My aging Google Assistant has started saying “We can now discuss complex issues. Just say let’s talk to begin.” But it always replies “Let’s talk to begin” to anything I say. Is this some stochastic parrot AI in-joke?

Physical therapist: "Do you have any resistance bands at home?"

Me: "Are you thinking more Rage Against The Machine, or, like, Woody Guthrie?"

Physical therapist: 😑

We've had to move to this new Mastodon instance as our previous one is closing soon. Historic posts can't be carried over, so it looks a bit quiet here right now!

A 3M factory explodes do to gas detectors that were not properly maintained.

3M hires an investigator to *wink wink* determine who is at fault.

Sitting in traffic, said investigator tells ChatGPT to write a report that proves 3M is at 0% fault for the explosion.

Yep.

https://youtu.be/w2fv664Ndf4

¿Fui a la #FeriadelLibro el sábado pasado con gente linda de #MastodonCR? Si, sí fui. ¿Voy a volver hoy porque se me escaparon libros que comprar? Afirmativo 😁😁

KI ist das Asbest der Informatik

Dotemu just dropped a free Bomberman clone full of bugs! 🪲️ 😉

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3069340/Blasterbug_Last_Bug_Standing/

#gaming #pcgaming #retrogaming #freegames #freegame

The last post I retooted about how to find a decent #VintageBike made me wanna post about mine. I have no idea how it ranks in the minds of vintage #bike enthusiasts but it’s a Shogun steel frame I believe made in Japan in the 80s, originally set up by my old friend @voiceofunreason. One of the many reasons I love this little tank is because of the shorter cross bar. In searching for a bike that fit me, I learned I have longer legs and a short torso compared to the “average.” (1/3)

@ggtr1138 I open a lot of shells

Even by Star Trek standards, the latest Strange New Worlds has an impressively poor concept of scale: we are trying an experimental long-range transport to another ship 30,000 km away. The nearest ship is two days away. Making the top speed of a Federation starship around 625km/hour, or a bit slower than the speed of a commercial jet.

@kineticdiplomacy In 2019 past me agreed with you and wrote this.

https://blog.paoloamoroso.com/2019/07/indieweb-some-assembly-required.html

We have just published our very first alpha version of transcribee desktop 🥳. https://github.com/bugbakery/transcribee/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Transcribee is an open-source semi-automatic transcription software that we are working on.

If you are transcribing audio (for example for social science interviews) or would like to (for example for making podcasts or other recordings more accessible), we would be very happy if you try transcribee desktop and tell us how it goes!

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@fuzzyleapfrog einerseits bin ich froh, dass die Zeiten vorbei sind. Ich sammle in 5 Tagen meist nur 100 Emails an.
Andererseits werden die ergänzt durch die Gruppenchats.

Neofeud 2 is my #cyberpunk game where an ex-robo-marine & a rebel hacker struggle against CEO-King trillionaires & an empire on its last legs. Neofeud 1 & 2 are both on #Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/ #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame #retrogame #NoAI #scifi #art #artist

Hanging onto summer a little longer thanks to Craig & Karl 🌞

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/craig-and-karl-under-the-sun-dubai-installation/

#art

Two neo-Nazi teens arrested in #Florida with weapons, explosive materials, white supremacist literature, and tactical gear with slogans such as "1488" that resembled previous mass far-Right killings such as that of Brenton Tarrant, who killed over 50 people at a mosque in New Zeeland.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/fortify-tip-leads-deputies-to-teens-homemade-guns-explosives-white-supremacy-material-st-johns-county-sheriffs-office-st-johns-county-florida-middle-school-students-switzerland-point-middle-school-julian-davis-charles-williams-fortifyfl

@davew @macmanx
An unresponsive/broken RSS feed is akin to a single Bluesky user account being unreachable.

The only way that RSS could “go down” the way Bluesky did (or any other non-distributed service*, for that matter) would be for the _entire internet_ to fail.

*Despite Bluesky self-proclaiming that it’s a distributed service, the empirical evidence seems to prove otherwise.