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tankgrrl@hachyderm.io

Maggie McFee - they/she iel/elle - Toots en English 🇺🇸 & Francais 🇫🇷 - Maker, artist, GenX, actual cyborg, neo-luddite - Ivy League HPC days, bush league mad science nights & weekends - Cambridge (MA) & bunch of other places. - Fabricante, artiste, Gen X, cyborg réelle, néo-luddite. - HPC dans l'Ivy League le jour, science folle de ligue mineure les soirs et les week-ends - Cambridge (MA) et un tas d'autres endroits.

Posts

Post #4360250
Doddering old man Donald Trump doesn't want people to talk about the bad things that America did like slavery, but he still wants to prod Japan about Pearl Harbor. JFC #USpol
Post #4273260
I'm kind of obsessed with orange these days. See also backpack, shoelaces, phone case, coat...
Post #4267719
This guy!!! Bravo! #DataCenterHype Ohio man questions why normal people are footing the bill for data cente... https://youtube.com/shorts/wpoEhVuaj_s?is=vDvpYls5Vf9pKlkm
Post #4254269
I busted out laughing so loud I'm sure my neighbors heard. This scene is everything. 😂 #TedLasso S2E5
Post #4206291
Burn. Every. Last. One. Of. Them. To. The. Ground. #superscalars #ruination #hypercapitalism #fuck People can still have their tools, someone will reproduce them [and understand that if they fuck up and get greedy they also burn], but these villains are ruining the world. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.” AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanni...
Post #4127200
@halfpress@mastodon.halfpress.com @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Because it's the best game ever made ! 😄 I have the tattoo to prove it !
Post #4092552
I think I'm going to pack my Punch Nazis backpack with books today and go fill up all the little libraries in walking distance. Cambridge, there will be treasures. I'm letting go of a lot as I'm slowly downsizing. #02139
Post #4069317
Couldn't happen to a better sociopath. #AI #GAI Remember when they were like 'yeah, we'll lose some customers over price hikes, but then we'll magically grow like a million percent based on *waves hands around*' ? Yeah. Not happening. OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin"" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection
Post #4063018
I make things. Here are some of those things. / Je crée des choses. Voici quelques-unes de ces choses. Also: https://skyfortress.studio/ 1/2
Post #4045380
Cool cool, MIT. I'm sure this is fine. MIT students are not already stressed at all. " Individuals can also be automatically classified on the basis of clothing color, gender, and age, up to a distance of 35 feet (11 meters) from the camera. According to a statement from MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen, any collected data is “retained up to 30 days,” unless an exception is granted." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html
Post #4021517
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/everyone-hates-ai-in-paris #IA #AI
Post #3970968
I wrote a new pinned post (partly so you wouldn't be tagged in it any more, Andy) and then I lost the whole thing. I even had all the alt text done. Dammit.
Post #3912303
Iran war still a war. Iran war still happening. Iran war still undeclared. Iran war still not authorized by Congress. #USpol #IllegalWar
Post #3823801
I just got a very interesting email from a Crimson reporter... The shitshow has apparently begun.
Post #3817559
Disappointing. #USpol "Thank you for contacting me to express your thoughts regarding H.R. 7757, the KIDS Act. I appreciate you taking the time to share your position on this issue and would like you to know that I voted for this legislation. H.R. 7757 was introduced by Representative Brett Guthrie on March 3, 2026, and was passed by the House on June 29. This bill brings together several measures — including the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens' Online Privac...
Post #3788784
About 20 or more years ago I stopped wearing regular bras and started wearing the same cotton Fruit of the Loom sports bra. I probably had 30 of them over the years. That is until recently when I started experimenting with some different ones. I'm not a strappy kind of girl, but I tried these on a whim and I really really like them. Who knew The only downside is that I found them on Amazon. So... Yeah.
Post #3776518
I wasn't super productive this weekend, but that's fine. My only real regret is that I did not watch tonight's #monsterdon which everyone seems to have had fun with.
Post #3749634
hahaha HaHaHaHa HAHAHAHA BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! "During the segment, the chief executive argued that the cost to use large language models (LLMs) has to drop by 20 percent by 2027 — and 90 percent by 2028 — for the tech to be useful to enterprises." https://futurism.com/future-society/palo-alto-ceo-ai-arora-automation-labor
Post #3726071
Big machine number go up. #HPC
Post #3682491
Thomas is a stooge. "First, he claimed, the president inherited such a power from the English monarchy." The New Republic: Clarence Thomas Dreams of Monarchy https://newrepublic.com/article/212804/clarence-thomas-executive-power-monarchy
Post #3477861
Username: 8-32 characters OK. No special characters. SURE. At least one letter and 1 number. A NUMBER IS REQUIRED IN A USERNAME?????????????????????????? WHY??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Post #2403052
Correction, it did not fly back out. I just found it on the rear door jamb in the kitchen where it apparently somehow killed itself. It may have flown into the storm door glass. Oops this was supposed to be a text to my mom. Lol Enjoy my bee corpse.
Post #2403048
It really is a cruel joke from nature that the one weakness of so many &#39;alpha&#39; males is being made fun of by a woman.
Post #2403046
#USpol FBI director Kash Patel: Look, I don&#39;t have a drinking problem. Also Kash Patel: Kash Patel’s ‘FBI-branded bourbon freebies’ revealed after excessive drinking claims https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/kash-patel-fbi-bourbon-free-alchohol-r6dgxh753
Post #2403045
Hmmm just typo&#39;d learningtheartofelectronics.com into earningtheartofelectronics.com and I&#39;m wondering if we&#39;re missing out on a money-making scheme.
Post #2403044
A co-worker/friend sent me this. It&#39;s great. The doll still has me laughing. « I&#39;m at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there&#39;s always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren&#39;t you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before retu...
Post #2372030
The most daunting troubleshooting 'error' of them all: "Why is this working?"
Post #1997100
May the fourth be with you. Nerds. Que le 4e mai soit avec vous. Nerds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4ANN55PjMw
Post #1975345
It's 4pm. I started at 9:30. It has been non-stop and I have not had lunch. Have to decide if I power through or just bail at 4:30. Edit: we have a 7 hour work day
Post #1952450
I have several IRL friends here, many of you met in the last decade or so. specially through 'dinner club', Australia/Aus comics, the Asylum, work, etc. But today I had a wistful moment where I was thinking of three of my fondest friends who I've maintained over time and distance. Two of you are here: - Patricia [not on here] - aka Perchishm aka my Insignificant Other - Christopher @octothorpe@mastodon.online - Your and her numbers are both in my "So I've Died" boo...