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

Also, what does the Patreon for the open web look like? ...

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

Everyday I fight the urge to not be another man with a podcast lmao. But I have noticed there really isn't a round-table format for tech happenings. All the weird shit the tech world is up to.

I have an itch to produce something. Maybe it's a podcast. Maybe it's a comedy sketch show. Idk. I want to make something grand.

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

I swear I live in one of the most active bird colonies ever. Anytime I go outside I see some action. Here are some vultures(?) flying around my backyard.

Attachments:

• video: Vultures flying over the field outside my apartment

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

Thank you thank you to everyone who shot me five bucks because they enjoyed my writing. Six years ago Jason, the guy who wanted to start writing again but didn't know where to start, would be really impressed that people like my writing enough to pay me for it.

My hope is one day, in five or ten years, writing can be like a part-time or even a full-time job for me— to be a *fully independent* writer on the open web. Not sure how to get there yet but it's on my mind.

https://buymeacoffee.com/fromjason

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

Adding famous 17th century painter Diego Velázquez to the shared family album because I decided we're related.

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

sadness, Country Joe has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/arts/music/country-joe-mcdonald-dead.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.RlA.RlzI.D4VRk0YJYCzM&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

US, Remote - Huntress - Principal Threat Intel Incident Commander

(I am not affiliated with Huntress or at all involved in this hiring process.)

Compensation Range: $200,000 to $220,000 base plus bonus and equity

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/huntress/jobs/7610727003

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

Ziggi has been here a year now

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

grey cat sleeping in Spring sunshine

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

@Sempf Also, do not mistake the imperfect for evil, which keeps happening and it's extremely not helpful

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mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Listen,

It is possible to criticize something without abjectly despising it. 404 can have bad takes; I'm still paying for their journalism because it's usually very good.

Proton's marketing and social team are kind of yutzes, but the service is very good for what it is, and much better than the normative choice.

Seeking infallibility will eat all your time and get you nowhere.

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thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I was told we need more positivity on the timeline today. Let's do this! I'm going to share some of the lovely photos of me and friends from #FC2026 !!

First, I really like this shot of me by @Tav_Fox
#fursuit #positivity

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thumper@bunny.social ("Thumper ➡️Fetch➡️TFF➡️LVFC") wrote:

I feel short... #EarCompensation

@Reo_Grayfox
@flukehusky
📷@bluehasia.bsky.social
#FC2026 #fursuit #positivity

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otterlove@mastodon.art ("Andy P") wrote:

A master hater

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

It is once again time to give the entire world jetlag so that we can save [checks notes] candles? That can't be right, can it?

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

The forecast said it'll be partly sunny by now 😔

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SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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onepict@chaos.social ("Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:") wrote:

@WeirdWriter @KFears @tiotasram @marjolica

This is a good post about it as well

https://brennan.day/an-open-letter-to-cory-doctorow-ollama-is-part-of-the-enshittification/

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pythonbynight@hachyderm.io ("Mario Munoz") wrote:

@fromjason Well, they also tend to tell you their nefarious plans in true Bond-villain cosplay:

"I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income and everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research." - Altman

Mind you, that was nearly 2 years ago. They're desperately trying to get there before a market collapse...

https://www.techspot.com/news/102975-sam-altman-envisions-future-where-universal-basic-income.html

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

Just saw a YouTube ad that if I screenshot it, I might go to jail. What in the federal fuck. It was a girl, possibly AI but idk, making suggestive movements just out of frame. Nothing about any of my search history would suggest I'd want to see that.

I cannot believe what I just saw.

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dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.

> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.

> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.

This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.

They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

losing my own theory of mind when it comes to people talking about LLMs having minds

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katiefenn@front-end.social ("Katie Fenn") wrote:

Fuck, man.

I don’t even know where to begin. This isn’t even about LLMs anymore. Casting aside human beings for their particular skills and experience is a fucking repulsive attitude.

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midtsveen@kolektiva.social ("Erik L. Midtsveen ✯☭") wrote:

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💕💁

#Billionaires #Capitalism #Anarchism #USA #US #Politics #Economic #LucyParsons #Inequality

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

When I force-quit Google Maps to stop it from whining and it STILL sent a notification saying “I’m connected to CarPlay!”, I was like, “Maybe I should just delete you from the phone entirely.”

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

Used Google Maps on the phone for the first time in a while yesterday. The UX has caught up to Apple’s in a lot of ways, but it is a *shockingly* whiny app. It wants you to give it *all* access, and if you deny it, it will bombard you with “But it’ll be SO MUCH BETTER IF YOU DO” notifications.

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

(See: Elon and companies, alleged grassy knoll ear shots, LLMs, cryptocurrency, Gamergate, project 2025)

And I get tech people yelling at me in the comments,

Within two years I’m proven extremely right.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Attention creatives!

We've opened the call for European Cooperation Projects 2026 under our Creative Europe programme-the EU's flagship programme for culture and creative sectors.

With a budget of €60 million, the call will support around 150 projects carrying out a wide range of cultural and creative activities, involving artists and stakeholders active in different cultural and creative sectors 🎭💃🏻🎵📚

Deadline: 5 May

More👉https://link.europa.eu/yQKd7g

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials
RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/americans-trust-fauci-over-rfk-jr-and-career-scientists-over-trump-officials/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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davew ("Dave Winer ☕️") wrote:

What are some good Mastodon accounts to follow for news?