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

At the core of the rift in the example I gave, some people are enticed by the allure of scandal.

"Did you know [Some Fucking Guy] did something that will let you trash talk him and feel morally superior the next time his name comes up in conversation?" just doesn't appeal to me.

I'm interested in ideas and how to use those ideas to help the people who are actually a part of my life.

I'm prone to, when confronted with "people talk", ask questions that none of them are usually prepared to answer. Like:

• Is this the most pressing matter to you right now?
• Why does her choice in romantic or sexual partners speak to you? How does it influence your self-perception? Your place in society?
• If you had the same opportunity, what choice would you have made?

Or the more pressing question: Who fucking cares what cosenting adults do behind closed doors?

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

I keep finding myself in situations where I explain my job to someone new to infosec and they look a bit disappointed that I emphasize active listening skills rather than increasingly difficult topics in mathematics or programming languages to study.

I sometimes joke that 50% of my job is "a weird form of group therapy", because I don't know how else to describe it to folks who never developed the requisite social skills.

Technical competence matters, but is not alone sufficient to carry you in most workplaces. Being an irritating asshole all the time is a net negative. Being an irritating asshole when you need to be is still useful, of course.

But I'm not exactly an extrovert, myself, either. And there are plenty of everyday social norms that frustrate the hell out of me.

For example: I cannot relate to people that routinely buy celebrity gossip magazines. No amount of communication skills will bridge this gulf. Y'all are a lost cause to me.

jwz wrote:

Crazy how most of the time I'll post about, like, the ICE torture taser gloves, and people will comment, sometimes their jokes won't land but clearly we're on the same horrified page. Then something like my "AI" post escapes confinement and these absolute lunatics show up saying taser torture gloves are good actually if you use them locally, I need to seek a moderate middle ground with the taser torture gloves, taser torture or get left behind, I don't know who the Luddites were. Wild.

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rmi@cloudisland.nz ("Rob Isaac") wrote:

You can remove a huge amount of trash from your mastodong experience by skimming the replies to this post and blocking anyone visibly struggling with such esoteric concepts as irony, consent, room-reading, civility, or relevance. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/117106720849031751

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

San Francisco artists are replacing AI and big tech ads with guerrilla signs like this.

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docpop ("Doctor M. Popular") wrote:

Artists have been altering and replacing these types of tech ads around SF for a bit. I shared a bunch more examples here: https://docpop.org/2025/12/san-francisco-street-artists-vs-ai-startup-ads/

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba Revue: Post-Apocalypse: Vault-Tech Water: Aviation Gin, Dry Vermouth, Lots of Brine, Olives.

Attachments:

• gifv: 0d2f14160062d7a7.mp4

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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:

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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.

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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/