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@britt I probably shouldn't be surprised that the market for fraud is so lucrative that buying an entire company to turn it into an engine for backdooring websites is a potentially profitable move.
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mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtPhD Sociology student interested in queer theory, sex, sexuality, and gender. Author. Formerly incarcerated. Technologist. Pragmatic idealist. Advocate for engagement and dignity in public life. Wooden boat enthusiast. I have been known to meditate in the Buddhist tradition.
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If someone were to threaten to murder an individual online, law enforcement would be all over it. But apparently if someone threatens to murder "a whole civilization" we just shrug it off? Are we powerless to stop this lunatic?
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@lopeztel@fosstodon.org @evan@cosocial.ca @pfefferle@mastodon.social I believe it's through the plugin you mention. https://activitypub.blog/2026/04/22/8-1-0-by-the-numbers/
National Train Day is just around the corner!
#trains https://www.detroithistorical.org/events/national-train-day-featuring-glancy-trains
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@smurthys Beautiful! Roundabouts are clearly the most efficient and sensible "x to nowhere" projects.
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@mikehindleuk@mastodon.social I worked with an artist who was using Squarespace, and we ultimately moved to WordPress because of limitations in what Squarespace offered in terms of SEO (specifically structured data). You're right that Squarespace does a good job with the basics, but it didn't do enough to get her art visible the way we wanted. Yes, the details get technical quickly, and maybe it's not important to everyone, but the fact that we couldn't do what we wanted to do at all was a dealbreaker with Squarespace.
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@kashhill@mastodon.social Not really comparable, but yesterday I was searching for a software plugin to perform a certain task. Apparently nobody's written one yet, but that didn't stop Google's AI from eventually making one up in order to satisfy my request.
LLMs basically respond with what you want to hear. Very often, that's not the same as what you need to hear, or what is accurate and helpful.
Let's stop trusting LLMs to tell us anything useful. Almost by definition, they won't.
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@micahflee I'm actually a little disappointed that this is a joke. I want it to be real! 😄
It's easy to want to give up on public life when all our leaders seem to be completely missing the point. Debating the particular words to write in a strongly worded letter suggesting that maybe we shouldn't genocide quite so obviously, for example.
But I'm not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Democracy demands that we all stay engaged. We must hold our leaders and our fellow citizens accountable for the decisions we make. To think it's OK to go to war only if someone else pays the price is unconscionable. To outsource the ugly parts of governance to mercenaries and corporate overlords is to cede authority to fascists.
Instead of distancing ourselves from government because government is acting terribly, let's take back out power and get rid of those who claim to represent us but don't. When our leaders fail to fight with us it's time to get new leaders.
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@cogdog@cosocial.ca I haven't upgraded yet but maybe I should wait. Across multiple sites, it's hard to believe it would just be you!
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@cogdog@cosocial.ca I updated on several sites today. Looks like it's working so far! Thanks.
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@impermanen_@zirk.us “free daytime energy” is such a contrast to electric rates in #Michigan where we jack up the rates in the middle of the day to gouge people running their air conditioners in order to protect themselves from all the heat from the coal fires.