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Continue, or "try it now" a popup from Gmail now asks, offering to compose your next message with Gemini. I guess the tiny "x" is the "fuck no" button?

#darkpatterns

Fellow #artists, consider adding a #noAI tag/logo to your site or portfolio. People *are* actively seeing out genuine human-made things as the #slop era continues to metastasize and genuine work is harder to find via search engines.

https://no-ai-icon.com/

Lotta GenAI pictures and videos on the old timeline this morning, gang. Be careful out there.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/115917090541145326

Truly the correct answer in my book!

e360.yale.edu/digest/china... 중국의 대규모 풍력, 태양광 발전을 전통 수묵화(산수화) 미학으로 항공 촬영한 사진들. 굉장하다. 첫번째 사진도 좋지만 갯벌의 태양광 패널들, 패널 사이로 지나가는 양들이 인상적이네요.

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If someone tells you that your content is unwelcome, block them so they don't have to see your content again.

One thing that's tough for people who just join the Fediverse, like most of the folks on #theforkiverse , is that there are self-appointed experts who reply to their public posts saying that "the Fediverse" doesn't like that kind of content.

This is untrue. They don't speak for all of us. Nobody does. You can't spell "Fediverse" without "diverse"; for good or ill, there are different viewpoints on almost any topic found here.

Crows study physics and make fine engineers

#birb #crow #mathematics #engineering

Appeasement didn't work with Hitler.

Appeasement didn't work with Putin.

Appeasement isn't working with Trump.

When will Europe learn this most basic lesson about how to deal with imperialist bullies?

https://www.politico.eu/article/hit-back-donald-trump-europe-mulls-unthinkable-options-greenland-threats-ramp-up-tensions/

#Holos beta-15 is available

New:
- Crash reporting (opt-in)
- Automatic restore when database is corrupted

Fixes:
- GoToSocial notifications crash
- German language
- Handle search
- Relay outage now shows alert instead of logout
- Relationship persistence (UI bug)

Download: https://framadrive.org/s/ZePLfA5JcGnw4QH

MakerTube is open for public registrations! It's a peertube video instance for #makers, #musicians, #artists and #diy content #creators. If you thought of trying out a video platform besides big corp now is the time!

The site is funded by people like you! If you like the idea of an independent video platform please consider making a #donation at https://makertube.net/about/instance/support

Every penny counts!

Find the site here https://makertube.net

#peertube #makertube #youtube

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.

Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: https://iceoutnowmn.com

The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

Link: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/the-nobel-prize-and-the-laureate-are-inseparable
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669404

Show HN: Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents

Link: https://github.com/dannote/figma-use
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665169

If you just left Bluesky today to join or come back to Mastodon, welcome (back)!

We are glad you are here with us

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse

@Em0nM4stodonEm Wow. I have been off most other platforms since September, so I had no idea this was happening. This makes me want to delete my Bluesky account, I might as well, I think I have posted once in the last 4-5 months. No use for it anymore.

@Em0nM4stodonEm Ok, I just deleted my Bluesky account. I'll see if I can get used to Mastodon

@Em0nM4stodonEm

Also, poke around in the settings a bit and you may notice some improvements since last time you were on Mastodon, especially if it's been a couple years.

@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ What if we... 👉 federated 👈?

MINNESOTA: Friday is a statewide day of non-violent moral action and reflection. That means no work, no school, and no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action.

Plus, there will be a peaceful march and rally in downtown Minneapolis: https://iceoutnowmn.com

#Python people, which type checker are you you using?

I just tried ty, and was really surprised at how much more output it generates than mypy. There's so much output, I think I prefer what mypy generates.

@daliasCassandrich many newer cars manufactured in the past 20+ years will not make it to 25 years due to electronics failing (capacitors and mosfets are typical candidates), regardless of being powered by ICE or EV.

Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀

#Technology #InfoSec
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/amazons-ring-to-partner-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/

@FediTips @bigbelgianbopperBig Belgian Bopper 🔻🐸

This morning, I deleted my Bluesky account. I don't want to waste my time on a channel that supports fascism.

