barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026One of the most real things I’ve ever read: lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangero… 000 0
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026@mpjgregoire may we long live in a country where it is always fair to second-guess the government. 000 0
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 19
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116724214… We Have Always Been Opposed To AI Codingmastodon.social 011 1
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026@johnrogers.bsky.social Making fame more attainable than financial security was probably the bad idea. 1251 25
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 1
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026Is search suddenly worse on everyone else’s phone too? 000 0
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 1
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026Playing the beer game but it’s actually how I make my living. 000 0
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 0
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 37
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026RE: journa.host/@NatalieDavis/116574935… Cuba deserves better. 000 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026RE: cosocial.ca/@boris/1165734638090105… Signal users take heed. 000 0
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 1
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 0
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 0
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026RE: flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-… something something Scylla and Charybdisflipboard.com 000 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026Thing I have learned in three months as a bartender: EVERYONE IS INSANE 000 0
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 1
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 1
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 122
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 21
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026RE: mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116421607323037150 This is movement towards fascism. Nothing else.mstdn.ca 010 1
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026@cazabon oh you must live in Calgary 101 1
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 0
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 5
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026RE: toad.social/@KimPerales/11639886088… Burn It All Downtoad.social 010 1
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 0
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 0
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 0
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 1
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 0
barsoomcore @barsoomcore.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026Ah my Margaret Hamilton joke has reached the humourless part of Mastodon. 000 0
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 0
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 1
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 0
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 46