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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
orbs
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datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:
@cwebber Hope as counterculture?
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thatgalsilver@zoner.work ("Syl (Sylvia Bun) :enby_inside::therian:") wrote:
@cwebber@social.coop Even Splatoon is just a post-apocalyptic Earth where humans went extinct and sea life rapidly evolved to be land life.
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iiradned wrote:
Living in a world that's trained on itself.
Model collapse @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/12/insurance-value-of-biodiversity/
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Every morning I start the work day with a call with @tsyesika and @dthompson and it's just such a lovely group of people to work with. Thoughtful and extremely talented, and the conversations are always interesting.
Even when I am working on administrative things I am less excited about, it makes me really happy because of the things we are making possible together.
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haubles@hachyderm.io ("hannah aubry") wrote:
I have exciting news to share!! :mastodondance:
It looks like we're finally gearing up to start migrating people over into @Mastodon's new @zulip instance for certain parts of our community next week (#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediDev #Mod etc.)! It has been a long time in the making and I'm sorry for the delay, but I'm so glad we're finally going to start getting people in there <3 We'll start by beta testing with a few individuals next week to make sure everything is ready for a larger wave of people to join <3 <3
More on #DefaultServerRecommendations soon too — stay tuned!
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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:
it's ok that I'm missing the eclipse. I live in England, the sun is eclipsed every day.
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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:
The reason why things are taking so long is that I'm human. I like to play video games, shitpost, eat potatoes, destroy my enemies, etc.
I do a full day's work of detection engineering, and writing about the thing I just did for 8 hours is mostly the last thing I want to do.
and I absolutely 100% refuse to let the slop machine touch any of my work. So I persist. Maybe at a snail's pace, but I persist.
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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:
BIG NEWS: Bocoup is now Igalia! The two worker co-ops have agreed to join forces, with several members of Bocoup coming aboard at Igalia, along with the brand assets and web site. More details in our official announcement: https://www.igalia.com/2026/JoiningForces.html
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ahacker@mastodon.online ("Dr. Andrea Hacker") wrote:
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
I can't imagine what it would be like to grow up as a kid these days. I mean the 90s was kinda peak optimism in the mainstream and cynicism as the counter-culture, but cynicism was still the *counter-culture*.
But these days, cynicism is the default position. Even the last decade of Nintendo games (Zelda, Pokemon, Kirby, etc etc) have consistently had a major post-apocalyptic theme.
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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
THE WHOLE POINT of programming to me is to make things to GIVE THEM AWAY to other people so that they don't have to do them themselves and EVERYONE HAS FREE ACCESS to ANYTHING THEY NEED. the idea that rather than being able to participate in a large and collaborative social space where i can build on my colleagues work I instead rent a private vertical slice of their stolen, soylentized flash frozen expertise to create a completely isolated island of a thing without the expectation that anyone else might take and use it is HELL to me. absolute hell. other people are in fact a feature and not a bug.
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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:
We love what you’re doing, but have you considered changing everything
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
What if you could build production ready in ?
then i''d give about as many shits as i do now?
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117081821641896200
The lesson I learned from this post is that people have absolutely no clue how widespread smoking used to be or how much of a toxic toll on society it was.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
anyone got a link to this responsive CSS technique? I saw it somewhere...
instead of two stacked elements snapping side by side at a specific breakpoint, the top element gradually moves into place along an arc (overlapping the corner is fine)
does that make sense?
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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:
apparently if you call the GP surgery at exactly 08:00:00 you're ~guaranteed to be served first by the receptionist. but you have to be right on the millisecond when you hit that button
you know, i thought video game Quick Time Events were unrealistic, and here i've got to mash ✆ at exactly the right moment, not early, not late, to get healthcare. Clearly videogames are secretly preparing the children for the adult reality in this way
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lumakestuff wrote:
folks gonna be so honest, i have no clue who to follow on here or how to use it. I am new to this fediverse thingy. I want to find other game devs, artists, photograpers and silly people to follow. if you are one of these people please say hi
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
This bothers me in almost every contemporary production.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Get your noses out of that woman's ovaries, you goddamn meddling creeps.
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PastaThief@indiepocalypse.social wrote:
#Toronto is having an explicitly queer and trans inclusive in-person #MUD event. Yes, that kind of MUD, all you elderly #nerds . They'll teach new people how to login get set up, and navigate the world, and they'll provide a space for everyone to hang out both in meatspace and online AT THE SAME TIME.
Kind of a wild proposition, if you ask me.
Anyway, details here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/queers-playing-in-the-mud-tickets-1997184687162
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
working on figuring out the mechanics of a simplified loop antenna for 6m… this time a triangular full wavelength loop, which should hit hear 50Ω. this should eliminate the need for a current balun and drastically reduce the amount of PVC piping in use, thereby reducing the weight & complexity of the assembly.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
The Institute for the Study of War:
“Ukraine’s Patriot shortages offer Russia an opportunity to cause very serious damage to Ukraine over the coming winter and will therefore contribute to delaying meaningful negotiations and protracting the war.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“We can separate these companies into two pieces: product innovation and compute operations. The innovation function can be publicly managed, akin to national labs. Congress could provide more rigorous oversight than the kind of unfettered venture capital these labs have recently had access to. The US has a long, successful history of these kinds of institutions, which have produced world-shaping innovations in spaceflight, telecommunications, nuclear power and more. Congress currently manages a $200bn R&D portfolio, within which frontier AI development is, arguably, a glaring gap.
AI operations could be managed as a commodity resource, like public electrical or water utilities: local or regional ownership, nationwide distribution and strict regulation on how they balance fee extraction from ratepayers with raising capital for infrastructure investment. Although AI datacenters are not the same as power or water treatment plants, the US also has a long history of managing national, regional and state supercomputing centers.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“There is a reason Trump has put so much energy into dismantling the free press: it’s a lot easier to lie to people and distract them from your broken promises when your billionaire buddies own the media.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Minnesota, as expected.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/12/what-a-strange-feeling/
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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:
As I wrote on Destructured, AI companies' current investment in data center and generator construction is the single best metric for assessing AI's future energy demand: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa Anyone who suggests that the energy consumption of AI is overstated is ignoring exhibit number one.
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gedankenstuecke@scholar.social ("Bastian Greshake Tzovaras") wrote:
«they simply replace skill barriers with dependence on proprietary services, while users of these services often trade full community participation and all its benefits for interactions mediated by LLMs trained on community-built open source projects. Our communities are already noticing a shift away from collaborative stewardship and toward transactional interactions with projects»
If FLOSS keeps accepting this state, it's digging its own grave.
https://greatscottgadgets.com/2026/06-17-llms-generate-code-communities-build-projects/
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brettcodes ("Brett Codes") wrote:
I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/
The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Bluesky numbers go down down down
Bluesky corp has always loathed the userbase it ended up with. This is why the new CEO is trying to get more totally-not-Nazis in. (The users the rationalist, coiner and neoreactionary staff originally wanted.)
The graph since 2023 shows bursts of new users every time Musk or sometimes Zuckerberg faceplants, followed by slow declines.
"focus beyond the app" is an excuse for failing at the app. The AT Proto infrastructure is a diverse decentralised ecosystem in the same sense as cryptocurrencies - it has a hard dependency on Bluesky Social PBC infra for 99.99+% of users. There is no programme to reduce that number other than saying "decentralised" a lot.
For comparison, mastodon.social is around 20% of fedi - large, but the other 80% can and do tell them to go whistle as appropriate. AT Proto was always a Not Invented Here of fedi.
It's not clear where the missing Bluesky users are going. Looks like ... nowhere!