mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I cannot offend you. I am not doing anything to you.
I am connected to you and I am you and you're me so if you are offended it is you that is the offender.
Let's discuss.
This is what the #datacenters are for -- not the advancement of humanity but oligarch #surveillance state 1984 horseshit.
#MyDataIsMine: You cannot have #freedom without #privacy. As long as the #datarape continues our #liberties degrade and our #future is threatened. The slow creep of #Tech -- from #spellcheck to #AI -- means we didn't see it coming.
If u see it u #woke. Or on ur way hopefully.
RE: @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
I'm no tech person. The only programming I ever did was in Basic back in the 80s. I don't know what I'm talking about. But in the comments in the linked article someone mentions "brainstorming" with AI. That's a massive issue for me -- the language used to describe what AI does. As far as I know, which is little, AI doesn't have the capacity to brainstorm. It can't think. It can't have ideas or make anything original. AI "creates" like Dr. Frankenstein. Even when it works, it's still a monster.
Less Animal Farm
More Charlotte's Web
When they say intellectual humility I hear #woke. Humility is the enemy of the oligarch, the autocrat, the dictator. #Obama was president in 2014. #Trump had yet to take that escalator.
From 2014: "Being humble: Research shows E. B. White was right in Charlotte's Web" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218210104.htm
Before Charlotte the #spider spelled the word "humble" in her web to describe Wilbur the #pig, she told Templeton the #rat that the word meant "not proud."
RE: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
It is one thing for the AI companies to describe computing in terms of human experience (pf course they are -- they are desperate to convince the people that the sci-fi future we've been conditioned to expect is actually here when it will likely never arrive) but quite another for the media to parrot it. The media is a derelict patsy.
RE: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
I've worked nearby since before Red Lobster came. I could see it from within our offices and I remember when the sign went up and feeling absolutely disgusted and angry about its arrival. I was embarrassed for my city. Feel terrible for the employees but it's no loss. Get rid of Olive Garden, Hard Rock, Heartland, Pink Taco, all of them. Of course I'd never eat at a chain (except Pret 🤷♂️). Two Boots in the EV, now THAT's a loss I mourn (and pray they make good on their promise to return).
I'm not sure there is a way to better protect a minor in shooting such a scene. The truth of the matter is that the only way to protect a minor is to not have them participate -- either hire an adult to play a 13 year old or cut the scene altogether. I never heard of this film before today and now I question everything about Wenders. I'm disgusted.
https://deadline.com/2026/06/wim-wenders-wrong-move-nastassja-kinski-topless-1236940632/
What else could Pelley
do
in good conscience?
60 Minutes cooked
soon as it sold to Skydance
RIP to the show
RIP CBS News
Walter Cronkite eat your heart out
Shit on a source of
American pride, for what?
Shit on a source of
American pride for nothing.
Pelley had no choice
but to
express his disgust
I would sue
They know what they did
and
we know what they did too
I see CBS
I see the Ellisons
RIP Peabo Bryson. Great, indelible voice I will remember all my days.
Every single person who called dibs on this fund is a traitor to the nation in my book.
The nomenclature around AI is irresponsible, deceptive and dangerous. Artificial or not AI doesn't resemble "intelligence." It doesn't "think" or "predict" it does math. It does not have feelings. It does not "understand." It has no perspective, no voice. Its output is not wrong or right and it doesn't know the difference between the two. Humanized AI is gaslighting tech bro style. The media owes it to the people to stop parroting the industry's language and start using accurate words.
I won't be ranking Bores, nor Schlossberg NOR Conway. I will miss Jerry Nadler. #primary #primaries2026 #primaries #nyc #ny #ny12 #newyork #newyorkcity #vote #election2026 #election #elections
EDIT: It's not a ranked choice vote LOL! I forgot we don't get them for federal elections. Such bullshit. I won't be coting for any if the mentioned clowns.
It's an Amazon release. Resist nostalgia.
What kind of a question is "Will you stand with me even if your friends told you not to?"
That's what Trump is asking people to do. Don't listen to your friends. Your friends are not your friends.
He is looking only for those willing to put the blinders on.
Certainly Trump sports his own set of blinders and it's clear what happens when the blind lead the blind -- we hit brick walls over and over again.
No offense to the visually impaired -- I am one of them!
My name is not George.
I message STOP, but it doesn't stop!
MAKE IT STOP!!!
Somehow Trump World thinks my name is George and I live in Alaska. I got a text from MAGAland tonight.
RE: @QasimRashid@mastodon.social
This is the kind of regressive shit that fucking drives me mad. The moral cowardice is pretending that religion is real.
Supposed queers like Scott Bessent and, apparently, Abdul El-Sayed's sister, trigger me. Queer people have been used and abused from day one - that's how and why we became a community - but they put themselves before the collective that got them where they are today. Paving the way for our exploiters and oppressors is not the way. Fuck my ethnicity, fuck my heritage, fuck my gender. Both Bessent and Eman Abdelhadi, in opposite ways, are fighting against me and my queerness and I resent them.
Jada Shada Hudson was robbed.
I've worked in midtown for at least 2 decades and I don't ever remember it being so crowded and annoying it's weird. Why so many people? And some of them a lot of them walk like they've been lobotomized or something I don't know. Shit's crazy out there. I walk but I will take the subway to escape because walking in midtown can be triggering. And then it's the subway which could be worse I guess but... I love it. Bay Ridge and back today for $6? Fuck yeah.
FUCK YOU #CNN. Zero context here. Zero acknowledgement of the reality that is the Trump Admin's attacks on and criminalization of supposed "#DEI." This "fraud" case has been whole-cloth conjured to damage and destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center. When the #Trump Administration refers to "weaponization" it's actually the #DOJ they are talking about.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/politics/exclusive-splc-fraud-cfo-charges
RE: @AmandaMarcotte@mastodon.sdf.org
"One White House official even told Axios that it’s “not helpful” and “isn’t really a winner” for conservative influencers to say the quiet part out loud."
But it's helpful for the American public to know that White House officials of this self-proclaimed "most transparent" administration say there is a "quiet part."
I hope my fellow Americans are as tired of this "tell me without telling me" culture as I am.
When you love everybody it's hard to stay mad.
Fuck this guy, what a moron. Idiot. Good going CA WTF.
A silly article, assuming earbud and headphone wearers always listen to something. Living in NYC, outside sound can be deafening. Many times I've walked to work with my (corded) earbuds in and nothing playing just as a buffer. But my over-ear cans are even more stealthy in that they include a mic that can pipe in outside noise. On the subway I can eavesdrop on convos in my midst whilst appearing to be listening to music. Not that I condone such behavior!
Phantom of the Paradise City
The Rock of Ages
In the Name of Love, Actually
The origins of social media are masturbatory. Masturbation is its essence. That social media can be used for good is a quirk, a bug. And when the addiction takes over, addicts point to that supposed goodness to justify their use of social media when really they just can't stop jerking off.