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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"you can't have a quote-post or a link preview in the same toot as an image" is a baffling design choice on mastodon, I'm looking at a bunch of stuff on bsky that makes very good use of juxtaposition and like… why can't we juxtapose things. that's like half of language

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

“Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@invadersil/116324993175863094

TWO THINGS:

1. it’s shocking how well written this terms of service document is. #Microslop uses plain language and proper emphatic formatting to identify what’s important.

2. this was updated on October 24, 2025. since then NOT ONE TECH JOURNALIST has read it; because, not one tech "journalist" has reported that #Copilot IS MEANT AS #ENTERTAINMENT.

Fourth Estate my ass.

Satya Nadella gifted Sam Altman a billion of Windoze money for a lap dance?

c’mon #tech #journalism. DO YOUR JOBS!

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
annaecook wrote:

I swear half of tech is living in a completely different reality where they don’t realize AI is poisoning the internet.

I keep finding myself confused like do they not know or are they lying

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.

But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae%5FJemison

Also, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

This car costs $8500. Not a typo. Less than 10 racks. And you don't have to put gas in it.

But we can't have it in the US, because we'd rather have racism and argue about solved problems like birthright citizenship, and should Black people be allowed to vote.

So you get Cybertrucks instead. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZqRnLp%5FhtE

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Bird rescue. So mad about impending freedom.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

I'm not even talking about the data stealing, exploitation, environmental pillaging, pollution, environmental racism etc.

I'm talking about the way people use the tools. Like what do advocates of using these tools say will happen to software engineering in the future? That it just won't need to exist because everyone will be able to create software using these tools?

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

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/116332667717903322

I really think that we _are_ starting to build those tools. I'm party to a lot of discussions about how to use these tools well, and a lot of that starts to look like systems design: what are controls? What are the feedback loops? Where do we need to add new frictions? Where do we need to eliminate old bottlenecks?

We are still very, _very_ early in this.

But the work is getting done, and a lot of us 'haters' need to get in the drivers seat and start putting up useful critique like mttaggart's. I don't agree with the entire article, but it's solid work and solid case report. It’s very good stuff. We need a lot more of these conversations.

And we need to let people hate it. Not to be confused with obstinate blocking, but to have the feelings of hating it, of disliking the processes it engenders, of finding those new footings — or rejecting the bad ones. We can't look at this clearly unless we have the space to hate it.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

I appreciated this article by @mttaggart
infosec.exchange.

I get the temptation especially in this world we're all living in where you have to produce something super fast all the time.

But my question is, what are people's arguments for how functioning software can be created with these tools?

What about new architectures, new ways of thinking, new programming languages, etc? Who will create those?

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
gruff@stroud.social ("Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

I too cheered!

Facebook et. al. had it coming, didn't they?

The fallout from this could actually be very, very bad. I didn't appreciate the detail.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/

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

Yuuuuuuup

RE: https://www.threads.com/@annazarves/post/DWnB%5FaVFZu9

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116332497422486698

this is digital blackface and racist as fuck.

whomever is doing this knows Black people are THE Culture; so how swell it is to make money off Black culture without Black people?

and don't get me started with the fact that automata are proxies for SLAVES.

don't hesitate to call out Alphabet/Google/Youtube for making money off Black digital slaves.

this isn't progress. this is still baldfaced racism.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
PugJesus@piefed.social wrote:

Nomenclature means it's not an empire, right?

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1942758/nomenclature-means-it-s-not-an-empire-right

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

Puerto Rico’s Coasts Are for the People, Not a Playground for the Rich

Boricuas say ‘De Aquí Nadie Me Saca’ as they fight the Esencia megaproject

https://thelatinonewsletter.org/p/puerto-rico-coasts-for-people-not-playground-for-rich

#PuertoRico

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
sarahjeong.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("sarah jeong") wrote:

eventually someone in journalism will use AI in their work in a way that is legitimately impressive but by then the word will be so embarrassing that people are gonna have a whole set of euphemisms to avoid the connotation that they used AI to do the writing

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

A nice old-fashioned space launch to the Moon. It's been a while.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/01/artemis-2-successfully-launched/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGBoVotHqIE

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

right, i think it's time to go to bed.

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

NASA think they can show the field of sofware development up by having a perfect launch.

but joke's on them, they failed to fit a working toilet filter.

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

@tekhedd Furthermore, the sort of people who would say things like "It's bad optics." with a straight face, as though it's an argument, tend to be exercising magical thinking. Outside its proper context.

@soatok

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

in other news, they are openly having trouble hiring at their budget. they explained this is because they budget for two trips around the world to head office each year out of the salaries and i wasn't surprised this made it difficult.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

The future of UX is green: On the Web Sustainability Guidelines | 2026 | Talks | Events | W3C

A look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice.

https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/the-future-of-ux-is-green-on-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/

#sustainability #smallweb #smolweb

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

achievement unlocked: i convinced an australian i'm human at 1am.

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

NASA launches "bond style" "spacecraft"

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

okay it is almost 1am. i am now to pretend to be human shaped until i pass out, hopefully after australia have determined i am human shaped.

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

approaching 10,,000 miles per hour

yeah okay that's quite even faster

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

5000 miles per hour

yeah okay that's quite fast

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

launch is in 3 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

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

the second between 10:00 and 9:59 of the countdown to artemis launch is longer than the last 3 minutes on a washing machine cycle.