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

There's very little left.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #concrete #window

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

He's still got it

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz02g4vg5r5o

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@mewblog.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

ICYMI - Space Virgins is back with a new series - Space Virgins: Literary Society, where we are talking about movies (often cult and / or low-budget).

Space Virgins: First Contact (all about The Expanse TV Show) is still available in its entirety as well. (For now - it may be archived for disk space reasons and downloadable elsewhere.)

video.thepolarbear.co.uk/c/expanse/videos

"Starring" @hamishtpb @ChrisWere and @uoou

#Podcast #Sweary #IdiotsChatting #Films

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
treinenweb@mastodon.nl ("Treinenweb") wrote:

Nederlandticket maakt onbeperkt daluren reizen mogelijk voor 49 euro per maand https://www.treinenweb.nl/nieuws/11867/nederlandticket-maakt-onbeperkt-daluren-reizen-mogelijk-voor-49-euro-per-maand.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
blendernation@mastodon.online ("BlenderNation") wrote:

Blender Jobs for May 22, 2026

https://www.blendernation.com/2026/05/22/blender-jobs-for-may-22-2026/?mtm%5Fcampaign=social&mtm%5Fkwd=mastodon

#blender #blender3d #b3d

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

i finally did the talk

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

here's the recording
FULLY AUTOMATED COMPUTER MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jdjPR75wQ

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jimmunroe ("Jim Munroe") wrote:

LOVE gamemaking and HATE technofascism? This is the event for you! Free with reg: https://luma.com/8nvmyatm
Featuring @cwebber @matthammill @rwg and more! #Toronto #digitalsovereignty #gamedev @torontogamesweek

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

Many new Guix users struggle to get the system installed with working WiFi. There are a couple things I've read about doing this, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the approaches I knew about, so I wrote my own. Having tried several ways of doing this, I think this is the simplest; all you need is an Android phone.

https://atomized.org/blog/2026/04/18/bootstrapping-nonguix/

#Guix #NonGuix

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Today, @DAIR is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work.

https://labor.dair-institute.org

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

I wonder how many of the people in tech who claim to be progressive but spout nonsense like “softness, comfort, and entertainment is a weakness and is why empires fall” realise that it’s literal fascist rhetoric that’s completely detached from actual history?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Pepijn@mastodon.online wrote:

The web was always about more than interactive social fun though.

Our internet has always been a source of non-corporate and commercial information.

Wikipedia is by far the largest example of that. Small specialised fish like overfishing.org are absolutely a non-trivial part of this system as well.

And this bit of the system is threatened with extinction today. Even when current websites might be somewhat maintained I don't see any new ones pop up.

It should worry everyone.

9/6 (....)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

Consider: federated search protocol where a server manually selects some websites to index and will pass search results on to other allow-listed (or non-blocked) servers upon request, so you can build up a network of useful websites and search results without any one server having to host an overly large database.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
harrysintonen@infosec.exchange ("Harry Sintonen") wrote:

All my attempts to communicate a vulnerability in #Signalapp have failed - I have not received any response to my multiple messages to them. Good people have tried to forward my concern to them (and I am thankful for your efforts and help), yet this has been to no avail.

I am disappointed in the lack of communication from Signal. I will be disclosing the full details of the issue later today (with end-user mitigations), after the six-month anniversary of the initial report.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I had an amazing dream last night where the tech companies finally got their comeuppance

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Slightly paraphrasing LB, but damn "wages are the problem AI is trying to solve" is one hell of a sentence.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ThePlant ("Liam S-H") wrote:

By the end of the year, the web is going to be a very different place if Google continue their planned AI rollout.

So many sites will end up shutting as Google has historically been the source of most traffic.

Others will pivot even further to content slop and spam Reddit, plenty already have.

Apocalyptic stuff.

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

RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116617015192202090

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live:

I don’t like crowds (or people TBH) so, excepting the occasional non consensual exposure to an unfortunate local band at a pub, the list is quite short

David Bowie (during the Outside tour)
Sigurrós

I also once went to see Saint Etienne perform but I honestly don’t remember why I went

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

Seeing posts side by side on Mastodon today where one cites hard data—but locked behind a paywall—that “AI” companies are losing a lot of money on inference and the next post is a person saying talk about “AI” companies losing money isn’t credible because of the tone and style of the non-paywalled punditry

Our modern information ecosystem in a nutshell.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
neriman@wikis.world ("Nemoralis") wrote:

The Wikimedia Foundation has dissolved the Community Tech team and laid off 5 engineers + 1 manager while unionization efforts are ongoing.

Contributors are raising concerns about loss of community-focused engineering, possible union busting and growing disconnect between WMF leadership and volunteers

A solidarity initiative is now underway across Wikimedia projects.

Read more & consider supporting:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NEZZ25FAX3VMBERKWBLZQ4KFVMIIF5HJ/

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

sometimes i start the week mapping out five stories i can cover and then events transpire otherwise and i might get to 0 or 1

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

WE GOT THE FUCKIN FLAT

KEYS AVAILABLE FROM THURSDAY

FUCKING W00000000T

GLASGOW HERE WE COME*

* with *two* months'notice on the current place (£4600 fml) and a moving bill in the thousands, and also i'll need to hire a van so i can drive up the animals and the fragile musical instruments and then come back down to supervise cleaners and lalalalalalalala 💸 💸 💸 💸 💸

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

hey! if you're on Bluesky, please post there and let people know I'm alive and well and posting at https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard

and the wonderful AI coverage never stops

thank you!

also if you post on bsky about the fundraiser (moving, laptop), it will be *most* helpful https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/16/pivot-to-ai-needs-your-support-sign-up-to-the-patreon-today/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
tdp_org ("Neil Craig") wrote:

"The [London, UK] Metropolitan Police has been blocked from signing a contract worth up to £50m with the US technology firm Palantir, after London's deputy mayor refused to approve the deal...

...It also cited concerns around the firm's values and ethics, although legally this cannot influence a deal refusal."

Good. Palantir can get directly in the bin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyp1e11px0o

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Incident Creator ❎") wrote:

Two days ago a spaceship full of drugs landed in Australia. News coverage wasn't exactly widespread.

Varda are working with an indigenous community (not against them) to manufacture drugs in zero g on orbit that cannot be made on Earth. These are typically small volume for rare conditions, or experimental pathfinders. They've been doing one every 3 or 4 months. Just thought somebody should know.

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

(Source: my elderly relatives.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

if you're an American who likes AI, you're in the minority. this isn't a Mastodon bubble opinion, Americans generally just really fuckin' hate AI. excellent and comprehensive roundup of the polling here. https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how-america-turned-against-ai-according

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

We’re at the stage of the bubble where the elderly and retired start to talk about the amazing revolution that is “AI” and start buying “AI training courses for the elderly” because they think they’re missing out on a tech purpose-designed to make office and creative industry workers unemployed

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

“I Did Not Come to This Kids Party for an AI Sermon - Justin Ribeiro, Ph.D.”

https://justinribeiro.com/chronicle/2026/05/21/i-did-not-come-to-this-kids-party-for-an-ai-sermon/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
anon_opin ("Anon Opin") wrote:

The Fat Controller has made some ridiculous decisions in Thomas the Tank engine but his biggest mistake is not standardising the fleet. The chaps at the depot could save plenty of confusion and delay by having a standard fleet of locomotives.