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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I have had Detroit-style pizza in several cities now, none of which are Detroit, so I know which ones are *good* but I have no real idea which ones are authentic.

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

mayonnaise ice cream

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FluentInFinance ("Andrew Lokenauth") wrote:

I have a joke about trickle-down economics.

Sadly, 99% will never get it.

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globalmuseum@mastodon.online ("Global Museum") wrote:

Rare Fossil Reveals a Three-Tier Food Chain Frozen in Time: a Pterosaur Eaten by an Ichthyosaur Eaten by a Pliosaur.
Uncovered in part by amateur fossil hunters in Australia, the fossil preserves a unique look at prehistoric predatory dynamics.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-fossil-reveals-a-three-tier-food-chain-frozen-in-time-a-pterosaur-eaten-by-an-ichthyosaur-eaten-by-a-pliosaur-180989243/ #globalmuseum #fossils

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

** As it's being discoursed:

I do not use any generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude et.al.) at any stage in my writing process.

I write because I enjoy writing.

I enjoy the challenge of expressing an idea, or character, or setting in such short form and tell a story with them.

It's all human made.
**

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

only licensed to speak on the radio in french

oui, baguette, garlic

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

vibe safely - take drugs not AI

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mcc wrote:

@dotstdy @glyph I agree that's super frustrating, it frustrates me regularly. However in this *one* case, gnome's "security" did in fact catch a program doing something it shouldn't (reading the clipboard in the background, a thing I didn't agree to).

BitWarden didn't ask if I wanted them managing my clipboard, they just decided they would, and GNOME didn't ask if I wanted BW managing my clipboard, GNOME just decided no one can. Two projects fight over control of my computer; I am irrelevant.

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calutron@merveilles.town wrote:

The Odyssey was ok, but the plot is like "Will this rich person everyone thinks is amazing stop the people trying to get what's his?"

Compare that to TMNT2 The Secret of the Ooze where 4 marginalized outcasts stop the result of a chemical spill

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primonatura@mstdn.social ("Primo Natura") wrote:

"In Germany, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Power"

#Germany #Energy #Renewables

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/germany-wind-solar-power-2025

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

...and not just Norway...

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QuestForTori ("~ Ｍａｃｉｎｔｏｓｈ Ｍｉｎｕｓ ~") wrote:

Are there any good alternatives for streaming which aren't Twitch or YouTube? I don't like Twitch's new policy of training AI on streams, and YouTube already does that, which sucks just as much.

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uselessclock@bots.petras.space ("Useless Clock") wrote:

It's 5 minutes to 5pm in Atlantic/Reykjavik

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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Did you know that before LLMs, people sometimes actively sought "knowledge" and turned to so-called "books"?

If you want a sense of how our ancestors lived, "The Secret Life of Circuits" is shipping in just a few weeks: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/

ToC & sample chapter included.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

In which I share minute details on how one can use simple NLP tricks for a categorization task instead of relying on ML or, god forbid, chatbots.

https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2026/07/30/categorization-with-nlp/en/

#nlp #python #kotlin

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

A software program doesn't "go rogue,"
it's just a poorly coded program with lots of bugs and security vulnerabilities produced by human carelessness.

Yes, I'm talking about AI.

#NoAI

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

If you work in games, please hire the 23 people Double Fine laid off today. They're good people.

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

did someone say rice? cause that's what we're having tonight.

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stejfs_photos@mastodon.goeg.dscloud.biz ("Štejf's Photobox") wrote:

Lazy Fursuit Photography

#Furry #Fursuit #fursuiting

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

it is possible that some catnip has fallen on the cat… somehow, from somewhere

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IngaLovinde@embracing.space ("Inga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸") wrote:

People: Why did my PC/laptop with AMD graphics started crashing when I try to play a video, after a minute or so?
Linux: oh yeah that's a bug we introduced in kernel 7.1 a couple of days ago :)
People: okay I can just switch to LTS kernel, right?
Linux: actually we backported the bug into LTS too :)
People: but surely it will soon be patched?
Linux: actually we won't backport the fix into LTS, because LTS is for important fixes only :)
People: but at least the latest kernel wil be patched?
Linux: maybe in a couple of months; for now the fix is just sitting there in its separate branch :)
Linux: also did you hear we embrace Vibe Coding now? :)

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vmaderna@mastodon.art ("Victoria Maderna") wrote:

Tiny picnic basket I've been working on for a diorama we're building with
@fpiatti - still needs some cleanup.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

More about this beloved family cat here.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w27jf74rgozykuyl63ji7wbv/post/3lmmr3flmhk2l

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Since my grandfather worked at the American military base in Iceland, quite a few of her kittens ended up adopted by soldiers. My grandfather marketed them as "Viking cats", which seemed to do the trick.

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

After my grandfather bought himself a Kodak 8 mm camera in the 60s, my dad decided to film the family cat and her kittens while he was at work. You can see my grandmother at the end of the video trying to pose the kittens on a table.

#video #cats #caturday #catsofbluesky #catsky #vintage #film

Attachments:

• video: An old video of a cat and her kittens.

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kimcrawley@zeroes.ca ("Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)") wrote:

Tomorrow! Share! 🎉

The fifth and final Recovering After Gen AI webinar is with Faster and Worse’s Stephen Farrugia. @fasterandworse

Gen AI will end soon because the bubble will pop and the top scientists I cite say datacentres are unsustainable according to the laws of physics, plus the Mad Cow disease of data, model collapse.

What will we do about the aftermath? Environmental destruction? Millions of cognitively dependent people having nervous breakdowns? Massive skills loss in the workforce? An entire generation unable to enter it?

Saturday, August 1st

6pm CEST, Noon EDT, 9am PDT

Free-of-charge, no registration. Go to https://stopgenai.com/mymeeting for public Zoom link on the day of the event,)

(There will now be an “AI”-free Zoom link provided due to problems with Jitsi. Zoom link will be posted to https://stopgenai.com/mymeeting imminently.)

#NoAI

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

Don't forget to

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LumiaP2L@meow.social ("Luwumiawawawawawawawawwawawawwawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawawaaaaaa") wrote:

Duckduckfedi is there any instance that'd be interesting for a new fedizen doing photography :blobfoxlurkaww: bonus points if its a semi-large instance and with a chill commu/mods

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bakertoons@mastodon.art ("Charles Brubaker") wrote:

Taking new commissions! I have 5 slots open.

Reserve your slot at https://tinyurl.com/baker-comm

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

“On the non-use of AI in my writing process - Charlie's Diary”

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html

> I do not use LLMs in my work. I don't use them in my non-work life either, for that matter. I despise the grifters selling these toys as "tools" and trying to convince us to use them to generate plausible answer-shaped text strings in place of actual internet search for verifiable sources.