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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Nigel Farage, haunted former wanker banker, has resigned from his seat as MP and announced he’s standing again in the same seat - he’s trying to dodge responsibility for a crypto funding scandal by hiding behind the electorate.

All the rival parties have refused to put up candidates so now a man with a bin on his face has entered, and is doing media rounds with interviews.

https://youtu.be/3XO3FwWfPLc

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astronomerritt@hachyderm.io ("Steph (toothless version)") wrote:

The leader of the Conservative Party is backing Binface. You can’t make it up.

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redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

gonna tell my grandkids this was Mitch McConnell

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eliothiggins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Eliot Higgins") wrote:

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Attachments:

• video: 40e1a369c335b2da.mp4

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

I fucking love that these conversations are actually happening.

It gets better: his costume may violate a 14th century law banning the wearing of armor in Parliament.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Edw2/7/0/section/wrapper1

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
halcyon@bitbang.social ("Halcyon") wrote:

If you like HyperCard, or are HyperCard-curious, I'd like to share an early build of my HyperCard player for modern macOS, "Stacks". It runs stacks natively: no emulator, sound (with MacinTalk speech synthesis!), period-accurate typography.

There's an in-app browser for the Internet Archive's HyperCard collection, so you can explore thousands of stacks and run them with one click.

Still early days with rough edges, but I'm having fun with it. Please report bugs!

https://morphing.cloud/hypercard

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

also I gotta say it's pretty fucking gross to watch the people pushing their subordinates onto this tightrope over a moral abyss and then jerking the tightrope back and forth and attempting to cut it, visibly annoyed that those subordinates are attempting to not jump head first into the abyss. "we shoved you out over the abyss so you'd fall in! why are you trying to be THOUGHTFUL about this!"

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philpem@digipres.club ("Phil M0OFX 🔜EMFcamp 2763/ARM3") wrote:

Thanks to everyone who boosted my "will code for food" post - I'm now working on some really cool stuff for a semiconductor company!

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The SF DA should charge Waymo with false imprisonment for keeping people at the Golden Gate Bridge.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

I used to think the matte painting of Colossus's huge data center was unrealistic. Now we're building dozens of them.

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

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

OSINT #998 from MENTOR (TS/SCI)

1. Hellscape Laboratory
2. Metaphysical Dugout
3. Grimdark Consciousness

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

But if you allow yourself to resolve your moral contradictions and compromises by saying "well it's not really a compromise at all, I figured out how to beat the system" then you end up here, getting yourself Orbed https://skepchick.org/2025/05/adam-conover-ruins-his-own-reputation/

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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

i mean, these are the people that invented server-side javascript and said nothing but "bacon" for five years or so around the turn of the 2010s

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

So I think we need to find ways to kindly, but firmly, hold the line. It's slop, you can't make it not be slop just by thinking really hard about it. You can do what you need to do in order to keep your job, and maybe slinging slop is the only avenue still open to you, and I am not going to judge you for that, especially not in this economy.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There are lots of people right now being coerced into using "AI" tools, who are themselves quite suspicious of the tools in the first place. Not to mention that they don't like being coerced. So they're trying to find the "good way" to use these tools. I am very sympathetic to such people; they are *trying* to walk an ethical tightrope, they believe that if they are being presented with this challenge it _must_ be possible to resolve. So they endeavor not to "make slop" with the slop dispenser.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Yet, if you make something genuinely enjoyable with an "AI", and then you tell your audience about it, as we have seen over and over again, the majority of your audience will not be grateful that you have shown them the error of their ways, *they will be mad at you*. Because it doesn't matter if it's good, it's still slop. You still pointed the slop hose at the audience and sprayed them with it, and the fact that you momentarily tricked them into thinking it was something else makes it *worse*.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Like, sure, slop does *on average* have a bit of a "quality smell", as it were, but the low quality is downstream of the definition, which is that it was extruded through an "AI" in the first place.

To my mind you can make slop that is delightful, inspiring, moving, extremely functional, bug-free, etc. That's a big part of the problem; it's not always possible to tell. You *usually* won't, of course, it's usually bad, but that's not always true.

