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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
aud@spectre.asta.lgbt (":: Asta :: [New Server]") wrote:

@cwebber I showed you my ocarina, pls respond

Boosted by pixxl:
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know.

https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai%5Fpolicy.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
drj@typo.social ("David JONES") wrote:

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117236126658335889

Uh, wow. I recommend reading the Tristan Buckmaster letter directly, the OpenAI side of it is so much more shady than the summaries.

Boosted by pixxl:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The important thing to understand about any of these interactions is that you are not having a conversation with a reasoning entity; you're just putting your thumb on a scale that weighs words, watching other words rise up in response.

If our language was composed only of I Before E Except After C, and you pressed down on C only to see E rise up, how much awe could you bring yourself to feel? Would you say to yourself, this changes everything?

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

I say "unfortunately", but I think this is actually okay. This means computers and computer controlled things are only usefully applied to a limited number of problems and may not be the optimal solution in many cases. Just like any other technology! Once you recognize that and identify a situation where a computer is not usefully applied, you can just let it go. You're free to not computer in that case! It's great!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

```
Datestodon — Fedi dating posts

Usage:
#Datestodon #[AGE][ME]4[YOU] #LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Age:
Y Younger (~18-30s)
A Adult (~30s–50s)
O Older (~50s+)

Gender:
F Femme
N Nonbinary/agender
M Masc

Examples:
#Datestodon #AN4FNM #Seattle
Poly pan enby tomboy open to dates with FWB possibilities.

#Datestodon #YF4M #Portland
20s femme mycologist seeking fun guy.

#Datestodon #OM4M #London
Gay 63yo - London area. Looking for partner.

#Datestodon #AFN4FN #Brazil
32yo femby ISO femme-leaning person for hikes, surfing, and furthering the gay agenda.

Notes:
- Hashtag codes are to get you into the right themepark, not a ticket to ride any specific rollercoaster.
- Use the description for sexuality, relationship style, preferences, boundaries, and anything else that matters to you.
- Orientation, cis/transness, "YOU" age, and other factors are intentionally not encoded.
- Multiple "ME" or "YOU" categories may be combined when useful, but this will make your tag less searchable.
- Age category applies to both "ME" and "YOU", and is intentionally broad and overlapping. The band is narrower at the low end and widens with each category. O isn't "old" it's just older than A.
- F, N, and M are about presentation and identity, and don't cover all the complexities of gender, but they do provide enough info for *most* folx to tell if you're in their *potential* dating pool.
- Keeping the hashtag code in the listed order and format will make it more searchable and easier for folx to read.
```

Update:
- reworded some notes to address questions
- removed (A)ny flag, as it overlapped with (A)dult, and just added complexity.

#FediDate #Dating

Boosted by pixxl:
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

so the math plagiarism thing casts doubt on all the other "discoveries" these things have supposedly made, yeah?

at least, that's our takeaway...

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
swordlace@www.librepunk.club ("Ada Swordlace") wrote:

Every computer pervert I know is having a bad time right now

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

People love this post. They love those holes

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
barthalion@treehouse.systems ("Bart Piotrowski") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

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

There's got to be a better way to change an entire rig's f-curves to constant interpolation at once

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

ohhh sorry thanks I forgot everything is easy and I'm just bad at things

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

thanks I'd like to order an ethicial crisis?

yes I'd like to make it a combo. large, diet cola. thanks

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

turning up the dial named "engagement" and looking back at the audience and smiling and looking for approval

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

Unfortunately, the affordances of the physical world will likely remain unmatched by the computer, no matter how much computer you throw at the problem.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Today I have a much simpler ask for all the AI users who are so pleased with the quality of their output and its benefit to society, which is to share some ancient wisdom:

If you think you're really good at kissing, get a second opinion.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/117241923312812967

This is such wonderful news, and I feel obligated to share this amazing story as well. Worth every second of the runtime.

https://youtu.be/4FuGuWeAra4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ryan@social.miyaku.media ("みやくモード") wrote:

good news everyone! if you never figured out what the fuck the difference between a digital ocean “droplet” and a regular-ass virtual machine was, now you never have to! https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

I hope some of y'all AI fans also noticed that Anthropic and OpenAI and Meta are sponsoring Omarchy in tokens.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

#LOCO2026 is tomorrow and on-line attendance is free.

(and I have two talks there ^_^ )

https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026/

#FrugalComputing

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117238717266345204

“In addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a “pre-crime” approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs. Anthropic did not respond to the Prospect’s request for comment.”

https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

If you really love CSS and want to get involved with an open source operating system—and more specifically app framework—that doesn’t use AI and really pisses off white supremacist homophobes, I would love your help!

https://github.com/elementary/granite

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like node.js effectively ended up merging the vibe-coding vfs implementation that caused all the drama a few months ago? Just in a different set of pull requests that were still 14k lines long?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63115
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63537

Versus the original:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61478

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
aworkinglibrary@mstdn.social ("mandy brown") wrote:

“I’m tired of art that doesn’t trust its audience, and I’m concerned that the few remaining gatekeepers seem determined we can’t and shouldn’t be trusted.” https://theantiquarian.email/archive/how-to-tell-a-story/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

North Korea has built a new uranium enrichment facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex that could house up to 28 centrifuge cascades, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/09/asia-pacific/north-korea-uranium-enrichment/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #northkorea #nuclearweapons #nuclearenergy #uranium #iaea

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jimhightower@journa.host ("Jim Hightower") wrote:

Musk and Thiel have decided they're better than you. To these plutocrats, government exists to protect their pile from the Common Good. We've beaten this arrogance before and we can again. Full commentary:

https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/billionaires-say-americas-founding

Attachments:

• video: 164136e13baf33f9.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
WashPost@flipboard.com ("The Washington Post") wrote:

AP says it will refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite Trump’s order
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/09/09/ap-says-it-will-refer-lake-ontario-by-its-original-name-despite-trumps-order/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-WashPost

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/08/when-it-dont-rain/#the-roof-dont-leak

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eunews ("European News 🇪🇺") wrote:

Cut ties with MAGA to join EU, says Brussels

Candidate countries must sever links with Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA’ movement in order to join the EU, the European Commission’s enlargement chief has said.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/cut-ties-with-maga-to-join-eu-says-brussels/

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

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david%5Fchisnall/117240636730316511

yes. yes. yes. and yes.