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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

This was quite the Erin Brockovich moment by AOC at a hearing on data centers.

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
gabrielesvelto@mas.to ("Gabriele Svelto") wrote:

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

If only we could make ourselves more illegible to big tech while simultaneously making ourselves more legible to our fellow humans. Let a thousand networks bloom that have bouncers that keep out the riff-raff: big tech, billionaires, and their sycophants and apologists.

Boosted by jwz:
hungry_joe@mas.to ("ThatSexToyGuy") wrote:

"have you got a minute to hop on a quick call"

bitch have you got a minute to hop out of a quick window

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

I sing the body positronic

Boosted by jwz:
stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Congrats to the legendary editor Jason Baker, the rest of the editorial staff and everyone who worked on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert for a fantastic run!

Thanks for everything you do. You're all the best in the biz.

Here's a vid of Colbert describing how Baker literally saved the show's existence on Day 1.

Attachments:

• video: 42135b90d5708a38.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

"To organize the world's data and make it universally accessible and useful."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
fskornia@glammr.us ("Frank Skornia") wrote:

@mhoye @qurlyjoe Richard Matheson knew what was coming, and he died 13 years ago before all this nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqc8b9nKgoo

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

academic institutions, bar associations, and other professional associations have been too slow to react to this shit. it needs to be a one-strike-and-you're-out kind of thing. if you have the kind of workflow that can let invented quotes and sources slip into your finished product, you should be facing the possibility of never working again. it's as bad as plagiarism. worse.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

Time for a random animal fact that *isn't* about reptiles, for once!

Did you know that the platypus doesn't have a stomach? Its esophagus connects directly to the intestine, with no sac to soak food in acid in between.

The reason this works is that they have keratin-based grinding "pads" at the back of their mouths, which they use to mash prey animals into a fine paste before swallowing them. Also, they mostly eat soft prey (worms, insect larvae, the occasional tadpole) - and they also eat pretty much all the time, so they don't need to store large meals that take a long time to break down.

This isn't a primitive feature, but a highly specialized one! They are descended from ancestors that did have stomachs - almost all other mammals (the sole other member of the no-stomach club being the echidna), as well as all reptiles and amphibians, have stomachs. Most fish also do.

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

Gosh, I wonder which Russian Operative we will get to replace this Russian Operative

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/politics/tulsi-gabbard-resigns

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
JulianOliver ("Julian Oliver") wrote:

Tbh I do confess some dread in the coming months of the window shifting for hundreds of millions of people, an unspoken normalisation of 'we're all using AI now'. It is not unlikely we soon see 'AI' as a term seeing less use, that these software products have such reach, ubiquity and dependence, it's just 'how we do computers now'.

Making chatbots search, gradually fading out traditional search, is for sure a smartphone scale market maneuver.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Jdm2@boriken.social ("jdm2 🇵🇷") wrote:

Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:

First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.

The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:

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

If tech journalists were:

a.) writing in the public interest
b. writing not just for rich people
c.) aware of technology at more than a surface level

Google's scuppering of CrOS and continued attempts to force Android on people would get non-stop, wall-to-wall coverage

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

eat flaming shit, google.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/you-can-no-longer-google-the-word-disregard/

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

@nickchomey Lol, what a disaster:

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The consequence for clicking "No" to "Are you over 18?" prompts should being redirected to a list of books that are banned in their local public schools.

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

"Coyote vs. ACME hits theaters, finally, on August 28th, 2026"

https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/04/22/finally-the-coyote-vs-acme-trailer-is-here/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

"Ugh, why am I so sore?"

"Me too, I've got aches and pains I've never felt before."

"Um. Oops?"

"Oops? I don't want to hear that from our mage. What did you do?"

"I thought this massaging spell would be a nice surprise. I didn't realize it was a mass aging spell…"

#microfiction

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

I don't know why you say Goodbye
I say Hello

https://youtu.be/zG0HFw0edXY

Boosted by jwz:
technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.

once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Rimuru@s.cafe ("Rimuru Tempest") wrote:

Donald Trump is heavily promoting his $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund," which legal experts and police officers warn is just a glorified, taxpayer-funded piggy bank meant to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. He really looked at the federal budget and said, "Let's start a loyalty rewards program for federal crimes."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

CEO of Standard Chartered: I'm sorry for 'lower value human capital' comments

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-standard-chartered-says-hes-085816289.html

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

you are not supposed to say that part out loud sir

https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/21/bank-ceo-calls-workers-lower-value-human-capital-and-plans-to-replace-them-with-ai/

( h/t https://infosec.exchange/@krypt3ia/116619233276064565 )

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

Re LB:[1] Dang, the story about the extinction of the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly happened in the "backyard" of where I grew up. I probably saw some of those insects at various points in my youth. 😔

[1] https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116617487368287293

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Today I learned about "Malus" and parody is genuinely impossible now.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
CrimethInc@todon.eu ("CrimethInc. Ex-Workers") wrote:

The last known caterpillar that could have become a Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly has died.

The term for an animal that is the sole survivor of a species is endling. In a sense, we are all endlings—each the last of our kind.

The loss of a species is not simply the loss of a biological category—it is the loss of countless unique individuals and their collective potential.

Each of us is the bearer of a singular and unrepeatable world. This is a memento mori, a reminder to honor what is fragile and irreducible in all beings.

http://crimethinc.com/endlings

Toughie, the last of the Rabbs’ Fringe-Limbed Treefrogs, taught us the word endling. He passed away on September 26, 2016. May all of us still living fight to defend each other and the beauty of the world.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

#PhotoOfTheDay is a 2-for-1 of framed, signed t-shirts on the wall at Bubba's Burgers in Kauai.

#photo #photography #kauai #hawaii #SouthPark #FamilyGuy

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

wait... that strange little man has a *merch website*???

#KillMeNow

https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/116619219974652186