Mastodon Feed: Posts

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Handdrawn 2D animation! I repeat, handdrawn 2D animation! This is what they took from us. #Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

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

#NP #NowPlaying

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Not enough chatting about this!

#android #Google

https://keepandroidopen.org/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Dear @photomatt how do I turn this off? I never asked for this. I do not want this.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
errant@glaceon.social ("Errant :is: :bat:") wrote:

It's weird how "crimes against nature" is understood to mean some sort of perceived sexual deviancy, instead of, say, destroying the biosphere for profit

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

Everytime the curtain gets pulled back, and we see how powerful people use the internet against us, it's alway far-right, white supremacist ideals and conspiracies. Or, on the other side, it's pushing to keep neoliberalism alive.

But talk to a corporate Dem, and they believe with all their heart that every leftist is a Russian troll.

Powerful people aren't weaponizing the internet to spread leftist ideals just so we accidentally get universal healthcare.

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

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

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

Also, I decided that GIFS are cool again.

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

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon fight:

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons." https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/altman-openai-anthropic-pentagon

Attachments:

• gifv: Ron Burgundy at his desk wearing a blue suit. He says "I don't believe you" then lights a cigarette.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I'm asking because I honestly can't imagine a solution to this particular problem that is both:

• User friendly
• Acceptable to privacy advocates

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Okay, obviously Persona is terribad. There is a real problem to address here though: how are organizations supposed to perform reasonable identity verification at a distance? Sophisticated impersonation attacks hit customer support lines every day. We need a reasonable defense against this.

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

THE DONT FUCKING USE AI AS A WAR STRATEGIST

We've really fallen hard for the "inevitability of AI" propaganda. Journalists, especially.

A trained parrot would also sometimes recommend nuclear war if we allowed it to run our military. It's not news because we simply don't use trained parrots for war.

This is only news because no one is asking these companies and our government why we must use AI for war.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

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

From The Intercept: Protest #ICE, Go To Jail.

This is why we don't post photos of protesters' faces or other identifying marks. This is why we don't "RSVP" to protests.

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

Instagram keeps getting caught serving sexually suggestive videos by young women/girls to men. And as a society we sort of just accept it?

Like, we know what Adam Mosseri is doing. He's trying to keep that average time on site metric alive by being a big weirdo creep.

And now, we have millions of people who when they hear "Fediverse" they think- that thing Adam Mosseri used to talk about on Threads. Like, he's the face for some people.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Strip mining the cultural commons so it can be synthesized and sold back to us, claiming it's all inevitable, these guys really are The Borg, aren't they.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

stray thought:

I've heard of the term "Software Engineer" referred to as being "stolen glory", because engineering as a practice has long had MUCH higher standards than software development, when it came to reliability/quality/etc, because the stakes were usually so much higher, and the study required for qualification were correspondingly high.

LLMs seem to be leaning on this further: Software developers have embraced the idea that we can spit out any low-quality, unreliable, even straight-up dangerous garbage that, as long as it seems somewhat productive, is "valuable enough". They have dropped the floor on what we're able to achieve while deskilling many of us who at least were developing the skills required for quality production. Most importantly, they're making it so leadership actively discourages taking the actual time to make sure something won't fucking kill someone.

I was looking at a certain open source project's page and there was a link to its associated consultancy. On the front page was a gif of a prompt for an app generator LLM utility, and the first fucking prompt that showed up was "Write me an application that will act as an X-ray analyzer, looking for anomalies and reporting on them", and that was just obviously the most fucking irresponsible thing I'd seen all day. Imagine having some non-expert just write something that will put people's actual lives on the line like that, and sell it as if it has any qualification to make reliable diagnostics. This is the level of brazen irresponsibility we're dealing with.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

Update: This project was just archived on GitHub. Apparently, just having GenAI fix all your bugs and do all the work isn't working, huh?

Shocker. Real shocker.

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

I won't volunteer to be a moral crumple zone.

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

"Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/objects-not-data-art-prints/

> Over the next few months, I’ll be experimenting with selling art and photography prints as a way to fund my work on this newsletter

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

Objects not data: a photography and illustration print experiment: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/objects-not-data-art-prints/

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

Hot tip: don't use the spicy auto complete to do anything critical, like, I don't know, tell you if you're having a medical emergency

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social ("Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad") wrote:

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

Attachments:

• video: Video about enshittification. The main charachter is an enshittificator, who makes things worse for people. In the analoge age this work didnt scale, but with the internet, he can reach much more people in way less time. The video shows different areas of enshittification.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

smh

https://old.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/1rewzbo/cryptography%5Fengineering%5Fhas%5Fan%5Fintrinsic%5Fduty%5Fof/o7ox7ve/?context=1

Mastodon wrote:

This #DIDay - Sunday March 1st - we'll be online and hosting an onboarding workshop, to help folks get the most out of Mastodon. Tell your friends!

https://termine.di.day/events/0416dee7-cc7f-4e2a-aa94-ff11322daaaa

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

Michelle Yeoh plays several characters in this short film set in Penang.

The codeswitching (language and body language) based on status / environment / character is nuanced and reflects a broad range of the Malaysian Chinese city life experience that I have been a part of.

I also love that most of it is filmed in food places, and now I am terribly homesick.

https://youtu.be/7Lo8WTBuHDg

#MichelleYeoh #Malaysia #TootSea

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

We're trading from /dev/tty0 from now on 💯

📈 **longbridge-terminal** — A TUI for stock trading & market monitoring

🌀 Real-time watchlists, candlestick charts & multi-market support (HK / US / CN)

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/longbridge/longbridge-terminal

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #trading #stocks #fintech #cli #terminal

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

If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.

These are dramatically weaker guidelines than even the EU's DMA, and Apple (particularly) has been utterly contemptuous there, ducking compliance for more than a year. Why is the UK rewarding scofflaw behaviour over these predatory practices?

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-interoperability-commitments-to-the-uk-cma-promise-nothing/

/cc @pluralistic

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

This month's #BirdWhisperer is a pair of black-cheeked lovebirds, of course! Look at them, whispering and plotting their little crimes.

(ref photo by Bernhard Jaeck)
#art #birds #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ksylor@front-end.social ("Katie Sylor-Miller") wrote:

Welp, I got laid off today along with 40% of Block. I’m still totally in shock an have no idea what comes next, but if you have need for a Principal Frontend Engineer hit me up!

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

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".

"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

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

Current worry: even if I did believe that coding “agents” could be used productively and safely by organisations with robust engineering practices, neither WebKit nor Firefox are that and WebKit specifically has a knack for bad regression bugs in existing features

So, y’know, that they seem to be using these tools is a worry