jbz
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@davidgerard they're going for peak torment nexus above all else.
can it compute? no way.
can it suffer in and endless hall of mirrors, unable to scream? but of course.
@decay a computer that can suffer too, i'm feeling the use case
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nothing like Lilly Wachowski calling out #HarryPotter fans for supporting #JKRowling and her trans #genocide crusade to get all the closet fascists on Mastodon and fediverse to come out of the woodwork. just went on a blocking spree on one of the posts about it.
been following and taking notes on the Biocomputing guys, who have a computing substrate that is or will be based on human neurons
now you might say "why" and "ew" and "the fuck"
me also
it's one pack of somewhat disturbing absolute fucking weirdos in australia they've been doing this since 2019?
they decided they needed biological computing
it does not of course work or do anything
they can only barely get any VC. if it was the hot new vc grift i'd have real material
what if robocop but dumb as shit
@davidgerard The VC money is being spaffed away trying to recreate The Terminator, while these guys are trying to recreate the Jamie Lee-Curtis disaster, Virus.
Rio is going to be something special. He luckily got to know Mo before he left, and he gets to know Kenny and Rushie too. All those teachings will be immensely valuable in the next few years as he makes progress in his career.
Rio's first start in UCL 🤩
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@siracusa @benmattison no it’s not, it’s a TV show. It’s also not two separate words. If there were a physical location that was a centre of sports and spelled that with two words, it would be referred to in running text as “the … Sports Centre”, like this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Sports_Centre
@whereami @benmattison I hope you’ll at least agree that the Scary Movie is, in fact, a movie. https://boxd.it/24CG
Scary Movie (2000)
but also like, what does that make us. a clueless moron accidentally precipitated the steep decline of a global empire
@sarahjeong.bsky.social Global empire has to be actively managed and developed. Egomaniacs who surround themselves with low-information yes-men tend not to be good at it, even though they think they are.
The US global empire has needed to be dismantled for a long time, although I pictured it happening with fewer food-safety issues.
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Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova from the Shared Safety Delegation.
We fondly remember the Shabbat we spent together recently in Israel/Palestine.
May the new year bring safety, equality, and justice for all — Palestinians and Israelis, our neighbors and ourselves.
@zkat a bunch of shitty racist and cruel trans girls managed to brigade a Black-run instance off of fedi, that's not in dispute. I'd rather see people working on building the culture that keeps that from happening. But bsky reducing fedi to "vantablack is shitty, don't go there," is frustrating.
@emma it’s true. I’m kinda over the throwing of grenades. I just complain about both places when their particulars bother me. Like the infuriating techie reply guys on here. Or the genAI-happy nerds over there
The gemini search engine that I am using locks up the whole host every time it rebuilds its index.
It is currently on a 24 hour cycle of crawl and rebuild.
The software is from geminispace.info, I call the software Gemini Universal Search, or GUS for short.
I think I am going to have to either stop the search engine entirely, and give up on the service, or, put it on another box, so that its charming behaviour of eating all the resources it can will lock up that box and not this one.
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❝ …she voted against the authorization to use force because she opposes giving the president the sole decision on when and where to make war. "I believe we must make sure that Congress upholds its responsibilities and upholds checks and balances. This is a representative democracy and it's our responsibility."
War, she believes, is not the most effective way to fight terrorism. ❞
» The Solitary Vote Of Barbara Lee - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/09/19/the-solitary-vote-of-barbara-lee/fb86aee7-3cc5-4cbd-98f1-e2650e545f42/
@rysiek theodora got that one first sorry
@davidgerard dang.
Memory fault (Core dumped)
Misty
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iPad/iPhone/Mac向けPDF読書アプリshelff、1.6.0をリリースしました。余白調整の機能がはいったよ。ページをトリミングして表示できる機能です
iPhone Duo対応もちゃんとやる予定
I don't want a foldable phone, I want the phone I bought in 2020 that worked flawlessly to not lag because somebody forced Liquid Glass on it.
With features like Live Rewind and Reference image and more client side scanning happening...when my devices die I'm gonna move to linux and alternatives for sure.
Machine Speed is a lie: stop trying to fight AI with AI
Marketing departments are screaming that attackers are moving at "machine speed" and only AI-powered defenses can stop them. But cyberattacks have always been automated, and proactive defense beats reactive AI.
https://malwaretech.com/2026/09/machine-speed-is-a-lie-stop-trying-to-fight-ai-with-ai.html
@malwaretech The talk those two openAI devs gave at the blackhat had the same conclusion: We build the tools that attack you and you must buy the defense tools (or tokens) from us because this is the only way. They did say this without any shame. Its like selling land mines to the attacker, buying a health company, and sending the sales team to the target country to sell wheelchairs and artificial limbs
🫧 socialcoding..
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Pessimism gets treated like intelligence. Optimism gets treated like a defect you grow out of.
Act like improvement is impossible and you stop trying. Then nothing improves, and you get to feel right about it.
Optimism is work you practice, or you guarantee the outcome you claim you were only predicting.
You're not an idiot for believing things can get better.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/you-are-not-an-idiot-for-believing
In case anyone’s still thinking “it’s just a Linux distro, how sinister could it be?”
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I know I can sound harsh when talking about the crazy clown posse that's taken over all these little Linux towns, but I just want the nonsense to end, I don't carry a grudge, and I will forgive anyone who earnestly want to return to the hacker creed.
[a weird AI-generated pic depicting him as some kind of Linux Jesus]](https://cdn.masto.host/crispsandwich/media_attachments/files/117/251/140/408/881/249/original/5b2ac0db1b7c9821.png)
@mattround This is mental-health-check territory.
@zkat look, if people want the centralized stark-fist-of-removal that BlackSky's mod team provides, then, no, fedi won't supply it because a mod decision has to propagate across instances.
@zkat a bunch of shitty racist and cruel trans girls managed to brigade a Black-run instance off of fedi, that's not in dispute. I'd rather see people working on building the culture that keeps that from happening. But bsky reducing fedi to "vantablack is shitty, don't go there," is frustrating.
