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@lain the nefarious eunuch smirking to himself, going to sleep knowing that the king drank the poison in his wine
BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG
Space Catitude 🚀
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Them: Can you do this?
Me: Yes, but not for at least a few months.
Them: OK.
Them (2 weeks later): Any update on when you're gonna do this?
Me: In at least a few months.
Them: Really want to align on getting this done in the next few weeks.
Me: Well that is a shame because it will take at least a few months.
[Boundaries: I am having them!]
Top story: The Observer used public records to piece together a timeline detailing the almost 5-year saga of BlackRock's efforts to get back into the good graces of the state's climate-denying leadership, after the investment giant became an "ESG" supporting enemy of #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/blackrock-texas-comeback-esg-blacklist/
#politics #environment #ClimateChange #Texas #TXlege #news #corruption
MiniDebConf in Cambridge, UK. Thu 5th to Sun 8th Nov 2026. With development / sprint / team meetings and talks about Debian and related subjects. You're invited to register and participate; see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/gb/2026/MiniDebConfCambridge .
Hackers hijack #Convertr #analytics script to steal payment card data
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The tech world is in a state of chaos and dysfunction
People don't like to talk about how the tech world is worshipping a #deathcult that pushes chaos and dysfunction. It's KISS That we need to compost this mess, but to do this we need to reckon with the consequences of our past decisions to understand how we arrived at this.
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#OMN (Open Media Network)
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@ellenor2000 not enough of us recognize the fact that behind every "simple thing" that we're used to, both in the physical and digital world, is work of hundreds of engineers and inventors that had to answer questions which we only find obvious in hindsight bc we have the answer
There will be some maintenance downtime for https://forum.delta.chat :)
A major apology to everyone hoping to catch me at #mozfest this year - I had to cancel due to incompatible family and work travel. I'm super sorry and sad about this and I just hope I will get to go next year instead. 😞 Go catch our panel anyway, on Friday afternoon, it'll be great.
@ajroach42 I see giant mountains of things like that every weekend at the flea market I go to There's a couple of people that just have tables upon tables of loose toys, figurines, transformer parts, Happy Meal toys, and other assorted plastic garbage.
If you can get me better reference photos of the monsters you know to exist, I will see what I can do.
@thevhswizard Best pictures I have of the line right now.
Thank you.
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Medicare’s AI-driven prior authorization program has jeopardized seniors’ access to medical care by outsourcing decision-making to private AI companies without sufficient transparency, testing, or legal limits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/new-records-obtained-eff-expose-more-problems-medicares-ai-experiment
Here are some links to cool things I've come across at #MozFest during Day 1
- Otari (https://otari.ai) is kind of an even-more-useful OpenRouter
- Mozilla.ai docs (https://docs.mozilla.ai) has links to various useful tools
- Leading From the Emerging Future (https://learn.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:MITxT+15.671.1x) a MOOC from MIT about systems thinking, etc.
- ROOST (https://roost.tools) a nonprofit building open source online safety tools as a public good
- Code Carbon (https://codecarbon.io) a nonprofit open source tools for developers and researchers
- Alpha (https://alpha.aipotluck.org) an AI assistant built for the public from open parts
I'm planning to do a write-up including all these after the festival has finished 🤘
Or just follow me on Are.na where I bookmark everything anyway:
@marvindiehlphotography liebs!
@sturmsucht Freut mich sehr! 😊🙏
@jaredwhite well, isn't it you who just redefined slop meaning "total garbage produced by LLM" with "everything produced by an LLM"? You may want to edit the wikipedia article to match your definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop
@assimilateborg Merriam-Webster:
> We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.”
Well, who gets to determine it's low quality is the question, isn't it?
Certainly not the purveyor of the slop. They'll always claim it's high quality. 😂
@sirshannon Wow, you’re picking a side!
@RobW ok, ok, how about we respect their form factor and call them phonoliths?
"Engaging Men for Gender Equality".
I had not seen this USAID publication before.
It looks like it is geared towards people running workshops, but some of the content may be fine as a learning tool in itself.
@neil I need to log off. I read that as Edging Men.
Touchscreen apple laptop prediction:
The Macbook Schmutz
@rstevens One of my favorite Fatboy Slim tracks!
