Notices by scriptjunkie (sj@social.scriptjunkie.us)

I am very shocked to see this in the ToS for the flagship Mastodon instance, promulgated by the Mastodon nonprofit.

To be clear, I think this is *much* worse than, say, requiring users of mastodon.social to agree to have their posts used to train LLMs. The harms of having your work fed to an AI are mostly hypothetical and relate to moral qualms.

By contrast, a binding arbitration waiver would literally allow the management of mastodon.social to cause your DEATH and face no consequences.

Israel attacked with bombs and missiles, but Iran has responded with some of its most potent, extremely meta thought provokers.

@rk a day ago, Iran promised "There is a surprise tonight that the world will remember for centuries". Some people hypothesized they were going to nuke or assassinate somebody but nothing apparently happened.

For a surprise to be remembered for centuries, it was not very noticeable. Which was surprising. So, I guess they have a point there.

@bonifartius pretty sure "owning people" is the exact opposite of the yellow/black ball.

The Argentina turnaround is unquestionably the greatest economic achievement of any nation in the past decade and probably this century. To crush hyperinflation without a painful crash, drop poverty, and even grow at double the regional rate is amazing.
https://x.com/LevyAntoine/status/1934730693382476224

Happy Father's Day!
https://youtu.be/2f453vD1-ew?si=7U2SoUtgOcCH5QEi

@ryanc green/gold

Fun fact: 25 metric megabytes (MiB) = 26.2 regular megabytes (MB)
https://twitter.com/uncle_deluge/status/1933300259687485619

Google: "the good news is that we stopped Gemini from breaking containment"

The nice thing about distributed social media is that everything else can go down and we can meme about it from here

I don't want to post on this again, but tl;dr - a few days ago, I didn't think the BBB with its millions of deportations would pass the Senate, and now thanks to LA I do think it will.
https://x.com/Noahpinion/status/1932540876968104121

Sounds like MS14-068 all over again. Those were the days *wistfully wipes tear from eye* https://x.com/cyb3rops/status/1932509835389534713

@vriska I would down triple whoppers in college while I was running and not gain weight. Now I'm doing like 2hr bike rides most days, and the struggle is still real.

@brooke seems like it's working, they're trying to buy Greenland

This is just amazing

@SecureOwl I haven't been to La Guardia, but it can't be as bad as the others, right? Right?!

Not one person asks if it sells Java?!
https://timeloop.cafe/@wohali/114637131159339074

"We're coordinating on threat actor names!"
"Finally! So they'll use your names now?"
"No"
"Oh, you're using their names now?"
"Also no."

This is a really neat trick
https://x.com/haxrob/status/1929541111065768184