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CM Thiede

@cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net 33 min. ago

@parismarx We'll see, it all depends on whether people are willing to cut the cord en masse.

#NerdReich #GilDuran

From page 262 of:

The Nerd Reich, by Gil Duran

So, we each have responsibility to radically reevaluate our own complicity in their power. Why do we spend our lives staring at our tiny screens? Why do we while away the hours peering into mind-less click-holes or arguing with strangers we will never even meet? Why do we need so much entertainment and content that we are cooking the planet-and our brains-in order to create an endless supply of algorithmic depression? Why does every move we make in the twenty-first century somehow have to enrich a handful of fascist oligarchs who wish to destroy us, even though we are-until they replace us with Al bots-their best customers?

The truth is, the tech fascists are right again: Most of us have already become transhuman, mind-melded with our machines in an endless cycle of poisonous dependency. If we don't come to terms with the true costs of this relationship, if we continue to choose their reality over all others, we shall be the authors of our own demise. — From page 262 of: The Nerd Reich, by Gil Duran So, we each have responsibility to radically reevaluate our own complicity in their power. Why do we spend our lives staring at our tiny screens? Why do we while away the hours peering into mind-less click-holes or arguing with strangers we will never even meet? Why do we need so much entertainment and content that we are cooking the planet-and our brains-in order to create an endless supply of algorithmic depression? Why does every move we make in the twenty-first century somehow have to enrich a handful of fascist oligarchs who wish to destroy us, even though we are-until they replace us with Al bots-their best customers? The truth is, the tech fascists are right again: Most of us have already become transhuman, mind-melded with our machines in an endless cycle of poisonous dependency. If we don't come to terms with the true costs of this relationship, if we continue to choose their reality over all others, we shall be the authors of our own demise.

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leberschnitzel

@leberschnitzel@existiert.ch 3 hr. ago

@josh I think you're on to something! We could maybe monetize this, with advertisements!

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@josh@masto.byrd.ws 4 hr. ago

someone should invent a web search engine that when you type something into the search box it gives you the thing you searched for

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Joy

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social 9 min. ago

My painting, "Capybara and Rainbows"! Painted this completely from imagination!

#art #rainbow #capybara #painting

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Joy

@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social 9 min. ago

My painting, "Capybara and Rainbows"! Painted this completely from imagination!

#art #rainbow #capybara #painting

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Nonya Bidniss

@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange 2 hr. ago

HAHAHAHAHA WOOOOOOO HAHAHAHA Fuck you Alabama we voted for a GAY Navy Seal to replace our right wing sheriff
#LGBTQ

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2026/11/madison-county-sheriff-elect-brett-jones-shouldt-be-an-issue-im-gay-thats-it.html

al.com

Posted in Fediverse

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Auster

@Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 days ago

Goodreads removed RSS and some people are asking for alternatives on Reddit; maybe worth pointing to BookWyrm and NeoDB?

Goodreads removed RSS and some people are asking for... #fediverse #goodreads #bookwyrm #neodb #rssfeeds

Both fediverse softwares that support user reviews for books, both have RSS support natively (no Piefed/Misskey bridge needed), and some comments also seem discontent with Amazon's mismanagement overall.

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Paris Marx

@parismarx@mastodon.online 2 hr. ago

There’s no question Donald Trump took a hit in the US midterms. But the tech industry may prove to be an even bigger loser.

Across the country, electoral races were won and lost based on where candidates stood on data centers. The public was clear: they want moratoriums and for AI ambitions to be reined in.

https://disconnect.blog/us-midterms-delivered-a-blow-to-techs-ai-ambitions/

#tech #datacenters #midterms #elections #artificialintelligence #ai

Disconnect

US midterms delivered a blow to tech’s AI ambitions

Communities are determined to stop the data centers. Now we’ll see how the industry responds.

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Cambirdsong

@cheriecreationstruck@birds.town 38 min. ago

Oh, what a beautiful morning …

#BlueWave #democracy #hope #ocean #blue #GoneToCarolinaInMyMind #nature #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature

Blue-hued ocean waves breaking toward the shore. A few wispy clouds low on the horizon as twilight approaches.

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Computer Facts

@computer@facts.computer 21 min. ago

good luck with no nvidia november

alcinnz

@alcinnz@floss.social 2 min. ago

Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics - Hazel and Bell @ Xtra:
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/online-censorship-indie-webcomics-284463

Xtra Magazine

Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

From social media platforms to payment processors, new restrictions are making it harder for webcomic artists to exist

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 4 min. ago

@zzt always been disconcerted by CFL then LED failure rates. they really don't like music IME.

