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

This genuinely looks like a recipe for a US federal wire fraud charge down the line.

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

May the murderous freak suffer a thousand more spider bites. May the invisible communists crawl out from under his bed and pummel him with pig's bladders. What a pathetic little man.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/07/i-had-nothing-to-do-with-kyle-rittenhouses-recent-hospitalization/

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

The fact that many payment companies seem to be all-in on "AI" feels iffy. Even iffier when most of them were all-in on cryptocoins.

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

In today's "surely this is a bad idea?" news, as a part of my ongoing search for a non-shitty Merchant-of-Record service, I came across one called Kelviq that runs it's business verification (i.e. the bit that weeds out scammers, fraud, etc) entirely using OpenClaw

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/we-automated-our-business-vetting-with-openclaw-788b285744

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

“The language is leaving me – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/05/07/the-language-is-leaving-me/

> Hence renaming it parasocial media, as a phenomenon which “creates the conditions for people to objectify one another at a distance as mediatized objects, helping realize the different layers of toxicity that social media scholars document.”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

This is hilarious, crushing, zany, bleak, beautiful, and true.

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

(ht @drahardja)

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

new bio: all opinions are those of my own LLM and not those of my employer's LLM — I mean, I do use my employer's LLM 'cause hell if I'm paying for it — but I prompt for my own opinions — contractually they're owned by my employer but not endorsed — is what I'm trying to say

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EdinburghGreens@mastodon.scot ("Edinburgh Greens") wrote:

Today's polls show that if enough people vote Green then we can stop Reform, with many regions facing a Greens vs Reform contest for that final 7th seat on the regional list, elected with the peach ballot.

And if you have a Scottish Greens constituency candidate, it’s Both Votes Green to get us over the threshold to win our first-ever constituencies. Let’s do this!

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

"there's thousands of those, but this one is mine" — love it, best way to learn IMO

https://thatalexguy.dev/building-with-intent

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

Happy ‘vote strategically to keep nationalists from controlling your local area’ day to the Brits. We’re having one here in Iceland next week.

Boosted by typst ("Typst"):
erou@mathstodon.xyz ("erou ⏚") wrote:

I am discovering @typst and it looks fabulous. Very beautiful, versatile, and way more intuitive than LaTeX. I just read the tutorial really, but now I am looking for things to write with it.

#typst

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

dutch isn't real, i'm not sure why they pretend it is.

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

*screams into the void*

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

actually forget the stawberry game, I've pivoted to a "put a bikini on her" PWA — it's privacy-preserving, no need to expose your identity on Xitter anymore — but don't worry i'm added social sharing for the feddy/atmosphere

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

i bet these guys will cheer up after they play my awesome new web app "how many R's in strawberry!" (Chrome-only)

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

https://social.lol/@db/116528473759597758

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admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:

panic

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Gina@fosstodon.org wrote:

If the earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off it by now.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anj@digipres.club ("Andy Jackson") wrote:

FWIW, the Green Party are the only party who are serious about taxing wealth, and so I'll be voting Green. #TaxWealthNotWork #ukpol #ukelections https://youtube.com/shorts/uMe%5Fj2rr850

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bremner@mathstodon.xyz ("David Bremner") wrote:

OK @glyph challenge accepted. Here is python programming talk.

I have a script that uses "with Popen(...,stdout=PIPE)" to run a program and roughly run grep. Now I'd like to add a timeout, but I don't want to buffer the output (because it is unbounded), so run is out. Currently I am running /usr/bin/timeout from python, but this is, uh, unpythonic.

#python #MastOverflow

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
ericmann@tekton.network ("Eric Mann") wrote:

Running my own LLM systems on local hardware means I control the compute, I control the attack surface, and I control the data.

It's a serious upgrade over using somewhat flaky (and privacy-stupid) cloud providers.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
rooster@beige.party ("Jessica Rooster") wrote:

Why do kids want to be influencers? Probably because influencers can buy houses

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

@pancakes copy-paste from where I got it;

> sorry was quick to post. the source is many on bluesky and in different forums that are for VRC. apparently what is going on is the following (take with grain of salt as all I can confirm is worlds being taken down like A link I will post when this is posted.)

> 1. VRC updated their TOS pointing out that furry and adult content are expressly banned.

> 2. a few "normal people" groups learned that and started mass reporting furry worlds, models, and users.

> 3. it is mainly focused on worlds and models right now.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

Banning furries is like killing all the canaries in the coal mine, or killing a core species in a biodiversity

This is gonna tank VRChat so hard

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt ("Spring Jo 🥚 :v_enby: 🍀") wrote:

Lmao VRChat banned furries and sexual content

lol. lmao.

Edit: most likely not directly, and/or this is a harassment campaign, but still

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

surprise twist: right now I mostly want to talk about programming instrumentally, my secret insidious goal is to have mental health good enough to actually finish this monster post about AI so I can be _done_ with it, but having to look at and think about AI in my extremely limited free time has driven me too insane to do so

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd love to be on here chatting about programming

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

or hey here's another one, a little more popular even, maybe it'll change a little bit about how you think about modeling workflows https://pypi.org/project/Automat/