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WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography #cisgender #TrumpIsAFascistCunt #FuckElon #JailNetanyahu he/him

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Also, I saw the Trump interview on NBC and that reporter/interviewer can kiss my salty piss flaps. You folks are fucking cowards. The entire US media class. You have Hitler 2.0 in the chair, and you just let him fucking LIE his ass off about "driving crime rates down" and why he wants to be "asked" to keep Dem cities safe... no pushback at all. You actually LAUGHED with him. Gimme a break. You're not a journalist, you're a fart catcher. Grotesque.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites see what we need is Jimmy Fallon tussling Trump's hair on camera again...

@vintagestory@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar vintagestory , to random

You want devlog updates? Here, We'll spam you with more!

a large spinning waterwheel

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@vintagestory can probably argue whether this is appropriate to spam in or not...

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Sam Altman, 2015:

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@Daojoan it was a mission statement, not a warning

@ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.

Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-climate-rollbacks-heat-deaths?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ProPublica ...just as they intend

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , to random

Each attack on a journalist is an attack on democracy itself.

Today is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.

Without justice, the violence will not stop.

We stand with journalists and work with partners worldwide to ensure the truth can be told freely, everywhere. 📝

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

Fun poll: What will come first?

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@nixCraft they will all happen exactly at the same time. it'll be magical

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

Question for you wizards and wizettes: I'm setting SDL_HINT_MOUSE_TOUCH_EVENTS, SDL_HINT_TOUCH_MOUSE_EVENTS, SDL_HINT_PEN_MOUSE_EVENTS, and SDL_HINT_PEN_TOUCH_EVENTS all to zero, but my program occasionally receives SDL mouse button and mouse moves events for some but not all touch events in addition to the expected correct behavior of actually receiving touch events. Is this, too, a linux, or did I screw up something somewhere?

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.

You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.

None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.

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@tante democratize in their world: make it more affordable (and cheaper to provide) so we can tap into a wastly bigger revenue pool

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

Enough talk. Europe's AI plan is getting real.

Six new AI Factories 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 13 new local Antennas across Europe 🇧🇪 🇨🇾 🇭🇺 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 🇲🇹 🇸🇰 🇮🇸 🇲🇩 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 have just launched.

What's the deal? 👇

✅ Businesses get massive computing power for faster, smarter AI.

✅ Citizens get better public services, from healthcare to security.

✅ We all get trustworthy, human-centric AI.

The foundation is laid. Time to build the future.

ℹ️ https://link.europa.eu/8xyx8t

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@EUCommission counterpoint: fuck AI (if we're talking LLM flavoured bullshit)

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

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@Daojoan but...hear me out..."horny chatbots that cure cancer"

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

OMG GUYS IF YOU DO SHIT UR GOOD AT U GET GOODER @ IT

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@Daojoan i support Sam in his quest to find something he's actually good at. You got this, Sam! Any day now!

@faab64@freefree.ps avatar faab64 , to Palestine

Israel army says it will use ‘unprecedented force’ in Gaza City and urges residents to leave

And none of the freaking "world" leaders are standing up to them except (kind of) and Brazil.

PS. September is almost over, what happened to all the assholes who said they would recognize "Palestine" in September?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/19/palestinian-state-palestine-recognition-gaza-israel-middle-east-latest-news-updates



palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine
palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group

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@faab64 palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group cunning world leader thinking: "...if we wait long enough, there won't be a Palestine to recognise anymore..."

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

NFTs were always a scam

Christie’s folds its dedicated digital art department

After Sothby's downsized last year, Christie's has closed it's digital art department as sales go down 96 per cent

https://indianexpress.com/article/news-today/christies-folds-its-dedicated-digital-art-department-10244036/

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@gerrymcgovern i really want to meet one of the remaining 4%ers...

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

It’s barely 9am and I can already tell this is going to be the stupidest fucking shit I’ve read all day

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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social avatar NanoRaptor , to random

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    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Hearing disturbing rumours that the people saying “no need to change our behaviour, tech will fix the climate” are the same people demanding we defund climate tech

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    @Daojoan "it's ok, once we built the dyson sphere, we won't have to worry..."

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs.

    How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?

    (https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3)

    patrick_h_lauke ,
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    @tante it's likely true by the sheer volume of bullshit AI generated code that's being produced. real human written code is still the same, and AI is slop-vomiting 9 times as much code now that is utter shit and doesn't actually work, or borderline does but is absolutely inefficient and wasteful...

