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Boosted by jwz:
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast #USA and in #NYC a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

#Housing #HumanRights

Attachments:

• video: a woman reporter interviews a man on the snowy streets of Washington Heights

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
CodingItWrong@tdd.social ("Josh Justice") wrote:

This exchange just happened verbatim:

Me: “Hey Siri, set a reminder to get gas at 6:30”
Siri: “You don’t have an app for that”
Me: “Set an alarm to get gas at 6:30”
Siri: “Okay, I set your alarm to get gas at 6:30”
Me: “That’s the same thing as setting a reminder”
Siri: “Okay, I deleted your alarm. You’ll have to download an app to set a reminder”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

OK, so let's say me and some friends started a tech company/consultancy that refused to use "AI", would this encourage you choose us over others?

(boosts welcome)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Attachments:

• gifv: x86CSS running a sample program that lets you pick from a few options: fibonacci sequence, pascal's triangle, horsle the CPU registers and memory are visible at the bottom of the screen the video starts off running pascal's triangle, and then asks the user to pick an option, after which the user picks exit and the program exists, showing the exit code of 1337

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
davemosk@mastodon.nz ("Dave Moskovitz (((❤️)))") wrote:

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

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

My day teaching genetics.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/im-still-for-151509430

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQyaZ3VLfyg

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

In other news apparently it's been ten days since I've dropped an "F" bomb here on Threads, that is deeply uncharacteristic, I suspect I may have been replaced by a pod person version of me

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

The version of this I use for myself is "I cosplay as a better version of myself and, hopefully, it takes."

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hadi%5Falardeh/post/DVGtMRqDnjm

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

Note that the training is not defective because it was intended to do exactly what it is doing: Being an unconstitutional, indiscriminate terror tactic by the government against a vulnerable class of individuals.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-whistleblower-new-recruits-receiving-defective-training/

ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui") wrote:

credit: https://youtube.com/@rustimate

ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui") wrote:

The rise of Ratatui 🐁👑

#rustlang #ratatui

Attachments:

• gifv: 7441ad6e7c1973f6.mp4

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?