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Brett Cannon @brettcannon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
Since the US tech companies can't decide if they are going to call it "artificial intelligence" or "super intelligence", I'm just going to call it "large language models" going forward. It's accurate and doesn't mistake LLMs as intelligent or in any way conscious.
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 11/10/2026
Getting ready for my upcoming race in the only way my ADHD brain understands: applying track decals to my new helmet 😹
Photo of the back side of my helmet, colored purple and pink with silver detailing. Around the base I’ve added a purple and pink Drift SF sticker, along with decals for various tracks I’ve raced on. On the left side, tracks include Buttonwillow and Thunderhill West, as well as a segment of Highway 9, jokingly referred to as Nine-burgring.Photo of the back right side of my helmet. On this side, track decals include Laguna Seca, Thunderhill East, and Sonoma. There is a large empty space where I intend to place a Road America decal in two weeks time.
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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
I wanted to write something wise about the evolution of our understanding of consent and sexual violence but nothing I could put to words does it better than this comic: pizzacakecomic.com/post/83002240277…
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/10/2026
Canonically Correct Pythonista Breakfast
My plate of breakfast, with scrambled eggs, some slices of well cooked spam, and a slice of buttered toast. Not pictured is my daily Diet Mt Dew 😹
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 09/10/2026
One of my favorite "Star Wars" tracks ever made was the Huttese adaptation of the heavy metal track by The Hu for the opening of Jedi Fallen Order
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 08/10/2026
I love pairing this with Esc-h to shelve the command, run ‘man <command>’, and then unshelve the command again. Even better is that if you have a piped command, it knows which part of the command your cursor is on and shows the appropriate man page. :blobfoxcomputer:
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026
It’s a bit of a wild trip writing green field code for work, reading documentation for upstream libraries I’m using, and seeing them recommend using OSS libraries that I wrote. Like oh shit, I’m supposed to be an expert at this? 😹
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026
LOL, spent five minutes trying to figure out where some debug logging was coming from, assuming that it was part of the database ORM I'm using and wondering why I couldn't silence it, only to dig deeper and realize it's coming from the async database driver below the ORM — you know, the open […]
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026
My home internet finally came back around 30 minutes ago, just shy of *35 hours* of downtime. 😮‍💨
Screenshot from my Unifi router dashboard: "Internet disconnected from Oct 6, 2:23:46 AM to Oct 7 11:18:52 AM"
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 07/10/2026
My fiber internet has already been completely out for 14 hours today, and AT&T is now saying it will be restored *tomorrow night* 🤯🤬
Screenshot from the AT&T internet portal: "There's an outage affecting service in your area. [...] Your service should be fully restored by Wed 10/07/2026 08:00 PM PDT".  I have scribbled a lot of red lines under the day.
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TinyStart for macOS @tinystart.app · 06/10/2026
:tinystart: TinyStart v1.5 is out now! Still a tiny Mac launcher, still very fast, and still €5 Except now you can also : • Press Tab to switch between Launcher and Emoji picker • Pin apps, folders, and links • Pin Emoji • Reorder pins • Insert Emoji without leaving the picker • Reorder […]
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026
And yet, nothing bums me out more than seeing my work gobbled up as training data for soulless machines to reproduce a dozen hollow facsimiles in hundreds of meaningless requests for more extruded text. To see issues and PRs on my projects to make some change without any attempt or capability of […]
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026
Some days all of my open source effort feels like it was pointless. Other days, I’m looking up documentation on how to do something with a database in Python, and I find blog posts and documentation pages that casually use or list my aiosqlite package alongside all of the other hallmark […]
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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I came back from a conference with a cold; I’m masking at home so my partner doesn’t pick it up. It’s not just for COVID.
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 05/10/2026
I'm going with it's one family with a five year old that lives 20 miles away from civilization, and they just treat their kids like feral cats. "They come and go as they please and we just leave some food in their bowl for whenever they get back" 😹
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Cyborg K9 🌹 @cyborgk9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You can pay for this with a credit card, but don't dare think of commissioning art of consenting adults having fun sexually, credit card companies (and PayPal) will de-bank you. Our systems are so screwed up. :/
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Emma @emmatyping.dev · 04/10/2026
I had a wonderful time yesterday at #pybay2026. So fun to see friends I hadn't in months and meet new people! Here are the slides from the talk I gave "The Path to Introducing Rust in CPython" emmatyping.dev/talks/pybay-...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026
I also like the Lion related themes
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026
Amalgam and Bismuth themes are some of my favorites of the instrumentals
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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 1 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026
It's not a big deal Sam! 😹
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026
RE: fosstodon.org/@pybay/11736690738555… Tomorrow!!
