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

4 meter pizza

jwz wrote:

I miss the olden days when I could manage to give even one fractional shit about human spaceflight.

When every news article didn't require navigating whether it was propaganda, or a grift, or both (because it's *never* science).

When I thought that humanity surviving beyond Earth was even *remotely* possible.

This timeline sucks.

https://jwz.org/b/yk51

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davefischer@hachyderm.io ("Dave Fischer") wrote:

Military ruggedized magnetic core memory. ROLM, 1980.

More photos and info:

https://rcsri.org/collection/rolm-1602/

#Photography #RetroComputing #RCSRI

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passenger@kolektiva.social ("Passenger") wrote:

@burnitdown

I'm not gonna link to it here or mention the dude's name.

The very short version is that he is a very senior tech dude on the business side rather than the actual coding side, has worked in Google and places like that. The sort of person who we think of as belonging on LinkedIn. The sort who thinks tech happens in meeting rooms rather than in command lines. You know the type.

Anyway, he posted a thread about how Mastodon is not going to be taken seriously until we stop being mean to AI aficionados. As he wrote it turned into something of a meltdown, with the term bubble used extensively, and finally led to comparisons between Black people not feeling welcome on Mastodon (which is a problem and sucks) and AI boosters not feeling welcome (which is good and proper and we should bully them more.)

After a great deal of pushback, he said he was going to back off and reconsider, which is the classy thing to do; and then got back into fighting with individuals, which is not.

There are some very thoughtful comments on the matter by various people.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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davey_cakes@mastodon.ie ("Davey") wrote:

"I want to talk about an under-represented group on Fedi"

Young people? "No"
Africans? "No"
Less techie folks? "No"
Indigenous folks? "No"
Women? "No"
Non-English/German speakers? "No"
Anyone not white? "No"
South Americans? "No"
Minority religious folks? "No"
People with cognitive differences? "No"
Non-graduates? "No"
Working class folks? "No"
Retired people? "No"
Occupied people? "No"

Emmmm, the Sentinel Island people? "No"

Ok, who?

"Tech journalists who love AI"

Fuck all the way off.

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

Steve Yegge is so bad that whenever I want to convince somebody on the fence on ”AI” that the biggest LLM boosters all seem to be having serious mental health episodes, I send them a link to one of his posts. Works every time.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Since we are AI discoursing again today, I just want to say: I'm sick of it and I don't want to hear about it any more.

I am doing my best to contribute to the discourse in a positive and respectful way. But at the end of the day I'm just very tired, and _really_ disappointed in a lot of people.

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

your engineering job now involves smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day and bragging about how much it costs and if you don’t you’ll be left behind

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My PineTime's touchscreen just died after ~5 years. Super sad, as I was just about to finish a couple more PRs for the entire ecosystem (firmware, render-path, sim, emu) 🥺

Now I'm really not sure if I should just order another one or if I'll wait for the PineTime Pro - which is still several months away.

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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

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_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.

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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

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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

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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.”

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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.

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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

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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.