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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Touching Grass Isn’t Enough: The Furry Fandom’s Issues Are Structural
The problems with the furry fandom today are not as simple as,"Furries need to touch grass!"...
http://soatok.blog/2026/10/02/touching-grass-isnt-enough-the-furry-fandoms-issues-are-structural/
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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there".
Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea of "AI" is build upon. That's a bad argument for relegitimizing X.
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shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:
😌 https://github.com/magit/magit/commit/a6e44f5ea67b1234bcb7e489d227827f0836cf49
Magit still owns
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Anyway, feelin' a certain way about all our kiddos' futures today. 😩
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Remember, kids, if you see an insult to life itself, stay far away and run and get help from a trusted adult.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
It's well past time for universities to expect incoming students to be responsible and mature.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/10/02/its-not-just-cornell/
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11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev ("Build Awesome (11ty)") wrote:
@slightlyoff maybe a link to the docs would help! https://www.11ty.dev/docs/programmatic/
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
I missed the anthropic S-1 leak to reuters, and hopefully everyone has already had the laugh about the net $8 billion operational loss, but this part is the funniest to me:
Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year
And all of the options for who that could be are funny:
- meta estimated it could spend $10bn on anthropic models annually, presumably during its tokenmaxxing leaderboard era
- If they were talking about 2025, there was a report that Cursor and Copilot were driving a quarter of the revenue
- I think this excludes the Amazon bedrock/google revenue, because that was reported along a separate axis, but if not they'd be the two
So a huge chunk of the revenue, which doesn't cover operational costs, comes from your direct competitors directly using it to try and build their own replacement product, from resellers who either are your competitors or have been bought by them, or from circular spending.
I would assume they don't group the revenue from distillation as a single customer either. anthropic is extremely cagey about how they present the numbers, alibaba alone had 151 million distillation "exchanges" which could mean anything from billions to quadrillions of tokens depending on if that means send/receive turns or whole sessions.
https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#illicit-distillation-sep-26
IPO looking great!!!
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petrabrandstrom@mastodon.art ("Petra Brandström") wrote:
October drawing day 2: Bowl of soup!
I planned on actually inking this one, but got lost in the shading. Maybe next time. Stay tuned for tomorrow: book (hopefully)
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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io ("SpookJ 👻") wrote:
[cmake voice] have you tried representing every value with the string type
you will surely not regret representing every value with the string type
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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:
What should my Scroll Art Museum website be called? (https://scrollart.org)
Mastodon FeedPlease enjoy jwz mixtape 260.
https://jwz.org/b/ylAw
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researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:
> The kind of regulation that AI needs but AI companies will never ask for
(Long read)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Not Target displaying a coffee brand owned by Folgers for Latino Heritage month lmao.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Okay, back to definitely not procrastinating on anything important
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
"join the trades" the media says but what if I prefer social science?
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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
On the market day, the witch stopped by all the stalls.
"Have a care," he told the tinsmith. "You're getting fuzzy."
"What?"
"Do you ponder other paths you could have taken?"
"All the time."
"Shadows of other yous hang on you, making you indistinct. Don't lose the you you are. You're real."
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
rather amusingly, while i can actually infer some types, i can't actually check any types yet. mostly because i can't figure out what type
checkshould have.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I wonder how big the market in sex toys is.
As they say, if you can't find a job, start your own company and call it vibrosoft.....
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
Seeing this reminds me of that time the Firefox project changed up how it was managing version numbers seemingly in response to the Chrome team basically incrementing an integer on every release. Versions as a proxy for progress is unfortunately real. 😆
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domi@donotsta.re ("dmiException 🎃") wrote:
save me, “A Book of Famous Old New Orleans Recipes Used in the South for More Than 200 Years”, a book so old that the title needs to be updated to “300 years”
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domi@donotsta.re ("dmiException 🎃") wrote:
through a creative use of books.google.com
before:1940i turned my problem from “i don’t want to search for food recipes online, I’ll just get genai slop!” to “this 1900 recipe book is authored by Ella Ervilla Kellogg, who was, as it turns out, a wive of THAT Kellog”
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
sometimes there's a task I dread so much that I'll do a bazillion other things to feel productive while forgoing the one thing I actually need to do
good job, brain
Mastodon FeedI'm glad they do this:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
"During the call, the officer requests local police assistance, informing dispatchers that detainees had knocked down internal partitions inside the compound."
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
whenever a microsoft thing fails I think "oh it's vibrosoft again" then I realise that this sounds like a sex toy company
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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen any coverage of this angle (apart from IT hardware) in the media, but I guarantee that regular folks have noticed. More Trump-caused damage, and the worst is ahead of us, not behind.
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jcrabapple@dmv.community ("2 Spoopy 4 You") wrote:
As promised, I have passed along September's DMV.Community donations to the 'Robb x omg.lol' St Jude charity campaign. A very worthy cause! Thank you to @robb and the folks at https://omg.lol for running this every year. 🫶
If you'd like to donate you can do so here: https://tiltify.com/@rknightuk/stjude2026
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JonBaker ("Jon Baker") wrote:
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:
A bit over 15 years ago, a speaker at a tech conference used a couple of slides that were inappropriately sexual given the conference's guidelines. Afterwards the speaker apologised, the organisers apologised, there were process improvements, and it shouldn't have been a big deal.
And then people decided that they needed to defend the speaker. Including someone who remains a well known senior Linux kernel developer at a large company.