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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
fast_code_r_us@floss.social ("Larry (Mr.Optimization)") wrote:

I'm currently reading @pluralistic 's book "Chokepoint Capitalism". A fascinating look at the fine details of how our media has been gobbled up by a few companies. I don't patronize Kindle e-books, Audible audio books nor Spotify, but I am still negatively impacted by what they've done. Music discovery and acquisition for me has been very slow and deliberate in the age of streaming. I still buy music an album at a time through the least evil vendor I can find. I also use my library card 🤪

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Eliot_L@social.coop ("Eliot Lash") wrote:

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki%5FWorkers%5FUnited%5Fsolidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

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

https://www.dholes.org/pupspage.html
#dhole #dholes #WorldDholeDay

Boosted by sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert"):
evilpie@hachyderm.io ("Tom Schuster") wrote:

The Sanitizer API is now part of the HTML standard!

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12395

Thanks to Noam for upstreaming and everyone else involved in this multi year saga.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

These AI agent attacks are getting ridiculous

Malicious code hidden in source code repositories can trick AI coding agents into overwriting their own configuration files

https://adversa.ai/blog/the-approval-prompt-is-lying-to-you-symlink-rce-in-five-ai-coding-agents-claude-code-cursor-antigravity-copilot-grok-build/

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

this is the likely thumbnail for today's episode, still in progress

i have opened the S-1 and it's like a box of unearthly eldritch abominations, all of which are very stupid and trying to pick your pocket

cowriting this one with amy, she's written a fuckin blinder of an intro

it'll be good

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

“Funny but serious, Chieng issues an AI warning to grads — Harvard Gazette”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/funny-but-serious-chieng-issues-an-ai-warning-to-grads/

> “I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng.

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

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It's no secret there's a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting "AI" on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145130/open-source-project-contains-hidden-instruction-for-ai-agents-delete-my-code/

#GeneralDevelopment

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

British painter Iain Alexander said #Trump himself endorsed changes to his original design, such as adding the colors of the US flag & a logo commemorating the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding.
…No living person has appeared on #US #currency since 1866, when it was #outlawed after the image of a mid-level #Treasury bureaucrat showed up on a 5-cent note.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Starting last year, 2 political appointees at the #Treasury Dept— US Treasurer Brandon Beach & his snr adviser, Mike Brown — repeatedly urged staff at the agency’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing to prepare prototypes of the note, acc/to the employees, who said the move raised concerns because #federal #law currently allows only deceased people to appear on bills.

#Trump #vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar #law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

#Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The printing director who resisted the effort said she was [coincidentally] “reassigned” last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye.

#vanity #narcissism #idolatry #currency #USdollar
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/28/trump-250-bill-pushed-by-treasury-appointees/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History May 28, 1912: Fifteen women were fired from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company, in Philadelphia, for dancing the Turkey Trot. They were on their lunch break, but management thought the dance too racy. The Turkey Trot was a fast dance, generally danced by the members of the youth counterculture, to ragtime tunes, like Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. The Vatican denounced the dance. Conservatives tried to get it banned. Some dancers were fined by the courts for “disorderly conduct.” In 1913, a conservative reaction song was produced called the Anti-Ragtime Girl. In 1963, Little Eva (of Locomotion fame) recorded a tribute to the Turkey Trot called Let’s Turkey Trot.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dance #dancing #censorship #racism #sexism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SarahKite@jorts.horse ("Spooky Femme Peter Lorre 🪁 🇵🇸") wrote:

In The Night Kitchen
by Meowrice Sendak

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

The 2026 MSCA Doctoral Networks call for proposals is now open 🚀

We’re making close to €600 million available for researchers to work abroad, acquire new skills, and collaborate with leading scientific teams around the world.

Europe’s scientific talent is world-class. We intend to keep it that way.

Find out more: https://link.europa.eu/h9w4k3

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

computer!!!!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
brittcoxon@mastodon.art ("Britt Coxon") wrote:

The Bees don’t care that it’s a weed. https://britthub.co.uk/the-bees-dont-care-that-its-a-weed/

My garden is full of happy bees. No such thing as a weed.

#Art
#illustration #plants #sketchnotes #wildflowers #creativeToots #artistsOnMastodon

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nathell ("Daniel Janus") wrote:

Programming in #Clojure on the #reMarkable, the way God intended.

(Better video and a writeup coming soon)

Attachments:

• gifv: A video showing me handwriting `(defn foo [x] (+ x 2))` on the reMarkable 2, and a pseudo-handwritten `=> #’listener/foo` appearing automatically ~10 seconds later. Then the cycle repeats with evaluating `(foo 42)`.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

Today, we have imposed a €200 million fine on Temu under the Digital Services Act, for failing to identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform.

The evidence at our disposal indicates that consumers in the EU are very likely to encounter illegal items on Temu.

🔗https://link.europa.eu/YFcf6y

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"

New IEA report confirms what we've been yelling about: this isn't a normal digital industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/4fda38df-523c-46f5-ae75-49481abdc8fc/WorldEnergyInvestment2026.pdf

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

RE: https://toot.wales/@rosie%5F108/116652263241829510

Duck pervert strikes again.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Beautiful ducks.

@ChrisWere said "you're spying on their date. Like some sort of duck pervert"

#nature #ducks #duckdate

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glecharles@gardenstate.social ("Guy LeCharles Gonzalez") wrote:

"The best resourced ones have the worst priorities."

On AI policies, loopy humans, bloated sequels, B2B mythbusting, and alphabet soup.

https://loudpoet.com/2026/05/28/five-things-may-28-2026/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's only called "Agile" if it comes from the Agile region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling chaos with a standup meeting.

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

good morning, glory

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Tony Blair collaborating with the oil industry to look at how AI can reduce the impact of global warming

(Spoiler: every skeleton gets an ID card)

Attachments:

• video: ef2511b79c7a1a93.mp4

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

My mom was looking for browser alternatives the other day and I suggested @Vivaldi. Now she's a fan.

But she keeps calling it "Valdi" because that's what it sounds like in Icelandic and in Icelandic that's short for the name "Valdimar"

So occasionally when commenting on the browser's set up process and the like, she will switch to "mom voice" and call the browser "Valdimar"

And I instinctively think to myself "Oooh, Valdimar is in TROUBLE!" 😆

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

RE: https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661

“LinguaCelta: The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community”

https://linguacelta.com/blog/2026/05/LLMs.html

> The second reason I see LLMs, in particular, as a line in the sand is that using LLMs has a pervasive influence on the quality and the content of what one creates.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This is how the AI bubble bursts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue

There is no conceivable way to break even for the AI industry—let alone to repay an investment that requires $2Tn a year from now to the end of the decade. That's about 3% of the entire planetary GNP. Just to break even.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hth@androiddev.social ("Hrafn") wrote:

While western/central Europe deals with a heatwave, Iceland has yellow warnings in place for... snow.

I mean I've experienced midsummer hailstorms in downtown Reykjavík my whole life, but a snowstorm this late in the year is new.

Perhaps there should be a marketing push for "cooling off" trips up north.

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

is alpha the only really truly batshit platform re: reordering?