@cwebber there is a whole Cleanup Consultancy Industry to de-slop companies

"I want to go evil mode, but I'm afraid of supporting slave labor" — statements that makes sense in 2026 but only if you have an incredible amount of context

@majorlinux Concerning LLM content, responsible use (ignoring the ethics question of how it was trained) is more effort I find than just writing it for myself. The time taken researching claims, trimming content down and checking for mistakes is more than just doing it without AI.

Plus, for someone like me who enjoys writing, the artist's dilemma: why should I have a machine work to do that I enjoy so I get worse at writing and have more time to do what fascists want?

Best of Fediverse news

- @dansup built Columnly for himself first, but you can also use it https://columnly.social

- @fedidb entered in “A New Era” https://fedidb.com/blog/2026/a-new-era Checkout our new server page on FediDB: https://fedidb.com/servers/mastodon.design

- @evanprodromou shared a Call for Proposals: Fediverse Multimedia Grants, “offering grants of up to US$20K to developer/creator teams to start new publications on the Fediverse”. Decisions will be announced on November 18 https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/10/07/call-for-proposals-fediverse-multimedia-grants/

@noahebalon@app.wafrn.net

This is a family. Meaning we will give yoy live long trauma

@stephaniepixie I'd be happy for any outcome that pushes both teams to the final whistle.

I think my fortune cookie is threatening my grandmother.

So I'm looking at this and thinking hard about what I'd need to do to make Redox a Linux-replacement, daily-drive OS (at least on my desktop where my hardware's definitely supported). How much do I need to replace or port? The text editor is actually the biggest stumbling block since I can't port it without assistance. Do we have a plausible "project bans AI by policy" text editor? Classic Vim? But it's so *nice* to use a mouse sometimes. I'd go evil mode but idk how much I can trust GNU lately.

Polaris Vanguard does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

@fediverse Writing this from Mastodon as a Test. Hello!

i got a limit for how many times someone can quote-toot-dunk/quote-toot-agree with someone, especially someone i've already blocked.

@karaswisher Conspicuously absent is any denial (or acknowledgement) that he provided her access to confidential material. It frames this as being about martial infidelity.

False:

1. “Tankie” was coined by orthodox communists to describe and criticize party members who supported the Soviet Union’s use of military tanks to brutally crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. And, since you really love sources,

The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie 2. The Tiannamen Square protests are led by a vast majority of students. Reading the article you cited, it states: “…and are clear that the “protesters” (rioters) initiated the deadly violence in Beijing (none of which occurred in Tiananmen Square itself).” You can see that this mofo denies the massacre happening because it literally didn’t happen in the Square (true, but a non-sequitur). Secondly, that the protestors initiated the violence. The protests were peaceful, until the Chinese government declared martial law and ordered thousands of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops into Beijing. 3. Sure. The article is fucking misleading. Let’s assume it is right, and even then, your (3) is yet again a non-sequitur: because the protestors initiated the violence does not make the massacre justified.

He seems to be intending to stay, but this needs to end in resignation or a firing, even if he is the founder, or the board is not doing its job. This is not just about his personal failings — it is sad for his family obviously — which is bad enough, since it was also a company Nvidia did business with. But he had an affair with a woman who the U.S. government thinks is a Chinese spy, which Trump overlooked (yet another stain on this administration). End of story.

comical action real-time turn-based

This is my Toot Desk

Ever heard of the Network Effect? Your activist group uses insta to communicate with the public because everyone is on insta, so you don't want to move because of your followers who don't want to move because of you.

One work around is to mirror your posts to fedi. Post the same adverts and so forth in both places. This has specific utility when communicating in Signal groups.

Let's say everyone in your signal group is using their code name. You know the 'legal' names of your friends, but not everyone in the group, which tbh, might be compromised. Nobody wants to be doxxed.

Ok, so Alice makes a post about an upcoming picket and Bob posts it to a signal group and forgets to remove the tracking section of the URL, I click on the link and it says 'Bob shared this with you!' I now know that Blackbird also goes by Bob, as does everyone else in the group. Having a fedi copy is a URL that can be shared around Signal without leaking this kind of data.

Yes, its possible to remove the tracking portion of the URL, but this is an extra step that will be often forgotten even by experienced people. It is specifically designed to make this kind of opsec fail.

But there's more....

heavens, I hate that "claude" abomination and everything it represents so much.

and I'm spooked by the #hypernormalization surrounding it, badly.

@bigzaphod It’s excellent. It’s so weird to me that this film was directed by Jonathan Lynn, who before it made British political sitcoms. He also did Clue.