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#れびんかわいい 5分くらいのらくがき
내일 롯데리아 가려는데 메뉴 추천 받아요~
1000ファボ越えて草
Was mulling the news that, thanks to the AI bros, consumer electronics might be in short supply over the next year or so - and thinking about how good my TV, a Samsung, has been.
Then tried to figure out how *long* it's been good for. Well, I know it's been a while: the thing's got two SCART sockets and both an analogue and digital tuner...
No receipt in my email, so I scoured through old photos. Earliest I found with the TV in was November 2009.
...it was taken with my Nokia N95 8GB. Blimey.
Newly elected Centrist Reform Alliance chief Junya Ogawa does not see his party as a brake for the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, but as an entirely separate vehicle altogether. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/19/japan/politics/cra-ogawa-rebuild/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #cra #junyaogawa #2026lowerhouseelection #cdp #komeito
Congratulations 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow for 6 years of terrific blogging! (after previous years of really good writing for several sites)
I can't wait to read more about The Memex Method! And I'll pre-order the FSG book and interim ones.
かぶの塩揉みしたやつにゆずの皮加えるだけで味が華やかになってすごい
I feel like I'm watching some of the most capable people I know lose their minds, letting chatbots take over their words.
@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto who knew that resistance to evil these days would include simply resisting any urge to let a machine take over your essence of self.
Fragments: LLMs make our days harder, an LLM reacts badly to a rejected pull request, the Promptware Kill Chain, horror and elation trying Claude Code for two weeks, Free Speech Poseurs' silence to real threats
数学の触りもできなければLinuxの使い方もgitの使い方もわからないミジンコで苦しい
A case study Tainter explores is the Roman Empire. Initially, the republic and later empire expanded through conquest, using loot and plunder to finance state operations, including further expansion. But, eventually, Rome expanded to the point that further conquests were uneconomical—it simply could not field armies that far abroad.
When conquests ended, the Roman state had to finance its operations from resources under its control. This meant taxes, which meant a whole host of bureaucrats: census takers, to see who lived where, and surveyors, to see who owned what and what it was worth, as well as tax collectors and scribes. But all these bureaucrats had to eat, which meant that their incomes were deducted from that tax revenue.
So more expenses, and more complexity to finance those expenses, which created more expenses. This meant that every new crisis had to be financed out of tax revenue that was already strained by the costs of collecting it, which demanded yet more bureaucrats to find the necessary resources.
This was a downward spiral for Rome which, towards the end of the empire, featured a massively expanded bureaucracy and state apparatus but struggled to mobilize the resources it needed to manage its many challenges. Eventually, the state simply couldn’t finance its own operations and collapsed.
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Is this perhaps why the hegemonic system of the capitalist state feels so *exhausted* and unable to tackle seemingly any problem, despite theoretically being able to mobilize vastly more resources than they were even a generation or two ago?
Powerful states, that previously won world wars against industrial peers, struggle to win wars against far weaker opponents. Wealthy governments struggle to afford infrastructure projects. Grand national undertakings belong to an increasingly mythic past.
It’s in this milieu that I interpret (easily foreseeable) results like this:
“In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
“For instance, engineers, in turn, spent more time reviewing, correcting, and guiding AI-generated or AI-assisted work produced by colleagues. These demands extended beyond formal code review. Engineers increasingly found themselves coaching colleagues who were ‘vibe-coding’ and finishing partially complete pull requests. This oversight often surfaced informally—in Slack threads or quick desk-side consultations—adding to engineers’ workloads.”
As a society, we have massively invested in generative “AI” in a desperate attempt to manage the increasing complexity of our lives (and to goose the wealth of a handful of tech barons), but the end result has been unprofitable slop and *more* work to fix the errors generated by these massively expensive systems.
I strongly suspect that generative “AI” represents the stage of decreasing returns to additional complexity—not just diminishing marginal returns but rather negative returns as we invest more resources into managing the fallout
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
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@Override⏣‑5556667 [Nivia] 
my backpack is now even cooler :333
Hi folks, I'm trying to put together a list of AI-generated-contribution policies for different open source projects. Do you have any you can link to me here?
You can also directly submit a PR to
https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies
Boosts appreciated!
이 대통령, 김형석 독립기념관장 해임제청안 재가
“광복은 연합국 선물” 발언 등 물의
수정 2026-02-19 23:11 www.hani.co.kr/arti/politic...
