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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
alexpsmith@beige.party ("Alex Psmith") wrote:

Thought I'd look for some mind-embiggening literature.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Aepasek@scholar.social ("Anne Pasek") wrote:

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th.

https://diymethods.net/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Covfefe is that you?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Me: *puts heated seats on in new car for first time*
@ChrisWere : "I'm not sure about these heated seats, I feel I've sat in... a... warm stew"

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

Not only do I not have an MFA, I don't have an undergrad degree in English or Creative Writing. Writing is done by doing and anyone can do it. MFAs can be great! But they're not necessary to write, or to have a fulfilling career as a writer.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@writeyheidireads/post/DVgx3CckVOB

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116177753236186999

There won't be any more new merch for a couple months at least, I need to sell these out before I can make more stuff like the beanies.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Move fast and break Big Tech things.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

On August 29th Iceland 🇮🇸 will hold a referendum on whether or not to continue negotiations related to it joining the EU 🇪🇺:
https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2026-03-06-thjodaratkvaedagreidsla-um-framhald-adildarvidraedna-ad-esb-haldin-i-agust-468962

It is not a referendum on joining the EU! Just on whether the negotiations should continue. The aim is to add democratic legitimacy to the process.

#Iceland #EU

Boosted by jwz:
lo@framapiaf.org ("Laurent Malys") wrote:

Segmented rings
made with #p5js

#creativecoding #art #math #motion

Attachments:

• gifv: Abstract animation. whilte shapes on a black backround. A circle made of nested segmented black and white rings where the width of each segment is modulated.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AilurusThePanda@meow.social ("Ailurus, Ryūki & Júzǐ") wrote:

Wah! 🐾

📷: Malcompard (tw/x)

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Furry #RedPanda #AilurusThePanda

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

jwz wrote:

Monarch title sequence.

Following up on my obsession with title sequences... As I've said before, I find the decisions about what stories they choose to tell, and under such constraints, fascinating. So every time a new season of a show starts, I pick them apart to see what subtle changes they made.

Monarch, Legacy of Monsters has a fantastic title sequence. Since the show takes place in two timelines, they split the titles between the past on the left and the...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4D

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• video: ef44818e9aac57e4.mp4

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

“The first AI agent worm is months away, if that -- Dustycloud Brainstorms”

https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/

> Because there is a high chance that once this happens, it's going to backdoor itself into many other systems that didn't opt in to AI agents.

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

So, heading into the weekend, it seems likely we’re in for an energy and fertiliser crisis on top of one of the largest financial bubble in history, one that’s already showing signs of instability, in a world economy wracked by inflation, fascism, and increasingly dysfunctional software?

Fun times!

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

Now that season 1 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has wrapped up. I'd like to invite you all to checkout my podcast website for it. i coded the CMS myself (with Drew).

https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory/

#GameOfThrones #HouseofTheDragon #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms #ASongOfIceAndFire

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ToasterTheFox@meow.social wrote:

Hey there! 😊 I hope you have fantastic #FursuitFriday 🤗

#furry # fursuit

📷 https://bsky.app/profile/nerox.bsky.social
🧵 https://www.whitewingcreations.de
📍 #NFC2026

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@fsjr @soatok @ww it's called trustless to remind you you can't trust these people

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Oh my god. Their FACES

https://pulpcovers.com/blood-orgy/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vapourisation@tech.lgbt wrote:

@soatok while its always bad when this sort of thing happens, as I'm always reminded, every single company offering any sort of service in this world WILL either have to hand over whatever info they have (maybe very very little) to law enforcement OR shut down.

Those are the two options. If a sufficiently legal request comes in, they HAVE to comply or cease to exist.

Mullvad has a solid approach to this in that you only have an account number and simply add credit to that account AND accept crypto or cash (and apparently delete any card payment details after a short amount of time) but even that's not perfect.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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

Noted: 404 Media clickbait and email privacy

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-06T07:04Z/

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

@protonprivacy was extra sleazy by invoking the shooting at a cop incident to justify handing over the data, as if the person in question was a suspect (they weren't).

In fact, this story of a cop being shot at was used to justify cops murdering a protester Manuel Paez Terán who was found dead with multiple gun shot wounds in his back, implying he was attempting to fee when murdered.

Proton out here acting like a cop. This is cop behavior. I don't do business with cops. Fuck Proton.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Doctor: "You should really try to avoid stress"

Ah yes, of course. Right after I finish following my financial advisor's strategy of "just be rich".

Amazing how many complex life problems can be solved with absolutely no actionable steps.

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

@protonprivacy how can Proton claim to be held to Swiss-only law, when the Swiss government isn't even held to Swiss-only law?

The FBI can, apparently, compel Proton to hand over any data they demand about anyone regardless if a crime has been committed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%5Flegal%5Fassistance%5Ftreaty

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking questions about who is responsible for the bombing of a school and the deaths of 180 children and their teachers, and I'd like to wish everyone at Anthropic a very happy complicity in war crimes.

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

I'm very familiar with how cops and FBI have gone after Stop Cop City protesters. It's a level of fascism that most of the country has yet to experience.

@protonprivacy effectively handing over credit card data of someone who has not committed a crime, makes them no different than any American tech company.

If you're familiar with Stop Cop City, then you know Proton put someone's life at risk.

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@soatok
The story also reminds me of one more thing that, pardon my language, "privacy freaks" are ignoring en-masse.
NO ENTITY, not a single one, no matter what they claim, will go against law enforcement, when it knocks on their door, unless they have some super powerful legal leverage (at which point LEA won't go in there in the first place unless you're in a place with "Gestapo on crack" LEAs at which point nothing saves you from "chains and gallows") or they're "untouchable" (which would more likely be a red flag because how come they're untouchable).
But when LEA comes in with "Comply or Die", you only have these options, comply or die.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stefenauris@furry.engineer ("Stefen Auris 🖖​") wrote:

@soatok and I've deleted my proton mail account. I am so glad I decided not to migrate everything to it!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ww@xyzzy.link ("ww 🩶") wrote:

@soatok aside from everything else, it's funny how paying for your encrypted email puts you at much greater risk than using the free tier. self-defeating business model, to an extent.