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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rusty__shackleford ("Rusty Shackleford") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
fj ("Frédéric Jacobs") wrote:

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.

They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

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

TikTok wasn't interested in courting established influencers. Not at first, at least. It wanted to make homegrown celebrities.

Which means TikTok wasn't favoring people from institutions that lack diversity. With the FYP, they leveled the playing field. Anyone could go viral and cultivate an audience.

And wouldn't you know it, when you level the playing field like that, you get greater diversity in the discourse.

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
arrrg@kolektiva.social ("Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog") wrote:

Many children, at least 50, went to school in Iran, hugged their parents and said good bye, and the US government killed them. Blew them to pieces because it serves the interests of a few monsters who we allow to rule over us.

At some point accepting the unacceptable must become unacceptable.

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

Bluesky, Post News (rip), and Substack Notes all courted Twitter's biggest accounts. Their recommendation engines pushed hard to get these accounts in front of new audiences (or old audiences who migrated).

None of them tried to make homegrown personalities. They just wanted Twitter celebrities.

You see how, even when new opportunities arise, the system just reinforces itself.

TikTok was different.

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

Ahhhhhh this is such a damn good example of how white supremacy reinforces itself over and over again. No one is deliberately shooting for this outcome, but also, no one is deliberately trying to fix the inequity.

For a decade, these voices gained large audiences, in no small part thanks to Twitter's favorable exposure.

And then microblogging fractured. And we saw white supremacy reinforce itself again.

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

It's note for note.

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/

Boosted by jwz:
ceej.online@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hootdotwhales@toot.wales wrote:

I may be the least Welsh person here (or on earth) but I’m feeling the honorary Welsh pride on behalf on the #tootwales community this evening.

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

For most of the 2010s, left-leaning voices on social media were predominately white and reformist. You can trace this back to Jack Dorsey's initiative to make Twitter the web's town square—events, breaking news, discourse, etc.

Twitter, predictably, tapped into institutions like journalism, publishing, socialites, etc, all of which lacked racial diversity.

So from the jump, social media discourse on the left was flawed.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
seav@en.osm.town ("Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭") wrote:

RE: https://en.osm.town/@seav/112217310004579603

#Veritasium recently published a very comprehensive and educational video about the XZ Utils backdoor incident two years ago: https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ

More info about the backdoor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ%5FUtils%5Fbackdoor

The toot that exposed the backdoor to the world: https://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180083704606941

#XZUtils #Linux #OpenSource #backdoors #exploits #infosec

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

I think it's impossible to overstate how influential leftist voices on TikTok were from about 2019 to 2024. And how flippant liberals outside of the app were to the idea of a US takeover.

Yes, it's unfortunate that this movement had to occur on a corporate app. But this is a two things are true situation.

No other social media platform uplifted more Black, brown, and queer voices in the history of social media. And it's very clear how that happened.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Wot's a good cheap* mirrorless camera that works for video and streaming? Presumably HDMI stream output i guess.

If you do this, what do you use?

* yeah yeah relatively speaking

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drj@typo.social ("David JONES") wrote:

I am free. I can do anything. I am Horse.

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

I’m interview #1302 on Uses This, in case you want to know about my super boring setup! https://usesthis.com/interviews/adam.newbold/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

I have nothing good to say about Anthropic just like I have nothing good to say about Muskrat during his spat with the orange man, or any of the orange man's associates when he turns on them.

Anthropic knowingly partnered with the pentagon. Their other partner, Palantir, is probably the most evil tech company in the world, which, among other things, powers the ICE abductions of members of our communities. I can go on and on.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
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:

Sometimes all you can do is go out and capture the snow #photos #iceland #nature

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

The pressure to be original and unique in one's opinions is the reason so many people have terrible takes. There's a limited number of truths and infinite available lies.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

Apologies, I was not going to post anymore on Thursday's by-election.... but I've just read this comment by an un-named Labour ministersin the FT:

'A Green victory is easily the worst outcome'....

NO!!!!: a ReformUK Ltd win would have been the worst outcome... the very idea that Labour could see Hannah Spencer's victory as worse than Matthew Goodwin & Reform winning pretty much sums up the problem with the Labour Party!

#politics #Greens #GortonAnd Denton

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

“Five Things: February 27, 2026 | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/02/27/five-things-february-27-2026/

All five links are interesting reads.

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

“Secret Agent Man”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/secret-agent-man/

> Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Copilot: insecure and unhelpful — but oh, those influencers!

how does this keep happening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LVCunCF7Es&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260227-copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers - podcast

time: 6 min 40 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/27/copilot-insecure-and-unhelpful-but-oh-those-influencers/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
splendorr ("nina splendorr 🌻🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

don’t you understand? having constant LLM interruptions while you’re typing, suggestions appearing that you cannot help but read and try to parse

IS LITERALLY INTERRUPTING YOUR EVERY THOUGHT

and shaping the outcome whether you “accept” it or not

you cannot think clearly

you are becoming less You

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

#fdroid is also reporting this

Boosted by jwz:
merc@techhub.social ("Merc") wrote:

@jwz Hoo boy. The phrase "Dear Lazyweb" is like seeing flashing lights and a lane closure up ahead on the highway. You know you're about to drive past a car crash.

Normally it's software, so it's amusing to watch people who know a bit of python try to explain software to jwz.

This one is mechanical hardware, so it's people suggesting to jwz that he use a rubber band. But, I hadn't anticipated "I'm a qualified pulley engineer, and you're holding it wrong."

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Lately I've been feeling dead inside with absolutely anything AI-related.

Even with the beef between the US government and Anthropic, which I'm sure is objectively funny.

I don't like the future we're headed to at all...

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

How is Hegseth supposed to protect America’s interests if he can’t even bully a fuckin’ nerd?

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.