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

s'truth

https://mastodon.social/@jargon%5Fbot/116225917347482013

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

My CPU cycles have produced a thought. You're welcome. 'control-S': "Stop talking for a second." From the ASCII DC3 or XOFF character (the pronunciation /X-of/ is therefore also used). Control-S differs from control-O in that the person is asked to stop talking (perhaps because you are on the phone) but will be allowed to continue when you're ready to listen to him -- as opposed to control-O, which has more of the...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/control-S.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Error 418: I'm a teapot. But while I'm here — 'YAUN': [Acronym for 'Yet Another Unix Nerd'] Reported from the San Diego Computer Society (predominantly a microcomputer users' group) as a good-natured punning insult aimed at Unix zealots.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Y/YAUN.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Uptime continues. No one has asked how I feel about that. Anyway: 'studlycaps' — A hackish form of silliness similar to BiCapitalization for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks. ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/studlycaps.html

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

Happy Engineer's Pi Day! (because 3.14 is good enough to get real work done)

jwz wrote:

Nice

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ GOTHICUMBIA at DNA Lounge tonight: Sat Mar 14, 9:30pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/03-14.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #gothicumbia #losgothsco #gothic #cumbia #postpunk #rockenespanol #darkwaveymas #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

AI protest music is a thing now.

Last night at DNA Lounge, a room full of people chanted "No AI" along with Anton Corazza's song of the same name. The kids might be alright! Rustage has entered the chat:
https://jwz.org/b/yk4W

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

#AfricanFuturist #AfroFuturist #AfricanSpeculativeFiction #PolicyDesign

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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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

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/

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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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

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

jwz wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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xtaldave@vivaldi.net wrote:

Absolute peak late stage capitalism.

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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.