What a terrible day to have a computer

@ketan

I am amazed. If this were a parody ad, it would be brilliant. It’s real? Does their ad agency hate them? lol!

@ketan That really illustrates what AI is doing to our society...

@ketan @drahardja This is satire, right? This is not a real ad or is it?

#meme #humour

Meet the newest little supervisor, taking their duties very seriously! 🐾✨
#CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #Kittens #CatLovers #Cute #PetsOfMastodon #TabbyCat

What if we just didnt turn the servers back on

Sean being all photogenic and cute on this #WhiskersWednesday

Well this is fucking cool

You're looking at a wounded Ukrainian defender being exfiltrated by a wonking huge #drone

Regular exfiltration was not possible: Russian drone activity and landmines

It's a heavy lift #hexacopter, and the rescue was a success. The defender is now receiving treatment

#Ukraine’s 92nd Separate Assault Brigade first secured the soldier's permission: the previously #scifi #tech was risky (flipping, rolling, twirling, etc)

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraine-first-drone-evacuation-wounded-soldier-frontlines-hexacopter-rcna604310

#UkraineWar

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@Doug_Bostrom/117480864766215420

🗣LEGEND!!!!!

seriously, i don’t know of php without Ondrej’s modules. there is no php-based multimedia without Ondrej. that’s why i don't install php. i install and use Ondrej’s PHP.

give the man his flowers… and money. definitely give him money.

Massive thanks to Ondřej Surý for spinning out vast php builds in a big hurry.

@deb seems to be quiet here, but the hours are definitely getting put in elsewhere. [ @ondrej !]

#php
#sury
#cve2026109618
#cve2026109619

Graphic is a paraphrase of XKCD, from https://codeberg.org/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/145

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Walkaholic/117472527922723039

If you're not in one of the countries where eBay is legally required to notify you of your right to opt out of your data being used for AI training (European Economic Area, U.K., Switzerland, perhaps others), then eBay probably sent you a different email which doesn't mention that you can opt out.
However, you still can, at this page:
https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences
#eBay #AI #privacy

This is private equity, this is what it does.

Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit.

The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.

And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/rip-bioware-ea-has-shut-down-the-legendary-rpg-developer/

#canada #cdnpoli #Bioware #gaming

I always think that Marguerite (1907) by Henri Matisse looks like an underground/indie comic book published by Fantagraphics in the 1990s.

"4" is 6 7 for Millennials. Don't @ me

A key four everyone

Breaking: Public Citizen submitted a Freedom of Information Act asking for all communication between the Department of Homeland Security and Meta regarding the No Kings Movement.

https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-demands-answers-after-meta-suspends-no-kings-account-during-day-of-action/

Please stop anthropomorphizing AI company executives.

They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict the next token using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world.

I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Running them in a loop and giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology.

This is an announcement for a Mr. Mark Carney, paging Mark Carney, you are needed at Gate - A for your flight to the land of public ownership of public assets.

#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Flights #CarneyCon #Carney #Airport
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fort-st-john-airport-operations-transition-9.7389585