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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Calling this a war on diversity is right wing framing. Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotions of qualified Black people and women because he’s a bigot.

These aren’t diversity hires who are being promoted to fit some quota. This is racism and sexism at the highest office in the U.S. military.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

The Space Virgins are back talking about a mediocre Stephen King movie from the 80s:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/6vAn6HhEUt2JJyxTrRvzUo

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

Maximum Overdrive (1988)

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/6vAn6HhEUt2JJyxTrRvzUo

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

On an unrelated note HOLY SHIT, CURRENT GOOGLE CHROME REFUSES TO ALLOW YOU TO SET A CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE UNLESS YOU LOG IN TO CHROME??

YOU LITERALLY HAVE TO LOG IN TO GOOGLE TO BE ALLOWED TO NOT USE GOOGLE?!?

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

Muting this thread because the replies are showing signs of deterioration.

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

I wish I had time to write a long screed about all these bad internet bills happening right now and how we've given up on our faith in the internet and how to get it back but I am already working 70 hour weeks and I can't do more

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

help! i tried to install an application on my linux and it said it needed python and now i'm afraid the python's going to kill me, it's looking menacingly at me from the corner of the room.

this isn't what i meant, linus torvalds!

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

instead of Trump controlling events, events are controlling Trump. He is not used to dealing with reality.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

As I'm trying to put together more collections, I'm noticing that many accounts, even ones you'd expect to want to have wider reach, aren't opted in to being featured in discovery experiences (e.g. trending page, collections, follow recommendations). If this sounds like you, please, go to More -> Privacy & Reach and check your preferences.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ADignorantium ("Frank (he/him)") wrote:

Dear white people,

Imagine you were wrongfully imprisoned and sent to work on a chain gang. Imagine the president of the United States pardons you. Now Imagine the warden keeps you working on the chain gang for another two years, until the president has to send troops to the prison to free you.

Now you understand Juneteenth.

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free" - Emma Lazarus

#Juneteenth

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

:D

D:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
queenofsquiggles@transfem.social ("Mistress Fae Squiggles") wrote:

So I've been thinking about something and maybe it'll need to be a proper article to get all my thoughts out properly.

Basically I was creating art ravenously while I lived with my really toxic and abusive ex. Looking back on the things I made during that time it almost feels like a desperate cry for help. Every ounce of my pain was being channeled directly into the art as a way to cope. I was feeling very used and unlovable.

And now that I am well past that time I've been struggling to create nearly as much. And I worry that I trained myself to create art from pain and I am having to go through the difficult journey of learning how to fuel my art through joy and love instead of suffering and trauma.

And it sucks because I don't make nearly as many cool things as I used to. But it's also probably way healthier for me as a person to not stew in that pain forever.

I don't even know if I want comfort or advice in this situation. I know what I need and I know what I don't need. I just don't enjoy how long the journey is.

And the reason I feel like this is worth writing in longer form about is that there is a broad misconception of "The Suffering Artist" in pop culture. This assumption that artists must be in pain or suffering in order to create beautiful things. And that is categorically false. And I want my story to further break down that assumption for people. But I don't know what stage of the journey makes sense to write about since I am very much still in the thick of it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
sentimentaldom@woof.group ("Michael Integritas") wrote:

@aphyr This is the kind of quote that makes you nod like you understand it, then immediately stare into the middle distance and rethink wolves, holes, desire, capitalism, therapy, language, and whether your group chat is technically a rhizome.

Deleuze and Guattari really went all in on the "stop trying to make the unconscious behave. It has paws. It has tunnels." Not exactly casual beach reading, but definitely the kind of book that rewires your brain if you let it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

"To become wolf or to become hole is to
deterritorialize oneself following distinct but entangled lines. A hole is no more negative than a wolf. Castration, lack, substitution: a tale told by an overconscious idiot who has no understanding of multiplicities as formations of the unconscious. A wolf is a hole..."

