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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Friend: [...] the point is to be able to anticipate or avoid negative scenarios

Me: Your call for help is coming from inside of the negative scenario. Please hold for an operator.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

I SEE YOU.

i cherish you.

sending y’all big momma love and energy. you make me proud for living in your truth.

so, as i tell my babies every time they leave the nest: go out there, kick ass and take names.

be the wonderful you are.

#TransDayOfVisibility #HumanRights

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
coltofox@fox.yt ("Colto Fox") wrote:

Oh, isn't he just fab-u-lous, like yaaaasss!

#TummyTuesday #furry #fursuit #FursuitPhoto #FoxFurry #FoxFursuit #LupeSuits #belly #BellyFur #CuteFursuits #AustralianFurry

Attachments:

• unknown: A rotund Colto Fox (orange, white, brown and red fox fursuiter) in full fursuit doing a sassy pose in a room.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
scy@chaos.social wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

We shouldn't be asking why furry conventions do HIV/STI testing.

We should be asking why other conferences don't.

Excellent post about the reasoning behind it, and the cost involved, which might very well be "zero".

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

The president will have to do something else with his balls

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/31/politics/judge-rules-that-white-house-ballroom-contstuction-stop

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Difficult day today. Sometimes everything just adds up and the weight of the world is a bit much, the carefully-managed bucket of despair just overflows all of a sudden.

This is definitely the sort of storm cloud that will pass, but, oof.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodonczech.cz/@honzajavorek/116325497238163948

Always fun to see ways that one's influence can move to places one might not expect.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amethyst@n7.gg ("Amethyst 🌸") wrote:

Might be a long shot, but does anyone know a real human I could commission to write a short story in the Catalan/Valencian language? Bonus points if they are queer/adjacent.

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

I don't know how this will pan out. I don't even know the exact shape of the final book. But I think this might be a fun experiment for both me and my readers. It'll force me to do a better job of documenting my process and progress. And it'll show you some of the rough, nitty-gritty, parts of putting together a book like this.

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

"A massive Easter sale and a preview of my next book (out late 2026)"

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/easter-sale-and-the-toy-factory/

So for this Easter I'm making an experiment

Instead of trying to find time in between projects to work on my next book, I'm attempting to fund that work by offering a preview of it as a part of a Easter sale bundle

Those who buy the bundle or the preview also get to join a newsletter where I document the progress of the book over the coming months and, once it's out, a copy of the final version

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

A massive Easter sale and a preview of my next book (out late 2026): https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/easter-sale-and-the-toy-factory/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Reading analysis of the Claude Code leak (not reading the code itself, of course) is evidence towards what I had kind of suspected, that the whole thing is a giant magic trick not only in the straightforward LLMentalist way, but also in the sleight of hand way off making you think that this pile of regexes and JSON schema validation loops is *actually* the LLM doing LLM things.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116325367243779659

a proposal:

spin up a claude agent that will take this codebase in chunks as context and rewrite it "clean-room" and launder it into an open source project licensed under GPL

do you think they'll be cool with that? Probably, right?

EDIT: I spoke too soon. Someone already did it, and they're working on a Rust port: https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Outfit of the day for Trans Day of Visibility. I don’t hide my history online because my accounts have 20-30 years of history. But in person I just sort of blend into the background now. I never expected to “pass” in general, so it’d weird getting to a point where I need to flag with jewelry or clothes to signify my safety to other queer people now. 💜💕🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

So listen.

All LLM "red teaming" is kind of a joke because of the impossibility of verifiably defending the space. There will always be a smarter mouse/jailbreak/prompt injection. But embedded application testing—that is, testing AI features once incorporated into a separate application—is uniquely pointless.

Most of the tooling to automate the drudgery of LLM red teaming assumes API access to the model/application, against which it will fire endless prompts and evaluate responses. But once the app is embedded in an application, that access is almost never available. What's left is direct application access—in other words, clicking your way to glory. Maybe you want to try to Computer Use your way to a solution, but odds are you'll just end up doing this manually. And so doing a less thorough job. And so defending even less of the possibility space.

LLMs are fundamentally insecurable, but if you only get to them once they're baked into another application, that's somehow even more the case.

