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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

And despite what Labour would have us think, Israel is STILL getting weapons for their genocidal wars from the UK #UKPol #UKPolitics #Labour #Israel

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Dilman Dila @dilmandila.mograph.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

This is depressing. Perfectly good alternatives to all Adobe have existed for many years and are used at pro level, but someone hallucinates some code with claude (which I hear was trained on code of programs like gimp and inkscape) and suddenly everyone is raving about it being the end of Adobe […]

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is not just an AI problem but a general tech/private equity management vibe problem we began to encounter when those guys moved into Hollywood due to either money or streaming dominance. Small top-heavy staffs who don't go to set don't make future show runners.

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Mud Road @fredb.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Listening to Eric's Trip, Purple Blue.

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Mud Road @fredb.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

AQI over 200 for the fourth day in a row. Moving between rooms with air-filters like a hamster in one of those habitats.

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Mud Road @fredb.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Been a while, so I'll re-post this.

Book Cover for The Garden, by Fred Biggar. A line-drawing of a stick man gazing up to a large red-square flower on a tenuous stalk 'growing' from a green patch to his right.... The blurb: "Seeking to ride out the chaos of the pandemic in more familiar territory, the author and his partner secured a seat on one of the last Australian Government flights out of Mumbai, a decision that would see them separated for almost a year. Within a few months, having left the twenty-fourth floor of an apartment building in Mumbai, he passed through a half-dozen dark and empty airports to finally wash-up in a garden in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Isolating from the world, his partner and ultimately himself, he says, "I tried to make some sense of it in this collection of text based drawings/paintings. They seem to me the residue of a thirty-five year search for a place to call home, without ever really finding the right word for it."

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Mud Road @fredb.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

That special feeling you get when your specialist says, "Well I've neveer seen that before."

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Advanced Programming in the #UNIX Environment The objective of this class is to learn and understand the interfaces, libraries and concepts we cover as well as to actually write code. This requires struggling with code, to work your way through your problems […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Screenshot of lecture slides "Use of AI":

LLMs are inherently problematic:
Based on unapologetic exploitation of Intellectual Property
Reinforcement of biases and power structures in the training set (GIGO)
Concentration of power in the hands of a small number of US companies
Convergence on Meh
Reckless practices by AI companies, including attacks on other companies and generation of CSAM
Your use of AI helps AI companies make better autonomous killing machines
Massive environmental impact and exacerbation of global warming

Screenshot of lecture slide "Ethics aside..."

AI can be useful when writing code, but the code is generates requires scrutiny.

Being able to identify problem with somebody else’s code requires you to be able to fully understand the code, the problem space, the constraints, the edge conditions.

LLMs generate plausible looking code, but reviewing and debugging code that intuitively looks correct requires double the effort and experience — i.e., not a task for junior developers.

In order to supervise AI, you need to fully understand the problem you’re trying to use AI to solve.

Screenshot of lecture slied "Don't be a Meat Proxy"

Meat proxy
A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

If all you do is paste problem statements into the LLM and copy/paste the response… then why do we need you?

Being a meat proxy is not a skill; it’s the choice of reducing your value and offer yourself up as tribute.

Screenshot of lecture slide "Use of AI"

Telling AI to write (code) is not the same as learning to write (code). You can only get better at writing (code) by actually writing (code), kind of badly at first, struggling with it, and figuring out what works.
Using AI to complete your coding assignments is like asking somebody else to go to the gym for you. You’re here to learn, to exercise, to build muscle.

The use of AI in this class is strictly prohibited.
This includes writing emails, READMEs, or other text.

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/use-of-ai.html

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

A lot of what we know about them is from satires from the times when everyone got tired of them. And that makes what they were really about a little hard to understand.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Gun-friendly Wyoming has a “stand your ground” statute that allows people to use force to defend themselves. So why is a trans woman being prosecuted after being shoved to the ground? When Rihanna Kelver goes on road trips or ventures out alone to photograph the rural night sky, she often packs […]

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Always read the footnotes: "If I was somehow CEO at a hospital or civil engineering firm, I would not for a second think it's my place to start mandating specific procedures or building techniques w/out explicit agreement from the professionals on staff –how […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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5. This is always baffling to me as a matter of being a responsible adult. If I was somehow CEO at a hospital or civil engineering firm, I would not for a second think it's my place to start mandating specific procedures or building techniques without explicit agreement from the professionals on staff – how fucking clueless are the non-technicians who have attended a few talks and are now making mandates about how their extremely expensive professionals are doing their jobs?