이 대통령, 김형석 독립기념관장 해임제청안 재가
Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact
“Looksmaxxing,” a new trend that can involve jaw exercises, steroid use, and extreme cosmetic procedures, has taken off among many boys and young men. The Onion dispels common myths surrounding looksmaxxing. MYTH: Regularly exercising your jaw muscles can make them bigger. FACT: The most effective way to change your face shape is to contract mumps. […]
The post Looksmaxxing: Myth Vs. Fact appeared first on T…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/looksmaxxing-myth-vs-fact/
알아도 쓸모 없는 중국산 호토 모에 봇 프롬프트
1000ファボ越えて草
커피 없는 라떼?
200iq thought just came to mind
curently, instance admins deferating "" bad"" instances for all users of said instance places the users into a stay-or-leave situtation. they either stay and remain isolated from bad guys, or make a profile on a different instance that has no such defederation policy.
i propose to you the
RECOMMENDED BLOCKLISTS.
the idea is simple: instance admins can still create lists of instances and users they don't wanna see, but instead of being defedded they get put on a RECOMMENDED BLOCKLIST.
said blocklist has a title, description of why the list exists and (optionally) a brief note next to a user/instance that may describe the crimes they commited.
said BLOCKLIST is enabled by default for newly registered users, and is shown upfront to users during onboarding, with ability to read and check out the offenders profile by hand. that was the RECOMMENDED part.
the "enabled by default" part is important cause joe, the average fedi newcomer will just click through all this unconsciously, and will end up no worse than currently.
once joe gets acquainted with fedi and perhaps wants to interact with the ""dark"" side of it -- he can just turn off the blocklist from settings.
what do you think?
is this too much for the Mastodon© Network™ to handle?
@trwnh@mastodon.socialinfinite love ⴳ 
@wakest@piefed.social 
@drq@mastodon.mlDr. Quadragon ❌
厚塗り楽しい時期です
Nice and succinct distinction, via https://christiano.dev/post/indieweb_smallweb/.
"IndieWeb is about building infrastructure, while Small Web is about building community"
ねるー！！おやすみすきー！
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にゅーあいこん
"how's ram shortage going"
this is trending on aliexpress
前職は僕が辞めるとプロジェクトが崩壊するんじゃないかと気に病んで頑張ってたら「お前なんかがやめても代わりはいくらでいる」ってボスが言ったので安心してやめたら半年後に会社自体が潰れました。
You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief
No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore
#아무말 라떼는 우유를 의미합니다. 
Um 5 lass ich den Scheffel fallen.
Saarbrücken – die Stadt, die niemals schläft, weil das Hochklappen der Bordsteine so laut ist.
Saarbrücken – die Stadt, die niemals schläft, weil das Hochklappen der Bordsteine so laut ist.
2026. 2. 19. 19:19
신산업 확대… 비관세 장벽 해소 기대
구글, 국내 안보 시설 ‘가림’ 처리 수용
한국선 구글 지도 서비스 사용 불가
1800만 외국인 관광객 편의성 제고
자율주행·AI·우버 등 일자리 창출
국내업체 글로벌 경쟁력 키워 선순환
v.daum.net/v/2026021919...
[단독] 구글, 한국에 데이터 센터 긍정 검토… 정부 ...
Dem Rausch der Befriedigung der eigenen Gedankengänge ist wirklich schwer zu entkommen. Eure Mama liebt euch nicht, wenn ihr gemeinen Shit ins Internet postet. Die Vergangenheit trägt das Laster der Zukunft in sich, was einmal unsere Gegenwart werden wird. Aufstehen, Aufschreien oder Aufhören? Warum fällt ein Baum um, wenn die Stihl Säge ein letztes Mal ertönt ist? Welche Schuldigkeit trägst Du mit Dir herum, die Dich daran hindert, endlich frei zu sein? You're lifting, boy? Awesome.
在家附近出去一下也會燒錢(抖
又是一卷Reto，這次是除碳底片，店家價錢還滿老實的
就這樣結束這回合的假期吧 
したので
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집에 가고 싶다..
I wish there was a way to just mute likes on a particularly viral toot, but still see comments. I like having the notification number clear
커피는 오늘 생략..
ah good i was looking for a partitioning graph for the human body, cheers
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over ties to Epstein
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/andrew-mountbatten-windsor-arrested-on-suspicion-of-misconduct-in-public-office-over-ties-to-epstein?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World 
@world-PBSNewsHourWorld
Marketing a technology as leaving people behind sure makes it unappealing to me.
雨宮凪沙/nagiko
北南
Quincy ⁂
Christine Lemmer-Webber
불가사리 소년 
＠3/23(日)
東京オフ主催 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈 
2.5D作曲Vtuber 
