A great but sad thread about the enclosure of the web
https://mastodon.online/@Pepijn/116616865563455186
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RE: https://chaos.social/@rixx/116624808071439887
Having to do a wanking motion in order to do something AI-related feels a bit on the nose.
@joachim The cruelty is the point
Ross Gayler
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I'm coming around to the idea that we should start by introducing beavers, gophers or wolves before we try solving any problem by any other approach.
Mike Masnick
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God, it rules so much that he skipped his son's wedding because he was so busy, only to sit around making posts about Hulk Hogan.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mmjws7twqk2x
O que pensar de um mundo em que a gente consegue acompanhar um genocídio ao vivo e não consegue impedir o genocídio?
@rodrigofaustino São tempos de barbárie generalizada.
Quixoticgeek
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The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...
Mastodon Migration
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RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116625705643420022
Think that Trump's slush fund is audacious because he's stealing BILLIONS? Wait till you learn how Musk is stealing TRILLIONS.
"They’ve figured out how to steal your retirement."
National museums in England report 10% decrease in young visitors.
Footfall remains 16% lower than it was in 2018-19, the last full pre-pandemic financial year, when comparing museums open in both time periods.
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/05/national-museums-in-england-report-10-decrease-in-young-visitors/ #globalmuseum #museums
Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)
He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down critical infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.
Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.
Chip Butty
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RE: https://chaos.social/@rixx/116624808071439887
Having to do a wanking motion in order to do something AI-related feels a bit on the nose.
For enjoyers of Alberta politics, “The UCP has become a party of snivelling, weak little thieves who operate by night.”: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson-saddle-up-alberta-were?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=70032&post_id=198616250&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=10irp6&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
"Sure, we’ve seen evidence of bots, slopaganda, and low-level fuckery and trolling from MAGA influencers. None of this amounts to an organized conspiracy. "
...sorry, what does Fox News count as? Disorganized? And what about Postmedia papers that Matt takes a cheque from? They're just Fox Canada.
Travis F W
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Lil Dude's #caturday workout ✌️ 💪 😹 Good Evening and Good Night, #fedicats #CatsOfMastodon 🐭 #straycats #TNR #adoptdontshop http://tribeofma.carrd.co 🐾 🖖 #Fundraiser
Chip Butty
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116607132555242907
if you use an android phone:
1. get SIMPLE SEARCH
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tobiasbielefeld.searchbar
2.set up your search engines:
noai.duckduckgo.com
startpage.com
3. if you are like me and search a lot for EDUCATIONAL info on crafting tools and fabrics but get a lot of SHOPPING links, create a specialized search excluding the big offenders:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%s -site:amazon.com -site:walmart.com -site:pinterest.com -site:ebay.com -site:alibaba.com -site:shein.com
enjoy your degoogled, deamazoned searches ☺
A kind person said to me this week words to the effect of "Neil, I love talking with you. You make chatting so easy!"
And now, dear reader, I - someone who is not a very people person - will share with you the two secrets of my critically acclaimed prowess:
1) "Oh {wow,cool,my,yes,no,oops,dear}, tell me more about that!"
2) Listening - genuinely listening - and asking questions.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
@neil I am crap at small talk, I am totally going to try this. Thanks for sharing.
@rixx 😲🤦🫂
Travis F W
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While I haven't gotten my thoughts together on it all, I feel like Nat @index had a pretty great write-up:
