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NYC DSA is holding a rally tomorrow for 30 employees fired illegally by Rockstar Games, the video game studio behind the Grand Theft Auto series, for organizing with their coworkers.
5pm at 622 Broadway. Show up if you can!
More info: https://actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-rockstar-workers-solidarity-rally/ (You don't have to RSVP!)
#labor #organizing #workers #WorkersRights #unions #gamedev #RockstarGames #NYC #DSA #NYCDSA
白いクリスマスツリーって儚い感じがして好き。
❝It was *impossible* for me or anyone else present to get him to understand that *we don't want slaves, simulated or otherwise*.
I've thought about that a lot in the days since.❞
4/
I agree with the storyteller: the experience of having a slave is abhorrent, simulated or not, and this story is a window into something •deep• about the present moment. Even without having slaves, we are all in danger of having a •slaver mindset•. It’s a disease that’s running rampant now in billionaire-shaped techno-utopian circles.
I wrote this thread on the topic earlier:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/113295613785073188
…and even having written that, it’s still shocking — not surprising, exactly, but shocking — to hear those thoughts expressed so baldly by the colleague in the story above.
lmao: "can you give me some context? [...] I googled rack and all I got was a bunch of shelves”
❝He was completely unable to understand why. He kept arguing that since the LLM isn't an actual conscious person (which is correct), it ought to be treated like a slave, and that the arc of technology is to give everyone access to their own virtual slaves.❞
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❝It was *impossible* for me or anyone else present to get him to understand that *we don't want slaves, simulated or otherwise*.
I've thought about that a lot in the days since.❞
4/
❝I said that I *absolutely in no way* want a slave, or a technology that simulates one. I want to do creative work using good tools. I *don't want* the experience of a slaver; in fact, I would go very far to never have that experience, because it is a demeaning and antihuman experience.❞
2/
❝He was completely unable to understand why. He kept arguing that since the LLM isn't an actual conscious person (which is correct), it ought to be treated like a slave, and that the arc of technology is to give everyone access to their own virtual slaves.❞
3/
Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
1/
❝I said that I *absolutely in no way* want a slave, or a technology that simulates one. I want to do creative work using good tools. I *don't want* the experience of a slaver; in fact, I would go very far to never have that experience, because it is a demeaning and antihuman experience.❞
2/
Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
1/
surgery tomorrow. the main thing I'm looking forward to? being able to use keyboards more
Everyone laughs and laughs at cats getting into boxes, but if you put a chair-height cube in a room with a human they will sit on it.
So, who is manipulated by the box now?
(The following has been a mandatory dispatch from the offices of #PicaTheCat as a part of her new propaganda initiative.)
#Exercitium: Sin consecutivos repetidos. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2014/12/09-sin_consecutivos_repetidos/ #Haskell #ProgramaciónFuncional
Everyone laughs and laughs at cats getting into boxes, but if you put a chair-height cube in a room with a human they will sit on it.
So, who is manipulated by the box now?
(The following has been a mandatory dispatch from the offices of #PicaTheCat as a part of her new propaganda initiative.)
@futurebirdmyrmepropagandist we like to mix it up around here
[$] The beginning of the 6.19 merge window
As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a relatively small fraction of what can be [...]
DC Public Library going hard 🔥 🔥
nach dem letzten japantrip habe ich mich endlich getraut selber vegane ramen zu machen und jetzt besteht mein körper zu 80% aus nudelsuppe 🥰
@kaitaiKaitai Project v0.11 was finally released with serialization support:
@nlnet money goes to the right places!https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_chachra_the_invisible_networks_shaping_your_everyday_life
@xChaosChao-c' , for you, physical infrastructure , transformation.
YES I finally have an excuse to use https://lib.rs/crates/corosensei
I feel like in theory handling DPI/scaling is pretty straight forward. A scale between UI coordinates and pixel coordinates. Great.
But in practice you never know what APIs work in what coordinates and what different scale values actually mean because they try to abstract things, and you end up with lovely stuff like this. (Also I'm currently on Linux.)
I love seeing people using Astro for fun, and this Othello game was def fun! Took a little break to play against myself.
https://othello.djmetzle.io/ built with 
@astro and 
@vuejs
After more than 11 years, today is my last day at Apple.
It’s been a privilege to be able to say I’ve worked my dream job, helping create SwiftUI and getting to support an incredible team of engineers and friends.
I’m excited for what’s next for me (stay tuned!), but today I’m focused on how deeply grateful I am to everyone at Apple that I’ve worked with and learned from over the years. It’s a truly amazing place full of astoundingly talented but also genuinely wonderful people.
Heavy thunderstorm day, so rewatching 'Bedazzled' for the first time since forever, probably decades. And a few dated early 2000's product-of-its-time elements aside, it's still a fun casual watch, with an actually solid message by the end.
Elizabeth Hurley as the Devil remains iconic in every scene, and Brendan Fraser's sensitive, awkward nerd vibe continues to occupy a soft spot in my heart.
#Bedazzled #Movies #FilmMastodon #CineMastodon #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #cat #Floof #BrendanFraser
I'll be disabling my Eurovision mute filters for next year, so I can see who's not boycotting and block accordingly.
