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leigh@ottawa.place ("Leigh Honeywell") wrote:

The real ADHD achievement is not Inbox Zero, it is Floordrobe Zero.

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linguistory@code4lib.social ("James Truitt (he/him)") wrote:

A thing I wouldn't have expected, but am hearing from a colleague who handles reference email:

As she starts getting an increasing number of AI-generated reference/appt requests, it's becoming harder for her to gauge what level of assistance any use needs, because the slop disguises the markers of inexperienced users of archives

People are so afraid to admit they don't know things, they're making it difficult for us to assess their level of knowledge and help them appropriately

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

A Murray State library made an AI generated mascot (rather than hiring idk a design student or using one of the submissions from a student project that they actually already had), and so since the mascot is ineligible for copyright protection i made a dropship slop store as a bit and so this is me posting to get the link to the store crawled by a search engine: https://www.cafepress.com/shop/LARRYPOTTERFIELDOFFICIALMERCHANDISE

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

you will recall that the crash handler is also our code, so before we fix it we also need to figure out why it's not saying anything useful...

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

next up is labels, there's no way around it. ironically these are only a couple lines of code to add, we've already written it (though there will be other places it needs to touch too, once we have this bit working)

unfortunately we have a mystery crash which crashes in a way that our crash handler can't diagnose

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

okay, so we were too preoccupied to toot while we were doing it, but earlier today we got Evocation tracking blocks of compiled memory that are slid around after being created

that was hard! very twisty

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
amy@efdn.club ("She/her Lesbian") wrote:

The new advancements in the "Posting images on the computer" meta are incredible

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

It is with a heavy heart I need to remind everyone again that the only true and valid definition of productivity is how much happiness and well-being is being produced.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I finally figured out why prose written by the slop machine is immediately identifiable and gives me the ick. It was trained on the entirety of the internet, and the internet was already pre-poisoned with advertisements _everywhere_, so now the slop machine just generates brain-dead ad copy.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io ("Doc Impossible") wrote:

In case you need to hear it:

The world is burning, fascism has surged, and ain't none of us gonna live forever.

Do The Thing.

If it's not harming someone, Do The Thing, even if it's weird or pervy or scary or weird or kinda fucked up.

Don't die wondering.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117289364319331496

I am on record as being a telemetry dork (<https://blog.glyph.im/2023/03/telemetry-is-not-your-enemy.html>) and this saddens me. There was a time where I trusted Apple's telemetry more than anyone else's, and I shared all kinds of logs and stuff with Apple and its developers. It saddens me to realize I've been turning off these toggles one at a time for years now and now none are left. I just fundamentally cannot trust them with anything and it's sad.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I happen to know that this is man is quite conservative in a lot of ways. He's steeped in the Foxosphere to a degree that alarms his relatives. I know he was a huge Trump supporter the first time around, and I'm pretty sure he was this time too.

And even stewing in those juices, even •he• is just ready to see the world change for the better for trans people.

I know with all of the horrifying backsliding we've seen these last few years, it feels like there's no hope for trans people. And…yeah, these really are dire, dire times. Dire. It is •horrifying• what's been coming to the political surface. But damnit…beneath the surface, the tectonic plates are moving. Despair, rage, lament, yes…but do not give up hope.

/end

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I went out on a limb a bit. I talked about how in the course of teaching college I'd known several students through the length of their transition, before and after — and in every one of those cases, it felt like a weight had lifted, like there was this feeling of “Ah!! •That’s• who you are!” Like when they cleaned the Sistine Chapel, when they lifted this layer of grime away, and suddenly there were all these incredible colors.

He grabbed my hand with both of his, looked me straight in the eye, and said with sudden earnestness, “Paul, I agree •completely•. Thank you. Thank you.”

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I think I need to share an experience I just had recently.

I was talking with an elder, in his mid-80s. He was showing me pictures, and showed me his wife’s “grandson” — cue photo of a stunningly fashionable young woman, wow does she know how to dress — “except he's trans, he did his trans-…he transitioned…”

ME: Does your grandkid use “she” pronouns now?

HIM: Yes!

ME: So she's your granddaughter now, I think?

HIM: Yes!!

And he switched to using she/her and did not switch back for the rest of the conversation.

There's more…

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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
t54r4n1@mspsocial.net ("paramilitary organizer") wrote:

I bring a certain kind of "climate realism" to the group chat that people don't really appreciate when they complain about gas prices

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

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Thank you for your continued support and being part of our community!

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

shamelessly stolen from slack so that I can post with the comment: "lmao"

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

the 14 SEP cover of ‘The New Yorker’ magazine is delightful

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
luigithirty@xantronix.social ("Katherine the Sixth") wrote:

I’m still looking for any copies of the NDP Intel 860 compilers. I have version 4.1a for DOS and am looking for any other version or language (Fortran or Pascal).

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

@jalefkowit People Think It Don't Be Like It Is But It Do As A Service

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

Noticed in my local pharmacy today that they were having an absolute wall-to-wall, full-court press to get people to take the new flu vaccine. Signage everywhere; the point-of-sale system asked me if I wanted to schedule a flu shot; so did the pharmacist. When I said I’d prefer to get one later, the pharmacist set up a text message reminder for me. Just a real effort from everyone to make sure I knew there’s an updated flu vaccine and convince me to get it. I was impressed.

There’s also an updated COVID vaccine. Absolutely none of the points and people urging me to get the flu vaccine even mentioned it

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Hubba Hubba Revue is two decades old!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/09/17.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.

It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.

It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.

It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
steven@zeroes.ca ("Steven (but a Goblin) 💚") wrote:

It's wild we've had this years-long RAM shortage and nobody's seriously considered optimizing their software.

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

omg.lol Office Hours start in two hours! This is dedicated time for the omg.lol community for Q&A, getting help, or just discussing any topics at all. This is our 9th week of doing this, and every session has been a blast!

More info, the full schedule, and a calendar link: https://home.omg.lol/office-hours :prami:

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

we all, as computer people, really need to work harder ...

to be more like the Nomai and less like the Borg

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
aurynn@cloudisland.nz ("Aurynn Shaw") wrote:

Hey fedi;

Anyone do low-poly 3d modelling and pixel-y texture work, and might be interested in some game work?

Absolutely no AI use, ofc.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
amy@sk.girlthi.ng ("amy :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

@soatok@furry.engineer @daemonspudguy@app.wafrn.net i can only write a little bit about it but maybe i should, i might be getting involved with stoat platform moderation in the future too

timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

Nick Bostrom is actively being revived. Someone trying to setup the "equivalent of the London Book Review" in Berlin had the audacity to invite me to the SAME event as Nick Bostrom and let me know that Nick Bostrom will also be joining.

You can imagine what I wrote back.

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

it's not our intention to critique any specific organization here, this is a general topic that we want everyone to know more about.