I also feel like I am losing what’s left of my mind when smart people who work in media use Facebook’s apps and discourse about it on Twitter as if they have no theory of how media has worked for two decades or agency in the process.
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Angel: Boss we did it, the perfect nutrition for kids. We call it “milk”
God: EXCELLENT. NOW MAKE THEM SPILL IT.
Spill? Like the parent just…
NO. THE CHILD SHALL AT RANDOM SPILL THE MILK. WHILST THE PARENT IS DOING SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE CHILD.
Why on earth…
I COMMAND IT.
jfc
WHAT.
What?
This reads like a pitch for an Apple ad from 1994 that was ultimately passed on for being too maudlin. That it includes a ripoff Miyazaki as the lede art is a perfect fit for how cheap it is.
Y’all @lexfri@hachyderm.io is a madman. He sent me a test flight a few weeks after this post and it recently passed my “waiting to take off” test and now it’s a thing.
https://lexontech.org/strategery-is-back-and-im-the-developer
Design Twitter decamping to Threads now arguing about one of their own creating a logo for Meta’s AI like it’s 2012 is a perfect encapsulation of the rot of that industry and also why Threads (and Instagram) are the worst networks because they force you to perform the most obvious self-deception.
Larry “Friend of Jeffrey Epstein” Summers refused to kick Zuckerberg out of Harvard for the most blatant violation of his classmates' privacy (women, natch) and now we regularly have to deal with credulous news stories from actual journalists about some obvious, awful bullshit he’s foisting on us.
Last night the preteen asked if we could talk and sat down for an hour of genuine conversation about what’s going on his life that I’m pretty sure was only 10% motivated by wanting to extend bedtime and man. That’s the good stuff right there.
The obvious solution is to just ban the gambling apps but I’m pretty sure that’s how we end up with President Dave Portnoy so I propose we tax their revenue at 100% for every dollar over $1,000 they make off a gambler.
Big tech gets all the attention but there are thousands of VC and PE backed companies using AI as a classic arbitrage against bewilderingly complex systems they helped bring into existence to make your everyday experience of the world worse in every way
Lotta middle aged dudes with teenage kids and gray beards at this Gorillaz concert. Wonder what that’s like (to have a beard)
Minor league baseball is such an awesome feature of America
I expected to laugh like an idiot during COYOTE V. ACME
I did not expect to have a much deeper emotional response like what the hell.
What a picture, great time at the movies y’all.
It’s been at least twenty years since the last time I saw The Roots and tonight they were Hijo Uno’s first concert. Their show’s definitely evolved, still one of the best live bands on the planet.
Until I get airtag-like findability for every object in my life I’ll have to stick with the tried and true:
• Lose Thing
• Look everywhere for Thing in increasingly exasperated and embarrassing fashion
• Purchase replacement Thing
• Establish home for replacement Thing only to find… original Thing
First event post Tim Cook and the new phones come in Alabama Crimson and Carolina Blue that’s stone cold.
On this morning’s dog walk, neighbor introduced himself by giving me his name, not the dog’s. What the fuck, “Brian”
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@baileytownsend/116952597706316959
ActivityPub friends, Bailey is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable protocol nerd and incredible generous human. I know him from our work together on AT Protocol, he's exploring this side of decentralized protocol land, give him a warm welcome.
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Hey y'all!
My name is Bailey, I'm an open source software developer who is very active in the AT Protocol community. Excited to be here to check out more about ActivityPub, but more importantly to make some new friends and talk about tech/software development!
A bit more about my work with atproto
- I manage a PDS at https://selfhosted.social
- I wrote a migration tool for accounts going between PDSs called https://pdsmoover.com
- I wrote a service that sits in front of a PDS to add 2FA (something y'all already smoking us on!)
- I am active in a few groups. https://npmx.dev as a core team member and a contractor with eurosky.social
Excited to be here and happy to answer any questions anyone has about AT Protocol and just talk software!
Replying to
Marc Andreessen: “And another thing! We would’ve solved climate change in the 70s if the pesky environmentalists hadn’t killed nuclear power!”
Also Marc Andreessen: “I’m proud to announce we’re working with one of the most brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes in history to help them launder their oil money on a computer that uses ⅛ of the global electric supply to generate ransom notes.”
