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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@bascule/117090284359357490

🗣YOU’RE WELCOME!

signed,
#GenX mom of two #zillennials

ps: a lot of us GenX women who didn't embrace yuppie #feminism were called losers, sold outs, quitters. many of us lost careers to motherhood.

and this was not just in right-wing corporate settings. i had a “model minority” reject me for a position in a “progressive” non-profit because, “how can you give us 110% when you have two kids”.

zilennial #socialism is the finding out after fucking around a whole generation of GenX moms.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
vlrny@disabled.social ("Valerie Roney") wrote:

In case you need to hear it:

Continuing to survive in a society that just wants to consume you and throw you away is punk af.

Well done. Carry on.

...also, messy surviving is still surviving.

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

if you hadn't heard, this year's biggest company is a toilet manufacturer. i'm not sure a chatbot is really going to deliver finer porcelain.

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

Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI

they're a bit busy getting on with business?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
anttipeltola@mastodon.world ("Antti Peltola ⁂") wrote:

LLMs have become technology that has failed to deliver on its promises the most since Pentium 4.

Failure of Pentium 4 however didn't put a loaded gun pointing at the head of the working class as failed CPU microarchitecture is incapable of destroying the economy as it didn't have USD 2 trillion of CapEx depending on its success.

Same 10 % hallucination rate despite how much we throw data and compute on these transformer models. Holy fuck we're in trouble.

#AIBubble

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

UK Parliamentary investigation resumes into Farage hours after he wins Clacton by-election

remember that we couldn't lose this time.

unfortunately it means there will be another by-election in clacton soon.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Amazon’s AI training on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’

saying the quiet part out loud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4Ucw-zbpc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260813-amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in - podcast

time: 4 min 25 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/13/amazons-ai-training-on-twitch-if-it-was-opt-in-nobody-would-opt-in/ - blog post

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

“(Not) Everything Changes”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/not-everything-changes/

> One takeaway, if I might: anytime you hear the label “the science of...” -- like, say “the science of reading” (or “computer science” or “political science”) -- you should recognize you’re being marketed a kind of scientism that not only wants to elevate the field or practice to the realm of Real Knowledge but denigrate competing practices as “folk” or “bunk.”

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/13/supplier-security-questionnaire.html

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

“(Not) Everything Changes”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/not-everything-changes/

> This claim about change – sudden, all-consuming – seems to make a lot of people feel unsettled, unmoored even if they can look around and see the continuities that remain.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
keith@bookstodon.com wrote:

FYI: User-Agent Almanac

Ongoing 24.5M fediverse posts and profile scrapes:

"why isn't this opt-in?

because almost nobody opts in, and a snapshot of the few hundred people who did isn't useful for anything. it also wouldn't reflect the network, which defeats the point of studying it.

i get that this isn't the answer everyone wants. if you disagree, you can opt-out above. if you control an instance and have any concerns, feel free to email me."

https://tiago.zip/almanac

#FediAdmin #FediBlock

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
theodoraward ("Theodora Ward") wrote:

yesterday i was talking about mastodon and someone was like "what the fuck is that" and without thinking i said "linux twitter"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
lynxonrails@meow.social ("Lynx on rails 🐱🚄🐾") wrote:

Last #FursuitFriday before EF!

📸 @arlo

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

A rare perfect solve haha. Not bad for a Friday!

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 14th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 14 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by jwz:
Rainmaker1973@zpravobot.news ("Massimo :bot:") wrote:

This was published 114 years ago Today

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
kiteless@furries.club ("A:\kiteless.exe /BLM") wrote:

I am absolutely a huge fan of Master Boot Record. They moved to self hosting here on the #fediverse here @mbr

Their #Bandcamp is here.

https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

And the results are in!

Nigel Farage: 22 239 (63.34%)
Count Binface: 9 455 (26.93%)

That's even better than the polls suggested. In order for Farage to look good coming out of this, he'd have needed Saddam Hussein numbers (high 90s). Instead he barely managed twice the votes of the man with a bin on his head. That said, though, he did actually get more votes this time round than 2024, when he got 21 225 votes. So his base in Clacton seems immovable, but makes up only around a quarter of the electorate. It's not at all certain he's going to triumph again in the next by-election against more serious opponents. He's suffered grievous wounds to his reputation today.

Farage didn't even bother turning up to the announcement. It would have been a tough choice between how he'd look churlishly failing to show up and how he'd look standing up there among all the other joke candidates.

Thank you for your service, Count Binface 🫡

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/14/nigel-farage-wins-clacton-byelection-count-binface-boycotted-major-parties

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@fabiscafe/117092302871556473

For those who was boosting my question, here's the explanation why the answer is no.

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

Let me try a shot in the dark: is there a way to bring #Gnome 50 to #Debian 13 Trixie?

Reason is, I'm reading Gnome 50 is the first one that got color management on #Wayland.

I won't go into all the reasons why this particular combination, it's just one of the possible ones I'm working through on a new laptop.

Thanks!

#linux

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

Occasionally normie friends enquire why I don't think the memory crisis will be resolved any time soon, and in reply I often try to convey just how insane HBM is, *particularly* the packaging and the yield implications of stacking; grateful that I can refer to this video instead from now on:

https://youtu.be/Cg5tAujp6Go

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣

✴️ You can now preorder it at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078

✴️ Is there a local bookstore that you think should order this book? Can you let me know, or, even better, let them know?

✴️ Is there a place I should plan to come for a book tour when the book is out? Can you lmk?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattmay@mstdn.social ("Matt May") wrote:

Fun fact: “honcho” sounds like it must come from Spanish, but no, it’s actually Japanese: han (group) + chō (leader).

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

accidentally caught a little lightning while trying to photograph a weak rainbow

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said:

1. they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in

2. the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like this and are of the same mind about it as all of you

3. Taking the time to opt-out, even if you don't really stream, gives them data to take to meetings with their overlords to prove that Twitch users dislike AI and pushing it too hard will drive people from the site.

Settings > Security and Privacy > Training for Generative AI

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
art@mastodon.sdf.org ("arthur.pizza") wrote:

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, buy the pond, tell him he can't have the fish, but he can fish for you, sell the fish and give him a very small cut, and then he'll say stuff like "I'm hungry and my teeth hurt." Nobody wants to fish these days

~Tim Ross

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

Straight into my veins, please:

https://youtu.be/RKdaFGW1tks

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

No no, "nuance" is when your position is just the status quo with extra, ostensibly thoughtful, steps, and if you ask anything of the reader, it's extremism that lacks nuance

Hope this helps

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

#Trump #SteamCatapult #Magnets #USPol #USPolitics #MarkKelly

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukraine wanted a Chinese attack drone. Beijing refused to sell. So a Ukrainian team flew over, photographed the whole factory, and went home to build their own.

Two years later the MICH 2000 costs $48,000—$2,000 less than the original—and just tore the tail off a Russian Tu-95. https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/13/mich-2000/