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

a vibe coded proof assistant is hereby known as a fallacy assistant.

jwz wrote:

Emphasis on "Con"

SantaCon promoter arrested for charity fraud: Stefan Pildes [...] allegedly diverted funds from the event to a "slush fund" to pay for extensive renovations to a lakefront property in New Jersey, luxury vacations in Hawaii, Las...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6O

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

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

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

#peertube #fediverse #podcast #freebooters

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

after all the Hasan Discourse last week I took a quick peek over at this YouTube channel and, holy shit

these view counts. this subscriber count

I understand the ways in which social media metrics are gameable and don't always represent the most accurate gauge of public sentiment, especially once you get over a million or so

but holy shit, these aren't cracking *a hundred* views.

these people Do Not Have The Juice at a truly staggering level

https://www.youtube.com/@ThirdWayVideo/videos

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kurrikage@meow.social ("Kurrikage :deifirev:") wrote:

On the prowl

🦈 Revyshargon
✂️ Westscustoms & Starslikeroses

#BatPics #Fursuit

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Sargoth@scholar.social ("Sargoth (skateboard aspect)") wrote:

I wrote a belated reflection on what I thought as the Artemis moon roundtrip went on, and how it was one of the few remaining things that got people to think "ah yes, humanity can still do things"

the post also serves as a primer on why the state of Florida banned sociology from its universities. these things are related, see

https://discursiveanomalies.com/2026/04/15/a-sociologists-take-on-the-artemis-moon-round-trip/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

re:

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The very rational markets right now:

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

AI bros admiring their artificial girlfriend

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF of the dance scene from "Metropolis"

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

I sprained my torvalds and now it’s making unhinged noises about AI tools, please send a sports medicine doctor

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janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

All my shoes gone.

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jwz wrote:

@jalefkowit It has entirely destroyed my ability to enjoy memes, because now before sharing them I have to research a book report on each one first.

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chergert@my.devsuite.app ("Christian Hergert") wrote:

I’m no longer employed by Red Hat.

As a result, any projects I maintained there as part of that employment should no longer be considered maintained by me, whether in that former capacity or otherwise.

Because those projects were solely maintained by me, they may now fall into an unmaintained state unless other community members step in. I am not available to maintain, review, or support them in any capacity for the foreseeable future.

For context read https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2026/02/06/mid-life-transitions/

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johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h5zkfkc35wkb53udnemrica5/post/3mjk75gjipk2y

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jacobtlevy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jacob T. Levy") wrote:

The Boys and Daredevil: Born Again are somehow the best pop cultural commentaries on the second Trump administration, which is less a matter of "superhero metaphors allow for sophisticated social commentary" and more a matter of "reality is now full of cartoonish supervillains."

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

Standing outside the house yelling "I AM AN AI COMPANY NOW" and waiting for pallet loads of dollar bills to fall from the sky

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Elodie_lyra@lgbtqia.space ("Elodie chaos 🐉🐝🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

From the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook;

“The targeting of trans people - and specifically trans youth and trans women in sports - is not a policy agenda. It is a strategic operation. Understanding it as policy produces the wrong response. Understanding it as strategy produces the right one.

Jason Stanley, in How Fascism Works, identifies the targeting of vulnerable minorities as a core mechanism of authoritarian consolidation. The function is not primarily to harm the targeted group, though that harm is real and intentional. The primary function is to test the solidarity of potential opposition coalitions, to find and exploit the fracture lines, and to establish a precedent: that some members of the coalition can be sacrificed when the political cost of defending them is judged too high.

Every successful authoritarian project has done this. The question it is always asking of the opposition is: is there anyone in your coalition you will abandon to protect the rest? Because if the answer is yes, we know exactly how to proceed. We find that person. We make defending them as costly as possible. And we watch the rest of the coalition either hold together or fracture. If they fracture, we learn where the next fracture line is, and we push there.

The targeting of trans people is not the end of this strategy. It is the test. And what the test is measuring, in real time, is whether LGBTQ organizations, progressive coalitions, and pro-democracy movements will sacrifice their most vulnerable members when the pressure is sufficient.

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

I'm sure AI doesn't like you either

oh you think it sounds that sycophantic only for you?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

And it’s not like people are unjustified - it’s kind of what you’re paying your registration for - but it is funny to see literal FOMO in action

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

Sorry but the con site going down because so many people are trying to crowd in at once to get tickets because they’re afraid they’ll miss the moonlight festival is very very funny

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nepi@nepi.gay wrote:

The F in FWA stands for FOMO

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

OTOH, even if you picked stronger showings on the British side you'd probably end up with a very middle class/upper middle class selection, whereas the Icelandic snacks are quite a bit more working class coded.

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

They asked an Icelander to pick which was better, an Icelandic hot dog with everything or a Gregg's sausage roll?

Even without the patriotism (you gotta pick the Icelandic ones if you want any peace at your next family gathering) the Icelandic ones win this handily.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUc7z%5FDB%5Fw

And Appelsín is genuinely unbeatable.

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

No more data centers until we have reasonable regulation…and recognize who profits from them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/its-going-to-get-ugly-on-the-ai-front/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186

I wonder when we will have to start to show ID (and let the store keep a copy of it) for everything we buy in brick-and-mortar stores as well.

I guess this is "freedom" or something.

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

this New Jersey Democrat is insane:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

"H.R.8250 - To require operating system providers to verify the age of any user of an operating system, and for other purposes."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Critics also describe how Orbán routinely created 'imaginary enemies' to distract voters, another Hitlerian maneuver perfected by Trump. From falsely depicting immigrants as violent criminals, to accusing DEI programs of ‘white bashing,’ Trump constantly stokes social division by creating then perpetuating imaginary enemies."

~ Sabrina Haake

#Orbán #Trump #autocracy #corruption #scapegoats #immigrants #antisemitism
/6

https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/if-hungary-can-do-it-so-can-we

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kevbob@xoxo.zone ("caoimhín o'cuilleain") wrote:

Owl without wings

#CatsOfMastodon

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

So that's what that scan was for.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/15/medical-mystery-explained/

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ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:

This isn't just a technique for Lua, though -- it works for any C interpreter compilable with LLVM! More about how and why in this new post 'Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters' looking at our new 'yk' system. https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting%5Fjit%5Fcompilers%5Finto%5Fc%5Finterpreters.html