Reposted by Dan PhifferRobert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026I DO NOT LIKE THESE ROBOTS. — Becky Chambers www.otherscribbles.com/aizine #NoAIotherscribbles.comI DO NOT LIKE THESE ROBOTS. — Becky Chambers 106
Reposted by Dan PhifferErik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]social.coopOriginal post on social.coop 1319
Reposted by Dan PhifferJavier @javierarce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026This is probably both the best and the worst time to announce this, but for the past few months I’ve been building a vector drawing app, because the existing ones either don’t work for me, use deceptive subscription models, or both. The app is called […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 104
Reposted by Dan PhifferJ. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026How is everyone else respecting indigenous people's day today? I know many of you will use it to catch up with work & family away from the office, and that's wonderful. As a Guatemalan-American of Mam heritage, here are indigenous projects I admire. Maybe take a minute today to learn & donate? 202
Reposted by Dan PhifferBradley Momberger @air-hadoken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026The monster Charles Schulz created the torment chamber known as Peanuts to torture the entity Charlie Brown for five decades. Brown spent his existence an eternal child, unable to kick a football, win a baseball game, or earn the respect of his peers. In death, Schulz could no longer pile new […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 0111
Reposted by Dan PhifferSpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one 02898
Reposted by Dan PhifferJ. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026"What we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." Kate Manne with an important call to action for Cornell & higher ed in general […]social.coopOriginal post on social.coop 111
Reposted by Dan PhifferJ. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026When you think about it, why not express your admiration for surveillance technologies, efficiently introduced without the hassle of community consultation? fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learned-to-stop-…fnl.mit.edu 116
Reposted by Dan Phifferjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@doragasu/11732469… Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao 516127
Reposted by Dan Phifferjaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales] 1676259
Reposted by Dan PhifferDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026If you're in the US or Korea*, you can watch Ghost in the Machine RIGHT NOW on PBS' YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQzVLtvdv * no I don't know why Korea 022
Reposted by Dan Phifferjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026Man, that's just sad. 1821
Reposted by Dan PhifferChuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a one-year ban on the use of student-facing generative AI across the city’s public schools through eighth grade, and restrictions on the use of the technology in high schools. “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 1452
Reposted by Dan Phifferelle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 17/08/2026“…annihilating attention is a political project with clear benefits for the billionaire class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and therefore to […]mastodon.worldOriginal post on mastodon.world 024
Reposted by Dan PhifferBruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced. 114115
Reposted by Dan Phiffermyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026My husband asked me an interesting question and I'm still thinking about it. "What will last longer the NYC subway or the US interstate highway system?" After thinking about it for a bit I decided that this is just asking "Will NYC outlast America or will America outlast NYC?" NYC like other […]sauropods.winOriginal post on sauropods.win 628
Dan Phiffer @dphiffer.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026Passing the #SocialCoop moderator baton to @hollie. It’s been pretty quiet, but with an uptick in “already suspended on their server” reports. 000
Reposted by Dan PhifferDepths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026 380104
Reposted by Dan Phiffersky @scroeser.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026I think a lot about bell hooks writing that the first act of violence society demands of men is to cut out their own softness: "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic […]kolektiva.socialOriginal post on kolektiva.social 3359
Reposted by Dan PhifferStefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 06/08/2026The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProje…! "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project […] [Original post on stefanbohacek.online] 767172
Reposted by Dan PhifferScott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026Bill Watterson is both prophetic and universal (this was from 30+ years ago) 0112
Reposted by Dan PhifferDarius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026After experimenting with local LLMs for a couple years now, I'm excited to release my newest project: The Ethical Assistant! It provides all the benefits of an LLM assistant but with low energy usage, completely private, and no cost to use. tinysubversions.com/ethical-assista…tinysubversions.comThe Ethical AssistantGet the most important benefits of LLM assistants without the associated environmental costs, privacy risks, and economic brinksmanship. 5833
Reposted by Dan PhifferDan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026Learnt a lovely Dutch word: "natafelen". Literally "after-table-ing": sitting around chatting after your dinner, perhaps with a drink but maybe just sitting. A good phenomenon yet no word in English. #Dutch #words 4313
Reposted by Dan Phiffermyrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026RE: hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl/117022582520… I shouldn't be shocked, but this is really brazen.hachyderm.io 4014
Reposted by Dan PhifferNemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026The Wikimedia Foundation has declined to voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United, despite the union announcing majority support among eligible US staff. A new community petition calls on the Board of Trustees to direct the Foundation to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith […]wikis.worldOriginal post on wikis.world 1322
Reposted by Dan Phiffer2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026🔬 Astronomers have been using machine learning since the late 1980s, decades before ChatGPT existed. The earliest neural networks in astronomy classified stars vs galaxies on photographic plates. Here's what's interesting about how AI actually works in astronomy: The AI used in astronomy is […]dmv.communityOriginal post on dmv.community 016