    @zeldman@front-end.social avatar zeldman , to random

    Which old websites that are functional but no longer popular do you still use, and what do you love about them?

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    @zeldman https://www.flickr.com/photos/redux/ (even though i'm WAY behind on uploading things to it ... but it's like my external public photographic memory)

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    @csilverman @zeldman also, last.fm

    i'm clinging onto these original "web 2.0" artefacts, clearly...

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    "your bigot posts"

    Yeah mate, I'm bigoted against German shitlibs in my replies named Roodie. I make no apologies for my crimes on that front...

    Un-fucking-real how many people just can't understand the words "fuck off."

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites strong "Debattier mich!" energy

    patrick_h_lauke ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites bless, he then decided that > I < wanted to debate him...

    patrick_h_lauke ,
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    @AnarchoNinaWrites one quick press of the block button is all it took. let's see if he takes the L

    @w3c@w3c.social avatar w3c , (edited ) to random

    Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world, in 1991, by @timbl when he said "Try it"

    Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone – a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure.

    https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/vision-for-w3c-to-reach-durable-and-sustainable-success/

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    @w3c @timbl vague...but exciting

    @adrian@mastodon.design avatar adrian , to random
    patrick_h_lauke ,
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    @adrian as soon as my NFT portfolio picks up again, i'm outta here...

    all my apes, waiting...

    @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

    Have you heard of the 3-30-300 🌳 rule?

    Everyone should be able to:

    🌲 See at least 3 trees from their home
    🌳 Have 30% tree canopy cover in their neighbourhood
    🍃 Live within 300 metres of a high-quality green space

    Trees help us cool down our towns in the summer, improve air quality and regulate the water cycle.

    That’s why The EU Biodiversity Strategy commits to planting at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.

    Learn more ➡️ https://europa.eu/!RGwp7f

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    @EUCommission rich industrialist Otto VonLandowner, who lives in a castle inside a giant 100km2 area of woodland, is an outlier and should not be counted...

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    One of the most fascinating but underexamined things is how "gamers" hate "AI". Because a lot of them don't seem to care about exploitation/crunch if it gets them their favourite game for example (some do of course).
    But that's a big group of people and I wonder how prominent "AI" refusal is and what the reasons are. Does anybody know a study?

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    @tante purely anecdotally for me (for the types of games i like, mainly GTA V / Yakuza type third person games with large maps): i love going around exploring the game maps, and rejoice at finding interesting/quirky but well-thought-out details in unexpected places off the beaten track. and i always feel some kind of connection with the one developer somewhere who actually spent time modelling/populating/set dressing that part of the map even though it's not somewhere you're expected to be 1/

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    "„Vibe Coding“ ist ein Euphe­mis­mus für plan­lo­se Nach­läs­sig­keit. Der Begriff sug­ge­riert intui­ti­ve, krea­ti­ve Arbeit, ver­steckt aber den Ver­zicht auf metho­di­sche Sorg­falt und pro­fes­sio­nel­le Stan­dards. Die­se Umdeu­tung macht Unfä­hig­keit zur Tugend."

    (Original title: KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz)

    https://jascha.wtf/ki-tool-versteckt-inkompetenz/

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    @tante was mich erstaunt an dem thread ist dass der typ immer noch so tut (oder er glaubt es wirklich?) als ob sein tool irgendwie "verstaendniss" haette...

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Brey, Jezza Corbyn and his new party are running even with Labour in polling running an entire political operation on lunch money and a couple of burner phones... after what, like a month of existing? I kinda like Corbyn, but that doesn't happen unless Labour voters are jumping ship in droves.

    Dawg, the folks who told me "don't compare Starmer to Blair, Starmer is way worse" were right...

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites owen also lost any respect i may have had for him back in the brexit days... https://www.google.com/search?q=owen+jones+brexit

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I just heard about the UFC thing and man...

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    We called our bombing run "Operation Midnight Hammer."

    Aight, I'm done... gonna become one of them weird tankies that learns Mandarin in anticipation of Chinese hegemony because clearly whatever the fuck we're doing here is not working out...

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    @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social avatar patrick_h_lauke , to random

    finally watching Halt and Catch Fire ... mainly because of the animated gifs that @maxim always posts...

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    Despite all its billions, ChatGPT is less smart than an Atari game console from almost 50 years ago.

    Atari’s humble 8-bit engine smashes the super hot NVIDIA chips.

    ChatGPT "got absolutely wrecked" playing beginner level chess with Atari.

