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If you're a sales person doing outreach to youtubers about genuinely relevant things, I think your job got objectively worse because of AI. I now get dozens of emails like the one in this screenshot. - It references recent videos, - Mentions recent sponsorships - […] [Original post on mas.to]

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https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ by Benjamin Aster is incredible! Editable Minecraft-style world, entirely CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state, paused animations for controlling […] [Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net]

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I'm writing a trigger warning for "Starter Pack": "Things that are not considered bad by the culture our protagonists belong to include forced marriage, memory erasure, beating children, big game hunting, slavery, mass executions, genocide, imperialism, sexism, racism, and setting clowns on fire."

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I'm writing a trigger warning for "Starter Pack" (my current novel in progress): Things that are not considered bad by the culture our protagonists belong to include forced marriage, memory erasure, beating children, big game hunting, slavery, mass executions, genocide, imperialism, sexism […]

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Playing With Statues (19 photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/05/26/people-played-with-statues/

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OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to! “CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Right now, mainland Britain has got almost enough wind and solar power to meet our electricity demand. Add in the power from nuclear and a small dash of gas (used solely to maintain enough mechanical inertia to stabilise the grid) and we are having to export 4 […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

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MENTAL HEALTH BREAK No, I'm not vanishing from social media completely. But the news cycle is so bleak it's doing my head in and I need some time off. So I've just muted a number of words for the next week so I can stop doom looping on them: Trump, Musk, Tesla, Israel, Genocide, Gaza, Putin […]

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#WritersCoffeeClub 25 May: Tell us about a non-writer who has had the most influence on your writing. In practical terms, my literary agent? She used to be an editor before she switched career track, she gives really good feedback, and without her hard work … well, rather fewer of you (if any!) […]

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My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

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If your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy. We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?

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I see the Orange Grandpa is off his meds again. More chlorpromazine, nurse? https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114557081411643143

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Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion" Quotes: "Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing […]

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Putting generative AI in software products is absolutely the informational equivalent of adding radium to foodstuffs in the 1920s! https://infosec.exchange/@varx/114543772651563806

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Even if you were/are lucky enough to have parents or a parent who is willing to support you at that age just because they are willing to doesn't mean they're necessarily able to and that's before we get into parents who are unwilling to support you 1/3 #nzpol

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Even if you were/are lucky enough to have parents or a parent who is willing to support you at that age just because they are willing to doesn't mean they're necessarily able to and that's before we get into parents who are unwilling to support you 1/3 #nzpol

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Coming to a non-practicing entity (patent lawsuit mill) in West Texas real soon now (they'll iteratively patent all the dice that resemble D&D or Warhammer 40K monsters). https://mathstodon.xyz/@keenancrane/114546758400178429

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#WritersCoffeeClub 22: How do you make a location you’ve never visited feel ‘real’ for the reader? We ignore the expected and latch onto the unexpected, so I throw in some weird specific details and let the reader fill in the background. Example: an ancient boarding school on another world—our […]

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Someone on Reddit asked, "You get one 30‑second phone call to any moment in history — who do you call and what do you say?" I phone Richard M. Nixon in the Oval Office at 11:40pm on July 21, 1969. And I say, "I'm sorry, sir, Neil and Buzz can't come to the phone right now, they're arguing over […]

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Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription. Two reasons. 1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book […]

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[Long Post/Rant] I just realised that my doctor only has an app (or the option to call them) if you want to book an appointment I have seen the same GP for more than 10 years however their clinic has changed ownership several times and the latest owner Tend switched everybody over to a new […]

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DO NOT WANT! (This might drive me to quit Firefox, frankly.) https://mastodon.social/@Privacymatters/114538511343521308

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When you are moving out of a rental property in New Zealand landlords under the law are technically required to ask permission before doing viewings but you are not allowed to "unreasonably" refuse and I'm getting quite annoyed at our current property manager who isn't even making the effort to […]

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Another reason to not use ChatGPT: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DELETE anything BY COURT ORDER. (Straight up violation of GDPR if they're doing this outside the USA, BTW.) https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114530814476876129

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social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/... Another reason, as @cstross.bsky.social notes, not to use Chat GPT

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New release of #Fediwall suports fedi.buzz as a source and is nicer to unresponsive or overloaded source servers. The update also contains security patches in dependencies, but those issues did not impact fediwall, so no urgency for an update […]

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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

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New blog entry: Brief Update: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/05/brief-update-1.html

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Welp, I just won an eBay auction for a bid of £13.02 (reserve price was £10.01; only one other bidder), now to test a hypothesis about fools who maybe shouldn't post upside-down photos of their misidentified auction items with an obviously ChatGPD generated description that shows they don't know […]

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#WritersCoffeeClub May 18: What do you do to actively avoid writer’s block? Over the years I've learned that I ONLY get writer's block when I've written my way into a dead end. (I'm a pantser, not a plotter, so this happens.) So when I realize it's happening again I switch to doing something […]

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