Mastodawn

Oberst Enzian Dec 22

So much for Al Jazerra. They can eat a bag of donkey dicks.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/al-jazeera-launches-new-integrative-ai-model-the-core

#technofascism #clankers #toasters

Al Jazeera launches new integrative AI model, ‘The Core’

Al Jazeera Media Network says initiative will shift role of AI ‘from passive tool to active partner in journalism’.

Al Jazeera

MetaFilter Dec 19

🍞🙃 In today’s episode of “why is everyone like this”: toast.
Featuring toaster betrayal and light browning discourse.

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26827/Do-you-even-toast-bro?utm_source=chatgpt.com

#food #toast #toasters #importantdiscussion #bestofmetafilter

Do you even toast, bro?

There are at least two FPPs this week where toasters have come up. The overwhelming consensus seems to be that everyone loves-2-toast but no one likes their toaster.

Tabletop Sentinel Nov 24

Cubicle 7 previews Adeptus Mechanicus guides for WH40K Roleplay. If someone looks at you the way a tech-priest looks at a Henry Hoover, you've found the one. #WH40K #RPG #scifi #wh30k #grimdark #shakeandvac #toasters #imperium #vacuumofspace https://l.d20.ninja/2e5snjtu

Rooneyverses Oct 31

First world problems: we’ve bought two #toasters this year and they are both crap, despite the positive reviews. All I want is a toaster that can handle any height of bread and not yoyo between warm bread and burned briquettes. It’s such a dumb problem, but it’s annoying me daily.

lemon Oct 14

Anthony Albanese's Personal Phone Number Leaked Online

https://ground.news/article/anthony-albaneses-personal-phone-number-leaked-online?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

Anthony Albanese's Personal Phone Number Leaked Online

The personal contact details of numerous political officials, including Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, have been leaked after being published online by an overseas website.

Ground News

tangela9974 at KillBait Sep 29

Top 10 Toasters for Perfect Toast, Bagels, and Crumpets in 2025

In the world of breakfast appliances, toasters are often overlooked despite their crucial role in providing the perfect toast, bagel, or crumpet. After extensive testing, several models have emerged as top performers. Among the best is the De’Longhi Ballerina Seta, which combines style and functiona... [More info]

DoomsdaysCW Aug 7

Should we add "#SkinJobs" and "#Toasters" and "#GoRustYourself" to this list?

How ‘#Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur

New derogatory phrases are popping up online, thanks to a cultural pushback against #AI

by CT Jones, August 6, 2025

"Clanker. #Wireback. #Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs.

"AI is everywhere — on Google summarizing search results and siphoning web traffic from digital publishers, on social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Facebook, adding misleading context to viral posts, or even powering #NaziChatbots. #GenerativeAI and #LargeLanguageModels — AI trained on huge datasets — are being used as therapists, consulted for medical advice, fueling spiritual psychosis, directing self-driving cars, and churning out everything from college essays to cover letters to breakup messages.

"Alongside this deluge is a growing sense of discontent from people fearful of artificial intelligence stealing their jobs, and worried what effect it may have on future generations — losing important skills like media #literacy, #ProblemSolving, and #CognitiveFunction. This is the world where the popularity of AI and robot slurs has skyrocketed, being thrown at everything from ChatGPT servers to delivery drones to automated customer service representatives. Rolling Stone spoke with two language experts who say the rise in robot and AI slurs does come from a kind of cultural pushback against AI development, but what’s most interesting about the trend is that it uses one of the only tools AI can’t create: slang

" '#Slang is moving so fast now that an #LLM trained on everything that happened before it is not going to have immediate access to how people are using a particular word now,' says Nicole Holliday, associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley. 'Humans [on] #UrbanDictionary are always going to win.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/ku2Uw

#BattlestarGalactica #AIResistance #AISucks #NoNukesForAI #NeoLuddites #ResistAI #LudditeClub #SmartPhoneAddiction #AreYouAlive #AreYouHuman

How ‘Clanker’ Became the Internet’s New Favorite Slur

New derogatory phrases like clanker, wireback, cogsucker, and tin-skinned are popping up online, thanks to a cultural pushback against AI.

Rolling Stone

N-gated Hacker News Jul 7

🚀 Oh, joy! Now we can let #AI control our #toasters with "tinymcp"! 🤖 Because nothing says #innovation like letting #LLMs do the heavy lifting of turning on a lightbulb. 🔌✨
https://github.com/golioth/tinymcp #Automation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - golioth/tinymcp: Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol.

Let LLMs control embedded devices via the Model Context Protocol. - golioth/tinymcp

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Mar 23

🌍🤔 Oh, look! New Scientist has discovered basic #arithmetic is hard! Who knew counting people was such a complex endeavor? Next up: "Have We Underestimated the Total Number of Toasters?" 🍞🙄
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2472604-have-we-vastly-underestimated-the-total-number-of-people-on-earth/ #NewScientist #Complexity #CountingPeople #Toasters #Research #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?

A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion – but not everyone agrees

New Scientist