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president @animalfixclinic@sfba.social
currently in the foggy end of #sanfrancisco with #lilorangeannie
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and if you’ll allow me a shameless plug:
*this* is why I’m so passionate about Animal Fix Clinic existing, thriving, expanding. We offer affordable, sliding scale vet surgeries that costs 1/10th of what PE would charge.
Bid on some stuff in our Silent Auction or make a donation. We’ve got some great stuff in there and more will be listed on Sunday!
https://givebutter.com/c/afc2026
I was, indeed, saving this for #bleptember
Status update on the blanket I’m knitting for my sister, if you’ve ever wanted to see sibling love embodied.
Ignore the cat hair and the cat toys. The former will be removed from the final product, the latter is just how we live man.
Just wanted to say: I finally gifted the fidgets I bought from @britt@mstdn.games and my friend’s (neurodivergent) child is *obsessed* with them. They’re ordering more.
someone just told to me that they hate how they have to spend an hour every Monday morning figuring out what it is they are supposed to do at work and to that I say:
that’s how you know that you have good work-life boundaries and that your weekends are actually restorative. because if you forget what you’re supposed to be doing, that means you actually got a mental break from it.
so yeah, that first hour of Monday is *supposed* to be about figuring out your job. again.
what’s going on here?
Last night we called 911 because 7 adults living in this building confirmed smelling gas.
and it turned out that the remaining 2 adults were harboring the remnants of a ripe durian in their trash.
A ladder and an engine came out. With a command vehicle! They took the durian with them when they left. Laughing.
I’ve been a chronically late person my whole life and recently committed to change my ways.
Now I’m half an hour early everywhere and other people are often 15 minutes late.
Being early sucks? Send help.
cozy Banana roll
(for the record: she did this all herself, I didn’t wrap her)
did we make it in time for #caturday?
so what I need everyone to know is that Anthropic unilaterally changed its terms effective yesterday for anyone using one of its new Mythos-class models (which they also added to the platform unilaterally, and they’re very hard to turn off).
even if you contracted with them for zero retention, zero model training, they’re overriding that and will retain any queries and their output using Mythos models to be reviewed and assessed by their tools and staff for safety for 30 days. they don’t say this explicitly but I assume they will also use them to train their model, at least in artifact form.
I’m not telling you what to do but I wouldn’t put anything confidential or privileged into a prompt using these models for response.
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models
your long read for the weekend.
so what? no fuckin’ ziti?
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@NickGates@friendsofdesoto.social buy it directly from their website. They will likely give you a discount and/or free shipping.
I was heading back to my apartment in New York late last night, in a nearly empty subway car. A man dressed in workwear got on, carrying a set of tools including a large, heavy metal spike, flattened at one end. I nervously looked at this thing that could easily be a lethal weapon.
He read my expression immediately: “I’m an iron worker, it’s a pry bar, we use it to make things fit when they don’t want to fit.”
An iron worker. Carrying a full set of his tools on public transit. This man builds skyscrapers and takes the R train to work. Tell me why you need a lifted F-250 for your quarterly trip to Home Depot?
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@jeridansky@sfba.social apparently it emits methyl mercaptan which is what they add to gas to give it that distinctive odor. So we were not insane, and not the first ones to report it as a gas leak. happens all the time all over the world.
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@minmi@sfba.social @scott@carfree.city it’s fully psychotic. we can’t buy things that meet our needs because there’s more “value” in collecting data about us that will be used to sell us more things that don’t meet our needs. and that’s why your oven is spying on you.
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on the other hand, ain’t no Sunday scaries like “new job on Monday” Sunday scaries.
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@scott@carfree.city I agree, I think people have completely lost the plot on what it is LLMs actually do: generate text. hard stop. I can’t reveal my question because atty client privilege but suffice it to say, there was no source that ChatGPT could have had access to that would have provided a credible evidence.
Not to post cliches, but is there a greater test of a parent child relationship than setting up a new phone?
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@scott@carfree.city @inthehands@hachyderm.io I recently asked a coworker for evidence behind a claim she was making. She said she asked ChatGPT.
PSA: after a delay, Port of Oakland Harbor Tours have been announced for 2026.
They always sell out so set a reminder to grab tickets for the time you want.
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@RobertoArchimboldi@kolektiva.social @jeridansky@sfba.social I haven’t done a survey but having lived and used gas in several countries all over the world, my answer is yes.
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@3x10to8mps@mastodon.social fairly certain the neighbors woken up by 3 firefolk in full gear at 11 pm didn’t feel that way.
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we also stopped by Very Mulberry, and it was a zoo: giant parking lot with “VIP Parking” (hwat), a purple colored 3-car “tram” taking you to the orchard and “reservation only” picking after 2 pm. hundreds of people in the orchard. we grabbed two prepicked containers and went on our way.
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org genuinely though. That one fruit smelled up the whole building! And even if they took it down to the bins in the basement, we’re expecting a heat wave this week, it would have murdered all of us by the time of next trash pickup.
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@lmc@mastodon.social she is , in fact, thrilled that my new job is 100% remote so we can continue snuggling all day every day.
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@azett@mastodon.online which is why most of us were hoping it was the last Great War. but here we are….
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@azett@mastodon.online it’s nice that you think we’ll still have elections then. I hope it’s true!
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@azett@mastodon.online I’m so sympathetic of your search. My father was also a WW2 orphan but in the USSR. I think I found his biological father but only after he passed. I wish I could have given him that peace of mind.
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@azett@mastodon.online @spiegelmama@infosec.exchange also is it possible he’s Australian?
https://garthbellett.wordpress.com/those-who-served/edward-garth-and-ann-bellett/
There’s an Edward John Garth listed on this page, who’s of age to have served in WW2 *and* there’s real familial resemblance to the folks in these photos esp the Anning men at the top.
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@zackstern@hachyderm.io I think this was saved in a "branding" shared drive folder and someone who doesn't understand what the purpose of that file is decided to just print it out because they liked it.
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@christa@friend.camp I think that would be ideal: we forgot it was Mother’s Day (ours is in March) so it was definitely more crowded than we would have liked. I recommend Wolfe Ranch: we’ve visited a bunch of different orchards over the years and theirs is our favorite for being low key and uncrowded.
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@sarae@ecoevo.social were you able to pull the full card? I just got a squib since I don’t have a paid ancestry subscription anymore.
@azett@mastodon.online @spiegelmama@infosec.exchange
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@jedda@social.lol you were missed. glad you’re back but no pressure. show up how you need here, and live your IRL life. 💞
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@zackstern@hachyderm.io you mean the transparent background .eps that some graphic designer produced so others could use it as a source/reference guide?
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@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org i see them in stores all the time here. I just didn’t think that anyone would subject me to that smell, inside my own home. and btw: pretty sure they got some more after it was removed. I smelled it again last night.
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@azett@mastodon.online this birth date is perplexing: if he’s born in November, he was conceived in Feb 1944. D-Day (when US forces land in Europe) is June 1944. How sure are we this was his father as opposed to a man who later came into his mother’s life? Was he given up for adoption at birth or later?
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@deivudesu@mastodon.social we have a saying in our family “bad photo, good picture”. it’s most often applied to photos of our cat that seem terrible but capture her whole energy somehow.
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