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

okay it did in fact actually come out well.

all it took was someone more skilled than the chatbot to fix up the mistakes as they became apparent.

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

Reminder that if you're going to @laworldcon this week, I will be doing rather a lot of stuff there, including panels, signings and, of course, DJing a dance on Friday WHICH YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND. See you there!

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

CYBERDELIA, Sun Aug 30! "If I win... you become my slave."
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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• video: ca7331253e7e2856.mp4

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

LOL they wanted the practical ring to light up on Lanterns. Oh, sweet summer children.

It probably worked until the first time an actor bumped against anything and never again.

Props *has* to know by know even *if* they got it to work consistently, there's no way show runners aren't going to replace that glow with VFX every single time.

Every single hero phaser in Picard was dropped and broken at least twice and I think only 1/3 lit up inconsistently by the end

#VFX #Lanterns #dccomics

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The amount I have to pay to continue to own the car I already own is less than the lifetime costs of my bike, which ive had for more than 20 years.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Shout out to my bike, which costs nothing to own, nobody can tell me I can't ride it, and there is no legal mechanism for the state to take it ransom.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
ross@rossabaker.com ("Ross A. Baker") wrote:

If the IndieWeb is punk, writing a manifesto with Claude is Good Charlotte.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein someone tries to sell our Prince scraps
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/08/24.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

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

I bought a pair of Birkenstocks for my bday. So 45 of me. I used to be cool bro.

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

Re: movie theaters

Maybe I'm in the minority but I don't want vegetable oil vapor and water hitting me when I'm trying to watch a movie. I don't need extra screens to each side. I like the reclining chairs, keep that. But give me a little table for my popcorn.

Just make the screens bigger, with a taller aspect ratio and if you're going to fuck us on snack pricing then at least get better snacks.

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

Making a post about "choosing kindness" in response to something that upset a lot of people might be one of the most passive-aggressive forms of tone-policing that I've ever seen.

But completely on brand, as ever.

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

One day done, 15 weeks to go.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/24/survival-day-one/

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

The idea that democratic socialists are hypocrites if they have jobs or money or nice houses is so fucking painfully stupid that honestly every time I encounter it I just want to quit society and go raise alpacas in the mountains, but god, it just never dies & people never stop falling for it.

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reed@social.lol ("Reed") wrote:

@neatnik my last boss criticized me for being too nice to my direct reports. I explained that I was kind, not nice. He didn't understand the difference. Kindness is accountability, support, corrections, praise, the "hard conversations". That's how I want to be.

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

Google's brilliant "lay off all the senior people with taste and experience" plan is going swimmingly.

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alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com ("Alison Wilder") wrote:

In which I promote our #NHAMFest26 performance on my blog. Links + deets in the post.

https://alisonwilder.com/streaming-performance-this-week/

@radiofreefedi @nham

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Can’t believe August is almost over. Between moving countries, settling in a new home, and getting back into work, summer just kind of flew by… It used to be that #ATG would mark the end of summer for me in a bittersweet way but this year I didn’t go…

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drewscanlon@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Drew Scanlon") wrote:

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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• gifv: A white guy blinking

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

i am out here producing mad shareholder value with my death valley brownies

jwz wrote:

Jello Gribble.

You ever notice that Dale Gribble sounds like Jello Biafra? I can't un-hear it now.
https://jwz.org/b/yk%5FD

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

"it can think" say people who have never noticed that batters require a liquid to be able to mix them

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Today @ahl and I are going to be joined by Steve Karam from @oxidecomputer's product assurance team, who put in front of himself a tremendous challenge: could we somehow emulate an entire Oxide rack? And... how faux can we go?! Join us for the astonishing answert, today 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1541523899886469150

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116948762639990439

Kindness isn't just using polite words. That's the weakest, most shallow definition.

Kindness is expressed through action. Kindness is the manifestation of actually caring.

It has nothing to do with "being right", as Microblog Guy framed it. It has everything to do with caring.

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

tonight we are trusting chatgpt with making dessert out of approximately fuck all. mostly because we have approximately fuck all in and it's impossible to find recipes with exactly the right ingredients for your particular case of fuck all.

it produces impressively sniff test-passing cooking talk. the recipe of course needed correcting, because it couldn't possibly work. i beat it into a shape where i couldn't see it obviously not working. naturally this did not eliminate all of the problems, just the obvious ones.

so given that i have been cooking competently for years, tell me again how i should let it write code for me.

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

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116948749890680574

This is worth repeating, since That One Microblog Guy seems to have a very specific definition of "kindness" that pretty much equates to "be nice to everyone, always, no matter what".

He mistakes passion for harshness, especially when he disagrees with the underlying issue (he currently believes it's fine for MacStories to be back on X, so anyone disagreeing is "harsh").

The truth is, he simply lacks passion himself. He doesn't stand up for people. He only stands up for "the open, social web".

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

Darth Vader showed up to support Flock cameras at a San Diego city council meeting:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/darth-vader-flock-cameras-san-diego

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

trying to do any kind of classical classification ML these days has turned into an exercise of reading 99 pages of "have you considered an LLM?" for every one page of actually useful information about the approach I'm trying to research.

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root@elle.systems ("") wrote:

Damn the large hadron collider accidentally turned lead into gold a few weeks ago it seems. They accidentally discovered the correct way to do the oldest trick in the alchemy book before they released gta6 that's wild.

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root@elle.systems ("") wrote:

muchb to consider...

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