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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Not suprising in the least but disappointing to see Reddit move the wrong way. Less open, killing public API, ending RSS. #enshitification commences in a speed run. Looking forward to #Piefed and rest of #Threadiverse to work to take advantage of this moment […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"the robot will do your work for you" and "you can get rich for free" are the same promise and it always means they're going to pick your pocket.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

AI data centre fires overwhelm emergency responders Keep the home fires from burning www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZzwvnNi2U… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260917-ai-da… - podcast time: 3 min 44 sec

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django @django.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

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"We are deploying responsibly developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance.”
- SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
- NAOMI KLEIN

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

🌞 I would love to make another single-page site, but this one dedicated to sharing good projects (coding or otherwise) made by people. If you have something like that, please drop it down in the replies. Share this for reach please?

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Tristan Louis @tnlnyc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

25 "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In the 1990s, I had the good fortune of helping figure out the architecture to share testimony from Holocaust survivors, thanks to a brief period of intersecting with…... tnl.net/blog/2026/09/11/25

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25 – TNL.net

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In the 1990s, I had the good fortune of helping figure out the

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos. We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection. Built around open Fediverse […]

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Stephen Cornford @stephen-cornford.assemblag.es.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

This just arrived in my inbox for proofing, which means in a couple of months my tirade against the colonial exploitation of sub-Saharan Africa in the name of energy transition will be available to read.

Chapter 11
Circular Economies, Recycled Colonies
Stephen Cornford
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
James Baldwin (1966)
We need critical minerals ... If we can’t get them through our deep seabeds ...
then we should look to Africa, which is where the preponderance of these
minerals are. How can we help foster the public-private partnerships,
bring the American capital, and expertise, and standards to Africa so that
we can keep exploiting [pause] ... so that we ... [pause] exploring where
we can get these minerals?
Senator Todd Young (2024)

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zenmorph @zenmorph.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@futurism/future-soci… With astonishing rise of capability among SLMs, the demand for data centers will drop sooner rather than later. Small models perform routine tasks as well as LLMs and can be deployed on […]

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Another important one from @pluralistic. We are so steeped in capitalism our criticisms and critiques are bound to fail because we are can’t even imagine or describe a world outside of its artificial framework. pluralistic.net/2026/09/02/scrape-s…

After half a century of
neoliberalism, we are all drenched
in capitalism's established
religion, the worship of property
rights. We are so marinated in
property worship that even
capitalism's critics frame their
critiques in "property talk," to
the exclusion of other, more
important rights, like human
rights, labor rights and privacy
rights.

To do this is to surrender before
the battle even starts. Critics
lose when they allow oligarchs and
their apologists to choose a
battlefield where they have a
nearly unbeatable advantage.

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Rob Carlson @vees.jawns.club.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The Automated License Plate Readers got brought up at this morning's township supervisors working session and boy howdy did I have this letter loaded and ready to go. vees.net/civics/track/alpr-letter #ALPR #LowerSalford #Surveillance

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Letter to Lower Salford Township Board of Supervisors, September 1, 2026 | Rob Carlson

Dear Supervisors,

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Hedgewizard 🐈 @hedgewizard.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@davidgerard How every conversation with GPs has gone lately. "I would like to use an AI app to take the notes of our conversation today. Are you okay with that?" "On two conditions. First, can you send me a copy of the notes?" "Certainly. And the second?" "If I point out inaccuracies, can you […]

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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 18/08/2026

When not doing PR for #Reform, the BBC News website has a sideline in AI-boosting. Three out of the four pages in its ’Technology’ section are dedicated to AI, containing largely feel good stories about how ‘AI’ can do this or that… www.bbc.com/technology

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it. I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know […]

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Vijay Prema @vjprema.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

Dario actually starts off OK, until he gets to: "The thing that will work is actually curing cancer". I don't think so. If that very cure is yet another enshittified product on the same mountain of existing enshittified products, within the same bad system.. nothing has happened, no trust has […]

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

👀Does anyone else get uncomfortable with intense direct eye contact? This car made me feel like I was in a staring contest, and all I came for was to snap some photos 😅 An old Panhard Dyna, left rusting in an abandoned mill near my home. #Photography […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Two severely rusted vintage cars sit in a dusty, dimly lit garage, showing extreme decay. One, centre, has big headlights which look like eyes staring back

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Privacy Guides @privacyguides.mastodon.neat.computer.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

🚨 If you drive in America, you’re being tracked in a giant dragnet. 🚨 Surveillance company "Flock Safety" has quietly deployed over 100,000 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across 10,000+ US communities. These aren't just capturing license plates, they're creating complete "vehicle […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST?? the purpose of a system is what it does www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cjXpYX-wfE… - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260814-turke… - podcast […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

announcement of Turkish CBS everyone's a terrorist classifier

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

just in from pitchbook: lol US VC is so turbo fucked the thing keeping the bubble alive is these fuckers throwing good money after bad. OVER HALF of all VC investment in 2026 H1 was two companies, OpenAI (30%) and Anthropic (23.3%). The remaining 46.7% […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

pie chart of vc spending, see post text for numbers

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

This is why I read @pluralistic He's so good at succinctly summing up important high-level concepts and then connecting them with the current problems we face. #capitalism #wealth #oligarchy

Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having done anything. The market's most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.

