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

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116782299343169779

skill atrophy is a real thing in... endoscopists!

but sure, it's just programmers it makes worse!

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

Living large. #grickledoodle #cat #pets #suit #cartoon #art #drawing #humor #funny

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

Someone died because an insurance company denied his asthma medication. Under a video reporting the news is a bunch of people commenting that the family should just sue.

It upsets me to no end when people do this. It feels selfish. Like you're trying to make yourself feel better by falsely believing we have a system that holds insurance companies accountable.

Even if the family won, which is unlikely, the practice is still profitable for insurance companies. Let's just admit that.

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

right, that is enough out for this rather too hot week

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

If you're interested in how I made this, I went into more detail in this post: https://social.coop/@mlemweb/116584725339316909

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Rubio now deporting legal immigrants based on who they support in their home country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Memo by Rubio Approved Detenti...

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
simoncozens@typo.social ("Simon Cozens") wrote:

I think I'm going to write a long blog article about the state of AI font generation. I don't think a lot of the typography community actually know what's going on, because there's a classic lack of communication going on not just between ML researchers and type designers, but also between Westerners (these AI font models suck!) and Chinese/Japanese (oh yeah we use those in production already).

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

Come to Hack & Craft at 2pm ET (18:00 UTC)! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

@mlemweb made a cool table and I am trying to learn shaders better. Hey look I accidentally made something that looks like fire damage!

What will you work on?

Attachments:

• gifv: A plane in Blender with a custom animated shader on it that looks like fire damage happening to a wall

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

Hi All, We've got a Hack & Craft today at 2pm ET (18:00 UTC). These virtual community meetings are a cross between a user group and a craft circle, so grab whatever project you're currently working on and join us to chat about free software, free culture, and making things together!

https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/chr-4fm-amb-air

I've finally finished building my inset sewing table that I've been working on so I'll be breaking that in at the Hack & Craft!

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I haven't quite given up artistic efforts, but I still only draw sporadically. The alt text contains all the details.

Oh I gave up on the blue colored pencil. I felt like I spent more time sharpening the pencil after breaking leads than I did drawing. I went back to a mechanical 2mm graphite. I'm still trying to remember how to use it.

#doodles #yaombaaa

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
minmi@sfba.social ("MinmiTheDino") wrote:

We took the kids by the MLK memorial in sf today and came upon this quote, which I hadn’t seen before

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

it was always the plan
to put the world in your hand

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

Overall I remain *mostly* disinterested in the fediverse-vs-atmosphere debates, because I am not interested in squabbles over the present but building towards a future. It's hard not to make a bit of side commentary though, I guess.

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

That said, "instance" has become several things on the fediverse, and even though it's not how I have argued things should be, it encompasses several things, including often a kind of community, and also including participatory infrastructure.

I'm not interested in playing the comparison game too much, but there is where we are: ATproto allows for movement across the network, but still does rely on server-oriented sources of authority (and looks like it will get more of it in the upcoming versions of their authorization systems, from what I have read), and the fediverse has developed into a strong sense of server-oriented sources of authority, but is more participatory.

Directed delivery remains an important part of how the fediverse manages to achieve participatory involvement that is still lacking from the ATmosphere's hub-and-spoke-in-practice ecosystem at present. It is how you scale down and wide.

Both could learn from each other, though. Even combined is not the full answer.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
loppear@social.coop ("Luke O.") wrote:

"What would it take to build a movement to abandon the current internet and start anew? What’s something good that currently requires the production and storage of digital data, that could be rebuilt without it?"

This little conference on Life After Data (October 2026, Georgetown Law) prompt is lining up with so much thinking I see around me right now, in #permacomputing or #solarpunk imagining making other worlds from below.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/education/life-after-data-the-conference-on-de-datafication/ h/t Robin Sloan

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
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 baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The one bright spot of LLMs is that we've learned exactly how morally and creatively bankrupt this industry is, and how fast people are willing to throw away everything they said they cared about for decades - craft, understanding, efficiency, detail, all of it - just to cosplay competence and bandwagon their way to groupthink targets they don't even realize were made up to manipulate them.

Christ it's embarassing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The fact that we're willing to rely on LLMs to generate code knowing that it only mostly works because that code has been generated before thousands of times is not an indication that stochastic models are good, it's a massive, punishing indictment of computing as a field.

Using an insanely huge expensive model to quasi-reproduce work that's been created thousands of times already isn't productive or efficient. It's a symptom of profound failures of language, practice, process and imagination.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
lproven@vivaldi.net ("Liam Proven") wrote:

Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/18/giant-banana-pulled-over-in-montana-driver-says-cops-have-stopped-him-100s-of-times/

For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over by law enforcement. "They always find a reason to pull me over," Braithwaite said.

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

@NanoRaptor been growing MSG crystals (deliberately). Beautiful and uncannily umami!

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

While moving, I found a bottle of soy sauce probably there from when I moved in 15 years ago at the back of a kitchen cupboard.

Tipped it out and in the bottom of the bottle were little rocks - salt crystals. They're beautiful - and they taste amazing.

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

Soy sauce generated salt crystals sitting on an iPhone torchlight.

#art

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

=_=

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

The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/the-uk-will-scan-asylum-seekers-faces-for-age-checks-despite-knowing-the-tech-is-flawed/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

@hi_cial @cwebber As far as I can tell they never fully confirmed what happened, but speculation was that they picked up UV-C lights (used for sterilizing germs, cheap at that point in China because they were heavily bought for COVID) instead of UV-A (typical safe uv lighting). If that's the case, technically it was infinitely brighter in that very dangerous spectrum than the sun, as one of the things the ozone layer does is filter out all of the sun's UV-C before it reaches the surface.

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

There are no instances in ActivityPub either. There's only actors.

The instance'ification came outside of the work on the spec, though it did start with the particular shape of how sharedInbox was defined. I wish I had pushed harder for sharedInbox to retain the actor-like properties I believed were important, rather than the implicit-routing that Mastodon pushed for. My biggest regret.

Nonetheless, even then, there's still no "instance" in AP, in terms of the spec. In terms of the fediverse, the way it became, that's a different story.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
FayeDrake@furry.engineer wrote:

@jonny @davidgerard I salute you for fighting the good fight

“Lulz I can run this on all of your stuff and there’s nothing you can do about it it’s inevitable” finally being met with “you _do_ realise the slop cannon is full of trivially exploitable holes, and the only thing stopping us from exploiting them are the social contracts you’re currently burning as fuel, right?”

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

Little. Yellow. Lovely.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/20/an-evening-discovery/

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

A beautiful old gate that seems no longer in use.

#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #flowers

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

The growing trend for AI-accelerated Big Design Up-Front is founded on a category error about the nature of the design process.

And faster BDUF isn't going to help. Quite the reverse, in fact.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/the-solution-to-bduf-isnt-faster-bduf/