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Kai @gnarly-parker.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
🐜⚔️🏇🏼 "Not Now, Giant Mutant Ant Apocalypse" was released at the @deadline_demoparty Oldschool Graphics competition (2nd place) #Amiga #Demoscene #PixelArt
Fantasy pixel art piece showing an armored horseman facing two giant ants in the mountains while two other persons on foot try to escape the monsters.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117… I love how this waxes poetically how "The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point." My brother in christ: Then you shouldn't be […]
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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
I don't get the argument that public institutions "have to be where people are". Why? Pornhub has about the same amount of monthly active users as X. No one thinks our EU commissioners or the Swedish parliament must be on Pornhub. In the pre-socials era no one expected the prime minister to […]
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
«I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and or a ramp. But a ramp is boring. You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. You can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp. You can’t get […]
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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
can't help getting astrology × audiophile vibes from llm enthusiasts: "oh no honey you can't use opus 4.8, it's so nerfed, try glm-5.2 or the codex 5.5, they have a warm gemini sound, very well rounded on details and tone. but don't use google's gemini models, they are really leos, they have […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI": "Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not […]
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026
no post has ever made me feel more seen than this one.
The classic:
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.
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io @io.hci.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
RE: chaos.social/@mattgrayyes/116120182… cc @peterpur
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
"This news has moved me from "maybe computer use should be regulated" to "Butlerian Jihad Now" on the radicalisation scale." (Original title: The Steam Machine Has Been Delayed Because Stupid Little Babies Can't Stop Using AI To Write Their Emails) […]
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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?
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io @io.hci.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
this is an amazing idea! sauropods.win/@futurebird/115718220…
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myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
Why do schools have dances? Why do many high schools host parties, sometimes inter-school parties at the school? A school isn't just a machine that puts knowledge into people's brains, it's an organization of people. And those people will want to celebrate together from time to time. This WILL happen. "official" events can be more inclusive. But also for young people it's a part of social education, providing some baseline for how you interact with other people. 1/
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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 04/12/2025
In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters. Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters. The result (or maybe […]
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025
Who could have figured out that automatically downloading half the internet and ten thousand always-changing dependencies every time you build could actually be a weakness?
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025
Surely the alligators will never eat MY face.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025
No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.
Webpage popup saying “We need to talk about your ad blocker”Safari’s privacy report for the same page showing that it prevented 10 trackers from profiling me.
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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025
“I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems — we quantify things, as if converting human suffering into Excel cells might render it more manageable.” Via @gvwilson […]
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025
JD Vance’s handlers: “Well, he really shat the bed with the Zelenskyy meeting and the Ohio State football team photo-op, let’s get him a meeting that even he can’t fuck up, like with the Pope.”
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io @io.hci.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IGB9uuetrzA what a week! #Golf #GrandSlam
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2025
Venus is pretty big and has an atmosphere, really too much atmosphere. What about we two Venus out from the sun a bit and let it cool down so we have another nice world. There is lots of room in the window of Earth's orbit. Wouldn't that be easier than trying to terraform Mars which is too small […]
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Gabriele Svelto [moved] @gabrielesvelto.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2025
We should call out the press for using the term "vaccine skeptic" because it's absolutely ridiculous. One that denies reality is not a skeptic, they're a loony.
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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2025
I am reminded of the old debate on how to pronounce “gif” (everyone knows it’s the same as “gift” without the “t”), but not enough people talk about how “png” is pronounced “Pyongyang” and I think that is unfortunate
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io @io.hci.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025
cc @peterpur mastodon.social/@derrickb/113934733…
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Derrick (@derrickb@mastodon.social)
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com Just had a thought. Self-driving car software like Tesla's recognize speed limit signs via the car's camera array and adjust their speeds accordingly (+10 KM/H because hey laws are just a suggestion, right?). As autonomous cars become common what if cyclists started wearing jackets with a 20 KM/H speed limit sign printed on the backside? Alternatively print a large orange construction cone on the back since a car is unlikely to give a cyclist space but they are scared of cones.
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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2025
I hate life
A screenshot of a YouTube video about how someone lost their freelance writing job due to artificial intelligence. Below that, the video and its sad story about being replaced by artificial intelligence, is summarized by an artificial intelligence.

The exact Video is by Alex Wei and the title is: “Happy 2025. I lost my Freelance Writing Job to AI.” The video's thumbnail shows a person looking mad with text above saying “TOOK MY JOB.”

The AI-generated video summary is preceded with the warning “Quality and accuracy may vary.” It's summarized “The speaker shares their experience of losing a freelance writing job to Al. They discuss how the company they worked with gradually transitioned to using Al-generated content, ultimately replacing their need for human writers.

The speaker reflects on the implications of this for the future of work and the potential for Al to disrupt even creative fields.”
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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2024
Do you have a big monitor and often lose your mouse pointer on the screen? Are you in denial about being old enough to turn on mouse trails? Well, I have the solution for you! A desk kitten! Desk kittens can locate your lost mouse pointer in […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
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Niléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 24/12/2024
This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here Frohe Weihnachten
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