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

Honestly all the straight people I know with great relationships read a bit queer to me. (deeply complimentary)

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

I lost ten pounds by literally doing nothing else but having a strict bedtime of 9pm lmao

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

It blows my mind that for £7 I can have a tiny computer with 5Ghz WiFi and program it to make hardware gadgets.

This time I've made a remote controller for PC fans. It sets and measures RPM, and integrates with #HomeAssistant

https://thepihut.com/products/seeed-studio-xiao-esp32-c5

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

A colleague of mine made this website because he keeps finding these AI companies where it's impossible to figure out what they do lmao

https://omniscientiq.com/

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

The UX fixes in macOS 27 look good enough that I’m tempted to hop right on the beta, but I think I’m going to be wise and wait for the public beta to come out in a month or two.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728001022328890

I recently borrowed a book from the library to read to my son before bed. It had a huge sticker on the cover stating "made without AI". Probably because it has a few illustrations in it.

But "no AI was used is really starting to become a mark of quality or at least a mark of something worth looking at.

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

Y'know what? I think one of the most defining things about queer relationships, particularly among women, is that we are FRIENDS WITH OUR PARTNERS.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
rdm@aus.social wrote:

I looked across the tent at a perfect copy of myself. Well, not quite perfect. They are still getting the hang of English.

I should back up a bit.

Just before sunset a week ago, I screwed up. I'd been driving too long, and only saw the wombat on the highway at the last moment. I swerved and lost control.

When I came to, my car was totalled, and well out of sight of the highway, behind a low rise on the plain. I struggled out of the wreck in the dark, but had enough sense not to try wandering around. There are all sorts of sinkholes around here, and if I fell down one of them, I was a goner.

As I stood next to the remains of my car, I saw what I thought was a helicopter coming my way. I waved and shouted, but then I noticed how erratically it was flying. The lights seemed a bit off, too. I was pretty sure helicopters didn't have purple lights. So maybe it was someone's drone?

All of that went out the window, when it turned towards me, and then crashed into the ground next to my wrecked car.

What I was looking at was an actual flying saucer. About twice the size of my car. And it looked about as wrecked as my car was.

After a couple of moments, a small port opened, and a gush of purple liquid poured out, followed by a splat of something grey.

I just stared. What I didn't notice was the grey blob in the purple puddle extruding a tendril towards me. At least until it touched my leg.

I probably jumped five metres straight up at that. And about five backwards.

What followed was the grey blob contracting back into itself, and then changing. Into a perfect copy of me.

This was one shock too many, and I fainted.

When I came to, the copy was crouched next to me. Before I could move, it touched my forehead, and I was filled with a sense of worry. And it was not mine. This I found a bit reassuring, and so I stopped myself from moving, and tried to ask what it was.

It took a lot of back and forthing of mental images, but it's ship had hit an near-earth asteroid, and it had lost control. It wanted to know if it could be fixed.

I didn't know. But, between the two of us, we might be able to get one vehicle sort of working. We thought about getting a lift, but there would be questions. Too many of them.

Of course, it was now in the form of a human, so the first order was arranging food and water. Then it discovered it needed to sleep. And everything else.

Some of its ship still worked - and it knew enough to work out how create food and water for us both. And it is learning English. Which is a bit easier than trading images.

We've been here a week now.

As I watch the copy of me, it wakes up. I watch my body stretch, and then it looks at me. "We fix car. Get bigger car. Take my ship to fixing place."
"I don't know that we've got anywhere that can fix your ship."
"Can't fix it here."
"Can we fix the car?"
"Easier than ship."

I guess it has a point.

#SF #SFF #SciFi #microfic #tootfic #microtfiction #IAmWriting

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

=_=

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

but what if i am inconveniencing the pizza place by asking them to make a fresh pizza for me because they were out of slices, and other incredible vv thoughts

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be ("CalvinBall") wrote:

read this: https://blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-invisible-newcomer-in-open-source/

Lucid, pointed commentary on how LLMs are removing the outer layer of Vogl's inner rings model describing community participation. Removing this friction means people don't realise they're benefiting from a thing being cared for by a community, and that means fewer people become part of that community.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I sometimes wonder if "Recognized As A Leader By The Magic Quadrant" is MBA speak for "The First Who Will Be Subject To The Lament Configuration."

