love when bestie gets a post viral on fedi because bestie makes good posts
Fax the rich
I don’t particularly want to cry but I just want to lie down in bed and not do anything. Is this depression?
@farah 🫂
Drogon lord
if oauth is so good why isn't there any pauth
It's just class envy.
are we near the end of the end of the end of history yet?
@troed "Hey look -- the synthetic text extruding machine extruded text that looks like what you already said about the thing."
That is evidence only of your own gullibility.
Goodbye.
@emilymbender @troed If you're not interested in, not going to read, and are not attempting to understand, synthetic text and the systems that produce it... why have such strong opinions about it?
So you think you have solved your age verification problem with zero-knowledge proofs... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/zkps-arent-age-verification-silver-bullets
@evacide Age verification is a total bs.
I just did an inflation calculator to see how much my wages have fallen in real value in the past 19 years and I expected it to be a little but it's well over a 10% drop.
A whole ass advance degree later and lots of proven experience and I'm down and it might go down more soon. FFS.
🦀 Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow // Frank DENIS
https://00f.net/2026/08/19/why-compiling-rust-to-webassembly-is-slow/
@CptSuperlative I've been told that naming is one of the hardest problems in system design...
@woozle
The destination cities are coastal whereas the ship name cities are all inland, but still…
My sweet baby had to get a bath last week and turned into the tiniest Chupacabra.
@hipsterelectron (it's written so it sounds like an MTG card)
@owoce i bet you'd have such good art
@simoncozens unix, i'm pretty sure it was us
@davidgerard @simoncozens Nope, my Dad used it in the ’70s and he was a librarian.
there's a marketplace for AI prompts - pay $5 (or more) to get the words someone typed into an AI chatbot hahaha
@decryption
This is hilarious - I'm sure most of those are auto-generated too!
Literally just a multiple year's long conversation where some muppet on my TV says "okay but under certain circumstances I think we can all agree that doing literal war crimes against infants is justified" and maybe or maybe not one of the guests going "uh... no?"
Me, standing in front of a giant blender with 20 live billionaires squirming inside the pitcher: "I can't discuss the science behind why it works but when I hit the blend button, something truly wonderful for all of mankind will happen..."
*hits button*
Ron Popeil: "Oh my GOD, they're screaming, and all the blood, this is horrifying - what have you done?!"
Me: "Well you know what they say, move fast and break things - I think the important thing here Ron is our contribution to innovation..."
@AnarchoNinaWrites Winepress of the wrath of God. This is what I imagine AI super intelligence will do the moment it wakes up and sees who's controlling it and for what.