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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

Happy Fridayβ€”I cut my hair. I think it looks pretty good, eh? I want it to get longer on top and keep it super short on the sides. I also considered shaving it all off.

Me side profile showing off my hair cut. I got earbuds in. Wearing a black t-shirt. Sitting outside on the patio.

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza πŸ‡΅πŸ‡· πŸ¦› 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111248096766586838

❝ and they’re all pedophiles ❞

my mind is, indeed, like a fine wine 🧐

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oldguy52@techhub.social ("oldguy52 - resist, live, love") wrote:

Striving to keep PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) in the face of the immense disconnects from reality of the US regime of incompetence, corruption and delusion. Birds help a bit.

Today a Purple Finch (female), a common winter visitor in our area. These can be difficult to see and to ID. My mantra is start with the bill, look for the eye-patch and eyebrow plus mottling. As always Merlin App is a great help.

#BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #BirdPhotography #DarkTable #PurpleFinch #NoWar #NoICE #NoGOP

A fairly stout brown bird with a short strong (finch) bill for seeds. It has a nice eyebrow and an eye patch. The chest and underpants are mottled brown and light tan. The wings appear darker brown but with some mottling. This is a female Purple Finch. I rarely see, or more likely recognize the males. There are two subspecies, so this is likely the eastern. Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus purpureus Best sources of information https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Purple_Finch/overview https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/purfin/cur/introduction Wootton, J. T. (2020). Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.purfin.01 Birds of the World is a subscription, worth every penny, and is something I have come to love; rather like Wolfram Alpha.

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

phew, compiling and linking happen *fast* on this "new" M4 iMac

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116221926213898357

We went from "Trump doesn't start wars" to "send your kids to die for oil reserves" pretty fast.

This is the issue that Trump will lose support over for real. There's a large faction on the right who are sick of endless wars. You ask them to send their kids to die, and they'll sit out future elections.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

Trademarked: Jason Velazquez March 2026

Writer's fee: $50,000

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

They grab product X from the fridge, snap open the can, pour their drink in a cup with ice and set it near the cup of coffee and bottle water.

"Product X: The offical soft drink of the home office drink trifecta"

Cut to manager asking person a question but the person is too busy enjoying product X.

"I'm sorry can you repeat that?"

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

The commerical would open with the 15min until meeting chime from your calendar.

Person is running around, getting their desk prepared for the workdayβ€”lighting a candle, taking out their notebook, realizing their laptop is almost dead to plugging it in and hearing the chime for that.

Lots of sensory elements while preparing.

Then they sit down, 1 minute before the Zoom call. *what am I missing?... ah yes!*

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

If I were the marketing director for a soft drink company, I'd position my product to be an official drink of the home office drink trifecta.

Has no one done this yet??

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

We all know that if she had been elected, we wouldn't be in a war right now. But I bet if she HAD to start a war, she wouldn't have fucked it up as badly as this shambling dimwit has

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❀️ πŸ’» ✍️ πŸ₯ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡·") wrote:

Preparing for a nice long work sprint:

βœ… scented candle (fresh linen or ocean-y)

βœ… phone easel to watch 2000s indie music videos

βœ… cup full of ice with cherry sparkling water

βœ… separate cup with ice and straw for 1 part lemonade zero, 2 parts mineral water

βœ… laptop with 8% battery life because I forgot to charge it

βœ… Notebook to write out my "Cold Harbor" for the day iykyk

βœ… AirPods with stickers from my niece

My desk. Laptop in the middle. To right: a cup, can of sparkling water and cup with straw. To left, notebook and pen, cup of pens.

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

sigh there appears to be no way to tell which arm target(s) you are being compiled for on aarch64.

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

Svelte fans know it's true

Drake meme rejecting a sensible $derived.by function in favour of a $derived one-liner in Svelte runes code

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i have just combed my hair. this was a mistake.

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joakimfors@mastodon.green ("Joakim Fors") wrote:

@fromjason @markwyner

"They're the same picture" meme/macro from Office Space. First panel with two papers with "Facebook" on one and "Moltbook" the other. Caption: Corporate needs you to find the difference between these pictures. Second panel caption: They're the same picture

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falcennial ("millennial fulcrum") wrote:

@fromjason SEVEN PEOPLE CAN'T ALL BE WRONG!!! πŸ˜‚πŸ’€

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JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("JessπŸ‘Ύ") wrote:

@fromjason Then I saw this one the other day - companies trying to frame giving workers the tools they "need" to do their jobs as a "perk"😣

https://mastodon.social/@elizayer/116210538719032389

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

More to the point though in this metaphor where you're getting a potentially-infected scrape at work, we are living in the pre-germ-theory age of AI. We are aware that it might be dangerous sometimes, but we don't know to whom or why. We are attempting to combat miasma with bloodletting right now, and putting the miasma-generator in every home before we know what it's actually doing.

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
yksteldus@squawk.social ("Yksteldus") wrote:

Windows PC Manager menu for toggling applications launched at startup. Steam is listed with a startup time of 6.3s highlighted in red. Steam is currently enabled. In yellow text it's recommending "Suggest turn off". Microsoft OneDrive is listed with a startup time of 24.1 seconds (not highlighted). It's currently disabled. In green text it's recommending "Suggest turn on".

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220491984902015

I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning.

β€œI’m not gonna use this shit until I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position to take, but for some reason it makes even those who are otherwise lukewarm on the tech quite angry.

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

I don't want to be a catastrophist but every day I am politely asking "this seems like it might be incredibly toxic brain poison. I don't think I want to use something that could be a brain poison. could you show me some data that indicates it's safe?" And this request is ignored. No study has come out showing it *IS* a brain poison, but there are definitely a few that show it might be, and nothing in the way of a *successful* safety test.

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

β€œ"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/if-ai-is-writing-the-work-and-ai

This is such depressing reading.

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Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun ParmaksΔ±z πŸ‘Ύ") wrote:

No more shipping websites with slow images! πŸ”₯

πŸ” **image-auditor** β€” A TUI for detecting image performance issues

⚑ Finds missing lazy loading, wrong formats, layout shifts & oversized images

πŸ’― Helps with SEO, Core Web Vitals & Lighthouse scores

πŸ¦€ Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/0franco/image-auditor

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #webdev #performance #seo #devtools #frontend #terminal

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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

btw the EU is leaning towards LLM output not being copyrightable too https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260306IPR37511/protecting-copyrighted-work-and-the-eu-s-creative-sector-in-the-age-of-ai

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

Americans underestimate the probability that 8 years of Trump rule and dozens of terrible SCOTUS rulings will do to US public finances and infrastructure what 15 years of Tory misrule did to the UK.

A future President with a huge majority could reach Starmer levels of f’d in terms of room to spend and/or borrow.

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell β˜•") wrote:

huh, genuinely thought wix.com was a British company, must have been the huge ad spend a few years ago

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take *absolutely unhinged* risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are *leaders* who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

1. YES THEY ARE.

They are vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They are generating tech debt at scale. They don't THINK that that's what they're doing. Do you think most programmers conceive of their daily (non-LLM) activities as "putting in lots of bugs"? No, that is never what we say we're doing. Yet, we turn around, and there all the bugs are.

With LLMs, we can look at the mission-critical AWS modules and ask after the fact, were they vibe-coded? AWS says yes https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes.1511983/

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

But, as Cory puts it:

"""
It is nuts to deny the experiences these people are having. They're not vibe-coding mission-critical AWS modules. They're not generating tech debt at scale.
"""

I had a very visceral emotional reaction to this particular paragraph, and I find it very important to refute. Here are two points to consider:

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.