Trump's approval rating is 27%
https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html
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I believe that in authoritarian-leaning cultures “callout culture” has a perfomative shaming function, but in historically authority-averse cultures it’s an important form of soft self-policing. If you’re comfortable calling the cops, you might find it tasteless or pointless! But if your community - reasonably - does not feel any safety around cops or formal authority structures, it’s a necessary tool for community safety.
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Tell your friends at mstdn.ca
Edit: The post at the link was deleted but in summary, the mstdn.ca owner and administrator is being sued and might face fraud charges for stealing quite a bit of money from an Edmonton community group. The mstdn.ca server is apparently a machine that's physically in their house, so if you're on mstdn.ca get your backups and exit strategy in order.
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This has a genuinely sinister elegance to it. You want to know if models can “reason” instead of merely repeat? Point them an esoteric language and see what happens.
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Who among us has not been suddenly teleported from whatever public park or back alley they blacked out in to a Waffle House.
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A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron@mastodon.social stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.
A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.
These two things are not the same at all.
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A few months ago, after years of not accepting venture capital funding, @Gargron@mastodon.social stepped down as CEO of Mastodon as part of Mastodon's becoming a not-for-profit.
A few days ago, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepped down and a few days later Bluesky announced that - surprise - we got a hundred milliion dollars in venture capital investment from a cryptocurrency company and that happened a full year ago but we were just too busy to mention it.
These two things are not the same at all.
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There was a time when Dril’s identity was leaked and we all just agreed to ignore that and mind our business as if it hadn’t happened and I think we owe Banksy at least that much.
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Hard To Swallow Pills: The subscription fees you're still paying for that software you're saying is getting worse and worse are the only signal that matters.
If you don't have a backup plan and a migration strategy you don't have a lever.
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This is where the opposition to universal health care, to free public education, to universal basic income and universal housing comes from.
It's not that it won't work. It's that it absolutely will. It's not because it will be too expensive. It's because it's so much cheaper.
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Anyone else remember that thing where 2020 taught us that a bufferless, deeply interconnected world of just-in-time production was incredibly fragile, and an otherwise completely manageable temporary disruption would cascade quickly into economic catastrophe, but instead of learning any lessons or building resilient, humane infrastructure we told everyone that the crisis was past and normal was back and go sacrifice your lives and health to grease the machine?
I do.
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html
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Repurposing idled and semiconstructed datacenters for indoor hydroponics is solarpunk as fuck.
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In a better world I would assume that this is a promotional stunt for an upcoming Super Mario movie.
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The weight of the number of measuring spoons decides how slow it vents. Like and subscribe for more illegal instant pot techniques
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Two posts in my feed today. In the first, what looks like four air-defense interceptors - Patriots, maybe? - missing an incoming Iranian missile.
In the second, the Ukranian military celebrating a soldier with a record six Shahed interceptions in one day.
I know they're not the same, I get it but Patriot missiles cost $4,000,000 each. Just for the missile, not the platform/deployment.
Those Sting FPV interceptors cost $700.
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When I was about eight years old I watched my grandfather sit down at the breakfast table with a bowl of cereal, a jug of milk and a box of orange juice, pour himself a glass of milk and then pour the OJ over the cereal. I didn't laugh - you did _not_ laugh at the old man - but then he just... stared at what he'd done for a second, poured the OJ out of the cereal into a different glass, poured the glass of milk into the OJ-infused cereal and ate his breakfast without a word.
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I'm not sure what you say to people who take something like this all the way from idea to shipping with no plan to get consent from the people whose voices you're imitating or deal with reception and blowback.
Further: I will bet $100 that there are a bunch of people at Grammarly, mostly women and minorities, who said "we should definitely not do this" who were ignored by Grammarly's leadership, who will face no accountability at all for this waste of time and effort.
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“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-compute-compensation-software-engineers-greg-brockman-2026-3
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I have mixed feelings about Steve Jobs but point me to one other valley executive getting up on stage in front of a million people and using his own company's products live.
Get Jassy up there to order something off Amazon, let's see how that goes. Let's see if Nadella can find a email or format a document. Make Sarandos show off whatever's recommended to him. Get Zuckerberg up there showing us how you facilitate a genocide or creep on strangers. C'mon, execs, show us you know how it's done.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116183924846712343
The bewildered look on my young self, watching greying, wrinkly 2026 me yelling into the portal that Mario and Luigi are both going to be enemies of the American hegemon for reasons it would take way too long to explain.
https://mastodon.social/
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personal brand,
personal brand,
trying to hype his personal brand,
what's he like,
it's not important,
personal brand
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Just absolutely no regard for security at all. None. The entire burden of self-protection shifted to humans alone at their endpoints in systems and communities entirely, foundationally built on mutual trust and trustworthiness.
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I don't know that the world needs to Hear My Take on the chardet claude-laundered relicensing question - claundering? - but I think that at least part of our collective thinking has to be grounded in the fact that this one developer has been working on this codebase almost entirely alone, without support or funding, for at least twelve years.
And I have to ask you, I am begging you, to think about where we've heard a story like that recently.
