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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

There is a war in Iran, 15 Americans have been killed, 538 have been wounded, and $25,000,000,000 have been spent so far.

After firing dozens of generals and skilled personnel, Pete Hegseth has now brought in Kid Rock to address The Pentagon.

The world is hurting from an unprecedented oil crisis to the tune of Kid Rock singing “All summer long”. Because your education does not matter, your reputation does not matter — in fascism, all that matters is loyalty to the leader.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

A great line of defense against AI slop: crediting artists.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

Not wrong

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

F*ck RFK and his anti-science lies and policies:

Raising the US child flu vaccination rate to 70% could prevent 30,000 hospitalizations, 123 deaths in highly active season.

Low vaccine uptake can also speed flu spread among all ages, particularly seniors, who make up the majority of people who are hospitalized or killed by influenza.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/raising-us-child-flu-vaccination-rate-70-could-prevent-30000-hospitalizations

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noodlemaz@mstdn.games ("Marianne") wrote:

@Gasmatt @DrALJONES I'd say it's far worse than on-par, when we see what IDF soldiers have done and what lies were spread about atrocities that never happened and so on. Not to mention the sheer disparity in death toll, starvation, sickness, education centres and residences destroyed. The destruction is so utterly one-sided, even granting the horrors of the terrorist attacks in retaliation for the past several decades (that Netanyahu himself has poured funding into!)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ivory@tapbots.social ("Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:") wrote:

Tiny little update to :appicon_ivory: is out (v2.5.2)!

- New option in Behavior settings to fetch an alternate image for link cards when opengraph doesn't provide one (disabled by default).
- Improved card layouts when preview images are unavailable.
- Improved local translation support on Mac.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

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

this administration and family oooooooooze corruption from every pore

https://archive.ph/hpryM

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

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

a late breakfast is always in order

https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/cams/giant-panda-cam

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

@DrALJONES I'm a left leaning, rightminded healthcare worker, ex-military reservist, who had Jewish friends & flatmates since a student & I know my history. Watching Settlers & IDF army behave as Einsatzgruppen, while journalists deliberately murdered & IDF navy commit acts of piracy in international waters is truly depressing. International community does nothing, antisemitism rife as a result. October 7 2023 attacks vile, but this is now on a par. Wake up Israel- you are being judged.

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

timeline cleansers: https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cameras

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

perfection
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116494390303246442

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Hey #PortfolioDay! I’m Emily, an illustrator working in comics, horror, and science communication. Past clients include Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, Earthjustice, and more!

Drop me a line if you have a project in need of illustration or consultation 🌱

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social wrote:

#masking
Family portrait during the Spanish flu. 1918.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CactuarJoe@retro.pizza ("Cactuar Joe") wrote:

"I see you're working. Have you considered sitting with a cat instead?"

#cats #catsofmastodon

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

"LEARN CRYPTO FROM THE SCRATCH"

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116494413944452758

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

Some mornings I just can't going until I put on some Freddie Mercury, you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdBb9Slu1A

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

it is starting to seem to me that the Secret Service Agent was wounded by Secret Service pistol fire, not the shotgun used by the idiot who charged through that perimeter control point. some of the video from there looks like a cartoonish “circular firing squad”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Alairthephoenix@pounced-on.me wrote:

@DeltaWye I hate that this is usually the solution instead of fixing the root problem, or worse, not even looking for the root problem.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Oh Mullenweg exploded again.

The thing is: He criticizes processes and slow pace (which one can do) but his solution basically is no process and just winging it. Which - given wordpress runs millions of people's websites - is just childish and irresponsible. It's the classical "strong man" argument.

Wordpress' processes might be problemattic ( ;) ) but that also stems from lack of vision and lack of establishing modes and spaces for experimentation where people are not afraid that Mullenweg is gonna publicly shit on them for not loving LLMs enough.

The problem is still weak leadership. Who is the leader again?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
joshsutphin@wandering.shop ("Josh Sutphin") wrote:

Tech these days: "You have to work from the office so you can have serendipitous interactions with your colleagues that we replaced with the AI that you have to prompt from the office." 🤡

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

[Kate Bush passing Sisyphus for the fiftieth time] on your left

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

The Bees Are Happy

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

Every time I create a moderately boosted toot:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:

How it's going out there... From Reddit.

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

You've seen the Prisoner's Dilemma problem before right?

Congratulations from now on when you see it you're playing the iterated version.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

My only quibble is that I am (again) paraphrased as if I talked about "AI" as a thing, or used "AI" to refer to language models. I'm sure what I said to Holly Baxter here was "language models" have these uses. I've asked for a correction.

In general, if you see me quoted/paraphrased in the media and the term "AI" is outside the quotes, that's gonna be a journalist mis-paraphrasing me.

/fin

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"Technologies of isolation" is due to @hypervisible , but even if I'm careful to tell journalists that, they don't necessarily include the attribution.
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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by Holly Baxter

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news-humanize-chatbot-conscious-b2963788.html

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
zwarich@hachyderm.io wrote:

@jonmsterling