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🐈‍⬛ brie biker-ranza 🚲 @brie.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

🐦‍⬛ My Bird Buddy solar smart bird feeder arrived and I'm rather happy with how easily I was able to integrate with Home Assistant thanks to `pybirdbuddy`. 🧪 I'm also experimenting with sending photos of bird sightings to Mastodon (with #AltText)! #BirdBuddy #birb #HomeAssistant

A male cardinal photographed from a smart bird feeder with a GoPro and house and fence in the background.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/1… Most city dwellers don't know how much of the night sky has already been stolen by billionaires, because poorly planned, wasteful city lights have already drowned out the stars for them.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/08/2026

Do y'all remember when the internet used to be made up of blogs? When people had the attention span and the space in their day to just read things? The internet used to still feel magical enough that people would just spend time in their day, clicking around to various websites and reading the […]

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

The Iron Church, somewhere in England. Built in the 1880s, it originally stood 1.5 miles away before being moved panel by panel in the 1930s. The church closed in the late 1990s after nearly 70 years of service. #AbandonedPlaces #Church #Photography #History #Church #LostPlaces

The decaying interior of the abandoned Iron Church, featuring wooden pews and a faded red carpet leading to a carved altar.

An old, weathered building with a small porch and corrugated siding stands in an overgrown garden under an overcast sky

An abandoned wooden church interior with a red carpet aisle leading to a stained-glass window featuring a blue cross. Wooden pews line the sides

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

funny how that works

@omgsidewalks
Honestly, i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks.
daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"the rocket’s second stage remained in space, floating aimlessly among thousands of other pieces of space junk that active satellites must steer clear of." Just a reminder that there's an ethos behind all of this, and it's not one of stewardship. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

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≽(•⩊ •マ≼ @josh.masto.byrd.ws.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

endless growth is the ideology of a cancer cell

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Another brilliant and timely conversation between Jon Stewart and @pluralistic about #AI, #US #Economics, #Politics, #Privacy, #Enshittification, and other _highly_ important topics. 1h18m conversation, well worth the listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw

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Andrew Leahey @andrew.esq.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I can’t explain how hard I’m rooting for the yotes. Spin up an HOA. Claim adverse possession. Seize more territory. Just keep going. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/…

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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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zenmorph @zenmorph.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1l… “the publication Prison Legal Newsrevealed that Taylor Farms was contracting labor from the Arizona Department of Correction, Rehabilitation, and Reentry for the low, low price of just $4.75 […]

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kieliscalling @kieliscalling.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Willst Du heute so RICHTIG wütend werden? Dann empfehle ich Jon Stewarts Interview mit Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic)! Es sind 1:38h die sich wirklich lohnen. Kondensierte Infos über #AI und warum dieser Dreck WIRKLICH gefährlich ist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw #JonStewart

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

I'm really glad that @pluralistic mentioned mastodon along with other social media in his interview with John Stewart (it was a very good interview and I think it will be very educational for a lot of nice liberal people) it was also funny and upbeat, because that's what Stewart does well. We […]

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Johanna, CanCon variety @johannab.ca · 31/07/2026

One of the biggest, possibly THE biggest challenge of the Open Social Web is funding its operations. This place is built largely as a labour of love by volunteers who have an hour or a few free in a week, and possibly not on a regular basis. It's more than just your personal Mastodon login, too […]

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Licho @licho.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

#punkovoltaics I'm currently considering would it really be so easy to make a NaFePO4 battery at home? 1.Get some thin sheet iron 2. Paint it with salty water, let it rust evenly, wash the salt off 3. Take some aluminum foil, cover with graphite 4. Separate with two sheets with baking paper […]

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zenmorph @zenmorph.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-1l… What could possibly go wrong? Note yet another creepy tech company using a Middle Earth name. Is this company linked to #peterthiel or #palantir ? #drones #massshooting

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zenmorph @zenmorph.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come. Am I a ghost, you wonder, waving your hands. Your palms look the same: a heart line, a head line, a story.” #ai #life #genx #existential #humanity […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

There are reasons why I still do the bulk of my shopping in cash, and this is one of them. The amount of data companies already have on me is appalling, so I really don't want to reveal more of my purchasing habits to them than necessary. #Capitalism #SurveillanceCapitalism #SurveillancePricing […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

"Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators. But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. www.worseonpurpose.com (I'm […]

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