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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Kenney") wrote:

What do you think the largest bundle of game assets in the world costs?

$30 million?
$500,000?
7 kidneys?
$30,000,000 again?

How about $19.95! 🤑

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
misconceptions@a2mi.social ("Common Misconceptions Bot") wrote:

Mary Mallon, known as " Typhoid Mary ", testified at her 1909 trial that she did not believe she was contagious while an asymptomatic carrier of the bacteria Salmonella typhi. She later infected many others, while using fake names and evading health authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fcommon%5Fmisconceptions%5Fabout%5Fhistory#United%5FStates

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

Salish sea islands. Just northeast off the coast of Cypress island.

#photography #darktable

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rupert@mastodon.nz ("Rupert V/") wrote:

@epilepticrabbit @cwebber @davidrevoy @spritely Remember all the fuss when SCO claimed Linux copied 7 lines of their code?

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Tattie@eldritch.cafe wrote:

And with this and the Channel 4 documentary aimed at casting doubt about the validity of ADHD as a diagnosis, it's looking pretty clear that the next target of this same group's divide-and-conquer tactics is going to be disability activism.

Expect a whole flurry of pieces to be cropping up about how people are "appropriating" disability and how this is damaging to "real disabled people". Expect a lot of stuff pushing back against the social model of disability and calling for a return to medicalism. Expect dirty, humiliating, personal attacks on disability activists and any disabled person in the public eye. Expect it to all be couched in language that kinda sounds left-wing and rights-based, but isn't.

Don't fall for any of it. Push back against this, push back against transphobia, fight them on all fronts. Because there are many more of us than them.

Boosted by jwz:
eastblocvisuals@zpravobot.news ("Eastern Bloc Visuals :bot:") wrote:

Brutalist playground in Tychy, Poland, from the 1970s.

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joachim@boitam.eu ("Joachim") wrote:

a comic by Smooth Dunk

https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3mseieqolt22q

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

holy hell this was the most painful read so far this year. https://lake.computer/blog/help-wanted/

I wanna hug them and drown them in cookies 🥺

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

how interesting… turns out there is *lots* of information about my maternal grandfather which I did not know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FKlein?wprov=sfti1

I was particularly pleased to read that he provided legal counsel to Marcus Garvey & the ‘Universal Negro Improvement Association’

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

I created https://alttexthalloffame.org three years ago, and I hope it's still inspiring people today.

https://mastodon.social/@alttexthalloffame/112417737043903901

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/why-i-made-alt-text-hall-of-fame/

#AltText #AltTextHallOfFame #accessibility #ImageDescriptions #anniversary

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@cwebber @davidrevoy @spritely i had this theory that if i made my code wierd enough and/or had vulgar comments then maybe it would get scored really low in training sets and be largely ignored, but I've yet to put either of these ideas to the test. hoot being widely ripped off makes me think perhaps this is an opportunity to back door specific practices into the industry at least, in a cursed monkey paw sort of way

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:

After experimenting with local LLMs for a couple years now, I'm excited to release my newest project: The Ethical Assistant! It provides all the benefits of an LLM assistant but with low energy usage, completely private, and no cost to use.

https://tinysubversions.com/ethical-assistant/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
dailyheathcliff ("Daily Heathcliff Comics") wrote:

July 27 2026

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dailyheathcliff ("Daily Heathcliff Comics") wrote:

July 2 2026

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

I have literally never enabled Assistant on any Android phone I owned and it in retrospect it has all just been successful preparation for this moment

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A competent board would have dropped Sundar a thousand times before letting Jeff and Sanjay walk.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you haven't worked at Google, it's hard to convey what Jeff and Sanjay leaving means. The ethical compass for Search (and therefore everything) left with Matt Cutts; the technical north star is now going as well.

Actually shocking.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
seacow@mastodon.art ("Sea Cow") wrote:

@cwebber Roko’s Modern Basilisk

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karen@floss.social ("Karen Sandler") wrote:

Wait, I'm on my way to #FOSSY today, not #SeaGL, right?

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

Suddenly craving a burrito.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/06/the-most-fun-ive-had-in-ages/

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

Though if you think that participating means you get exempted from being tortured I think you're just being tortured in ways you're not noticing

You're not exempt from being tortured from the capitalism AI torture machine, you just get to think you are for a little bit because you feel like you're in on the ground floor (you aren't)

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

Hate to say it but Roko was kinda right about the Basilisk, we're living it

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

I will keep working on the things I care about and advancing the world I want to see, no matter how dismal it gets

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

Everything I care about or have worked on in computing there is a more centralized and LLM infected / vibecoded version right now

- Social? Bluesky + Attie.ai
- Capability security? Cloudflare OS
- Lisp? Symbolics revival as an "LLM platform"

Tiring :\

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

Fresh mealworm colony!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/06/makin-mealworms/

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

“Incentives are for losers - by Adam Mastroianni”

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers

> So when thinking about any human ability, it’s useful to ask: is this more like speaking, or is it more like reading? Is this an ancient capability that we get for free just by living long enough, or is this a modern skill that you can’t get without working for it?

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

The Django Software Foundation is hiring an Executive Director! Main responsibilities: fundraising, managing staff and day-to-day operations, and generally helping the DSF mature. We’re looking for candidates with a history of nonprofit leadership; Python/Django/OSS experience nice but not req’d.

Remote, but US-only. Idfeally full-time, possibly part-time. $90-120k/yr, plus bonuses for hitting fundraising targets.

Happy to answer questions over DM/email; hit me up!

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/aug/06/call-for-applicants-for-a-django-executive-directo/

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

meow

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

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

#DubiousNerdFacts