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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech

freebooters.uk/media/20260413-freebooters.mp3

Chris and Drew chat about the possibility of leaving this channel behind.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wibi@plush.city ("Wibi") wrote:

🕴️ | found a directory of ex-cohost users ( https://cohost-highway.neocities.org/ ) and ctrl+f'd "bandcamp" and was not disappointed. here's a very nice & lengthy ambient piece https://ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/track/shall-these-guiding-embers-be-fashioned-from-our-unlived-yesterdays

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Binder@petrous.vislae.town ("Shannon Prickett") wrote:

Less MAGA, more ‘zine.

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
hankgreen@threads.net ("Hank Green") wrote:

So, I heard you wanted to keep the Moon Joy going…here:

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

One part of the solution (under-considered IMO) is returning human relationships to OSS: you don’t just submit a PR; you build trust, have a real conversation, then submit a PR.

I don’t know what exactly that looks like in practice; there’s surely not just one answer for everyone. But I know what it •doesn’t• look like: a contribution •starting• with a huge code drop.

4/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:

It's a bell curve, isn't it?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

some days I get weary of having to deploy my BS Detector so damned much of the time. reading a good deal of jaw-flapping about the US Treasury injecting an unusual amount of cash into the economy lately, with references being made to "the money printer is on". and yet, when I look at the actual current & historical data... nope.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

If all you do in your tech career is:

1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve;

2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time similar work is needed you bring up how to avoid doing what broke last time; and

3. When someone lacks info, you make them feel good for learning instead of bad for not knowing;

You will do good work.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehmatthes@fosstodon.org ("Eric Matthes") wrote:

In less than three minutes there was a PR. It's from Claude, but it's not from someone running Claude for the purposes of helping out this project. They're just running Claude entirely automated, against any repo that adds a "help wanted" label.

There are interesting ideas in the submission. But it should be a comment in an issue, not a PR. And it should be submitted by a person, not a bot that dumps noise into as many repos as it can find.

:/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ehmatthes@fosstodon.org ("Eric Matthes") wrote:

I had a really deflating open source experience just now. I started writing user stories in the django-simple-deploy docs. I opened an issue to track the work, and added the "good first issue" and "help wanted" labels.

It's a good first issue because a new contributor can skim our user stories, get a clear sense of who we're serving, ask relevant questions, and maybe help further articulate typical uses. Help wanted, because I want others' perspectives in these stories.

#python #opensource

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

Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket

The funny thing about safety blankets is they can double as stage curtains for security theater. Art: CMYKat "When will a cryptography relevant quantum computer exist?" is a question many technologists are pondering as they stare into crystal balls or entrails. Two people I admire recently made a public long bet about that question, with a $5000 donation to charity as stakes.

http://soatok.blog/2026/04/13/hybrid-constructions-the-post-quantum-safety-blanket/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Thoughts on leaving YouTube, and moving away from big tech...again

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/g75gRtk2tmKyFGxa5fNPJT

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

I guess "I am a PERSON before I am a datapoint or a historical artifact" has been a throughline in a lot of my professional positioning.

"Do you remember that your data are people?!" I spat at a roomful of biotechbros once. Not sorry. Never will be.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Ballerina fountains, Malgorzata Chodakowska, bronze, 2024

#Art

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

It's time to #TalkAboutHumanities so here is a contribution:

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of 'AI': The View from the Humanities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Lc6QNxolQ

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
impactology ("Raghav Agrawal") wrote:

Information architecture is usually taught as menus, hierarchies, and taxonomy, but that’s only the surface layer.

Information architecture is not navigation. It is the structuring of understanding.

The core question is simple. It's asking what is the minimum amount of information needed to form understanding on a screen

It’s deciding:
what exists (ontology)
what matters right now (relevance)
what can be understood together (chunking)

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
romeu ("Romeu Moura") wrote:

People are using « tokens used » as productivity metric ?! « Tokens used »?!?!? That’s like, the first time « lines of code created » gets beaten for the « worst metric of software engineering » 🫠

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

Psychics and prophets are all the same thing: liars and frauds. Prosecute them all.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/13/penalize-all-the-tiktok-psychics/

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

Be careful. "It's AI slop" is turning into a thought-terminating cliche.

Even though it's true often, the actual use of the phrase is starting to be a shortcut to dismissing things without using our brains.

And that is itself a kind of slop.

Learn to notice it because doing it consciously is exhausting, but knowing when you're being cognitively lazy is a step to being a bit more resistant to bad ideas and being manipulated.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Prompt injection right into the only text field in their flagship service. FFS.

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/116395019715158849

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116397393158252865

About friggin time.

I report people exposing their home address unintentionally on the web about once a month so they can censor it. It's such an easy way to expose yourself.

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

It's not often I'll link a NYT article, but someone from the WSJ wrote a really whiny oped whose core point was something to the effect of "it's not climate change denial, it's climate crisis denial, you're mischaracterizing us if you think we deny all climate change" and they thought this was a real slam dunk argument the year either winter was replaced by summer in the US, or winter was batshit insane.

What the WSJ doesn't want you to see:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/climate/climate-change-deniers-trump.html

#uspol #climatecrisis

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

bifurcating in two

😬

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

If you warn about a problem before it's FELT, people will ignore you even after it hits them

A warning with enough foresight to precede the catastrophe will be less credible BECAUSE it was early.

People would rather be angry than feel responsible and an early warning proven right takes that away

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

This spectrum of "reading" (despite being very annoying McLuhan was right to avoid a binary dichotomy and instead use the metaphor of a temperature range) have existed for a long long time but have only really become unbalanced in a problematic way over the past few decades

This is quite specifically what Neil Postman was warning us about in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" in 1985 and his warning ran up against the same wall that blocked other predictions such as that of global climate change:

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116395821486826615

This is very much a tangent inspired by Iris's article but...

The reading dichotomy Iris presents (grammatical versus Bayesian sentiment analysis) maps pretty well to McLuhan's hot and cold media, which in turn maps to Tarkovsky's montage vs time pressure, Tolstoy's art formed of associations with other art vs that formed of experience and emotion...

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

May every right-winger face the fate of Victor Orban.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/13/losers-2/

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

“Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/designers-will-never-have-influence-without-understanding-how-organizations-learn

> what everyone is suddenly obsessed with producing (via vibe coding) is not actually prototypes. It’s demos.

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

That whole boygenius album was fantastic

RE: https://www.threads.com/@broreenjonathans/post/DW9i8nDCOKH

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

Not sure where in the scriptures it says Jesus was a grifting adulterous pederast

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-sparks-fury-with-image-of-himself-as-jesus-antichrist-spirit-11818578