Happy Father’s Day from the domestic bliss of one child teaching himself Ode to Joy on a steel drum and the other banging a maraca to a heretofore unknown time signature.
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I am in no way clever enough to make up that bit about petrostates funding AI, it’s an actual thing on this, the worst timeline
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html
In the 22 years since Malcolm Gladwell’s “Big and Bad” we’ve failed to rein in ever bigger trucks or make streets safer, and the size of your SUV is now yet another culture war battlefield that kills 45,000 Americans every year.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/21/us/trucks-suv-pedestrian-crashes.html
“You don’t underSTAND this couldn’t HAPPEN there are NEW. PARENTAL. CONTROLS. in iOS twenty SEVEN” I insist as I drag my sobbing child out of a Toy Story 5 birthday party.
Once you were cool, you were On It, you were the target demo.
And then suddenly you’re googling “bifocal safety glasses”
Replying to
@rstevens@mastodon.social it seems the important part of doing crime without facing any consequences is you have to already be rich.
Me, podcast listener: why are the credits for these shows so long? How many people could it possibly take to put some audio in the internet.
Me, podcast creator: ah. Right.
This summer, I’ve commissioned a series of portraits of artists and writers important to me, to be completed by a hyper-local artist interested in subsidizing their lavish lifestyle (my older son)
Raysidence World Cup ranking
Personal Connection > Formerly Colonized > Underdog > Mexico > Spain > Japan > USA > Everybody Else
Does the New York Times know you can say what actually happened, in the headline?
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/vanilla-ice-freedom-250-concert-canceled-weather-1236796016/
> Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing
@bbedit@mastodon.social, the only app I'm certain has been installed on every Mac I've owned since the late 90s, did it. You crazy bastards you finally did it!
Elon’s boorish boosters will just laugh at you, but Starlink has already ruined the night sky for even casual stargazers
Exceedingly, perhaps a bit *too*, proud of this plywood sheet-cutting benchtop I put together to fit on my Bora Centipede workbench. Broke down TWENTY SIX full sheets of plywood by myself his weekend thanks to this bad boy
Tech boosters when democracies propose the most basic regulation against Uber or Facebook: this is an affront to basic freedom and I literally can not imagine a great tyranny.
Tech boosters when Trump targets Anthropic: lol woke ai got what they deserved so based
When the AI hype first got going a few years ago, I recall predictions of unicorn sole proprietorships. That doesn’t seem to be happening and it feels equally likely the very idea of a unicorn software startup might be dying.
Replying to
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe it’s honestly pretty homely but I am also very exciting to cut thing on it!
Replying to
“Looking specifically at online sports gambling, they find that legalization increases the risk that a household goes bankrupt by 25 to 30 percent, and increases debt delinquency. These problems seem to concentrate among young men living in low-income counties—further evidence that those most hurt by sports gambling are the least well-off.”
Turns out Nate’s goofy River vs Village analogy works if you think in terms of floods.
https://archive.ph/FeAy9
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@anarchiv@todon.nl everything we can, including naming, shaming, and possibly guillotining the rich and powerful who negate our efforts
Replying to
@ddemaree@me.dm I think it’s on the spectrum of suburbanites voting for Youngkin or Moms for Liberty. A bunch of folks who believe they won the meritocracy, whose lives weren’t materially affected by the pandemic, who started spending 36 hours a day online, and allow hindsight to confirm their own biases, are now mask-off for something between total libertarianism and outright fascism. They don’t believe in systemic risk and don’t trust collective solutions to global problems. Not ideal!
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@benjedwards@mastodon.social can you show me where I can check my dialer settings on iOS? I want to make sure this doesn’t happen to me!
It’s not that surprising we’re doing Discourse about mediocre country-inflected pop having a moment after twenty years of dominance by mediocre hip-hop-inflected pop, I suppose I am surprised it’s coming from Rolling Stone not The Daily Caller.
You can watch this any time. Even today!
Stevie Wonder in performance at the White House // 2009
I know it’s anathema for the press to do any actual reporting in response to a Trump tantrum, a quick scroll through Wikipedia shows a $250 million expansion and renovation of the Kennedy center opened in 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Center#:~:text=in%202008.%5B36%5D-,2013%E2%80%932024