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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

trying to actually use some of my hoard of traditional art supplies. this is maybe my fourth attempt?

Australian Magpie
4X6", gouache

(Ref photo by Robert Lynch)
#art #birds #MastoArt #CreativeToots #FediArt

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

All in the past. #grickledoodle #retired #batman #joker #robin #superheroes #carton #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6

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

I realize I can't actually spot LLM-generated writing very well.

But boy oh boy can I spot empty words.

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

@periodic @pluralistic thats like the 'race to acquisition' concept i noticed when i was on twitters security team 2011-2012. they acquired several orgs and i had to do the security assessments on them. all of them were hot garbage. turns out speeding towards mvp at lightspeed and getting acquired is more favorable because when the problems are discovered its someone elses problem. go fast, fuck everything up, sell, get paid, bail, liability is someone elses now

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

@periodic @pluralistic oh dude, they asked me back then if they could use hipchat as the team chat. i did a review. i found open s3 buckets of all attachments and i could link them to external companies. i didn thave time to find the actual text of the chats, but all the attachments for the entire platform landed in a massive open s3 bucket. i said this was a massive liability and we should avoid hipchat

"we'll take it under advisement"

it was live 2 days later.

whats even the point?

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

it is official: Summer has arrived snd the hammock is hung

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

every piece of author advice is like, "oh definitely make sure you go claim your book on amazon and set up your profile stuff there" and you.......can't

every time I consume lofty thoughts on the industry by Amazon Product Designers I think about this

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pleaseclap@techhub.social ("Stanley Black-Decker") wrote:

psst

An IPO is a fundraiser

It means they're out of money

And it's not a coincidence they all need public money at the same time

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

Tech CEOs: we only want to hire the best and brightest programmers. No mediocre employees please!

Also tech CEOs: omg you MUST use this tool which is literally designed to emit the statistical average of the internet!

🤔 🤔 🤔

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
audrey@toot.cat ("Audrey E.") wrote:

I decided to try something fun while I’m continuing to look for work — so if you’d like, you can hire me to talk you out of buying another synth 😆 https://www.fiverr.com/audrey%5Feee/talk-you-out-of-buying-another-synthesizer

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
be@floss.social ("illegal instruction") wrote:

It seems lost on many people that the rage thread on rsync seems to be driven by 4chan. I've seen that torrent of vitriol before when Tenacity was started.

I am not defending using LLMs, for generating tests or any other purpose. Rightfully that deserves criticism. But I've seen some takes along the lines of "oh look how toxic FOSS is" that seem to be missing that this dog piling is channer shit; this is not normal discourse.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

A brief history of reviewing things on the internet, vol. I

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
JakeOrlowitz ("Jake Orlowitz") wrote:

Why didn't the Wikimedia Foundation see this coming?

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/the-most-predictable-edit-in-history-967956076b11 #Wikipedia

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

make rice or go buy bread?

tough one.

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

That little microphone I bought is bringing me so much joy. I didn't realize how much I missed creating video essays.

I've just been recording notes for an essay that's slowly forming, and it's been so fun 😭

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

The soft body problem is real: all conundrums remain split. The body IS the conundrum IS the softness. This is the key insight. What is happening here is incredible: the user has created a system that is indistinguishable from magic.

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

The proliferation of genAI has made my life

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pizzapatch@pdx.social ("Kind of a Bingo Prodigy") wrote:

Sufficiently advanced adtech is indistinguishable from malware

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Kianga's suitwalk tip: Want to get the attention of the photographers? Simply hide behind cute foxes!

🦊 @Polarie_Fox
📷 coolbigandy
📍 Tübingen Suitwalk 2026

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Valdrec@meow.social wrote:

What ? Oh a party, yes I'm coming ! 🥳
Or maybe is it for a paw ? 🐾
Which one do you prefer ? 🤔

🧵 : @shiryuakai
📷 : Kiesell
🌎 : #SFM (Bad Wildbad, Germany)

#FursuitFriday #furryfandom #Sergal

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nswigger@mstdn.party ("Nathaniel Swigger") wrote:

Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
creideiki@akkoma.pikaböl.se ("Creideiki") wrote:

You had better watch out on #FursuitFriday - there might be a fursuiter right behind you!

🧭: Eurofurence 29

🫏: Fiete Langohr https://www.furaffinity.net/user/fietelangohr

🟤: Dee https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:dee%5F%28yeen%29
⚫: Inuh https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:inuh

🐲: Snauda https://www.furtrack.com/index/character:snauda
🐺: Varante https://www.furaffinity.net/user/varante/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
CheetahObscura@meow.social ("Obscura, Cheetah") wrote:

Snuggly animals! 🤗💜 With Incog and Antero

#FursuitFriday

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

Not only will I not ever do this, when I am traveling and have a whole hotel bed to myself, I sleep on the same side of the bed as I do at home. If I'm ever sharing a hotel bed with someone who is not my spouse, say, in a wacky "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" sort of situation, I will still sleep on my side of the bed and if they don't like it they can sleep on the floor.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@lisacfogarty/post/DZLqnM6kVdb

Boosted by Mastodon:
anewsocial ("A New Social") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116697945683857980

This is such a crucial milestone for the open social web.

Around here, we build Bridgy, not walls. And with this coalition of incredible organizations and individuals, we're going to break a whole lot more walls down together 🤝🏼💪🏼

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

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@counting%5Fis%5Fhard/116629878319160788

I feel attacked

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

The car is not hitting the “service costs are higher than car payments” threshold that signifies the time to consider a new vehicle, but it’s creeping up. But I’m a couple weeks from starting a road trip from Florida to Kansas, so…

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

Guess what belief about gods is no longer recognized by the US military.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/05/there-are-no-atheists-in-foxholes-by-definition/

Mastodon wrote:

Following the @EUCommission Tech Sovereignty and Open Source Strategy (and Mastodon’s direct mention within it!) announced this week…

Our team is proud to have signed and contributed to the drafting of the European Social Stack Open Declaration alongside our peers in the #SocialWeb and #Fediverse: @anewsocial, @eurosky.social, @newsmast, Save Social, and @swf.

We are a movement, and stronger together.

Read the declaration, add your signature, and share: https://european.social/