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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:

#JesseJackson was an ally to #LGBTQ people before it was fashionable; when most politicians were scared to say the word "gay" or publicly be associated with us, Jesse Jackson did just that. And in 1987, when people with AIDS were too often shunned, discriminated against and treated with fear and contempt, Jackson publicly hugged people with AIDS at the LGBTQ March on Washington. Hail and farewell. #RIP https://wehoonline.com/jesse-jackson-lgbtq-legacy-west-hollywood-obituaries-missing/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids. Classic Good Guy behavior.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/post/3mf3cjpixvk25

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

He says it like it's a bad thing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

There's tremendous value to being a strict LLM Abstentionist in the current political climate, whether or not there are any "valid use cases for LLMs" (there are—not nearly as many as most people think, but sure, more than zero) or the LLM was "created ethically" (to my knowledge no such model exists, but yeah, it's technically possible that someone has or will eventually build one).

Tech workers especially who refuse to interact with this technology are telling their coworkers and employers that ethics and morality are more important to some people than convenience and profit. This is a bold stance to take during good times—and downright foolhardy in the current job market—but the more people who draw the line here, the better the outcomes will be for literally everybody on the whole planet (except, perhaps, for some billionaire investors).

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
catsalad@lgbtqia.space ("CatSalad🐈🥗 :neocat_floof__w:⁠💤") wrote:

Wallflowers that always scoop the cat poop rarely gets questioned.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

All I can think when I see a bio like "... Rect, Next.js, web performance, accessibility" is "did they stop screening for arsonists at the fire brigade recruiting office?"

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

Please, can we all stop pretending that Christianity is a loving, gentle, tolerant religion? It never has been and never will be.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/17/the-video-corporate-media-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz%5F59A

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

Also, if you're interested in a high-level, somewhat outdated but still relevant overview of the concept:

https://fromjason.xyz/p/freelance/from-jason-2-0-is-an-11ty-powered-digital-garden-with-multiple-plots/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
waprivacy@pnw.zone ("Washington Privacy Organizers") wrote:

#waleg update: There's a committee hearing tomorrow morning on SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act, regulating Flock and other ALPRs.

If you're in Washington, please sign in OTHER (Strengthen) - and consider also providing written testimony. The action has details, links to sign in, and talking points. This thread has the highlights and direct links if you don't want to use the ones in the action (1/N)

https://www.takeaction.network/xactions/47677

#flock #privacy #surveillance

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

Gonna work on filtered views this evening. Ability to view posts based on

- plot (obvs)
- tags
- intended audiences
- date: thinking by month and/or year
- post type: Thought, Note, Essay

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

“Selling Safety”: A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Police Technology:

"This guide helps journalists see through the spin. It breaks down how policing technology companies market their tools and how those sales claims – which are often misleading – get recycled into media coverage."

This is rad. I’m glad this guide exists. But, I also wonder why journalists need to be told that they shouldn’t just repeat press ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/17/selling-safety-a-journalists-guide.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

If you're a journalist who covers law enforcement, don't let their claims about slick and effective technology go unchallenged.

https://www.eff.org/document/selling-safety-journalists-guide-covering-police-technology

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

Humbly requesting stories about something you've done / are doing lately to withdraw support from the death cult and/or create alternatives for yourself and others. Nothing is too small, or too imperfect, or too late; i just need a little positive energy of this particular flavor to feel less alone and angry today.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
phooky@hexa.club wrote:

AI is already dead; we are pivoting to crabs. Within 5-6 years 80% of all jobs will be crabs. Begin hardening your dermis into a tough durable exoskeleton now or be left behind. Economic carcinization is coming

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

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

https://mastodon.social/@Nfinitywaltz/116086862559673098

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

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kat@is.burntout.org wrote:

At last some good news!

Look Mum no computer, is UK eurovision entry for 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/look-mum-no-computer-uk-entry-eurovision-2026

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygz17y5kdo

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

#3GoodThings

The time I get to spend with my mother while she's still able to do things. I know one day I'll look back at this time fondly.

Cherry smoothies: handful frozen cherries, chia and flax seeds, preferred milk, lots
of spinach, yogurt, sweetener, protein powder.

These really great pens I found that write better than any fifty dollar pen I've used. Plus my notebook with 320 pages. I love writing in it.

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

mfw capitalism.

Boosted by jwz:
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada travesti") wrote:

so Adafruit proudly posted about using Gemini to design hardware after, by their own admission, "using LLMs for years to do software and firmware assistance".
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/heres-our-first-gemini-deep-think-llm-assisted-hardware-design/

when hit with the inevitable backlash you'd expect from anyone with a working moral compass, Mr. Adafruit (Phillip Torrone) blamed (checks notes) the misogyny of Mastodon reply guys, because clearly the backlash is all due to the fact that Limor Fried (his married partner) shared the blog.

hey watch this, I can weaponise oppression olympics too, I'm a trans woman from the third world: fuck off with profiteering from your selling out to the planet-destroying plagiarism machine that's proudly empowering ICE and the IDF. it's not your country that will pay the price for your meaningless carbon output to generate nonsense until it looks right. and you brag about it. pega teu fascism-assisted hardware design e enfia no cu. happy never to be an adafruit customer again. assholes.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

"Address already in use."... but which process?

🧙‍♀️ **portwitch** — Find the process blocking a port and kill it instantly

🔥 Ask for a port -> see the culprit -> free it in seconds

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/haselkern/portwitch

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #devtools #networking #linux #terminal #productivity

Attachments:

• gifv: 3f1df9dc4a139f6d.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

local techies will be like "really? you believe in wearing masks to protect against covid? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, shooting landlords" and then never shoot a landlord

Boosted by jwz:
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked%5Fusers

jwz wrote:

My upstairs neighbor is doing woodworking (this is not a euphemism) and it sounds exactly like I'm back at this weekend's riddim show, ugggghhh.

Boosted by jwz:
evgandr@bsd.cafe ("Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:") wrote:

@deathkitten Check @adafruit blog, there are a lot of articles about using #LLM in electronics "design". If they are going to adopt LLMs, then there are no surprise that they are trying to whitewash it as much as possible :drgn_woozy: , using all available methods.

When I was learning electronics at university, drawing such simple electronic schemas and footprints was a key to be able to do much more complex things with EDA. Outsourcing this mental work to Plagiarized Information Synthesis System is a literally: "you will learn nothing and be happy" :drgn_roar_angry:

Boosted by jwz:
deathkitten@firetribe.org ("Glowing Cat of the Nuclear Wastelands") wrote:

@adafruit@fosstodon.org as a woman I am offended that you'd compare the actual bullshit our foremothers faced under sexism to people pushing back against AI, a "service" that's buggy, harmful, ecologically damaging, and being used as a tool in class warfare to push people out of their jobs, something that disproportionately happens to women and minorities first.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

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

Me: maybe tech influencers should speak on the harms caused by the monopolistic corporations they routinely cover.

Linus Tech Tips: I wanna fuck Lina Khan

https://youtu.be/sS7T-PqXaWM?t=12m10s

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Have been groggily writing up the deep reasons why CSS-in-JS (the sort with a "runtime") is unfixably slow led me to reflect on the warnings I gave the various over-Reactors who popularised this anti-pattern. Apparently at some point last night I wrote:

"Evangelical hubris laced with virulent incuriosity has been the calling card of the entire enterprise."

I don't think I'm going to remove it from the post.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

happy hot horse girl day to all oomfies who celebrate