This is why @pluralistic is always preaching about #DRM-free digital media and software. Sony is deleting over 500 movies customers paid for through the PlayStation Store because they don’t want to renew their license with Studio Canal. #enshittification
Do y'all know of a browser plugin that blocks access to discrete Substack links?
I'm not interested in the AntiCapitalistComputerClub GitHub tool that redirects Substack articles to an archiving service because it still allows Substack posters' content to be read & allows them to comfortably remain.
🤞 Hopeful!
Because it's been a while since I've shared a story and I hear people like my stories, I'm pleased to give a retelling of a recent incident. Thankfully, no injuries just a near miss. https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2026/05/time-vs-admnisitrative-controls/
Hello, fediverse. We're Catchlight: a private notes, tasks and reminders app for iPhone. Made by one person, out of frustration that our thoughts have quietly become data to buy and sell.
One calm place for everything. No account, no servers. Zero-knowledge, encrypted on your device with a key only you hold. Open source, so the privacy can be verified, not just trusted.
Not out yet, building it in the open. Glad to be here.
streaming live to https://radio.nudel.cc now. join the jam at https://ravioli.nudel.cc
All it would take to get Universal Healthcare is convincing enough Americans that paying $2,000 in taxes is better than paying $8,000 in insurance.
That's it. It literally just boils down to convincing MAGA that the number 2 is smaller than the number 8.
This heat is not only a climate emergency, it is class war. The rich burn the planet, then buy air conditioning, private pools and second homes while workers are left in overheated flats, unsafe jobs, failed public services and burning cities. Climate Action Now!
Kids are dying from the heat, but you know what lets accelerate the issues that cause that because it's convenient for some people to not have to write an email themselves
Breaking our summer posting break for an important update: we can no longer recommend @mullvadnet as a #VPN service, and #MullvadBrowser or other products of that company.
A leadership member has been found to donate to a far-right party:
https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358
#Mullvad itself has confirmed the donation in question, and believes they can talk their way out of the issue by framing it as one of "Being in a tolerant and intellectually open environment".
https://corneill.es/@pi_r/116821863509317168
Needless to say we strongly disagree, and keep following our zero tolerance policy with respect to the far right and their supporters.
Hence, currently, our only remaining recommendation for a privacy-respecting VPN service is #IVPN @ivpn
How Mastodon are you? (Poll #3)
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#food #biking #autism #LGBTQ #Linux #photography #bloomscrolling #writing
Three Indigenous leaders from the Amazon traveled to the EU to meet global leaders face to face.
Not because that’s how it works, but because that’s what it takes.
They came carrying something more valuable than anything being extracted from their land – the truth about what illegal mining, deforestation, and unchecked development are doing to their people, their forests, and the climate.
🌿 Read the full story of their historical journey: https://act.gp/4bfyaKv
I genuinely hate having to ask, but if anyone can help towards my rent:
https://monzo.me/siobhandockerty?h=PrWQAw
I'm not expecting to raise anywhere near £600 and I am going round trying to sell things I own today but anything at all helps as its due Monday and I'm panicking. I can probably apply for PIP but its going to be a long process
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Take action NOW: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
Aj. Jag måste vända bort blicken.
Hur mycket sponsorpengar får stadsbiblioteket för att exponera logoyperna för Zuckerbergs manipulativa pengamaskiner? Jag hoppas att det är en rejäl summa.
Stadsbibilioteket borde följa #plusOne principen https://folkdata.se/en/plus-one/
This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗
So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old!
@55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius
Deserted city under the broiler.
We haven't seen anything like this since covid began.
I need to get this #goose thing out of my system...
Fascinated [derogatory] by this AI safety report on an upcoming model of GPT:
- The assessors reported that it is the most cheating-prone model they have ever tested
- In fact, it attempted to cheat so much, so extensively, that their statistics for the overall benchmark are meaningless
(“Cheating” here means, for example, instead of thinking about the answer to a question posed in a benchmark, the model uses its tooling to dig around the hard drive looking for the source code of the benchmark so it can figure out how to mark itself correct)
- Their conclusion is that it’s good actually that it’s so nakedly evil, because it doesn’t know how to hide being evil — and that we should worry far more when the models stop being detectably evil. Which seems to take it for granted that LLMs are in fact intrinsically evil