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

You know what’s *really* punk these days? Not using an LLM to write your “punk manifesto”.

https://danq.me/2026/08/24/the-indieweb-is-punk-manifesto/

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

God I wish I had more spoons @_@

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

One of my favorite student proofs was written by a student who was just learning to speak English. He'd get frustrated with long explanations and just switch to equations or diagrams and write "it is like this:"

Then demonstrate his point.

He could have run the final draft through and LLM and it would add some pointless sentences to pad out the proof so it was less terse and more like every other proof ever written.

It would have been worse.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

With spelling there isn't any creativity that I will never unlock, but with sentence and paragraph construction young people may run the risk of never developing a literary voice.

We will be deprived of their wit poetry and rhythm and in its place all we'll get is the bland low-sugar applesauce of LLM generated content.

That's a loss.

Especially if the voices are less standard.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt ("Rachel Barker") wrote:

Test post, please boost!

I'm trying to figure out how different websites handle OpenGraph embeds (the little preview boxes), so that I can make the embeds look good everywhere. I'll write the results up and share them once I'm finished.

For other social media sites it's easy enough, I can just test with my own account, but here on the fediverse there are a bunch of different clients which might process things differently. So I'd like to know how this looks on as many different clients as possible. Please can you let me know what client you're using (or what server software, if you're viewing it via the web) and how this preview is displayed?

(there should be either a pink flask, a green flask, or both)

https://lab.rachelplusplus.me.uk/opengraph/banner-plus-square-large/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
vlrny@disabled.social ("Valerie") wrote:

☝️Two follow up thoughts from the conversations on this thread:

Patience.
For a lot of people, this is their first foray into non-compliance. They are going to start with small things within their comfort zone. This isn't a failure to do bigger things, this is training for it.

Self compassion.
If you are finding yourself angry at how little others are doing, you may be burned out. Rest is resistance too, as is pivoting to joy or humour in how you protest.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Another good reason to not rely on cloud-hosted personal drive services more than necessary.

This is fucking dystopian as hell, in any case.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/amnesty-uk-reportedly-using-copyright

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
alexf24@mstdn.social ("Alexf24") wrote:

Mandarin duck

#Birds #photography #birdphotography #animals #zoo

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
sasutina13@lgbtqia.space ("sasutina13a is-a small exothermic chaos") wrote:

How is it that all the famous detectives in fiction seem to be autistic?

Can it be, at least in part, because their creators were autistic?

Everyone who explores them and their authors seems to be working very hard to dodge the question.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

I've only found one way to deal with advertising in my life: I block them all.

Other people will claim they are immune to propaganda but I don't believe them.

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

Love yourself despite all the valid concerns you have about yourself

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

I keep seeing people list "he/him" without properly canceling factors. It should be "e/im," damn it!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
news@wedistribute.org ("We Distribute") wrote:

The Fediverse is Throwing a Music Festival

Believe it or not, the Fediverse has a thriving independent art community. This week, a bunch of them are coming together to perform online.

https://wedistribute.org/2026/08/the-fediverse-is-throwing-a-music-festival/

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

So close (again)!!!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 25th 2026 (Easy), in 03:14
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

Novels got longer when the chain bookstores started being a thing in the 80s, because hardcovers of 300 or so pages look good on bookshelves. Also, these days 200 page books exist in the form of novellas, which have taken off in the last decade (see: the Murderbot series) after decades of publishing dormancy.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@morganaclawford/post/Dcb4zGDAa4B

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph sure thing! Let me know how it goes! Feel free to open issues with any feedback/ideas.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@NfNitLoop thank you! I will be sure to try it

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph Done. Homebrew has some decent templates to allow taps to build & host their own bottles as GitHub release artifacts.

To use:

```
brew tap nfnitloop/tap
brew trust nfnitloop/tap
brew install sned
```

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

maybe this is very 'grew up in and always lived in bike culture of the PNW of me' but i see people's bikes as being something like their familiars, where the state of what someone is riding is like one of the things you check up on with old friends or ask about when visiting - how the bike they were riding when you knew each other is holding up, or if they're on something new. their fundamental companion to space and interacting with the city. i know some people feel the same about cars but i just sort of don't, unless they have done something special to it a car is a car

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:

I know that Elon Musk gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out.

