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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@rysiek @dgodon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lycansubscribe@furry.engineer ("Facade") wrote:

@soatok many of these look to me like russian state (bot?) accounts, which makes sense if u consider russia would greatly benefit from an american civil war

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

it rhymes with 'smunches his face in'

this is where we've gotten with algorithm appeasement, is it?

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

you're not allowed to punch people on a plane

more's the pity

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ashur@front-end.social ("Ashur Cabrera 🐦‍⬛") wrote:

@sstephenson I’m all for being less self-serious in our terminology* — may I humbly submit we use “pigtailing” instead 💁

*ex., “deploy” vs. “publish”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

This writer never uses AI.

The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.

My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.

These purposes are incompatible.

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

this is also my first time trying jackfruit as a meat replacement.

i think i prefer when the fruit doesn't jack off into my dinner actually.

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

i think surprising rice is almost ready

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
mrundkvist@archaeo.social ("Martin Rundkvist") wrote:

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

#science #nasa #artemis #space

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Gina@fosstodon.org wrote:

Inspired by Germany's #DiDay ("digital independence day") and the Danish #DanmarkSkifter, the Netherlands now has #DoeiDag ("bye day"), every first Sunday of the month. 🔥🇳🇱

DoeiDag is a montly day to say goodbye to big tech and to try open alternatives. It's organized by the good folks of @doeidag

More info: https://doeidag.nl

#TheNetherlands #opensource #foss

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

RE: https://urbanists.social/@markstos/116352916831364345

I _really_ wish my store didn't have a single place a bike can park, chained to a railing. Even then my trailer sticks out a bit.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
markstos@urbanists.social ("Mark Stosberg") wrote:

@yy on why urban grocery stores should prioritize bike parking over car parking:

- You don't need a car for groceries
- Grocery access is an equity issue
- Car parking is expensive and subsidizes the rich
- We can have 10 more customers park per spot
- Induced demand works both ways
- Spillover benefits
- Built for the future

https://yyahn.com/wiki/Bike-parking-at-urban-grocery-stores/

#urbanplanning #bikeTooter #cycling

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

If you want to use some character (Superman, Jesus, the sexy werewolves from that Van Hellsing movie, whatever) as an abstract ideal to strive for, okay, sure.

But the first step towards committing atrocity is failing to recognize one's own capacity for harm.

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

The biggest problem with the kinds of Democrats that fall for this nonsense is this unfounded belief that we're somehow The Good Guys.

Exhibit A:

https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/jeff-bezos-says-big-tech-companies-should-ignore-employee-outcry-partner-with-us-government.html

This might be a subtle point but they're not arguing "We're the guys who only perform good actions, or actions in service of goodness", they're saying "goodness is inherent to your [national] identity", which lets them turn a blind eye to bad actions that conflict with their self-image.

MAGA shatters their illusion.

There are no "good guys". There are only good and bad choices, if you're lucky.

The belief of Goodness as an identity is best avoided.

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

The "2024 election was stolen" conspiracy theories are just a rehash of the "2020 election was stolen" conspiracy theories and this is both sad and frustrating.

People choose to believe these narratives because they validate feelings and beliefs about how unfair the outcome of the election is; because they are profoundly ignorant of how the elections are conducted, secured, and validated; because it's easier than looking at America for what it really is.

If you see these kind of posts and can't help but notice the presentation style has a certain "FOX News" aesthetic, yeah, that's kind of deliberate.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:

lots of people are still unaware of how early, and how accurately, the fossil fuel industry knew about the dangers of climate change via CO2 emissions. it's probably worse than you think!

https://theconversation.com/what-big-oil-knew-about-climate-change-in-its-own-words-170642

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Speaking of music, there's also a lot of wonderful things to find here:

https://www.youtube.com/@arteconcert/videos

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

How do you do, fellow humans?

I enjoyed this set from Caught in Joy this morning. "Mercury":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GKxcwYeNWs

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

“Yeah, that's how you get got in this process. Once you stop scrutinizing the model's output, the probability something goes off the rails approaches 1. "Human in the loop" is necessary, but the current process itself makes the loop stultifying, and encourages the human to take themselves out of the loop. That process is straight up dangerous. The temptation to let it rip is always there, and I didn't even have a boss pressuring me to ship code.”

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

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
RuthMalan ("Ruth — of systems & design") wrote:

Went to IU Ballet’s Spring Ballet last night and it was gorgeous, and such a delight — humans do that!! They put years of their lives — so much of their childhood — into very VERY! disciplined practice. Building technique, flexibility, strength, and artistry.

And goodness, is it a visual demonstration of what can be achieved with trust in highly collaborative teaming among humans who are prepared to play their roles in each movement that takes trust to learn, and repeat, and perform!

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

I/O is an oxymoron, you can't divide by zero

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

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116352218169176064

This. And this is the place resistance to “AI” or resistance to _shape_ “AI” use actually has systemic power.

And to be clear, there are people whose concrete desire is to tear down all the process and safeties and go full steam ahead and they are productive enough to have organizational clout.

If we want to shape the future we need to understand these dynamics and wield them well.

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

I would not have known it was Easter, if not for the joyous voices of its celebrants.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/05/i-would-have-forgotten-that-today-is-easter-if-the-president-hadnt-reminded-me/

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

The modern way to find a baby-daddy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/05/making-babies-with-a-computerized-sperm-storage-site/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpkIIhk%5FLS4

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

hmm i can't have been feeling very well last week, i seem to have perpetrated crypto code.

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

On days like these I'm reminded of one of my granddad's favourite words: "helgislepja". Translated as "sanctimony"

"Slökktu á helgislepjunni í útvarpinu" > "Turn off the sanctimony in the radio"

That doesn't capture how funny the word is though: it literally means "holy phlegm" or "saintly mucus"

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

oh christ, where did i leave that benchmark?

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

life must be sooo complicated if you don't know a bit of physics

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

I'm still digging out stuff to flog off to cover the rent this month. Buy early and buy often! This time, rice up your old Amiga to ridiculous speeds:
https://www.amibay.com/threads/vampire-500-v2.2458418/

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

you ever just sort of have a delayed laugh attack, where you're just stunned but you know as soon as you stop being stunned you'll laugh a lot?