I don’t care if you gamble, I don’t think we should ban gambling ads specifically, but personally I can make several compelling arguments why we should ban “advertising” as a thing entirely.

I think i can say with full confidence that No one who uses RSS wants to see ads especially gambling ones. I think its safe to assume that applies to about 99% of the Fediverse too, with the other 1% being the advertisers and spambots the rest of us all despise.

@OregonLive Sure when its just some shady gambling website its obvious that its an ad, but what about if i wanted to pay for a “sponsored article” that smears a political opponent or some other such thing? at least ad #sponsored to the post or some kind of hashtag so it can be filtered out.

@OregonLive I know this is just an RSS feed but why does it have to include gambling ads? Are these companies actually paying for ad space IN RSS feeds, or is it just a side effect of them paying for “sponsored content” to a news org that does not feel it worth differentiating between what is an ad and what is actual news?

Super helpful error message form tor-browser lol…

Check permissions of… something in your hold folder.

The errorlog can be found… someone in /home…

(I know how to fix it, I know why its cutting off, i just thought it was silly and pointless to display it this way)

Welcome back from where no man has gone before.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world.

In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear.

Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error.

Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

Finally tried to hook up an AM4 chipset to a raspberry pi (someone suggested this on the pi-pci repository a few years ago), and it turns out it mostly just works.

This code is so fucking funny dude I swear to god. I have wanted to read the internal prompts for so long and I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not break the law, please please please be good!!!!" Very Serious Ethical Alignment Technology

Some random person is making AI videos of 1970s kung fu movies but with cats and honestly at this point it’s a fair trade for a livable planet. Like, fuck it, I can lose Papua New Guinea for this, man, I’m so tired.

@Lightfighter @Quasit indeed one can pseudo-empirically ask the question "do Democratic institutions protect counties against dictatorship" and look around at countries like Italy, Hungary, Britain, and Israel to see that they do not.

Liberals love to ask anarchists "but how would your society of free association ever prevent a dictator from rising to power? It's an excellent question that every person should be able to try to answer about their favorite political system, but it seems the liberals have forgotten to ask it about theirs. We can see right now in very fine detail exactly how the "checks and balances" can be systematically dismantled, sidestepped, or just ignored. Even if the system eventually reins Trump in, its failure to stop any of his worst impulses before they happened makes it feel like a very hollow sort of success. Alex Pretti doesn't benefit from a (very hypothetical at this point) swing back towards a less corrupt and fascist system.

Alright Starting fresh, new #peertube who dis?

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz

@aac1122 At this point I think i’d prefer the terminators.

In this collection of reports, we explore the different approaches via which anarchists around the country engaged with the March 28 No Kings demonstrations.

There is tremendous anger and desire for change, but it is only just beginning to assume concrete forms.

https://crimethinc.com/NoKings2026

LOL… LMFAO.

The fallbacks work just fine but I love the idea of wasting google’s money using them as a proxy for claude.

I’m only using free accounts , this is for purely entertainment purposes.

I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱

Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!

LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.

Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?

They spent decades telling the lie that copyright mattered, that copying is theft, and then suddenly it becomes okay when its the mega-corps doing it?

I’m not anti-AI, I’m Anti corporate ownership of AI, this stuff belongs to all of us, the benefits belong to all of us, every $ saved should be redistributed directly to the people.

The reason so little usefulness or anything other then slop gets created from these things currently is because no one with any actual creativity WANTS what they are selling, and the people who want to replace those creative individuals with AI have such little talent or creative ability that the end results end up being laughable.

Getting the "Fell for it again award" ready for all the bluesky users who still havent figured out they are the product when they use corporate networks.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888

How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?

A tale of two social networks.

Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.

Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/