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Boosted by jwz:
lucky@mastodon.nz ("Lucky ✨") wrote:

"i prompted an output from the machine that outputs crazy bullshit with no basis in reality and what happened next will shock you"

grandpa no!

A post from Bernie Sanders: I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Java tooling in 2026:

"Install JDK 21."
"Actually keep JDK 26."
"Also set JAVA_HOME to something."
"Gradle will ignore it unless it won't."

Jeez, I just wanted to compile an app not perform an ancient ritual.

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

NVIDIA: Our new AI enhances game graphics!

The enhancements:

A ruined painting of Jesus with the face looks like a child painted it

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

these are almost as good as opinionated frameworks

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

thank god, it's an opinionated guide

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Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://newstechnica.com/2012/10/30/chuck-norris-facts-updated/

Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked gay marriage, and fell flat on his ass.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He’s worrying about gay marriage.

Chuck Norris’ tears cure gay marriage. Too bad for him he never cries.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris’ beard. There is only the quivering fear of gay marriage.

Chuck Norris doesn’t do pushups — he might accidentally get gay-married.

When Chuck Norris goes to sleep every night, he would check his closet for gay marriage, if he had a closet.

Chuck Norris does not go opposing gay marriage, because the word “opposing” implies the possibility of failure. Chuck Norris already failed to stop gay marriage.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil to stop gay marriage. When the deal had been done, the devil gay-married him.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. Tell him how *fabulous* gay marriage is.

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Boosted by jwz:
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."

So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

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jwz wrote:

This story just makes me sad all over again that we never got a third season of Impulse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWLCtREegLQ

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

bummed that I could not attend PyCascades when I had a single conflicting obligation, relieved that I am not attending PyCascades now that I have like eight conflicting obligations crashing into each other simultaneously

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

Trump is going to "double down" again, as the Iranians refuse to roll over and play dead and his frustration rises. he is having trouble understanding he is not in control of this.

Trump's War is going to result in Marines and Sailors dying for Trump's Whim.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

I just googled something and Google put its AI summary top, which incorrectly used a Facebook post - misinterpreting it. The Facebook post itself was an AI summary of a user post - which AI had also misinterpreted. The result is the Google answer was just total bollocks.

10/10 no notes.

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Boosted by jwz:
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Ninji@wuffs.org wrote:

just saw an ad for a soft drink that said “same incredible taste, fruity new look” and that’s basically how i felt after i finally got my hair dyed blue

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

Why would *anyone* choose to cross a border into or out of the USA at the moment?

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2026/03/20/canadian-mother-and-her-seven-year-old-daughter-detained-in-texas-husband

Paperwork fully in order, legally permitted to be in the country, and hauled off into detention.

#USA #Travel

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

lol, i hadn't realised DLSS5 was so bad. i mean i know it's all ridiculous, but i had foolishly assumed they would be sensible enough not to advertise it until they got rid of the obvious artifacting.

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Boosted by jwz:
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Old WWII style poster with a carpenter building a coffin with the text Do your bit! SAVE SCRAP WOOD to build coffins for our boys!

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jwz wrote:

I know none of you click links, let alone Previouslies, but I promise you that all of the Previouslies on this one are worth your time.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

We are not on strike yet. The vote authorized our Bargaining Committee to call a strike when needed. Support us by visiting our website, donating to our strike fund and signing our petition.

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

the only things saving me from making a bsd distro are:

  • need money for hardware
  • not a teenager any more
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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarae@ecoevo.social ("Sara") wrote:

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

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jwz wrote:

Top FEMA Official Claims He Teleported to Waffle House.

FEMA's Gregg Phillips says he has experienced multiple "scary" episodes of sudden teleportation: Phillips spoke "on multiple podcasts" about being teleported against his will, which he has...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4x

Screenshot

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

Considering making this into a blog post with a real bombastic headline like

"Can The MacBook Pro Save The World?"

Lolol. I mean, really lean into the inevitable accusation that I'm making Apple into a moral actor, instead of just pointing out that Apple's business strategy just so happens to be preventing a pretty terrible cloud-centric, centralized compute future.

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

And, and, and. We know what the PC market looks like when there isn't a competitive force to keep computational power on-device.

The gaming PC market.

Companies are pushing gaming to the cloud at breakneck speed. They've dumped billions into R&D to improve latency.

Now, you can *rent* a "gaming" thin-client for $20/month.

If Nvidia and the like can pusher *gamers* to the cloud, normies will be a breeze. The only thing stopping them is, imo, Apple (for now).

https://youtu.be/I3xYHYuMqZU

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

New Redis TUI in town! 🔥

🌀 **tredis** — Explore & manage Redis from the terminal

💯 Browse keys, inspect data types, monitor commands in real-time

🔐 Multi-server + TLS support (Upstash, Redis Cloud, etc.)

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/huseyinbabal/tredis

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #redis #tls #terminal #commandline #opensource

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

What a weird thing to find in a genetics textbook. Noah was an albino?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/20/noah-or-snow-white/

The biblical character Noah, along with the Ark and its animals, is among the most recognizable figures in the Book of Genesis. His birth is recorded in a single sentence, and although the story of how the Ark was built and survived a great flood is told later, there is no mention of Noah’s physical appearance. But other sources contain references to Noah that are consistent with the idea that Noah was one of the first albinos mentioned in recorded history. The birth of Noah is recorded in several sources, including the Book of Enoch the Prophet, written about 200 B.c. This book, quoted several times in the New Testament, was regarded as lost until 1773, when an Ethiopian version of the text was discovered. In describing the birth of Noah, the text relates that his “flesh was white as snow, and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool, and long, and whose eyes were beautiful.” A reconstructed fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls describes Noah as an abnormal child born to normal parents.

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Boosted by jwz:
dansup wrote:

Folks, please be nice to BlueSky.

You don't want to be labelled as a critic, and kindly remember they are really decentralized and only took $100+ million in venture capital to improve the social web.

Last but not least, don't pay attention to the CEO responding to criticism by responding with "Are you paying us? Where?" followed up with "You could try a posters strike. I hear that works".

They are great. ATProto is the future. They aren't like other girls.

They care ❤️

Users continued to criticize her — when one compared the criticism to a customer threatening to cancel their service, Graber asked, “Are you paying us? Where?” When another suggested that she should apologize, Graber said, “You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works.”

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Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.

A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.

These two things are not the same at all.

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

life can be so very difficult for a housecat


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Boosted by jwz:
quarknova@wikis.world ("chaotic enby") wrote:

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing%5Farticles%5Fwith%5Flarge%5Flanguage%5Fmodels/RfC