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I've been on Mastodon since 2017, but recently migrated here.

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2024-09-17 16:11:53

The "AI will make programming obsolete" bullshit has a surprisingly long history.
Here's an ad from 30 years ago promising code-free software development.
You can see the ad here: https://archive.org/details/BYTE199301/page/n263/mode/2up?view=theater
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2024-09-16 16:24:58

Bring back whatever this computer form factor is, you cowards
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/148/156/487/119/994/original/169c238b2cdc194c.png

2024-09-11 17:44:58

Astounding that Musk publicly treatened Taylor Swift with sexual assault and it’s not in the news

2024-09-10 20:44:31

Apparently what we’ve been doing until about 2010 (copy files to a server and then switching prod to this new directory to deploy) is now a hipster web dev thing that’s called “buildless”
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/115/205/915/234/338/original/5adc51f9a333ec4f.mp4

2024-09-09 19:35:46

Hoping my iPhone 14 Pro will go up in value because it’s the last version of the iPhone that doesn’t support the upcoming Apple AI shit

2024-09-03 03:12:48

Wanna feel old?
The Cybertruck was introduced 5 years ago

2024-08-30 14:55:34

NYT saying mass deportations are an “affordable housing” strategy.
Please stop reading or subscribing to this piece of shit newspaper.
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2024-08-17 18:51:31

What I don’t get about climate change deniers is what’s the worst that can happen if we fight it?
- Having cheaper energy from
renewable sources?
- Never running out of oil?
- Being independent from unstable countries with bad human rights records?
- Having cleaner air?
- Boosting local economy?
- Investing in local and domestic research, education and fabrication?

2024-08-15 20:16:29

Any presidential candidate debate should include the question: “How many nuclear secrets have you stolen and which countries did you sell them to?”

2024-08-14 22:00:19

I bet voters love to be called “postmenopausal females who’s only purpose is to rear grandchildren”.
Freedom!
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2024-08-13 02:00:09

Man that social media team is slaying
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2024-08-13 01:31:01

Did you know? “Tesla” (Тесла) is the Serbian word for “technical difficulties”

2024-08-13 01:22:58

Meanwhile, on Twitter
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2024-08-11 17:52:23

Austria, 1927 Texas, 2024
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2024-08-11 15:39:08

Guy who teamed up with a rapist felon who constantly invents mocking nicknames for his enemies, makes fun of disabled people and vets with amputations complains about being “bullied”.
Go fuck a couch, Vance.
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2024-08-11 14:58:56

If you want to reduce the number of abortions, send free condoms to every household and hand them out in schools.
That they’re not calling for this is proof that conservatives don’t care about abortions; what they want is to subjugate women.

2024-08-10 13:52:50

🌺 Don’t use AI-generated images for your blog posts, it makes them look cheap and icky 🌸

2024-08-08 13:46:35

That some people like LLMs for coding is more of a symptom that many programming languages and their libraries and APIs have terrible usability and not so much showing that LLMs are amazing.

2024-08-07 23:22:21

Who amongst us doesn’t fly around in private jets with people they claim afterwards they never met?
(Trump with Roberts, the leader of Project 2025)
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/923/307/991/989/562/original/b63ee3788112acfe.jpeg

2024-08-07 21:46:36

Sentences that autocomplete—even fancy LLM autocomplete—could never provide to you
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2024-08-07 16:04:52

You couldn’t imagine a better candidate for people to relate to
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/921/587/692/006/453/original/e9b106c11424c05e.jpeg

2024-08-07 12:59:25

American journalism is completely broken
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2024-08-06 23:38:46

So this is how optimism feels like

2024-08-06 13:33:33

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2024-08-05 21:58:07

lol how old is this form
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2024-08-05 18:44:52

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@npub1nfl…7t3d It's not easy if you entire online community is on there, for example Twitter communities for Black people and disabled people are huge.