"Excuse me, it seems there's a sunbeam in this room, we're gonna need you to sit in it so I can nap. For safety reasons."

#cats #catsofmastodon

p.s. The US Department of Homeland Security has pinned a video where the CEO of Bluesky says Trump is welcome on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/homelandgov.bsky.social/post/3m3g7vwkokk2i

This is a genuine clip of the CEO, it's from an interview on Wired and the original source is https://www.wired.com/video/watch/the-big-interview-jay-graber

It is now very clear what Bluesky stands for, they are welcoming fascists and fascism, even when those fascists are kidnapping and murdering people.

(Thanks @bigbelgianbopperBig Belgian Bopper 🔻🐸 for pointing this out)

na na na na na na na na na katamari damacy

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Fellow #artists, consider adding a #noAI tag/logo to your site or portfolio. People *are* actively seeing out genuine human-made things as the #slop era continues to metastasize and genuine work is harder to find via search engines.

https://no-ai-icon.com/

What is Plan 9?

Link: https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667675

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A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.

In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data,
not “learning” from it.

Specifically, four prominent LLMs
— OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet
— happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular
— and protected
— works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.

They found that Claude outputted “entire books near-verbatim” with an accuracy rate of 95.8 percent.

Gemini reproduced the novel “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” with an accuracy of 76.8 percent,

while Claude reproduced George Orwell’s “1984” with a higher than 94 percent accuracy compared to the original
— and still copyrighted
— reference material.

“While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models,”
the researchers wrote.

Some of these reproductions required the researchers to jailbreak the models with a technique called "Best-of-N",
which essentially bombards the AI with different iterations of the same prompt.

(Those kinds of workarounds have already been used by OpenAI to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by the New York Times,
with its lawyers arguing that “normal people do not use OpenAI’s products in this way.”)

The implications of the latest findings could be substantial
as copyright lawsuits play out in courts across the country.

As The Atlantic‘s Alex Reisner points out,
the results further undermine the AI industry’s argument that LLMs “learn” from these texts
-- instead of storing information and recalling it later.

It’s evidence that “may be a massive legal liability for AI companies”
and “potentially cost the industry billions of dollars in copyright-infringement judgments

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books

🚨 We are looking for fairly technical people in Iran that can test new filter breaking software.

If you're in Iran, have a macOS or Linux machine - please DM us. We might be able to help you get through the filters without Starlink (albeit at a much slower speed).

#iran #iranprotests

美國的憲法第四及第五修正案就是為了保障所有人的隱私權──即使他／她犯了極度令人髮指的罪行。

不過，我們今天對隱私權已經有不同的想法了：我們很樂意在社群媒體上分享內心的祕密、信念、希望和情緒，給任何一個認識的人，甚至常常是陌生人。

I'd wike to add you to my pwofessionyaw nyetwowk on WinkedIn the Fedivewse

Today is all about relaxing with our pack.

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#OC #SD #리메이크 #홍칠라 #친칠라 #칠라

omg I'm reading this dumb twitter article but can't continue because I'm laughing too hard at this diagram. Like, using this as a definition of an intelligent system then crashing into the fucking rocks because you don't know wtf a lighthouse is.

Look, I get it. Water is complex. But I still find it unbearably precious when a blog post tells me I need spring water to make a fucking pot of tea

JavaScript libraries are like, here are five libraries that each do 18% of what you need. They are mutually incompatible.

I'm deleting my bluesky account as several of the (very famous, well known) people I love to follow have all collaborated to block me after I asked someone to please put the link for the youtube video they were discussing. If you'd like to follow my new account on bluesky, send me a message.

I can't... I can't seem to wake up
I can't... I can't seem to wake up
I can't... I can't seem to wake up
And I can't seem to wake up
Can't seem to wake up

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
Has The Mystery Of Why This Structure Was Built Finally Been Unraveled?
https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

By the authority vested in me as a native Californian and lifelong resident, I'll sell California to the Danish for the princely sum of $1. No negotiations needed.

Millie says meow

I like the photo I got today from her while we walk together.

#cat #catstodon #catsoffediverse

Just a bunny chilling on a tiny bunny sofa