@WTL Only CatGPT gets a pass

meet the cast
#gloryinthethunder

i am pissed off the two individual middle school summer courses in cryptography i took did the exact same smattering of symmetric ciphers from fucking 100 years ago
and not a damn thing on elliptic curves which are actually literally cooler than prime numbers (yeah i said it)

A website without a chatbot in 2026 risks feeling unfinished, like something’s missing. Even if what’s missing is a half-broken widget that most visitors dismiss in three seconds. The chatbot has become a social signal, not a tool. A way of saying: we’re keeping up.

“All my clients wanted a carousel, now it’s an AI chatbot!”

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-carousel-now-it-s-an-ai-chatbot.md by @adele

@Bibliothecaris

Why not use Pixelfed?

The next release of #Fedilab will handle refreshes correctly with reversed timelines, especially the pull to refresh.
The #HolosSocial PR has also been merged on #FDroid, so the build is coming very soon.

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-social-media-addictive-eu-crack-down.html

#HackerNews #EU #TikTok #Instagram #socialmedia #kids #digitalwellbeing #crackdown

You all know that Bandcamp is owned by Songtradr, who gutted it a lot. But don't fret, we have a new and better alternative now. It launched yesterday:

https://www.subvert.fm/

It is a #CoOp, so it is not in the hands of big money but in the hands of us, the consumers and creators.

✊️

@hypha if your cryptographic signature is wet, you’re very bad at computer

Football Star Messi Buys Long-Shuttered Barcelona Building
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/football-star-messi-buys-long-shuttered-barcelona-building?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Personal Finance @personal-finance-bloomberg

@Bibliothecaris

It is wonderful you are active on the #fediverse and are pondering these questions. Going #POSSE is already a huge step in the right direction.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

PS. The share buttons under the article to either Facebook or LinkedIn stood out to me, given the subject matter :)

99% of LLMs give the rest a bad name

@TheBreadmonkey THE PRESS® are gagggggging for another sacrifice. Since Cameron stood down, the longest a PM has served is just 3 years. The shortest is 50 days. What a nightmare.

Maybe the rules should be changed so that a serving PM needs to fulfil their entire term unless they break the law or become seriously ill.

Or die, of course. Can't have a corpse running the country, even though a corpse would have done less damage than Liz Truss.

#UKpol #UKpolitics #UnitedKingdom #politics

CasaPound e la banalizzazione del fascismo: il velo nero sollevato da Paolo Berizzi

Da Fahrenheit 451 ai “fascisti della porta accanto”: “Il libro segreto di CasaPound” racconta come il neofascismo italiano abbia smesso di nascondersi, colonizzando cultura, media, istituzioni e immaginario collettivo nel silenzio di chi ha sempre liquidato tutto come folklore o “storie per nulla”.

https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/casapound-e-la-banalizzazione-del-fascismo-il-velo-nero-sollevato-da-paolo-berizzi/

Y'all already heard that Canada has decided that Canadian citizen can pass, retroactively, from parent to child for more than one generation -- so that if your parent, or grandparent, or great-grandparent was Canadian, you can get Canadian citizenship. (And if you didn't know that, look at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/dual-citizenship-eh-under-new-law-millions-of-americans-may-now-also-be-considered-canadian and https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/eligibility/already-citizen.html)

But the NEW news is, Canada is moving citizenship applications from transgender USians to the top of the queue. So -- if you're trans, you have Canadian ancestry, and you think that you'd like to be Canadian, get that application in!

More about the trans part: https://www.cicnews.com/2026/05/canada-is-fast-tracking-citizenship-certificates-for-trans-americans-0575258.html

Odin is over here begging me for my vegetarian salad like it’s made of bacon. I’m pretty sure he likes sour fruits and vegetables as much as he likes bacon

#Meme #Humour

For the record, AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work.

That industrialization of knowledge work has 2 parts. First, is mechanization. Making knowledge work dependent on some particular machine. This is already the case, with computers generally. Knowledge work is thoroughly computerized. But, those computers are small, cheap, universally available commodities. That doesn't serve the second part, so they're forcing in new layers of mechanization, and removing access to the old machines.

Second, they ensure those machines can only be obtained through large investments of capital. Thus, all knowledge work can be done only at the pleasure of the capitalists who own the machines. Personal computers don't help them, there. But a black box hosted service that consumes the entire web to build and a whole country's worth of electricity to operate sure as hell does.

"AI" is merely the banner under which they are organizing and justifying this project. The implementation details are just the implementation details.