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

Why am I so tired recently?

(looks at news)

Oh, right, my body processes anxiety by wanting to shut down, got it

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

@heathen_cat @drwho @soatok

I used to run pro relations for a big convention, ie managing getting the pros from airports to the hotel, making sure their room was ok, making sure the pro suite was staffed and stocked, all the behind the scenes stuff.

I just contacted the owners and said that they should get these booths at their events and talk to CC and WC about putting them there. These need to be so normalized that people don’t notice them.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Need more pictures of #plushtodon to improve mental health (⁣#blåhaj will also do).

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

Sorry @dillo I just want to know if this patch is active in dillo 3.2.0 (on archlinux)

https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo/commit/?id=6a58684566f4d61bae7e3974023bc0989c3f2eb2

because I encounter oauth registration with smolfedi

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedi

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

Hmmm #Artemis2 has a 40 minute LOS. This is incredibly poor performance from NASA mission planning.

The mission should have been planned to have a 42:50 LOS.

This would give them exactly the right amount of time to listen to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon...

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

The spiders are still camera-shy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/ive-had-few-opportunities-to-photograph-spiders/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dryad.technology@bsky.brid.gy ("mcc") wrote:

Probably my proudest moment on Twitter was when someone was talking about climate change, and a sealion said "oh yeah? prove it" and somebody said "well have you seen the report from BOFA?" and the sealion said "what's BOFA?", and I jumped in with a link to Bank of America's report on climate change

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jaebv4toalhhremr33g7j4o3/post/3mirspp3nwc2f

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

@slightlyoff fiction needs enough credibility to enable suspension of disbelief

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
robin@riley.pub ("Mx. Riley") wrote:

I had hoped to avoid this — but my job search is taking longer than expected, and Chris lost his job unexpectedly. I'm now fundraising so that I can afford my gender affirming care and my surgery which is scheduled for October 8th!

Donate at: https://riley.pub/fundraiser

Every bit helps, and I welcome and encourage you to share this :boost_please:

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

Oh my god save me from the intellectually dishonest and sloppy

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

you know the 'all-seeing eye' of the illuminati that's on US banknotes? well i've just seen someone went for that tattoo on their chest and it's a novel taste.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:

@adele now also tested with snac, fwiw ;-) nice work!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

Just watched a coworker type, "You keep running the same command expecting different output. Try something else." into Claude Code. Satire is dead.

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

As a fiction enjoyer, I sometimes like to imagine a timeline where five Republicans in congress had morals or spines.

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

if you hadn't heard,

lol, lmao

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

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-ai-writing-witchhunt-is-pointless/

This

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

The slow part of software is NOT the initial generation of software. It's the maintenance and review of it.

If your management is pushing for 10x programmer output, hell even 40% more programmer output, what they're asking for is a stability crisis. There's no way around it. That's how it is right now.

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

The shame of carrying an American passport will not recede quickly after today, whatever the outcome. That we (mostly Republicans, but all of us in some way) let it come to this is a moral stain. Impeachment and removal, followed by the Hauge, would dab some of it out but not all. Our souls limp and drag heavily now, damage anyone can see.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

Got my first "AI is going to revolutionize the world" dude to that thread from yesterday.

But, I want to be very clear to anyone else thinking "I'll debate this person about AI's value because-"

Let me stop you there.

If you tried to engage me in a debate about eating my own shit, I'd also tell you to fuck off.

*Just* the *extant* externalities of this technology make it, independent of its "value", worthless. Add to that the fact that it's garbage, and again, debate is worthless.

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

I was joking in the post yesterday about starting a tiki bar, but, like I said, just in case.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I wrote something about how I had been the target of an anti-gay thing on a Singaporean subreddit. In September last year a bunch of people (led by a Singaporean school teacher) told everyone to search my social media posts to report anything anti-Republican to ICE

My piece is less about the specifics about that incident but more about how I feel, as a person who has been out online for the last 22 years, that the climate has changed (the homophobia never really went away but was just less public, briefly)

And also about increasing homophobia, transphobia around the world.

Not sure where I’ll publish it. Will welcome ideas for any online or other publication.

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

Periodic reminder: When people actually _study_ social media, they come to realize that even the most so called "echo chamber" actually tends to be MORE diverse than the communities they'd otherwise inhabit.

The tribal, self-reinforcing social boundaries that reject new information are actually an artifact of _contextless exposure to people with different points of view_. And accelerated by hostility.

In short: echo chambers don't exist. Insularity is a response to disrupted community norm formation by slamming too many people together without context for each other. It's not the social media algorithms directly doing it. It's the social response to those algorithms.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dpp/116363401562033481

This has me wondering.

Honestly, flooding mastodon with horrible-level and vitriolic anti-AI takes would be a good way to drive people toward AI acceptance. It won't work on everyone, but it'll capture influential, thoughtful people.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I saw someone recently comment about LLM coding agents: "Now that writing code is no longer the bottleneck..."

The only time writing code was the bottleneck was when I was a Jr. Engineer or had recently switched to a new language. The real bottlenecks are figuring out *what* to build and what tradeoffs to make to get there.

This post puts it into better words than I've been able to:
https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

#LLM #AI

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Normally I'd be more excited about a moon mission, but I'd vastly prefer if any other nation was doing it. Can't really care about it when the US is bombing civilian bridges in Iran and then bombing the first responders (and as of today, apparently announcing genocide. Not their first time, I guess).

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If the assertion is that Iran can't be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons because they've threatened to use them to wipe out other nations, surely the U.S. now forfeits its own right to such weapons, now that our "leader" has said:

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

Someone needs to remove that deranged man from power before he does something so bad that the rest of the world has to go to war with us.

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

Prediction: Iran will still exist tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/hes-absolutely-utterly-insane-and-a-danger-to-the-world/

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
CharlotteEowyn@chaosfem.tw ("'i am no man' Charlotte Eowyn!") wrote:

@TheJen @FeloniousPunk @scottjenson @Gargron

The entire AI industry is built on:

*stolen art
*stolen literature (also a form of art)
*trying to get the benefits of labor without any obligation to labor.
*wallstreet techbro bullshit.

The Fediverse is INHERENTLY a space started by decentralized tech people, queer people, trans people, BIPOC people, disabled people - it has a lot, a LOT of marginalized people, a lot of artists, a lot of 'hey I am gay and marginalized in like 20 different ways' people.

Asking why we don't like AI is like going into the NAACP and asking why they don't welcome the clan. Or going into an Autism Self Advocacy Network meeting and asking why they don't like Autism Speaks. Or going to a 'No Kings' rally with a trump hat on.

THE AI BROS ARE THE ENEMY. They are indifferent to the suffering they cause at best and benefit from it at worst.

There can literally be no room for pop culture tolerance of AI anything. Give it an inch and it will literally destroy the world. (literally: AI has completely reversed all of our progress on global warming and because of what its done to the trendlines, we are on progress towards a hothouse earth at current.)

Probably not the response you wanted, but hey, AI isn't what we wanted, either.

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

Oh, OK Canada, we'll stay on our side of the border for now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/07/are-you-relieved-canada/

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

Security debt, solved.

there are some incredibly creative people in github marketing.

Leverage security campaigns and Copilot Autofix to reduce application vulnerabilities.

oh god, my side, it hurts