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

i know signal is great and everything but have you ever actually listened to a lesser nerd complain about having to use signal to talk to you?

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

in-ear video monitors

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

AOC - "Woke 1.0 was crazy"

She now says defund the police was to harsh.

Ok AOC... so why the ever living fuck are so many cops making OVER $500k. Pulling in 2x their salary for overtime.

And in Seattle we know MANY of these cops are lying about their hours and the ones who aren't are fucking sleeping in their squad cars on the damned job.

If all of that isn't a sign that these departments are over funded and have low standards I don't know what is.

"Defund the police" is right and smart!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Diligence Jones") wrote:

This is a fascinating study.

I was on the briefing call yesterday and, y'all -- people (especially older women) HATE AI with the personal kind of passion one reserves for the villain who killed your father.

They HATE tech execs. Like, HAAAAATE.
And this sentiment does not change when folks 'get used to' AI. In fact, distrust has increased despite everyone using it.

They absolutely distrust AI boosters. No one believes the hype and an overwhelming majority believe this shit is bad -- because of personal experience of harm or they know someone who has been harmed.

People want AI *punished* they hate it so much. (This is me editorializing.)

And they want someone to wrap some chains around AI before it's too late. #RegulateAI

Duuuuude. Faaascinating.
Full report drops next week.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKvEjvDK%5FzwIvGDdCdL8d74ov5eVFqkm/view?pli=1

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Unfortunately, I have to cancel omg.lol Office Hours for August 15 (scheduling conflict, sorry!). We'll be back on schedule for August 20/21, though!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The macro lens on my phone is pretty good.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Of course it's called an "agent harness".

Because "AI bondage infrastructure" probably wasn't going to make it past HR.

Boosted by jwz:
depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("depths of wikipedia") wrote:

amazing article

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Otis likes sitting in the laundry basket. #CatsOfMastodon

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

"Think you can do better?" CYBERDELIA, Sun Aug 30! There will be Wipeout.
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/08-30.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #cyberdelia #electro #bigbeat #trance #cyberpunk #industrial #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I am a radical in many ways by society’s standards, I’m sure — my ideas of goodness and universal liberation are apparently off the map — but I’m not one of these people who longs for destruction. At heart I’m not a revolutionary, but an engineer.

Destroying things is easy. Building things is hard. And the certitude that we will actually get a better society by destroying the current one first? I don’t buy it. That’s the foolish myth of the greenfield rewrite turned into a social theory.

So when I agree with the QP at the top of the thread, don’t misunderstand me: my agreement is not a wish. It’s a warning.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

And to be clear, I’m not excited about the possibility of all that violence. I don’t like living in a world where disputes get resolved by murder — even if it’s the murder of truly despicable people. I mean, I’d like to see these technofascists cut down to size just as much as anyone else, but I’d rather that happen in a way that is thoughtful and just. For all its flaws, I still prefer the rule of law, the rule of ever-less-violent social consensus over the rule of violence. I would rather live in a world where we are always making the structures of our society less violent, less coercive, and more just.

I want that. Alas, that is not the direction the world is heading.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117095516886981961

Liza's correct.

It’s easy to hear this as a threat, but I don’t think that’s quite correct. It’s just…a fact. To the extent that there is some sort of wall between industry and government, between the market and the state, that is •protection• for the wealthy against violence.

When people don’t believe democracy can hold oligarchs accountable, that's when you get Luigi Mangiones.

When people don't believe that unions or labor law will realistically protect them, that’s when you get violent worker uprisings.

And when militaries believe that specific corporations are functioning as arms of other militaries, well, when Liza said.

Oligarchs now are drunk with consolidation of power, but aren't really thinking through the personal consequences.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
henryiii@fosstodon.org ("Henry³") wrote:

If you want to be involved in the Python Packaging Council elections, register to vote before August 25! I'm there, along with 16 other fantastic choices. https://blog.python.org/2026/08/2026-packaging-council-nominees/ and ask me questions at https://discuss.python.org/t/ppc-nomination-ama-for-henry-schreiner !

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

I think the phrase that best describes my current political lean and affiliation is "Nuremberg Trial Democrat"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

@soapdog @computersandblues indeed. They are full computers!

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

@computersandblues @liaizon have you seen https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

@pmjv I'll blow them up with the power of Lithium ions!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

Ok two more today

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

I forgot to get the latest longitude :(

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liaizon@wake.st ("wakest ⁂") wrote:

Starting a thread to document finding vapes with rechargable batteries on the street #permacomputing

Vozel (Love 777)
52.4754127, 13.3681683

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

shocked and appalled at such property damage

how will they get the gold, copper and 64GB of DDR5 out now

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
swiftlang ("Swift Language") wrote:

What's the difference between a package index and a package registry? One helps you discover packages, the other hosts and serves them. 📦 A new post explains how they fit together. Read more: https://swiftpackageindex.com/blog/what-is-a-package-registry

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

relieved to see i have learned at least something in rather too many years of idris.

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

@davidgerard if people figure out how to build gaming PCs from scavenged Flock parts it's all over

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Per Eversionem Patriarchatus Ad Astra") wrote:

Shout-out Andy Burnham for exposing the existence of a whole load of hidden (for extremely legitimate reasons) phones though. Well done you 👏👏👏

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

I don't hear quite so much about embroidery as knitting or crochet but maybe it's starting to pick up interest in what seems to be a hand-crafts revival

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

https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-embroidery-and-how-to-get-started-yourself-288312

Oh, huh, this is the featured article on The Conversation UK today. Neat!

#embroidery

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

BREAKING: Madman Trump orders Navy to spend billions ripping modern launch systems from aircraft carriers and return to steam

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

RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117095522561610963

Acme Corporation gets no-bid $20 million contract to build Giant Rubber Band Slings to replace steam catapults