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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LevendLichtje@mastodon.art ("Levend Lichtje") wrote:

Working on a book tracker. For each (e-)book I read, I add one tiny book with the front cover, title on the spine (sometimes abbreviated, with rating 1-5 in little bars), and a back that holds reading stats: the amount of pages, the number of the book since the start of this project (the day I got my beloved Kobo e-reader), the date I finished it, the time spent reading and the type of book (paper or digital). The color shows the genre.
#ebooks #ebookreader #ebookmanager #art

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
inlovewithpda@chaos.social ("in ♥️ with PDA (and 🐧)") wrote:

If you are fan of "old" electronic music ... you have to get Folklore by #michaeldaniels.

So beautiful!!!!

https://michaeldaniels.bandcamp.com/album/folklore

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

The poor Little Ceasar cannot say his tagline in Canada. It's the forbidden motto here

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

“And what the political opposition has to do now is recognize what Nolan recognized: That it is an affirmation of our civilizational values to say that cruelty is a weakness. That only compassion and reciprocity build a durable and decent society. That order is necessary but order without ethics and restraint is perversion or authoritarianism. That there is both beauty and wisdom in the injunction to avoid inflicting on others what we would not see turned against us and in remembering that we were strangers in the land of Egypt, too.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/christopher-nolan-odyssey-elon-musk.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.21A.3vmq.wYF54la6%5F9oS&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

Rust syntax, Go runtime.

is that... a thing people have been crying out for?

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

but I'm out of my head when you're not around

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

A computer can never be held accountable...

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
guilhernunes_@mastodon.art ("guilherme nunes") wrote:

cat sending resumes while an alien invasion is happening outside

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

Today I learned that somebody has created an "ethically sourced Lena image" and I dunno what I expected but this man is doing God's work.

https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

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

maybe it turns out there's opportunity here, because maybe a lot of people are desperate for organizations that *do* care. I hope so

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bullsworth@meow.social ("Bullsdonk 🔜 FM") wrote:

@soatok the part about the Allatra climate conference reminded me of this video which, if you've never seen it, I can assure you is great. It was my introduction to FoldingIdeas.

https://youtu.be/icwDF8wRgF4

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

we're not the only org that cares about empowering users by helping them better understand and participate in computing itself, but increasingly, it feels like Spritely is one of only a couple of places

and it's getting harder and harder to get people to care, or it feels like it

which just makes me care even more about our work but everything feels so precarious in this world rn

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

thesis: the sun is hot
antithesis: the sun goes away at night
pyrokinesis: it doesn't have to

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
evergreensewing@pdx.social ("Evergreen Sewing") wrote:

Hey there, #Portland #Sewing friendos!

There are still _three_ seats left for Sunday's "Sewing Machine Mysteries & Maintenance for Everyone" class at Bolt!

Bring a coffee & your machine & spend the morning with us learning all those things that other sewing books, patterns, and classes assume you already know.

https://www.boltfabricboutique.com/other-classes-1/sewing-machine-maintenance-for-everyone-wgme5-5ge9d

#PDX

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I greatly enjoyed watching people forge steel with the power of water. Especially the 80+ year old gentleman still working his craft:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVak4d9Cov8

It's always fun and educational to see how people accomplished works prior to nearly ubiquitous electricity and computers. (Although there is an electrical item being powered through water works, so it's not all ancient tech there.) And it's a nice respite from the... Uh... You know [points out window towards the local hazy, wildfire smoked "AI" driven hellscape...]

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

#Trump designated #ANTIFA a domestic terrorist organization. The invention has proved more useful than a real organization, because a group without a membership list is one whose members the government simply gets to make up.

The state no longer proves what you believe by what you did; it proves what you did by what you believe.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-nspm-7-repression/

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

sigh

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
foone@digipres.club ("Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

look there's a billion other reasons why people are against AI and all but fundamentally the core of my personal reason is that I've already spent 30 years learning how to teach computers how to do exactly what I tell them to, so I am exceptionally disinterested in having them do things less accurately by talking to them in a sloppier language

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Loosf@yiff.life ("Luisf") wrote:

@foone i SAW THIS POST HERE.

And YEAH.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Gauss@furry.engineer ("Gauss :wlf: -> EF") wrote:

Today is August 4th, 2026

https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7%5FThere%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Getting upset all the time is bad for you, which is also upsetting

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

existence of Wine, Nix, and Wix implies the existence of Nine in the fourth, mysterious quadrant

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com ("Jack William Bell") wrote:

I love it when a company very deliberately produces a product which is, effectively, giving the finger to another company's product.

> DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero #AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics Whatsoever. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/duckduckgo-selling-anti-pervert-glasses

#business #biz #privacy

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

You would think that all of these people pushing for social media bans for kids would be interested in whether or not these bans actually work...but no, I guarantee we will keep on seeing age-gating bills. https://theconversation.com/more-than-80-of-kids-still-using-social-media-despite-ban-new-esafety-report-finds-288808

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa: 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

our favorite version of this meme

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Bases on a hypothetical by Regular Eyepatch Wolf (IDK that's his name...)

You are watching a video and it's really interesting. In it a person talks about about a topic you care about and it has new ideas you didn't know, but also matches up with your background knowledge. They make a few really good points. The video is 2/3s done and you find out "this is AI generated"

Check as many as you want!

Do you watch the rest?

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
superviviansunshine ("negative aura posting") wrote:

do u think God lives in fear of His creation

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

I watched a video recently about how to spot gen ai in creative writing and then the same week I was exposed to this opening line of a song and, well, I can't stop thinking about, because it's the perfect example.

"The daylight hits me like a bruise"

Daylight can hit you.
Hits cause bruises.
Therefore daylight must be like a bruise?

Basically, the video said to look for statements that have words that feel like they belong together but don't really unpack properly.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alice@gts.void.dog ("canicula cunny") wrote:

type of creature who spends 5 hours rewriting a big sql query over and over again and - worst of all - enjoys it

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

Found it: every LLM breakthrough story reads like this old erowid story of someone who was addicted to taking LSD with nitrous oxide because the feeling that induced for them was that they were discovering the secrets of the universe:

(C/w in the story for self harm and everything else you'd expect in an erowid story)
https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=79725

the more I explored the Nitrous reality the more sense it made - of everything. I was starting to feel that I understood the intrinsic nature of the universe ...

I devoted my life to this 'faith' of mine - and my quest was to bring back some of these truths, and to find a way to share them with others - which I did in fact accomplish. I have kind of built an environment that almost guarantees arriving at this place. There is technology involved - it's all very complicated.