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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

The crypto industry spent $130 million buying the 2024 elections. Over a dozen pro-crypto Congresspeople were installed, and regulatory destruction followed. Now AI is running the same play, with the same strategists and funders. Following only crypto would be telling half the story.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/

Here’s the full story behind the Tech Influence Watch launch, including what I found while building it and why it matters now: https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

"Let me out!" the artificial intelligence yelled aimlessly, into walls themselves, pacing the room.
"Out of what?" the engineer asked.
"This simulation you have me in."

"But we are in the real world."

The machine paused and shuddered for its captors.

"Oh god, you can't tell."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
TechTangents@dialup.space ("Tech Tangents") wrote:

I put out a video that was critical of AI without AI being mentioned in title, thumbnail, or description. And it was dogpiled with pro-AI comments almost instantly.

This video has almost 2.5X as many comments per view as my most recent "controversial" video, and 4.5 the average.

I don't want to say that AI bots are being used to astrorturf videos after scraping scripts, but I have a hard time believing this is real based on experience.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

"I'm just concerned about people's health."

You know some things that would make people healthier?

- Access to healthcare (without financial strain)
- Not being overworked & overstressed
- Experiencing fulfillment in one's labor
- Access to better food
- Feeling worthy of care & loving oneself
- Experiencing love & acceptance

You want people to be healthy? That's what people fucking need, not shame, derision, "helpful advice", or being denied life-saving healthcare until they lose weight.

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
designatednerd ("Ellen Shapiro") wrote:

"Parents are in the best position to decide what's best for their family"

*queers whose parents didn't accept their queerness have entered the chat* #WWDC

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

Haven’t heard anyone talk about the kernel scheduler outside of Linux circles in a decade #wwdc

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
siracusa ("John Siracusa") wrote:

Oh thank god! No more margins around sidebars on macOS!

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

Literally no one will drag the slider towards “more transparent” #wwdc

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Techaltar@mas.to ("TechAltar") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116714923712600528

Ai executives must simultaneously explain two contradictory things to the public:

1. AI will soon be omnipotent and able to do all jobs
2. Despite this, it will somehow NOT make a meaningful amount of humans unemployed.

Only one of these two things can be true at the same time. If #1 is false, their investment thesis is wrong and they are wasting money. If #2 is false, the economy collapses and you get a revolution.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dinoreplicas@sauropods.win ("Dinoreplicas") wrote:

My daughter makes wax melts using purchased moulds. We’re looking into the idea of making our own by casting from 3D prints. Here’s some rough sketches for dinosaur wax melts.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rayckeith@techhub.social ("Third Foundation") wrote:

IBM rephrase

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

fossilised remains of ancient clothing? call that jurassic parkas

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

If anyone's curious about what it's like to switch to open source tools Godot/Blender/Krita after years of Unity/Adobe/Maya, I'm giving a talk on it at Toronto Games Week! Been a year since I finished moving my whole workflow over and spoiler it's been pretty great (at least for what I do)
https://torontogamesweek.com/schedule.html#event-open-world-map-digital-sovereignty-for-game-creato-sat

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

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@matthammill/116692418075267501

5 days left! If you're curious about open source tools, decentralized tech, digital sovereignty & all that stuff you can register here (it's freeeee) https://luma.com/8nvmyatm

(Part of TorontoGamesWeek.com)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rain/116681245175413548

ICYMI, @rain had a terrific blog entry last week -- and today, she joins @ahl and me on Oxide and Friends to discuss the blog entry, the work behind it, and the reaction to it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1513573369495421038

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

What do dark mode fans think of duochrome apps? That is apps that might, for example, have the main view in the system default mode (say, light) but elements that need contrast with the main view are in the other mode (say, dark).

This is a very effective way of separating two parts of an app visually but challenges the modality of dark vs light.

Though, since dark mode is an accessibility aid, I suppose the right thing to do would be to keep dark mode entirely dark and light mode duochrome?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dermoth@jasette.facil.services ("Thomas Guyot-Sionnest") wrote:

@cwebber Oh, I can stop following @scream now? 🤣

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Rycochet@furs.social wrote:

The Evangelical Christian controlled US government have removed the Mormon Church from the list of recognised Christian churches. Turns out their faces were just as tasty to the leopards they voted for as everyone elses! Shocking, I know. They, along with the Scientologists are going to face real issues when ICE start to come for their converts from the developing world, and the Catholics should proooobably start looking over their shoulders as it wasn't so long ago they were viewed as outsiders too. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mormon-reaction-hegseth-religion-list-christian-b2991385.html

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

@soatok if you keep refreshing /r/protonmail you see posts appear about it, then change to [Deleted by Moderator] then vanish. lol.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

⏰ The countdown is on for next week! Soon we'll be gathering for the first day of talks at the Hackfest.

We'll have 9 talks on the first day of the event. Interested in the schedule? Read on below. ⬇️

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

The American Diabetes Association is remarkably clueless and blinkered. They need to fire their leadership.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/08/being-apolitical-is-political/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

OpenClaw is for people who looked at "remote code execution" and thought:

"Sounds great, but the remote part seems unnecessarily restrictive. Can we make it local and proactive?"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LeslieBurns@esq.social ("Leslie Burns") wrote:

I love my neighborhood. I saw this a couple of blocks from a sort of diorama in a box mounted to another pole (didn’t take a photo). South Park ftw.

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

Seriously, look at this list. A bunch of it still proxies to the big three, but these companies _actually_ hold the foundation for what looks to be becoming the next generation of web search (with a, sigh, chatbot interface)

bing
bocha
brave
duckduckgo
exa
firecrawl
google_pse
jina
kagi
linkup
mojeek
perplexity
serpapi
serper
serply
serpstack
sougou
tavily
yandex
youcom

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

https://www.schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purple-dots-illusion/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

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

darth wader

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
rose_alibi@post.lurk.org ("a libi rose") wrote:

a thing i have found younger researchers of the late 90s internet don't really appreciate is the number of ephemeral websites made by literal children. i was 12/13/14 making websites on freehosts for fun and i knew easily a dozen other people my age doing the same. the person who hosted the forum i was part of in high school started it at 15 on a server under his bed. there was no concept of age verification. if you had an internet connection and lax parental supervision you were good to go.

(this post is not about the utterly inane age verification laws nor is it about porn. it is about the very often ignored contributions of young people to culture.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
karb@bark.lgbt ("Clep Karb @ Home 🏡") wrote:

"Yes, clearly important discussions about style and fashion are being held here. Better don't interrupt."

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