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 02/10/2026
The Steven Universe soundtracks are still my favorite TV/movie soundtracks of all time, y'all did an incredible job with everything! 💜
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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
⏳ The countdown is on: PyBay 2026 is only 2 days away! Tickets are moving fast and you won’t want to miss the biggest Python event on the West Coast this year. 🎟️ pybay.org/get-tickets/ 🎟️ Make sure you give this post a 👍 Like this if you’re planning to attend 🔁 Repost with colleagues #PyBay2026
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 01/10/2026
The greatest of vibes: waiting at a light in your sleek 1990 300ZX with the T-tops open on a nice sunny day, the 1990 hit song Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) starts playing, and someone drives by in their eternally cool mid-90’s MkIV Supra. :blobcatpat: Not so great vibes: someone […]
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 26/09/2026
A pox on every website that refuses to show a password field until *after * you enter an email address, thereby preventing my browser from offering to autofill anything from my password manager.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
:blobfoxdrakedislike: CLOSEDWONTFIX :blobfoxdrakelike: CLOSEDSLOP
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 25/09/2026
My brain has crossed the rubicon. Not even my nightmares are safe from being made worse with LLMs.
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026
The day is getting better
Photo of a package I just received stamped with the UN 3481 label for packages containing lithium ion batteries
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Amethyst 🌸 @amethyst.cat · 24/09/2026
Having been a huge fan of the series, and not yet been compelled to finish my playthrough of Seven, I think I would agree with you. I might swap Four and Zero just because the mix of style and music in Zero was incredible (and Zero's soundtrack is hands-down my favorite), but they're all so good 💜
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 23/09/2026
So the folks behind Star Citizen have introduced a space ship, then introduced an updated version/model of that space ship, then deprecated the old space ship, and now are re-releasing the "classic" version of it ... all while never actually "releasing" the game that I pledged for 14 years ago […]
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026
wake up babe, new cat species discovered en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo_tiger… image: media.zenfs.com/en/live_science_953…
An adorable Tilcayo tiger cat, with the face of a domestic house cat, but with bold markings with elements of both a leopard and tiger.
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 19/09/2026
Just over *two weeks* to go before #PyBay 2026, happening on October 3rd at UCSF Mission Bay. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, including: @gaborbernat @emmatyping @pamelafox @brianokken @coderanger and so many more! Thanks to our generous sponsors […] [Original post on toots.n7.gg]
PyBay 2026, October 3rd, in San Francisco. 11th Annual Regional PyBay Conference. For the community by the community.
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 18/09/2026
Oh NOW you want my opinion on the ridiculously overpriced VR headset that was too heavy and where you refused to embrace popular VR use cases for until it was too late so I just put it on top of my *other* horribly expensive monument to Apple Design? Ok
Screenshot from my email client, of an email from Apple Market Research, with the subject “Tell us about Apple Vision Pro”
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/09/2026
Oh boy, I have once again won the opportunity to spend more money! 😹
Email from Valve saying I’m “officially in the reservation queue for Steam Frame”
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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/09/2026
RE: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/117281447… unironically, unashamedly do this. call your friends, ask them for help. and when they say “wait did you ask me just to replace your AI” say yes. say you’ll owe them one but you appreciate them so much more than AI. and show up for them […]
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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
If tomorrow someone proved that being gay (or being straight) is a choice and that someone can simply choose not to be ... I would still support every single person, straight, gay, bi (hi!) or otherwise, to be who they chose to be. You don't have to be born that way to be valid.
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kuraine @lena.fyi · 14/09/2026
with all the conversation lately about unseen data harvesting, ar glasses & new vr tech, "ai", etc etc... it's once again the perfect time to read my kinetic novel ESC. store.steampowered.com/app/1318800/...
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ESC on Steam
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
No candidate, regardless of party, will ever get my vote if they call me a "biological man" and advocate for laws targeting my community. Its that simple.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026
So if you find yourself feeling dependent upon AI because you're "not good enough", not like the prominent critics who you are putting on a pedestal, then allow me to paraphrase this famous exhortation from the philosopher Kamina: "Don't believe in yourself! Believe in me! Believe in the me who […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026
Second, the way you get to be a "good programmer" (on any one of the multivariate axes upon one can be such a thing) is to practice a lot, and AI deprives you of practice. So it might be momentarily helping you to *avoid embarrassment* but you're basically just bluffing your way through a […]
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Mario Munoz @pythonbynight.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
I spent the last several days writing this. When I started, I felt like maybe the title was a bit of a hyperbole, even though I feel like my point is well argued. But then again, you have people working in this industry saying that they are building a weapon of mass destruction that could […]
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 12/09/2026
First time in many years that I haven’t set an alarm to preorder an iPhone. Weird.
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Wish I could be there!
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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Decided to make a dedicated page for this. stopomarchy.neocities.org
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STOP OMARCHY: Boycott Tech's Far-Right Backers
Protest against the Omarchy/Omacom Foundation and the tech companies and executives funding far-right open source.
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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 10/09/2026
You say you have to support the fashy software stack because that’s where the majority of AI users are going. Gee. I wonder why the majority of AI users are picking the fashy software stack for their “projects”. 🤔
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
the AI was a grandmaster chess player until it being horrible at chess became a meme the AI is an incredible mathematician in countless breathless papers but every time you ask it a basic math question it fucks it up badly the AI is just a tool until you refuse to use it, then it’s a […]
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique […]
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