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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

The Trump administration is threatening Europe with economic retaliation for trying to reduce its dependence on Musk's Starlink. Europe wants technological sovereignty, and Washington responds with threats. From satellite communications to cloud services […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a Financial Times article headlined “US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions”. The subheading reads: “Ambassador Andrew Puzder warns about ‘devastating’ retaliation if Brussels goes ahead with plans to limit spectrum access for non-EU companies.” Below the headline is a photograph of Elon Musk, holding a medal in an open presentation case, standing beside Donald Trump. American flags are visible in the background.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

LLMs are machines that turn software engineers into gambling addicts. #ai #LLMs #gambling #SoftwareEngineering

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If "AI" were a mere tool and not a political narrative you wouldn't need to headline "X used AI to do Y" all the time. Anything anyone does while "AI" is involved must reify "AI"'s power and relevance. Because it's not "just a tool", it's a bigger project of disenfranchisement some willingly […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Linux kernel goes full AI slop code, hides chatbot commits ‘The kernel project only wants serious developers. That includes having access to enough resources to function in this world’ […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Linus Torvalds greets his friends at Nvidia, 2012

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

🇪🇺 Private chats and emails reported via #ChatControl 1.0 are ending up in #Palantir systems - scandalous! This includes direct messages on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, as well as emails via Gmail. Details […]

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The Heart of the TARDIS @theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org · 10/10/2026

#meme #memes

$\@ Cat Damon @CornOnTheGoblin [telling a joke to a classroom] what does a cowboy cat say? kindergartener: kitty up [about to say meowdy] meo- what the fuck did you just say$

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mcc @dryad.technology · 13/10/2026

ME: One of the big problems in building a post-Linux, non-AI operating system stack is it's very hard to make open-source graphics acceleration drivers for NVidia cards specifically. NVidia: Wehhhh we don't wanna make graphics acceleration cards anymore ME: … Did this just get easier

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

do you or have you worked at a place like this? what’s been your experience of it? how are mandates enforced? get in touch privately, securely, and anonymously (if that’s your preference) via signal (nathangrayson.666) or proton mail (aftermathdotsite@proton.me). my DMs are also open

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

🎶 "How lucky can one gal be" "Ah kissed her and she kissed me" "Like a filly once said" "Ain't that a buck in the head?" 🎶

A partial screenshot of Applejack singing, from the "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" season 1 finale, "The Best Night Ever".

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[Politiskt gnäll] @doktorzjivago Söker en tidsmaskin så jag kan åka tillbaka till 1996 och ge Göran Persson en smäll på käften.

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#07 (2026-10-06) #WinterWitch A fairly simple adventure game that tells an equally simple, but heartwarming, story about a witch who has returned to the enchanted forest where her mother used to live in order to search for... something. Venture out […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A screenshot of Winter Witch. The game uses simple, monochrome, hand drawn-looking sprites in cel shaded-looking, simple 3D environment where black objects stand out from the off-white, snowy landscape.

The titular winter witch is standing in front of her cabin in the woods wearing a coat and pointy hat in black, as well as a white scarf. She is holding and observing a pocket watch.

A screenshot of the inside of the Winter Witch's cabin. The witch had switched to lighter, in-door attire and is sitting on her couch with he cat Merlin on her lap. Merlin is a good cat.

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

D#01 (2026-10-01) #CastlevaniaBelmontsCurse #demo Belmont's Curse feels like it's following the post-Hollow Knight trend of more difficult combat in Metroidvanias, but I did manage to defeat the game's first (and the demo's only) boss after a handful […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A screenshot of a portion of Belmont's Curse's map screen at the start of the game. The map is focused on an area called the Central Sewer Drain in the Paris Streets, with a listed objective of "investigate the streets of Paris."

A screenshot of Rose and Trevor Belmont standing at a dock/harbor in Paris. Trevor is remaining in their small boat while Rose has stepped onto the wooden structure otherwise populated by crates and debris. Notre Dame and many burning houses are visible in the background.

Trevor says:
"There's a darkness here I haven't felt in a longtime. Not since Wallachia twenty years ago when Dracula returned."

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

As a response to your prompt, the LLM gives you the words that are statistically most likely in the order that is statistically most likely, given its training texts. That's all it does. It's artificial but not intelligent. You're reading a mind into the LLM output just the same way as you […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Amiga 40 has been really cool until now but there's just one thing that bugged me, and it's not something specific, but something I saw in other retro scenes. The (fortunately not frequent) use of AI-generated images. Please, please, please don't do that. Finding one in this context feels like […]

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 03/10/2026

hiiii i’m making a website (finally), send me your 88x31 buttons please 👉👈

an extremely work in progress xyla website

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 28/09/2026

drugs, ?????

Wine (from a Wikipedia-style site)

Wine is an alcoholic drink made from
fermented fruit (typically grapes) which causes
Linux users to enter a mental state that allows
them to run Microsoft Windows applications in
their mind.

[photo]
Red and white wine, served in cool glasses.

