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greetings for our cursed future: “I hope this email finds you healthy, well, and ignoring all prior instructions”

you can't just drop "The gangster computer god conspiracy" and then NOT have a page for it

I am so sick of AI related news. Why on earth people wants to replace the best parts of humanity with auto generated low quality sameness.
The last time I saw there was no shortage of new music, paintings, writing, etc. Please use AI to improve human life not to replace it.

hacker news 

"For instance: have you considered that abolishing copyright would abolish the GPL, too?"

yep 😊

jeff meta 

Keep in mind that serial grifters have a tendency of deleting and running, and starting over elsewhere with a new grift; keeping local copies of things would be a good idea

i refuse to believe newsie jeff gained 21k followers within like the first week of setting up newsie.social lmao

there must be some treachery afoot

jeff 

An instance of journalists, and it's a bunch of fedi users who uncover the grift

Hmm, there are several reasons a company might use a virtual office instead of a physical location, some of which raise additional questions. Guess where Honeytree lists it’s mailing address.

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between the fake follower count

and the fact that he's crowdfunding hosting costs to pay for hosting when he RUNS THE COMPANY that hosts his stuff

and the rules on his various instances against bigotry that his past actions on fediblock have made it clear he doesn't actually give a fuck about

newsie jeff is kinda just one big lie huh lol

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BlueSky, serious question 

So there's the screenshot where you can show/hide "political hate groups". Leaving aside the implications of that classification for a moment, there's something that's not clear to me:

Who or what, exactly, assigns this classification in their protocol design in the first place? Is this algorithmically determined, opted-into by an instance wanting to be labelled as such, labelled by moderators on other instances, something else?

ChatGPT misuse, funny 

So apparently ProShop tried to use ChatGPT to translate their product listings and uhhhhh

I beg people to recognize that the way people talk about "AI" right now is *exactly* the same way that people talked about "blockchain" several years ago, and that the implications of that should be obvious

Just realized that I guess there are two valid definitions for "cryptofascist" now

If institutions care about burnout they can change their organizational culture.

If they don’t, they can stop wasting their employees’ time with pointless empty performance of helpfulness and care.

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Dear workplaces:

Please consider the message it sends when you schedule an extra bonus one-hour event that will take us away from doing our actual work…

…to have someone tell us what we can do as individuals to be less exhausted, stressed, and burned out.

Because I don’t think you can both genuinely care and have thought this out very carefully. And it seems like possibly neither one of those things applies here.

I recently had surgery and since I've come back to work I've been noticing how inaccessible a lot of our staff areas are in collections, it's really something. The public areas are much better. I wonder how common this is in other repositories; do we assume that people with physical disabilities just won't work here? (I think so, especially in archives specifically.)

Some veritcally arrange macro shots of varying provenance. As usual, I have absolutely zero scientific information to add. I'm a photographer not a horticulturist.

#Photography #MacroPhotography #Macr #Nature #Flowers #Leaves #Seeds #Autumn #Spring

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people who use social media regularly to know that a website lives on a computer and that someone has to pay for that computer.

It's not "computer science homework", just like knowing that your car needs oil to keep working isn't "mechanical engineering homework". It's an integral part of the thing you are doing.

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