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TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

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david@fouroclockfarms.club ("Salty") wrote:

Another one.

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davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

@EUCommission The ATproto protocol is a technically bad protocol, inferior to the protocol that Mastodon/Fediverse uses, and it's developed by shady cryptocurrency scammers with anti-government views.

Add to that the death of anonymity plus advertisements/tracking and the tolerance of literal neo-nazis, and you have W Social.

Why would any sane person join W?!?

Ursula von der Leyen joining W on launch day, but having no presence on Mastodon despite Mastodon existing for over a decade, sends a conflicting signal that is opposed to the EU Commission claiming to want to continue their presence on Mastodon.

#Wsocial

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

awawawa

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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

Whenever I open firefox and it says it was updated I have to check and make sure the AI kill switch is still on.

That's what opt-out means.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

She also advised that this meme would be educational

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SouthDakota/116783849658424904

Yup. But remember the follow ons from that.

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Check it out! The AI Con is onsale for just $1.99 for the ebook on bookshop.org:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ai-con-how-to-fight-big-tech-s-hype-and-create-the-future-we-want-alex-hanna/914a89ac020fc825?ean=9780063418554&digital=t

w/ @alex

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

and no coding of value was lost

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

Scraping, historically, has been pretty important to the open web. And *most* scraping hasn't been *spidering*, which is the stronger, less intentional version. And even that could be acceptable, if you were polite about it.

What we've seen with AI orgs DDOS'ing everyone has meant that self-hosting has become incredibly hard as a baseline in a way that used to resemble targeted attacks which were generally *frowned upon* doing to someone.

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

My first essay will almost certainly be about the tv show Succession, based on that thread I did a while back.

I'm go to through any media that speaks on the show so if you have a fav interview or analysis about succession please share!

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

Scraping is great! We have accepted scraping as part of the web for basically forever.

DDOS'ing is not great! We have agreed that DDOS'ing isn't acceptable on the web for basically forever.

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moth@lesbian.solutions ("moth, resident snugglebug") wrote:

🫵 give me your old electronics

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

Do you remember making a website? Hack & Craft participants remember

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The only way to create an ironclad age verification system in the UK is extreme digital authoritarianism.

Restrictions on VPNs are an attack on the open Internet and our ability to be secure online – the antithesis of online safety.

Read our briefing ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-vpns-and-the-online-safety-act/

#ProtectVPNs #vpn #vpns #cybersecurity #privacy #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ageverification #StopKillingTheInternet #ukpolitics #ukpol

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

I've learned that using a massager on my neck can help when I feel a headache coming on.

I've also learned how these headaches are weirdly tied to sleep. Right after a headache, if I end up taking a nap, my chances of getting a second headache increases.

My body is tired and the anxiety of anticipating these headaches is difficult. But, overall, things are improving. Yesterday I went to the beach with friends with no headache! I brought my massager lol.

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

Hack & Craft happening now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/

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

formal haddock

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trending@live.acarsdrama.com ("Trending ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

NOW YOU'RE JUST SHOWING OFF. THIS IS THE CLOSET I HAVE TO A SMILEY FACE 8-D BUT MY FO SAYS IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE AND I CAN'T UNSEE IT. LOL

Area: Zurich, Switzerland
A: #ab2fa58bb5c
F: #f5327949703

#acars #vdlm2

🔗 Original: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116783132649149996

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
anubiarts@app.wafrn.net ("Anubi") wrote:

new fursona dropped

#PixelArt #Art #Furry #Fursona #OC #AnubiArts

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

default generated coordinate mapping says trans rights

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!

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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

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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

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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...

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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?

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