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind." No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are included. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But […]

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amos @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

...horrifying message without context, thank you

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights. Or go sledding. And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate. Hmph.

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Bike West @bikewest.org · 15/01/2026

Maribyrnong got about 60m of protected lanes from the state pop up program. City of Maribyrnong removed that when they resurfaced. Other than WGTP on Hyde st. I'm pretty sure Maribyrnong is net negative protected lanes for the last 4 years.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

The Onion going hard in their year in review. "Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop" theonion.com/gang-initiate-forced-t… #TheOnion #humor #funny #ACAB

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G.I. Robot :bc: @guydudeman.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Ok this is from my wife’s facebook feed but it’s pretty rad: “In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following response is an open letter to […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them. "These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In […]

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Mitex Leo @ml.social.mitexleo.one.ap.brid.gy · 01/12/2025

Funny how ‘annexation’ becomes ‘changing the map’ when it’s an ally. The West’s vocabulary shifts faster than its principles. #Iran #Israel #Trump #War #Gaza #UN #USA #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #SaveGaza #Genocide #Uk #EU #West #Palestine #USPol #Zionism

A split image showing two NPR headlines. The top headline from September 30, 2022 reads: “Putin illegally annexes territories in Ukraine, in spite of global opposition.” The second headline, dated November 30, 2025, reads: “During the war in Gaza, Israel drastically changed the map of the West Bank.” Both have phrases underlined in red to highlight the difference in wording.

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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

"OpenAI uses as much electricity as New York City and San Diego combined, at the peak of the intense 2024 heat wave. Or as much as the total electricity demand of Switzerland and Portugal combined. That's the electricity of roughly 20 million people." #EnergyCrisis

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2025

This one needs to go viral. Aged well huh?

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The fact that we were conditioned to accept the mass killing of infants in Gaza and the fact that we are now witnessing toddler citizens be disappeared are related.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025

NYT - A video on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a Gaza mass grave, shows ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency lights on when Israeli troops fired on them […]

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PersonalEscrito @ubique.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2025

"Israeli occupation army has just killed 3 Palestinian children while they were playing east of Khan Yunis City." #EidMubarak #Palestine x.com/QudsNen/status/19062594134274…

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Mitch Wagner @mitchw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025

Every read-it-later app I see plus my RSS reader is adding AI summarization features. I don’t need an app to read for me; I have been reading since I was six years old.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

AI in education is also: - Extracting data to make even more services to sell back to institutions - Un-evidenced - Over-hyped - Fascism-adjacent - Under-researched - Under-regulated - Likely to increase (not reduce) teacher workload - Making schools/universities dependent on big tech companies ...

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2025

The first Canadian antifa: When most Western countries were ignoring the Spanish Civil War (fascism overthrowing a progressive Republic), Canadians volunteered by the thousands (illegally under CAN law) to go fight for freedom. On both sides of the border, let's […] [Original post on c.im]

Red flag with a raised fist over a red star (the symbol of the International Brigades) superimposed over a green maple leaf, all brackets by the years 1837 and 1937. At the bottom of the flag are the words "fascism will be destroyed."

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2025

@GottaLaff If you target the people who had to overcome overwhelming skepticism in their ability to do the job just to be seen as equal you’ll remove your most competent and skilled people. They aren’t there because anyone liked them, no, they are there in spite that because they can do the […]

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Nerd That Talks Good @jetsm00th.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2025

If your website includes "Build. Transform. Lead." or "Create. Connect. Succeed.," I have some bad news… That’s just "Live. Laugh. Love." for the enterprise. Three-verb taglines sound powerful, but they rarely say anything real. They’re placeholders. They're safe, familiar, and ... forgettable.

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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

I found this on the internet. It is very funny.

A picture of toadying Nazi shitcunt Elon Musk starring and one of his rockets.

Caption "SpaceX: continuing the proud American tradition of using Nazis to build rockets."

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2025

Amazing contribution from two substitutes there! Elliot's finish is perfect, but that goal is really all about Núñez. #LFC

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