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  Seeing the CEO starting to post AI "success stories" to the company chat, and forwarding every other snake oil salesman BS linkedIn post about turning your engineering team into a vibecoding factory… feels like the professional equivalent of watching your grandpa getting radicalised from watching Fox News…

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  So far, post-civilisation life in remote mountains doesn’t look too bad…

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  "Sure, it's not quite perfect yet, but give us a few more months, and it will be like you're talking to Shakespeare himself!" "Our progress toward AGI is undeniable"

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  Been brainstorming on a new concept(*) of "social network" based on ego graphs: Everyone has their own "bubble": a network that they control through who they add/remove as friends (and who these friends add, and so on). If someone is in your bubble, you're in their bubble. Everything you post in your bubble, and everything people reply, is visible to everyone in your bubble (and no one else). You keep multiple bubbles along different themes ("friends", &quo...

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  It’s wild and depressing that in the space of 20 years, we went from: “I can now share my furry fanfic or my penis puppetry show with the entire world without worrying about any government or tv channel censoring or gatekeeping me out.” To: “I can’t spell the word s*x, or anything a 1960s Mormon housewife might object to, be discreet about my no-genocide politics, and constantly beg technofascist corps to let people read what I write”

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  The fact that the Terminator models go from T2 to T1000, implies that the all-powerful AI waging war on humanity is going with the kind of stupid marketing naming scheme a Microsoft exec would come up with… which frankly checks out with the current state of AI. #ai #scifi #movie #terminator

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  Shut up and take my money! Tanuki eco-bag where the balls grow with content

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  Latest Business News Someone has been a very naughty boy…

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  Thanks for the reminder, Google… Maybe it's time to let go… 😢

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  Reading up on Kabuki lore, with a mention of the Shiraito falls "in Shizuoka"… but distinctly remembering visiting the Shiraito falls in *Nagano* last month… Turns out there's basically a billion 白糸の滝 in Japan. 😐

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  Kabukicho: where you can cross path with Euro tourists slaloming around Nigerian touts with their baby pram, while a rat colony watches on…

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  People of #Tokyo (/#Japan): any good local places to print poster-sized illustrations (~A3) on nice-ish paper…? Brick-and-mortar would be nice, but failing that, I'll take any online recommendations!

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  Today, I spent 2 whole hours out of my very finite existence on earth, trying [unsuccessfully] to sync back my 2 bluetooth earbuds together. AMA.

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  Today, the algorithm decided to serve me back a timeless classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVmybhXqtU (Yes, it's casually racist, but the 20th century was a different time)

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@deivudesu/114779888191950192 I might have to repost that one every few months…

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  Phone photo hobbyists, I need recommendations for an older phone with a great lens to use as a dedicated camera: ♻️ At least 2y old - planning to buy second hand 🤖 Android - don't wanna pay the apple tax 📸 Camera hardware and software is all I care about - will not even put a SIM card in it 🎨 Mainly to shoot people at ~1-3m, occasional landscapes, very rare close-ups → no use for widelens, macro nice-to-have #andoid #pixel #phone #camera #lens #photography

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  Official KanjiBox fediverse account: @kanjibox.bsky.social #kanjibox #kanji #japanese #nihongo

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  Just realised that I released the first version of KanjiBox 19 years ago and… 🤯 🥶 🧓 https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:52k3b2neu5ejszdlreb52als/post/3mlclgdlx6c2x

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  Anyone is/knows of a Japan-based illustrator with bandwidth for small commission work (details below). Paid (obviously). The work (for now) is to draw up a set of hanafuda-inspired cards. Fairly simple graphics, but very specific style, reused in a number of combinations. And yea, this is typically the kind of thing AI would do fairly well, but I'd much rather give work to a human and get human art out. #illustration #graphic #japan

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  Technoligarchs have successfully convinced politicians and corporate execs to gamble other people's money on #AI for one reason: negative externalities are totally absent from corporate accounting. Back in early 20s, when people took #ClimateChange seriously for a brief second, corps felt the wind change and put all their weight toward convincing regulators that they did not need regulation, and would just do better on their own… 1/

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  Do I happen to know anyone frequently riding Tokyu lines (whose train fares aren't covered by their employer). Do *you* frequently ride Tokyu lines? Get in touch now. Our operators are waiting! #tokyo

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  Any brave students of Nihongo keen on taking the brand new version of KanjiBox for a spin (closed beta)? DM me with an email if interested. Now runs on both #iOS and #android 🥳 #kanjibox #kanji #japanese #nihongo

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  Shuffle mode PhD thesis idea: Moby caused Global Fascism in the 21st Century. abstract: By briefly becoming a parangon of hypocritical performative virtues, while building his career off the uncredited work of black artists, early 2000s electronic artist Moby simultaneously co-opted and fatally undermined the progressive momentum of the late 90s, paving the way for the current resentment-fuelled fascist backlash. Follow for more polisci academic insights.

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  Remember the quaint old days of 2025, when some western govts took offence at anyone calling Israel an apartheid state, or called "antisemitism" at any suggestion that there was an ongoing genocide in Gaza? Over the past few weeks #Israel has: 1. voted a law essentially allowing it to summarily execute Palestinian prisoners 2. doubled-down on its ethnic cleansing of both #Gaza *and* the West Bank 3. relentlessly bombed out civilians in Lebanon, dropping ~100 bombs on Beirut...

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  Living in London and Paris as a teenager, I used to think I had chronic clinical depression… Turned out I just really hated winter. #london #spring #😍

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  Pretty much the entirety of the US political commentariat (MAGA *and* Dems) these days: #uspol #iran #israel #us #war

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  The mark of a great photographer, is being able to bring out the natural charm and magnetic personality of their subject… #catsOfMastodon

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  "Amazon plans to address a string of recent outages, including some that were tied to AI-assisted coding errors" > Amazon said in a statement at the time that the outage was the result of “user error” and not AI Translation: "It's not AI if there was a human somewhere that clicked on the 'vibecode this for me' button". 🤡 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/amazon-plans-deep-dive-internal-meeting-address-ai-related-outages.html #...

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  My recent brush with the slow-motion car-crash that is #Copilot 365, made me ponder a bit further on the future of MS Office tools and, by extension, #Microsoft itself… Setting aside the typical botched execution by a large dysfunctional tech corp trying to hop on the AI bandwagon, one of the fundamental reasons why agent integration into an Office suite will always be a shitshow, is that Office formats (doc, xls…) are the *polar* opposites of what works well with LLMs… https://mastodon.social...

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  Thanks to SoundCloud geofenced adverts, I now know that French people can get great prices on the latest Hyundai “Tuckson”…