Dear Fedi friends,

I want to share a discovery that made my MONTH.

10 days ago, while I was putting together the slides for my presentation at Berlin #FediDay, I noticed a new entry in the @cercle directory (the Mastodon instance set up by the Service Numérique of the French Ministry of Culture):

✨ @MuseeOrsay ✨

Ouiiiiii!

Paris' super prestigious museum - that welcomed 7.3 million visitors last year - is now on the #Fediverse !!! 🥳

Let's give Musée d'Orsay a warm welcome ❤️

A decade ago: someone on your timeline is telling you not to be worried about advancements in AI because it was going to result in fully automated gay luxury space communism. You ask them how we are going to switch to that from capitalism by using capitalism to do it and they link you to an article about UBI. Don't worry about it, you're going to have time to work on your code and art finally

Today that person is either fully disillusioned with all of it or is working at Anthropic

> Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans

Alert: You might be a prominent Rustacean without noticing

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/targeted-attacks/

@jrt
Ich glaube du hast da was missverstanden
Das ist "Security by de signe", solange Security drauf steht ist es doch secure

@adamgreenfield I mostly hate working out, and hate the need to do so (it is a need, these days), and the fact that I'm starting to actively enjoy part of it is a weird kind of frustration. I don't know if that makes sense.

You know what’s likely to end human life on Earth? A 3°–4° rise in global mean temperature. Let’s panic about that.

New cat just dropped

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-wild-cat-species-identified-rcna598113

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/meet-the-first-new-cat-species-discovered-in-100-years

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

Universal Pictures allegedly got cold feet over distribution of documentary "Musk," but it looks like they might be putting some fluffy socks on (folks, is this analogy working?). @THR reports that studio execs are now discussing releasing the four-hour documentary about Elon Musk after all. Here's the latest.

https://flip.it/DWPn0j

#Entertainment #Documentary #ElonMusk

@quixoticgeek Or did you just turn off an organic?..?..

@SpiritLady

I absolutely love this

@TheBreadmonkey That cat looks familiar. I took this photo in 2022 sitting in a coffee shop at Heathrow Airport.

BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

Portal Bridge Replacement Will Disrupt NJ Transit for 5 Weeks This Fall
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/nyregion/portal-north-bridge-final-phase-train-disruptions.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into New York @new-york-newyorktimes

Good morning. 🌻

My fight to keep my fully human, no-AI translation business alive is still going.

I translate. I teach. I work with actual words, actual context, actual people. No algorithmic word soup. No “close enough” machine sludge. No AI slop wearing a little business suit.

What would help right now is a little support with my running costs while I keep fighting to make this work.

If you’d like to support a tiny human business refusing to let AI eat its lunch, you can do that here:

☕ [https://ko-fi.com/thepurpleoctopus/goal?g=0]

Every coffee helps keep the lights on, the servers running, and one stubborn human translator at work. 💜

#HumanTranslation #NoAI #SupportSmallBusiness #AI #FreelanceTranslator

@ErikUden I think they are saying what they are going to do. For example by saying men have been kept out of the workplace they will use it as an excuse to keep women out of the workplace. It is intention of their manipulation of the angry men and an excuse to hate women.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sanjaymenon/117287889742468169

I’m really getting tired of seeing this. There’s nothing “private” about sending your personal data for processing in a cloud. Nothing. Never mind even the #mistral Microsoft deal. Mozilla provides built in local ai and should stick to that instead of lying to their users about privacy.

#firefox #mozilla #aicon

"Human in the Loop" is the new "Air Gap".

It's used as a common platitude of a security best practice...

...but does not, never has, and never will exist.

sounds like we no longer need the @eScienceCenter