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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34"):
faoluin@chitter.xyz ("Softwarewolf") wrote:

@soatok Look at you! :blobfoxheart:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34"):
heathen_cat@furs.social ("Heathen 🐈") wrote:

@soatok
Excellent suit, 10/10, would hug.

Hope you're having a good time

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hobs@mstdn.social ("Hobson Lane") wrote:

Like my Mom, Owen Meany, and perhaps you, I don't believe in coincidences.

I'm late to the Ray Bradbury party, but he concluded "There Will Come Soft Rains" with a home assistant caught in a loop saying:

"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is ..."

That story seems to foreshadow this past Tues & Wed when powerful people were threatened each other with weapons the story warned us about. I'm glad Bradbury was wrong about August 4th and 5th, 2026.

https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj

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

"the Trumpist subjugation of all science to political imperatives has no equivalent in a democracy; if anything, it is reminiscent of Stalin’s Soviet Union."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/trump-scientific-research-universities

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

listening to: Miles Davis - Tanglewood 8/18/1970 "Directions" (9:32)

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

be sure to squeeze all the maple syrup out of your canadian.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club ("Ludic 🧛") wrote:

Zitron just sent me a post that Casey Newton wrote, where Newton uncritically talked about Replit's CEO saying that his company is now just run by AI, and the CEO is a "glorified router"

Remember, if a fawning, boot-licking, sychophant-incompetent like Newton has managed to make it big, there's hope for everyone else. Think about the overwhelming advantage that your brain cells give you

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

also huh, there are fewer neutrino observations in the middle of winter?

how does that work?!

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

lol, DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) is using neutrinos to try and learn about the structure of the earth.

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

germany has finally built a decent airport

I thought they did already, just nobody used it?

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

there is a legal eagle about that time the ebay CEO got severely unhinged because a couple of people who sell shit on ebay said something bad about ebay and organised a full on harassment campaign and even put down a deposit with a hitman to kill one of them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8aaVdGN7MU

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

ngl i struggle with videos that length at the best of times

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

hmmm, i think it might be a bit late to watch a 90 minute nilered video

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

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
kolya@social.cologne wrote:

logging into mastodon

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

you know when you don't accuse someone of something and they give such a spirited defence of themselves you start to wonder?

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 DEFCON 34") wrote:

Happy #FursuitFriday from #DEFCON!

Photographer is anonymous.

@dcfurs @defcon

#defcon34 #defcon2026 #fursuit #dhole

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

(this is the one who said they aren't worried about cognitive decline caused by LLMs because they're going to have age-related cognitive decline anyway)

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

i think the only one of my friends who actually makes heavy use of LLMs by choice is finally having a breakdown because of them.

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

I am quite happy with the jalapeños from my little garden

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

some people really don't know when to stop digging, do they?

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

#FootpathFriday

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

ok just a few more selfies

don't worry I know u are looking repectfully

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

Giving that disapproving librarian look

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

@mlemweb and I being Wednesday Addams equiv of the twins from The Shining

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

@mlemweb got jealous of my Wednesday Addams dress so she made her own, which was even more Wednesday Addams than mine, because Morgan basically *is* grown up Wednesday Addams (see pigtail length)

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

Wore a cute dress yesterday

Attachments:

• video: White woman in a black dress with a white collar steps away from camera to show off her dress, steps back and smiles at camera

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Tutanota wrote:

🚨 The EU cannot allow Google to dictate how Europeans exercise their privacy rights online.

The EU wants to remove the ANNOYING COOKIE BANNER, but Google is lobbying against this. 🍪🙄

Big Techs like Google & Meta make HUGE profits tracking you, so of course they don't want it to be easier for you to refuse consent. 😡

It's time to make your voices heard & #KILLTHECOOKIEBANNER. 🍪

Say no here → https://killthecookiebanner.eu/?page%5Fid=325

Find out more → https://tuta.com/blog/why-eu-member-states-and-google-want-to-keep-cookie-banner

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

thinking about how much I love my tiny baby, Odin, who is so very small and in need of my protection

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Companies make record profits but do mass layoffs anyway because the stock value, which is how executives really get paid, is more important, and the market reflexively rewards layoffs.

Eventually, the company can't function anymore. But then it just gets sold off and the executives walk away with a golden parachute.

Life goes on for everyone except the ordinary people who used to work there or depended on their product.