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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

everybody gangster until they start drowning in the flood created by their own army of dumbass brooms

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

okay dang that did not go how I expected

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

Good interview. Infuriating that there are still people who still think that corporate democrats ran a good campaign.

https://youtu.be/swIaUBTXt8c

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

I wonder just how deep the sinking feeling was when this realization hit:

"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. We had to discover debugging. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."

-- Maurice Wilkes, 1949

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
zzclaybourne@wandering.shop ("Zig Claybourne") wrote:

Some of y'all don't stop to marvel at the fact that individual Triceratops used to be ass out Fully Alive on this Earth and it shows.

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

An experimental AI-generated dotnet-based OCI-compliant registry server

what could go wrong?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
raven@fedi.raventhemaker.com ("Carl C") wrote:

Hulk repair and reuse!
#MashUpSuperHeroAndQuotes #HashTagGames

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

The Dutch government has soft-launched code.overheid.nl, a government-wide open-source code platform built on Forgejo. 🇳🇱

This is a massive win for digital sovereignty, proving that large public institutions can successfully deploy sovereign infrastructure and move away from proprietary GitHub or GitLab lock-in.

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ #forgejo #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Boosted by jwz:
ryanlcooper.com@bsky.brid.gy ("ryan cooper") wrote:

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.

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

TIL that before BASIC there was DOPE!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth%5FOversimplified%5FProgramming%5FExperiment

[Insert your own jokes here.]

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
vanellopemint@mastodon.art ("🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋") wrote:

Sir Belvedere studied the board. "You have me at checkmate," he said.

The dragon inclined her head. "You fought well, Sir Knight."

The knight stood. "I love what you've done. The kaleidescope of colors enhances the cavern visually."

"Thank you. A fairy taught me the spell. Until next time?"

"I battled valiantly with the dragon. The townsfolk are safe for another month." The knight paused. "Next time, shall I bring scones?"

"That," replied the dragon, "would be lovely."

#tootfic

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

Apropos of nothing at all:

Quality is the integral of process + culture over time. Destroying, or carelessly disrupting, either one is an existential brand risk, and thermostatic responses which do not rebuild process and culture are doomed to fail.

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

love this

https://tylersticka.com/journal/wicked-websites-a-rogues-gallery/

Boosted by jwz:
pheonix@hachyderm.io ("Windy city") wrote:

Given how casual these AI agents are with deleting production databases, y'all should be campaigning to put them in charge of student loans.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
charliejane@wandering.shop ("Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧") wrote:

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit"

I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit"

And...

We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times. And promoting it is part of the process.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

i've found that when i don't make room for my mental health, it forces me to make room for it

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

This month's #BirdWhisperer is a Golden Whistler!

(Ref Photo by Terri Sharp)
🦢🐡 #art #birds #FediArt #MastoArt #CreativeToots

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

Social media regularly makes me feel like I'm a bit of an idiot. The way these sites are structured promotes surface reading, quick replies, and poorly thought out posts, all of which combine to make it likelier that you do something that might not show you at your best. 🫤

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

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

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

The Robert’s Supreme Court has been the most effective Republican administration in my lifetime

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116488954108427124

As I say in a reply to this lord almighty but this stuff is really hard to think about. I feel incredibly slow in my writing and evidence-gathering vs the actual needs people have for more helpful answers here. But I am thinking about it a lot. One thing I recommend if you ARE an AI user is self-testing and cadences of understanding checking outside of daily agentic work for this reason

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

My granddad’s instoscope light meter.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jalley@sfba.social ("J") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-wKChsZorRfeb3HC6obun6Q%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

Democracy is dead

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
adr ("john fink ok!! :goat:") wrote:

I know I've said it before but as a 30+ year Linux user it *still blows my mind* that Linux is now so much the superior OS for *gaming* that Microsoft is using it as an aspirational benchmark. like holy shit, this is real?

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

Yes, overreach can happen! But unconfirmed reports of it on the left vastly outstrip verifiable sightings. Dems need (for once) to get caught trying. God knows they'll be accused of everything imaginable anyway.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

So I hope that my thoughts come with nuance and that I'm doing a good job showing that I respect these complexities. We are beings that have brains, our brains are involved in everything we do, and I want us to take care of our brains. Knowing how to do that matters to me, and I want people to be empowered to notice the things that are commonsense signals (fatigue, stress, difficulty achieving goals) for habits, behaviors, AND our brains

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zeldman@front-end.social wrote:

“Not because AI is useless. It clearly is not. But useful and worth-a-trillion are different things.

“When the bill arrives, the industry may discover that the storm was not intelligence. It was arithmetic.” 2/2

https://www.pootlepress.com/2026/04/ai-tokens-and-the-gathering-storm/#aiEconomics