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

Trump: Putin said he'd like to meet in Moscow. Would you meet in Moscow?
Zelensky: It's a little difficult, there are many ukrainian drones

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There have been a bunch of "moderate" AI pieces (including a few that I have boosted) that have objected to being tarred with the term "slop", and I think there's a real effort right now in the AI booster camp to define the term as an explicit *judgement of quality* — i.e. "this is bad, and it was made with AI, so it's slop" — which retroactively allows every "slop" discussion to center around subjective evaluations of quality / merit / utility etc. For me that's not really what the word means.

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thomholwerda@exquisite.social ("Thom, a distro-agnostic tool") wrote:

Cocaine makes me more productive. My productivity went 10x when I started doing cocaine. I snort with care and make sure my cocaine is as ethically produced and supplied as possible. With cocaine I can do the menial tasks much quicker, giving me more time to focus on quality. Cocaine also has improved a lot lately. It's not the same cocaine as just a few months ago. You're free to not use cocaine, but you'll be left behind as everyone around you will be using it to be more productive than you. Cocaine is the future.

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jay@oldos.me ("JayF") wrote:

RE: https://floss.social/@hroncok/116884388039161732

I was thinking about writing a post with these vibes. Miro (who I don't know, hi Miro!) covered it better than I ever could have. https://eng.hroncok.cz/2026/07/07/ai-tool

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

I really dislike that even if you choose not to use "AI" you'll be affected by it, for example software quality will go down even more because interface design will get lazier as "AI" is added instead of designing processes in the software better.

Already seeing this is in various consumer-facing software when it delegates you to a chatbot to find a function instead of making things easily discoverable.

It's sort of like driving a car and instead of a lever to put it in reverse you have to type on a keyboard "please put in the reverse gear".

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

I'm going to just steal some undergrad cs class web chess code and mod that, I can't be bothered to learn what a functor is for a shitpost

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

Rules for the dvd piece:

1. dvd can be brought on the board by pawn promotion on any file except A and H
2. dvd moves diagonally, but can never occupy the corner squares.
3. DVD by default changes color after the turn of the color it currently is.
4. if no action is taken on DVD, it automatically moves along its course after the player completes their move, but before their turn is complete.
5. when DVD reaches a square on the side of the board, if no player acts on it, it bounces in the mirror diagonal direction
6. when reaching the side, the matching color player may move it one square along the side, except into the corners. Horizontal moves do not capture. Moving the DVD horizontally prevents it from changing color that turn (allowing it to be captured by the opponent). Moving the square affects the diagonal direction: e.g. if DVD is on a5, moving it to a6 causes it to move next towards b7. Moving it to a4 causes it to move towards b3. DVD is otherwise not under player control while it is not on the sides.
7. when meeting another piece diagonally, DVD takes the piece if it is the opposing color, or is blocked along its trajectory if it is the same color. DVD switches colors and continues its path, e.g. taking the piece that blocked it the previous turn, unless it has moved.

Optionally:

• DVD can not cause check or checkmate, and the king can be used as a bumper
• DVD can be spawned by a bishop capturing another bishop, if the previous move of the captured bishop is parallel to the direction of motion taken by the capturing bishop. "the bishop bang" spawns DVD with the color and direction of the capturing bishop on the first open space in its natural trajectory.

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

Can somebody who knows Scala tell me how to mod lichess so I can add the DVD piece as a variant
https://suya.place/objects/7cba05a0-85a0-47e3-8bef-c63585412bcc

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I just had to buy one for meme purposes.

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

Sorry, I must be stupid, since I don't think evolution is evidence for a god.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/08/darwin-came-up-with-memetics/

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

In Youtube photo editing videos the "after" images are usually less interesting than the "before"

It's a constant drumbeat of removing one identifying detail after another and pushing the colours to look like every other photo out there

It might look polished but it also removes anything resembling the photographer's "voice"

Nothing wrong with basic photo editing—contrast, tone curves, colours, etc—but it feels like there's a relentless push towards making people's creative output more boring