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

'gg' is gamer slang for 'gay game'

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Ghost In The Machine is a great new anti-AI documentary

i'm in it, so you know it's good stuff

tl;dr AI is olde timey race science all the way down and has been since the start. if you say that to people they'll say "look that's ridiculously narrow" but it turns out it literally fuckin is. all eugenicists and race scientists. bloody hell.

i saw the London preview last night and it rated the applause it got at the end

anyway! it's playing for the next week in London and in Kansas City!

KC: https://www.screenland.com/movie/ghost-in-the-machine/
London: https://dochouse.org/event/ghost-in-the-machine/

New York preview premiere is next month

there's a proper London season in June

also if you want to watch it RIGHT NOW you can pay to see it here https://kinema.com/films/ghost-in-the-machine-pvxg4p

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

as always, they are wrong is going to be my new favorite phrase to drop into my writing.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
gray@merping.synth.download wrote:

at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

@h5e @fesshole It's a great way to get fired in work-at-will states, and put on the the "PIP layoffs list" in the others.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
h5e@tech.lgbt ("Hanneke") wrote:

@fesshole talk about your salaries people, the only one profiting from not doing that is your employers

idk why we're always so guarded about that…

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Corporate media won't tell you this: my own congressman, Corporate Dem Bill Foster, issued a press release saying he has an "open mind" about Trump's pick for Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh.

A man in the Epstein files 500 times. An election denier. One of the architects of the 2008 financial collapse. No Illinois newspaper has touched this story.

This is why independent media matters more than ever. Accountable to the people, not billionaires. Let's Address This. https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/the-rise-of-independent-media-and-why-the-powerful-are-terrified-of-it/

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

I'm not going to strap a camera to my face. Not now. Not ever.

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

Over on Whatever, I use my recent visits to film/TV companies as a framing to note how my not "cognitively offloading" any part of my creative process to "AI" is making my career more secure, not less:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/24/an-anecdotal-observation-about-career-longevity/

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

if you were a combinator, which one would you be?

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

if it was hype i wouldn't have made this video

LOL, also LMAO

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ryan C. Gordon") wrote:

Also, SDL3 now supports MS-DOS. Not even kidding. https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377

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

PVT Crone almost made it

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm planning to make some merch for #Mastodon's 10th anniversary and I would like to gauge which products folks might be most interested in buying. Remember, it's all bespoke, I can't make everything. For the sake of argument let's assume you love the original design that for now I want to keep a surprise...

#Merchtodon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ashenwave@mastodon.art ("Ashenwave✨Commissions Open!") wrote:

Hello! Lately I’ve working on some cool avatar illustrations for a fellow fediverse dweller.

I’m so proud of how these portraits have turned out!😊

#AshenwaveArt #CommissionsOpen #MastoArt #DigitalArt #CreativeToots #Art #Artist #Fantasy #Cyberpunk #FediArt #Scifi

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

It took her a long time to realise most people couldn't hear the soundtrack of their lives. Hers was always present; when she was with other people she could hear theirs too.

Sometimes they made a cacophony, sometimes harmony, when mixing with hers.

When it changed, she learned to trust it.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
icm@mastodon.sdf.org ("ICM") wrote:

We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #Retrocomputing #retrocomputing #VintageComputing #vintagecomputing
https://vcfpnw.org for more information!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

what's the largest collection of compiler engineers who have ever worked at the same place, at the same time? I've heard that IBM might have had hundreds at one point, and I've heard that Nvidia might have over 1000 right now. anyone else have good data points here?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

A couple of these things I can do nothing about. Some I can.

One I need help with from you: in a few days I'm giving a talk on the environmental consequences of AI data centres (with a focus on orbit, but starting with ground-based).

So, fediverse! Please send me your favourite statistic (with citation please) on exactly how bad AI data centres are for the environment. I'm looking for: comparisons on CO2 emissions per centre, water usage per slop-video made, stuff like that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

In case you weren't aware, "lemmings" isn't actually a great metaphor, since that story of lemmings jumping off a cliff comes from a nature documentary where Disney couldn't think of a good ending so they threw a bunch of animals off a cliff to be like "sometimes nature is weird, we aren't supposed to understand" as if this was profound https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness-lemming-suicide/

Although, sometimes it ends up becoming a *great* metaphor because it points out how the person telling the "oh people are just gullible" story may be telling a story as flawed as the metaphor

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

This thought (most immediately) brought to you by this video of Nena in concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGD9GDB7lhw

Which at 147k views, probably puts it in the realm of "historical interest" and unlikely to be generating much revenue, but it's still neat to be able to see it. Also, I didn't know Nena could play drums!

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

It seems like one subset of use of youtube is as a de facto archive. I feel like an audio/video archive is a valuable thing that shouldn't be beholden to the capricious desires of a corporation nor subject audiences (patrons) to advertisements and algorithmic manipulation.

But youtube's revenue sharing (I assume), promotional possibilities (i.e. the algorithm), and network effect seems to keep people uploading videos there.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
egonw ("Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.green/@ronanmcd/116459198153461110

Dutch cyclists, you are warned. Self-driving cars are a new risk.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Desperate. #grickledoodle #wizardofoz #heart #brain #cartoon #humor #art #funny

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@magdelenehall/116460441538380939

The USA is too busy burning books and teleporting to the Waffle house....

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbctop_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net ("CBC Top Stories") wrote:

Justin Trudeau says U.S. economic coercion risks pushing Canada closer to China
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau is warning that American tariffs threaten to drive Canada closer to China in the auto sector.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-china-economic-coercion-9.7175918?cmp=rss

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

H. R. Giger was hired as a concept artist for 1995's Batman Forever, but his mockups were just a little too... Gigeresque for the 90s.

Here’s his original Batmobile sketch, alongside a 3D render by Leon Gor based on Giger’s designs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pheonix@hachyderm.io ("Windy city") wrote:

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Hallway, NYC, 2014.

More pixels than will fit through the door, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/13337114073

#photography

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

please do try to remember this

(courtesy patreon.com/zachweinersmith and SMB-COMICS.COM)