2024-08-05 18:08:27

The incessant bitching here about people who choose to stay on Twitter is really getting on my nerves.
People have very valid reasons to stay on there, be it for communities that don’t have an equivalent anywhere else, or for access to people and companies that aren’t on anything else, or to keep their small business afloat.
Complain about people who deserve it, like Musk.

2024-08-05 04:17:36

Columbo has 69 episodes?
Nice

2024-08-04 14:21:16

It's amazing how fast we adopt shit technology that doesn't work, wrecks the environment and fucks over people (e.g. generative AI) but how much resistance on all levels of society there is to adopt well-working technology that saves lives and protects people (e.g. proper indoor ventilation to prevent spread of disease).

2024-08-04 02:42:30

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the reviews lol
(I think it's really clever marketing from the casketmaker.)

2024-08-04 02:39:07

Looks like capitalism is alive and well https://titancasket.com/products/hypercasket

2024-08-04 01:36:20

Happy 42nd Birthday, Commodore 64! #retrocomputing
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2024-08-04 00:00:25

"Not trying to be a White Knight for right-wing media and automatically assuming they mean well and aren't sinister"-Challenge 2024

2024-08-03 13:35:19

Have you looked at old computers lately? If not, you should, they heal the soul.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/898/350/420/948/218/original/02433c9fafdcb63b.jpeg

2024-08-01 19:34:24

#bloomscrolling
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2024-08-01 17:47:56

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-too-old-age-2024-election-president-poll-1932983

2024-07-31 18:29:05

The basic premise of Thiel and Musk is, "we moved to the US because elsewhere we could never have become billionaires, it's the only country with real freedom and free enterprise! Therefore the US system is completely flawed and must be replaced with a Christo-fascist monarchy".

2024-07-31 16:56:49

Can’t decide if I absolutely hate or absolutely love Ansible.
Definitely experiencing some conflicting feelings.

2024-07-31 04:08:49

Compared to the AI bubble crash that’s coming, the Dot Com bubble will seem like a minor bad day
https://mastodon.social/@joeycastillo/112878983690836881

2024-07-30 16:18:23

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@npub13le…6saf how do you even make a loud plotter, doesn't that take extra engineering lol

2024-07-28 20:56:21

250,000 people died for absolutely no reason other than placating assholes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/covid-mask-vaccine-rules-study-b2586693.html

2024-07-28 15:58:42

I've been saying for years that Republicans need to be socially ostracized, and there's always people pushing back with "meh that doesn't work, meh we're not like them, meh we should be nice to them".
Look what Democrats are doing now: they're calling Republicans weirdos (aka socially ostracizing them) and... it works!
They're panicking. It's the only thing that works to make assholes comply.
Keep calling them out for being weird.

2024-07-28 15:31:41

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112864754409517963
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2024-07-28 15:11:20

Do people really not know that parody versions of the Last Supper painting are a thing and have been for a long time?
(Answer: no, people are just homophobic)

2024-07-28 02:49:07

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@npub1typ…c8hh sounds like American politics tbh

2024-07-27 17:36:42

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@npub1src…fms4 It's fascinating how they think anyone wants this shit

2024-07-27 13:18:40

You have to admire just how big of a scam generative AI really is.
The world's most valuable company is now one that makes machines that literally produce nothing of any value whatsoever.
Perhaps this is the true technological singularity.

2024-07-27 12:50:51

A recent study by Captain Obvious et. al. shows that generative AI collapses when using other generative AI as learning input.
Because everything is polluted with this shit now, this means that future models will likely regress and actually get worse over time even with more and more energy and time spent to create them.
The stupid as fuck "AI" tech bubble is literally eating itself.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

2024-07-27 03:16:26

This is how you write a press release about deeply creepy and disturbed highly unserious asshole opponents.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/856/275/193/797/077/original/78e9e1c63bfaa6a7.png

2024-07-26 22:17:23

Yeah sex is cool but have you seen fascist goons turn on each other
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2024-07-26 19:53:03

Because this is extremely memory-holed by most people, let's remember the time Trump stole money from kids dying of cancer https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/

