We should build a federated LinkedIn alternative. I think the purpose of LinkedIn is legitimate - there is a need for business-focused social networks. But LinkedIn is just a steaming hunk of garbage.
LG Quietly Installs Microsoft Copilot on Its Smart TVs—And You Can't Delete It
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/162044/lg-quietly-installs-microsoft-copilot-on-its-smart-tvs-and-you-cant-delete-it
LG TV owners are not happy about the AI app showing up unannounced, becoming a permanent fixture on their homescreen.
Attendance at US-based science conferences is bouncing around this year but generally down. #AGU25 has ~10k fewer this year! I explored these trends for @nature.com@bsky.brid.gy — including solutions to keep conferences local & productive:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists skip key US meeting...
The surveys all point the same direction: rising anxiety, rising depression, rising rates of loneliness even as we've never been more connected.
How could this be, when we've gotten so good at giving people what they want?
Maybe because we've gotten good at giving people what they want in a way that prevents them from wanting anything worth having.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires-are-eating-your-life/
FLOSS_Stammtisch is Tuesday night in Mesa, Arizona
We meet monthly at 19:00 AZ time ( UTC-7 ) for conversation, food and drinks on the third Tuesday
Location - Boulders on Southern, 1010 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ
@PLUG #Stammtisch #LocalGroup #Arizona #PLUG #FLOSS_Stammtisch #Phoenix #Tempe #Mesa #PhxFedi #AZFedi #ActivityInThePub
Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems:
That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most immediate, day-to-day effect on your mental well-being? What would give you more spoons to tackle the rest?
ONE RESOLUTION AT A TIME. If you try to change fourteen things about your life at once, you'll get overwhelmed and give up within a matter of days and convince yourself you're not strong enough to change. But you are; the trick is to change ONE THING AT A TIME and focus on it until it's become easy.
If you have something sleep-related on the list... you should probably start there. Sabotaging yourself by staying up late is an extremely common problem among the type of person likely to be reading this post. Learning to Stop Doing That will make sorting out the rest of your life magically so much easier.
“I’m not American, so I don’t have to understand the systematic oppression and subjugation of black people, because it doesn’t interest me” has to be one of the stupidest shit I’ve heard on Fedi. But somehow it feels like it won’t be the last. I don’t wanna lose hope in humanity, but damn, it’s hard!
Anarchism has some problems as a theoretical framework, but its basic formula of:
- no masters above
- no servants below
- chuck a bomb at the czar every once in a while
Almost never fails to be correct.
POLL: do you care about your browser engine?
kinda crazy that we had an entire nationwide panic over fake "satanic ritual abuse" but it's a known fact that christian families regularly bully their queer / neurodivergent / etc kids to suicide and we all just collectively shrug our shoulders whenever it's brought up
@marcos los primeros eran baratos y luego subían los siguientes :).
Recuerdo que compré los primeros de caballos (porque venían con una cinta VHS), otros de piedras preciosas, insectos, ...
Anon Opin Live is nearly here. Come to the Leicester shows (12–13 Feb 2026). Bring your opinions - and your nerve. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole
*caution, cheesy seasonal self-promo post ahead*
Stuck on what to gift for xmas? What about the gift of creativity! I have digital print-at-home booklets for sale on Ko-Fi for just £5 each, and they will teach the giftee a new artistic skill 
There's How To Draw Mandalas:
https://ko-fi.com/s/056aaec512
Its companion, the Mandala Inspirations Pattern Booklet:
https://ko-fi.com/s/67ed5c4596
And How To Draw Celtic Knots:
I would like to cancel my donation.
The goals "Building the world’s most trusted software company" and "It will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions." are intrinsically contradictory.
LLMs cannot ever be trusted.
They are impossible to audit, and can be trained to have whatever bias the training organization would like to inject, and it is impossible for a third party to predict those biases.
Additionally adding a bunch of new code directly into the browser engine increases bugs that negatively impact the user experience and increase the risks for new security vulnerabilities.
Agentic LLMs are also intrinsically unsafe for security as there is currently no way to separate trusted commands from parsing application data. There have a continuous stream of ways for malicious actors to get their hostile commands to be interpreted by an LLM agent and executed.
Straight up we should not use agentic browsers.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/gartner_recommends_ai_browser_ban/
The only way to be protect against this attack is do not implement it.
If you ever come to your senses and remove the LLM integrations from Firefox I will consider renewing my donation.
Grok Caught Spreading Misinformation About Bondi Beach Shooting
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/162039/grok-caught-spreading-misinformation-about-bondi-beach-shooting
In a glaring error, Grok frames the video of a man disarming an attacker as footage of someone climbing a palm tree.
Just shipped something https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-12-15-sherlocked-before-it-was-born-lightbuddy
fascism relies on an inherent assumption that People Don't Change (and People Are Inherently Bad).
transition puts the lie to that immediately - which, if people -can- change, perhaps they can become not-bad too! which shows the fascist rhetoric to be hollow and teenage-emo-edgelord bullshit. they really dislike that.
lot of awful and insane stuff going on. but if you really want to have a brain bleed this holiday season don't lose sight of Stephen Miller's wife doing a video podcast with the FBI director and his gf about their love life
Being the director of the FBI and releasing a couples podcast while a mass shooter is on the loose is a wild choice
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qnd2lqn52ernybdfonq4mc43/post/3ma4mmgtixs24
RE: https://tiggi.es/@xoagray/115727423405122466
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