🆕 blog! “I'm just so bored of AI”

I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is.

Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so-bored-of-ai/
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#AI #rant

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the Democratic Socialists of America and why people should be afraid of them ...

#FensterFreitag mit Katzen gratis. Bitte. 😂 #CatsOfMastodon

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#Meme #Humour

Please help me get the word out to people who might be interested in reading Democracy Americana in German: I hope I can build a readership large enough to carry this experiment of offering my work in two languages (it’s a struggle!).

If you want to read the essay in English, you find it here:

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/59b197fa-1a03-44e5-b155-2c221e2a3c0e

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

What the Palestine Action appe...

I took up the responsibility of getting her spayed (thank you London for the C4 scheme) and she is now confined, covertly, in my room for her recovery. Looking to find her a forever home #londoners
Who wants to love this little nugget?

A combo #caturday and #notmycat post!
This is our little sneaky neighborhood stray who has invaded our no-pets-allowed coop in London #tooting
We call her Georgie.

Mel Brooks is turning 100 years old tomorrow. Everyone knows and loves his comedy. Not everyone knows he served as a US Army combat engineer in WWII and was in the Battle of the Bulge.

Happiest of birthdays to the GOAT of mocking Nazis. ❤️

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-hilarious-way-mel-brooks-taunted-nazis-on-the-world-war-ii-battlefield/

Being forced to opt out of AI training seems to be the standard across sites and platforms. It doesn’t have to be this way. “I think ‘opt in’ is really asking the bare minimum of these companies,” EFF’s @Thorin told WIRED. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/

Anyone else deeply get why people want to cognitively offload everything they can to AI?

The world is So Much right now. We're all juggling a thousand tasks and chores. Why is my tablet not charging? Why wasn't my prescription filled yesterday? Gotta pay my quarterly estimated taxes, find a new trimmer for the parts of the lawn the mower can't reach, make a dentist appointment cause I'm grinding my teeth at night.

New technologies and productivity gains never lead to real ease in our lives. Capitalism greedily gobbles up the difference. It sells us new tools "oh this will make things easier" and we do it because we need it, we're hovering on the edge of burn out, but the end result is we drift further from each other. We replace the resilience of relationships with the fragility of a tool, an app.

The problem isn't people. Please don't shame folks for trying to get by. Shame only adds to the overwhelm and sense of isolation. It perpetuates the system, it doesn't dismantle it.

California’s attack on 3D printing is heading to the Senate. Here’s how it has changed, and why we still oppose it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme #privacy #opensource #3dprinting

Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?
So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link:

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

Can we all agree not to use this?

(No, we probably can't... also I've already heard from people in the US that some carriers auto-swap over to Starlink sometimes)

The direct-to-cell satellites are the worst for light pollution (they're huge and on low orbits), likely sat working lifetimes will be even shorter than Starlink's 5 yrs (because they're constantly orbit-raising due to friction with atmosphere), and thus more pollution from chucking them into the atmosphere

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116816625892976050

New high end cocktail: The Reflecting Pool.
1- line your glass with a blue fruit roll up.
Then you're going to need:
2 oz rum
4 oz juice that is kinda yellow (pineapple, mango, orange, lemonade, whatever you like)
1 oz blue curacao (you can adjust for color)
Garnish with lime zest
The yellow and blue liquids make a lovely shade of algae and the rum eventually melts the blue fruit roll up, which is, IMHO, the best part.
Enjoy!

"Privacy isn’t about hiding something.

It’s about not trusting how others will interpret data about you."

I wish I had read this earlier, so that I could have explained better to my parents why privacy matters.

Phenotype Privacy – Inani Ludibrio
https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/09/21/phenotype-privacy/

@paninid

#PrivacyMatters

"Tech CEOs in 2026: 'We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it's portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it'

Jim Henson in 1955: 'yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit'"

• By John Delmenico@thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social