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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("beautifully rested rodent") wrote:

I don't care what tools you use. Whether your use is ethical or not is not my business, it's yours, and it is your conscience you'll have to clear. I used to be a gatekeeping elitist prick who judged people who used software I disliked. I try not to be one anymore.

But - and this is a very, very big but - if the tools you use only exist because they're scraping and DDoSing the entire internet, and the cost of their existence is externalized to me, and everyone else running a website?

Then I will care, and I will call you out on your bullshit if you try to present yourself as an ally, while making excuses for the damage these things cause.

This is not about ethics. This is not about copyright, or rights in general. This is about externalizing costs to people who do not deserve this level of abuse, and then denying their complaints.

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

Basically: If you run OpenClaw connected to any meaningful system you are not fit to design, program or run any kind of software. That disregard for security and quality should leave a black mark on you for many years.

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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116124997771919604

Everyone loves not having to have a license to develop and release code but the argument for stronger controls on who gets to do surgery on the core infrastructures of our digital society is getting stronger by the day.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Because they have essentially the same causes, the buggier a code base is, the longer it usually takes to change (because changes keep breaking it).

The most popular "AI" coding CLIs seem to be *very* buggy - especially Claude Code. Thousands of open issues.

It's also probably very insecure.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
sturobson@front-end.social ("Stu Robson") wrote:

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

jwz wrote:

How is "Primal" allowed to exist? It is too awesome for this timeline.

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kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

I'm so old I remember when the internet didn't have commercials.

Boosted by jwz:
luis_in_brief@social.coop ("Luis Villa") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116123866175660510

It’s a small detail in this thread, but it’s utterly bonkers that we’ve elevated cars over *freedom of assembly*, a right literally in the Constitution. One of the ultimate symbols of car-brained America.

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

TIL Error.isError
https://allthingssmitty.com/2026/02/23/from-instanceof-to-error-iserror-safer-error-checking-in-javascript/

Boosted by jwz:
markm68k ("🅼🅰🆁🅺") wrote:

@dnapizza

Attachments:

• gifv: yummy samuel l jackson GIF

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D3codes@mas.to ("David Freeman") wrote:

@splorp @paulrickards we having a Mac stacking contest?

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

why does every crypto dude in 2026 look like they were generated by an AI prompted to create "a man who definitely has opinions about age of consent laws"

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LibertyOverGov ("BlueCrew community") wrote:

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken. I received secretive orders to teach cadets to violate the Constitution"

Read that again.

Ordered. To violate. The Constitution.
This isn’t partisan spin. This is about the rule of law.

Repost please!! 🙏

#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE

Attachments:

• video: 080890e7ea76cdfb.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116124089534718800

TL;DR: #Indivisible #SantaFe encountered major obstruction from the City of Santa Fe to get a permit for a closed street march. We have pivoted, will recommend a sidewalk march route. Wherever you live, we’d love to know you support our efforts. One way to do so is to register at https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/905571/. 1/

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

If you feel inclined, read my entire original thread, starting at https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116123816826931896 , and write a letter to the editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican expressing your views of how a city should support free expression or at least not kneecap it.

How to send a letter to the newspaper at https://www.santafenewmexican.com/site/forms/online%5Fservices/letter/letter%5Feditor/. 2/2

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

trianglular apollonian gaskets

Attachments:

• gifv: a looping animation depicting circle packing fractals in deforming triangles

Boosted by jwz:
occult@ominous.net wrote:

Spotted around #CambridgeMA.

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/post/3mflbqaqqem2g

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

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• 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.