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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Every time I yearn for a car microscope, I hesitate at the thought of the horrific eye injuries that afflict my fellow yussies.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/01/this-post-will-probably-make-the-infestation-worse/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The #1 term creationists don't understand but that they invoke all the time is "information."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/01/i-have-to-roll-my-eyes-when-a-creationist-says-information/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSs5fzV3Ejw

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

New Freebooters #PeerTube video. Where we mostly take a look at Drew ridiculous movie takes:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/22ryKWwXywSYancqdM46px

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Drew's terrible movie takes - Freebooters live and the stream that never started

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/22ryKWwXywSYancqdM46px

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

Ellen did a great version of this a few years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGA6B4xopY

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

Here Halldór Laxnes sings his poem to the tune he originally intended. He's... not a great singer, but he delivers it with feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO7%5FCnZ%5FVZA

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

It's become a tradition for me every year to post a link on the first of May to the performance of Halldór Laxnes's socialist anthem Maístjarnan at the centennial of the Icelandic Confederation of Labour. It captures the solidarity and hope that his poem conveyed.

> En í kvöld lýkur vetri
> sérhvers vinnandi manns,
> og á morgun skín maísól

> Tonight every worker's winter will end and tomorrow the sun of May will shine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDtJDD4Z2kg

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

i have a feeling i won't like the answer to this, but what do people like for autoscaling in a non-cloud-specific manner?

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

Moody picture of a blackbird with its beak full of worms. #bird #birds #iceland

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It was pretty cold that day, so I took these in a hurry.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #snow #trees

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Sometimes I come across abandoned summer cabins completely by chance. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #snow #trees

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A very colourful cement plant.#Iceland #Akranes #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #blue #green

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

The black-tailed godwit has arrived. #birds #bird #iceland

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

90% of working developers I know personally now use LLMs

i'm sorry, get better friends.

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

I believe the top performers are overwhelmingly using LLMs

ah, i see you're still measuring performance by lines of code. we knew that was bad literally decades ago.

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

Me and Drew are playing Divinity on #Owncast

https://live.freebooters.uk/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

I’m so tired.

#a11y #Accessibility

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lina@vt.social ("Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!!") wrote:

Why are AI people so monumentally *bad* at copyright?

I'm looking for ethical/copyright-safe training data sets. Common Corpus sells itself as that... but then I go read the paper and they include CC BY-SA scientific papers and GPL stuff from GitHub, and then in models trained on that dataset they proudly state:

> Only trained on open data under a permissible [sic?] license [...] By design, all Pleias model are unable to output copyrighted content.

Um, no?? CC BY-SA is not public domain, it's a copyright license. You can't train on CC BY-SA content and then claim your model is any more copyright-safe than whatever Google and Meta are releasing. It just means you're violating the copyright of people releasing content under open licenses only.

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

“Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2 – Unsung”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/photoshops-challenges-with-focus-pt-2/

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when I say that subscription pricing removes the incentive to make good products.

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

THE IRONY

https://mashable.com/article/south-africa-withdraws-ai-policy-for-being-ai-generated

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

ok i promise, no more slop talk from me!

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

noted: performative slop and the token measuring contest
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-05-01T08:05Z/

jwz wrote:

I love when Pitch Meeting tells me "don't even bother downloading this movie for free." It's an important service. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7BR3fWQSHM

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historyofpunkrock@sfba.social ("Punkrock History") wrote:

38 years ago today
Fugazi at Lafayette Park, Washington DC, May 01, 1988.
All for zero bucks 👍

Photo by Bill Crandall

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

Bella Ciao 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 🎶

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

"we have integrated AI into every orifice of our business"

*product and services crumble*

"it wasn't AI you don't know it was AI why are you blaming AI"

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116488909886938621

Immediately after the hideous *Callais* decision, gutting the VRA, the governor of Louisiana issued an order canceling primary elections already underway there. 1/ #LawFedi

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Coverage of Louisiana governor’s efforts to cancel the election at https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-governor-suspends-active-election-to-allow-for-gerrymander/.

This is a major warning for how Republican Fascists are already showing us how they plan to prevent free and fair elections in November. 2/

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secretasianman@types.pl ("(Vita)soy Boy") wrote:

Taco Bell Labs implies the existence of Double-Decker UNIX System V Crunch Supreme

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ryanboswell@sfba.social ("Ryan Boswell 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

“Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina told SFGate the company has avoided direct pickups and drop-offs on Market Street because the designated areas would require vehicles to double park, potentially blocking transit. “Unlike human drivers, we make significant efforts to park appropriately during pick up and drop off,” Ilina said.”

There has never been a more blatant lie. I see Waymos double park *all the fucking time*. They especially love to double park while also blocking bike lanes. In fact, I would go so far as to say, I’ve *rarely* ever seen a Waymo loading or unloading while not double parked.
https://sfist.com/2026/04/30/luries-decision-to-open-market-to-waymo-prompts-influx-of-illegal-private-drivers/