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ninlyricbot ("Nine Inch Nails Lyric Bot") wrote:

Oh, goddamnit!

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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:

New art: Overslept

I started this while we still had a lot of snow this winter. The long time it took me to finish and the subject both reflect my mental and physical state lately; tired af. 😅

Digital painting made in #krita

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Sorry for lack of art lately, my creativity and arm strength (needed for drawing) have taken a dive, but I'm slowly chugging along through illness (Graves disease) and under-researched medical treatments. And tbh, the state of the world.

#noAI #MastoArt #tired

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

but with the added bonus of making you look ridiculous

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

how electron spin was discovered

electron bowler hit the wicket

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

ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)

WASD (up left down right)

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

My dumb jokes required more thought and planning than whatever the hell happened in the last 24 hours. https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

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noisedeck@genart.social ("Noisedeck") wrote:

Multi-neighborhood cellular automata following scrolling stripes

https://sharing.noisedeck.app/s/YmIftw

#AlgorithmicArt #GenerativeArt

Attachments:

• gifv: Algorithmic art of smooth cellular automata moving along a diagonal stripe pattern. Blue, green, gray, and beige.

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

Every election post now is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

How To Negotiate Like A President

TRUMP: Surprise! I have murdered your leader and also 160 schoolgirls.

IRAN: Cool cool cool hey go fuck yourself. The Strait of Hormuz is closed now.

TRUMP: You have one day to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself.

TRUMP: You have three days to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself.

TRUMP: You have two more days to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself.

TRUMP: You have one week to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself.

TRUMP: You have 24 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself.

TRUMP: You have two weeks to open the Strait of Hormuz or else.

IRAN: Go fuck yourself. Also, here is a list of 10 demands where you give us everything we want and the Strait stays closed.

TRUMP: Deal!

TRUMP: I am the smartest and best negotiator that ever negotiatinged.

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

I sometimes still get stupid comments.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/08/the-dumb-ones-keep-coming-back/

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

the first shoe designed for surfing the internet

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

"Why Abstinence-Only Sex Education is a Bad Metaphor for Generative AI Refusal"

https://refusal.blog/2026/04/07/why-abstinence-only-sex-education-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-generative-ai-refusal/

> While people often misconstrue generative AI refusal as an ignorant, avoidant, fear-driven position, generative AI refusal builds on accurate research about the various ethical harms associated with generative AI, as well as disciplinary principles in writing studies.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

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

"This public push for the 25th Amendment comes with real downsides.

First, it raises expectations for something that absolutely will not happen. I think it’s cheap to push an idea we know won’t lead to the desired outcome. It’s a gimmick for engagement and fundraising.

Second, J.D. Vance and Trump’s cabinet will face their judgment in the history books — and the afterlife — for the ways they’ve sold their souls to Trump. But they are not accountable to voters. We need voters to understand that Trump is only able to act like this because Republicans in Congress let him."

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-25th-amendment-isnt-coming-to

#USPol

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Whenever electricity prices go negative (because legacy thermal generation which isn’t designed to be load following pays to stay on because it’s cheaper than curtailing) people wonder what could be done with that electricity to take load off the grid…

How about make ammonia?

World’s first dynamic green ammonia plant starts operations in Denmark

https://www.topsoe.com/news/worlds-first-dynamic-green-ammonia-plant-starts-operations-in-denmark

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

@NfNitLoop

• this is the most obvious example of a category of "ugh, we have to fit this shape" bugs. see also for example a smart pointer where you want to deallocate, but you don't want to embed the pointer to the allocator into the smart pointer lest you double the size.
• must_use is of course for a warning not an error

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

#SmolFedi 1.0.7 manages user defined Lists of profiles. A new entry in the menu for each list. And possibility to add/remove a profile in lists.

(at the moment, you can only use existing lists, nothing to create or delete one)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?

The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.

Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.

I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dysfun what things can’t you explore with RAII?

The main complaint I hear about rusts RAII is that Drop::drop() can’t return a Result, so any errors in cleaning things up (ex: File.close()) either get swallowed or have to become panics.

Rust lets you mark some types (ex: Result) as must_use.

I feel like a must_drop (manually) annotation would be a great addition to help remind folks to manually clean up and handle errors.

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

the ones in my head don't have names. they are basically given a meaningless unique identifier which i'm not actually aware of but nonetheless can compare for equality

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MtKanjon@meow.social ("Mt Kanjon") wrote:

ok, you can have a little macro kanjon, as a treat
https://youtube.com/shorts/iPoJgxTygXU

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

you know the metasyntactic variables?

no? well i mean you do, but they're the ones called 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' etc. yes it's a silly name, i didn't make it up.

how many of those do you have in your head for solving problems where you don't have names of all of the constituents?

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

What a really great idea

RE: https://www.threads.com/@blockclubchi/post/DW4GlVtEVXP

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beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

“In support of the 24-hour work stoppage, the union is asking readers and audiences to not visit ProPublica, click on stories, or otherwise engage with ProPublica content on other platforms and partner organizations.” — https://www.theverge.com/news/908401/propublica-union-strike-negotiations-ai-layoffs

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

other answers i would have accepted included "try whistleblowers"

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

(Also, they will never apologise for lying to you. You’ll still be waiting for an apology at the heat death of the universe.)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

augghhh why won't they just take my money https://keeb.io/products/sinc-lm-kit

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

how boeing strategically killed the A380?

the A380 was just a really bad idea, you want to talk about boeing killing, try the 737 MAX

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

Some of y’all are middle-aged. You should remember hearing outright falsehoods from an authority figure about a financial bubble at least once in your life before. This bubble’s bigger than the others which means a lot more people will fool themselves into thinking that this time it’ll be different

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

The one iron rule of late-stage financial bubbles is that with massive amounts of money at stake, a lot of people will be lying a lot of the time and many of the lying liars will be people you’d trust in normal times because the first person they fool is themselves

Be extra sceptical.