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@bob Well, I'm sure he wouldn't do anything that stupid.

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I know you're all clamouring for the AI bubble to pop as soon as possible, but do we honestly think that if it pops while Agent Orange is still in the White House, that he isn't going to bail the lot of them out with taxpayer trillions because he's decided the US can't lose the Super […]

Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research conclude — hold on, I know this is difficult to believe — that the #GenAI business is financially unsustainable. “AI Companies Are In a Race Against Time” […]

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Abeloth Penfro KC @kneel.before.dog · 30/09/2026

A wiggly bum walk in the woods. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

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I mean, honestly, I think it wasn't an improvement, it's gone from slightly rounded corners on UI elements to a little too rounded in places, but why would you get _mad_ about that? Is it just fashionable to be mad at Firefox on fedi?

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Feels like I'm the only person on the internets today who isn't mad about the Firefox theme refresh. It's lonely on here sometimes.

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Here, this is important - how Labour bit on "compromise" and ended up in a decade barring trans people from not just every bathroom of any sex label, but from _hospital wards_. Yeah. Hospital wards. It's too long to quote here so I screencapped a […] [Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net]

A month ago, the Labour government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, or EHRC, officially implemented a revised Statutory Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations. The backstory and legal mechanics of this are complicated, but functionally it is one of the most authoritarian bathroom bans in the developed world. All institutions, public or private, must exclude trans people from single-sex spaces of their gender (a trans woman cannot use the women’s toilet) and may also exclude them from the spaces of their sex at birth (a trans woman also cannot use the men’s).

In addition to bars, coffee shops, restaurants, gyms, schools, universities, charities, and so on, this also applies to venues like hospitals. An oncology department that has men’ s and women’s wards will be forced to bar trans people from both—they should be put in a “side room,” said Mary-Ann Stephenson, the Labour-appointed chair of the EHRC, which wrote the Code of Practice. But these are in short supply and used for more rational purposes like severely immunocompromised patients. This is acknowledged by Labour members of Parliament, such as Kevin McKenna, to be unworkable and dangerous, but they’re doing it anyway.

There is good reason to worry that these changing rules will act as a green light to violent bigots across the country. In the U.K., both trans people and cis people who don’t fully meet their gender stereotype (for instance cis female cancer survivors who may have short hair or mastectomies) have reported a massive increase in abuse and harassment.

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 28/09/2026

RE: front-end.social/@SaraSoueidan/1173… Another reminder that at least 95% of the problems I have with AI have nothing to do with the tech at all, but with capitalism and base human greed.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words. The […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The fact that saying "hm this seems like it was made by AI" is NOT a complement or neutral comment ought to mean more I think.

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Abeloth Penfro KC @kneel.before.dog · 24/09/2026

Big walkies along the Bewl Water dam. The view over the lake from the dam wall is spectacular and she was so excited by it. She was especially curious about the fishing boats on the lake and whether they'd come ashore and make friends. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

Canis lupus pembrokensis, looking out over a big lake that extends nearly to the horizon from atop a dam wall with a sloping beach beneath it.

Canis lupus pembrokensis, peeking over the dam wall to look at a fishing boat way out on the lake.

Canis lupus pembrokensis, on a gravel path onto which the bench I'm sitting on is casting a long afternoon shadow, looking over her shoulder at a farmhouse down a grassy slope opposite the lake.

Canis lupus pembrokensis, looking down the previously mentioned grassy slope at distant fields in which sheep are grazing.

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 24/09/2026

Honest AI company ad: youtu.be/zwE3eF3Tg1M Content warning: it's funny because it's true. Maybe a little too true.

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Baloo Uriza @baloouriza.social.tulsa.ok.us.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

OK, so send some #Alphabet executives to prison for computer trespass and wire fraud. #KevinMitnick went down for 8 years over far less than this shit. arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/goog…

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RE: floss.social/@kde/117322549131682125 If you're currently feeling outraged because KDE has gone full slop, perhaps you should consider finding better news sources.

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RE: masto.ai/@phoronix/1173224583806034… I use Arch btw. Just thought I'd mention it.

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If you got really excited a couple months ago when M$ took Fallout away from Todd and gave it to Obsidian, well, unfortunately, they just realised they'd mistakenly done something positive and decided to give Obsidian in its entirety to Todd […]

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I bought a tiny touchscreen display for my tiny ARM board and this bizarre thing came in the box with it. Does anyone know what the hell it is?!