Deleuze & Guattari, "A Thousand Plateaus"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
a@pdx.social ("Anthony Sorace") wrote:

My partner saw this play, “PUSH: Black Mamas Changing the Culture of Birth”, about disparities in medical care for black mothers a few months ago, found it super compelling, and has been putting a lot of work into getting it to come to OHSU.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/push-black-mamas-changing-the-culture-of-birth-tickets-1989693929103

It’s at #OHSU but open to all, if you or someone in your life is in the #pdx area and interested in issues around racial justice in healthcare.

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

Greenness.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/19/pruning-the-greenery-to-find-more-green/

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

me, logs into the linked in site for a moment just to see what's going on there

WE ARE REFOUNDING AND RE-IMAGINING OURSELVES AS AN AI FIRST INNOVATION COMPANY

ok what did you make before

WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE WHO ACCOMPANIED US ON THIS JOURNEY

ok but what did you

AS OF NOW WE ARE SUNSETTING OUR PREVIOUS LINES OF BUSINESS

ok but what did

WE'RE SO THANKFUL TO OUR CUSTOMERS

ok but

WHO SUPPORTED US ALL THIS TIME

ok bu

BUT WE ARE WINDING DOWN OUR CREPE MAKING TEAM

hold up what

Boosted by jwz:
amd@snac.amd.im wrote:

@bkuhn@copyleft.org This is your fifth(+) post in this thread defending the position that users of LLMs shouldn’t be shunned.

My point is this: Anything you have said or done in the past and anything you do in the future will now be viewed in the light of you arguing that we should be inclusive of those that support and use products made in wholly unethical ways by wholly unethical people.

You could have stayed quiet, you chose (and continue to choose) to side with some of the absolute worst people on this planet.

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

I'm giving away a signed (and if you want, personalized) advance reader copy of Monsters of Ohio, and you can win it! Go to the link below to find out how to enter the contest, and then leave your entry (there, not here)! You have two days to enter! Good luck!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/19/win-an-signed-personalized-arc-of-monsters-of-ohio/

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary

via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ua4e7n/sankey%5Fdiagram%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fdemocratic%5Fgubernatorial/)

#USpol #USpolitics #MEgov

Boosted by jwz:
gknauss ("Greg Knauss") wrote:

My boss has become an LLM proxy. A problem comes in -- a ticket, an internal report, whatever -- and he copy-and-pastes it into whichever model he's using this week, and then copy-and-pastes the result into Slack. I don't think he reads any of it.

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

crush this wherever you encounter it. crime numbers have not appreciably changed - what changed is that SF got a mayor that billionaires were happy with, and the doomloop narrative machine was wound down. rents are up 20% in the last year, homelessness is still really bad it's just been relocated 10 feet outside this guy's line of sight. tech is a scourge, SF is not a progressive or leftist city, it's been ravaged by decades of neoliberalism.

Boosted by jwz:
f800gecko@mastodon.online ("Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧") wrote:

Still a fave...

#mastodon #fediverse #comics

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

highwaaaaaaay toooo theeeeee daaaaata zoooone

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ted_h ("Ted.h") wrote:

@cwebber Write to the senator of the relevant committee. They are being pressured, but their role is to be the sober second look, and there's still a chance they push back. They've already had the first reading (see https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/45-1/c-22) so hurry.

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

An old potato storage that now stores tires.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #naturephotography #grass #decay #rust

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

That's because conservatives think they can stop anytime they want, they just choose NOT to, you see

https://www.psypost.org/conservatives-view-addictive-products-more-favorably-than-liberals-study-finds/

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

Trillions invested, entire industries destroyed, our information ecosystem fundamentally compromised, and all we accomplished was, at best, a 0-5% bump in overall economic productivity.

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

Current “AI” from my perspective is less like a technological breakthrough—“the genie is out of the bottle”—and more a research fusion reactor: no matter how much energy and money you throw at the thing, nothing changes the fact that it costs more energy than it produces

All that scaling it up accomplishes is waste. LLM true believers are effectively arguing their tech accomplishes free energy when the costs mean it’s effectively the opposite