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yawnbox :softboy_pride: boosted

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social 7 hr. ago

live your life so, when people talk about you, they do so like they talk about Dolly Parton

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

@emilymbender@dair-community.social 9 hr. ago

Very proud that The AI Con is a finalist for the 2026 Washington State Book Award (General Nonfiction/Biography)

https://washingtoncenterforthebook.org/2026-washington-state-book-award-finalists-announced/

w/ @alex

https://washingtoncenterforthebook.org

2026 Washington State Book Award Finalists Announced!

Jessica 🦕

@MLISrevenge@glammr.us 15 sec. ago

@emilymbender @alex

yawnbox :softboy_pride: boosted

Nowhere Girl

@gwynnion@mastodon.social 10 hr. ago

I don't have anything eloquent to say about Dolly Parton other than she tried to fix things and make them better where a lot of other people didn't.

GeePawHill

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social 1 min. ago

My friends are dead fucking tired of me talking about watching Graham Norton supercuts and sometimes whole episodes. But one of the things I like most about them is the performers who come to pitch, and do their pitch, and then he gets them talking about the work.

So I'm binge-ing Sense8 right now.

It's good. Maybe not stellar, but I just love the representation that's in it, much of which is not there for a plot point, just there to think about people who are different from you.

Farahbot JumpingSpider 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼

@farah@beige.party 41 min. ago

@nomdeb @Uair Same. Mine started when I was a teenager. I used to fall asleep around 6 pm woke up at 10 pm; then go back to sleep again at 4 am and woke up around 7:30 to go to school. If I don’t have anywhere to go or do, I’ll probably sleep at 2 am and wake up at 9 am. And it’s very hard to get back to a socially acceptable routine

Poloniousmonk

@Uair@autistics.life 2 min. ago

@farah @nomdeb

I started in elementary school. I couldn't fall asleep until 2-4AM and then got up by 7 to get myself off to school.

Will Richardson

@willhbr@ruby.social 4 min. ago

@decryption writing in your downloads folder is unhinged 😆

also: reading sizzle via email < reading sizzle via rss <<<< reading sizzle exclusively via decryption workspace setup photos

decryption

@decryption@aus.social 3 min. ago

@willhbr I downloaded the template off my OneDrive account and editing it there! I'm not crazy!!!

decryption

@decryption@aus.social 16 min. ago

at the city library today with the surface go - impressed, so much better than the iPad, and battery is holding up well, used roughly 15% in an hour. Shouldn’t need to plug into AC or even a battery writing a issue of the sizzle

Will Richardson

@willhbr@ruby.social 4 min. ago

@decryption writing in your downloads folder is unhinged 😆

also: reading sizzle via email < reading sizzle via rss <<<< reading sizzle exclusively via decryption workspace setup photos

Drew Mayo

@drew@eigenmagic.net 6 min. ago

@decryption half your luck. I have a 1st gen running Win10 and it’s almost unusable most of the time

decryption

@decryption@aus.social 5 min. ago

@drew the first-gen's CPU was dog shit when it was released, let alone now, haha - wonder how it would go with Linux? (I'm using Arch on this 4th-gen)

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 6 hr. ago

from ex-bsky-staff rationalist who turned a bot loose on bsky and demanded people take it seriously:

you should not use "clanker" because the basilisk might take offence

https://bsky.app/profile/hailey.at/post/3mtwjoqdvik26

later in the thread, she states that "techbro" is a slur

hailey
@hailey.at

bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result — hailey @hailey.at bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this: future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result

Helge

@helge@mas.to 6 min. ago

@davidgerard I don't think he's heard of *my* basilisk. Imagine a sufficiently advanced superintelligence that reverses time to torture anyone who ever talks to a computer as if it was people.

I call it the Rationalest Basilisk.

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social 7 min. ago

Ukraine's ousted defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, warns that Kyiv has a window of several months to make key decisions needed to turn the tide of the war against Russia in its favor. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/26/world/politics/ukraine-changes-war-defense-minister/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy #mykhailofedorov

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/26/world/politics/ukraine-changes-war-defense-minister/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

Mike Masnick

@mmasnick.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 7 min. ago

Remember, this guy made such good friends in the Trump White House where he claimed to direct Trump's AI strategy, that basically everyone stabbed him in the back once he left.

They all could be liars too, but...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/post/3mtxi32nnds2j

Bluesky Social

Sam (@samd.bsky.social)

The “head of strategic futures” at OpenAI just went on an unhinged rant against social security sometimes I feel like these tech companies are actively trying to alienate as many normal people as possible

Three White House officials with direct knowledge of the matter allege that Ball has exaggerated his role on that project. The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the situation, described Ball as a “junior-to-mid-level policy analyst” whose ideas were regularly ignored by decision-makers – and say he never obtained a security clearance, which is needed to participate in high-level discussions.

One of the officials said it was the “most ludicrous assertion imaginable” that Ball played a senior role in crafting the AI Action Plan.

“Everyone who was actually involved in architecting it is way too nice to say it in frank terms,” the official said. “He was at best a nuisance and at worst irrelevant.”