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

A baby spider explosion.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/07/the-step-children-have-arrived/

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FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital ("Foxes in Love") wrote:

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/824294366586847233
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

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Mimesatwork@wandering.shop ("🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥") wrote:

@coolsquid the actual news item:
https://www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brought-a-guillotine-to-oppose-new-data-center-company-reps-left-feeling-unsafe

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

The weirdest thing about embroidery knots is they're bundles of hell one minute then completely picked apart the next

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Fuchs") wrote:

“Honey, what’s wrong, why aren’t you eating your crocodile worm sandwich?”

(via https://bsky.app/profile/garwoodmurray.bsky.social/post/3mshoef7nlk2t)

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

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117055700757781006

Awwww :-)

(Speaking as a father of a girl who read all of Pepper & Carrot in her time.)

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davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

My last post showed you the worst part of receiving comments as an artist. Thank you so much for your supportive comments, I'm alright.

Today I want to counterbalance and show you the best part. Look at this :blobcatheart: .

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HailsandAles@metalhead.club ("Chris Fletch") wrote:

I honestly can’t believe the words I’m typing but I think this pizza might have too much cheese

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

@cwebber In the near future, people will acquire taste in the same way they acquire money: by getting it from their rich parents

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lasersushi ("Mina") wrote:

@hagen TikTok did unionize (worker’s council) in Germany in 2022 and it was met with heavy resistance internally (company sued). I think being in an union is still seen as something for blue collar workers so tech leads, managers and most tech personnel see themselves as above that. It’s incredibly hard to get people in tech and gaming to join their union (I tried) and I believe it’s a mix of ignorance, knowledge gaps, and arrogance.

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

New post: "AI's chicken sandwich problem" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/ai-chicken-sandwich/

Generative AI may have more uses than its critics allow, but the ethical quagmire isn't merely how you use it.

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steph@fedi.steph.tools ("Steph •ᴗ•") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mhFLyhugRyI

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• video: 6f0468fa322cbfb9.mp4

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

The best way to acquire taste is to mine from the efforts of people who did go through all the hard efforts to develop taste. And at that point you should mock them relentlessly for still "doing things the hard way". Then you can wonder why everything is getting so boring. Why is it happening

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

I don't mean to be mean, I'm glad the author started to realize their mistakes, but this comment on lobste.rs where the author realizes oh no, actually their writing *has* become bland because they've been spending all this time just talking to agents and now they sound like one, is just the most perfect thing you can read given the context imo https://lobste.rs/s/4qfkrz/taste%5Fis%5Fall%5Fs%5Fleft#c%5Fav5d9g

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

You definitely don't acquire, develop, refine taste through experience, failure, experimentation. That's just a bonkers idea

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

Taste is what drives you. But you used to have to go through years of not being able to fulfill the things you wanted to do, just ask Ira Glass. The cost of producing things is now zero, so it's just taste. Where do you get taste? Maybe you're born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline

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

"The only thing left is taste", says tasteless and bland article which sounds like everything else right now

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danwentzel@urbanists.social ("Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

“Stop making me choose between far-right and far-left” - “Centrists”

We don’t really have a “far-left” in this country as compared to the rest of the world.

But, if the choice for you between prison camps without due process for hated minorities and universal access to healthcare in the USA is a difficult one, then you already side with the far-right in your moral bankruptcy.

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

i'm just warning you now, i walked through the park and thought about type theory this afternoon.

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

.oOo.

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sjwallin@social.lol ("Sarah :neurodi:") wrote:

We did it! 🥳 #academictalk #sanfrancisco #musichistory #musictechnology

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

injectivity - what's equal for you is equal for me

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

All our agents are currently busy. Please stay on the line to retain priority. *hold music*

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

Greetings.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

at this point I'm afraid to physically touch grass because I am pretty sure the grass is going to try to sell me a Copilot subscription

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

oh hi I have ADHD if I hadn't mentioned that

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

like managing external stimuli about random vendor sports was already hard enough, this is truly intolerable. surely there must be a way to bring an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against, like… the zeitgeist, for creating a hostile work environment. I would like one billion dollars in damages please

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

everybody out here posting about how LLMs are making them worse at writing and coding because it's atrophying their skills and not really getting much work done anyway, but not me, LLMs are making *me* worse at writing and coding because every time I look at anything on my computer or go outside and drive down any road with a billboard on it or talk to my friends or my kid's friends' parents, I am slapped in the face with some fresh indignity that I can't stop talking about

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

Went to a tech store for the first time in A While and it struck me just how disillusioned I felt. I have known since I was a teenager that the tech industry was incredibly shady but once upon a time I believed that computers could bring about some kind of utopia even if the companies were going about it badly. Now I.... just don't. Not that I plan on running off into the woods anytime soon, but I think deep down I've finally stopped believing this tech is the solution to... anything, really.

Now when I see these new devices I think "oh cool, they'll have all new ways to spy on me", plus they're advertising AI too, because of course they are. Is anybody actually going "hooray, my new AI PC!"?. I'm pretty sure even people who habitually use AI aren't queueing up for this crap. So who is it even for? Who are they trying to sell this BS idea of a future to? Or do they just think consumers are their captive audience now? I get the impression that it really is a captive audience effect.

It feels empty; I feel empty; I devoted my entire working life to computers and now I need to find a new path.

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

DC-the-city is so much better than DC-the-government

#USPol