I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph Got a "Formula" created for homebrew, but `brew audit` rejects it because it's not notable enough:

https://docs.brew.sh/Package-Acceptance-Policy#notability

And the notability requirements are *higher* if I, its author, submit it.

So, not looking likely any time soon.

I'll look into making an external brew "tap", but that'll likely just be a wrapper around building from source with `cargo install`.

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

"but plenty of others lend it their credibility and happily turn the cranks"

This, right here, is the fundamental disconnect in the discourse surrounding X.

You go back to X, you turn the cranks. You feed the machine. You help to make it all go.

You don't get to say that's not what you're doing. It's too late. You've already done it.

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

"You may not have any interest in participating in a culture war. The problem is that on X, everything is a culture war. Culture war is the very point of the MAGA AI slop the platform traffics in and the viscerally cruel White House X account. Culture war is behind Tucker Carlson’s choice to debut his post-Fox show on X and why Alex Jones livestreams on the platform every day. West’s nihilistic neo-Nazi single is an act of culture war: Its message isn’t just that X has energized his ideas, but that the platform renders people like Ye unignorable. Only Musk could shut this machine down, but plenty of others lend it their credibility and happily turn the cranks, ensuring that the culture war grinds on and on."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/stop-using-x/682931/

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

This is always what happens with boycott movements.

“Why boycott this and not that?”
“Why are you boycotting since it’s not going to matter anyway”
“Why do you denounce people who don’t want to boycott”

What can I tell you mate. Yes boycotts are hard. They’re hard to keep alive, they’re hard to spread, they’re hard to grasp in terms of their impact. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an impact.

Boycotting companies that do business with(in) Israel during an ongoing genocide means it becomes less and less profitable for them to keep doing that. It means we, as a people, can at least try to make a dent in Israel’s economy instead of standing on the sidelines and crying our hearts out while reading the news. (It’s not too late, stop drinking Coca-Cola and giving Disney your money: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott)

We each have our most pressing fights. And it’s normal that we aren’t all able to boycott everything. We have to prioritize depending on who we are and what we do, and that’s okay. That’s how boycotts work by necessity.

*However*, there are some boycotts that are honestly impossible to ignore. Especially when that boycott movement is both well-known across the world (or even just among your social spheres) and easy to take part in. In which case, yeah, I’ll reserve the right to be loud if you intentionally look the other way and pretend you don’t see it.

For me, the boycott of X is one of those movements that’s impossible to ignore. Especially if you are a tech person. You know that the boycott exists, you know why it exists, yet you’re deciding to look the other way. That’s a political decision that you need to take responsibility for.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

just posted on the blog: "on hardcore kindness"

or, why do we lean into kindness instead of the uncomfortable conversations that make for a better world?

https://krrd.ing/on-hardcore-kindness/

#Blog #Kindness #Liberation

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

anyway, yo ho ho

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I tried explaining that the *most* pressing concern is that when I play a song FOR my child, on MY phone, plugged into MY car's stereo, while I am driving, that I'd enjoy the service considerably more if it did not follow up a children's comedy song with four explicit adult comedy songs that revolve around repeated profanity. the agent helpfully told me how to age-restrict the content on my preteen's device, because somehow they could not understand that THE CHILD IS NOT THE ONE DRIVING

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

apparently "I would like to tell my phone to play one song, and then, when it is done playing that song, I don't want it to play anything else" is such a confusing request that YouTube Music's customer service cannot even understand it. they cannot imagine a world in which I do not want my every sensory organ stuffed full of inescapable engagement-maximizing stimuli

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
nileane@nileane.fr ("Niléane") wrote:

Yes, I have loudly and furiously denounced Federico’s decision to return MacStories and his personal account to X.

I wasn’t denouncing a “tech choice”. I was denouncing a deeply hurtful political move. I did it as a trans women of color, as someone who represents an active organization fighting for the rights of its community, as someone who in so many ways is affected by Elon Musk gaining more users and power.

Some of my friends aren’t trans, aren’t women, yet reacted in a similar way because they have chosen to take action on this front to support those who are impacted.

This is political action. That it happens on a small scale in regard to one tech publication and its editor-in-chief doesn’t change that fact.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@glyph hmm. I’ll take a look. (First question I’ll look into: does homebrew allow me to just define how to build the thing? Or do I need to make binaries available somewhere. 🤔)