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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok (For explanation, memes like this are often loopy in the sense that they seek to denigrate furries by connecting furries with STI testing, and they seek to denigrate STI testing by connecting STI testing with furries. Countering that with a reverse loop is the gentlest sort of mocking that this sort of "reasoning" deserves.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok When the question is "Why do furry conventions offer STI testing?", the proper answer is "because it's what conventions should offer, and furries just figured it out first".

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok #MemeVaccine

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
RandamuMaki@mstdn.social ("Maki 🔻 🌹") wrote:

@wronglang @silvermoon82 @soatok As an asexual person, let me just say that not *everybody* fucks. But STI testing is definitely something *a lot of people* need.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

It's April 1st.

Insert joke about me retiring from #jellyfin for #roku, using #ai to rework all the code, rewriting the Roku client in #rust, removing all features from the client except watching Jury Duty with Pauly Shore, accepting ad money so you must watch pre-roll ads, locking features behind $$$, or us merging with #Plex here.

#aprilfools

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wronglang@bayes.club ("Krzysztof Sakrejda") wrote:

@silvermoon82 @soatok I hate to break it to you but 10/10 epidemiologists agree, even marketing people should get STI testing because *everybody* fucks, usually in more creative and interconnected ways than even the most lascivious of us have imagined. I would hate for a furry to get HIV from a marketer, sexual health has to be for everyone.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

@soatok
Furry conventions offer HIV and STI testing because:

1. furries are good and should be cared for, and
2. furries fuck

I agree more kinds of conferences should do this! Cybersecurity people fuck, too, and should be cared for. Python people, too.

Not marketers though. Marketing conferences should not offer STI testing because nobody should fuck marketing people.

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

> The interaction between the two collateral layers creates a cascading risk. If GPU collateral loses value, the neocloud tenant cannot service its debt, which impairs the tenant’s ability to make lease payments to the data center SPV, which in turn undermines the cash flows backing the data center ABS that investors are relying on.

and

> ...if it materializes at scale, would propagate losses across every layer of the financing stack.

Oh joy.

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

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> In a role reversal, this year Moody’s has warned that AI data center investments may be riskier than they appear, as current U.S. accounting rules allow companies to conceal tens of billions in potential liabilities. Moody’s noted that reported liabilities may understate likely cash outflows

No worries there, right?

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

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> Data center debt has increasingly been repackaged and sold to a wider pool of investors through asset-backed securities (“ABS”) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”).

This has never backfired, right?

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

This law firm memo provides a fairly detailed overview of the risks inherent in the "AI" finance bubble and it doesn't look good

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> The deeply interconnected AI ecosystem means that distress at any single node—a construction delay, a tenant default, unhedged energy cost differentials, a collapse in GPU resale values—can propagate across multiple counterparties and financing layers.

This is fine, right?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“we also hate slop, which is why [deafening slop machine noises]”

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

If you want to see the 80 page preview and follow the progress of the book, you can buy the preview separately here:

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/D70UH

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

I have an Easter sale going! First off, a bundle of all of my books, including the ones no longer available for sale elsewhere. It's more than 60% off the full price

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/QHWZc

But the interesting part of this is an experiment where, included in the bundle, is a preview of the book I'm working on. Buying the bundle, or the preview separately, lets you join a newsletter where I'll be documenting my progress on the book.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?"

(Original title: Dissolving the social)

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
johl@mastodon.xyz ("Jens Ohlig") wrote:

„By Wednesday morning, Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions—known as source code—that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub.“

Because if there’s one thing GenAI companies absolutely don’t take lightly, it’s copyright.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ladytel@masto.hackers.town ("/usr/local/goth @ home") wrote:

@soatok might as well throw in drug testing strips, sharps disposal, and narcan. Should cover a good chunk of public health concerns

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ic5146@meow.social ("Koko") wrote:

@tila @soatok honestly the fact that soatak came up under crypto furry and not some cryptocurrency grifter is nice lmfao

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
notthatdelta@furry.engineer ("Delta Sierra") wrote:

@FurryBeta @soatok people are going to fuck, ESPECIALLY in a setting where they don't have to clean up afterwards.

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

“Dissolving the social”

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

> “AI” exists to disenfranchise labor. That’s what it’s for.

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

formally vilified

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

Damn, it's been fifteen years to the day since this excerpt from my fantasy trilogy was published, and not only have I NOT completed the trilogy, I haven't even finished writing the first book! What's wrong with me? Why can't I hit a deadline? Truly, I suck!

https://reactormag.com/the-shadow-war-of-the-night-dragons-book-one-the-dead-city-excerpt/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I am late getting into the office, e.g., switching from the personal laptop to the work laptop. There are many things I dislike about Florida in 2026, but “working remotely and living rent-free” is a silver lining I desperately cling to.

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

i haven't actually gotten any code written in 96h, mind.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmkorhonen.fi@bsky.brid.gy ("Janne M. Korhonen") wrote:

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
notthatdelta@furry.engineer ("Delta Sierra") wrote:

@soatok Having attended many work/professional conventions and many many furry conventions:

Attendees at BOTH would benefit from HIV testing. Hell, attendees at ANY type of convention would benefit from free HIV testing.

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

approximately 96h since i quit smoking. haven't felt a need to take painkillers yet today, so that's something?

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116329739174685586

holy shit ACARS will never be the same again

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

Creationism is Numberwang!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/we-get-prizes/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AR99Hg8Vrvw

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

i did an out. still cannot recommend tbh