck were these other news blogs doing the past decade?

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

Some people keep trying to reduce modern evolutionary biology to "darwinism". They're fools, ignore them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/darwin-was-not-the-final-authority-on-anything/

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

The term "Reel" has taken on a new meaning now that Instagram is just AI-generated videos.

Like, they're "Froot" Loops because there's no fruit in it.

They're "Reels" because it's all fake as fuck.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

Open Source is so fucked

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.

So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc

As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

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

I'm dangerously low on coffee beans and now reliant on the Royal Mail turning up on time 🤦

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

seeing CrUX / core web vitals remain steady after a major rebuild

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

That face belongs in the dictionary, next to the word "disgust".

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/epstein-left-a-slime-trail-everywhere-he-went/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

2:37am.

Me: "Okay. We fake unconsciousness until the body commits. Same strategy as yesterday!"

Brain: "Cool. Quick counterpoint: remember that embarrassing thing from 2009?"

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Sleep is basically me pretending to be unconscious until my body goes:

"Fine. He's not moving. Initiating system restart sequence."

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

Richard Russel posted a #BBCBASIC program for a #NeuralNetwork application (for #PatternRecognition) with a training dataset in the language's forum:

https://www.bbcbasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1825

#BASIC #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

President Barack Obama, former First Lady Michelle Obama, Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry at the 2026 NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles.
🏀 ❤️
2/n

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

this looks like a really interesting effort:

https://www.inpursuit.org/

the “lesson schedule”: https://www.inpursuit.org/schedule

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

100.8 ÷ 99.3 = 1.01510574

I'm guessing the 0.8 increase in output and the 0.7 reduction input are rounded in the abstract which is why we get 1.5% instead of 1.4%.

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cloudhop@equestria.social ("Erik McClure") wrote:

It's either very funny or very depressing to watch executives trip over themselves to prove who has the worst understanding of what software development actually entails.

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

That feeling when referencing you and your writing has basically become the industry shorthand for intractable and unreasonable opposition.

Writing for software developers sure feels like a waste of time sometimes.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116072105823598977

You should definitely support Glyph: they do really good work and are clever and such. And I'm not just saying that because they've been complimentary about *my* work in the past.

jwz wrote:

Ticket to ride, AI highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way

Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang