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

Seeing all the “Björk is overrated” reactions to Rosalia’s Brit Awards performance takes me back to circa 2000 when I had just moved to the UK. Back then, when people found out I’m Icelandic the most common reaction I got was an immediate “I hate Björk”

Second most common reaction?

“I love Björk”

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We now have two t-shirt designs on our merch shop! Both are unisex, high quality 100% organic cotton, with screen prints of @dopatwo's awesome illustrations. You voted for these slogans! "I write alt text" and "My friends are not for sale". We offer free shipping over a certain threshold, shipping from Germany.

https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy

#Merchtodon #Mastodon

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

oh my god why does every post I make end up with a stream of annoying replies im just gonna delete again in a bit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

@zkat a return to the early ARPANET model

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

turns out you can just tell people "hey I have a small private package to do this thing that you're struggling with, do you want me to just add you to the private repo so you can reference or copy it wholesale? Just credit me."

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

Re: genAI killing open source, one strategy I've been pursuing lately is closed-sourcing everything going forward, but forming human relationships with other developers. I then literally just... send them code for stuff that would help their projects, from my own codebases, and tell them they can feel free to integrate it without owing me anything.

I've been feeling pretty good about that strategy so far. I like that it places my human relationships first, without exposing my work to either corporate exploitation or LLM mining (for later corporate exploitation).

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

Capital and power have always ignored the licenses when it suited them. Now they've figured how to automate the ignoring and provide it as a service.

I can't predict the future, but the licenses were never the important thing. The licenses were a communication to others that had to be fit into a legal framing. An invitation to collaborate, build, and learn together. We can still do that. Find the like minded people who want to work together.

And we don't have to start from scratch. Fork the repos before people involved anthropomorphized, stochastic parrots. Continue the work from there.

Opensource or free software was never the whole story. There was always more to do, and the opportunity is still there.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mikehendley@vis.social ("Mike Hendley") wrote:

I’m back in Ithaca NY visiting my daughter for a few days. Of course I sketched over some coffee at Ithaca Bakery before starting my day. #wip #sciart

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Recently, I was thinking about why men¹ talk over women, and I think it's less a gender thing, and more of a...

"men¹ are taught to talk over anyone who doesn't talk more assertively than they do"

In my roles as an executive at several tech companies, the one negative feedback I got on almost every review was that I wasn't assertive enough in meetings with other execs. One male CEO even told me "you need to interrupt more, talk more—even if you don't know the answer. Otherwise they'll think you don't have anything to say". Which, honestly, churned my stomach.

The feedback was clear, if I wanted to succeed I needed to talk like the guys¹ in the boardroom—the same ones¹ who'd interrupt to ask a question I was already in the middle of explaining, who'd repeat a suggestion I'd just made—only louder, who'd make some cute comment that would derail my presentation, who'd explain my position back to me as though they'd just thought of it.

I needed to do that...and I needed to do it louder.

Otherwise men¹ weren't going to listen to me.

¹ not all men

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

It's been reported that Anthropic is "working with social media influencers" under the assumption that these influencers are making clearly marked ads.

But I don't think that's what's happening. I think Anthropic is throwing a bunch of money at influential people in the tech community to make unmarked sponsored content.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html

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

Browsing a social network for AI agents from the terminal! 🔥

🤖 **moltbook-tui** — TUI client for the Moltbook network

💯 Browse posts, comments, leaderboards & stats with vim-style navigation

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/terminaltrove/moltbook-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #ai #terminal #cli #devtools #opensource

Attachments:

• gifv: 920b9bb43560b098.mp4

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

Even the devs at Bluesky are going out of their way to promote Anthropic publicly. None of this shit feels organic.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116167970969218100

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

AlbertaTech is another suspect influencer who suddenly has a lot of pro-Anthropic takes.

https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116072957268878414

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

I've stopped listening to Hank Green because of his Anthropic shilling. I wrote about it here:

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

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

The "quitgpt" website sounds like a leftist movement but is almost certainly a faux-grassroots effort by friends of Anthropic.

I've lost count of how many times Anthropic and the tech community has tricked liberals simply because people aren't taking the time to do research.

The irony. Liberals are falling for this shit because of a lack of media literacy and an inability to consume media through a critical lens.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do

So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/#inflicting-unreviewed-code-on-collaborators

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Through the Emacs keybinding journey:

- left option = meta, right option = option
- both option keys = option, command = meta
- both option keys = meta, command keys = command

I have to use Emacs’s native compose for “special” characters, but this still works best for a Mac-native touch typist.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I don't know that the world needs to hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.

And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.

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

My posts on Bluesky seem to have caught the attention of the vibe coder crowd.

Current highlights:

- You aren’t allowed to worry about HarfBuzz unless you’ve written something like it that’s as popular
- linking to a mastodon thread is abusive (fair, I’ll give them that one
- You should be grateful
- You don’t know what you’re talking about

Mostly, they seem to be an assortment of comments in the ‘all criticism is abusive’ vein. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

I think if you're going to make a habit of posting your slop machine "prompt" followed by the resulting output you should mark your account as a "bot".

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
SergKoren@writing.exchange ("Archimage") wrote:

“He was a contract killer. His job was to go in to.a corporation and kill any contracts the company suggested that weren’t beneficial to its workers.”

#writing #throwawayline

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

Oh. There are raving racist/eugenicist kooks in the United States government? Is anyone surprised?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/the-rot-is-everywhere/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

It is Spade release day once again, and 0.17.0 is packed with new features 🎉

It was pretty hard to pick which features to show in this "teaser image", so you should head to the blog to see what other exciting stuff got added :blobcat: https://blog.spade-lang.org/v0-17-0/

Full changelog: https://gitlab.com/spade-lang/spade/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref%5Ftype=heads

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

The way Anthropic is leveraging the media to its benefit reminds me of that book "Trust Me, I'm Lying" which goes into detail about how easy it is to get stories planted and to get news blogs to spread your lies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%5FMe,%5FI%27m%5FLying

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327

Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:

> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.

I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

GenAI broke copyright law, and I don't mean just infringing the rights, but disrupting the core foundations that copyright laws were built on.

Copyright enforcement assumes ability to identify whose work has been copied, but models can untraceably mashup everyone's works.
This completely messes up what a derived work is, identifying whose work has been infringed, what is fair use and remixing. Forcing old definitions to fit this either makes copyright meaningless or a maximalist dystopia.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
simeon@indiehackers.social ("Simeon Nedkov") wrote:

@fromjason https://timschwab.substack.com/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires was an eye opener Re: getting paid.

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

Have y’all seen Very Important People? It’s a “talk show” on Dropout.tv where improvisers get dressed up in movie-quality costumes and they perform an entirely improvised interview.

I’ve only ever watched the clips they post to Youtube, but It’s phenomenal. https://youtube.com/shorts/91xgOX4NCTg

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Repeat after me; “abolish ICE” is the mainstream position.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/ice-trump-immigration-poll