barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026One of the most real things I’ve ever read: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangero… 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026RE: hachyderm.io/@sanityinc/11681227384… I’m favouriting this because in a year I’ll have NO IDEA what it means.hachyderm.io 000
Reposted by barsoomcoreKickDownCH @kickdownch.swiss.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.” Genau das! 1019
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026I am once again saluting those who had to find their own fathers, maybe within themselves. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116724214… We Have Always Been Opposed To AI Codingmastodon.social 011
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116654… FFS these things don’t “believe” anything. An LLM predicts text, it doesn’t have an internal state or a model of the world around it.mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026RE: flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116654… In 2026 anyone who describes anything as “not political” can no longer be taken seriously.flipboard.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq… Two things: 1. How is she capable of saying these things with a straight face? 2. Why is she allowed to say these things and not get utterly dragged by every news outlet? The first is a […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026A healthy economic strategy would prioritize wealth creation by starting a business over owning property. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026In the name of Douglas Adams, on this day, let us remember to each do our best to resist panic. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026Via @johnrogers.bsky.social — I’ve never seen a starker demonstration of the difference between Canadians and Americans, other than our comparative reactions to the Tragically Hip. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026Can we stop saying “far right”? When people espouse fascist principles, you can just call them fascists. 001
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026Is search suddenly worse on everyone else’s phone too? 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq… If I were living in Alberta I’d sure want to know that EVERY OTHER PROBLEM had been solved before we spent a penny changing the fucking slogan on the sign.flipboard.com 010
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026Playing the beer game but it’s actually how I make my living. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/montreal-efb… Surely the horse deserves most of the credit here.flipboard.com 000
Reposted by barsoomcoreDave Winter @luchador.thecanadian.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026DontSurveil.Me has put together a great explainer on Bill C-22. Canadians need to pay attention. Expanding surveillance powers, retaining metadata, and weakening encryption all threaten privacy, free expression, civil liberties, and digital rights. If we care about privacy, digital rights […]thecanadian.socialOriginal post on thecanadian.social 0137
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026RE: follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/1165… I continue to insist that the job most replaceable by LLMs is by far that of CEO. I cannot imagine any likely worse outcome if we replace them all.follow.ethanmarcotte.com 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026RE: journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116574935… Cuba deserves better. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026RE: cosocial.ca/@boris/1165734638090105… Signal users take heed. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116539865… They would literally rather pay more for a machine that isn’t as good, because the machine will never disagree with them.mastodon.social 001
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1165… Live your life such that the US DHS feels the need to investigate you.mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/11… All we’re asking is for these motherfuckers to be SLIGHTLY less incredibly wealthy.kolektiva.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026RE: mastodon.social/@startswithabang/11… At this point these kinds of idiotic low-value projects just feel like billionaires desperately justifying their wealth. These problems can be addressed with well-understood, much cheaper solutions, but that wouldn’t require the […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-… something something Scylla and Charybdisflipboard.com 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026Thing I have learned in three months as a bartender: EVERYONE IS INSANE 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026Keep reminding myself that’s it’s normal to be struggling when over the past few years you’ve lost 100% of your savings and 75% of your income. 001
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026RE: mastodon.hongkongers.net/@cbctor_mi… Oh D&D can be life-changing for neurodivergent kids? Who could have guessed.mastodon.hongkongers.net 001
Reposted by barsoomcoreJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this) youtu.be/xqI2gsWmPY4?...youtu.beHUNGRY Official Trailer (2026) Killer HippoYouTube video by ONE Media 712225
Reposted by barsoomcoreJeremy Kahn @trochee.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026Every paragraph rings true here, at least WRT my experience at work in the last six months. We've killed a lot of sparrows. The AI Great Leap Forward leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04…leehanchung.github.ioThe AI Great Leap ForwardIn 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba... 2621
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026RE: mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116421607323037150 This is movement towards fascism. Nothing else.mstdn.ca 010
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026RE: urbanists.social/@cargot_robbie/116… Can we PLEASE stop replacing functional systems with systems that are no better and only exist in order to siphon money away from our communities?urbanists.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026RE: wandering.shop/@ankaretwells/116409… Extremely high-quality thread. This is what I want out of my micro-blogging platform: beautifully-written deep dives into miscellania.wandering.shop 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026Everyone is slashing expenses and laying off workers because fifteen people need to have all the money. 005
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026RE: toad.social/@KimPerales/11639886088… Burn It All Downtoad.social 010
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026Stages of Cultural Irrelevance: 1: Heard of them, will get around to checking them out. 2: Haven’t heard of them, not really my thing. 3: Haven’t heard of them, do not understand what they are. 4: Are those names? 5: Are those verbs? 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026Talking w a friend who’s in trade (carpentry etc) and his take is that LLMs are doing to software what automation has been doing to trades for ages — it’s a struggle to find enough skilled tradespeople. And as senior people age out, there’s fewer and fewer people to train juniors. Reinforces my […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/world-mu65cd… Even after all these years of packing courts with their sympathizers, these chowderheads are so bad at their grifting shit that they can’t get their cases heard.flipboard.com 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026The whole Zuckerberg thing is making me think about a recent boss who, after hiring me, tossed me a 30-60-90 day plan that he told me he’d had AI draft for him, and for me to edit it to what I felt it should be. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more disrespected by a boss before AND THAT IS NOT A […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 110
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026RE: mastodon.social/@ThisIsTrue/1163890… I have said many times that a government’s most important role is to provide those who desire power with the feeling that they have it.mastodon.social 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026Ah my Margaret Hamilton joke has reached the humourless part of Mastodon. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026RE: social.treehouse.systems/@PallasRio… Never forget that political are donation-acquiring machines first. Winning elections is only one strategy they might deploy towards donations.social.treehouse.systems 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026Hey remember when FIFA gave him a “Peace Prize”? Are you really gonna endorse that organization by giving its event your attention? 010
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026So tired of the focus on his mental illness. Makes it sound like his being elected was a reasonable outcome, that everything was okay until his mind started to go. No. It wasn’t okay. It hasn’t been okay for decades. This is a complex system producing a horrific, cartoonishly evil outcome. The […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
Reposted by barsoomcoreBodil @bodil.lol · 08/04/2026Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉 51746
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026He posts a Twitter post He posts a Tumblr post He posts a Facebook post He posts an IG post He posts the posts that remind him of the good times He posts the posts that remind him of the better times 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026I guess the Americans are realizing that someone set them up the bomb. 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026RE: universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/1… MASH, manuniverseodon.com 000
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026RE: mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116330264… Man those X-Men and New Mutant books were very important to me back in the day.mastodon.social 000