@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk It's so hard to hear them talking about these features and not think "Man, what a gift to abusers and authoritarians."
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Unmoored enjoyer of books, movies, TV, video games, music.
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@Michigander I say "Mastodon" because I figure it's the only way I'll have a chance in hell that anybody will know what I'm talking about.
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Lots of good stuff here already, but I’d add “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, specifically the movie with Zero Mostel. Very, very silly
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@soapboxsoftware@mastodon.social Although I could not figure out how to cross-post this correctly for the life of me. The post button was disabled and I can’t tell why. Eventually gave up and turned off the Bluesky post.
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@airspeedswift At work we've seen single users suddenly start throwing 100× as many requests/hour as anybody else. Welcome to a brave new world where any clown can throw together a badly behaved API scraper in less than a day.
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@rands Noticed this on another of your info-card things: the subtitle isn’t rendering right on Safari for me. Tried turning off content blockers, so I don’t think it’s me.
This would be more plausible if some of the worst AI boosters I know weren’t 40+ y.o. folks in leadership roles.
Maybe that’s part of the problem though. They’re old enough to use it as a power tool, but don’t realize how dangerous it is for the younger majority of their org.
Thinking about this more: I wish Apple was willing to be boring.
Like, I can’t imagine them *just* executing the “fitness band” concept really well, even if that would be valuable to a lot of people. If they can’t pretend they’re redefining the category, they just can’t be bothered.