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

"There is a pervasive billionaire assumption that mainstream legacy journalism is 'liberal,' and there’s a big market for news that gets outside of the liberal bubble. That billionaire view is simply wrong. The nature of our current political moment is that the American right today is anti-empirical and anti-civic. That’s why when the Post or now CBS News goes searching for these underserved viewers hungering for journalism outside the liberal bubble, they fail. Because in a basic sense the current American right simply isn’t interested in news or journalism as most of us conceive it."

🎁 https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/neutrality-authoritarianism-and-thoughts-on-the-cult-of-both-sides/sharetoken/698853da-696d-4e19-bef8-7a504700f5f7

#USPol

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange ("Allan Chow") wrote:

I'm getting this impression that a lot of software developers would rather attempt to train an AI agent rather than train a person.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NatalyaD@disabled.social wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116321104173678252

A BiCon in 2017 invited a local sexual health clinic to do testing and advice one afternoon. It was a great idea and if I'm ever stupid enough to run a convention again I will try and make this happen.

Sex is not a bad thing.

Safer sex is awesome and making it easy, safe, socially acceptable and positive to access safer sex advice can only be a good thing.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iangclifton@androiddev.social ("Ian G. Clifton") wrote:

We need a new open source license that is like Apache 2.0, but any company that made more than a billion dollars in profit during a year where they also had layoffs is ineligible.

#opensource

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
what@chaosfem.tw ("esc key") wrote:

When policies are enacted that target transwomen, I often see liberal responses in the form, “this is bad! This will mostly hurt cis women!”
…
Let me say this very clearly: Even if anti-trans policy had no collateral damage, it would still be bad.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gsnedders@glauca.space ("Sam Sneddon 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I know plenty of cis people who view statements like “death before detransition” as hyperbole, but it’s really hard to express quite how bad both the discomfort of living as a gender you are not, day in a day out, and being on the wrong hormones, actually is.

For #TDOV this year, consider what you can do to push back on the rising anti-trans movement, and put that into action over the next year. If you’re unsure, here’s some actions:

• write to your elected representatives (and candidates, if there are elections coming up), and push back;
• look at spaces you frequently go (whether a cafe or your office, etc!) and push back on any sort of “biological” distinction between restrooms (either by not allowing such a distinction to be introduced or by changing them all to be unisex);
• imagine your new coworker is a stealth trans person: is there anything that could make your workspace more comfortable for them?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

Do not shame Kristy Noem’s husband for wearing clothes different than his gender. That’s fine. Wear whatever. If you feel cute, you’re cute.

Shame that fucker for being married to someone as fucking horrible as Noem.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

happy trans day of vengeance 🏳️‍⚧️

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

If I remember the right wing culture war talking points correctly: since it's Transgender Day of Visibility, it's also Easter I think?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

I'm trans and stuck in Texas because nobody will hire me and I can't take my job with me when I move to Seattle. So my options are move and end up homeless, or stay where I am in increasing danger.

I have 12+ years of experience in call center work and legitimately just need a job so I can move.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gwentacles ("Gwentacles") wrote:

Actually, let me try something different than just asking for money for TDOV:

If you have any possible leads or hiring power for a job that hires for WFH customer/tech support out of Washington state PLEASE message or DM me and if you don't please share this.

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

You can be a happy couple no matter who is wearing a dress or camouflage fatigues.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/31/oh-no-i-agree-with-nancy-mace/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zersiax@cupoftea.social ("Florian") wrote:

I was helping an open-source app become more #accessible yesterday and we ran into the problem that it looks like #screenReader Orca has a bit of a tendency to crash when exposed to webkitGTK applications. I've not done Desktop #linux for a long time and have no idea what the workarounds for this would be, does anyone know anyone who might know what's happening here? Do we need to set a random environment variable somewhere or update a specific package so this person can do basic screen reader testing on their app? #tech #openSource #screenReaders #linux #GTK #webdev

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

I am happy to be visible to other trans people, to people who might actually be trans and not yet realize it, and to cis people who want to use that visibility to advocate for me and people like me.

I'm not happy to be visible to people who want me hurt or even dead, and I am not happy to be visible to people who want to use me as a wedge to hurt others.