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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

cap'n picard

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
molly@hachyderm.io ("molly clare") wrote:

Something that's sticking in my craw this time around is a parochial and oversimplified view of my home country, the US.

When I've been to re:publica before, I saw the US painted as the evil empire, the cautionary tale, the example to head off before it's too late. Fair, honestly!

But the US is more than just the Death Star. We can take lessons in resistance from the US. Germany needs to hear about the broad community groups that organize, inform, shop, teach, sing, track, and fundraise – and they do this using tech tools, even in a regime with way fewer privacy rights.

US-style tech authoritarianism is coming for us in Germany, so let's learn from US-style activism, too.

#rp26

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rnd@toot.cat ("/dev/urandom") wrote:

thought: a dragon discovering that lots of items in their hoard have a lot of historic and cultural value and thus turning it into a well-curated museum

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

shonks

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

*pronk*

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

Ah ha! But I did manage to get a photo of my handsome little friend.

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

This is Ernest darting away before I could get a picture of him.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

my hottest daily quest: what's the most deeply annoying AI story of the day?

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

my favourite new Proton Mail bug is iPhone notifications for spam 🫠 to email addresses I have notifications disabled 🫠 🫠

@protonprivacy someone vibe coding over there, again?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

Woo! At least one of my Cereus photos is gong to be part of @attyboy.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ‘s I LOVE FURRY show at Bunker Projects this year. #furry #fursuit

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

i got zig to unroll my loops for me!

interestingly, because it needs to constant fold to achieve one of the unrollings and doesn't complain, i have good confidence that it must have done exactly what i wanted.

not that this is necessarily the final trick i will go with, but it's interesting that i can do this and be guaranteed that it does what i want. at least before it gets fed to the llvm backend...

https://gist.github.com/jjl/6ca49552a96a66c05fc4146b2017e09a

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
glynmoody ("Glyn Moody") wrote:

The class of 2026 has heard enough about #AI, thanks - https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/19/the-class-of-2026-has-heard-enough-about-ai-thanks/5242080 "From campus ceremonies to Linux communities and academic journals, resistance to #LLM evangelism is getting louder"

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

(I don't need any advice, encouragement is welcome though)

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I'm stalled https://dustycloud.org/tmp/org%5Fdiet%5Fresults.html

But it's been hard to keep my diet on track with things going on lately. But those have largely cleared up. Determined to turn it around though. I think I can do better than I have been lately.

I badly want to cross under 240 soon. I can do it. Just gotta be serious about things.

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NiwlCraft@mastodon.art ("Honora Niwlcraft") wrote:

Only one job. No Tiktok, no memes. Only "hello spacecraft".

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

“AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton says we must convince AI that it’s our mother | BetaKit”

https://betakit.com/ai-godfather-geoffrey-hinton-says-we-must-convince-ai-that-its-our-mother/

Wire mother?

jwz wrote:

@glyph But if it runs on a PPU it is called a Pepe

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

Friend: seriously, you should use your journalism background to get the inside scoop on the rich, it could be fantastic for your research!

Me: and just exactly how would I propose that. Write, “hi, my name is Robert Kingett. I'm a blind and gay Romance author. One of the Romance genres I pen is billionaire Romance, but I have a tiny request. I’d need to live in your mansion as well as eat any food your private chef creates for a year. For research, you know. I’d also need uninhibited access to your private jet because I will have hot and steamy sex scenes that take place inside of a private jet. Lastly, this research is most critical. I'll need to get an up-close look at how you exploit all your workers and loved ones just so I can make the Romantic tension and commentary on class as authentically as possible before the hot sex happens. May I speak to your people about this stunning opportunity? If you'd like your name to be the romantic lead, I must always accompany you, even to the bathroom. I must shag you on your plush bed at least 30 times, and I must witness all the ways you continue to always do ghastly things to the planet and to workers. Nothing can ever be secret because I need to write the most authentic billionaire Romance possible.

Friend: actually, that's perfect! Do that.

We sent an edited, but far more detailed, letter to billionaire’s houses via snail mail. If my name appears in a restraining order media scoop, you know why.

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APBBlue@thepit.social ("Amy Maybe") wrote:

FINISHED IT. #AI #Tech #technology #embroidery #Handmade

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Talen_Lee@kind.social ("Talen Lee") wrote:

I put the cry out to mastodon again: Are you an #artist who wants to draw werewolf redneck bootleggers looking smug in their arrest photos. For money. For a card game.

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

for newish followers, for some reason, i got on some mormon missionary's mailing list documenting their time becoming a missionary a few years ago. no idea.

anyway last year their name changed to a feminine one and they stopped talking about brothers and starting talking about sisters.

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

oh, the surprise(!) trans mormon missionary is back in my emails.

longest email ever... read at own risk

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

We're running a big fundraiser for @osnews, in honour of my 21 year tenure and 20000th post! Since my wife can barely work due to health issues (caused by her work, ugh), my family has to rely on my income much more heavily. And that means OSNews donations.

We've also got a bunch of fun incentives!

More details:

https://www.osnews.com/story/144982/the-21-years-and-20000-posts-osnews-fundraiser-a-euro-for-every-post/

Donate:

https://ko-fi.com/thomholwerda/goal?g=2

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

i hate distributed systems.

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

im gonna have to do a Figma presentation on Thursday and that is heartbreaking for a guy like me

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116594212573569895

The success of choice screens casts the EU's larger failure to legalize quality browsers in sharp relief: by failing to remove the obvious legal and technical hurdles every browser maker says are keeping Blink and Gecko unavailable, the EC guarantees there can be no true iOS browser competition.

This matters because browser choice is, in fact, substantially the ballgame when it comes to opening up mobile computing:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The lengths Apple went to undermine the court's ruling were to say the least extraordinary:
https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown
🧵(4/7)

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Regulators around the world should scrutinize Apple’s claims and demand hard evidence that blocking fair competition is the only secure, proportionate, and necessary response.
🧵(7/7)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/balancing-security-and-fair-competition/

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

https://github.com/penpot/penpot/issues/9163

yes - this is the bug

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

is Penpot seriously glitchy for anyone else? whenever I move anything with the keyboard, e.g. Shift + Arrow keys the bounding box / rendering goes haywire