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Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
andyallen@mas.to ("Andy Allen") wrote:

I'm writing a piece on the aesthetic eras of software design… which eras or examples must be included?

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

Wow, the postscript on this piece is truly something: http://scripting.com/2026/07/22/202118.html

I wonder what kind of rant isn’t welcome on Mastodon but is A-OK on Twitter? Yeah, *that* kind of rant.

Anyway, this is Manton’s buddy. A guy who literally praises Elon Musk, in writing, intentionally.

Yikes. 😬

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

Carve two minutes and forty eight seconds out of your evening to go listen to this track:

https://theepoxies.bandcamp.com/track/synthesized

(You'll want the album, but that's the track you'll remember in twenty years and dust off the CD to listen to again)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
theorangetheme@en.osm.town ("The Orange Theme") wrote:

@Viss @sharkfie @cR0w

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
lzg ("lenazun") wrote:

i need people to talk to me with the clarity they reserve for their most expensive prompts

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/116964893643461218

the more #MAGA #GOP #Republicans fear their scapegoats, the better the hypemen they become

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

My take on the story about OpenAI's model going rogue and hacking a competitor's systems, why it matters.

Also probably the fastest turnaround time for a video that I've managed so far. I'd just got off a 12h flight when the story dropped.

https://youtu.be/GB8gaeI0fLs?si=ss3hD78xG2XUREYn

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

OpenAI are criminally negligent when it comes to cybersecurity, and are very good at viral marketing to executives via poor and uncritical media coverage.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brettcannon ("Brett Cannon") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553

Unfortunately the blog post is the usual "it's the individual, not the company" line without acknowledging that people are upset because the company sends money to said individual. People don't want to be indirectly funding these politics and unless you say that person is no longer directly getting money from the company which facilitates that money, I don't want to give you my money.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Ok this is HILARIOUS: DarkSky International made April Fool's Day "nighttime sunscreen" (supposed to protect you from reflected sunlight from satellites...) https://darksky.org/news/darksky-international-announces-first-sunscreen-designed-for-the-night/

Even funnier, I heard a rumour in a meeting today that they actually mailed some of this to the CEO of Reflect Orbital and their main investors, along with copies of their petition with thousands of signatures from people who don't want Reflect Orbital to kill nighttime for profit. Kudos, DarkSky!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
aurynn@cloudisland.nz ("Aurynn Shaw") wrote:

Team Cherry's lead programmer (Hollow Knight and Silksong) has come out as trans! 🏳️‍⚧️ :blobhaj_transheart:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

If the independent, non-slop web has any future at all, then now must be the time for every firefox fork to commit to working together to maintain a hardfork isolated from Mozilla.

It's a project that is too large to be handled by any small project alone (and maybe even all of them combined), but one that is too important to left under the guidance of an organization like Mozilla.

Without such bold co-operation I fear we have already lost.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

Folks, if your personal outlook is "this is too hard / it will never happen" - that's great, I have that voice in my head too and I also believe it occasionally.

But sometimes you have to tell that voice to shut the fuck up, and actually try to do something that seems hard or difficult or even impossible.

Especially when the other choice is to do nothing and watch the world rot.

You are, of course, free to do that but I am not, and I'd prefer you did it somewhere not in my replies.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

Propaganda: "Our AI is so advanced it can escape sandbox containment!"

Reality: "Our AI spits out such shit sandboxing patterns that they don't actually do anything, and since our employees just blindly use what it gives them, there was no meaningful 'sandbox escape' needed."

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Reading that whole OpenAI post describing them unleashing a bunch of bots on Hugging Face as an "unprecedented cyber incident," is a master class in branding and marketing. Lol and branding what happened as OpenAI now working to "help calibrate on what models are now capable of" is top notch propaganda skills.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I still need to take some better photos, but here's the paintings from "On What We Dwell":

https://fberriman.com/art/on-what-we-dwell/

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

Watching The Odyssey again on a Lie Max 😍

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

tech is pivoting to humanoid robots!!

the humanoid robots:

Attachments:

• video: 1cc4ca874f59f263.mp4

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
junebug@slime.global ("Perfect Butterfly Angel") wrote:

every single person i know who switched to linux

- likes it more then windows
- has one baffling bug that makes no sense they have no idea how to fix and cannot find info about online (partially cause of the death of google search)

and yes, this includes me

Boosted by jwz:
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Six Democrats just voted with the House GOP to pass the NDAA — with a provision to hand over part of the US military to Netanyahu AND Trump’s voter suppression bill (the SAVE Act) attached to it.

These six Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for betraying their constituents and Democratic voters.

jwz wrote:

Please keep this jackass out of Congress.

Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Trans community, allies condemn Wiener for exploiting a march he was asked to leave: State Sen. Scott Wiener was not invited to the Trans March. He was really, really not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9q

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kookie@chaosfem.tw ("kookie 🇵🇸") wrote:

OH: embrace marxist-lemonism

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

and then i thought to myself, "what if i would die trying to get my laptop? i've got to get out."

wisdom. she probably only survived because she didn't go back for that laptop.

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

Anyway I successfully finished the leaderboard for my game and squashed out the bugs.

The mistake I made was so silly. It was a single wrong variable assignment. I love code. I hate code.

I will record a demo tomorrow

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
trans_lykanthropie@meow.social ("Ada Luchthonn θ∆") wrote:

A little doodle I made of Ragatha TADC to test out Rebelle on my new tablet c:

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

The other side of the greenhouse.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned #rust

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

For when you want to practice drawing perspective.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned #rust

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

holy shit, airstairs can move when they want to

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda
Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.”

https://karlbode.com/local-u-s-tv-news-will-soon-be-entirely-right-wing-propaganda/

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/116965490229311725

💦