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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Kimota94@mas.to wrote:

@zkat I’ve said for years that the advent of Trumpism had only one (very small) positive: it encouraged lots of seemingly-caring people to reveal what they actually thought about immigrants / gays / trans folk / etc so we wouldn’t have to work so hard to suss out their real personalities. Apparently AI is providing a similar “service.”

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ⤵️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Bloomberg report some kids on Discord have had access to Mythos for several weeks due to Anthropic’s shit cybersecurity https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/anthropic-s-mythos-model-is-being-accessed-by-unauthorized-users

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

holy shit.

you know beryllium, the element so nasty it has a disease named after it?

it was originally called 'glucinium' because its compounds tasted sweet

aaaaaaa 😬

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

we really had a thing going for a while there. Glorious years with some amazing community and conferences that centered our human relationships to one another and how they could be better.

And all it took to kill it all was a lying machine that sucks your metaphorical ego-dick and spits out worse code than someone who just graduated college.

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

The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.

I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.

It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.

I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.

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

the north - it's like the south, but not quite as crap

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

Give me an SFP+ in my laptop, you cowards.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange ("Davi Ottenheimer") wrote:

The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#DevinTownsend - Home At Night (Official Music Video). A new piece from #TheMoth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ft-oXVpP4I

#NP #NowPlaying

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

Got to say "one enema away from solving world hunger" on cable news' most watched show last night. InfoWars is already paying off.
#The Onion buys Infowars

Attachments:

• video: 964d12f0ec8ba3ab.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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

“AI as a Fascist Artifact”

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

> And here again “AI” shares a core idea of fascism: Both are based on the destruction of solidarity and labor power in order to cement the totalitarian control about the centers and sources of power.

Must read

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

"Trump has never released his tax returns despite pledging to do so. He's claimed for the last 10 years that he and the GOP have been developing a healthcare plan only to default to having "a concept of a plan" when pressed about this during a 2024 debate. He has also promised Americans they will receive "tariff dividends"—and there is no sign of any of that happening.

He has never lowered energy costs or grocery prices like he said he would. He has not released the Epstein files in full despite campaigning on that promise and has done everything he can to distance himself from the scandal despite the fact his own name appears in the files more than 38,000 times.

Trump has said Mexico would pay for his "big beautiful wall" along the southern border (which has never happened). He pledged to end the war in Ukraine (which is still raging) and in fact promised not to lead Americans into more foreign "entanglements"—yet the administration orchestrated a regime change in Venezuela and attacked Iran just weeks later, kicking off a global energy crisis."

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116444782982461960

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheRaDR@mstdn.social ("Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg") wrote:

Today in social justice toolkit:

A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.

You've given them only bad options.

I give some examples

& then we talk about how to design them.

This one's pretty important.

Read and share, please?

https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/force-the-oppressor-to-make-a-lose-lose-choice/

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

true rust is actually a hodgepodge of ferric oxyhydroxide and hydrated iron oxides. it's also the name of a popular programming language known for its efficiency, robust compiler and a learning curve that eases up somewhere around the K2 death zone

😂

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

this is disgusting, Mr Trump:

"The group includes interpreters for the U.S. military, former members of the Afghan Special Operations forces and family members of American service members. More than 400 children are among them.

The Afghans have been living in limbo in Qatar for over a year. They were taken there after being evacuated by the United States for their own safety because they supported American forces during the war against the Taliban that began in 2001."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/afghan-refugees-congo-us.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.clA.r2gJ.%5FmRLxKpDp94J&smid=url-share

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

as the baby gets weaned onto big people food like chicken nuggets and cigarettes

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

it's like trying to do a maths degree without autism - it's possible, but you're starting at a disadvantage

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

I was in the Army back then, and the experience was similar

https://universeodon.com/@Swede1952/116443085261334668

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

who says a helmet can't double as a lemon juicer?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

NYT:

“President Trump announced he was indefinitely extending the cease-fire between the United States and Iran, which was set to expire within hours.”

“Taco, taco man…
I want to be…
A taco man…”

- The Village Idiot

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
weratedogs@kilogram.makeup ("WeRateDogs") wrote:

This is Hank. He will be joining you on your ride-share trip today. Because if he’s not there, it’s just a ride. 13/10

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

my my my, this *is* an amusing phenom:

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/

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

Another data point for the "everybody is 12 now" theory. That's the billionaire CEO of the world's biggest and nastiest surveillance company who also just released a high concept technofascist statement. He and I are the same age. And I am, I cannot be clearer, an Old Man.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tjfcr277iebksvt55hbnueqf/post/3mjxo6l7zjs2r

Boosted by jwz:
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Yo did we forget about the Framework-funding-fash thing or

Boosted by jwz:
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

American combat deaths in World War I: 54,000.
American soldiers killed by flu in World War I: 45,000.
They would have given anything for a flu vaccine.
https://wapo.st/4eAG2sx

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

so that's why we can't talk to dolphins

yeah that and the fact that they're fucking dolphins.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
fediforum ("FediForum") wrote:

FediForum Spring 2026 is starting in 7 days!

Join us online for 3 half-days of unconference discussions, cool social web software demos, keynote and to meet and connect with your fellow advocates and movers and shakers moving the open social web forward.

More: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we check in on the flashbulb
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/21.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma