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

momentously fast

i see your momentously fast and i raise you a blazing 🔥 fast 🚀

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

92m requests to @ecosystems so far today, the biggest single day I've ever seen 🫠

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Reminder that you don't need an MFA (or any particular degree, or, really, any degree at all) to be a novelist. Get into an MFA program if you want what it offers, but really, it's not a requirement, signed, the dude with 20 novels so far and no MFA

RE: https://www.threads.com/@guardian%5Fus/post/DblKZtUgB6p

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe ("φ-52 "Skylark"") wrote:

Reminder, or maybe first time hearing about it for folks who didn't know, the term "ricing" to refer to theming a Linux desktop is rooted in racism.

The basic etymological chain is:

• Car tuner culture develops in America. Normal and interesting practice of taking consumer cars originally engineered for reliability and modifying them for racing performance.
• They also customize the look of the cars to make them more closely resemble racing vehicles.
• Most of the cars used for this purpose are Japanese imports (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Mazda)
• In a classic Extremely Clever (/s) moment, tuners said "haha the people who manufacture these cars eat a staple grain that billions of humans worldwide eat every day" and started calling their modded cars "rice burners" and the act of modding them "ricing".
• Someone, somewhere, starts using the word to refer to modifying the appearance of a Linux desktop, rather than a car.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art ("Michael Whelan") wrote:

Cover illustration for WHEN TRUE NIGHT FALLS by C.S. Friedman (DAW) 3/3

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/emperor-of-wastelands/

Available individually as a traditional offset print or save on the set in our shop:

https://www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/coldfire-set/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

In a few years time, we'll have a massive cybersecurity crisis that breaks important civilian infrastructure—emergency services, payment networks, food logistics etc.

Politicians will trot out "it's so complicated!" excuses. Hucksters will say AI caused it/could have solved it etc.

Meanwhile, people who recreationally run *BSD on their toaster will point to the NVD giving up on CVE enrichment and everyone that knows how computers work being made redundant. And nobody will listen. Yawn.

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

dutch fedi is weewoo as a service with a strange api

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117016420622784045

Today!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

lol I went down a RAG/semantic search rabbithole one time and it was soooo cool until I realized this has existed for **decades** and you can just implement elastisearch. difference was this took me a couple days, not many months and thousands of dollars. https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1vd0m4w/comment/p15jssv/?utm%5Fsource=share&utm%5Fmedium=mweb3x&utm%5Fname=mweb3xcss&utm%5Fterm=2&utm%5Fcontent=share%5Fbutton

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("♾️🇺🇦 Skykiss will Vote") wrote:

A BIG fucking RED FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by conman Todd Blanche.

The DOJ is saying the felon rapist insurrectionist can commit massive financial crimes and fraud in new order that reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

THIS IS IN YOUR FACE CORRUPTION. Hitler did this too.

#Congress #usa #news

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

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

I'm gonna get a hair cut and bangs and get my hair dyed purple today! I am really excited :O

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

helo

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
boxobark.ing@bsky.brid.gy ("Boxo McFoxo") wrote:

Are the increasingly powerful Chinese models in the room with us now?

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

It's even small enough that I can make octaves with my tiny hands! And, more importantly, drag it with me to whatever next residence I take up

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

I am now the proud owner of a MIDI controller and I have found out how to finagle it (with some difficulty) with LMMS

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gregkh@social.kernel.org ("Greg K-H") wrote:

In which I explain how I will treat LLM generated or assisted patches for the Linux kernel drivers/staging/ subsystem going forward:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/2026080354-skater-urgent-31b2@gregkh/T/#u

(hint, not allowed, except for security bugs that you can prove actually fix something by testing the issue on the actual hardware the driver controls.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender.

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-wants-the-power-to-stop-the-public-from-suing-polluters/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fcc-paramount-gifts-brendan-carr-ethics-complaint-warner-bros-merger?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #FCC #Government #Ethics #USPolitics #Paramount #CBS #Entertainment #Business

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

Today I found a open source thing for doing _exactly what I needed_ but then it didn't work and I inspected the source code and found that it uses services that are no longer online.

Turns out it was all vibe-coded and the LLM referenced services that are long dead presumably because the training data ends with 2024 or so and it just assumed the services are still up.

The person doing the vibe coding didn't bother to check. Now the code is up on Github and you get recommend to use it by search engines. Great stuff.

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

they forgot to include any spiders, so what's the point?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/too-few-spiders-too-much-technobabble/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbcVceufbk

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113866093397576803

What is it like to work at FLOCK what is is like to work at palantir? What is it like to work for ICE... not on the ground but doing their website, or their payroll?

I posted about this just after the election and this interview reminded me of this post. I think the interview shows how this can happen.

Don't let it be YOU who helps build this monsterous machine.

I'm mad he worked there but glad he's speaking up now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKYYpLC9u5I

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

you don't need a ph.d in neuroscience to be a decent human being and comprehend the basics. (I do actually have a ph.d in neuroscience, though.)

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/03/you-can-be-a-scholar-of-the-bible-and-still-understand-basic-neuroscience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecyqKkcFsI

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

@Robotistry @cwebber yeah, the right place to solve this is in the weights, but as @cwebber pointed out, there is a lot of incentive for the labs to not do that.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
DigInfFund@mastodon.world ("D//F") wrote:

Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/

Quick summary:
The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring the assumption that peer production (in #foss is inherently democratizing, without romanticizing, but closely observing, what replaces it. (1/x)

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

geminiprotocol.net domain name has expired, the registrar, namecheap, invites the owner to renew it.

I hope it will be renewed by the original owner.

http://geminiprotocol.net/

#geminiprotocol #smolnet

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/117028612143894864

kitty needs a space suit

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

want to torture someone (like me) who loves XML Schema? ask them for a regex that will handle URLs…

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

the view on Thursday from Shell Beach, Jenner California:

if I hear someone say “needs more study” one more time, I may [redacted] them.