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joachim@boitam.eu ("Joachim") wrote:

this is how you all fucking sound

by stillvreni : https://bsky.app/profile/vreni.bsky.social/post/3mms5baylac2p

#ai #noAI

jwz wrote:

There are good heists, and then there's this one.

David Rush is accused of: Lying on his background check forms; Time-card fraud; Oh yeah, and also stealing $40M worth of gold bars. Rush, a former senior executive service-level CIA employee in...
https://jwz.org/b/yk74

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
vitaut ("vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦") wrote:

BREAKING: GTA NPCs unionize

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
hollie@social.coop ("Hollie") wrote:

The #crows are still interacting. The day I taught them I had peanuts and was willing to share, was a situation where one of them was collecting sticks off our dead tree for their nest, so it associated me coming out the door with breaking sticks off the tree.

Now, one stands in the tree, faces the house, squawks, and pulls a branch off and then drops it on the ground. I come out, send two peanuts sailing into the driveway with my pitching arm (the driveway is about how long my pitching arm can reach), and then I go back in the house and let them eat.

What surprises me is that they only ask me a couple times a day. If I had a human I could summon for an instant slice of pizza, I’d be pressing that button more than once or twice a day.

#birds #birbs

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

tomatoes are the best pokemon

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Streaming services successfully recreated cable TV, except now every channel costs $14.99, has its own app, and keeps buffering.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

You know what? The AI craze of late has so clearly shown that industrial programming where people constantly rewrite huge, convoluted codebases is such a dead-end, that I suddenly actually feel good about working on a small silly grocery categorization tool. It just feels wholesome :-)

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/116650913321197621

Timid enforcement begets timid enforcement, and the best way to build support for regulation isn't to admire its potential, it's to demonstrate positive impact in the lives of users.

The EU needs to get serious and legalise safe, capable iOS browsers:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The studio release sounds so big, so bombastic, so sonically elaborate that I think had I heard it for the first time this way, I would've connected to it immediately despite the irregular structure. Basically:

Attachments:

• gifv: A GIF of Frank from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia when he is watching Mac's stage performance and says "Oh my God. I get it"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
bvibber@wikis.world ("Brooke Vibber :mediawiki:") wrote:

✊

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

When I first heard it last year, I had a hard time connecting with it at first. It's not a traditional album in the sense of, well, having individual songs that you could play in isolation if so desired. It's like a whole piece, with flowing themes and motifs. It was through repeat listening that I was able to see through it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
alice@gts.void.dog ("jail bait dog girl") wrote:

if a string of plain english words in a log output is 'malware' we have so thoroly fucked up computers, its pretty amazing actually. from 'never trust user input' to 'eval the entire internet as root all the time' in a decade is one thing i honestly did not expect to happen

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#DevinTownsend's new album #TheMoth is out today. Deluxe Edition consists of the studio version and the raw orchestra & choir performance ("The Afterlife"). I saw the live debut performance last year on livestream and though I liked it back then already, with proper mixing it sounds absolutely phenomenal.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

The Digital Markets Act was designed to move fast, but Politico’s reporting highlights how enforcement is being slowed by legal caution, limited resources, and the threat of litigation from Big Tech.
How well, and how quickly, the DMA is enforced will have far-reaching consequences for the Web.
🧵👇️ (1/10)

📖Read more:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-big-tech-law-meant-to-move-fast-it-hasnt/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX") wrote:

Worth remembering that some of the greatest heroes of our time were considered villains in their own.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chaotic_evil@jorts.horse ("Florist vs the Anthropocene") wrote:

what a beautiful day

i hiss

closing the blinds and turning off the lights

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
helenmclaughlinart@mastodon.art ("Helen McLaughlin Art") wrote:

Finished this! Really enjoyed this process and the results.

Micron fine liner, Ohuhu water based markers on cheap 135gsm paper.

(I haven't abandoned digital, reawakening traditional just seems to be where my head is at right now, randomly, out of the blue. 🤷)

#Illustration #TraditionalArt #Marker #Landscape #MastoArt #CreativeToots #FediArt #Art

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Mrfunkedude@beige.party ("Mr Funk E Dude") wrote:

Stop thinking that the Fediverse needs to compete with corporate owned social media.

It doesn't.

Mastodon isn't in competition with X or Threads. PeerTube isn't in competition with YouTube. PixelFed is not in competition with Instagram. Friendica is not in competition with Facebook.

The Fediverse serves a different function then all of the billionaire funded social medias. The Fedi isn't meant to create a revenue flow for investors. It isn't meant to turn you into a product where your privacy is stripped from you.

The Fediverse is meant to give the USER control. It's meant to protect the disenfranchised. Give power to the people. Be safe from profit exploitation.

The Fediverse and corporate social media couldn't be more different. Trying to put them in competition is like trying to compare a toilet to a flower. Sure you can shit and piss on a flower, but the toilet will always stink and the flower will continue to grow.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
SymTrkl@anarres.family ("Sym (public node) :3hearts:") wrote:

Wanted to repost this, so I tracked down the original and took a fresh screenshot, because it's important to share.

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

still figuring out what to do with the handwritten notes

digital notes i hide in a hard drive and pretend they don't exist

paper doesn't have those affordances

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

digs under piles of stuff oh so there's the thing i'm looking for!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
eyeling@mastodon.art ("Eyeling") wrote:

More soothing cold stuff.

#Eis #frost

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
djm62@beige.party ("серафими многоꙮчитїи") wrote:

contacting ISO for the definitive list of jazz standards

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
CorvidCrone@kolektiva.social ("Corvid Crone") wrote:

*gently grabs the cheeks of all programmers to stare deeply into their eyes*

All I want is a dry tech manual. A boring, well indexed manual that defines every function. Not a chatbot. Not a training. Not a million "articles" that I have to search through. Not a "community forum".

My rice cooker came with one. I want one for every piece of software I have to interact with.

Go get yourself a technical writer if necessary.

I. Want. An. Instructional. Manual.

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

me: i want to make art
also me: that means reaching into my brain and my dissociation won't let me do that

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

I like eating dead things.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/29/eat-and-live/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

when industry says "we need more STEM!" what they're asking for is specifically more programmers to write code for SaaS products, and not scientists who sound the alarm on pollution and climate collapse

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

Having an interesting conversation today about how LLM agents and disability intersect.

Some people find them very useful for helping harness their chaotic thoughts and make things more coherent.

But some people struggle to verbalize, and it gets worse with stress. And that applies to written too, not just speech.

And then LLM agents are massive text-spewing machines. I'm hyperlexic and so it goes well for me, but if you're dyslexic? It's actually a really difficult user interface.

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

In happier news, I stumbled across this video with a person infodumping about jumping spiders that I enjoyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQMOF5c2Z8

Especially this part about their eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRQMOF5c2Z8&t=523

Makes me wish I had telescope eyes with movable retinas, you know? Ooh, and they might have REM like sleep! Faskinating, right?

Anyway, jumping spiders: so cool, so cute.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116658300877114893

A corollary.

Once, long ago, I was hired at a new job. They gave me a big wedge of new-employee paperwork to fill out on the first day. One of the documents was a form assigning ownership of any intellectual property I came up with on my own time to the company.

I didn't want to do that, but I also didn't want to have a big fight over it. So I just tossed that form in the trash. If they really cared about it, I figured, someone would come bug me about it later. No one ever did.

People can ask you to do anything they want. But don't assume they care enough to fight over it just because they asked