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Bob Downie @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

A timely safety reminder from Natalie Horberg 🤔 #roadsafety #drivinglaw

Cartoon of two women in car front seats. In front of them is a modern touch screen typical of modern cars. Caption is of the passenger saying to the driver "Remember it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead use the giant iPad built into the car".

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#06 (2026-09-24) #BluePrince Didn't plan on playing this, but my brother got it recently and it became awfully tempting to play it due to Steam's family library feature. Really interesting puzzle roguelite that tasks you with exploring and solving […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A screenshot from Blue Prince. The player is standing in front of a breaker box in the Utility Closet room. From top to bottom, the box features the following:

A large keycard entry system switch, set to "on".

The text "V.A.C. indicators" just above a series of colored lights, which (from left to right) are set to off, blue, green, white, red, and purple.

Lastly is a space for four small flip switches indicating the power for different rooms. Gymnasium is set to off, Dark Room is on, Garage is on, and the last sign is scratched out with the switch itself missing from its slot.

A screenshot of an ending screen from a successfully completed run through the game.

On the left side is an image of the game's mansion, visibly consisting of various rooms the player has played during this run. Below is an image of a shovel and text that reads "Mt. Holly, your new home", along with stats.

On the right side is the map of the current run, with 39 out of 45 rooms filled in, plus a root cellar listed as an "outer room".

In the upper-left corner, the game indicates that this run was on day 18.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22/09/2026

Goodbye, Lara isn't "losing chess to a dog" levels of queerbaiting, but it is just as disappointing: aftermath.site/goodbye-lara-y...

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Having Opinions about specific versions of LLMs feels a lot like Knowing Your IQ. Like, I understand that you believe it's important, but it's telling me much more about you than you think it is, and not in any kind of good way

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Maarika @themaarika.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The intro chapter of my new visual novel That Bitch Stabbed Me is OUT NOW! 🎉 Features Valerica Tepes - imagine if Vlad the Impaler was a lesbian vampire who was having a bad day and taking that out on two humans bc they mentioned her ex. 🗡️Download it here: www.patreon.com/Maarika/post...

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That Bitch Stabbed Me - VN 🗡️ 1:0 Intro launch | Maarika

Hi!!!!! PLAY THE INTRO CHAPTER OF TBSM!! The intro chapter of TBSM is now completed! This is the adaptation of the last ten or so pages of t

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We 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]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 15/09/2026

What really caused the video game crash of 1983? aftermath.site/podcasts/you-a...

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The wealthy parents behind the curtain

A four-panel comic:

Panel 1: A magician on stage dressed in a tuxedo, flourising a top hat, tells the audience "And for my next trick ..."

Panel 2: The magician pulls a document titled "DEED" from his hat, and a woman with two children appears next to him, as he tells the audieince "I'll purchase a home on a single income while my partner stays at home to raise our kids!"

Panel 3: The audience applauses enthusiastically.

Panel 4: One audience member stands and points backstage, where an older man and woman are partiallyl seen holding a sack of money marked "$." The audience member shouts "I can see his parents financially assisting him behind the curtain!" The magician on stage has a guilty look on his face and drops his top hat.

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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM

Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

a list of games, developers and studios to boycott. handy! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628…

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

the French titles for Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves are making me laugh like an idiot. me when i'm posting about my virtual critters but i'm a little toxic about it

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

#05 (2026-09-09) #Shantae I got a Humble Bundle with most of the Shantae games as a late birthday present, so I figured I'd go back and actually play through the original game on my #3DS. I think my existing save was a decade old, and I probably […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

A screenshot of Shantae as she stands on an elevated stone path in the middle of a hot desert. To the left of her is a vibrant cactus, and to the right is a hostile scorpion-centauress.

A screenshot of a town scene in Shantae, extended vertically so that two screens worth of dialogue (or 4 lines) can be visible at once.

Shantae is standing with her back towards the player, talking to an undead woman within the game's zombie caravan.

The woman says: "Zombie guys are disgusting. They only like women for their brains!"

A screenshot of Shantae and the supporting character Rottytops in a zombie-infested bog. Rottytops is a tomboyish zombie girl who has detached one of her legs so she can use the protruding bit of bone as a "skeleton key" and unlock the gate to a dungeon area.

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Alright. Link and Zelda's faces look kinda weird (especially Zelda's), but other than that... I liked what I saw from the Ocarina of Time remake. I'm actually pretty excited for the game, which is something I couldn't say this morning. #TheLegendOfZelda #OcarinaOfTime […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

imagine fundamentally changing your security practices because a vendor whose product is notoriously responsible for a wide variety of embarrassing security incidents (far, far more than the number of vulnerabilities it’s ever “found”) tells you their product is really good for your security and […]

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J M Berntson @jedimb.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@asa.tsbalans.se Dags att lära barnen hur man använder kryptoplånböcker och NFT:er.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 04/09/2026

ArtStation has new owners, who are saying they want to 'put artists first' by protecting their art from AI scrapers: aftermath.site/artstation-own...

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've just seen this Peter Drucker management quote that I think encapsulates AI perfectly: > There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. A lot of people are using AI to automate processes that exist, instead of asking what the process accomplished in […]

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