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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kirakira@furry.engineer ("kira for scale") wrote:

@soatok genuinely an incredible community resource

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tiefling@bardicperspiration.club ("Diotima") wrote:

@soatok

This is a good idea and tbh ppl not getting tested is one of the hangups I have w being more active in my spicy life. I test enough to know I am safe, but ppl get weird abt it if I ask them if they do.

"Don't u trust me?" Uhm not anymore.

I see the sign and I think "hey they're doing it right."

I want this at all cons.

@hazelnoot

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
captainbara@meow.social ("Captain Bara") wrote:

@philpem @soatok
Furlingame (this weekend!) is offering HIV and STD testing Friday through Sunday.

https://furlingame.com/

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

TFW you just went most-in[1] on the solution they just orphaned https://mastodon.org.uk/@stsquad/116323060040293062

[1] it doesn't sound as good as all-in, does it?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“[2603.21687] MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687

> Frontier models readily generate detailed image descriptions and elaborate reasoning traces, including pathology-biased clinical findings, for images never provided

And

> Second, without any image input, models also attain strikingly high scores across general and medical multimodal benchmarks, bringing into question their utility and design

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

By Garis Edelweiss

#Art

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mcmullin@musicians.today ("David McMullin") wrote:

@jrp
Each time you get COVID, maybe nothing bad happens, and maybe you get permanent disabling fatigue or a heart attack or brain damage. The more times you roll the dice, the more the chance of a bad outcome. If I’m wrong, I will have worn a mask and been thought a weirdo for nothing. (That’s what I hope!) But if I’m right, 25 years from now I could be one of the only healthy people of my generation still around.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I will once again repeat what I think is a nationally winning campaign for a US opposition party (should any care to exist), now with Berlatsky’s improved phrasing:

❝If elected, I will fight like hell to:

- destroy Donald Trump, everything he has done, and everything he stands for,

- tax the living shit out of billionaires, and

- use that money to repair the damage they’ve done to the US.❞

Not saying that’s everything that needs to happen, or an entire political philosophy, or the solution to everything. Only saying that I think that — simply that — would win elections. Try it and see. You cowards. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:htdsafwakqmzvuk2oivijzn6/post/3midafsxk3k2p

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

do you have any bofa

bofa deez factors of authentication!

…this concludes my defcon presentation, I yield my remaining 59 minutes and will not be taking questions at this time

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drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

@jwz It is immensely reassuring to hear that I am not the only person who finds Wikipedia articles about math incomprehensible.

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sand@kitty.haus ("Neputunu") wrote:

@jwz i started to update my computer to check out the new screensavers, but then i remembered that i'm on debian stable.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

For the people who complained that the Curta was overkill and I should use a sliderule, I tried it this morning and calculated that 2.1*10^-2 kg coffee at a 1.5*10^1:1 ratio is about 3.15*10^-1 liters. Or something like that within a few powers of ten.

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netblocks ("NetBlocks") wrote:

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered day 32 with most users cut off from the outside world for over 744 hours.

Extended digital isolation is bringing new challenges for Iranians, from expired domains and accounts to unpatched servers on a degrading national intranet.

ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

never a dull moment when playing npm roulette

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

@soatok Honestly I'm offended that more cons didn't offer it.
Sadly the dogwhistle tactics work - I think I told you about pushing for safe-sex kits in ConOps at one of the UK cons and being told "the media will have a field day, are you trying to destroy the con?"

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

Feel you, Mr. Plant

https://ledzepnews.com/2026/03/30/robert-plant-said-he-hasnt-been-writing-new-music-because-the-world-is-in-such-a-mess/

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smagnusson@graphics.social ("Spencer Magnusson") wrote:

I'd recommend every artist to follow feeds that include beginners, no matter what skill level you are. There's something so invigorating about seeing others take their first steps and creating things.

Remember: even your first steps can inspire anyone. #art #programming #FediArt

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh") wrote:

Something I think about a lot is when I posted something on here critical of genAI, and soon after got a text from a very talented friend who I look up to saying that they had been thinking the same thing, but didn’t want to say anything publicly for fear of negatively affecting their career by criticising genAI.

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ddayen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Dayen") wrote:

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

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stephenjudkins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Stephen Judkins") wrote:

That's right

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

"Does a defendant who used an AI translator retain attorney-client privilege?

Not according to a recent decision from a judge in the Southern District of New York. On Feb. 17, Judge Jed Rakoff issued a written opinion in United States v. Heppner. This first-of-its-kind ruling found that documents created by a criminal defendant using Claude are not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine."

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-and-privilege-after-united-states-v.-heppner

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

Oh lord, I am so tired of people not listening to me and then demanding I bail them out of the extremely foreseeable consequences

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

One definition of legacy code is code that you're afraid to change. (And you should be afraid to change any code that doesn't have automated test coverage.)

Aren't LLMs just legacy code generators? You can generate tests, but until you've tested the tests, they're legacy code too.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

Unfortunately, I fear that it's easy to see why LLMs became popular: getting anywhere in our currently arranged society requires us all to generate unreasonably large quantities of what is, frankly, total crap.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

employers should just put on their social media profiles that their opinions do not represent us

Boosted by jwz:
tomdar2@mas.to ("Tom Schmidt #DEI 🥄🇺🇸:v26:") wrote:

#NoKings Antarctica. All 7 continents represented on Saturday. 🇺🇸

jwz wrote:

XScreenSaver 6.15 is out now. A whopping thirteen new savers this time:
New hack by me, worldpieces.
New Shadertoy hacks brought into the fold: bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball.

I fixed a bunch of Android bullshit, too (some of which meant needing to reimplement glRotatef etc. from first principles). Android's implementation of GLES is a buggy mess...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5c

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.

Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.

https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Any Democratic candidate who does not put this headline into an ad is politically negligent

https://www.axios.com/2026/03/30/gop-health-care-pay-iran-war

#USPol

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@daisy/116312358923253621

This. The conversations are incredibly fraught. I hear this over and over

.. and also, the flip side. Anyone who finds it useful tends to find the need to keep it hush-hush on the fediverse. It's really preventing the "how do we steer" harm-avoiding conversations from happening. The net result is that only the careless touch the stuff. It’s not a good time.