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These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking questions about who is responsible for the bombing of a school and the deaths of 180 children and their teachers, and I'd like to wish everyone at Anthropic a very happy complicity in war crimes.
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Either you die a [checks notes] villain? Or you live long enough to be a [checks again] hot dog guy meme?
That can't be right.
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It is important to understand that these are not "Meta workers" in the way you might think of them as "extremely well paid engineers in California."
These are the underpaid contractors in Kenya and Nigeria doing the soul-destroying work of watching every horror of the world so that some American congressman's kid or hyperindignant ragekaren doesn't inadvertently see a boob on a slow news day.
These people aren't being creepy, they're being exploited.
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But Dan Davies gave us the answer, and the answer is "assholes."
https://web.archive.org/web/20190109063703/https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/the-how-to-of-fascism-a-guide-for-aspiring-dictators.html
And now the assholes are out there wearing Facebook's glasses. A Flock Camera For Your Face. What If Your Face Was Nextdoor, And Also Ring.
There was, briefly, a time when this technology could have been useful, even great. But that's the end of that, and now it's garbage fash-fashion that's got no place in a society with any dignity or self respect.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/886348/meta-glasses-ice-doxxing-privacy
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I guess I'm naive about this kind of thing but I actually believe that when military leaders boast about the precise accuracy of their impossibly expensive weapons and then use them to destroy schools and refugee camps full of children, and that somehow keeps happening and nobody is disciplined or court-martialed or sent to the Hague for doing it, that means those militaries are deliberately targeting schools and refugee camps full of children.
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Spare a thought for the conservative punditry just now coming to the same revelation that this awful year has forced on the libertarians, that at the end of the day a "principled position" of selfishness and cruelty hasn't made them anything but useful idiots.
Or, alternatively: don't.
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If your key takeaway from this is that the journalist was solely responsible for this mistake and should lose their job, and not that the company's editorial process failed while that company had an employee working to a deadline while sick, then I'm not sure what to tell you except that you're picking a side.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes
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My Very Large Canadian Bank: this transaction will take up to three days. Weekends aren't days. Holidays might be days but they also might not be. It's hard to say year to year. Will you be charged for late payment? Will it happen on time or at all? Well, let me answer your question with a question: what is time? Or money, do you ever wonder about that? We say time is money but is it really? Sure does make you think.
My Tiny Canadian Credit Union: Done. Yes. Thank you being a member.
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Again, there is no "age verification", there is only "identity verification", and "identity verification at the OS level" means specifically that there is no such thing as free software in any inclusive, democratic sense and no such thing as "computer ownership" in any way that involves meaningful choice.
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Germany and Japan set a terrible precedent in people's minds. It's hard to imagine western powers being willing to do years of reconstruction work today.
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In a country where laws mattered there would be hundreds of public prosecutors out there crawling all over each other to sign their names to the easiest walk-off-home-run convictions in the history of law.
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Rustaceans: I'm looking at some example code in ratatui; I'm trying to build a newish thing by modifying it while learning Rust. The example is in a workspace; it works within the ratatui heirarchy, but so far my attempts at peeling the example out of ratatui's heirarchy to replant it in its own repo are failing with dependency problems 'cargo add' doesn't resolve. Is there a known-right-way or tool for this? It's not mentioned in the book.
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This song has never once failed me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmWEHccJS7s&pp=0gcJCY4Bo7VqN5tD
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It remains wild that all of these tools - MCP, OpenClaw, not just the entire AI stack but the entire ecosystem - don't think that security matters at all. Validation, sanitization, authentication, none of it. Call it 'autonomous' and yolo it out there for VC clout.
There's relearning the lessons of 90's computing, and then there's the lessons of 1850s London sanitation, of Roman-era waste management. Everyone just lets their cattle shit in the town well, it'll be fine.
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What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.
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Killing dozens of girls by destroying their school to delay accountability for what he's done to dozens, maybe hundreds of girls for decades is entirely on brand, and so is the silent complicity of his party.
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@jplebreton@mastodon.social “a Petri dish with an eyedropper’s worth of fruit fly neurons in it can figure out that shooting Nazis is a winning strategy in less than 96 hours”.
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I love the idea of making the advocates for this nonsense live in the world they want. Water cold? Go show your passport to the heater. Present a card to the coffee machine. Turning on your car? License and registration. Sorry your fridge thawed out but a best before date is not a legal document. A tiny camera poking out of your chest so your pacemaker can read your ID. Every elevator, smoke alarm and doorbell in the world saying “papers please” in a tinny robot voice.
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I'm curious how the pols pushing for age verification in operating systems will feel about being carded by their light switches.
Lotsa operating systems out there.
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"Maintained an office and keycard access."
https://mastodon.social/@jonesmurphy/116142661581148816
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I'm glad we're looking at ethical alternatives to imperialist tech generally but my position remains that the ethical alternative to large-language-model SAAS is "don't."
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Anyone have a preferred metal plate laser-cutting service in Toronto? 3mm to 4mm thickness, aluminum, nothing bigger than 20cm x 40cm.
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