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

cherry crumble is in the oven

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("Reginald") wrote:

Terry Gilliam was right about everything. The incompetence. The banality of administrative evil. The fascism.

And most notably, Mar-a-Lago Face and the lengths Republican Barbies will go to maintain it.

Attachments:

• gifv: A woman has her face literally stretched by a surgeon.

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Please don't describe the boot on your neck with heated rhetoric. It's divisive.

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Don't worry, Sam, SpaceX won't ACTUALLY launch 7,000 satellites! (There are currently 10,296 Starlink sats in orbit)

Don't worry, SpaceX said they'd get their satellites fainter than magnitude 7! (They have not https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/link%5Fgateway/2025MNRAS.544L..15M/PUB%5FPDF)

Don't worry, they won't actually start Kessler Syndrome! https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Don't worry, they won't actually launch a million AI data centres into orbit!! https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

This is the fucking worst I-told-you-so https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

If you're interested, my next distro is probably going to be Fedora. Despite having a real soft spot for Elementary, I realized I just love GNOME too much, and Fedora has always been the champion of the vanilla GNOME experience.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116476120066302561

OK, here's *the one* reason that'll finally make me find time and switch away from Ubuntu. I've been considering it for a while now, but was leaning towards taking the easy way out *again*: just upgrade my LTS and forget about it for 2 years. But "AI" is a bridge too far.

I don't car how non-envasive and opt-out it might be. One of the reason I use any Linux is to not be in adversarial relationship with my system.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
fastlydevs ("Fastly Devs") wrote:

Curious where WebAssembly is heading?

At Wasm I/O 2026, Luke Wagner shares the path to Component Model 1.0—and how you can start using it today.

🎥 Watch the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq0Auw01tH8

#WebAssembly #Wasm

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

Það er viðtal við Brynhildi Jenný (@uglyreykjavik.bsky.social) um myndasöguna sem hún gerði (og ég gaf út) á forsíðu RÚV. 😎

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-04-27-vantar-islensk-ord-i-myndasogur-467829

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

By contrast, most of your audience will NOT have used an "AI" to detect a tumor, and hopefully those who *have* done so are sufficiently well-versed in the specific application that they use and the process for doing so that they are aware you can't just pop a scan into ChatGPT and go on with your day. If they jump into your mentions they're probably going to have some new and interesting information for you that can help inform your perspective.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

The flip side to this is that it's a good idea to avoid saying things that contradict your readers' direct experience. For example, the critic position that "AI" 'doesn't work'. Personally I kinda agree with this claim, given all the context and the evidence and sufficiently precise definitions of "work". But almost everyone have seen an "AI" app do something that looks like "working" and so saying this *without* all the shared context and definitions immediately discredits you.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It feels like if you're entering a public debate, you have to perform a level of openness to be taken seriously. Someone who asserts their position while refusing to acknowledge the public consensus seems dogmatic, unresponsive to evidence.

But you can demonstrate this openness in other ways. "I'm open to evidence that 'AI' might be a net benefit to society, even given its enormous downsides, but right now, after so much evidence to the contrary that's an extraordinary claim"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is no need to begin your critical writing by saying "Well, I know AI has great uses, for example, in medical technology…" or "Surely it's going to change society…" or "It will take care of drudgery…" before your "but,"

If you're not an oncologist with experience using "AI" to spot tumors, you don't actually *know* that it has great uses for that. Nobody knows if it's going to "change society", so you don't have to react to baseless claims from "futurists". You can just… not.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ThompsonArt@mastodon.art ("Aled Thompson") wrote:

Green European Woodpecker

Prints available here -
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/thompson%5Fart/european-green-woodpecker-2025/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Today’s poem is called ‘Why You Should Never Ever Follow Your Dreams’.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is a human tendency to grant our interlocutors empathy by default. This can be weaponized by bad-faith actors trying to move the overton window.

Someone says "AI can do X" and it's uncomfortable to say "no, I already know it can't" or even "prove it". You hear it over and over again from a hundred "journalists" acting as stenographers for big tech, and you feel like you have to grant that position grace.

You don't have to fall for it *AND* you don't have to be mean about it.

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

"GitHub AI Credits*" 💀

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/

* redeemable at participating locations only, no cash value, ToCs apply

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

(It was not one of my boards. Phew!)

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

It's always a little unsettling to walk into work on a Monday morning and be greeted with the odor of burning electronics. "I sure hope that's not one of my boards!"

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

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116476120066302561

Canonical's ability to do something stupid that will annoy their users and also being late to the hype party is remarkable.

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

I think for once we should put aside putting aside the ethical concerns...

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falseknees ("False Knees") wrote:

Intelligent

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vitex@f.cz ("Vitex") wrote:

@adele

#Ubuntu #Debian #packages ready to download and install

https://repo.vitexsoftware.com/pool/main/s/smolfedi/

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

my migration from this instance to @zkat@fedi.zkat.tech seems to have frozen, and my followers have stopped migrating. Anyone know how to get this unstuck? The latter is a GTS instance.

Boosts welcome!

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

The era of proof abundance

oh god, it is absolutely cringe hearing supposed legends talk this way about bullshit generators

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

And while you're waiting for the book, here's my newsletter: https://www.fightforthehuman.com/

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

And was just reminded to post this, lol, here's my book!!! The Psychology of Software Teams, it's coming out in July, you can already pre-order it at some online retailers, and it has a WHOLE CHAPTER on "The Performance Paradox" to help you become a *resilient* high performer :)

https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Software-Teams/Hicks/p/book/9781032963389

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

I have been fortunate that even before I was a full-time novelist I was making a good living doing freelance and consulting for companies on writing/editing matters. My whole professional life has been as a writer. What helped (and still does) was that I was not precious about what I would write. As long as it did not run against my personal ethics, and you would pay me my rate, I would write it for you. That was basically my first 20 years as a writer.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@spirit.horse.tarot/post/DXo28L%5FFDMQ

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Could we please take a moment to remember that the largest, bloodiest, violent attack on any Washington institution in modern memory was actually led by…Trump. On January 6, 2021, he incited an assault on the Capitol that resulted in multiple deaths, scores of injuries and even a call for assassination of Trump’s own Vice President."

~ David Rothkopf

#WHCD #Trump #media #violence #Jan6 #insurrection
/5

https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/five-uncomfortable-truths-about-the

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I have said and will continue to say most people have zero idea what it's like for scientists in the US right now.

We sat at an outdoor table the other day with a brilliant older queer scientist friend and ran into several scientist friends including one who worked at govt agencies on science funding. It is like having conversations after an apocalypse. So many people lost, labs folded, international postdocs gone, lines of work canned. DEI work going undercover, forbidden words erased

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Male fragrance sections at shops are always so sad. Would you like to smell like you just downed a bottle of gin, like a leather couch, or like you were sitting on the wrong side of a campfire? Women get all the nice fruits and flowers. This stuff shouldn’t be gendered anyway like most things.