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

Peter Mandelson is the godfather of Labour Together – the group which maneuvered Keir Starmer into power.

ohhhhh, that's why...

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

And I'm a relative hardliner on these matters! LLMs are shit for any serious work. But I've been directly turned down for interviews because I said that in public, and I'm in a very precarious economic situation, and like... we get punished a whole lot harder than cis people for compromising on LLMs, and yet the same people who do that have no answers when we ask how we're meant to keep living.

Or is it that we're meant to die beautifully to justify the compromises of others?

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

We really can't afford to keep saying "this is bad" about everything the tech world throws at us without coming up with some tactics for either breaking the power of the industry or at least mitigating its worst effects on the most vulnerable among us.

This website often feels like a lot of older men demanding that vulnerable people take the most hardline possible stance on questions of tech ethics but being utterly silent on questions like "how will we feed ourselves?", and it's exhausting

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

there were borgars on offer today! it had been so long

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

Lost in all this, we're living in the golden age of screen savers and lock screens.

Attachments:

• video: The screen saver on my MacBook is a video of dolphins swimming in a vibrant blue ocean

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

There's a small cadre of genderpanicked wet-wipes out there who, when they wish to impugn my masculinity, post a picture of me wearing a regency dress, and I FOR ONE AM APPALLED, that picture is more than a dozen years old, there are much more recent photos of me in that regency dress, one is included here, please update your records you fragile little dingleberries

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@tlhInganHom Someone at my local pride, for the last few years, has brought little necklaces with a tiny brick on them to give out. <3

But this picture just reminded me of this:
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bricks-vancouver-crosswalk-pedestrian-safety

Maybe we should all bring (foam) bricks to march in Pride parades. 🤔

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

Meanwhile, this racist, sexist piece of shit

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.m1A.sxqa.OHSNeNW5SIRU&smid=url-share

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Last week, I wrote about using LLMs to restore an old computer game I wrote in college:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/05/25/a-portentous-reunion/

Over the weekend, I made it open source:

https://github.com/bcantrill/BattleTris

Today on the podcast, @ahl and I are going to talk about the restoration of BattleTris, how LLMs were invaluable in getting it working again quickly -- and what it might mean for the way we think of the longevity of software.

Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1511056219710820613

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

My 11 year old nephew texted me today to inform me that he's into Wu-Tang. The music I grew up with is now sort of like vintage enough for kids to explore it. I'm into it.

It feels good to explore the things you love with borrowed new eyes.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://freethought.online/@pzmyers/116675893928216941

Happy Pride Month!

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

Can we just let people live their lives?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/01/the-gop-tactic-from-now-until-doomsday/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Happy Pride month y’all! Survival is resistance.

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

great timing too, with subscription costs having gone up 10-100x on github copilot today

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

this is so fucking good, vive la resistance

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

RE: https://det.social/@jlink/116674285765783839

in which the german lawyer says that leaving little messages for agents is probably not illegal in germany.

have fun, friends in germany.

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

"Posting My Lyrics"
CC BY-SA 4.0 - Christine Lemmer-Webber

there is no accompanying melody or song
it's unlikely anyone will but if you manage to make a song with these I would play it forever

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

🎶 🎵 posting lyrics
on your timeline
it feels so meaningful
as you post them

feels like everyone
could know what
this means to you

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah
it's such an internal experience
oh

but I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics of mine
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

in my instant messager away message
(uh oh)
on my fedi feed
(bloop bloop)
to you in my DMs
(ding ding)

you say it's outta context
you say it's outta nowhere
but baby they're my lyrics
babe they mean so much to me

I'm gonna keep posting
just gonna keep posting
I'm gonna keep posting
these lyrics so hard

it's a deeply internal experience
it's a deeply internal experience
oh
it's such an internal experience
oh oh
it's such an internal experience
yeah 🎵 🎶

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

happy pride month! 🤗🏳️‍🌈

boost this post to make the post below it gay

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
tlhInganHom@mspsocial.net ("Hal") wrote:

Happy Pride

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber mollytime, any musical instrument,

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

it's honestly pretty amazing they've managed to get it to appear this good at stuff just by running it over tons of text. i honestly never would have thought it'd get anywhere near this.

unfortunately, 'this good' isn't very good. to get good results out of it requires leading it to the answer already in your mind while avoiding the traps it tries to slip under your radar.

to compound this, by the time you've actually got it to appear to understand what you already designed, you've actually achieved something difficult, because it requires such careful tending to get there.

the endorphin rush is real. no wonder people are addicted to this shit. although i suspect most of them actually get lost earlier before they've gotten good output, they just don't realise it. because it's a gaslighting little shit and it will sneak stuff past you even if you think you're being careful.

i think people are just addicting to rolling dice

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azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

Happy first day of pride month! Don't forget to submit your action items for the Gay Agenda before midnight UTC tonight to ensure that they will be acted on in a timely fashion. Late submissions may be deferred until the next meeting.

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tess ("Dana Fried") wrote:

Happy Pride!

Remember, you don't need a corporate-sponsored parade to celebrate. Just your fabulous self, your weird friends, and maybe a brick or two if things get wild.

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

it's just shown me an example where a value is stale. while that is technically true, the value is exactly what it would be if it were not stale 😂

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

non-exhaustive

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

stimming toys:

- spinners
- bubble wrap
- bits of paper you tear up without thinking about it
- blender's geometry nodes
- modular synthesizers

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

the three genders today are apparently reader, writer and memory allocator.

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to@hachyderm.io ("Adrian Tombu") wrote:

I was laid off last month due to cost reduction so I used this unexpected « opportunity » to give a boost on the renovation of my house. Doing everything by myself allows me to keep it on a decent budget but I will need to go back to work in a few months 👀

I’m a software engineer with 17 years of experience on distributed systems. I’ve been writing Rust for 6 years (prior to that PHP/NodeJs/Go). I have a good experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Databases & IaaS. Very much opened to learning embedded systems.
Open to remote part-time contract or employee status (max 4 days/week) with occasional travel.

My recent projects : https://otso.fr/cv.html

Hopefully the Fediverse will work its magic ✨

#rust #rustLang #FediHire #getFediHired #toulouse #paris

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

“Centrism Means Helping Fascists - by Noah Berlatsky”

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/centrism-means-helping-fascists

> But what actually happens when you knuckle under to fascists is that your allies abandon you while fascists kick you again