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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NaveMcCanine@meow.social ("Nave :ms_furry_pride:") wrote:

🫘 B 🫘 E 🫘 A 🫘 N 🫘

🐈: furrynakita (FA)
🐕: Me!

#FursuitFriday #furry #fursuit #fursuiter

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
creideiki@akkoma.pikaböl.se ("Creideiki") wrote:

For #FursuitFriday photography, make sure to turn the fursuiter all the way around to get the good angles, and to shift the focus plane to alternate between paws and maws.

🐺: Badwolf Brock http://badwolfbrock.com/
🧭: ConFuzzled 2025

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
trailofbits@infosec.exchange ("Trail of Bits") wrote:

Google used a ZK proof to disclose a quantum breakthrough that cuts the cost of breaking cryptocurrency by 20x without handing attackers the circuit.

The Rust code behind the proof had memory safety bugs. We used this new attack surface to forge a proof that beats Google’s on every metric.

Google patched it within days. Their quantum claims are unaffected. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/we-beat-googles-zero-knowledge-proof-of-quantum-cryptanalysis/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bullsworth@meow.social ("Bullsdonk") wrote:

@soatok I actually ranted a bit about how the bsky CW system is overcomplicated in a way that makes it less functional in a federated system, probably thanks to being designed by traditional social media engineers.

https://meow.social/@bullsworth/116084072587674753

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

we refer to them as 'the Jurassics'

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

Eh, lots of men suck and even lots of men who don't actively suck are still clueless, and we live in a patriarchal society that discounts harm to women (look at who is the fucking president right now), so, fair. I try not to suck. It's a work in progress.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@prettyonfridays/post/DXM1YvfFMXn

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The new Lily Allen album is really good.

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

Voltage, Amperage, Ohmage, Faradage

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The backlash has begun. Anti-AI as marketing point. #ButlerianJihad

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club ("Luddicus Mus") wrote:

A hard ban on LLM/"AI" use in a FLOSS project is the moderate stance. I am not a moderate person.

Giving space to these machines is throwing the millions of people whose work they stole, the millions of people who suffer under their crawlers' assault under the bus.

We do not throw each other under the bus in a civil society. I hope you understand this to be the bare minimum.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jsit@social.coop ("Jay 🆘") wrote:

Capitalism never uses productivity to pay for leisure. It only uses it to pay for more productivity.

We have leisure because of unions, not because of productivity.

(i.e., AI will not result in a 4-day workweek.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Mediagazer@mstdn.social wrote:

Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, investigating salacious rumors amid a flood of funding for opposition dossiers, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/911753/sam-altman-openai-ronan-farrow-new-yorker-feature-trust-liar-ai-industry
http://mediagazer.com/260417/p1#a260417p1

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

every design software ever:

- Resize document
- Resize canvas

me: which one scales and which one crops? 🤔

*clicks wrong option*

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

i am free 🥹

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Trenton_Hoshiko@mas.to ("Trenton Hoshiko | Filmmaker") wrote:

I am close to 150 subscribers on my PeerTube for micro budget filmmaking and photography videos! Really thrilled about that result so far! :)

My account for anyone curious: trenton_hoshiko@trentontube.trentonhoshiko.com

Site Link: https://trentontube.trentonhoshiko.com

#PeerTube #SupportIndieFilm #VideoProduction

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

This is why I believe Bluesky was never meant to be federated. To create a Bluesky "instance", like Blacksky is heroically attempting, you have to perfectly duplicate every server Bluesky runs. But Bluesky is a business operating at a loss by burning unlimited-for-now VC cash. That has always implied only a business with unlimited VC cash can create an instance. Blacksky is succeeding. Except on days where they aren't.

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

Postscript: don't lose sight of the fact that this debate, as important as it is is being run by a snivelling coward of a pretend ringmaster leading a circus of clowns. It may not go as planned.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@azett/116415821351279612

I wish I could get to my library tomorrow so I could run some Ancestry.com searches for this person, but I can’t. Maybe one of you has access, though? Or can get access through your own library or institution?

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

Evergreen
Credit: https://jonikcartoons.blogspot.com/2011/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thalia@discuss.systems ("Thalia Archibald") wrote:

I now have my own Utah teapot!

This ordinary teapot is the "hello world" object of computer graphics and has cameos in countless productions.

A thread on teapots and UNIX… 🧵

Photo: My Melitta teapot, 2026-04-16.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #utah

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay, so, Model Collapse:

1. are there any good articles or papers on it?

2. I am vaguely aware that it is "well known" that if you *directly* Ouroboros a model to itself it degrades pretty rapidly and dramatically (although, c.f. 1, I would really love a good citation for that) but is there any research on the *creeping* model collapse that we will experience as more and more *unlabeled* extruded text makes its way into the training corpus?

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

ok so the US president threatens the pope via the avignon papacy that we've definitely all heard of but the pope doubles down on how world peace is good and war with iran is bad so the president makes an ai picture of himself where he's jesus healing john stewart but then iran jumps in saying we're on the pope's side and jesus is a holy man and that's not OK so the secretary of war and not defence anymore recites a made up bible verse from a tarantino movie and somehow this week is not over yet.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

"DREAM stands for Driving Ruby's Evolution to AI Maturity."

lol and I can not stress this enough lmfao

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

welcome bluesky users! nice to see you all again, I hope things have improved since the last outage and we can encourage you to stick around, don't hesitate to say hi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Frank") wrote:

I ran this poll 2 years ago and 90% of the correspondents on mastodon told me there were no required AI usage at their workplace.

I would like to ask the same question again in 2026:

“Does your workplace have any AI related requirements, either as major project goal, in performance review, or with usage analytics tracking, against your own will?”

Boost welcomed.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.

“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-income households,”
he wrote earlier this year.

His concerns echoed those of fast-food franchise owners, one of whom told Fortunein 2024 that higher wages would be unsustainable for smaller chains with slim margins.

But nearly two years after the law’s passage, economists are seeing very different results than what was initially feared.

A working paper from University of California at Berkeley released this month found the policy increased average weekly wages for eligible workers by 11% and did not reduce employment.

Prices increased modestly, about 1.5%, or the equivalent of about six cents for a $4 item.

“The results are nowhere as dire as predicted,”
Michael Reich, the study author and chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, told Fortune

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/economists-warned-california-not-raise-110500084.html?guccounter=1

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

“A Good Time (2020 Remaster)” by John Prine

https://pandora.app.link/z6TZ77GKo2b

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

Out-of-touch plutocrats are doing Mamdani's work for him, and it's glorious:

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/0b6b57ff-dea0-430c-bc61-104b61bc2c31

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Ideally you would give the new AI product a distinctive name that clearly articulates where it fits in your overall product strategy. Something like "Eyestab" or "Footgun"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
woof@aria.dog ("Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: ") wrote:

@somebody @nelson @floralia im gay