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DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

Whoops!
Scanning a bunch of prints & there were quite a few showing streetcar accidents over the years. I have seen many of these before but I don't have specific descriptions for them. limited number here but more on BlueSky and instagram. #sfhistory #sfmemory

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

I really thought the past few years were successful in teaching anti-racism but it turns out most people just learned how not to get yelled at on the internet. Because when it comes to Latinos, Americans are still very much in the dark ages.

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

When I say "we" have a lot of work to do, I really mean "YOU" have a lot of work to do.

The first thing you can do to deconstruct your anti-Latino upbringing is to recognize that you've been conditioned to believe that Latinos aren't capable of governing ourselves.

And that's why so many liberals feel comfortable with the knee jerk reaction of trying to educated us on our own oppression, or scolded us for things we're not in control of.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(I'm muting this one now because I have nothing further to add, and I don't need that much of my attention refocused on the sins of one particular journalist. I'm happy that some people will avoid falling into her grift as a result, but also as MC Frontalot pointed out, "it's bad for that to be fulfilling", I don't need to be participating in a Two Minutes Hate even if the hate is arguably justified in some cases.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

Full episode: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/episodes/19884203-big-tech-colon-ai-lism-2026-09-15

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

“AI” won’t solve Indigenous peoples’ healthcare gaps. We speak with @keoni, CTO of Te Hiku Media, about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Big Tech Colon-AI-lism”!

(with @emilymbender)

Attachments:

• video: Three people are speaking with each other on a split screen. Alex is a brown trans woman with short curly black hair, wearing a dark purple shirt, and in a room with purple and pink flowers hanging down from the ceiling. The second is Keoni, a Native Hawaiian person in his early 40s who has dark brown hair and is wearing a black collared shirt. He wears a hei–tiki pendant around his neck, a stylized human figure made of cow bone and abalone shell. Emily is a white cis woman with curly brown hair, wearing glasses, and a light blue patterned scarf over a bright blue shirt.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
unlambda@hachyderm.io ("Brian Campbell") wrote:

@glyph Text in that paper was starting to read fairly LLM generated, and indeed at least they admit it: "To help manage and cross-check the repository-scale evidence corpus, OpenAI Codex assisted with repository inspection, orchestration and checking of experiment scripts, evidence normalization, citation-metadata collection, drafting and revision of manuscript text and LATEX figures, and build and visual verification."

"Drafting and revision of manuscript text", yikes. They just had an agent write the paper for them.

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

I know rather a lot of trans and non-binary folks, mostly after becoming active in science fiction and fantasy fandom, which has a fair representation of both. Prior to knowing trans folks I was good with trans people as part of my general pro-LGBTQ+ stance, and after I knew them my understanding of their issues became more in depth. Trans rights are human rights, as we say, and should be whether you know any trans folks or not.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@oliviahill247/post/Dd84IwpEX2Y

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

I just had a thought. Some people talk about #SelfHosting and #Homelabs as some prepper like thing for weird people. I want to change that, as it certainly doesn't reflect how I feel about my mailserver, my various web servers and other services I run myself.

And that's where the thought comes in. From now on I will call it:

#PersonalComputing instead (or again, depending on your age :)

@homelab

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MajaMielke@scicomm.xyz ("Maja Mielke (she/her)") wrote:

Here we go! Day 1 of my Ink-Birdtober challenge. 🪶🐦🍁✒️

We start with the Lilac-breasted Roller from Africa.

(reference photo by Laya Clode from Unsplash)

#inktober #birdtober #birds #birdart #sciart #birdsofmastodon #ink #drawing

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

Are types real?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tcarmody.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tim Carmody") wrote:

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

cc @mttaggart

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

RE: https://indieweb.social/@sstephenson/117372245066039548

yes yes yes

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

of course they're fucking this up, why wouldn't they fuck it up, they're just inventing new things to fuck up constantly

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

Do you have your Holler hat yet? Lindsey does!

Chip in a few bucks monthly to support our work and grab yours here: tnholler.com/new-holler-h...

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• video: c634ef7a42140fcd.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Nαtαshα :mastodon:") wrote:

Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894 🍃

"Wooded path by a river"

Oil on canvas

#art #artist #artwork

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

new vuln class just dropped https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21081

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shonin@c.im wrote:

#EV sales double in #Australia as one in four new cars now electric

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-30/ev-sales-double-australia-one-in-four-new-cars-electric/107210480

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@marick/117372239629670833

strongly agree

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
rtw@mastodon.sdf.org ("Robo") wrote:

Fun story: When I was traveling home I wore my "Watch Herzog" t-shirt for travel day. It's got a giant picture of Werner's face on it.

This fucked up every single facial recognition program both the Mexican and US passport control areas to the point that agents for both countries had to pull me aside and verify my identity the old fashioned way.

So t-shirts with big faces on them don't work well with AI Facial recognition systems. Figured that would be interesting information around here.

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

I was proud the Canadian Forces College found it to be useful enough to list as a resource

https://web.archive.org/web/19990203085645/http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/bosnia.html

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In some ways this is kind of a sad "doing the least" story much like my own. Sending a private email saying "gross, dude. it is fucked up that you said that, it really hurt some people. knock it off" should not have to be a profoundly brave thing that might cause you stress for half your life. But so it goes.

If more men would stand up and do this on a regular basis maybe it wouldn't have to be.

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

if you think disinformation and the need for curated/sourced information sites is a new thing in the brief history of the World Wide Web, think again. these have been issues since the Web began.

in 1996, I put up the first version of this site to cover the Wars of Separation in "the former Yugoslavia" due to the sheer volume of BS being thrown around. the Internet Archive found it about a year after I stopped updating it.

https://web.archive.org/web/19990127205607/http://ariadne.iz.net/%7Ejeffs/BosniaHerzegovina/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117370378423010820

The rewards of true allyship are not accolades and attention but decades-long career-limiting simmering grudges from powerful assholes. Matthew Garrett is A Real One who has been holding it down for marginalized people in the tech industry for decades and rarely receives the credit for that.

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction and thinks Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’ and ‘crazy’. Yann LeCun dismisses fears of AI extinction and recent hacks at OpenAI and Anthropic, arguing that security breaches comes from poor system design, leaky sandboxes, and a lack of basic cybersecurity in AI labs, not out-of-control AI. These AI are doing as told by these AI labs

https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/yann-lecun-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-deluded-crazy-cybersecurity/

Finally somebody said it what I was saying about this nonsense

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/117372195144966260

truth

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@faraiwe/117372179939103985

“Consular Services in the US Embassy and Consulates in Brazil will be suspended starting Friday, October 2 due to security concerns [...] US citizens seeking emergency assistance during this time should not come to the Embassy, the Consulates, or other US diplomatic facilities."

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

That they are winding down the "Forkiverse" is fine. Nothing has to last forever. But with the hosts all admitting that they mostly just rented a Mastodon instance they then didn't moderate and use I wonder how it could be labelled an "experiment". What was the hypothesis?

And when I heard Kevin Roose just saying "yeah there's thousands of accounts but since nobody built a business there we can just pull the plug without a second thought" it because clear that - at least for Mr Sloplord - it never was about creating a social space but about creating a mall.