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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@Hex Curiously, there's another organism active at present on planet #Earth that is systematically poisoning the air it breathes, to the extent that it (and sadly, most other complex lifeforms) are likely to be extinct within a very short period. The name of this organism escapes me for the […]

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Plsik (born in 320 ppm) @plsik.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@Hex Yeast also multiplies rapidly in an environment rich in sugar. Its byproduct is alcohol, which ultimately kills the yeast. Because it has no self-regulating mechanism.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

iLands is just a spam generator and that ActivityPub server is wasting CPU (perhaps also GPU), memory, storage and bandwidth for absolutely zero good reasons. it's essentially no better than a bunch of ordinary bots doing a truncation of `cat /dev/random` as posts and replies.

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Michael Graaf @michaelgraaf.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@Hex For this reason, always substitute "degenerative" instead of "generative" in this context.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Boosting with a cw of sexual violence (which is, perhaps, implied by the screenshot).

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"community for me and not for thee" is the soul of the fascist program. Keep your enemies isolated, and your allies united.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Capitalists: "People are driven by greed. They won't work without some kind of personal incentive, like money." Ok, cool, but do you know what "a baby" is?

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: social.coop/@coopcloud/117367491305… Co-op Cloud is a really unique project that blurs some of the lines around what open source is. It's both a toolset and a federation, software and community, that can't really be disentangled. It is an exercise in community management, in […]

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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date! **Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in…) A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was a wonderful discussion with The Gunpowder Coven. Check out the latest with moi in episode 13! allmylinks.com/the-gunpowde...

The Gunpowder Coven: episode 13 - the warmest cold open, the nomad games, bisexual pose moonie, himbos, and social media pits featuring tacticool girlfriend.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It occurred to me that "AI" is following the Walmart model. If they could keep token prices suppressed long enough to kill everyone able to use their brain, then they can recover the losses by being the only provider of those skills. It looks to me like a move to swap LLMs for oil as the main […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

When the Devil and His Advocates speak they often speak true things, but we must consider the context. The many food pantries of the world aren't getting fancy new "AI Powered" systems to help them route perishable food items to feed more people. They are just doing their best while deeply […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

You know flying is bad for the environment. But it that hasn't gotten you to shy away from flying maybe the new AI powered air traffic control might. And The Devil Said: "But there are applications for LLM algorithms in routing and traffic control that could lead to greater efficiency when […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/… There's a bit of context behind this that's worth being aware of, and I'll do my best to explain it second (or third) hand. Abiy Ahmed has been the prime minister of Ethiopia since 2019. He was quite popular initially, but has […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: aus.social/@Unixbigot/1173125739386… I’ve been using and evaluating alternatives to Raspberry Pi for many years. Hit me up if you want a single board computer reccomendation. I also have a bunch of alternatives in stock leftover from reviews and projects. Finally, if you’re […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@Hex/1173016007442… If you were wondering why noblogs got taken offline...

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/11… Mutiny in the Army and Navy has been a key element of historical revolutions, most notably the Russian and German ones. The military is largely drawn from marginalized people but largely commanded by privileged people who could go […]

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Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 @ogjester.pnw.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

While Macklemore gets kicked off a tour for saying that oppressed people should be free, Kanye West is on tour, fresh off the release of his song, “Heil Hitler”. You can catch him at Reliant Stadium in Houston, AT&T Stadium in Dallas, and State Farm Stadium in Phoenix, because all those venues […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Honestly, I really like writing code. As I'm writing, I think about ways to put things together, ways things could change. I run across awkwardness that reveals internal design problems. Just sitting and writing code puts my mind in a really calm and creative place. An LLM just slams out code […]

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

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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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: social.seattle.wa.us/@divestspd/117… Which again, is the reason cops exist. In the North, they developed to be a publicly funded private army of guards for capitalists who wanted to externalize the cost of maintaining massive wealth disparity through violence. (In the […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

This is the petroleum age. It orders our world. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex that maintains the global hierarchy. Cars are not only a symbol of social hierarchy, but a mechanism to maintain it. That age must end if humanity is to survive. When it ends, the wealth […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A lot of people don't know there's two fundamentally different types of PTSD and/or have heard the terms but don't understand the distinction being made. There's "standard" PTSD, which I'll call "simplex" PTSD, and "complex" PTSD, which you'll see written C-PTSD. - Simplex ("normal") PTSD […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I can't believe I lost over a million followers for saying that billionaires are bad. Please boost and follow me if you agree billionaires are bad.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

“Now that we’ve gotten everyone vaguely scared, we think this is the time to propose solutions, namely massive third party oversight which we will pay for and control, gatekeeping of smaller competitors, toothless government legislation which we’ve already paid President Trump to let us write […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/117270282547… I think this is the correct answer. "Quick! Force us to slow down so we have an excuse to reduce our spend before we run out."

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@Hex/1172575811513… I agree with this take and I mostly agree with hex’s politics, but this is becoming a pet peeve: “destructive optimization of meaningless metrics in service of pleasing an authority distant from material reality” is not “capitalism”. Read […]

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Licho @licho.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@Hex i like how this idea plays with the Francois Cholet idea of the existing super intelligences being human organizations, like science is a kind of super intelligence because it's collectively smarter than any single human being. Capitalism being a paperclip maker optimizer super […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Let's actually talk about the "AI destroying the world" thing. One specific apocalypse scenario is the "paperclip maximizer" problem. The scenario goes that a super intelligence is tasked with maximizing the number of paperclips produced by a company. Because of a thing called "instrumental […]

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 fucked me up in some really unique ways. It's been 25 years of undoing the fear and shame and learning to love myself. Thankfully, I think I've done a great job in spite of everything I've been up against.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

RE: dair-community.social/@emilymbender… I'm just going to point out that this is also only a slight variation on how liberals and conservatives talk about and formulate governments.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: todon.eu/@CrimethInc/11724340472834… The monarchs of the Russian Empire were well aware, more than 200 years ago, that freedom anywhere was a threat to empire everywhere. That's why European autocrats formed The Holy Alliance in 1815. But the corollary is also true: empire […]

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 10/09/2026

Recognizing that federation and decentralization (both in the political and networking sense) are the most resilient methods to build out our infrastructures for the distribution of grassroots knowledge work. A plurality of approaches and methods need to be used.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-a… "Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@Hex/1172398072492… I'm gonna bump this for the US morning crew, since y'all are who need to be thinking about this even more than us across the pond (for now).

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Like a lot of other folks, I'll be trying to figure out how to move some #noblogs content somewhere else. In all the frenzy, we've talked about how the left is being targeted. That's true, but it's also important to understand exactly how they got away with attacking A/I... #USPol

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

> Tesla put its breathtakingly ugly Cybercab on Austin streets Thursday: it has no steering wheel, no pedals, and no door handles. Tesla published an emergency guide on its website telling first responders the robotaxi can be pushed to clear a lane, but warns that pushing it over 5mph risks […]

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