Reposted by Dan PhifferDarius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026Discovered today that one of the most formative books of my childhood, Math For Smarty Pants (1983), is available as a full PDF online: arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/mat… It's not a super well known book, though I bet there are plenty of Fediverse nerds who loved it as much […]friend.campOriginal post on friend.camp 1211
Dan Phiffer @dphiffer.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026I do not wish to chat with my expense software, I do not wish to gossip with my 401k portfolio, I do not wish to go to the ball game with my home equity loan. 201
Reposted by Dan PhifferDarius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026My new favorite place to go for written recipes online is food company websites. They don't have the adware stack pop-ups or weird SEO stuff. Their monetization story is simple: they sell me ingredients, and providing recipes may cause me to buy more of their ingredients. The better the recipe […]friend.campOriginal post on friend.camp 3714
Dan Phiffer @dphiffer.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026Passing the #SocialCoop moderator baton to @3wordchant. I saw a handful of mod cases, but overall pretty quiet. 000
Reposted by Dan PhifferJ. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026> Attacks on trust & safety workers just doing their jobs are particularly concerning since Marco Rubio threatened his department “stands ready and willing to expand” the list of targeted researchers, Boasberg said. That’s why Boasberg paused the policy’s enforcement […]social.coopOriginal post on social.coop 102
Reposted by Dan PhifferMatt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026Trump's wishlist for election security "improvements" is a mix of actually good nonpartisan measures advocated for by experts (prioritizing the use hand marked paper ballots) and nakedly partisan restrictions on voting (cumbersome citizenship verification, restrictions on mail-in voting, etc) […]federate.socialOriginal post on federate.social 2134
Dan Phiffer @dphiffer.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026“The data center moratorium comes after state lawmakers this year passed a bill for another version of a yearlong ban on the facilities. That bill applies to data centers of at least 20 MW, smaller than those to which the governor’s action applies. If enacted, the legislation would also impose […]social.coopOriginal post on social.coop 001
Reposted by Dan PhifferErin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026Good morning from Kelpland. Perhaps you’d like to look at some beautiful seaweed and/or think about knowledge. www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating 138
Reposted by Dan PhifferDale Harvey @dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026We added a quickaction to manage AI in Firefox, so if you want to disable AI just type "disable AI" in the urlbar 013
Dan Phiffer @dphiffer.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026“On March 31, 1817, New York lawmakers passed legislation declaring that every person still legally enslaved in the state would become free on July 4, 1827. For the next decade, thousands of Black New Yorkers woke each morning knowing the date their legal enslavement would end, but not yet […]social.coopOriginal post on social.coop 000
Reposted by Dan PhifferKyle Memoir 🍉🐧 @f800gecko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026Still a fave... #mastodon #fediverse #comics 0167
Reposted by Dan PhifferJulia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026i finally wrote an interactive git branch switcher with fzf that I like using #!/bin/bash git checkout $(git branch | fzf | sed 's/^[* ] //') (it also uses `git branch --sort=-committerdate or something so the most recent branch is first) 147
Reposted by Dan PhifferJulia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026i love this blog post, it's always so difficult for me to think about timezone issues and this is such a great example of how the way you model time data depends on what you're doing! www.crunchydata.com/blog/british-co… (like, if there's an appointment at 4PM […]social.jvns.caOriginal post on social.jvns.ca 119
Reposted by Dan PhifferFrank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026Finland has more than 700 libraries for a population of 5.6 million, offering everything from podcast studios and 3D printing to tennis rackets and swimming pool passes. According to Vänttinen, the most borrowed items after books in Helsinki libraries are spaces: rooms that can be pre-booked […]mastodon.ieOriginal post on mastodon.ie 2968
Reposted by Dan PhifferDarius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026The ActivityPub Trust & Safety Task Force is looking for a new Co-Lead (I'm stepping down because I'm leading the Social Web Working Group now). Specifically we'd like someone with trust and safety experience! Doesn't have to be paid/professional experience (volunteer moderation workers […]friend.campOriginal post on friend.camp 0016
Reposted by Dan PhifferOblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026What to maintain? #ObliqueStrategies 022
Reposted by Dan Phifferjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026Assoc editor of Frontiers in Systems #Neuro: > Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out […]neuromatch.socialOriginal post on neuromatch.social 2235
Reposted by Dan PhifferJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026New: Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people. Seemingly every week there's a new case, the details usually similar. Cops use unfettered access to Flock to surveil an ex. They most often search their plates hundreds of times over course of months […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 1019
Reposted by Dan PhifferLaurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social] 4140181
Reposted by Dan Phifferink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026Lawfare Media recovered 5,772 pages deleted from the Department of Justice website related to the Jan 6 attack on the US Capitol. They built a standalone archival viewer of the extracted content that links back to the Wayback Machine: lawfaremedia.github.io/jan6-doj-arc… (sadly the […]merveilles.townOriginal post on merveilles.town 000
Reposted by Dan PhifferBen Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026"The story of one couple’s long battle with their health insurer — and the little-known tool buried deep in their insurance coverage booklet that helped them finally win." This should not be a thing, but I'm glad my colleagues at @ProPublica were able to tell this story […]werd.socialOriginal post on werd.social 0012
Reposted by Dan Phiffertante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_. Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost? 5772