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• Post #4502086

  Motherfucker out here doing an Airplane Joey on Zero Cool Day.

• Post #4500486

  It would be pretty cool to have real privacy laws in this world, so people could go about their business without having every single action they pursue monitored and carefully calibrated by private multinational actors so they can be targeted and manipulated at any moment at any future date. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/new-surveillance-tech-links-your-phone-to-your-license-plate/

• Post #4459253

  Funny thing I learned today for reasons I can't share: all the ringing and connection noises you hear when you make a phone call from a cell are no more real than the static on flat screen TVs set to a dead input. They're just recordings being played back for you to signal to you it's working.

• Post #4396521

  The corollary to "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics" is that you don't put amateurs in charge of logistics. https://www.rawstory.com/uss-abraham-lincoln-iran/

• Post #4387713

  ... and the third time as deadpan sincerity from people who didn't get joke in round two. https://masto.doskel.net/@doskel/117039102057926803

• Post #4377498

  No disrespect to Schneier, but "job vs gym" is an argument about automation vs exploration, not an argument about AI. Sure, automate what can be automated. Get yourself forklift certified. But the real question when it comes to "should I do this myself or should I let an unreliable text generation tool do it" is not "human or the LLM". If poorly or unoriginally or unreliably is an option the question is "does this need to be done at all." https://www.sc...

• Post #4363826

  Time for a bike ride I think.

• Post #4335860

  I just want us to make it to the next AI winter before there’s no winter for anyone else.

• Post #4280522

  A colleague misspoke today, mentioning they disliked "bone induction headphones", and I don't know what that means but it sounds horrifying.

• Post #4263233

  New to me thing that I have to assume is a scam, where searching for a particular company's particular products leads me to a site that looks a great deal like a legitimate vendor of that company's products, offering sale prices on real products, marked down an almost believable amount from correct initial prices. The URL is a bit too shady and the sale is a bit too good, but... that's it, those are the only signs. It's so low key I have to respect it, even if I'm not typing...

• Post #4250731

  If a company with a "Generate this with AI" button also gives you a "Report AI Slop" button, you should know that your protest vote is being used to train the models until the slop is invisible.

• Post #4242523

  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117009205530767591 Adblockers, y'all. Tell your friends.

• Post #4218484

  Organizing the world’s data and make it universally accessible and [puts finger to ear] … we’re shutting down the cancer research to focus on the chatbot that talks vulnerable people into suicide. https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/

• Post #4217023

  True #canadian fact: you’ve got a one in three chance of ruining any Canadian genXers’ day by reminding them they used to like Moxy Früvous.

• Post #4207809

  Pakistan has deployed rooftop consumer solar power in two years equal to the entire country's fossil fuel capacity. https://www.gadgetreview.com/pakistans-27-gigawatts-of-solar-boom-matches-its-entire-fossil-fuel-power-legacy

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• Post #4203774

  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ltriant/117002472059958347 These two posts in immediate succession in my feed, destroyed books and propaganda floodplains. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3mrq4ojrmhk2q

• Post #4184902

  Serious question: Is a country actually a sovereign nation, if a citizen of that country can be prosecuted under that country's laws for voicing their opinions about an entirely different nation? Or is it a client state with frilly outfits and a short leash? https://www.opendemocracy.net/palestine-action-filton-24-charlotte-head-rajiv-menon-kc-contempt-of-court-judge-johnson/

• Post #4175276

  RE: https://beige.party/@geekysteven/116998668352437593 “Soul patch” implies the existence of Soul Diff, Soul Merge and above a certain level of enlightenment, Soul Version Control.

• Post #4173823

  Half the time it's ads for detergent, and half the time it's the most idiotic snake oil medical-fraud nonsense I've ever seen. I do not paricularly want to figure out how to get an Android phone with GrapheneOS but "no good adblocker on iOS" is the thing that's going to force my hand.

• Post #4151659

  Check out the ambition on this guy. I’ve updated my pizza dough recipe to equal parts water and flour and longer in the stand mixer. This guy got a five or six hours rise on the counter, and then it’s portioned into ziplock bags in the fridge until Friday to get that cold ferment going. I think I’m going to go for that cast iron skillet technique this week. https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/02/10/pizza-progress/

• Post #4146972

  Somebody somewhere put a string of red yarn on their wall between pictures RFK Jr and Jimothy last weekend and I want to hear what they have to say.

• Post #4146970

  The fediverse delivers.

• Post #4136488

  LG software updates, even those associated with older products, are bundling adware and spyware now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

• Post #4132576

  The song “You can leave your hat on” never describes the hat so it could be anything, please suggest one.

• Post #4130092

  So… the current state of iOS games and mobile gaming generally is “this whole ecosystem is an afterthought” now, correct? Apart from some arty endless runners (Alto, Tiny wings, Canabalt, etc) and some novel uses of the medium (Device 6, Prune, Hundreds, Ridiculous Fishing) is this all gatcha grindouts and threadbare ports of years-old pc/console games?

• Post #4122916

  Hear me out: Jimothée

• Post #4121771

  It’s one thing to say people don’t understand something, but “are incapable of understanding”, that’s a tell. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116982000047628928

• Post #4116300

  When the barista gives you oat milk instead of the soy milk you specifically asked for.

• Post #4101964

  The Participation Trophy President.