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

So, since the "the fediverse needs to be open to new ideas" canard is going around again, let's just be clear. AI is not a new idea, it's the oldest idea in the tech industry.

It's the idea that capital can embrace, extend, and extinguish computing, the idea that industry is more important than labor, that the climate crisis is an externality not worth worrying about. AI is the idea that stocks matter more than people.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

This is also why I have little patience for the "we have to stay on X to ~resist~" argument. If you are looking for people whose minds are available to be changed, X is the absolute last place you will find them

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

This chart Nate Silver made of the X accounts with the most engagement in 2026 seems like it might be useful to show decent orgs who resist moving their primary online presence off X. Is this really the company your org wants to keep?

https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show?utm%5Fsource=post-email-title&publication%5Fid=1198116&post%5Fid=193285131&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wabr&triedRedirect=true&utm%5Fmedium=email

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rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

Me: see? He’s just a potato but when we put clothes and stuff on, poof! He has gender, he’s Mr. Potato head. See?

Conservative: show me his potato dick

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
_thegeoff ("Geoff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿") wrote:

If I was on Artemis I'd spend the 40 minute radio blackout rigging all the clocks, logs, instrumentts etc to show that 6 hours had passed, then refuse to comment on what I'd seen on the far side.
This is probably why I'm not allowed on the Artemis.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
olivia@scholar.social ("Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ") wrote:

New-ish preprint! Marcela, @Iris, and I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17786243

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

So, if you're like me, and you grew up with Lucky Luke comics, then watched all too many classic westerns, then the new French-language Lucky Luke series on Disney Plus (Europe only, I think) is tailor-made to your interests. Does a good job of capturing and modernising the feeling of the original

Its aesthetics occasionally remind me of that one page where Jean Giraud drew Lucky Luke in the style of Blueberry as a gag, but that's kind of inevitable when you inject realism into a cartoon style

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

wow that is very hair

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

Wikis accounts to follow (cont.):

SOFTWARE (all are FOSS)
@kiwix - Searching & viewing wikis offline
@mediawiki - Software powering Wikipedia
@TiddlyWiki - Personal wiki software
@FeatherWiki - Lightweight wiki software
@xwikiorg - Wiki software for businesses
@bookstack - Self-hostable wiki software

WIKI BOTS
@cpod - Wikimedia Commons picture of the day
@YesterdaysWiki - Most-viewed pages on English-language Wikipedia
@TrendingOnWiki - Trending Wikipedia topics in random countries

3/3

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

lol okay it's not often i audibly 'what???' at rust code

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

Test of toot with images using #SmolFedi

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

(the correct amount is more than you're doing, i guarantee it)

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

the correct amount of engineering btw is the amount i do. if you do less you're a charlatan and if you do more you're just wasting time

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

boost to jumpscare a qud player

#CavesOfQud

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

vibe curd

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Marginal and corporate tax rates should be high enough that turning gasoline into madlibs that use more gasoline to make more madlibs doesn't become the only growth sector of the economy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Ulisu@mastodon.art ("Ulrich Suberg") wrote:

Over Easter weekend I did this little project. I had practiced my constructive anatomy extensively the last months with concentrating on heads and hands the last couple weeks. So I thought to put my skills to the test and I am pleased that it’s at least readable. No references, just tried to go with what I know.
1. Perspective construction 2. Extraction of a linedrawing 3. Rendering

Boosted by jwz:
Rycochet@furs.social wrote:

@froztbyte 'This platform is an echo chamber!' yells person frustrated that the system on Mastodon isn't rigged to force people to have to listen to their bad takes the way it is on their preferred platforms.

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Rycochet@furs.social wrote:

I kind of suspect the loud voices frustrated at Mastodon and declaring it dead or an echo chamber are doing so because they cannot find a way to rig the system in their favour or pay to win like Twitter.

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

I can't wait until I can share what I'm working on x.x

Boosted by jwz:
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

So when these liberals wander around demanding that we leave the "echo chamber" (the fact-based world, in this instance) so we can be considered "reasonable", and in doing so find themselves defending *PLANET-DESTROYING TECHNOLOGIES CREATED BY CARTOONISHLY EVIL ROBBER BARONS*, it's not aberrant: it's how their ideology works.

They will *always* push back on moral thinking to make space for evil, because *that's the core idea behind their politics*.

And they think it's noble.

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Boosted by jwz:
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

To a liberal, "reasonableness" isn't a practice, a function of critical thinking, or even the result of a well considered heuristic.

It's a fetish.

Yup; just like some people like to suck on toes, liberals like to be "reasonable". It toots their horn to be "the only adult the room", to the point where they'll notice a consensus forming and scream

"WAIT A MINUTE obviously the *correct* and *adult* answer is ~somewhere in between~!!!!!"

This happens literally on *every issue*.

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

single-use food

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (Television Executive)") wrote:

On the fediverse especially, but on *every* social media platform to a greater or lesser extent, the things that other people see are determined by how much time and energy you put into the things you see.

Lift folks up. Share good things. Give oxygen to good things.

We don't have to talk about prominent British transphobes and their problematic media, or american mega corporations and their mediocre reboots that they use specifically to avoid paying royalties to animators.

We can instead talk about @dilmandila and his short films ( https://tv.dilstories.com/c/shortfilms/videos ) and documentaries ( https://tv.dilstories.com/c/documentaries/videos ).

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

we should teach horses to climb mountains like they do in skyrim

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
chirpbirb@meow.social ("taco, bird/cat :verified420:") wrote:

open source software developers are getting fed up and are finally recognizing that they can just fucking leave.

• the owner of nvim-treesitter gets a really shitty comment from a user saying that the update to a required version broke their workflow
• the owner replies saying "hey just pin what you need instead of mainlining it if you need this for an older version"
• the shitty user replies back saying "go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people"
• the owner says "OK." and ARCHIVES THE REPO

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/discussions/8627

like, holy shit, what a power move.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I've been burned so many times; I've learned my lesson. You really need to read each of these things carefully if you want to understand what the researchers are concluding. Reading a news article—even worse, just the headline—is at best no information, at worst disinformation.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I am begging AI researchers trying to study human impact to get very rapidly better at methodology so I don't constantly read halfway through these papers only to find some ridiculous experiment design that will throw the conclusions into the air.