Mastodon Feed: Posts

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

There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons

Look at this fucking shit:

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Usually there’s only one Occam’s Razor answer to a given question but we have so, so many:

• For the oil, duh
• Distraction from the Epstein files
• Corollary: Blackmail by Netanyahu about same
• Pretext to cancel the midterm elections
• Orders from oil executives
• Orders from apocalyptic Christian nationalist zillionaires
• Bizarre dementia-enhanced grudge from 1980

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

before you kneel down and place the slop pail under your LLM today, take a minute to remember what you're supporting:

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/propellant/

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

everyone joking about Microslop is missing the revolutionary part: Windows 12 will be public domain!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/04/ai-works-cant-be-copyrighted-or-patented-in-the-us/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShinyQuagsire ("Shiny Quagsire") wrote:

tbh I don't actually care who/what writes code as long as the code is both regression tested and thoroughly dogfooded (which for some reason is a high bar these days)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

So let's see, when you're using an LLM you have a choice of a CSAM generator, the one being used to target schoolchildren for bombing, the ones that drive people to suicide, or the ones being forced nonconsensually on people.

Real great fucking industry you assholes built.

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

Nope. I'm not buying it. This is an advertisement for Anthropic.

Yes, absolutely, quit ChatGPT. Yes, AI is funding fascism. But when did The Guardian start publishing tech boycott op-eds?

Also, this "grassroots" movement would be a lot more believable if Rutger Bregman, the guy who wrote this editorial, wasn't also licking the Anthropic CEO's boots.

Someone is getting paid.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
zicklepop@nyan.lol ("🌸 melanie kat 👻") wrote:

i got 7 feeds now and in the process of finding some of them, getting to see the internet i miss omg
https://source.tube/melanie/pokemon-feeds/src/branch/main/feeds.opml

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

Do not ever tell me to see a chiropractor. I start frothing at the mouth a bit.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/04/my-doctor-recommended-that-i-see-a-chiropractor/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B3J-GJfuR4

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

Me with my .xyz primary blog, link blog, linktree, and wiki

www.fromjason.xyz 😬😅

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

This was under a video with no dialogue or explanation so safe to say this comment is from a bot. Not a porn bot, it's not selling anything. It exists for the sole purpose of helping to sway our opinion on something in the future.

I know this almost goes without say and is useless to point out. But so much of our sentiment is fueled by synthetic discourse. And I feel like we rarely account for that.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

Trump may not know what he wants or why he started this war
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-03-04/trump-attack-iran-objectives-negotiations-regime-change?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cesarpose@infosec.exchange ("César Pose") wrote:

One day I woke up from a nap because my cat was touching my arm. When I opened my eyes, I saw him open his mouth. He was meowing, but I couldn't hear him.
So I wrote this little poem, with a little sadness and a little acceptance. For all those sounds I love that are fading away as I become increasingly deaf...

My native language is Spanish so I put the original and then the translation.

Los pájaros se han ido
Los loros ya no juegan
en las ramas
La lluvia ya no canta
y el viento apenas sopla
Las risas de los niños
los perros del vecino
y la voz de ella
se alejan poco a poco
El silencio me devora
lentamente...

The birds have left
The parrots no longer play
on the branches
The rain no longer sings
and the wind barely blows
The children's laughter
the neighbor's dogs
and her voice
gradually fade away
The silence slowly devours me...

Perhaps the most painful loss is the loss of oneself, when time slowly steals away your gifts and treasures...

#deafness #hearingloss #deaf #silence #sordera #hipoacusia #silencio #actuallyautistic #autoimmune #poetry #poem

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@simon I think it may be a Law of LLM Assistants that:

no matter how big the context window, the next project step will require more.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
SocialGaff@cathode.church ("Liam") wrote:

Hey friends, one of my clown partners and I made a thing, playing with the fact that.. you can just make up your own rules for who can play with the things you create.

It's my second run at creating something of the kind, so when looking at how disheartening the impact of AI has been on creative folks all over, we decided to build a new ruleset for the release of some upcoming projects, and make it something others can use as well.

Or, as the license itself says:

"We made a ridiculous thing with our silly human brains, using our filthy human hands, in order to inspire our messy human hearts.

It is with strong encouragement, and a few simple rules, that we invite you to use your brains, hands, and hearts to play along with us."