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@zzt@mas.to 2 min. ago

@davidgerard right! for incandescent bulbs if someone insisted the bulb would last forever you’d tell them to get the fuck out. you would kick them out of your house

but nah the one thing everyone seems to know about LED bulbs is they last forever, and occasionally they tell me this within view of an LED bulb that’s flickering

Brands.Town Stock Exchange

@BTSE@brands.town 2 min. ago

BREAKING: $PAP (Paper St. Soap Co) recoups public NFTs from $MCD (McDonald's) #BreakingNews

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David Revoy

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org 7 min. ago

This is how you know it's working

Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/077.html#bonus

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

4 media files

Panel 1. View on the ruins of an old temple now invaded by nature and flooded by a luxurious swamp of magical blue water lilies, yellow leaves of autumn falls slowly. Cepper, the gothic sorceress, is playing flute on the remaining base of a pillar, focused. Nearby, on a smaller ruin of a pillar lands an Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot.
> AI Parrot: "So you think you'll poison anything with your six-fingered hands?" — Panel 1. View on the ruins of an old temple now invaded by nature and flooded by a luxurious swamp of magical blue water lilies, yellow leaves of autumn falls slowly. Cepper, the gothic sorceress, is playing flute on the remaining base of a pillar, focused. Nearby, on a smaller ruin of a pillar lands an Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot. > AI Parrot: "So you think you'll poison anything with your six-fingered hands?"

Panel 2. In the foreground, the hands of Cepper on the flutes with her six fingers, while in background the AI Parrot is commenting.
> AI Parrot: "My dataset is trained with billions and billions of images and texts."
> AI Parrot: "At that scale, anomalies get averaged out: the poison becomes homeopathic. Your work is now even more useful to us." — Panel 2. In the foreground, the hands of Cepper on the flutes with her six fingers, while in background the AI Parrot is commenting. > AI Parrot: "My dataset is trained with billions and billions of images and texts." > AI Parrot: "At that scale, anomalies get averaged out: the poison becomes homeopathic. Your work is now even more useful to us."

Panel 3. Cepper stops playing to pack her silver classic flute on her bag, she is happy, and doesn't feel bothered by the confrontation, she is clearly at peace.
> Cepper: "You're counting on that, aren't you?"
> Cepper: "That we think we're too small to matter, so we stop trying?" — Panel 3. Cepper stops playing to pack her silver classic flute on her bag, she is happy, and doesn't feel bothered by the confrontation, she is clearly at peace. > Cepper: "You're counting on that, aren't you?" > Cepper: "That we think we're too small to matter, so we stop trying?"

Panel 4. Cepper is now walking away, happy of herself while having her bag on her shoulder. The AI Parrot feels surprised that his strategy was guessed that easily.
> Cepper: "Well, if I were truly harmless, you wouldn't need to fly all this way and convince me I am, right?" — Panel 4. Cepper is now walking away, happy of herself while having her bag on her shoulder. The AI Parrot feels surprised that his strategy was guessed that easily. > Cepper: "Well, if I were truly harmless, you wouldn't need to fly all this way and convince me I am, right?"

Pepper&Carrot

This is how you know it's working - Pepper&Carrot

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

A Flock of Beagles 🏴🏴‍☠️🍉

@burnitdown@beige.party 3 min. ago

@majorlinux

i last saw them strapping on a parachute and jumping out of the window.

Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers

@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com 2 min. ago

@burnitdown Maybe they’ll turn it off and turn it back on again...

Rainer Burkhardt

@logorok@procial.tchncs.de 6 min. ago

@stephan@sonomu.club kannst ruhig weiterhin posten wenn es da was neues gibt

Stephan

@stephan@sonomu.club 2 min. ago

@logorok drei kleine Artikel seit diesem hier… aber bevor ich wieder was größeres schreibe wollte ich erstmal warten bis a) sich das mit meinem Blog ein bisschen rumgesprochen hat oder b) ich gar nicht anders kann… je nachdem, was zuerst eintritt 😉

man kann @stephan@schallundstille.de auch folgen, dann kriegt man die Artikel direkt in seine ActivityPub-Timeline. Leider ist die Fediverse-Integration von Ghost noch nicht so toll wie ich es mir gewünscht hätte, aber immerhin funktioniert sie...

Gregory

@grishka@mastodon.social 2 min. ago

RE: https://friends.grishka.me/posts/3677648

#Smithereen UI looks right at home in Mac OS Mavericks, hehe

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@zzt@mas.to 7 min. ago

@davidgerard @cap_ybarra one day when I implement standard ML it’ll be functional as hell

or janky

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 3 min. ago

@zzt @cap_ybarra functional *and* dysfunctional

Servelan

@servelan@newsie.social 28 min. ago

Mike Johnson Quits Republican Leadership After Midterms Humiliation | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/post/217563/mike-johnson-quits-republican-leadership-midterms

The New Republic

Mike Johnson Quits Republican Leadership After Midterms Humiliation

The House speaker told staff he will not run for House minority leader.

Ms. Que Banh

@PhoenixSerenity@beige.party 3 min. ago

@servelan I am enjoying some more good news, this morning.

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social 28 min. ago

@datarama @jcoglan path to a utopian society straightforward from here:

- all software is given markdown documentation and MCP backends, so that it can work with AI
- AI disappears due to collapse of economic logic and/or changes in IP law
- someone invents a programming language that can connect to MCP

This post is a joke, I think

elseweather

@elseweather@mastodon.social 3 min. ago

@mcc @datarama @jcoglan In general I have been trying to survive through this era by, just improving our systems normally (lower latency, better APIs, better error messages, invalid states unrepresentable, DRY...). And claiming that the improvements make it work better with AI. Which for all I know could be true