A particularly anachronistic CD-ROM in a paper sleeve.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 23/09/2026

I've had that song stuck in my head since I made that post two hours ago, so you might as well share in my misery. youtu.be/k-LTRwZb35A

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RE: mas.to/@alternativeto/1173195248667… it is so nice that the fash always announce themselves

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1173155647… He is the very model of a very stable genius.

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📌 ICYMI — ‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe — Caroline Orr Bueno The same technology marketed as the only way to defend the US from China militarily may be the very thing that starts a war with them in the first place, reports Caroline Orr…

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‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe

The same technology marketed as the only way to defend the US from China militarily may be the very thing that starts a war with them in the first place, reports Caroline Orr Bueno

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 22/09/2026

@jezhiggins Hardly anything ground breaking there, the top three in my feed rn are @RainbowPlantLife, @YeungManCooking and @EarthyGoodnessKitchen. That last one occasionally has dog cameos.

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 22/09/2026

All this interspersed with my actual subscribed channels, typically Corgis, vegan food, very complicated video games and the Owen Jones Is Extremely Exasperated Channel. It's quite surreal.

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 22/09/2026

Well, it's finally happened. My YouTube algorithmic feed has stayed fash free for so long I was starting to think people were exaggerating how quickly it can turn. Then content about solar installations (yes pls) turned to off grid solarpunk stuff (still interesting in Brexit Britain) turned to […]

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@jamesjefferies That feels like the appropriate response, yes.

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Not that both ultimately don't have the same root cause we should all be losing our shit over, but still.

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The amount of people on the internets losing their shit over Ed Sheeran vs the amount of people on the internets losing their shit over El Niño right now is quite frankly making me a little depressed.

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: social.lol/@digitalsnow/11730674112… It's amazing how hard Microsoft is trying to get out of the video game business.

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BTW solved P = NP over the weekend

Screenshot of ChatGPT window with a question "Solve P = NP" and answer N = 1

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Poll finds 628 UK constituencies are in favour of undoing Brexit, and only _four_ are still in favour of it. Which prize would you like for guessing one of the four is beautiful Clacton-on-Sea? bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…

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@puffnfresh Yeah, that's my point. The novelty wears off quickly. And don't get me wrong, Alyx was a very _good_ tech demo.

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To elaborate on that: in my experience, in order for a game to play well with VR controllers, it has to be built _for_ VR controllers. There's never been a particularly appealing market for building VR-first games, so most game devs just don't bother, and the exceptions just try to modify their […]

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I won the lottery and am in the reservation queue for the Steam Frame, but… honestly, I've been going over the reviews, and they're all pretty clear: this is a slightly improved Meta Quest 3, at a considerably higher price point, its main selling point (that I _would_ pay extra for) is that it […]

Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever.

Ford app AI feature with user-entered text "Write a 150-word story about Sailor Moon and Hatsune Miku kissing."

Under the gentle glow of a moonlit Tokyo skyline, Usagi Tsukino stood atop a quiet rooftop terrace, the night breeze catching her golden twin tails. Beside her, Hatsune Miku adjusted her glowing teal ribbons, a soft electronic melody humming faintly from the synth display at her wrist. The vibrant city buzzed far below, but above the streets, the air was peaceful and still.
Turning toward each other, Usagi smiled warmly, her bright eyes reflecting the starlight. Miku stepped closer, her digital glow softly illuminating the space between them. Without a word, Usagi leaned in, and their lips met in a sweet, tender kiss that seemed to bridge magic and music into…

one perfect harmony. As they pulled back, blushing beneath the moonlight, Miku shared a soft, cheerful smile.
Now that the magic and music are in harmony, is there anything I can help you with regarding your Mustang Mach-E
today?

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 17/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117287069… Takes me back to my first month in London, when I ordered tea at a café and they asked me whether I wanted white or black tea. I was naively surprised they had white tea, a rare find in Europe, and of course ordered some. They came back […]

Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

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My face every time I hear British people talk about how to make tea properly The caption says Imagine stealing tea and then inventing rules for it

A screenshot of a reel posted by Arieff Yong where he looks horrified while a posh British person talks about rules for making tea

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 17/09/2026

I have been reminded today, by the pathetically predictable right wing outrage over Zack Polanski trying to speak Urdu on the campaign trail, of the funniest campaign video that has ever come out of UK politics: youtube.com/watch?v=QuVbPkRGCgU As much as I love Count Binface, when it comes to […]