For scale
Extraordinary close-up of spider thread wins Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025 | Discover Wildlife
#Photography
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/photography/royal-society-publishing-photography-competition-2025-winners
New!: "Overthinker" by Rew Nurse.
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Speaking To Your Heart (9 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/12/04/speaking-to-your-heart/
Fuckin *nailed* that “so bland and tasteless you won’t even be sure if this is food” brief.
I'll be disabling my Eurovision mute filters for next year, so I can see who's not boycotting and block accordingly.
look I'm just trying to publish 101 crates and 101 npm packages at the same time I don't know what the big deal is
Vorschlag in Therapie: Lebenslauf, Ausbildungs- und Tätigkeits-Profil usw. anonymisiert in eine KI-Schleuder eingeben, und den Promp um Frage ergänzen, was ideale, gut bezahlte Jobs es da so gibt und wo.
Hat angeblich schon vielen Leuz dolle Ideen vermittelt und Wege aufgezeigt.
Ich glaub, nicht mal mit nem Messer an der Kehle könnte ich dazu gebracht werden, das zu machen.
So krass ist meine Abneigung und Verachtung für den ganzen KI-Wahnsinn.
Ich bin im Grunde ein sehr religiöser Mensch.
julian @julian@activitypub.space
<p>Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.</p> <hr /> <h2>Attendees</h2> <ul> <li>Julian (@julian@activitypub.space)</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/macted/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ted Thibodeau Jr</a> (he/him) (<a href="http://openlinksw.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">OpenLinkSw.com</a>) // GitHub:<a href="https://github.com/TallTed" rel="nofollow ugc">@TallTed</a> // Mastodon:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@TallTed" rel="nofollow ugc">@TallTed</a></li> <li>Jesse Karmani (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@jesseplusplus">@<bdi>jesseplusplus@mastodon.social</bdi></a>)</li> </ul> <h2>Agenda</h2> <ol> <li>Mastodon context issues (backfill not possible at the moment)</li> <li>Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories) <ul> <li>Draft FEP for the above</li> </ul> </li> <li>Deleting entire tree vs. one post.</li></ol>
Read more →"There’s an organization called STARRS that combs through Instagram and LinkedIn looking for minority service members who show any pride in their identity… If you’re LGBTQ, a person of color, or even an ally who took your kids to Pride, they will tag and harass you — and they have a direct line into the Pentagon…"
National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/national-security-expert-says-second-lavender-scare-is-here-as-govt-purges-lgbtq-workers/
라면 먹고싶다
더 잘까 일어날까
CC will be speaking at the Museum Association's Open Minds conference about copyright and open heritage in museums! Through a mix of panel discussions, case studies, and audience participation, the event will explore the latest approaches to and trends in collections copyright, the impact of technological developments and AI on copyright, and more.
Register for the online event at: https://www.museumsassociation.org/events/open-minds-understanding-copyright-in-museums/
Image: "Inside The British Museum" by Henry Burrows licensed by CC BY-SA 2.0.
Show HN: OnlyRecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later
Link: https://onlyrecipeapp.com/?url=https://www.allrecipes.com/turkish-pasta-recipe-8754903
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148460
A few more pics from my visit at the London Science Museum with machines from different periods.
Starting with a replica of the first mouse in the early 60s, a PDP-10 from 1970, then a white Sinclair Spectrum clone from the 80s and Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXTCube in 1990.
Vorschlag in Therapie: Lebenslauf, Ausbildungs- und Tätigkeits-Profil usw. anonymisiert in eine KI-Schleuder eingeben, und den Promp um Frage ergänzen, was ideale, gut bezahlte Jobs es da so gibt und wo.
Hat angeblich schon vielen Leuz dolle Ideen vermittelt und Wege aufgezeigt.
Ich glaub, nicht mal mit nem Messer an der Kehle könnte ich dazu gebracht werden, das zu machen.
So krass ist meine Abneigung und Verachtung für den ganzen KI-Wahnsinn.
Ich bin im Grunde ein sehr religiöser Mensch.
Interesting thinking about how Microsoft's push towards things like backlight control not being handled with vendor specific drivers and for hotkeys to be sent over standard HID interfaces has meant that laptops are far more likely to broadly work out of the box with Linux than pretty much any prior point in history
Ich hab's überlebt und bin jetzt stolze Besitzerin von zwei Titan-Implantaten :-D
Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts. In my Notepad 📒 newsletter this week I cover Microsoft's D&I changes and reveal that LinkedIn has been testing an AI personal assistant for Microsoft execs. Live for subscribers now 👇 www.theverge.com/tech/838079/...
Microsoft is quietly walking b...
"There’s an organization called STARRS that combs through Instagram and LinkedIn looking for minority service members who show any pride in their identity… If you’re LGBTQ, a person of color, or even an ally who took your kids to Pride, they will tag and harass you — and they have a direct line into the Pentagon…"
National security expert says second Lavender Scare is here as gov't purges LGBTQ+ workers - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/national-security-expert-says-second-lavender-scare-is-here-as-govt-purges-lgbtq-workers/
Kat Marchán 🐈
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
nixCraft 🐧
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