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Frame of preference
aresluna.org · Jul 08
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess
aphyr.com · Jul 07
In my free time, I help run a small Mastodon server for roughly six hundred queer leatherfolk. When a new member signs up, we require them to write a short application—just a sentence or two. There’s a small text box in the signup form which says:
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draNgNon
(@draNgNon) ·
Jul 09
🔁 @petrillic:
This post by @aphyr I think really captures the staggering evil of a non-trivial swath of the LLM world right now. Perhaps they don't see themselves as evil, but what they are doing is deliberately undermining all social and cultural norms for ... what? A few extra sales? Burn the world to the ground for ... a few bucks?
I realize that we have many other Big Evils in the world, but when I say that the only winners with gen AI, along with blockchain, bitcoin, and all other recent VC-bloviated ilk is criminals and sociopaths, this is what I mean. What that says about VCs is up to you to determine.
Kyle is more introspective than I am here. What i see is the wholesale willing destruction of trust and society for... well, certainly nothing beneficial.
This is what I think of every time someone tells me "gen AI is the future". Perhaps it is, but that future is bleak and desolate. It is soulless and cruel and confidently stupid. It aspires to bland mediocrity.
Keep it. There is no "upside" that could ever justify this total obliteration of good in the world. Your talking parrot drips venom from it's beak with every word it speaks.
https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess
Peeling Back The Onion
status.news · Jul 07
Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.
‘Could become a death spiral’: scientists discover what’s driving record die-offs of US honeybees
theguardian.com · Jul 08
Experts scrambling to understand losses in hives across the country are finally identifying the culprits. And the damage to farmed bees is a sign of trouble for wild bees too
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
euobserver.com · Jul 08
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
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frainz
(@frainz) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @eunews:
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
The Republican budget is a climate horror
publicnotice.co · Jul 08
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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Laffy
(@GottaLaff) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @atrupar:
New in PN: The Republican budget is a climate horror
"Republicans have gone from acknowledging climate change is real but insisting we should do nothing about it, to delivering all sorts of harm to the country so they can make it worse. You won’t find better evidence of how radical they've become." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-big-bill-obbb-climate-policy-provisions
The Tech People Want Online Summit – Open Knowledge Foudation
okfn.org · Jul 07
We’re bringing together advocates, civil society organisations, government officials and forward-thinking creators to reimagine technology from the ground up.
Growth narratives on the new social networks
connectedplaces.online · Jul 08
The narratives that networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have about themselves how their network grows are a snapshot of a specific moments in time. How do these narratives evolve as the circumstances change again?
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️♾️🇺🇦
(@dgoldsmith) ·
Jul 09
🔁 @fediversereport:
Alternative social networks like the fediverse and Bluesky have constructed a narrative of how growth of the network happens: when Musk does something particularly evil or stupid, people migrate in a wave looking for an ethical alternative. But what happens when that pattern breaks down?
I look at how this narrative came to be, how it reflects a specific time period, and how this period might just be over now
https://connectedplaces.online/growth-narratives-on-the-new-social-networks/
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If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool.
scottsmitelli.com · Jul 08
It's a safe bet that most of us have encountered the age-old admonition to "never judge a book by its cover" at some point in our lives. There is a deep wisdom in that advice---wisdom that seems to go completely out the window as soon as a certain type of person spots a certain type of punctuation.
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Phil Giammattei
(@phil) ·
Jul 08
🔁 @ludicity:
Scott is so good at writing that he makes me ashamed:
https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/
"Get excited! Whatever the discussion topic is, make yourself sound really really enthused! Unsettlingly pumped! Chomping at the bit with turgid desire!"
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