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Does your first post on a platform set the tone for your stay on said platform? Maybe. xkcd.com/1357/

Here's Sir David Attenborough on why this huge, heart-shaped piece of the UK in Northumberland is so important. A chance like this to save massive space for nature won't come again. £11,000 donated yesterday, £1.37m still to go by the end of the month - the time is now! 💚 #conservation #ukwildlife

Watching someone turn a subscription empire’s product catalogue into an open-source to-do list is deeply satisfying. May their moat become a public swimming pool. Fuck these greedy bastards.

Do your best @absurdcompliments.bsky.social

tetranoid.netlify.app prepare to get ☄️rekt🧱 #FallingBlockJam

"Trans, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here. We’ve also always been writing speculative fiction! Beatrice the Sixteenth, first published in 1909 by transfeminine author Irene Clyde, is just one example." @strangehorizons.bsky.social

as ever, perhaps moreso now, you can be in the top 1% of makers just with a shred of persistence most people can't pursue one project for a month, nonetheless years - you can win by just being the only one who does

Looking for full-time, remote senior/staff or tech lead level work. TypeScript is my strongest suit, but I'm a flexible polyglot. Boosts for visibility appreciated!

still looking for a new job 🥺 i'm flexible across the stack & what tech stack is being used.

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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i would like your help with a social art project this post is the project the goal is for this post to receive ZERO likes… only replies, reposts, or quotes once it's liked, replies are immediately disabled, thereby finishing the piece this is take #30 dame.is/creating/ratioed/30

i am very sick and tired of people bringing up "consent" as a reason for why transformative works should be disallowed. yes even when the transformative works involve lots of complicated machine statistics. firstly; consent is for sex and risky activities, not "am i allowed to use bits of your work"

The ultimate effect of all the “leave politics out of technology” guys is that I now need to do a background check before adopting any piece of software to avoid financing the extermination of arbitrary groups of people. Good job, guys. 👏

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

Been testing this 'sign-language-to-text' (SL2T) for almost a year & it's so awesome to see this out! Looked at this almost a decade ago & knew we'd get the tech & ML models there eventually (but super challenging). Talking w/ some Deaf folks, an equivalent of 'voice-to-text' was huge for them

Enjoying Aturi? Consider giving it a star on @tangled.org! You can also submit issues/PRs there too, as well as on our Github.

You can sign this petition to help fix the fact that far too much of our billionaire backed media is owned by people who don't live in this country and have the opposite of our best interests at heart. When it gets to 100,000 Parliament will debate it 👇🏽 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

There’s some conversation in the Atmosphere right now about how we turn @atproto.com projects into sustainable businesses. One of the biggest opportunities is sitting right in front of us: give publishers back the audience development business they spent the last 20 years outsourcing to platforms.

For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton

I'm going to go ahead and predict that there will be at least one headline in the coming says along the lines of: "Man blinded because ChatGPT said it would be safe to watch Eclipse through old timey magnifying glass."

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

People in the replies seem confused so: slop is a genre invented by humans. Mr Beast videos, for example: hyper-optimized for the algorithm, soulless, plastic. Pre-AI. AI slop is merely a mass-produced reflection of the worst parts of human nature, at scale. It's really bad! But we did it first.

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

In case you weren't aware, there is a solar eclipse visible from the UK on 12th August! We'll be able to see about 90% totality (assuming there isn't any bloody cloud) I've just ordered these eclipse glasses recommended by everyone's favourite BlueSky astronomer

Very slight correction that I feel like an ass for pointing out, there was no almost, by the time Nightshade came out, LoRAs were already the go-to approach for style transfer, and it notably does not work on LoRAs. The most dead something's ever been on arrival.

The sad/funny/infuriating thing about Nightshade is that artists think they feed it their image and get their image back with some sort of protection added, when in fact what they get back is really a genAI copy of their image with "poisoned"* latents. *doesn't actually provide protection.

This is, sadly, evergreen.

This is cultural suicide and intellectual vandalism. In an era where humanities-illiterate tech bros have unearned god-like powers, we need historians, philosophers, ethicists, classicists more than ever. Please sign. (Reposting without 404) www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Is there anyone who follows me who works @kickstarter.com or knows somebody who does? Im trying to set something up and seem to have hit a road block. Re shares appreciated.

Londoners, there is a webpage for you to see where your nearest "cool spaces" are when the extreme heat hits - places with water, air-conditioning & shade. Have a look and spread the word, especially to those who may need this but might not think to look for it: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/

I see the AI Art Is Theft bores are out again. Remixing, referencing, riffing, recombining, that's the entire history of the internet. And of culture, full stop. Clay Shirky documented it exhaustively in Here Comes Everybody. Every meme, fanfic, and parody account operates on exactly this logic ffs.

The Colour Club is a growing library of vintage colour theory books which you can view here & leaf through at pop up events. www.instagram.com/thecolourclub www.thecolourclub.co.uk

They're not even worse games! AI lets you make *better* games than a small team could've made at any point prior! This is an *unmitigated* win across the board and these people refuse to take it!

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

To be extremely clear, this is fraud. SpaceX's "valuation" will be met by indexes voluntarily rigging their own rules on profitability and passive investment, and I think if someone had fallen into a coma in 2022 and woke up today they would assume this is all an extremely poor joke.

If you build software, whether you use AI to help you build it, it uses AI, or neither, and humans use it, it must center and empower the human, not you, not the technology, but the person your technology is there to help.

Hello, I'm going through a lot these days, it would mean the world if you can share this so maybe I can reach someone willing to buy or commission me something. Thank you 🙏

I'm still working on Underpaint. It's a project to integrate AI features into a capable art program, and give it away for free. Target platform is the 4070, but more is coming. Come on by, have a conversation, gimme yo stars, fork until your little heart's contentment. github.com/LynnColeArt/...

So my last three videos have been copyright-claimed. It sucks. I am fighting the claims, but the dispute system takes time. But most of my revenue comes from YouTube ads. If you want to contribute to my Patreon that would really help me out in this trying time. Thanks! www.patreon.com/c/TrashTheory

Social Media in a nutshell.

Yes, what Garrick said! I wrote up my experience with those models here: simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-04...

With the US flag, do the 50 stars represent the average age of men when they visit Epstein Island and the 13 stripes the people they are visiting?

Most tragic things about AI: the folks who should push for democratization of AI tools, which is the real battle, are too focused on denying AI itself to do that. There are many potential issues (and wins), but frontier models available only to the rich is one of the worst.