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Erin

@GottaLaff oh boy… this makes me nervous. I’m blue no matter who… but I desperately hope 3 months is enough time to solidify the enthusiasm around our new candidate 😬

Laurie Kay

@GottaLaff I am terrified that this will devolve into chaos. And I feel terrible for Biden, who has done a spectacular job.

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Jon Tromans

@Gargron Oh god brown sauce! Block, mute, unfollow!!

Worcestershire sauce is the finest sauce and has fish in it!

Dan 🌻

@Gargron I want him so much 😭 he is my favorite color and I love Mastodon 😭

Eugen Rochko

I moved Matilda from her usual spot on the worktop, because I'm roasting a chicken in the slow cooker, and it seemed tactless. She seems to have settled down to some web browsing.

#EmotionalSupportChicken @eschicken #ESChicken #Knitting @knitting

A knitted chicken sits on a sofa apparently looking at the screen of a laptop.
Janet

@suearcher The price of nesting boxes these days.. it is all location, location, location…

Eugen Rochko

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

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David M Reiss MD

@tomw

...or maybe we should have called it quits once we had KayPro...

An ancient KayPro computer
Iron Bug
Mastodon is just a platform. community is Fediverse and it contains tens of different platforms.
Eugen Rochko

Hope I’m not missing anything important.

A steep trail on a green fell. In the background, more fells. Wife in front.
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Brandon 🇨🇦😷5×💉

@Gargron

Looks like you're right where you need to be. 👍🏻

nyx

@Gargron Nah, just the usual snafu with a more than average amount of people noticing. If the photo is representative for what you are currently doing, you're doing the right thing.

Daniel Lundin

@Gargron Nah. Skies are blue, and some screens are too.

Eugen Rochko

Thank you Crowdstrike for helping to illustrate that Open Source is not the problem.

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Jim Fuller

@bagder very challenging situation ... distributed system design is hard.

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@bagder And your evil tool curl that downloads malware 😂 ...(if someone is stupid enough to CURL whatever URL)

Eugen Rochko

The word 'welcome' may be interpreted as 'well-come', like 'well-received' and 'well-deserved'.

However, it stems from a Germanic word meaning "desired guest".

Perhaps under the influence of French 'bienvenu' ("welcome", literally "well-come"), the perception and the form of the English word and its Germanic cognates were altered. The infographic shows how.

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Yoïn van Spijk

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Due to lack of space, unfortunately I wasn't able to include the North-Germanic forms, such as Icelandic 'velkominn', Danish and Norwegian Bokmål 'velkommen', Nynorsk 'velkomen', and Swedish 'välkommen'. These may be loan translations of Middle Low German/Saxon 'wil(le)komen'.

Middle English had multiple other compound words containing 'wil-', such as 'wilspell' ('desired news'), 'wildaȝe' ('desired day'), 'wiltidende' ('desired tiding'), and 'wilgomen' ('pleasant sport').

Loukas Christodoulou

@yvanspijk I'd love to boost these but they need alt-text.

Eugen Rochko

Journalists who remain on Twitter at this point will be remembered for their capitulation to the forces that are working to end democracy, and by extension freedom of expression. mashable.com/article/elon-musk

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Waseem

@dangillmor isn't that paid advertisement? And anyone can get such hash tags by paying?

Jay 🇺🇦

@dangillmor
Delete the fascist app. Do it yesterday.

Eugen Rochko

Elon Musk’s X goes full pro-Trump with custom hashtag emoji icons

#MAGA now appears with a pic of Trump with his fist in the air

#Trump2024 appears with an American flag

if you click on the last hashtag, American flags rain down on the search page

read: mashable.com/article/elon-musk

Eugen Rochko

Welcome @mkbhd to the Fediverse via his Threads account turning on Fediverse sharing!

Eugen Rochko

How ‘bout instead of machines that steal from artists to “democratize creativity” we have machines that steal from billionaires to democratize money

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Mike Barbre

@KydiaMusic Or we could make it easy and <gasp!> make them pay their fair share. Edgy concept these days, I know.

Nagaram

@KydiaMusic These terms are acceptable. Though I imagine this will be a lot harder to pitch to the boss for our new software stack.

But... I suppose they don't need to know :)

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@KydiaMusic We have one.

It's been sabotaged.

It's called the government.

Eugen Rochko

Why can't more journalists reporting on "AI" straightforwardly say "This is bad, actually"? Case in point: In this article juxtaposing the grandiose claims of OpenAI et al with the massive environmental footprint of LLMs, Goldman still has to include this weird AI optimism:

fortune.com/2024/07/12/ai-biza

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Screencap from linked article, brackets indicate my highlights:
Of course, there is always a certain amount of madness that goes along with developing new technologies. [And the potential for advanced AI systems to help tackle climate change issues]—to predict weather, identify pollution, or improve agriculture, for example—[is real]. In addition, the massive costs of developing and running sophisticated AI models will likely continue to put pressure on companies to make them more energy-efficient. 

Still, as Silicon Valley and the rest of California suffer through ever-hotter summers and restricted water use, it seems like sheer lunacy to simply march towards the development of AGI without being equally concerned about data centers guzzling scarce water resources, AI computing power burning excess electricity, and Big Tech companies quietly stepping away from previously touted climate goals. I don’t want Bizarro Superman to guide us toward an AGI future on Bizarro World. I just want a sustainable future on earth—and hopefully, [AI can be a part of it.]
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FeralRobots

@emilymbender the totally hypothetical & completely unspecified potential.

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@emilymbender Well it's Fortune and journalists by default are writers for hire.
Michael Bishop ☕

@emilymbender i listened to NPR this morning talking about the Olympics using AI and they didn't address any negatives to it.

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The Fresh Beets

@douglasvb Cats are generally always plotting, whether it be mischief or murder. These two definitely having something cooking though. Winston in particular looks like he's straining to hide his contempt. Maybe sleep with one eye open this week?

Eugen Rochko

Ads on the web don't actually *need* user tracking. Browsers don't *have to* cooperate with those who want to surveil us.

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scrottie (he/him/they)

@bagder always thought that when apps demanded access to the microphone to work, or demanded location, there should be a "yes but send fake data" option. The OS/browser/whatever should be on my side there. If the webpage coordinates so heavily with third party ad networks that the page won't load without ad metrics, then be on my fucking side here and send fake data. Spam the spammers. Is that so wrong?

:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑

@bagder Said it before; a lot of the time pages I like ask me to disable my adblocker.

I do so, but then the page still don't recognize that the adblocker is off as long as you still block trackers.

So then I enable my adblocker again, because fuck them.

Andrij Glyko :ua_tryzub:
@bagder well, no, but the marketologists made people believe that :cirno_what:
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