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

We're creating a toolkit for using African Speculative Fiction for policy making and review - help us out by giving feedback on the overall structure of the website:

- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGDdpQLxKvowoMkdYq3tRhtDnoejGb4us%5FAnyPd6gmcWyQgg/viewform
- https://app.lyssna.com/do/jmvq88qqonck/dpywla
- https://app.lyssna.com/do/e0vqbtftx42c/kt3bsi

Each one only takes 2-3 minutes. Do share!

#AfricanFuturist #AfroFuturist #AfricanSpeculativeFiction #PolicyDesign

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

I literally just stopped in the aisle and grabbed this book. Totally random, serendipitous find.

I'm excited to learn!

I'm also cautious when speaking about this topic amongst non-Latinos. I read a lot of analysis after the election that, whew boy, felt on the line.

I maintain that this topic is a blind spot for liberals. Too much analysis, not enough history learning, and contextualizing.

If I ever have to hear a liberal use the term "machismo" again, I will die. Evaporate. Stop it.

Picture of book cover: Defectors. The rise of the Latino Far Right and what it means for America.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jwz wrote:

Chiptunes artists are consistently bad at finishing sound check before doors, so I think we need to tell them that sound check is a speedrun and there is a leaderboard.

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

@glyph The trick in every successful con is convincing the mark that they are actually in on it

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

To be clear: that is not what Cory is doing. He just said he knows some people who are using a tool successfully, which is a fine argument on its own. But my counterargument is "there's lots of *evidence* out in the world that other very smart people have thought they were doing fine but were actually doing badly with this tech, I don't think Cory's friends are special". If you're rebutting that with "but they are specific people, maybe they *are* special!" I think you're falling into that trap

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

More generally I am deeply suspicious of any thinking which is rooted in, "I, with my high intellect, sophisticated approach to problems, and vaguely exceptional vibe, am inherently superior to others and thus more capable of avoiding a risk while engaging in the same activity". The people most vulnerable to propaganda are those who believe they are too smart to fall for it, and it stands to reason that those who *believe* that they can use AI well are also at risk for pathological outcomes.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220325849374278

Since I've gotten this feedback a couple times, I want to address it:

I know Cory is writing about *his specific* colleagues who he believes are using AI successfully, not devs in general, whose problems he has already implicitly acknowledged; I've moved the goalposts back to "developers in general".

That is, technically, an accurate description of what I did, but in the next post down in the thread, I explained *why*: I don't think his friends are special any more than mine are.

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

New GPU monitor tool just dropped 🔥

🌀 **gptop** — A GPU monitor TUI for Apple Silicon & NVIDIA

💯 Real-time charts, per-process GPU usage & multi-GPU support

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/evilsocket/gptop

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #gpu #monitoring #linux #terminal

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jwz wrote:

Antimatter Truckers.

Swiss remake of The Wages of Fear: The reality is reassuringly mundane. Antimatter emitters are readily available at supermarkets in the form of bananas, which emit antiparticles through the radioactive decay of potassium. Sadly,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4U

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

To understand the war in Iran, one must read the Flashman novels. Or Marcus Ranum.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/14/marcus-ranum-is-one-scary-guy/

Flashman cover

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

This is a good episode with good discussions about incel culture. Kat Abugazela is the guest (she's running for Congress 🎉).

As a man, I feel like I should be talking more about the male loneliness epidemic in a way that's helpful to younger men who are falling down these toxic rabbit holes. But in a way that doesn't excuse the worst of them.

I'm just thinking out loud at the moment, obviously. Anyway, good episode.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000754817746

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Boosted by jwz:
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

The Trump bloodhounds have just won in court against an “Antifa cell” belonging to the "Antifa domestic terrorist organization.” Here are some useful antifa facts:

1. There is no antifa organization. You can't find it, join it, give it money, or identify any leaders.
2. There are likewise no antifa cells, outside of Pam Bondi’s fever dreams.
3. Even so, if you yourself are not antifascist, what's the matter with you?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-crackdown-on-terrorist-left-notches-a-victory-in-texas

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jwz wrote:

Since we had dozens of video game demo stations at our various GDC events this week, I snuck an XScreenSaver kiosk into the mix. I'm not sure anyone noticed it.
https://jwz.org/b/yk4S

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

“Where do you work?”

