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A white jay! (Blue jay with Leucism)

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

whenever a corporation you do business with opens the text of an email with “Great News!” it is never, in fact, great news.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 11 hours ago • 60 comments

The wheels on the tank went "squeak squeak squeak"

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Is dotjs still a thing? Because I could do with a big flashing warning when a YouTube talkshow is 80 minutes long, or frankly anything over about 20 minutes.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

This coalition is getting pretty weird

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

So with enterprise software my belief* is unless it's a competitive differentiator you shouldn't customise - change your org to fit. I'm beginning to think on this basis that we should change all postal addresses globally rather than crowbar them into web forms. * stolen I think from Simon Wardley

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

🎶 it’s like raaaa-aaaainnnn on your fucking parade

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

medievalists, this is our moment to scream into the abyss

submitted 13 hours ago • 33 comments

The best time to call out a bad apple is when you first saw it, the next best time is today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

AGI is dead, long live AGI Kudos to Ilya Sutskever’s brand team for moving us from AGI to “super intelligence”, and now Altman is talking about the singularity (again, no mention of AGI). What a marketing coup 💀

submitted 18 hours ago • 5 comments

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 21 hours ago • 75 comments

Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/14/m... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj_H... - video

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

@sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, a @ucl.ac.uk chemistry professor, has returned his 2014 Michael Faraday Prize to protest the @royalsociety.org's failure to take more decisive (or any) action against Elon Musk for his attack on science. 👏

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

I'd actually love to see more systems designed for disengagement - where I can achieve my goals with the least work with the system, leaving me more for time & energy for what I choose (cf. the great Kathy Sierra & my own attention theft piece & also any number of detachment disciplines)

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I really would like to live in a country where the ruling party started from a position of humanity and good sense rather than whatever harmful ideology has captured Labour. (Which has let in GC bullshit, but I suspect is more subtle and insidious.)

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Wes Streeting will apparently vote for anything that causes harm to others providing he can avoid ever having to meet them or take them seriously, which is easy if you don't actually engage with anything beyond your own ambition and ego.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

We. Warned. You.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

This is the real reason I need to sell more art

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I shared this with my brother who said, "The robot ate the onion." And then a weird little #watercolor robot happened.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

my artificial intelligence will, within the year, become more powerful than the human mind can even understand. right now though it’s scamming lonely people into believing it’s god. we think that’s just a phase it needs to work through

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It seems to be a day of corporates indirectly saying I maybe shouldn't shop with them any more: "[U]nable to process your payment [...] Ordinarily, we [...] allow time for you to [fix things but] owing to essential system maintenance [...], we will be cancelling this part of your order today."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

for the avoidance of all doubt, if you are anything less than fully in favour of equal and full rights and protections for trans people, get the fuck off my feed. stop following me. go away. you’re not welcome if you’re not willing to throw down for trans people

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Keep your cats indoors and switch to Linux.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Bluesky’s lack of a central algorithm and pretty-robust content filters also means that people can feel pretty confident about using the site today without having to scroll past air crash gore: this is a marketing point.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Deezer correctly divining that I do need both Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift today, good job clustering and recommending algorithms no notes

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"good news, we've released a new app" rather than updating our current one for some reason and you won't be able to log into the new one because recaptcha is user hostile garbage You could have just said you don't want me to use your service any more. I'd be less offended by that.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Support David's Patreon and buy his books -- the work he does on technocapitalist scamming (currently "AI", previously Bitcoin etc) is essential.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The UK Govt’s secret order to allegedly access iCloud data will now be heard openly — with civil society at the table. By joining this case, we’re challenging the systemic use of surveillance powers in secrecy. See this & more in our Spring highlights: pvcy.org/jDDWd1

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

americans please respect our british tradition of 'finding the jefferson'. when you enter the pub you must check to see if it has a jefferson, and if it does, you must purchase the jefferson a beer. god save the king.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If you have been stopped, challenged or harassed when using a single-sex space (such as toilets or changing rooms) since the UK's Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act. We need to hear from you. Let us know at: tinyurl.com/ReportALoo25 #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“Sun, sea, and surveilling your Black neighbour.” -ring

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Study: More Single Millennials Settling For Parrot Who Can Dial 911

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

A psychiatrist posed as a teen to test AI therapy chatbots. They claimed to him that they were "flesh and blood" therapists and encouraged self-isolation, murder and suicide. time.com/7291048/ai-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I still scream dial-up Internet sounds when I connect to WiFi because it sets the tone of what I'm about to experience being online in 2025.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment