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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

My USB-C hub wasn't connecting to my MacBook Air, so I blew into the plug on the USB-C cord like it were an Atari cartridge. It connected perfectly after that.

Embrace the old ways.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

One weird trick to not have future generations judge you poorly for leaving an uninhabitable planet with a wrecked social information system is simply to not have future generations

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

“Ms. Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a statement: “We are pleased that the United States Supreme Court has declined again to hear this case. As a result, the jury’s unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E. Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-carroll.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.6FA.tHfl.MEf9O2dTBFFl&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

[heaven]

darwin: *looking down*
angel: what’s going on?
darwin: watch this

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
scrivolical@nexus.torment.ca ("Scrivolical") wrote:

Are you within 50 km of nuclear facilities in Ontario Canada? You are eligible for free potassium iodide (KI) pills.

"Anyone within 50 km of nuclear facilities is welcome to order KI for delivery.”

https://www.preparetobesafe.ca

Site has postal code locator to determine eligibility.

#PotassiumIodide #KI #Nuclear #Pickering #Darlington #Ontario #Toronto

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
sanityinc@hachyderm.io ("Steve Purcell") wrote:

Mastodon tip that I saw someone post recently: you can use the search term "in:library" to specifically search among your own posts, likes and bookmarks.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
yhancik@thereisno.computer ("YHANCI~1.TXT") wrote:

With Belgium experiencing the biggest fire in its history, I am once again reminded of:

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

:boost_requested:​

Okay given that my platypus embroidery updates got such overwhelmingly positive responses on Fedi (and offline) I'm considering making #embroidery to sell.

I want to know how much I might be able to sell embroidery for. Fedi, what would your budget be for e.g. a hand-embroidered piece you saw online/in a crafts fair?

(Feel free to reply if you wish to add any further perspectives!)

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
scrottie@bsd.network ("scrottie (he/him/them)") wrote:

Tell me again why LLMs need to re-consume the same content over and over again thousands of times a second if they "learn"?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

Lulz

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

my Mom was born today in 1918. her Dad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%5FKlein) was much more interesting than I shall every be...

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

I think I've done but no there is yet another out-of-place object that my ADHD brain failed to notice.

Then I have to figure out where to put it which is a level of micro-decision which, when repeated 1000 times, gets quickly tiring.

Then I can't find it because I use visual cues to figure out where things are and I lost those cues

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

Who made tidying cognitively taxing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

full festival deets here
https://badlondon.events/festival-2026/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
grmpyprogrammer@grumpy-learning.com ("Chris Hartjes") wrote:

The common thread of tech companies in the 2020’s is how much they lie about everything all the time and suffer no consequences for it.

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

bring your own battery laptop that connects to a lead-acid car battery

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
hbons ("Hylke Bons 🥜") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117109914335818507

we went from "it doesn't matter, you should judge the output on its quality" to "weeeeeeh I'm going to be found out weeeeeh" real fast.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I don't find workplace intervention arguments of the form "if only everyone would do my favorite best practice, everything would be fixed" persuasive, or indeed, full arguments. Regardless of the merit of the best practice!

To me, a successful intervention idea has to answer questions like:

- So why don't they already do the thing you say is so great? Why do its benefits fail to compete?
- Why is your thing going to convince others *now*, when they didn't do it before? What changes now?

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

The subsequent #CrossStitch project is coming along nicely

#embroidery

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

Complete!

#embroidery

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

Are there dues? A stipend? Curious atheists want to know.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/17/which-hurts-worse-calvin-smiths-lies-or-being-flayed-alive/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWg8Q64p0SU

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

This toot predicted the future

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

Still better than GitHub lol

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
bnjbvr@tutut.delire.party ("Benjamin Bouvier 🥐") wrote:

@andrewnez quite excited about git-bug, for that matter! https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

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

ah, github is demonstrating to most developers worldwide that phoning it in is the future of software development!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
sec_yote_agenda@mstdn.party ("High Strung Coyote - He/Him") wrote:

Reading this made me feel ill. :|

https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.

We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
NotAHopeInHades@pixelfed.social ("NB") wrote:

🚨 AI GENERATED🚨

Here we are again with AI generated images not being labelled as such and being passed off as people's own photos/work.
@Jess.Stetson and I went through them because we were suspicious of the hot-air balloon one and it turns out more of them were generated than we expected.
Either label your shit as AI or even better, (and much preferred) STOP USING THEM ENTIRELY.
By not disclosing them as such, you are deceiving your audience and are taking away attention from people who have actually put the hardwork, time, effort and artistic vision to create their own original pieces.
This fucking sucks.

#photography #amateurphotography #ai #noai #pixelfed #fediverse #supportartists #realart

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I mean the song "Ignorance Is Bliss" is kind of a bop and is kind of a good version of Bowser's persona before it was congealed by the script of Mario RPG several years later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlC6i6DPdnU

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
becomethewaifu@tech.lgbt ("Emelia/Emi") wrote:

@soatok

If you measure enough independent attributes, we all tend towards mediocrity.

Reminds me of a great study by the US military back during WW2 trying to find the "average" build to design their airplane cockpits to. After a significant amount of work gathering data from all across the country, they found that nobody fit the "average adult male" measurements they came up with, so it was better to make everything adjustable to fit any pilot than to aim for a static "average"