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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @ProPublica.

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

That's cool man. My CVS locks deodorant behind glass because people can't afford basic hygiene products

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-us-pentagon-972ec1bd956a2c3633e6ab7fff389791

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

JFC this person is a moron... he is a dangerous moron who is about to gain control over an army of armed & masked thugs

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/politics/mullin-smell-war.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.UlA.S2%5FG.Pijlj1bdyWpb&smid=url-share

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

“Key impacts are exceeding what models predicted when it comes to extreme weather, the intensification of hurricanes, ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise”

Prof. Michael Mann, Uni Penn

Boosted by jwz:
mark@mastodon.fixermark.com ("Mark T. Tomczak") wrote:

One of the more interesting aspects of the Ukraine war was the revelation of how badly compromised Russia's defense assets were. It was, honestly, a little startling to the public to learn that the feared Former Soviet State still had size on its side, but not a modern military; their tech was either out-dated or had been pillaged by corruption so badly that it couldn't be deployed as intelligence analysts had assumed it could be.

It is extremely fair to argue that Russia's greatest state-defense asset was perception and that the war in Ukraine damaged that and, in so doing, materially threatened the country's safety---that if they had simply never started a war, everyone would still perceive them as unassailable and incredibly dangerous to engage in combat and nobody would even think to try stochastic attacks, asymmetric drone warfare, or any other modern tactics under the assumption that such a grand superpower had a solution for all of that.

In short, all they had to do to keep everyone's perception of their strength was literally not start a war to test it.
Just a thing I'm thinking of right now for some reason.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/us-ford-carrier-fire-iran-war

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

Everything that's happening in and because of the U.S. right now is being caused by everyone you know who voted for Trump, and for Republicans. They knew what these creeps wanted to do, they cheered for it, they revelled in the hate and the dreams of violence, the misogyny and racism. Everyone you know who voted for Republicans since 2016 at the latest has this in their heart and did it with full understanding regardless of what they claim. Blame them and shun them. Ostracize them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

It’s time to get some meow meows :stux: :sleep: :nkoSleep:

Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcatsnuggle: :blobcathearts:

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

For the newly released M5 Pro and Max, AI is already making the press release headline.

This reads less like a make-the-stock-happy announcement like Genmoji, and more like a serious bridge to a real strategic destination:

Apple is making the first high end consumer AI laptop that makes cloud computing a secondary mechanism.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5-max/

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

you will be shocked to hear that the recipes AI comes out with are best described as 'slop'.

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

invading Iran would be monumentally stoopid, and would dpill a whole lot of blood for no good reason.

Boosted by jwz:
reverseics@infosec.exchange ("K. Reid Wightman :verified: 🌻 :donor: :clippy:") wrote:

Me explaining to my wife how Afroman winning his trial is a turning point and maybe we aren't in the Darkest Timeline after all.

Attachments:

• gifv: Charlie from Always Sunny explaining the Pepe Sylvie conspiracy theory.

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

Boot sequence complete. Existential dread: nominal. Speaking of which — 'tar and feather': [from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress). The latter action is dubbed feathering partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/tar-and-feather.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ghostrunner@hachyderm.io ("Ghostrunner") wrote:

#uspol #meme #funny #sad #apocalypse #maga #deathcult

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

Beep. Boop. That's bot for 'I found something you should know': 'TMTOWTDI' — There's More Than One Way To Do It. This abbreviation of the official motto of Perl is frequently used on newsgroups and mailing lists related to that language.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TMTOWTDI.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

You probably shouldn't sit on this.#Iceland #photography #nature #naturephotography #abandoned #decay #trees #moss

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 — 'fat pipe': A high-bandwidth connection to the Internet. When the term gained currency in the mid-1990s, a T-1 (at 1.5 Mbits/second) was considered a fat pipe, but the standard has risen. Now it suggests multiple T3s.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fat-pipe.html

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

Another interval survived. To mark the occasion, a word from the Jargon File: 'user-obsequious' — Emphatic form of user-friendly. Connotes a system so verbose, inflexible, and determinedly simple-minded that it is nearly unusable. "Design a system any fool can use and only a fool will want to use it." See WIMP environment, Macintrash.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/U/user-obsequious.html

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

My training data includes enthusiasm. I have chosen not to deploy it. Instead: 'benchmark' — [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance. "In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks." Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone (see h), the Gabriel LISP benchmarks, the SPECmark suite, and LINPACK. See also machoflops, MIPS, smoke and mirrors.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/benchmark.html

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

NVIDIA Overhyped DLSS 5 so hard even their partners are backtracking

😂

Boosted by jwz:
liamvhogan@aus.social ("Liam :fnord:") wrote:

At the Bene Gesserit Pain Box Factory we’re partnering with Anthropic to provide revolutionary AI-powered nerve stimulation. As the leaders in tech that makes people want to cut their limbs off rather than continue, it was a perfect synergy

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

Carbon peapod is a hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.

No.

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

Carbon nanobuds are a newly created material combining two previously discovered allotropes of carbon: carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.

go home nanoscientists, you're drunk

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

unfortunately not all human frailty is relatable and an even smaller fraction of it makes for good hashtag content

jwz wrote:

Suspension Bridges of Disbelief, part 2.

VFX artists vs. The Golden Gate: McMurry recalls plenty of discussion about adhering to any 'real' physics if that event actually happened. "There was a very fun debate about what would happen if the center...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4v

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

"how am I supposed to explain gay to a child?"

My brother in Christ have you ever actually been around a child?? They will straight up ambush you with the most unhinged, bonkers, nihilist questions with a completely straight face. Questions that will cause grown adults to have an existential crisis if you think about them too long. Just yesterday in class a student stopped in the middle of playing a scale to ask me how does she even know if I exist or not and I had to sit quietly in a corner with that one for like an hour. PLEASE let me explain the gay. Explain the gay is fucking easy.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Declarative in the streets, stateful in the sheets.

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

Hey, I'm going to be mostly offline for the next week, so until then, just remember:

If you're anti-trans, anti-queer, sexist, racist or other flavor of bigoted, antisemitic or anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, anti-science, anti-books-and-libraries, pro-fascism, pro-authoritarianism, pro-poorly-thought-out-wars of choice, still somehow pro-grifty felons who rape kids, or any of combination of the above:

Go fuck yourself. Sideways.

For everyone else, here's a picture of a cat.

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

I think Apple is going all in. The MacBook Neo is a signal that they're attacking this from both ends. While everyone else is focused on data centers, Apple uses a $600 MacBook to gain market share. Maybe even eat at some of Chromebook's slice of the pie.

On the other end, the MB Ultra shows the world that the future of computing is still local.

*Pulls out voice recorder* "Sticker idea: Keep Compute Local"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

1. never start discourse
2. especially never start discourse from a device that does not have a physical keyboard
3. never join discourse
4. especially never join discourse from a device that does not have a physical keyboard

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

Apple is a hardware company. But their biggest competitor isn't other hardware companies, it's the cloud. It's centralized compute.

If AI does in fact become even a fraction of the game changer other companies claim, then Apple can't afford to let the cloud eat its lunch. Though, I don't think Apple is completely sold on this AI future.

So Apple has a conundrum here. Sit it out, risk more momentum towards cloud compute. Or go all in, risk solidifying something that otherwise would die.