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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
BigJackBrass@vivaldi.net ("Jon Hancock") wrote:

> LOOK

You are in a room. There are exits to the north and west. There is an armchair.

> SIT

You are sitting in an armchair in a room. There are exits to the north and west. A small black cat enters the room.

> TAKE CAT

You cannot take the cat.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It starts to purr.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It jumps onto the chair, purrs, and settles on your lap.

> N

You cannot go north. You are immobilised by a cat.

> STAND UP

You cannot stand up. You are immobilised by a cat.

> W

You cannot go west. You are immobilised by a cat.

> PET CAT

The cat purrs.

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

I did a cover version of Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars," which I am reliably informed is now a 20-year-old song, but this is impossible, 2006 was just a couple of years ago, right

(Also for fun in this cover you can hear me play guitar, and bass, if you were ever curious what that might sound like)

https://youtu.be/vK3PwAC4dsU

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

I don't know where the line between advocating victims have a voice and using people's trauma as content, but it felt like I was walking it watching that documentary.

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

Yeah no. I don't think I can watch this.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
atomicbird ("Tom Harrington") wrote:

Snow bug in Leadville Colorado today

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

Going to watch the first episode of the new Epstein documentary on Netflix. I'm very interested to know the angle and narrative this show wants us to walk away with

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

me for the last decade: "I sure hope rich techies take the plight of folks who have fewer system resources more seriously"

2026: [ monkey paw curls ]

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

https://disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-anti-human-worldview/

#tech #openai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #samaltman #cdnpoli #canada

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

looking at all the awesome new CSS added to Safari 26.0 through 26.3

thinking about how many years this stuff will be held back from easy adoption because of Apple's anti-consumer practices

update Safari on iOS 18, Apple 🫤

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

They're doing AI summaries in the website descriptions

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Shot (John Siracusa’s review of Mac OS X Beta from 2000) + Chaser (modern iPadOS)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/macos-x-beta/

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

I am BEGGING you.

Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.

"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."

Say that and SHUT UP.

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

Working description for my new "organic" newsletter:

An aging leftist, a disenchanted technologist, and a dopamine addict walk into a bar. The bartender says “I know this joke is an analogy for who you are as a person but I'ma still need to charge you guys for three drinks.”

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

People say that @oxidecomputer is a podcasting company that built a computer for content generation, but we also use funding milestones for content generation: join @ahl, @sdtuck and me today at 5p Pacific as we talk about our $200M Series C!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1475587842070810624

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Are there any decent toolkits for cross-platform, document-based desktop applications? It seems like it may be Electron or nothing.

Boosted by jwz:
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

🚨 Paris, France

Activists hang Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's post arrest picture at the Louvre.

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

Terminal now can help you with formal proofs and theorem provers 🤯

📐 **lean-tui** — A TUI for visualizing Lean programs and proofs

💯 Live proof trees, data/effect flow views & real-time updates from your editor

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ Source: https://codeberg.org/wvhulle/lean-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #lean #theoremproving #cli #devtools #terminal

Boosted by jwz:
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight yet.

John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations based on conspiracy theories invented by random Twitter users.

https://youtu.be/p7ZG%5FxWYLzI?si=h%5FsQbBJzmI7rTqXF

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

If Claude is so good, why couldn't it detect 24,000 fake accounts?

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

When they do it to us, it's called "gathering training data" and we're supposed to just be OK with it. But when someone does it to them, it's called a "distillation attack" and it's a calamity.

🤡

https://xcancel.com/AnthropicAI/status/2025997928242811253#m

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
evergreensewing@pdx.social ("Evergreen Sewing") wrote:

Hey, #Portland folks! We're teaching a class at Bolt Fabric Boutique next month and you should totally come!

https://www.boltfabricboutique.com/other-classes-1/sewing-machine-maintenance-for-everyone

#Sewing #PDX

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr ("Colin McMillen") wrote:

An in-depth write-up about how I made Shufflepuck Cafe run at 60 fps on an 1MHz computer - including two-player network games.

https://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2026/02/23/the-challenges-of-porting-shufflepuck-cafe-to-the-8-bits-apple-ii/

#RetroComputing #AppleII #GameDev #Assembly #Shufflepuck

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

Subscription Issue 1: My lunch today was Panera-brand lobster bisque which is essentially just butter soup. The lobster was there in spirit. I--

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

Pretty sure the stock market hasn't been above 50,000 since the day Pam Bondi told us that it was. S&P below 7,000 too. Correlation is not causation but on the other hand this *is* the fault of her boss, so

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

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

I've told Charlie that the snow situation here in Ohio is not a patch on what it is on the east coast right now, but she does not appear to be mollified by this information

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

So now we get into the territory of branding myself which, eh. I think of it better as "contextualizing" myself and my writing. I don't need to design a logo, but I do need to give readers a succinct messaging about who I am.

That's a bit scary 🕺

WHO AM I I-I-I-I-I (echo)

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

So, I won't be a source of information on a set topic or news, and my "niche" will be broad. That means people subscribe for...me? That's terrible. Unsubscribe.

No but for real, this is where I get stuck and conclude that a newsletter isn't for me 😭

It's not so much that I care about audience size, it's just that I want my newsletter to be good. I want it to be meaningful; something that isn't contributing more noise to an already crowded medium. 🤷‍♂️

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Vivaldi@vivaldi.net ("Vivaldi Browser") wrote:

The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.

Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞

If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?

#ethics #BigTech #browser

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Hetzner is increasing its server prices across the board, which means the bulk of omg.lol's expenses will increase by 38% starting in April. 😮

Am I going to increase prices? No way! I'll just eat the cost. Going to try to keep omg.lol below $2/month for as long as I can.

But if you want to help, maybe consider subscribing to DNS Kitchen or NeatStats when they're ready (both are getting closer by the day!).

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

Topic/niche: this is where I get stuck and talk myself out of it.

I don't want to corner myself into a niche that I won't stick with longterm (been there done that).

I don't want to do anything even resembling "breaking news" or be overtly political. Nothing MuellerSheWrote-ish.

And, I don't want to be another Garbage Day-type newsletter that reports back all the happenings of the internet. I like those newsletters but there's enough of them out there.

So...