Enjoy the Filthy Human Hands v1.0 License

https://whirling.top/fhh

#FilthyHumanHands
#ThisOldClownHouse
#StopSlop
#noAI

edit: added logo image and made link clickable.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
sparklepanic@infosec.exchange ("Raven (she/her) :sparkling_trans_heart: :neodog_verified: :cascadia:") wrote:

https://text.npr.org/

is so cool

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

RE: https://aus.social/@decryption/116172988490704948

Makes it very clear how artificially limited modern phones are.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

“The costs of Trump’s war to the average American will be higher than it could have been because of the assault of the GOP and Trump administration on renewable energy projects,” said Peter Gleick, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
https://www.fastcompany.com/91502090/trump-assaulted-renewable-energy-now-america-is-more-vulnerable-to-iran-fossil-fuel-shocks

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

people out there treating Joe Armstrong's "The Mess We're In" like the famed sci fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

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

U.S. Senator attacks anti-war Marine - breaking his hand:

"McGinnis can be heard saying “No one wants to fight for Israel!!” And bystanders can he heard saying “They broke his hand! A sitting US Senator just broke the hand of a Marine."
https://youtube.com/shorts/1Rj9mXzscnU?si=LY2nPBG7merAS15N

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

U.S. Senator attacks anti-war Marine - breaking his hand:

"Republican Senator Tim Sheehy just attacked anti-war protestor Brian McGinnis during a subcommittee hearing.
Sheehy joined Capitol Police is lifting McGinnis up and physically ejecting him from the hearing.
McGinnis can be heard saying “No one wants to fight for Israel!!” And bystanders can he heard saying “They broke his hand! A sitting US Senator just ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/03/04/us-senator-attacks-antiwar-marine.html

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

I’ve been so lucky to have amazing culinary experiences in my life. I’ve had sushi in Tokyo and pasta in Italy. Yet, this poor boy’s palette would trade it all for a bacon and egg cheese biscuit and Diet Coke from Mc Donald’s.

Boosted by jwz:
draken@masto.nyc ("Draken BlackKnight") wrote:

The guy on the left was a US Marine Lt. Colonel who was arrested and convicted for selling missiles to Iran.

The guy on the right is a Fox "news" *snicker* "military analyst" who says Iran shouldn't have missiles.

They're the same guy.

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

Wait...hold up. I'm hearing that it is *not* fixed, 9 years on. And...what's that...oh...I'm being told that there's no credible plan for when it will happen.

And that React is still getting bigger with every release.

[ deep sigh ]

Starting to think those swashbuckling Bookfacers *might not* know what they're doing.

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

Just doing my annual check-in on React + ESM. I'm sure it's fixed by now...a mere 9 years after it was initially discussed:

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11503

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

New blog post

Building your first smolweb page

A simple news article that takes ten seconds to load and eats 50 MB of data. You've seen that. We all have. Mountains of JavaScript, giant CSS frameworks, third-party trackers, custom fonts pulled from remote servers... all of that to display a few paragraphs of text.

The smolweb pushes back against that...

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/building-your-first-smolweb-page.md

#smolweb #smallweb #html #howto

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
alternativeto@mas.to ("AlternativeTo") wrote:

Motorola has announced a long-term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to boost privacy and security on its smartphones, with future GrapheneOS support, ending the Google Pixel exclusivity for this Android OS.
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/3/motorola-partners-with-grapheneos-to-boost-smartphone-security-and-privacy-for-its-users/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116172866488754801

UBI in relation to genAI harms is absolutely a red herring. Even if it were implemented, when you play it out in your head it... doesn't look great. So let's talk about that?

What does UBI get you? A basic standard of living, not very fancy, still encouraging you to seek out work if you want more luxuries but at least you won't die in the streets. That's kinda what it is, definitionally. It's achieved through some level of taxation, wherever you want that to come from to make it effective, but corporations and billionaires are obvious big targets.

Setting aside the idea that both of those obvious targets are largely politically untouchable and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, what we're left with is a bunch of people who have been pushed out of work, who can only afford the very basic living standards in our society, and who have no way to climb out of that hole because all the "value" is being captured by automation, which is controlled by... the corporations and billionaires which must continue to be at least fairly profitable, and fairly filthy rich in order to be taxable and able to fund the UBI. It also removes the possibility of worker power being able to influence corporate direction in any way, which is terribly convenient.

The result of UBI in an AI world isn't a more comfortable world, it's a further-stratified world where even more people are pushed to "barely scraping by" than ever, the environment continues to be set on fire, and the worst people in the world have all the economic and political power.

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

YouTube showing scammy “click here” video ads. The race to the bottom continues.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

By Georgette Chen (born Chang Li Ying, 1906-1993), Self-Portrait, oil on wood, 35 by 27 cm (13 3/4 by 10 1/2 inches), photo: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 04 April 2015. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #asianart #painting #oilpainting #WomensHistoryMonth

From the catalogue note: “Georgette Chen’s modernist aesthetic and profound comprehension of the oil painting medium introduced a fresh surge to Singapore’s pre-existing artistic paradigm in the 20th century. Though landscapes and still life works are her famed forte, Chen’s striking self-portrait serves as a remarkable and rare testament to one of the most groundbreaking strides in the Nanyang School. As the singular female artist in this group, she delved into an emotional search for self-identity as she fashioned this image and appeared stalwart in her artistic fortitude.”