2024-07-26 15:33:07

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2024-07-26 03:10:27

Believe them when they tell you who they are.
"Every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to go have an abortion in California"
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1816648974549369095

2024-07-26 02:14:28

https://project2025truth.com/agencies/
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2024-07-26 00:37:58

Memes are getting better and better
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2024-07-25 12:47:58

Getting sick and tired of constant “illegal immigration” narrative.
The US could easily support hundreds of millions of more people.
The economic output and wealth would go through the roof with the additional people—immigrants are universally young and more than eager to work and build wealth for themselves.
I live close to the border and in the news it’s often made out to be a Fallout-style wasteland or something. That’s gaslighting bullshit.

2024-07-25 00:48:02

do you have friends who care about kids being able to access sex ed? especially friends who are active on instagram?
take this image and share with them!
fuck project 2025
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2024-07-24 21:57:21

Republicans want to ban sex, but only if it's fun sex
What year is it
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2024-07-24 17:23:37

I think it's aéroglisseur.
Reply with wrong answers only
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2024-07-24 14:45:26

Share this with your elderly relatives who are Republicans
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-nephew-disability-memoir-b2585139.html

2024-07-23 14:31:14

“But LLMs are great for summarizing”
(No, they fundamentally fail.)
https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

2024-07-23 13:20:23

His driving was truly the Wurst
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2024-07-23 01:40:17

Have I mentioned the part of Project 2025 about killing the wild
horses in the American West?
Because they’re “disturbing private property”.
They don’t make any mention of millions of cattle free-ranging of course.

2024-07-22 21:57:57

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2024-07-22 14:12:11

Tech industry says autocomplete is artificial brains but I still have to clean my glasses every half hour, how about some innovation that actually matters

2024-07-22 02:13:05

Good news: ActBlue has gotten in about $50 million to support Kamala Harris from small donors.
Just today.
The fash is losing it.
Don’t fall for media bullshit in the coming weeks.

2024-07-21 21:41:36

The thing you should know about Trump's Project 2025 is that its main tenet is fighting "cultural marxism" (a conspiracy theory positing that "the Jews are secretly ruling the world").
This is pure, unadulterated fascism, a literal direct continuation from the Nazi's "cultural bolshevism".
The platform of a mainstream American political party is what's essentially the original Nazi Party's program.
I don't know how to make that clear to everyone.
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2024-07-21 19:08:02

Have the media started yet to cover Trump being the oldest presidential candidate in history and being in extreme mental decline

2024-07-21 02:53:12

Hi people working at big tech, go on fucking strike
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pmyqirafcp3jqdhrl7crpq7t/post/3kxqvrpu5b72y

2024-07-20 21:58:27

"Works on my machine. Closed as wontfix."
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2024-07-19 21:34:54

Did you know that Republicans want to shut down the National Weather Service?
https://project2025truth.com/agencies/
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2024-07-19 12:43:39

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2024-07-19 12:35:13

It’s cool how we built heterogeneous network infrastructure—designed originally to withstand a nuclear war—only to now have like one guy in office somewhere who can shut down the world with the click of a button.
The tech industry wonders never cease.

2024-07-18 22:34:06

Kodak 240i (1MP, 1999)
#ShittyCameraChallenge
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2024-07-18 17:49:14

Wonder what's going on there right now, such a mystery, we'll never know
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/808/749/982/558/568/original/8365100624eb99c2.png

2024-07-18 13:43:35

Who did it better
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2024-07-18 04:10:15

It's pure, unadulterated fascism.
That, plus their plan to only have ideologically approved government workers and university teachers is literally exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.
If they get away with it and get elected, they're spelling it out loud what they'll do.
Vote. Get others to vote. Share this with them.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/805/531/571/482/539/original/b0513ee7bfd9323a.jpeg

2024-07-17 18:10:20

https://project2025truth.com/porn-ban/
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2024-07-16 02:31:59

"Recognizing all the fash wants is for you to feel doom and despair and not go vote because they can't win fairly"-challenge 2024

2024-07-16 02:18:18

The doomerism right now is really something.
The fash don't want you to vote. That's why they're doing all this shit to make you vary of Biden. It's literally what they want, because they know they can't win fairly.
STOP FALLING FOR THIS SHIT.
Trump lost once against Biden already. And only won by what, 80,000 votes against Clinton? And only because of the rigged electoral college system.
It also doesn't fucking matter if the guy dies in office. That's what the VP is for.
Go vote.