“I work at Burger King, where we don’t snitch.”

https://youtube.com/shorts/hY0viz-hsv8

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jwz wrote:

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet.

Oh no. Anyway
https://jwz.org/b/yk4Q

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116222562094180408

Shout out to my 18% who throw it all in the fridge.

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

How Obsidian Fixes Note-Taking’s Biggest Problem

Great video that discusses how note taking and personal knowledge can be procrastination tools 😬. I’ve gotten way better at not falling into the trap. But also, sometimes you gotta rebuild from the ground up. lol Which is what I’m doing.

Moving from Notion to Obsidian. Might make this a write up. Haven’t done a docs post in a while. https://youtu.be/DRBXGOr6faU

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Boosted by jwz:
netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: Two full weeks have now passed since #Iran fell into digital darkness amid a regime-imposed internet blackout.

The public remain isolated from the outside world with only a limited domestic intranet after 336 hours while state-approved accounts get whitelisted access.

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from 24 February 2026 to 14 March 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity is high through the initial time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of 28 February. The continued drop in connectivity aligns with a nation-scale internet blackout imposed by authorities after joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the disruption period, and the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.

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Boosted by jwz:
xtaldave@vivaldi.net wrote:

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

A tweet from  Heshmat Alavi's Trenchcoat @UrOrientalist Imagine dying for the Epstein empire and the one time your sacrifice is acknowledged, your name is covered up by the stock ticker Featuring a screenshot from CBS news  Showing 6 US service personnel who have been killed in the illegal war on Iran. Killed in Action Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Winter Haven, FL Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Wivite Beer Lake, MN Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20 West Des Moines, IA Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54 Sacramento, CA The details of the 6th person are hidden behind the Dow Jones stock market ticker.

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Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

one would think that “do you prefer personal convenience over avoiding the use of tools produced by a company closely collaborating with a concentration camp administration” is not a hard question.

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

@glyph fwiw my point of view is purely ethical: we shouldn't, especially in free software, use tools delivered by companies that actively collaborate with totalitarian organisations.

call it maximalism or naïvety, but i thought that the case of IBM and the nazi concentration camps should have taught us something.

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

@glyph on the other hand, both openai and anthropic literally contract with the concentration camps administration, chatbots were used by doge & al. to destroy USAID, and the american science, and healthcare – and claude was recently extensively used by the american military in the kill chain of the latest illegal war of aggression.

neither of those facts is disputable.

the question is how much literal human blood and literal human death will be too much, when the flip side is personal convenience.

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Boosted by jwz:
davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

The headline: Claude Code hacked these websites, we didn't ask it 😱

The article: we made http endpoints that act like something from an SQL injection vulnerability example from 2002. Then Claude used SQL injection techniques from 2002 that it probably got from an article about those.

Might not be Skynet

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Boosted by jwz:
explaintrade.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Dmitry Grozoubinski") wrote:

Inside the Department of War are two wolves: "We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting." "How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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

Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment

https://metro.co.uk/2026/03/13/first-known-picture-andrew-epstein-mandelson-together-emerges-27408112/

A photograph showing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Lord Peter Mandelson wearing bathrobes, alongside convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein (Picture: US Department of Justice)

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

His makeup is getting worse, impossibly. Is his physical appearance part of the “fascists lie not because they want you to believe them but to show they can lie with impunity” bit?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6catwtkl74b6at5zfgjhrp6p/post/3mgzrehjvrk2y

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ramsey@phpc.social ("Ben Ramsey") wrote:

As someone who is unaware with how depositions work, when watching a deposition video and someone off-camera keeps saying “objection” but the deponent continues to answer without consulting their counsel, what is going on there? Is the statement of objection just there for the record, or is a judge/mediator off camera silently waving away the objection? Why does the deponent keep answering?

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
brianokken@fosstodon.org ("Brian Okken :python:") wrote:

Coding then and now:`printf(` -> `print(f`

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

As is traditional, I am celebrating π day by sparing a few moments to chuckle over how silly τ is

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

i know, i know, my context window is too small. at least i was born with it.