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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@dangillmor I don't see how "they secretly took $100M from crypto grifters 12 months ago" is any more damning than "they publicly took $14M from crypto grifters 17 months ago" but if it gets a new batch of people to realize that they have been telling you who they are and you should believe them, I'll take it. https://jwz.org/b/ykbY

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Another great episode of Pivot To AI from @davidgerard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8

There is no doubt that AI compute costs are eventually going to come to haunt its users; we are being substantially subsidized at $20/month, or even $200/month. But I think many of us will be shocked at HOW MUCH we are being subsidized. A 90% subsidy isn’t out of the question.

I predicted in 2023 that 2024 was going to be the year of reckoning for AI adopters, because their bills will come due, and they will get sticker shock when they see the totals, and that would eventually ruin AI providers. BOY WAS I WRONG. Turns out, there was at least two more years’ worth of VC money that were ready to come out of nowhere and subsidize the end users’ bills. This money will eventually run out. But when?

#ai #slop

https://sfba.social/@drahardja/111574855941095375

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Westerners when Brown people are mass murdered daily by Israel/USA.

🤷‍♂️

Westerners when they have to pay more for oil.

🤬

#WesternValues

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

watching Wrangler deploy `.DS_Store` in 2026

Clownflare please, this is a solved problem

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
maphew@vmst.io ("matt wilkie") wrote:

#Astral acquired by OpenAI? Oh no no no. You don't need them, they need you. Aw man. I'm bummed. I'm sure you thought long & hard. Charlie Marsh it's your company and ruff and uv and ty are your tools, your decision, obviously. But but but. Argh. Astral is-was enough on its own! We need to tilt away from monopolies not into them :-/
#python

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

three drafts, which do i finish today?

1. Top ten Figma betrayals
2. 404 - CEO Not Found
3. Safari sucks (working title)

probably #1 it's the most educational and less drama farming
#3 is backup for a slow news week

Boosted by jwz:
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
dave@alvarado.social ("Dave Alvarado") wrote:

How (racist/sexist/whatever) harassment on Mastodon works:

1. Harasser replies to their target's post, with the reply set to "followers only", saying the most vile stuff you can imagine.

2. All the harasser's followers join in on the harassment, posting more vile stuff.

3. Nobody but the target and the harassment crew can see the vile stuff that was said.

4. Target is traumatized. Nobody else can see why.

5. Everybody says "I don't see it so it's not happening."

https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2024/08/12/hachyderms-introduction-to-mastodon-moderation-part-1/

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

SF did a test install of a neckdown on Kirkham at 9th. It worked great, just like a bunch of similar installations in the Presidio. Unfortunately a bunch of whiny babies cried about it and the city removed it. The replacement went in today - a speed hump.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

omg.lol’s IRC server, irc.social.lol, has been updated to the latest Ergo release candidate (v2.18.0-rc1). 💬

One of the neat things in the update is an API endpoint for retrieving channel listings. I've just put it to use with this new (live) channel listing: https://irc.social.lol/channels/

If you're an omg.lol member and you haven't yet visited our IRC server, consider stopping by and saying hi! You can start your own channels there, too. 💫

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

The only thing that allows me to suspend my disbelief after 10 Jurassic Park movies is that the US government still hasn't legislated the billionaires who owned the park.

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

😂