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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Like. I've maintained for awhile that we _could_ have ethically built generative AI models that would be more, not less, useful and be more energy efficient than our current set.

They would be tremendously valuable. But they wouldn't do the fun emergent behaviors that people are so enamored by […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

In the hope that this might reach someone who might some day be in a position to decide whether to allow #vpn traffic to their app…
Please understand that this does not just impact your app.
Most devices run background apps that use the network frequently, including privacy-critical apps like […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Oregon lawyer wants a second TRO incorporating the reasoning in support of yesterday’s and prohibiting the use of any federalized National Guard troops from anywhere in Portland. Immergut GRANTS this. 16/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7d

This is the key thing to notice about whataboutism: it is not actually a moral argument at all. It's not saying, "the thing you accuse us of is actually good," or "we didn't do it."

It just says, "everyone does this bad thing, so you're not allowed to hold us responsible." It's permission.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

"Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy."

Yup.

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David Nash @dpnash.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9d

1985: (writes a crappy BASIC program to find a few thousand prime numbers, which runs in maybe 10 seconds): "wow, the computer is so much faster than I am"

2005: (uses Google to find three obscure song lyrics and five obscure academic references in about 5 minutes): "wow, the computer is so […]

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JesseBot @jessebot.social.smallhack.org.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Apparently there's a audio sample how to say :forgejo: Forgejo (as in the self hosted git server)! That is not how I was pronouncing it 😅

https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

#forgejo

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Richard Hendricks @hendric.astronomy.city.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@tsrono @malcircuit
Clearly these two are the same image, right??
🤣

Stitch pasted in from the Wikipedia article, and a really poor attempt to outline "stitch" in the nebula.

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David Nash @dpnash.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@medieval_illuminations The bottom frame crossbow hare looks like someone who has absolutely had it with all the shit happening in the world.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Hare with a crossbow. Roman d’Alexandre, Tournai ca. 1338-1344. Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 264, fol. 94v.
#medieval #medievalart

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David Nash @dpnash.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@joanmccarter.com Striking fear into the hearts of MAGA everywhere, the local AnTreeFa group strikes yet again from their Portland, Oregon stronghold.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 11d

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

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solarbird @solarbird.solarbird.net.ap.brid.gy · 11d

## it is all lies

Before things get a lot worse, which it looks like they’re about to do given Trump’s “full force” order and his “anti-fascism is terrorism” executive memo, I need to reiterate:

It’s lies. This shit about Portland? It’s all lies.

The lies […]

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Me, feeling buff back from the gym before the pandenic.

A still image grabbed from the linked webcam of a lightly-populated salmon-coloured stone public square in downtown Portland, Oregon, with a variety of banners up and tables out in early autumn.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Can’t sleep, must post takes:

If you report a post because you disagree with it, but that post is not in any way threatening, abusive, or blatantly hazardous to the general community, then what the mods actually learn from your report is that you’re below the “must be this emotionally mature to […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Just a note for the next time anyone schedules a conference in Texas:

It is now literally illegal for trans people to use the bathroom there.

Your trans friends and colleagues are going to be silently judging you for hosting events in a place it's illegal for them to exist when there's lots of […]

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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy · 15d

This should have been major news. It wasn't. Cornelius Taylor, 46, was inside a tent in a long established homeless encampment off Old Wheat Street when he was bulldozed to death when Atlanta cleared his homeless camp, just yards away from Martin Luther King’s birthplace and the white marble […]

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David Nash @dpnash.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Doublooners

#pirateabookorplay
#HashtagGames

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Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Sunday night's aurora and the Big Dipper over our lake. I am perpetually amazed that if the conditions are right it's possible to catch the aurora in our little light-polluted suburb.

10:49 pm EDT, September 14, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#aurora […]

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Photograph of a ribbon-like strip of aurora over a lake with the Big Dipper to the upper left.

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David Nash @dpnash.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19d

@hosford42 I found this group via another Fediverse poster I respect a great deal: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

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TheWholeTruthXX 🎨 ❤️ 🍁 🛡️ @adwright.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

The number one survival skill today is to remember now who the sympathizers to the fascism are.

The ones who you can never trust again, so long as you both shall live.

Whatever they were before: family member, friend, co-worker, lover, matters not in the slightest. Count on zero loyalty or […]

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Sean Fenian @zakalwe.plasmatrap.com.ap.brid.gy · 20d

@[email protected] I think an awful lot of us are asking ourselves that question.

Personally my viewpoint on the question is strongly colored by the fact that a third of the American electorate **actively voted for** this, and another third didn't give enough of a shit to vote against it […]

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