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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@zzt I should piss off the Soylent weirdos next, I don't have enough constipated strangers howling at me

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

AI companies can buy me too.

i won't say nice things about them though. or stop saying bad things about them.

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

If you are an expert witness, do not use ChatGPT to write the report you are charging $475/hour for. All of your chat prompts are subpoenable and we are all going to laugh so hard.

https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/

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

This is what peak masculinity looks like, you may not like it, but this is what being a True Man is in 2026: the raw sensuality, the quiet projection of male authority, the undeniable alphaness that compels men to submit, women to swoon, and chickens to lay heroic numbers of eggs

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

this matchbox endfed (from Hawaii EmComm) and coax are pretty small & light…

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

VITAMIN C

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

Dear Lazyweb:

is 14.300 MHz a 20m band voice “calling frequency” folks actually monitor for contacts? thanks in advance for your input.

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio

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

@deathkitten I’ve been enjoying the JWZ Internet Experience since literally the early 90s, and every day I give thanks for the indefinable magic that makes dipshits show their whole ass almost instantly. But yeah, it must suck.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape: :flag_nonbinary:") wrote:

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117106278177393786

"I know you're not supposed to talk about how much you make"

This anti-labour propaganda creates "information asymmetry" where your boss knows how much everyone is making and you do not.

ALWAYS talk about how much you are earning. How many days off you get. How many millions of views you need to make a living. Every single coffee break, every single video. Never stop sharing information with your peers.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's time to play: spot the former mini hydro power station. These were sometimes used to generate electricity on farms in the first half of the 20th century.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay #river #history

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

the bunny buffet seems to be open for dinner

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

will he convince himself to pack a low-power HF rig (KX3) on this trip to Marin and up the coast? will he, won’t he?

ugh. I hate making packing decisions.

#AmateurRadio

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

aaaaaand I found the 30 ft wire that forms a radial/counterpoise for that collapsible whip

#HamRadio #Antenna

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Talking some #HouseOfTheDragon with Max and Jenny

https://live.freebooters.uk/

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Space Virgins: Dinner in America

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/2yqMa9X4UfxZK9Jjhp2bkA

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

CYBERDELIA, Sun Aug 30! "Guess the pool on the roof has a leak."
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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jwz wrote:

Amazon's Book Woodchipper Facility has a cartoonishly evil logo because of course it does.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-v

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Time keeps marching on. Vince Gingery is retiring and closing down the Gingery book store at the end of 2026:

"As we work toward retirement later this year, we will no longer be re-printing Gingery books. With this in mind, you should act fast. Inventory is limited!"

https://www.gingerybookstore.com/

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

For reference, Natalie Harp is the woman whose job is to carry around a printer and constantly print out tweets for Trump to read telling him how great he is. She was one of the staffers deemed so critical that they were smuggled out of Ankara with him in the catering truck, unlike less important figures like the Secretaries of State and Treasury, who were left behind to die on Air Force One

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie%5FHarp

#USPol

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Wood chipper just fired up outside my house. Any AI bros who need to shred some books, come on by.

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

I had forgotten that I have this little 17m/20m whip and teenie tripod

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

Overcompensating comic from 2010 was pretty upsetting then and is much more upsetting now https://www.wigucomics.com/oc/index.php?comic=1281

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really wish that we could just get a clean test run every time on a fresh install, but having just recreated my dev environment on my Windows VM with no special setup, just `pip install` on python3.14, and … dang, this is pretty good for a first-shot out-of-the-box result of `trial twisted`

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
BOOKHOUSE@mas.to ("Bookhouse Institute") wrote:

Sorry I haven’t texted back. The old world is dying, the new one is struggling to be born, and apparently *now* is the time of monsters.

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

The Mr. Roboto music video is an uncomfortable watch. Ends in yellowface

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

it's too bad the catchy 80s robot song is racist

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

D*n't w*rk with ass h*les

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Aepasek@scholar.social ("Anne Pasek") wrote:

I'm working on a paper about what to do with abandoned/obsolete GPUs + data centres that might proliferate in a post AI bubble moment. We joke about laser tag parks + massive LAN parties, but what have people done with similar resources before when they've appeared?

I know there's a range of guesses about how likely a big sectoral pop might be, and whether industry has promising ways of using slack capacity/old racks... But have you heard of any actual case studies/neat projects? (RT welcome)

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
sundaram123krishnan ("Sundaram Krishnan") wrote:

@andrewnez
https://github.com/xit-vcs/haxy
This is very interesting, still in early stages though

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

My unsolicited opinion: "Central Standard Time" is a boring name.

I'd have called it River Standard Time, mainly for the Mississippi River that bisects it, but also the Missouri, Ohio, Rio Grande, and both Red Rivers, which all form important borders for its states and in some places the time zone itself. (Also, "River Time" makes a fun contrast with "Mountain Time.")