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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw ("Joscelyn Transpiring") wrote:

As I often tell people, if you don’t marry a Disney villain, what are you even doing with your life?

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

I'd rather see a yard full of spiders than the PragerU propaganda truck. But then, that's me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/15/busy-morning-with-spiders/

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

wow i had no idea asm could look so much like c

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116924997278900272

this is true for so much beyond chatbot use. a functioning, responsive, humane medical system with time to actually listen to people wouldn't stop everyone i know from obsessing about weird diets and cleanses and seeking out raw milk and avoiding vaccines and all of the usual litany of actually-harmful woo, but it sure would reduce the incidence.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StefanThinks@beige.party ("stefan") wrote:

genie: so you want a device that will record and playback smells so you can prove to your wife that she farts really bad when she’s asleep?
me: yessir
genie: ok, that one’s free, you can still make three wishes after that

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

RE: https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/116924107450501531

next thing they’ll claim is the Tsar is dead too

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

Wildfire smoke from Canada will soon spread across the Midwest and East - The Washington Post

https://apple.news/AOJePQsUWQcibiIX0wmQxpQ?highlight=Smoke%20from%20wildfires%20raging%20across%20northern%20Minnesota%20and%20western%20Ontario%20in%20Canada%20is%20forecast%20to%20drift%20into%20the%20lower%20levels%20of%20the%20atmosphere%20across%20the%20Midwest,%20Northeast%20and%20Mid-Atlantic%20from%20Wednesday%20to%20Friday,%20probably%20creating%20unhealthy%20air%20quality%20conditions.

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

Your code is pleasantly boring.

😂

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

🎉 Good news for UK citizens - NO VPN BAN 🎉

Today, the minister for AI and Online Safety, Kanishka Narayan, announced that for now the government would not take any action to restrict VPN's in the UK.

But because it may be off the agenda for now, it does not mean it will be forever. Therefore, we at Tuta will continue our fight for privacy 💪❤️

Find out what other countries are planning bans as a means to 'protect the children' → https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

Picture credit: Big Brother Watch

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

🤔 https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dxdjdpz5ebvsjzxcm3j7xxsz/post/3mlq4mbc64d2c

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
marcoarment ("Marco Arment") wrote:

Some spam list got the idea that I own Microsoft, and I get two or three of these a day 🤣

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

I talked to Decipher about my upcoming academic paper on legacy malware response in critical infrastructure https://cybersecpods.com/podcasts/decipher-security-podcast/industrial-cybersecurity-and-malware-archaeology-with-lesley-carhart/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

ICE exists to help transform the USA into a white ethnostate—and who Trump is admitting into the USA is further proof.

This year Trump has accepted only white refugees. Yes—6,665 out of 6,668 refugees admitted are white South Afrikaaners. The other 3 are from Afghanistan. Despite Afghan refugees following all the rules, getting fully vetted, & risking their lives to help US soldiers against Taliban—Trump rejected all but 3.

It was never about law & order. It was always about white supremacy.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

@davisjason.bsky.social The only correct way to watch an England vs Argentina match is in a pub in the Falklands.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

There's a new book about Eames residential architecture and design! https://www.eamesoffice.com/product/the-eames-houses-book/

Instant buy for me. I'm a sucker for mid-century design in general, but I've been an Eames fan since my freshman year in high school when I first saw The Powers of Ten.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Salon@flipboard.com wrote:

Trump can't stop White House leaks, so he's coming for journalists
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/15/trump-cant-stop-white-house-leaks-so-hes-coming-for-journalists/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-Salon

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

oh yeah, sorry. I don't really retain "information". more like "concepts"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social ("Democracy Matters :verified:") wrote:

Fine him $1T and incarcerate him.

Elon Musk Could Soon Be in Big Trouble Over His Phony Election Lottery
https://newrepublic.com/post/213099/elon-musk-trouble-election-lottery-wisconsin

#TwitterTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #DumpTesla #ElonMusk #DOGE #USPol

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
corbden@defcon.social ("Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸") wrote:

RE: https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116924627211380847

*whispers* they mean us

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot ("Scottish Greens") wrote:

There are 24 hyperscale data centre applications in Scotland.

If they're all built they'll consume over 1.5 times the peak energy demand of the entire country.

We urgently need a pause to develop a national approach that works for people and planet, not just tech billionaires.

Add your voice 👇
https://greens.scot/datacentres

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

Alien zombies
we come in peace
… to eat your brains

beware the undead

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
milo@types.pl ("tali") wrote:

is it yellow again

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

*looks outside at ominous yellow sky*

It's nice that we now have a new "doom weather pattern" to match current social conditions

The last few seasons of this show have been kinda brutal. But it's nice that the set designers have taken the care to make sure the set design matches the script

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Nobody would be reaching for ChatGPT after talking to their doctor if their care was already going great and they felt listened to and cared for. People are routinely dismissed, ignored, condescended to and ultimately discarded by our medical system (and I'm not just talking about the US here).

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I do think that the *thesis* holds up, but the corollary here is that AI doesn't just _make_ adversarial communications, its endemic use _reveals_ adversarial communication.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116924843974251266

One place I think my "adversarial communication" post fell down a little bit was by characterizing the health-care use-case as a bit too hypothetical and generic. Real people are using LLMs right now to navigate the (broken) health care system, in a situation where they really have no other options.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Filene@dragon.style ("Filene Taylor") wrote:

@WEATHERISHAPPENING

Me, *uncomfortably laughing*: "Hey, Weatherlords.. why is it cloudy and.. Yellow outside.. Just in case, you know, I need to repent to some WeatherLords.... ....."

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
tonymottaz@social.lol ("Tony Mottaz") wrote:

Can anyone recommend good #accessibility and #ux resources for building dense, data-rich web user interfaces? Users tend to be expert power users comfortable with staring at large, dense tables of information and working with complex tools.

#a11y

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116924832472791880

A thread.

We cannot just say “AI is wrong” but ask why it is appealing? How is it solving a real/perceived problem, and what are we proposing as an alternative? A legitimate alternative.

AI is appealing here, at least partially, because our health care system is fundamentally broken and unsupportive of individuals. Many doctors would like to be more involved but effectively are punished financially if they do much as try.

And I’ve also had plenty of medical individuals who exhibit near zero level of empathy. Like the pediatric surgeon who didn’t understand why I cared about service industry workers.

You cannot just say “no” but have to engage, understand, and help create alternatives.

I don’t have answers here.

And I see patients using AI to better understand their condition as failure of a system. A doctor using an LLM to do their job, say, diagnose, is a failure of the individual.