    For an hour-and-a-half, ChatGPT "made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club" while insisting over and over again that it would win "if we just started over."

    https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess

    AI is a scam.

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    @gerrymcgovern what gets me is that it's fundamentally the wrong technology to play chess. it's fucking turbocharged autocomplete. it's like saying "ms paint is still better for drawing pixel art than microsoft excel". stahp!

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    "It's absolutely ridiculous; the presidency was bought, and the president is a pedophile; we're all looking for the piece of absolute human dogshit responsible for this outrage!" - the piece of absolute human dogshit responsible for this outrage.

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    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    RSS never tracked you.
    Email never throttled you.
    Blogs never begged for dopamine.
    The old web wasn’t perfect.
    But it was yours.

    patrick_h_lauke ,
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    @Daojoan but...but...KPIs! engagement metrics!

    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    Watching the President of the United States argue that a nazi conspiracy theory about white genocide in post-apartheid South Africa is true, with the President of South Africa, on live TV, is arguably the most surreal thing I've ever seen in American politics.

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites 724% tariffs on south afrika coming any minute now...

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Sometimes I wonder if fediverse server admins (of a servers with an active user base) should maybe organize in some form of association to define common practices and make those more transparent for server users: "This server is part of X" => "We grant you certain rights and commit to certain practices". It could also help developing structures that all server admins could benefit from targeting moderation/loads/missing features etc.

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    @tante the United Federation of Fediverse Planets

    @patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social avatar patrick_h_lauke , to random

    random trip to this nearby primary school and its ultra-sci-fi extension

    a white concrete angular geodesic type half dome attached to a classic old british red brick school building

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    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , (edited ) to random

    The heading is a bit misleading. GPT usage is not "not bad for the environment", many people just have other worse habits in their lives. (Of course there is always a conversation that needs to happen about the outcome: Flying for shits and giggles or flying to meet a dying relative for a last time have the same CO2 footprint but are not the same. Those kinds of cheat sheets evade actual conversations by making everything abstract and without context)
    https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114421983125327722

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    @tante it's also the anti-recycling etc argument ... "my tiny personal waste/consumption won't make a difference". times billions of people. and with companies cramming more and more AI into every facet of their products, it won't just be limited to "40 chatGPT queries a day"...

    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

    I got he MI1 font thanks to @gullevek . You can stop boosting, unless you're going for the Mastodon boosting achievement.

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    @grumpygamer out of curiosity, did you settle on my "lucasfont" recreation, or did
    @gullevek point you to another one?

    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar grumpygamer , to random

    Does anyone know where I can get this MI1 verb font? Preferably in TTF. Scummbar site says they have Monkey Island fonts, but they don't have this one. It is used for the verbs.

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    @grumpygamer @gullevek happy to tweak it if there's anything wrong/missing :)

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    @grumpygamer @gullevek also, more direct download location if it makes it easier https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/121

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    @grumpygamer just out of interest, did you end up using this recreation of the font? if no, that's cool, no biggie ... just curious (of course, if yes, i'd be absolutely delighted)

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

    I think we need a special sub-committee investigation into why rich people like all the worst parts of William Gibson novels:

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/protector-app-hires-officers-misconduct_n_67db3f49e4b03fb9aaaa6281

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    @AnarchoNinaWrites thinking of the Westworld S03 RICO app

    @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar thelinuxEXP , to random French

    To be clear: I’m not saying the GIMP name is awesome and should be kept at all costs. It can change.

    What I’m saying is: focus on the cool stuff first, praise the devs for their cool work. Don’t turn all the cool stuff into a battle. We can talk about the name AND also think the devs delivered some great stuff.

    Firefox is adding excellent features. Sure, the Mozilla stuff sucks, but the browser is great. We can give praise AND also raise issues, not everything needs to be back or white.

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    @thelinuxEXP what rubs people the wrong way is how loudly and obstinately the devs have dug their heels in with the "no, we won't ever change the name". for all other cool stuff they may deliver, that just sets the tone...

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Oooh! Oooh! I know! Mar-a-Lago.

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    @georgetakei he already owns it, no?

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    if you're still writing about the morning routines of billionaires actively destroying democracy, freedom and the planet itself you're either a useful idiot, a fucking idiot, or a grifter.

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    @Daojoan do this one weird trick, and you too could become part of the elite that has a guaranteed place on the space ark...

    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

    Just as a small step to stop normalizing current fascists:
    Do not ever - even ironically - title anything "Make X Y again". Don't give further power to those memes and (TBH inherently conservative) modes of thinking about the world.

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