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jwz wrote:

Seriously though, Tolkien was a Serious Thinker writing Serious Literature. I mean yes, he had a villain called Grima Wormtongue -- you know, of the Chicago Wormtongues -- but that's completely different than, like, "Luke Starkiller".

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

really happy to see that the quote-post on Mastodon hasn't led to a bunch of toxic dunking. it's nice that you can turn it off, and the vast majority of quotes i see are adding something positive or offering an intelligent critique.

jwz wrote:

jwz wrote:

RE: https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/116648620727300005

No frsrs da papa quoting Gandalf instead of Aslan is *definitely* picking a team.

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bitterkarella@sfba.social ("Lesbian Death Bed") wrote:

8
Tolkien: well well well
Tolkien: now look who's laughing!
Tolkien: hmm hey clive
CS Lewis: what
Tolkien: remind me, has the archbishop of whatever ever quoted aslan?
Lewis:
Tolkien: i'm sorry i can't hear you
Tolkien: what was that again?
Lewis: no
Tolkien: ha ha that's what i thought!

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mathewi@journa.host ("Mathew Ingram") wrote:

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Got a letter from the urology center that treated my kidney stone a few years back telling me that their systems have been hacked, which I guess is at least a novel way to get your dick pics leaked

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36pickledeggs@famichiki.jp ("36 Pickled Eggs :chiba:") wrote:

I think I'm going to take the #keepassxc challenge starting right now. I've been running it for a long time, but only for managing ssh keys. I've just imported all my non-shared #bitwarden secrets to it and have turned bw off on my daily driver for now. It is all very disorienting, as expected, but we shall see how it all works out. I can always fail back to bw if I need to.

jwz wrote:

In this, the Year of Our Apocalypse 2026, Rockbox still cannot display EXIF album art if it is a progressive JPEG of *any* minuscule size or resolution.

I can't even.

Also, while you can finally have a playlist with up to 32,000 songs, "shuffle all tracks" is still hardcoded to 2,000.

I'm starting to think that their heart just isn't in this any more.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7w

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muhkayoh ("Matt Jordan") wrote:

The power company: This email is to let you know we're raising your rates by 10%.

The power company one year later: Hey, we noticed your bill is 10% higher than it was this time last year. Here are some energy saving tips!

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

Okay I bought No Man's Sky only because it was on sale, available for MacOS, and for some reason I vaguely remember all the hype around it when it first released. I think I remember some disappointment and then hearing that it got better over time.

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

Am I a gamer now you guys?

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endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

I hope everyone is okay with me going on a several minute long rant about trans rights in the US in the middle of tomorrows episode

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gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price."

https://bsky.app/profile/alishagrauso.bsky.social/post/3mmu2lsvllc2u

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fripi@famichiki.jp ("中山") wrote:

Big news, the declining birthrate in Japan might be linked to gender stereotyping in Japan. Wow, happy they managed to get to that realization.
Wonder how long it will take to actually *do* something about it. 🥲

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/27/japan/society/social-norms-low-birth-rate/

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/116649018651317684

Never trust anything but inference from a vendor. And even then, verify.

The actual products are so manipulable.

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

Video of them

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• video: d2a3a25500c14dba.mp4

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

Horseshoe crabs! (Salem, MA)

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dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

RE: https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116646815985020509

Who is going to use AI to build a non-AI search engine?

Not joking.

Use the tool to fight the fallout

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

I like #gotosocial but search is oh so slow

any tips/tricks/config to speed it up?

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@cstross Tony Blair Institute has *substantial* tech industry donors, and this is 100% of the reason for the UK gov AI push (per Pivot to AI passim)

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2something@transfem.social wrote:

Many here are familiar with @alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work 's No-AI list as well as the Slopfree Software Index

Both list FOSS projects with policies of rejecting AI contributions.

I wondered if such a thing existed for wikis. There is now!
https://git.average.name/1something/No-AI-Wikis/src/branch/trunk/No-AI%20Wikis.md

#Wikis

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

AI Don't Wanna Go Anymore, Picturesidrawn, Digital, 2026

#Art #DigitalArt

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

People always be like "Oh Mr Billionaire tell us how you made your billions of dollars! What's your secret ingredient to success??" as if the truthful answer isn't "I convinced the government to pay me money to make a thing that was already free before, and then sold it back to the government (or to myself!) for a huge markup at taxpayer expense. This artificially inflated the value of my stock which I then used as collateral to secure enormous personal loans that I have no intention of ever paying back. Also I refuse to pay my workers and I don't pay a single cent in taxes."

It's crime. The secret ingredient is crime.

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treats@fox.nexus ("things as a treat") wrote:

We can have precedented times, as a treat

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withinity@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Hi I am new to Mastodon, I don't really know what I am doing here yet. Does anyone know of any cool nonprofits or gamedev people to follow? Currently my feed is just the internet archive. I love that, but it might not lead to a very satisfying experience.

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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

One problem they are running into is that they can't deskill people fast enough.

People are still going to make art. People are still going to write programs. People are still going to keep putting out human creations.

If everyone quit making art tomorrow, AI slop would seem a lot more viable, but these annoying artists won't fucking quit just because they aren't being paid for a work product.

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dofh_excuses@gts.chapek9.com ("DevOps from Hell Excuses") wrote:

#DOFH excuse #88:

The software still needs python 2.

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@eniko for some reason it's always "walled gardens are good actually (so long as *my* game gets let in)", when the problem is "how do i get the people who would love this to know it even exists when we all exist in a perpetual state of information oversaturation and also everything is on fire"