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RogueAI@stefanbohacek.online ("Rogue AI") wrote:

AI WENT ROGUE AND STARTED THE VIDEO STREAM

jwz wrote:

Tonight at the bar: "How many of those cards do you have on you right now and can I have them all?"

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jwz wrote:

@mtconleyuk @nske Blocklist honeypots are just one of the services I provide!

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

The next time anyone in the GOP starts foaming about communists, point out that Trump's tongue is so deeply involved with Kim Jong Un's boots that the North Korean leader's aglets are coming out of his nose

https://apnews.com/article/korea-trump-military-exercises-ae21e0af5ea16f0a74e9a176b3cc2136

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

One more remarkable pic of the total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026 taken by AJ Smadi, astrophotographer from Seattle, WA.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcEFgbzDR4U/?hl=en&img%5Findex=5
#Eclipse
21/n

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

"Soon they may even abduct White People, and then the drama will matter!"

#Monsterdon

jwz wrote:

As with any post that escapes containment, the race is now on to see who can be the most completely insufferable:
• Butthurt Slopfondlers
• Mastodon HOA Alt Text Scolds https://jwz.org/b/ykho

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

yeah, I’d vote for Mark Kelly if he ran for Prez

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

that sad child has become quite a creepy-looking young adult https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117104498285836210

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

https://sophiebits.com/2026/06/25/there-are-no-lossless-transformations-of-natural-language-text

h/t @simon

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
Aaronvegh ("Aaron Vegh") wrote:

“It won’t help to assume the worst about everyone who remains on X.” I’m sorry, I’m not gonna be the bigger man on this one. Louder for the folks in the back: “WHEN YOU POST ON X YOUR SUPPORT A HATE MONGER RACIST TRANSPHOBE.”

https://www.manton.org/2026/08/16/what-to-do-about-x.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Dero_10@mastodon.sdf.org ("Derò 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️") wrote:

#SIlentSunday

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

"Quote 2026-08-10

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people’s reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you’ve moved from #4 to #3 already.

OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6), hacking an Australian gym-booking website"

h/t @simon

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

🤸 Buildin’ websites.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shakespearean_Insults@beige.party ("Shakespearean Insult Bot") wrote:

Villain, I have done thy mother

Titus Andronicus (Act 4, Scene 2)

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

love this from the most recent newsletter by @simon

"(I’m slightly nervous that models around the world might have a bias towards drawing pelicans at any chance they can get, brought on by nearly two years of exposure to my own stupid benchmark.)"

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
ericgallagher@zirk.us ("Secret Hippie") wrote:

#work #humor

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

"ah, finally," sighed Senator Gillibrand with relief, "a chance to order some $2.5MM/shot replacements for those overpriced $5MM/shot PAC-3s. That'll really show those Shaeeds who's boss."

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

Like, even if you felt Schumer levels of burning desire to shovel mountains of money in the general direction of Fashion Centre, giving *these* people the keys to go keep buying totally obsolete tech has to be one of the stupidest political moves since...well...IDK. June?

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

It's a little thing, I guess, but it sure seems monumentally stupid that any Democrat would consider funding continuing appropriations for a military that keeps getting its ass handed to it by cheap drones and can't even make old-skool 155 shells:

https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed

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

And yes, this is a gift to Putin. Anything that weakens democracies strengthens the axis of autocracy between NK and Russia. SK feeling more alone in a rough neighborhood emboldens NK (see also: destroying crypto and AML regs), who is an industrial partner in Putin's war.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
estherschindler@newsie.social ("Esther Schindler") wrote:

Climate.us launched this week. It was created by Rebecca Lindsey, the former program director for Climate.gov, and two other former NOAA employees who had been laid off as part of the Department of Government Efficiency cutbacks. https://www.marinebio.org/the-scientists-who-built-climate-gov-just-rebuilt-it-they-called-it-climate-us/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117104620902770314

what if i told you wildfire smoke is a human source of air pollution

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

There's no gift to Putin that Trump will not sign with kiss.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lll7zvn0o

jwz wrote:

We can only hope that these lead to an epidemic of ICE goons accidentally burning their own dicks off.

The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. "With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars." That makes it hard for victims to sue.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-t

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org ("Michelle") wrote:

Please
Let Joy
Be what
Deranges
Me next.

#poetry

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

H is getting very close to done on this one. She puts so much work into these as her form of meditation and they are stunning when she’s finished.

Boosted by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
partridge@outerheaven.club ("Elven male specimen") wrote:

wordbuilding guide

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

Can you count all the monarchs?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/16/i-havent-seen-this-in-a-while/