2024-07-15 22:44:45

Show your Republican family members how JD Vance started and profiteered from an online platform where you can see American veterans that are PoW’s being made to repeat Russian propaganda by force https://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/us/politics/jd-vance-peter-thiel-rumble.html

2024-07-15 20:59:34

Vance is directly sponsored by Peter Thiel btw.
It's big tech trying to help fascism on the way because they can get big contracts and make a log of money from the suffering of millions of people, paid for by taxpayer money.
Absolutely disgusting scam.

2024-07-15 13:18:13

via https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkirk.fyi/post/3kxd2c3k4qa26
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2024-07-15 01:18:28

Storm
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/787/869/088/786/192/original/24c02414578d092e.jpeg

2024-07-14 16:41:13

It’s wild how a demagoguery speech calling for concentration camps was interrupted by violence

2024-07-14 05:12:28

According to some reports it looks like the shooter was a registered Republican.
Of course this will be spinned as “radical left sleeper agent” or some shit like that.
Don’t fall for it. Most political violence in this country is from right-wingers.

2024-07-13 22:54:21

Is it too early to make Alec Baldwin jokes

2024-07-13 00:37:20

Fun times if you want to buy a home, Republicans basically want to make it impossible.
https://project2025truth.com/pmi/

2024-07-12 15:59:30

Astounding graph showing the consequences of "conservative" rule
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/774/341/446/270/648/original/2cbdce3f026668cf.png

2024-07-10 18:01:47

Laptops used to come with micro-cassette drives and sherry glasses, we have lost our ways
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2024-07-10 15:41:55

Would be nice to see media concentrate more on how one candidate is a pedophile rapist felon traitor insurrectionist serial bankrupteur and less on how the other candidate is not well liked by 0.5% of his party

2024-07-08 13:45:25

Grabbing a coffee and reading the morning New York Times
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2024-07-08 00:51:08

Whether it’s “AIs will reach human levels of intelligence soon” or “Biden is too old”, it’s really amazing how easily masses of people are manipulated by weapons-grade bullshit.
It’s like people crave nothing more in their lives than to be victims of scammers.

2024-07-07 23:26:47

As they like to say, “fuck your feelings”
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/747/793/843/621/264/original/f6b64c28f93f13d3.jpeg

2024-07-06 04:47:05

Every once in a while some Important Poster™ postulates that posting on social media has no effect on the real world.
Hello, social media is real people having real conversations and building real relationships.
Maybe you’re using it wrong?

2024-07-05 20:24:04

Finally I can expand the potential of my Floppy Disk Drive
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/735/750/711/364/351/original/fca91beb72300e99.jpeg

2024-07-04 16:37:51

One of the things the colonists complained about in the Declaration of Independence is that the King paid judges
Can't make this shit up

2024-07-04 04:47:09

Remember when everyone said that Israel would never bomb a hospital?
The current estimates of the UN on how long it will take to rebuild damaged and destroyed buildings in Gaza are that it will take until the early 22nd century.*
*Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna150375

2024-07-03 23:50:51

Who needs The Onion when there’s the CyberTruck Owner’s Club https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/watch-my-cybertruck-ceiling-glass-spontaneously-crack-in-near-real-time.19852/

2024-07-03 15:05:33

Let’s see, Google says AI is inherently broken and Goldman Sachs says there’s no return on investment for companies who use it.
So what is this hype about?
(Answer: it’s a classic economic bubble driven solely by greed.)