We have such sights to show you, that ladder up to our quarterlies.

https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116727687031727025

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny truly it is the Tucker Carlson of technology products

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

These two photos of a male and female common crossbill are very much not sharp. Kinda out of focus. This is because I took the photo through the very dirty balcony door on a rainy day. #photo #photos #bird #iceland

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put all the liability on the consumer. I hope to see aggressive change here.

https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

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

Horse doing horsie things. #photo #iceland #horse #nature

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

With the new #ebike regs in CA, I now have to pedal my ebike at least when I see cops. I love to bike, I love my roadie, but my ebike is halfway to emoto with a fat seat and pedaling is awkward as hell. The biggest problem is that the gearing is ridiculous, like I can get maybe 2 turns of the crank in when starting, but anything above 15 and I am just flapping my legs around pointlessly like a Looney toons character.

I think I need to swap out my chainring and just get a humongous one, I know those are in style anyways, but there's no other way than that to get more mechanical advantage so that when I'm going 30 I'm actually able to contribute some power, right?

#bikes #ebikes #BikeTooter

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

holy shit, in italy when a plane crashes, the police get to have a go at it before the crash investigators.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cato@chaosfurs.social ("Cato, registered LynxⓁ") wrote:

My new fursuit is finally here! After all this time, I finally am the big silly kitty I always wanted to be :neofox_aww:

Expect a lot more fursuit content and better pictures in the future :3

#furry #fursuit

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

But sure, 'ChatGPT is just like 10 seconds of watching Netflix' 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠 🫠

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2026

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

I'm tired of losing my rights because some parents refuse to have hard conversations with their ugly-ass kids.

Parental controls are a good thing. But we're turning into a corporate police state because Craydon looked up boobs on his iPad.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

I like the texture.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #concrete #decay #window #door

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

The trap with making video content is the algorithm. I can spend a week or a month just taking notes on what performs well and try to emulate that, but what I'll end up with is algo slop.

I don't want that.

The alternative is to do my best to make quality content that may not be "discovered" for a long time, or ever, even, but I'll feel better making it.

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

And in translation!

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kate%5Fmckean/post/DZaaRwbkUkF

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
landley@mstdn.jp ("Rob Landley") wrote:

Every period of exponential growth turns out to be an S-curve. You can't sell 2x as many phones each year on a planet of 8 billion people forever, eventually everyone already has one.

Moore's Law's S-curve bent down in 2010, and we've had maybe 3 of the expected 10 doublings since then, putting us ~100x behind the old trend line.

That's why they announce data centers twice the size of downtown Minneapolis using water cooled chips powered by a dryer outlet each: Moore's Zombie.

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

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116727992069230712

i have learned recently that pilots really do not like to say "piss". "bladder fluid" is quite a roundabout way of putting it though.

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

When I was at Viv Labs, they gave Bixby this ability, but as far as I know nobody was willing to implement it in a capsule (Bixby’s equivalent of a skill, but they were pretty full-featured). Except South Korean Starbucks because they were pretty YOLO about everything.

https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/technology-uvt65hdqz/-/a-uYrEOrfjTQKXL-BgVSzIHQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

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

Wait, some dude tried to come for romantasy? Here? On Threads? That's... an interesting choice to make.

MY SCREAMING HOT TAKE ON ROMANTASY: It's cool, I'm glad people have reading material they enjoy and are passionate about, and I love that it's bringing readers and buyers into book stores, to the benefit of everyone who has a book on the shelves that might get picked up during browsing. Thanks, romantasy writers and readers!

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

YAAAAAAY

RE: https://www.threads.com/@torbooks/post/DZa2fLdEVNR

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AssociatedPress@flipboard.com ("Associated Press") wrote:

Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users
https://apnews.com/article/visa-chatgpt-openai-shopping-mastercard-d769dec86344cb4977c98789e8ec492f?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress