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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
keirFox@tiggi.es wrote:

Yeah, fursuit heads are cool and all but what about when you want to be a purple sparkle kitty and want back/neck problems ?

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Impressive. He _broke_ lenses that thick

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

What are those glasses? -12?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Every artist has a first word they try when they load up a new brush. This is mine.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/safe #smbc #comics #ai

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

I am not accepting any feedback about whether my Memorial Day jokes are appropriate from Trump voters or election abstainers.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

The year is 2027. A fast tracked PR changes the name of the systemd executable to svchos.exe

Declaring his work complete, Lennart leaves Microsoft to start his new project in the BSD ecosystem: sdaemon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#lgbtq

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

there has been zero coverage of this PRC success in the US media, just a lot of fawning over a rich US racist’s rocket exploding.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/25/asia-pacific/china-space-flight-moon/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft, which successfully docked with a space station early Monday, as part of Beijing's ambitions to send people to the moon by 2030, state media said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/25/asia-pacific/china-space-flight-moon/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #china #rockets #space #moon

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

Yup. If the sales aren't there for the first book of a trilogy, the publisher's not going to bother with the third. "But I've been burned before!" Sure, fine, but explain how that's any other author's fault, or why you need to punish them for someone else's lack of productivity. I assure you the vast majority of writers absolutely want to write their entire series. But if readers won't back them early on with sales, they might not get the chance.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@chelseawritesbooks/post/DYvFSy4gWjN

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

lol I did not make it clear that I was being facetious

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/elasticsearch-columnar-metrics-engine-30x-faster-prometheus

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

Regarding LB[1]: I am unconvinced about the utility of "AI" (LLM) models, but I do think Audrey Tang provides a good structure about how to think about these topics and how they might fit in with the traditional ideas of freedom around software. The idea of repair loops and right of refusal are important things to recognize, look for, and attempt to build or preserve.

[1] https://g0v.social/@au/116630878468798294

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
au@g0v.social ("唐鳳 Audrey Tang") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@ogeer/116579470188463231

Thank you all for making this a room for a bridge from Free Software to Ethics in AI!

Here are the notes (CC0):

https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-civic-care/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
thomask@social.octet-stream.net ("Thomas Karpiniec") wrote:

Awesome, the min-publish-age #rustlang RFC was merged last week, for protecting yourself against freshly published malware updates. Always thought this was a very sensible idea. https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs//3923-cargo-min-publish-age.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

John Deere won't let farmers repair their own tractors. The US Air Force can't fix its own fighter jets. These absurd situations stem from copyright protections designed to stop people from recording movies on VCRs 40 years ago, extended onto new technology.
https://theconversation.com/todays-bans-on-diy-repairs-of-everything-from-cell-phones-to-tractors-grew-out-of-hollywoods-fear-of-videotaping-280990

Boosted by jwz:
artair@ohbear.wtf ("Artair Geal :trek: :bearpride:") wrote:

@virtualbri Well, since we're "going there" for the benefit of folks who didn't "get" TOS...

https://youtu.be/zzKd-JtQoFc?feature=shared

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

I'm on Bluesky quite a lot and there is always discourse ABOUT the service. On Threads, while there is quite often discourse ON the service (especially in writer circles, jeez, you guys), I don't really see a lot of discourse ABOUT the service. Am I missing it, or does Thread just simply not elicit the same sort of agita that Bluesky apparently does by existing?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

What I found was _not_ a thoughtful, careful response. What I found was the founder of Kagi saying:

“Politics finding its way into tech is one of the reason we do not have innovation any more.”

https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave/5

Well shit. That is the reddest of red flags.

4/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I think this is a key insight about the AI psychosis we are seeing exhibited by big tech CEOs.

The further you are away from the work, the more you assume it’s trivial for Claude or ChatGPT to replace the worker.

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

Porn scenario or horror story? It's from the Bible, it can be read either way.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/24/sex-tips-from-the-bible/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
koos@mastodon.green ("Koos") wrote:

Things that intelligent, computer using people have often asked me:

- Where is the meeting? (in the calendar's location field)
- Where's the document called so and so? (gDrive's search isn't that bad)
- Where are the meeting notes? (in the same place as all other meetings)
- Can you update the spreadsheet with these numbers?
- Can you remind me to do that thing tomorrow?

I think software people underestimate how much people dislike computers and don't care at all for automation.

Boosted by jwz:
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

Love how every website now has a popup that tells you "our website is hot dogshit, download the app instead"

And then the app is just an Electron wrapper around the same JS they could have put on the website if they didn't hate you personally

Boosted by jwz:
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.

Boosted by jwz:
quixoticgeek@v.st ("Quixoticgeek") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406

When you look at this graph, remember that the UN WFP reckon with just $40Bn a year, they can end world hunger by 2030.

Mind bogglingly large amounts are being spent on sparkling autocarrot, with massive increases in GHG emissions, horrendous impacts on water systems. And yet. For a fraction of the price we could literally feed the world.

Imagine waking up and thinking the world needs more AI, when you have the capital to just feed everyone, and still be stupendously rich.

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

I’m very glad Rudy Giuliani is out of the hospital, because that means there’s a tiny chance he’ll see the mean things I said when it looked like he was going to die.

Boosted by jwz:
johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

The people who are like "we just need to use "Ai" appropriately!" may as well be saying "Ebola is only bad if it's not managed properly!"

Neofascism acculturated basically everyone in the West, since they were kids, to falsely associate moderation with maturity.

We are *extremely* lucky that the people trying to shovel paleofascism and "AI" death cult technology down our throats are possibly the least capable human beings ever to hold power for 10 generations.

Like, *extremely* lucky.